Chapter 25 Take Action
"I'll write it now, Wang Hu! You can arrange someone to post it later, and then start recruiting people. How much is enough to recruit people..." Li Siwen frowned, thought about it in a pretentious manner, then looked at Li Mu, and asked, "Brother, how much do you think it's enough to recruit people?"
Li Mu found it both funny and speechless. He found that Li Siwen liked to call him a virtuous brother recently, but the two of them were obviously the same age, so it is not certain who is a virtuous brother. Li Siwen did not disclose his birthday. And as long as he called him virtuous brother, he would definitely be blamed. Without exception, Li Mu was already used to it.
"I don't know this. Let Brother Wang arrange it. It can't be too much, nor too little. If it's less, it's not enough. If it's too much, we won't have enough money!"
"Well... it's a question!" Li Siwen thought for a while and asked Wang Hu: "How many do you think are suitable for recruitment?"
Wang Hu thought for a moment and said, "At least one group of people."
The "one group" mentioned by Wang Hu refers to fifty people. The Tang Dynasty army took battalions as the basic unit, and the battalions were under the jurisdiction of five teams, each team led three gangs, each with five leaders, and each with ten leaders.
"Fifty people..." Li Siwen pondered for a moment and said, "Now, in Dingxiang City, there are only prisoners and wounded soldiers. It is not easy to recruit fifty young and strong men. For the sake of the present, I can only recruit in the surrounding counties, and the money is not easy to deal with. Now I have deducted 20% of the money for the construction of the city wall. The court has arranged for the wounded and logistics departments to repatriate them, and soon I will transport the benefits. I don't know how to pay the account. If I take more, I'm afraid I can't explain it." After a pause, Li Siwen gritted his teeth and said, "It really doesn't work, so I sent someone back to Chang'an to find my mother and asked her to help me sell the land that my father had bought for me. Five hundred acres of land is worth 1,800 stag, which is enough for a while!"
Li Mu was stunned when he heard this. This was the first time he heard that someone had become an official and sold his land for subsidies. This was the case in the Tang Dynasty, in the later years, the officials sold the land of ordinary people. Compared with them, Li Siwen was really a good official. Li Mu hurriedly stopped him and said, "My county magistrate, you won't be so far. Don't forget that we still have money in Dingxiang."
"Where did the money come from?" Li Siwen asked quickly, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he said, "Can there be a Turkic treasure house here?"
"What Turkic Treasure House?"
"I heard from the people working on the construction site that they said that there were treasures robbed by the Turks from the Central Plains here!" Li Siwen said with relish; "It was said that there was ten thousand taels of gold. My goodness, it is not certain whether there was ten thousand taels of gold in His Majesty's private warehouse. If we dig it up, what wouldn't we do enough!"
Li Mu sighed inwardly. He just felt that Li Siwen was a good official, and his unreliable side came again. He quickly pulled the words back and said, "Mr. County Magistrate, what I am talking about is not a treasure house. I am talking about these houses in the city, shops on the South Street, and mansions on the North Street. If they can be sold, it will be all money!"
"How can I not know this!" Li Siwen slapped his thigh and said, "The key is who bought it? Do you expect those who work on the construction site to buy it? They can't afford half of it after working for a year. People from the surrounding county towns? Didn't you say that other counties will not release people at will, let alone rich people!"
"My lord!" Every time Li Mu talked to Li Siwen, he felt tired. He took a deep breath and explained: "We will arrange for the wounded soldiers and logistics departments to return soon. Are the East-West and West Second Streets empty? Your Majesty asked us to accept refugees again. These refugees may not be without money. They may be the Turkic nobles who escaped, or they may be the other ethnic groups of our Tang Dynasty when they saw the Turkic people defeated and surrendered to other ethnic groups in the Tang Dynasty. We can choose some of the rich and place them in the houses of the former Turkic nobles on the North Street. At the same time, they will be listed for sale of houses in the East-West Second Street and auctioned shops on the South Street. As long as we create a posture that everyone is rushing to ask for, we will not have to worry about selling them at all!"
Li Siwen nodded while listening, and after Li Mu finished speaking, he said, "I probably understand, the last question!"
"What?"
"Who will come and rush to ask for it?"
I understand this?! Li Mu gritted his teeth and said word by word: "No one wants it. We hire people to create illusions. Simply put, it is a fraud! It makes people feel that the house is almost gone, and if they don't buy it, they can't buy it, so that they can be sold!"
"Oh... I understand!" Li Siwen looked like he suddenly realized, and smiled thornyly, pointed at Li Mu, and said, "I'm so mean, brother! It's bad enough!" Seeing that Li Mu was about to go crazy, Li Siwen quickly stopped and said, "That's it. Everyone should act, do whatever they should do, I'll go to the construction site to see!"
As he said that, he was about to get up and run away. Li Mu grabbed him and said, "The large number of people will soon pour into Dingxiang City, and grain is the top priority. The food and grass in the camp will also be depleted on the way to Chang'an. It is better to exchange it for money and transport it back. We will keep the food."
Li Siwen could still understand such a simple truth and said, "Okay, I'll let the grain trucks be suspended first and make arrangements in the future. As long as you can sell the houses in the city before the camp is evacuated, we can keep much grain when we have money."
The plan was decided, and the three of them left the yamen together, first inspected the construction site outside the city, and had breakfast. Li Siwen took out the four treasures of the study and wrote a few notices. Wang Hu sent someone to post it. Li Mu also took a picture and posted it at the door of the yamen. Bai Gensheng will stay with Wang Hu for the time being to do some miscellaneous things. After posting the notice, Li Mu went to the camp. He found several team officers in charge of the wounded soldiers in the camp and showed them the official documents received by Li Siwen. Several people discussed the chapter.
Cheng divided the wounded soldiers into several levels according to their injuries. The minor injured were accompanied by the seriously injured, and then formed a team with the injured. A hundred people walked together. They arranged the arrangements immediately. Li Mu was busy in the camp until noon before he arranged the process. In the afternoon, he finally returned home when he had time. However, Li Mu did not enter the house, but spared it and walked on the South Street. Finally, he chose the first shop on the west side, took out a seal he made from his arms and pasted it on the door panel.
Chapter completed!