The daily life of a science genius who travels through the book group

Chapter 442 Military Households
"Second Young Master Song, please take a rest. I'll get you a cup of tea." The head of Shuntianfu City Guards was like a waiter in a shop, serving tea and water, and returning the snacks prepared for Song Chenxu.

"Master Bo, I'm here to clean the hut, you have to send someone to take me there, and then teach me what to do."

It's not that Song Chenxu is hypocritical, after all, he was born as the son of an official family, and Song Erlang has never done cleaning work.

However, the head of the city guard department obviously didn't think so, and said with a smile: "No, no, you don't have to go, the subordinate has already arranged someone to do it for you, you can just sit here with peace of mind."

Song Chenxu raised his eyebrows high, and just about to say something, his words turned a corner in his stomach, and he persuaded him with a good temper: "Master Bo, this matter was explained by His Majesty. If I don't do it, I will be deceiving you." My lord Bo, you can't harm me!"

"This..." The master was in a dilemma, stroked his beard for a while, and said in a low voice: "Young master, I'm afraid I haven't been to that public latrine, it stinks! Why don't you send me to clean it up first, and then you can clean it up." ?”

Song Chenxu raised his eyebrows, and threw a few silver coins to Master Bo: "Don't ask people to do nothing for nothing, and trouble Master Bo. By the way, at least leave me two stinky ones, and don't overdo it."

Master Bo smiled and praised repeatedly: "Second Young Master Song is still thoughtful! I admire you!"

Song Chenxu shook his head, and walked slowly with his hands behind his back to look at the tool room.

Pushing the door open, I suddenly found someone inside.

The man obviously also noticed Song Chenxu, seeing the leather belt on the waist of the visitor was inlaid with a piece of carved flower and bird emerald, and the visitor was of a strong figure, at first glance he looked like a general of some status, so he immediately stood up in a panic.

Song Chenxu saw that he was holding a book in his hand and looked it over carefully. It turned out to be a math book written by the third younger sister. He immediately laughed and said, "Why are you reading here?"

Unexpectedly, the man immediately knelt down and kowtowed: "Damn the little one! The little one didn't mean to be lazy! I really don't have anything to do today, so I just wanted to see it for a while. The little one will go back!"

It turned out to be an official in the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion?

Song Chenxu thought so, and stopped him: "Slow down, don't hurry."

"Is there anything else you can do with the little one?" The man's eyes were full of fear.

"Don't be nervous, I'm not from the yamen. I beat someone on the street yesterday and was fined by His Majesty to clean the public latrine. What about you? What do you do?"

"The younger one is the clerk in this yamen." The man replied honestly, "The one who is in charge of sorting out the tax books on weekdays."

"What are you doing reading this book?" Song Chenxu asked curiously.

The man hesitated for a while, then lowered his voice and said: "I want to participate in this year's math competition. If you win the first prize, you can get an official job if you take the exam! It's better than sorting out the tax books here day after day."

Song Chenxu chuckled: "Then you can't do nothing during the day and hide here to read books. Even if you want to be an official in the future, the official department will send someone to the yamen to ask you whether you are dedicated to your work on weekdays. If If you get a bad review from your immediate boss, even if you win the first place in a math competition, the official department will not agree to confer you an official."

The man sighed: "There wasn't much to do. How many people can pay taxes from the capital to the whole of Beizhili? That is to say, we can collect some from the time our emperor becomes the crown prince. I work fast, and I have finished it long ago." .”

Song Chenxu raised his eyebrows, thinking that now that the firearms battalion has grown in scale, the two officials under him were not enough. Seeing the available talents, he felt itchy and wanted to poach the wall.

So he began to introduce himself: "My surname is Song, and I work at home. I am currently the clerk of the Firearms Camp. If you don't want to stay here and waste your life, you can work with me. I can still guide you a little bit."

"You are Lord Song Cifu's second son?!" The scribe became visibly excited.

"If it's a fake replacement."

"I... the younger one is called Qi Jiyan! However, the matter of job transfer depends on the will of our Lord Bo. The younger one can't decide on his own."

"It's such a trivial matter. Do it well, and don't make any mistakes in these two months. After I finish cleaning the public latrines for these two months, I will arrange for you to go to the firearms camp."

Qi Jiyan immediately kowtowed to Song Chenxu on the ground, and happily went back to work.

Song Chenxu was also very happy, he came over to do some cleaning, and got a piece of self-motivated younger brother.

Within a few days, the news that the second son of the Song Dynasty was punished by the emperor to sweep the hut spread throughout the streets and alleys.

After Ning Yuan learned about it, he felt very refreshed. He used to guard the city gate for half a year. At that time, he was ashamed and humiliated. Now it is Song Erlang's turn. Isn't sweeping the latrine more embarrassing than himself?

People in the capital also talked a lot about the son of the former assistant family who came to clean the hut with soap water every day.

Some said that the Song family was about to fail. First, Song Dalang was sent to Guizhou to be an official, then Mr. Cifu resigned, and now Song Erlang cleaned the toilets.

The emperor really didn't save any face for the Song family.

But no matter how much Ning Yuan gloated in his heart, he scoffed at this kind of discussion.Punish Song Erlang to clean the toilet?They didn't see that the guy who was beaten by Song Erlang was directly sent to Shenyang Zhongwei as a military household!
Besides, if the emperor really didn't trust the Song family, it was impossible to hand over the arsenal to Song Chenxu.The people in the Ministry of War are so greedy for the job in the arsenal, what is the result?Don't even try to get involved with any of them, Song Erlang will be in charge directly, and he can't even arrange for his own people.

Seeing that the clerk didn't even have a grade yet, he was actually an even more important role than himself, the Commander of the Jinyiwei.

Ning Yuan is jealous.

But it was useless for him to be jealous.

It was his own fault back then, he intentionally delayed meeting Song San by half a day.

The long-standing trust was completely shattered because of such a wrong decision.

Now he can only do his best to do his job well and slowly make up for it, but the relationship between himself and His Highness can never go back to the past.

No matter what the officials and scholars in the capital think of Song Chenxu, most of the people in the capital are saying good things about Song Chenxu. There is no other reason. Since this son started cleaning the public latrines, the public latrines have no smell!

Very clean!

Eunuch Wang also reported to the emperor, saying that Song Erlang spent money and hired a few gangsters from the west of the city to clean the hut, and cleaned it four or five times a day from morning to night, so the smell was naturally much less.

The emperor shook his head with a smile, it's good to do this, originally it was just to make a show of punishing him, and he didn't really want to torture him, so let's just keep one eye open and close one eye.

But Song Qianqian felt very ashamed, her second brother was punished by His Majesty to clean the hut in Yujie as her wedding was approaching!
He ran to Qian Mansion to cry with Song Qingyue, and wanted her to go to His Majesty to intercede for the second elder brother: "Even if it needs to be cleaned, it will be done in two months!"

Song Qingyue agreed, but she didn't intend to actually intercede for her second brother.

Instead, he ran to Yujie to see the second brother who was "working hard" and brought him some delicious food by the way.Who knows, someone at Song Chenxu's place has already made delicious food - Lu Wenyan.

Hearing that her fiancé was beaten five times by His Majesty, and that she came to the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion to report the next day after the beating, Lu Wenyan was heartbroken.

When Song Qingyue went to deliver the meal, she saw Song Chenxu covered his face with a sackcloth to block the smell, trying to persuade Lu Wenyan to go home quickly and not to come back tomorrow.

He couldn't tell the truth, he was just putting on a show, but in fact he paid people to do the work, but when Lu Wenyan came, he couldn't be lazy.

According to Lu Lao Cifu's temper, if he knew that he was stealing and cheating like this, he would not have to kill his relatives righteously, personally impeach his grandson-in-law, maybe he would have to suffer another five punishments.

Song Qingyue watched her brother's joke for a while, then came out to make a rescue and took Lu Wenyan away.

She didn't want to plead for her second brother at all.

Being a courtier, being too perfect is not a good thing, and the occasional innocuous self-defilement will make the emperor feel more at ease.

However, that Gong Shi surnamed He looked down on military households and said that they were lowly, which made Song Qingyue very angry!

That useless scholar enjoys a happy life in the capital by himself, and he doesn't see who is keeping him in such a stable life.Even if you can't really do something for the border soldiers, at least you have to respect them.

To say they are lowly is to have their conscience eaten by dogs.

The next day, when Song Qingyue took the little guy into the palace to see her grandfather, she gave the emperor a suggestion to strengthen patriotic and military education: find a troupe to write a few dramas, and write about how the Southern Song Dynasty was beaten and how the Mongols slaughtered the city , How to burn, kill and loot, and then write about how miserable the days of the soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty were at the border, and how these people threw their heads and blood in order to protect the people within the line of defense from the Tartars.

The play was written and rehearsed, and the Ministry of Households allocated funds for the play troupe to tour the country.

The emperor's eyes lit up after hearing this.

Li Zhao had mentioned to him early on that the military household system would not last long.The burden on the peasant households in Dazhou seems to be small, but in fact, most of the burden of military rations and salaries falls on the military households.If things go on like this, the military households will only try to escape from the frontier, and the combat effectiveness of the Da Zhou army will become weaker and weaker.

But if you want to change the military household system, you need to increase taxes on ordinary peasant households.

But if this is done, it is bound to cause turmoil.

However, if you don't do this, Da Zhou's army will be finished sooner or later.

This is the same as if you are sick, whether you need to use a knife to treat it. If you move, it will hurt, bleed, and may even happen, but if you don't move, you are waiting for death.

The emperor and Li Zhao, who are action factions, are naturally not the ones to sit and wait for death.

Song Qingyue's suggestion is equivalent to giving the people the ideological work of raising taxes first, and then carrying out tax reform, which may have some effect.

The emperor looked at Li Zhao, wanting to hear what he meant.

Li Zhao nodded and said: "Yue'er is indeed a good idea. But it is necessary to cooperate with the discipline of the army. In the past, wherever the army went to suppress a bandit, the army's salary and food had to be collected on the spot. Once the court has no money to support the army, passing by is like When the locusts cross the border, the people live in dire straits, and there are many complaints. But if the army marches through without any offense, the people will naturally love the soldiers."

Having said that, the father and son sighed together in a tacit understanding.

After all, it's about money.

One is to prevent corruption of the upper-level military officers, the other is to ensure military pay and rations, and the last is to strictly enforce military discipline.

If the military households are not full to eat and not warm enough to wear, why should people work for the court?
No matter how many advanced weapons and horses a country has, if the army is unstable and has no cohesion, and there are muddle-headed people, corrupt officials, and traitors everywhere, it will still fail miserably when facing the enemy. .

The military household system must be changed, but the key is how and when to change it.

(End of this chapter)