Chapter 150: The Mighty Divine Army
Looking back, Zhao Yulin also boarded the boat and headed straight for Jiading Prefecture.
In the Lin'an Palace, the emperor was listening to the report from the prefect of Luzhou, who was already beaming with joy.
After Zhao Yulin defeated the rebels, he came back to help him punish corruption. Although the confiscated cash was used by the Shenwei Army to offset military expenses, he still made a lot of money and easily paid the taxes for that year. Li Yunqing also handed over the captured Miao King and the rebel leaders to him as prisoners of war. What a great achievement!
The emperor was very happy after listening to his detailed report, and he promoted him to the governor of Luzhou in the court. His rank was instantly raised by two levels, and everyone shouted: "Your Majesty is wise, long live our emperor."
This is the ministers adding joy to the emperor.
In the past six months, first the Northern Expedition failed, then civil unrest broke out in Shandong, Lianghuai and Fujian, and they have not yet been quelled.
Now that Luzhou has sent taxes and the Renhuai rebellion has been quelled, the emperor has a rare smile on his face, and the ministers are just trying to cheer him up.
Lord Wei knew that the Shenwei Army was escorting prisoners into the city, so he asked the Luzhou prefect how many people had come.
Ask them to walk in a proper pace so that the housekeeper will be happy.
Damn, I actually knew that the Shenwei Army can march in step.
The prefect of Luzhou immediately reported to the emperor, requesting that the emperor move his carriage to Desheng to review the Shenwei Army that accompanied him.
The emperor was in high spirits and agreed immediately.
The eunuch immediately spread the news.
The Shenwei Army waiting outside the palace gate became nervous. These soldiers were all from the grassroots combat units. How could they have thought that the current emperor wanted to watch them practice marching?
Fortunately, the leading captain had heard that the last time the tax silver was delivered to Lin'an, the troops marched back and forth here. He immediately reorganized the troops, arranged hundreds of soldiers into five neat columns according to height, and the soldiers quickly adjusted their military appearance.
Soon, the emperor and a group of trusted ministers stood at the palace gate. The little eunuch immediately shouted shrilly: The emperor has arrived, and the Shenwei Army is here to accept his inspection.
The captain did not even go to report to the emperor. He directly organized the team, shouted the command three times, raised the military flag and started marching forward. When he was close to the palace gate, he swung the flag and corrected his march. All that could be heard was the sound of waving hands and footsteps. The team moved in unison, and even their eyes were fixed on watching the emperor pass through the palace gate.
The emperor was surprised. He had heard about it a long time ago. The last time the Shenwei Army came to Lin'an, they marched in front of the palace gate. They looked very majestic. The young men and ladies of Lin'an who had seen them all thought that the Shenwei Army was stunningly handsome.
The emperor was in a trance as he looked at the Shenwei Army. The captain had already turned around and walked back with his team. The slogan "Facing death with indifference, defending the home and the country" rang out like a loud bell at the palace gate. The people who were watching the excitement around cheered when they saw such a spirited team.
The emperor was very pleased and wanted to reward the troops.
He directly ordered the eunuchs to take silver from the inner treasury in public and reward each of them with fifty silver coins...
The emperor looked at the densely packed Shenwei Army soldiers and suddenly stopped talking, then changed his words and ordered each of them to be rewarded with five taels of silver.
This kind of new army with new uniforms and new training methods was the first time the emperor had seen it. He sighed in his heart, what a good army! If it hadn't been for the failure of the Northern Expedition and the empty treasury, he would have reduced the reward of 50 taels of silver against his will.
Zhao Yulin was still sleeping on the boat at that time. If he knew that the Shenwei Army could ask the emperor to reward them with silver for every step they took, he would definitely wake up with laughter.
He was dazed and suddenly woke up with a violent shaking. He sat up abruptly and asked what happened.
Li Chuan had already run out of the cabin, and the captain of the guard was also questioning him.
Later, Li Chuan brought in the chief steward of the official ship to review with him: After the winter, it is difficult to sail in shallow water and dark sky, and they were just avoiding reefs.
Zhao Yulin waved his hand and told him not to worry too much, it was okay to go slowly, just be careful with the boat.
He got up and went out. The northwest wind was blowing at the bow. He couldn't help but say something and turned to ask Li Chuan to go and see if the brothers on the boat had put on their winter clothes and whether they needed anything.
He was usually too busy and paid too little attention to the soldiers around him, always feeling that he owed them something.
Li Chuan came back and said that the brothers were not cold at all, as they were all sweating from paddling the boat. Winter clothes had been distributed long ago.
The official ship finally arrived in Jiading. Zhao Yulin knew that there was a restaurant on the dock that made good Qiaojiao Beef, so he told Li Chuan not to go to the government office first. He wanted to hold a reception and let all the brothers try the Qiaojiao Beef and drink his Wugufeng wine.
The soldiers were happy about this, and the captain of the guard still left some guards behind before going ashore.
The shopkeeper panicked when he saw a large group of soldiers rushing in. Li Chuan stepped forward and told him that it was Commander Zhao of the Shenwei Army who wanted to eat the cross-legged beef.
Zhao Yulin immediately corrected him from behind and said, "Be patient, everyone is here to eat the cross-legged beef." Please ask the chef to start the pot and serve it to the table.
The brothers at the back had already placed jars of Wu Gu Feng on the table. When the shopkeeper saw the old Wu Gu Feng, he knew the real owner had arrived and started shouting. All the waiters in the store ran as fast as lightning.
Are you kidding? The shopkeeper has sharp eyes. As soon as he looked at the mouth of the jar, he knew that the grains on the table were grains that had been aged for more than five years. Who else could move out more than a dozen jars with a flick of his hand except the third young master of the Zhao family?
Looking around this man, there is a large group of mighty guards protecting him.
The shopkeeper personally went to the kitchen to supervise the preparation of the beef with legs crossed, and asked the chef to pick up the leftover beef and put it aside, and to make the best portion of beef with legs crossed for the third young master to taste.
This time, Zhao Yulin and his brothers enjoyed a plate of beef with legs crossed.
Finally, he packed some for the brothers on the boat to taste. He then gave the shopkeeper a jar of unopened Wu Gu Feng and asked Li Chuan to pay the bill, but the shopkeeper insisted on not accepting the money, saying that the money from his meal was not enough to cover the price of the jar of aged Wu Gu Feng.
Zhao Yulin laughed and said that they were two different things. You can give a discount, but you have to pay for it. This is the rule of the Shenwei Army.
As a result, the shopkeeper insisted on giving a 50% discount before accepting the money.
It was already midnight when Zhao Yulin entered Jiading Mansion. Chen Chen glared at him and asked what was wrong.
It turns out that the wild food outside tastes better than the food at home?
Why don’t you come back even when you’re at the doorstep?
Explain it clearly to me.
He knew Chen Chen was playing mad and foolish again, teasing Min Nan. He went forward and hugged the woman, and the couple soon melted into each other.
At dawn, Zhao Yulin got up to practice boxing and fitness. After taking a shower and changing clothes, they had breakfast together. He smiled and said that the general manager was very powerful, and the heads of the states and counties below were all following the general manager's baton.
Chen Chen pouted his little mouth proudly.
He asked, it was heard that the head of Fengyuan Prison had taken advantage of both the suppliers and the imperial court, and the iron coins he had embezzled had become rusty, so why didn't he take action?
Why is Chen Chen panicking? Let them jump around for two more days.
He said that the Shenwei Army was short of silver, and now that a large gold and silver mine had been discovered in Mahu, it was just right to ask the master chef of Guigu in Cuiping Mountain to take over Fengyuan Prison. On the one hand, it solved the problem of excessive issuance of iron coins, and on the other hand, it tried to make silver and gold coins of sufficient weight.
Chen Chen immediately asked him happily: Are we going to issue our own currency?
Wow.
Zhao Yulin covered her cherry lips and asked her in a low voice, "Are you trying to kill your husband? Where is my queen?"
The little girl immediately closed her eyes and was intoxicated.
The couple practiced their tongues with each other for a while, then Zhao Yulin let go of Chen Chen and said that the chief steward was very capable, even her father admired him, and that a sewage cleaning bureau should be established in Yibin to institutionalize the management of environmental sanitation.
The girl raised her head, looked at him proudly with raised eyebrows and said, Yibin should have done this a long time ago.
He said that transportation is very underdeveloped nowadays and people have to walk to get around. It is enough to hold a meeting once a month, no more than that.
Otherwise, all these people would be wasted on traveling to and from meetings.
Chen Chen nodded and continued to look at him with a smile, as if to encourage him, "Anything else? Go ahead." Then he asked the maid to bring a cup of hot tea.
Zhao Yulin stood up, picked up the tea bowl, and asked her to go to the study with him. He picked up the brush and started writing. When the desk was covered with papers, Chen Chen had already read most of it.
She asked, is this to unify weights and measures?
Zhao Yulin scratched her nose and said the answer was correct.
Nowadays, we have Jiading Prefecture, Hanzhong, Guanzhong and Baoning Prefecture, but the measurement is different. For example, in archery, thirty steps, fifty steps, and one arrow's distance are called, and walking is measured in steps, which is also called one li, five li, and ten li. The most obvious is the problem of half a catty and eight taels. It is very troublesome and complicated to calculate without decimal.
Let's develop a new measurement system and unify weights and measures.
Chen Chen immediately became interested, supporting his head with his hands and listening to him with a smile on his face.
Zhao Yulin leaned over, hugged the little woman, kissed her and said, this is why he wanted to take back Fengyuan Prison. Not to mention that they were corrupt, even the quality of their iron was definitely not as good as the one produced in our Yibin blast furnace. Why didn't they use it?
Besides, the coins are becoming lighter and lighter, with some of them seriously short in weight. Also, the writing on the molds is so blurred that it is really ugly.
Invite Master Chen Xian, and we will start from Fengyuan Prison. We will first promote the decimal kilogram and catty system in the market. It will be convenient for ordinary people to use and will soon be promoted throughout the country.
Zhao Yulin had some complaints about the weights and measures at that time. They were not decimal measurements, which made tool design, product manufacturing, and especially craftsmen's testing very troublesome and not conducive to technological progress.
He felt that the area controlled by the Shenwei Army was quite wide at present, so he could try to use the decimal measurement method to further unify the weights and measures.
Promote social progress.
Chen Chen also became interested after listening to this. She said that many government workshops in Jiazhou were idle at present, so it was a good opportunity to invite Master Chen Xian to teach the craftsmen how to make new measuring tools to revitalize these workshops.
Zhao Yulin looked at his woman and saw that she understood everything at once, and smiled happily.
She said that there was nothing she couldn't accomplish as she held the power of the prefect. As long as we built another blast furnace in Jianwei, we could use the finest iron to cast any number of coins.
Our currency doesn't need anything fancy, just enough to weigh.
The key is that we also need to mint silver coins and gold coins. First, we can give them out as bonuses to reward meritorious people in our Shenwei Army, and they can also be circulated. In this way, we will have our own currency .
Chen Chen's face lit up with joy again, as if he had seen a brand new world.
