Chapter 37 Houlu nourishes and eats for nothing

Lv Ji and Lv Gong's whispering Wang listened to the truth. He smiled unruly at the corners of his mouth and looked up at Zhao Yu,

For Zhao Yu, the gold and silver compensated by Xixia are simply unexpected wealth. Although the amount is very large, the whole world is his Zhao family. How can he care about those gold and silver treasures? Zhao Yu said yes and immediately ordered the bodyguard in front of the hall to carry the gold and silver to the hall.

Dozens of carriages were released outside the Daqing Hall, lined up outside the hall like a platoon of soldiers. Each carriage was filled with neat wooden boxes. The guards in front of the hall stepped forward, and each two guards carried a large box, one by one to the boxes to the hall,

This is a labor-intensive work. The guards in front of the palace are carefully selected. Speaking of the standards of the guards in front of the palace, according to the requirements of modern people, they must be very high above 178cm, and the soldiers must pull open 1 stone and 2 bows, 9 stones in the Song Dynasty, which is equivalent to 25 stones in the Han Dynasty, and 1 stone is roughly equivalent to Now it's 82.5KG, and I can calculate how strong the soldier's hand is.

Since the Taizu of the Song Dynasty, the criteria for selecting bodyguards in front of the palace have been very strict. In the affairs of the Zhenzong Dynasty, there were 400,000 forbidden troops in the Northern Song Dynasty, but there were only 3,000 bodyguards and only 6 "with imperial equipment". According to the standards of the forbidden army, it was an adult strong man in the whole country, one out of every 400,000, and one of nearly 70,000 were selected. A real "one in ten thousand" master,

No one knows how powerful these front bodyguards are, but it is said that in the Taizu era, a state attacked a tiger. Taizu ordered to feed a sheep leg. The tiger devoured it too fast. As a result, it was stuck in the throat by the sheep bone. A bodyguard reached into the tiger's mouth to take out the sheep bone, and he was unharmed. There was also a time on the top of the highest hall in the palace. There was a beautiful bird. Taizu deliberately tested the martial arts of these guards and asked who could catch them and not to hurt the birds. As a result, a bodyguard came out, climbed the wall, captured the birds, and looked at them all frightened.

Of course, this is just a legend. It is also said that Li Jiqian, the leader of the northwest party, sent messengers to the Song Dynasty. Song Taizong ordered a one stone and six bows to the party members. As a result, there were 100,000 people in the party, but no one could pull it away. The party messenger replied to Song Taizong: "This is not pulled by people." Emperor Taizong of Song signaled that all his bodyguards pulled a stone and six buckets of bows to shoot arrows, and they still had spare strength,

With so many legends, it can be seen that the bodyguards in front of the hall are tall and have excellent arms, but these wooden boxes are moved to the Daqing Hall one by one, but they have to walk 72 steps. Moreover, these wooden boxes are full of real gold and silver. Everyone watched the bodyguards in front of the hall carrying boxes into the hall, box by box after another. It was set up, but it took a bunch of incense time,

If so many boxes are really gold and silver, they have stunned the officials in the court. Wang Bian and Zhao Yu seemed to be dissatisfied. Zhao Yu ordered people to open the box. When the box was opened, the officials in the hall were stunned. The boxes of gold, silver and jewelry set off the pearls of the Daqing Hall, which was already golden and brilliant. Baoqi, even Zhao Yu, who is not moved by money, has a little bright eyes, not to mention that he was just mocking the king, Lv Gong, Lv Jie and others. Up to now, they only have only opened their eyes and opened their mouths to look at so much wealth that they had never seen in their lives.

"This, it's true. Hey, I have to say the king of Zhennan. The emperor's 32 libraries are expected to be full as soon as possible." The third division made Han Jiang say without losing time,

Han Jiang took the lead, and the officials of the court hurriedly withdrew the greedy eyes that were almost unstoppable from the boxes one by one, and congratulated Zhao Yu together,

Zhao Yu was very proud: "King Zhennan, now you can choose."

The king went to the box, took out an ingot of gold and a ingot of silver, and went to Lv Gongzhu and Lv Wei: "Two Lv bachelors, when Xixia sent gold and silver, I just asked my men to pass the approximate number. You can identify whether the gold and silver is real or not."

Lv Gong and Lv Hui blushed and knew that Wang Bian had just heard their conversation. He was so ashamed that he couldn't wait to find a place to get in. They waved their hands together and refused: "Really, really, no need to test."

"Hahaha" The king's bright laughter came from the court. He looked at the two people contemptuously and turned to Zhao Yu and said, "Your Majesty, these gold and silver can be used to repay Song debts. If you pay off the Taibao Bank early, it is also convenient for turnover. As for the reward the emperor to give me, I have already thought about it. I want 20 million taels of silver. I don't know. Can the emperor agree?

Zhao Yu looked at the king, 20 million taels of silver, which is equivalent to deducting one-third of the remaining gold and silver from Song's debts. But how to say, these are all for nothing, or the trophies of this battle have far exceeded Zhao Yu's expectations. He laughed and said, "Well, with the merits of the king of Zhennan this time, 20 million taels of silver What's the matter? The officials agreed.

"Wow." There was another uproar in the court. Everyone looked at the king with envy. In addition, some people couldn't help but feel sad.

Sima Guangyi turned around and stood up and said, "Your Majesty, it is natural for us and other court officials to go on an expedition for my Song Dynasty. If we win, we will ask for a royal reward. Once this precedent comes out, there will be war in the future. I'm afraid that the expedition is not to be loyal to the country, but for profit. I think that the king of Zhennan should not ask for so many rewards."

When Lv Gong and Lv Ji saw Sima Guang talking, they also said, "That's right, is it for the sake of high-ranking officials? Isn't this against the way of loyalty and righteousness? Forget it and think twice."

These people said that Prime Minister Han Qi was relatively close to Zhao Yu and also came forward and said, "Your Honor, it is a good thing to win the battle. It should be rewarded, but if the reward is excessive, I'm afraid it will attract criticism. Please think twice."

As soon as Han Qi spoke, there were more people following the trend. Twenty officials appeared, saying, asking the emperor to think twice, with a righteous and awe-inspiring look,

Zhao Yu was a little annoyed. What's wrong with rewarding the meritorious officials. Moreover, Wang's request was not too much. He was about to reject it. Wang's side laughed. Everyone looked sideways at the king's side. Wang's side could feel the doubts in his eyes and flew to himself like a knife.

Seeing that he had become the focus of the court, Wang's side went to these people and looked at them one by one. His bright eyes were like a review, looking straight at everyone. It seemed that he had seen through these people. Some people were seen with hair and did not look at the king. Lv Gong and Lv Ji arrogantly turned their heads not to look at the king, as if Besides, so many people object, let's see what you have to say,

Wang side snorted coldly from his nose: "Colleagues, I haven't finished my words, and you think I want more."

Sima Guang thought he had a clear conscience. He took over and said, "King of Zhennan, if you have anything to say, say it quickly. Anyway, I want to ask the emperor to think twice."

The king secretly thought that it would be great not to see Sima Guang among future generations. Now I am an official in the same dynasty as you, and the official position is not lower than yours. It is easy to say that they are all colleagues. It is hard to say that there is no need to be polite to this person who has no achievements.

He pointed his hand to everyone in front of him and said, "You are not convinced. Then I ask you who you only have one official position."

Everyone looked at each other in front of each other. There is not only one official position in the court. In order to weaken the rights of officials, Taizu formulated a very complex policy of separating officials, positions and dispatches. Officials in the Northern Song Dynasty can serve as officials, positions and dispatch several positions. At the same time, in addition to the affairs that are officially responsible for, that is, "dispatriation", officials and positions It's just an honor and an honorary title. The most important role is to get a reward from the court for saving energy every year.

Take Sima Guang as an said, that is, Hanlin's bachelor is also the imperial historian Zhongcheng at the same time. Not only Sima Guang, but also the officials in the capital have no single title. In addition to the king of Zhennan, Wang, he also has the official position of Prince Taifu. These are the standards for the court to issue benefits.

Wang Bian continued to say, "All colleagues have more than one job. As far as I know, the salary of hundreds of officials in the Song Dynasty is the most favorable among all dynasties. The monthly salary is 400 yuan. In addition to the salary, there are also 150 stones of monthly salary and 120,000 yuan, plus 20 pieces, 1 piece, 50 taels per year. In addition to the above salary, each There are many kinds of welfare subsidies, including tea and wine money, cooking money, charcoal money, horse money, etc. The servants' food and clothing and wages of the officials' domestic servants are also paid by the court.

Saying this, Wang Bian paused for a moment and looked at all kinds of stunned expressions. He was a little proud. These numbers jumped into his mind. What he was going to say next was enough to shut up these noisy toads.

"Colleagues, if I don't count what I have to say, most of the public money borrowing interest and the income of the field, in addition to being used by the head of the department, have entered the 'small treasury' of each department and distributed to the officials every three to five times, becoming part of the income. When officials go on business trips or go to office, they can rely on the 'give the 'roll' issued by the court. In the local area, you can eat and live for nothing, and even get food and clothes, etc. Many of you here receive two salaries, which is called 'job money'.

Those officials who just asked the king for a heavy reward have been dumbfounded. Lv Gong wrote that Lv He and others had quietly retreated to the side and secretly looked at Zhao Yu's expression. Gradually, there were only six or seven people in the middle of the hall, and one or two people were gradually missing. They were afraid that Song Shenzong would understand that these could not be understood. It's a small number, and it quietly hid to one side,

Wang next to Sima Guang: "Sima Zhongcheng, you help me calculate how much the court pays a person's annual salary."

Sima Guang snorted and turned his head: "I haven't counted it. This is what officials deserve."

"Ha ha, it doesn't matter if we haven't calculated it. Today, we can calculate that the court raises an official. In an official position, you have to pay salary and miscellaneous items equivalent to three or four thousand taels of silver in a year. I'm afraid these two or three official positions are more than seven or eight thousand taels."

Prime Minister Han Qi coughed gently and said, "Your Majesty, even if you are right, so what? You want 20 million taels."

Wang's face turned more and said to Han Qi, "So what? I haven't calculated the value of the job field to you, and the value of the descendants receiving official cuteness. Let's say, colleagues, you have to spend 30 or 40 years in the DPRK. In these 30 or 40 years, you will get 300,000 taels of silver. This Manchao Wenwu, pick out a hundred. It doesn't seem to be difficult to get a salary for nothing.

In his words, the people who had just returned to the team were dissatisfied again. Lv Xi asked loudly, "King of Zhennan, don't speak so badly. Who do you think will eat the salary for nothing?"

Wang pointed to Lv Qi and said, "Say you're an idiot, are you convinced?"