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  Chapter 158 156 [Internal Affairs Adjustment]

  General Military Mansion, Back House.

  Fei Rulan happily came out to greet her: "I greet my fourth uncle and my sister."

   "Haha, there is no need to be too polite," Fei Yinggong said with a smile, "I haven't seen you for a few years, and Lan'er is now the wife of the chief soldier."

  Fei Rulan said: "My husband's chief soldier can't be counted."

   "I met Sister Lan." Fei Ruhui said with her fists clasped.

  Although they are cousins, they only met once. Mr. Fei does not accept Fei Ruhui.

  Fei Rulan saw her dressed as a woman, so she asked, "Is my brother-in-law not here?"

  Fei Ruhui replied: "He is busy with things at home."

  What are you busy with?

   Of course, managing the bandit den.

  Fei Yinggong saw that Xiyue was the only maidservant in the courtyard, and Fei Rulan wanted to help serve tea and water, so she couldn't help saying, "It's so deserted here, why don't you keep more servants?"

  Fei Rulan replied with a smile: "My husband has abolished slavery, how can I disobey it? There are six helpers in the courtyard, which is not a lot."

   "So that's how it is." Fei Yinggong was purely looking for news, and changed the subject to ask, "Is there any news about the elder brother?"

  Fei Rulan said: "Father is now the prefect of Huzhou."

  Fei Yinggong smiled and said, "It's a quick promotion."

  The family drank tea and chatted until evening, when Zhao Han finally came back, and Fei Ruhe and Fei Chun also came.

  After the food was served, Zhao Han raised his glass and said, "I'm toasting to my fourth uncle!"

   "It's easy to say." Fei Yinggong laughed heartily.

  Fei Ruhe also raised his glass and toasted: "Fei Chun and I left home. We wanted to find our fourth uncle, but unexpectedly, we found brother Han, and made a big mess."

   "If you find me, I'm afraid you're still a bandit." Fei Yinggong said with emotion.

  Zhao Han just smiled and didn't take the initiative to mention it. He had already guessed what Fei Yinggong was here for.

After pushing and changing cups for a while, Fei Yinggong finally couldn't help it: "Oh, I never thought of rebelling, and suddenly a sweeping king appeared next door. You are on the east side, and the sweeping king is on the west side. It's very uncomfortable for me to be caught in the middle." .”

  Zhao Han said with a smile: "As long as there is no war, no one will stare at Fourth Uncle's territory."

   Fei Yinggong's site is located in the mountains, and it's really meaningless to be poor and remote.

   But it is very important in the military. Once Tianhe Town is occupied, Zhao Han can easily defend against the enemy in the west. If Fei Yinggong hadn't been entrenched there, Zhao Han would have sent troops to take it down long ago, because it was originally under the jurisdiction of Luling County.

  The Sweeping King is also very interesting. If Zhao Han expands to the north, the Sweeping King's territory will be completely protected by Zhao Han. The officers and soldiers can only attack the King of Sweeping Land if they eliminate Zhao Han, or Huguang sends troops to sweep the King of Land Sweeping.

  Seeing that Zhao Han never opened his mouth, Fei Yinggong had no choice but to ask himself: "How about I come to you to do something?"

   "Okay, welcome." Zhao Han said with a smile.

   "What are your requirements?" Fei Yinggong asked.

Zhao Han made it clear: "First, the fields must be divided. Each person, including the fourth uncle, can reserve a maximum of 20 acres. Of course, the fourth uncle has a lot of mountainous land, so you can reserve a few more acres as appropriate. Second, if the fourth uncle wants to join the army , You must disband your own troops and break up the soldiers who were incorporated into Datong. Third, the fourth uncle can only serve as a sentry officer, temporarily leading more than 90 people, and must not be stationed in Tianhe Town."

  Although Fei Yinggong had expected it, he still couldn't help feeling a little resentful.

  He came to join Zhao Han with his territory and troops, but Zhao Han wanted to swallow him up.

  That's all, it's okay to give him a high-ranking military position, but who knows that he is only made a sentry officer, and there are not even a hundred soldiers under his command.

Zhao Han explained: "There are only two situations for me to work under my command. One is to start from the middle and lower levels; the other is to create a situation by myself. For example, Gu Jianshan was the commander of the navy because I didn't have a navy under my command. He set up the training by himself. And Tian Younian, who was in charge of the Weapons Institute when he first came, he had to build the Weapons Institute. Even Li Banghua was the first to come forward to set up the grain bank, and he was promoted only after he made political achievements."

   "Okay, I'll be the sentry officer." Fei Yinggong reluctantly agreed. He believed that with his own ability and the relationship with the Fei family, he could be promoted after a few battles.

  Zhao Han laughed loudly and said, "Welcome fourth uncle to join the group, come, let's all drink this cup to the brim!"

   Everyone toasted and drank.

  Zhao Han said to Fei Ruhui again: "If my sister wants to work, she can join the mission team. Women can also be officials here."

   "That's a good thing." Fei Ruhui said happily.

   After some more talking, Fei Rulan suddenly said: "Ruhe is not young anymore, I have been looking for a year, and I have found a suitable family."

   "Where are you from?" Zhao Han asked.

  Fei Rulan said: "The niece of Yuan Yunlong, Juren of Anfu County."

  Zhao Han did not express his position, but continued to ask: "What's the situation with the Yuan family?"

Fei Rulan obviously did enough homework: "The Anfu Yuan family is a branch of the Yichun Yuan family. Since the founding of the country, there has never been a Jinshi. Juren Yuan Yunlong's family has a total of more than 300 mu of land, but the clan is also very large, and 20 mu for each person is not enough."

   This kind of small landlords, apart from being forcibly divided, actually have no loss.

  Zhao Han allowed the landlord's family to keep 20 mu of land for each person. But when the Yuan family's land was divided, it was not enough to divide 20 mu, and each person only got 18 mu of land.

Fei Rulan also said: "This Yuan Juren has already failed the exam five times. He is discouraged by the Jinshi examination, and his family has no money to buy him an official. Therefore, Yuan Juren is very active in doing things, and has been promoted in Anfu County. As the mayor of the town, he even wrote an article praising Fentian."

   "This person can be cultivated emphatically." Zhao Han decided to establish Yuan Yunlong as a model gentry.

  Fei Rulan said: "I also asked someone to inquire about Yuan Juren's niece. She is fifteen years old, dignified and beautiful, reasonable, and good at poetry and painting."

  Zhao Han immediately agreed: "This is a good match!"

   Fei Ruhe sat beside him and smirked. He wasn't too picky about women, as long as they weren't ugly, this guy was focused on doing great things.

  The next day, Zhao Han sent a missionary team and grassroots officials to accompany Fei Yinggong back to take over Tianhe Town.

  If you add the mountains on both sides, the area there is very large, but the arable land is pitifully small.

  Fei Yinggong's son-in-law Yang Fengsu, if he can actively cooperate with the work of dividing the land and things are done well, Zhao Han can appoint him as the mayor of Tianhe Town. In this way, there are nine towns in Luling County, and Tianhe Town is the poorest one. 90% of the arable land belongs to barren mountainous land. In the future, I am afraid that sweet potatoes will be the staple food.

  After the discussion at the meeting, everyone felt that one county governed too many nine towns, and the salaries of grassroots officials could not afford it.

  So the administrative division of Luling County was fine-tuned, and one of the towns was dismembered into four parts, each of which was merged into adjacent towns. All the town's officials were sent to Bailuzhou Academy for advanced studies, waiting to be assigned to work in the newly expanded site.

  In this way, Zhao Han finally owned the entire territory of Luling County, while maintaining the administrative districts of the eight towns in Luling County.

   Immediately, the General Military Office also made adjustments, the framework is as follows—

   General Armed Forces Administration.

  Secretary Academy, Official Selection Department, Government Affairs Department, Propaganda and Education Department, Finance Department, Military Affairs Department, Criminal Name Department, Integrity Department, Public Works Department, Military Academy.

  The Academy of Secretaries is of course Zhao Han’s secretarial organization. There are three heads of secretaries, and there are some civilian staff below. They are only responsible to Zhao Han, but they cannot intervene in the affairs of various departments, which is fundamentally different from the Ming cabinet.

  In ancient times, the word secretary already existed, and Zhao Han didn't bother to use the name of hand book, so he directly changed it to secretary.

  The Department of Official Selection, equivalent to the Ministry of Officials, is in charge of Pang Chunlai.

  The Secretary for Administrative Affairs was formerly in charge of Li Banghua, and now Huang Shunfu, the magistrate of Luling County, has been promoted to serve as the Chief Secretary for Administrative Affairs.

  The Department of Propaganda and Education, equivalent to the Ministry of Rites, is in charge of Chen Maosheng.

  Finance Department, equivalent to Daming's Ducang, is in charge of Fei Chun.

  Military Affairs Department, equivalent to the Ministry of War, is in charge of Li Banghua.

  Punishment Division, equivalent to the Ministry of Punishment, promoted Zuo Xiaoliang, the magistrate of Anfu County, to serve as the director of the Criminal Division.

  Integrity Secretary, equivalent to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, is in charge of Xiao Huan.

  The Department of Public Works, equivalent to the Ministry of Industry, is headed by Song Yingxing.

  The Military Academy, equivalent to the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, is in charge of Fei Ruhe.

  As for Tian Younian, he served as the head of the Armament Bureau under the Military Affairs Department.

  The framework is quite large, but fortunately there are not many sites, and the officials are not too complicated.

  But the land of the three counties is definitely not able to support it. After all, there are still so many town-level officials who must expand their territory to support them.

  You are the Ming court, don't you want to rule the grassroots?

  There are too many officials, and there are too many salary expenses!

  Zhao Han has to at least double the size of his territory in order to have a slightly better financial situation.

   Even, some people think that there are still too many town-level institutions, and that Luling County should be reduced to six towns, and Jishui County should be reduced to five towns.

  This suggestion is not a joke. Everyone, including Zhao Han himself, has thought about it seriously.

  The economic base determines the superstructure, and an agricultural society cannot afford to support too large a bureaucratic class. Before, the number of regular soldiers was small, and they could barely afford it. Three thousand regular soldiers were paid on a monthly basis, which instantly tightened Zhao Han's pocketbook.

  As soon as the General Military Mansion made adjustments, an old man came to visit with the whole family of scholars.

   "Old Liu Yingkui, meet the general town!"

   "Old gentleman please get up quickly."

  Liu Yingkui pointed to the clan behind him and said: "All members of my Liu clan are willing to serve the town. Although there are no juren, there are five scholars, twelve from children, and the rest are schoolchildren."

  Zhao Han said with a smile: "Let them all come to Bailuzhou Academy. After the spring plowing is over, I will make my own arrangements."

  Liu Yingkui said again: "Liu Tongsheng is the nephew of the old man. He ran away with his family and has nothing to do with my house. Please don't mind the town."

   "Don't worry, old man, I don't want to implicate you." Zhao Han said.

  Liu Yingkui continued: "These Liu family scholars can be used by the chief town at will, even as officials. I have already warned them that the chief town has its own rules for employing people. As long as they are serious, the chief town will not treat them badly."

  Zhao Han said with a smile: "The old man has great wisdom... I am a little talented, and I can't write well, so I just write a word with an axe."

   "Thank you, Zongzhen, for your words." Liu Yingkui was overjoyed.

  Zhao Han casually wrote four words "a family of virtue". It doesn't matter what he writes, he can write "meat tonight".

  Liu Tongsheng and his family fled with money, but Liu Yingkui sent the whole family of scholars to serve.

  The main thing was the case a few days ago, Zhao Han showed his attitude.

  Liu Yingkui is willing to stand in line and approves of Zhao Han's methods. The tougher Zhao Han behaved, the more convinced he was that the Liu family could benefit from being a dragon.

  Of course, there are many people who hate it deeply. Yesterday, another gentry ran away with his family.

  (end of this chapter)