A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 135
The Military Weapons Supervision Yamen is located in the east of the imperial city, just inside the Jingfeng Gate on the east wall of the imperial city.

"To the west is the Guanglu Temple Office, to the north are Zhan Shifu, Zuowei Commander's Mansion, and Zuosi Yuwei, to the south is the Zuozang Waikuyuan, and to the southwest is the Shaofu Supervisor..."

Like a talkative guide, Xu Jingzong didn't stop along the way.

After they left the East Palace, they headed south all the way. The large area from Ximen to Jingfengmen in the east of the imperial city was all the yamen of the East Palace, Zhan Shifu's left and right Chunfang Jialing Temple, and the ten guards led the mansion.Further to the south, there are the Military Weapons Supervision, Dushui Supervision, Shaofu Supervision, Guanglu Temple and other yamen among the Nine Temples and Five Supervisions.

"The imperial city is located in Chang'an Jiusan. When Chang'an City was first built, all the government offices in the capital's central government were concentrated here. This is not only conducive to the safety and protection of the temple supervisors of the provinces, ministries, and temples, but also convenient for officials to enter and work in the court."

Huaiyu had been to this area before, and was reporting to Prince Youwei's mansion.

Except for the Yamen of Yongzhou and the county government of Chang'an and Wannian, most of the Yamen in Chang'an were concentrated in the imperial city.

The center of the imperial city is the capital of Shangshu Province, surrounded by six yamen. In the early Sui Dynasty, it was the general office of the prime ministers. It was changed to the door and omitted.

When Xu Jingzong talked about the Zhengshitang, his eyes were obviously shining, and this man could see that he was yearning for it.It's a pity that in the early Tang Dynasty, military merit was the most important. Xu Jingzong was born as a scholar. He was a son of a famous family and had great literary talents.

Among the [-] scholars in the Prince Qin's Mansion, all of them are gifted, but the real one who is doing well now is Fang Du, and Fang Mou Du Duan. The two of them not only have literary talent, but also have the ability to make public affairs and government decisions.

For an official like Duan Lun, if he wants to give Wu Huaiyu more subsidies, even if he is sentenced to the seventh rank, but he has to be treated according to the level of the fifth rank juvenile prison, no one can control it.

As expected of the Duke of the State who once sealed off one side of the border, he is very good at grasping the key points.

"I don't understand these things, but I also know that the emperor is not short of hungry soldiers, so I boldly made some requests to His Royal Highness, and asked for 22 hectares of farmland and 150 million yuan of capital for our Military Weapons Supervision. It is compared with the Shaofu prison, far exceeding the general prison.

The Qipin job field is 350 mu, and if there is no land, only two buckets of millet are given per mu, which is seventy shi, while Huaiyu's original rank is from Qipin, and the annual salary is only seventy shi.

When Duan Lun saw Wu Huaiyu, he came up to greet him with a smile, without airs at all, and even praised Huaiyu very much.

"The poems that Erlang wrote on the battlefield of Longyou Fortress are bold and majestic, with gold and iron horses, especially the poem why doesn't the man wear a Wu hook and collect the fifty states of Guanshan? Please go to Yuntai Pavilion for a while. ,very nice."

Compared with Xu Jingzong, who is tall and thin, with small eyes and mung beans, Duan Lun is definitely a handsome guy. According to what Xu Jingzong told him just now, in the Sui Dynasty, Duan Lun was also the number one among the noble sons of Chang'an. Shao Jiancheng is still a good friend, they are all Chang'an Xia Shao, and there are Feng Shaoshi, Changsun Xiaozheng, Shi Wanbao and other people in that group.

Scholars in this era are rare, and they can probably be compared to the top scholars in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Only one or two can be admitted in one imperial examination.

Regardless of the fact that Dou Gui is now the governor of Yizhou, he is very loud there and talks a lot, but that is just for Duan Lun to take over, and the territory is all laid down by Duan Lun.

Xu Jingzong heard Dou Fangxuanling and others talking about Huaiyu's poems outside the palace gate this morning. He liked it very much. It happened that the two of them sat together again in the palace. He was impeached and demoted by the surname Quan.

As soon as Duan Lun said this, Huaiyu immediately felt that this is a good boss, who can benefit his subordinates, who can really give benefits, of course, is a good boss, how much better than someone who can only paint cakes.

The land rent of public land is generally not more than six dou per mu, at most it is said to be six dou, but in reality it is higher than this.Now there are not so many fields that can be awarded jobs, and they began to switch to Cangsu, and one mu was directly given to Erdou, which directly reduced the salary by two-thirds.

Thinking about it, even though Duan Lun is Li Yuan's son-in-law who took over from the eldest grandson Xiaozheng, not only is his father a minister of the Ministry of War in the Sui Dynasty, he also made a great reputation as a hero with Chai Shao and the others in Chang'an when he was young.Not to mention that when Li Tang was first established, Bayi was uncertain. It was Duan Lun who personally led troops to quell the entire Bashu and appease the barbarians in Nanning.

Duan Lun also said that the inspector would give Huaiyu another two-dou job per mu of land every year, which would be another seventy shi.

But now that he has been relegated to Wu Huaiyu's subordinates, he can take it up and put it down. He may be relatively young, or he may not be able to reuse it for a long time, so he thinks more openly.

Xu Jingzong listened to it, he was very envious, he was a sixth-rank general worker before, but he couldn't enjoy such treatment.

A total of 140 shi millet is paid for a year in Zhitiandizi. From the money and grain in the public office of the military prison, food and miscellaneous expenses are subsidized [-] yuan a month, and the monthly money is [-] yuan.

But now he can enjoy 25 handymen and nine sheep?The monthly miscellaneous expenses are [-] yuan per month, and there are free working meals in the public kitchen and cafeteria. This treatment is also very good.

"Shenjifang, I will give you the full power. If you need anything, just mention it directly. His Highness has allocated a piece of land in Qujiang Pond, and allocated Yanbo Island and hundreds of acres of land on the nearby shore to Shenjifang and Shenjifang. machine battalion,
I am also sending people to various places to gather the saltpeter, charcoal, and sulfur you need, and the corresponding craftsmen will be in place immediately. "

Duan Lun, the chief of the Military Arms Supervision, is a tall, handsome man.

He has ninety shilu a year, and he also has [-] stipends from the public house every month for miscellaneous materials. There is no work land for [-] mu, so he can only pay [-] shi.

He pays special attention to Shenjifang, and understands that the key to Shenjifang is the young people in front of him.

"Ji Guogong, a low-ranking official who works part-time in the Military Weapons Supervisor, and is not rewarded for any meritorious service, so I dare not accept this treatment..."

Originally, according to the order of the Square Department, the seven-rank treatment, the monthly money for food and miscellaneous expenses is only two thousand, and the servants can only enjoy eight people.

Xu Jingzong's expenses are relatively large, the salary is really not enough for him, not enough money for paper, pen and ink, and fortunately his family is well-known, the old Xu's family is quite well-off, otherwise he would die of poverty.

Wu Huaiyu is the order of the Judgment of Shenjifang, which is also a seventh-rank job. Normally, officials such as outsiders, inspectors, testers, and judges are only given half of the job field and salary. Duan Lun not only gives Huaiyu the full amount of the seventh-rank He was employed as Tiandizi, and he was also given monthly expenses and miscellaneous money as a young prisoner.

After finally coming back, Duan Lun attaches great importance to this errand.

When Huaiyu saw him, he thought of Chai Shao, a guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, who looked close to people and did not hesitate to trick people, which made him a little more wary of Duan Lun.

That's about it.

"However," Duan Lun changed the subject, "Originally, if there is a position in the capital, the official will have the position to divide the land, but in the land of the capital, there are many people and little land. Our military supervision has been abandoned for a few years, and now there is no way to make something out of nothing. Pull out the land to grant sub-fields, as a rule, only two buckets of millet per mu can be given to the official warehouse."

Xu Jingzong deserted in the court, but he was actually free.

"Wu Erlang is really young and promising."

In addition, according to the treatment of a fifth-rank junior prison, he is provided with nine sheep every month, and there are sauces, vinegar, firewood, salt and tea, etc. Huaiyu was a little dumbfounded.

With his own strength, he quelled the entire Bashu, recruited the barbarians in Nanning, and might be superior to Chai Shao in terms of strength, but unfortunately offended too many people, and was finally reported for treason, and was called back to Beijing by his father-in-law to sit on the bench for several years.

With these public farms and public funds, the officials and craftsmen after the Military Weapons Supervision will also have a good subsidy for food and daily miscellaneous items, so they can work with peace of mind. "

Duan Lun just laughed, "The reset of the Military Weapons Supervisor this time is all because of you, Wu Erlang. It is because of Zhangxinlei that there is a Shenji Workshop, and then there is a Military Weapons Supervisor. It's not important, the most important thing is to fulfill the tasks assigned to us by His Highness the Crown Prince. As for the miscellaneous money for the salary, the money for substituting for classes, the land and land, etc., these are not worth mentioning.

Just relying on writing articles, Xu Jingzong became worse and worse. He was not as good as Wei Zheng, who used to be in Li Mina's office together.

"You can't treat the person in charge badly."

Duan Lun smiled and said: "You just let go and do it, and leave the other logistics to me."

"What kind of weapon is the Shenjifang Department? But the palm mine used by Erlang in Longyou?" Xu Jingzong is very smart. Although the name of the Shenji Department does not know what it is, it is a new department under the Military Weapons Supervision after all. , It was Wu Huaiyu, a young boss, who came to judge the order, so he guessed that it must be a weapon maker, and the mysterious palm thunder in the legend naturally came to mind.

Tongshi Sheren is often just a messenger, a dignified scholar, a bachelor, and it is really hard to be serious when he is reduced to this level. As a result, his luck is not very good, and he is caught as a model.

Then he was given 25 handymen as a young prisoner, with a monthly discount of [-].

His only request is that Wu Huaiyu can quickly arrest Shenjifang, and produce results and finished products as soon as possible.

"His Royal Highness has re-established the Military Weapons Supervision. He attaches great importance to this matter. He summoned me to talk for a long time." Duan Lun is still very young. Reinvigorate your official career.

Li Shimin loves talents, and he also likes to engage in literature and art while bowing horses, such as Feibai calligraphy, and poetry on a moonlit night in the spring river, but in the end it is just entertainment in his spare time. He is capable of literary and military affairs. A pure literati like Xu Jingzong has no use for him for a while. He is not as good as Kong Yingda, Lu Deming and others who concentrate on teaching and compiling books in the Imperial College.

Didn’t everyone say that at the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty was poor and empty, and the local officials didn’t even have a salary, they only gave the land to replace the salary, and used the money from the public land to replace the salary for public food and daily necessities? Even the Beijing officials only had salary but no salary, It all depends on the yamen themselves to set up Qian Lingshi to lend money and collect rent to subsidize the officials.

Duan Lun gave him [-] yuan a month as a substitute for forced labor, but he also arranged for four people to follow him as odd jobs.

"Our Military Weapons Supervision now has 22 hectares of farmland. I will allocate [-] hectares to the Shenjifang for special use. In addition, you will share the farmland with two acres of millet. The prison uses the rented grain from the public farmland. At that time, I will give you another two buckets."

Duan Lun gave Wu Huaiyu the benefits of the junior supervisor level, but he didn't give any special treatment to his old friend Xu Jingzong, the seventh-rank Cheng who was demoted. Not only that, he also had to do two jobs with one salary. The prime minister of the supervisor must also be the prime minister of the Shenjifang Department.

"Our Armed Forces Supervision has 150 million gongs for profit, and I'll give you half of it in Shenjifang. You arrange a few money grabbers to be responsible for lending this capital. 75 is the capital, and the interest is paid every month. [-] yuan should be enough for Shenjifang’s office expenses and public kitchen meals, and if there is any leftover, you can arrange it yourself, subsidize officials or reward artisans, etc. are all up to you.”

"Thank you, Supervisor Duan!"

Duan Lun stood up, "It's still early, why don't we go to Qujiang Pond together?"

(End of this chapter)