Yuan Jin was one of the few civil servants of the Yuan family. He is currently the governor of Liangzhou. This time he returned to Beijing to report his duties. He happened to encounter the defeat of the Yuan family in Yangzhou.

Yuan Jin was very worried about his father's idea. Yes, the Yuan family had the merit of supporting him during the change of the Sect. In order to win over the Yuan family, the Supreme Emperor promised to classify Yangzhou as the sphere of influence of the Yuan family.

But that was just a temporary measure adopted by the Supreme Emperor without firm foothold.

This world is still the Li family. No matter the emperor or the regent, it is impossible for him to hand over such an important place as Yangzhou to the Yuan family.

After gaining more than ten years of profit, the Yuan family should be content and take the initiative to give up Yangzhou. The Yuan family is still one of the pillars of the regent.

The problem is that my father mistakenly analyzed the situation and regarded Yangzhou as the private property of the Yuan family.

This time, the emperor and the regent joined forces to rectify Yangzhou, and the intention was very obvious.

If the father was still obsessed with the credit of the past, I am afraid that the Yuan family would be in trouble.

Yuan Jin was worried and didn't know what to do. His father was too stubborn and he couldn't persuade him at all.

No, he must find a way to persuade Yuan Zhen, and it is best to let Yuan Zhen come out and resign.

But the result still disappointed Yuan Jin. Just as he was about to find an opportunity to talk to Yuan Zhen, he received news that Yuan Zhen had left Chang'an and returned to Yangzhou to continue his post.

Yuan Jin had no choice but to leave Chang'an and return to Liangzhou.

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Ten days later, Li Xiu escorted 3.5 million jin of tax money and a large amount of Wang Dongdu, and the wealth of the Maitreya religion arrived in Chang'an.

Zhang Jiuling and Li Linfu personally went to the dock to greet him, and a large number of officials from the Ministry of Revenue, the Inner Treasury, and Xingqing Palace also came.

Gao Lishi, the general manager of the Daming Palace, and Liu Fengting, the general manager of the Xingqing Palace, also arrived at the dock. The two of them were responsible for accepting the wealth of Wang Dongdu and the Maitreya Cult.

The emperor and the regent have reached a division agreement, and 2.5 million jin of taxes will be returned to the court, and 1 million jin of taxes will be used to supplement the internal treasury.

All the wealth of Wang Dongdu and Maitreya religion is divided into sixty-four parts, with inner treasury accounting for 60% and gathered treasury accounting for 40%, including a large amount of real estate.

Li Xiu is not responsible for specific matters. The specific escort is Jianghuai and Henan Transportation Deputy Envoy Wei Shaoyou. He is Pei Yaoqing's person, and he is responsible for handling various handover procedures.

After some greetings with the important officials, Li Xiu met Gao Lishi.

In the room, Li Xiu put the sword of the emperor above, the gold medal of the troops, and the gold medal of the pass on the table, and pushed it to Gao Lishi.

"Fortunately, I'm not humiliating my fate!"

Gao Lishi smiled and said, "This time is also very dangerous!"

"It's okay! Compared to the case in Luoyang, I don't think it's too risky."

"But both Li Zhu and Li Ji were destroyed, and fifty or sixty people died!"

"That's because their method is wrong. Using gentlemen to deal with bandits will of course be easily controlled by others and tempted by others. To the bandits, they have to use their own ways to return them. People with huge and extremely vicious people like Yan Xiao can only be wiped out with their army."

"Even the emperor praises you for being more mature and experienced in doing things."

Li Xiu doesn't need these false praises. He is very pragmatic and requires practical benefits.

But today he did not ask for it directly, but responded with silence. It was actually the same thing.

Gao Lishi understood Li Xiu's thoughts and smiled and said, "You will not be disappointed this time. You have completed two major tasks and your title has been upgraded to two levels accordingly. From a viscount to a marquis, your mother is noble by her son, and your mother has also recovered from Baolin to a concubine. How about it, the emperor has not treated you badly!"

Li Xiu was overjoyed. This result really made him very satisfied. He was promoted twice in a row and became a marquis, and his mother was restored to a concubine.

"Actually, I did not start investigating Jiang Shidu's case."

"Everyone understands that Jiang Shidu's death was done by Wang Dongdu. The key is that Wang Dongdu is difficult to deal with. Such a person is very cruel and Yuan Zhen supports him. He also fled to the sea to continue to be a pirate after a slight disturbance. He knows from the incident of Jiang Shidu's destruction and Li Ji.

But in the end, you caught Wang Dongdu and his men and executed him publicly, winning back the hearts of the people. Both the emperor and the regent recognized that this case was your credit."

"Mr. Gao, do I still live in my original place?"

Gao Lishi shook his head, "Your residence has been changed, and all kinds of treatments have been implemented. In addition, the emperor will reward you with 100,000 guan and 20,000 pieces of silk at one time as a reward for your Yangzhou mission."

"Wait a minute!"

Li Xiu suddenly felt something was wrong, "Mr. Gao, I remember very clearly that the two purple list tasks each received 100,000 yuan, and the reward of 10,000 yuan for investigation of the Maitreya Cult, should be 210,000 yuan in total."

Gao Lishi smiled and shook his head, "When you first did a mission, you should know that the maximum reward for tasks is 100,000 yuan, which is recognized by everyone. The emperor cannot make an exception for you, but as a reward for you, the emperor will personally reward you with 20,000 pieces of silk."

Li Xiu couldn't speak for a long time. Although he was a little regretful, he was not very depressed. He actually made a lot of benefits, such as the 70,000 taels of silver from the Maitreya Sect, and he left 50,000 taels himself and rewarded his subordinates with 20,000 taels.

I also got a lot of rare treasures from Wang Dongdu. Two five-foot-high red coral trees are rare treasures in the world and are priceless treasures.

"Where is the manor?" Li Xiu asked again.

Gao Lishi felt relieved. He was ready to jump up and make a big fuss, but he did not expect that the other party would accept the reality silently.

This boy was indeed mature. Gao Lishi was relieved and hurriedly said, "According to the regulations, the marquis of the manor is fourteen hectares, but considering your contribution, the emperor will allocate six hectares from his private fields to you and gather twenty hectares. In fact, it is the 2,000-acre pharmacy shop for you."

"So those five hectares of land are mine?"

"Of course the five hectares belong to you, but they expanded eastward for another fifteen hectares. If you have time, go and take a look!"

Li Xiu nodded, "Mr. Gao, leave the 20,000 pieces of silk that the emperor gave me to me, please leave to my mother! She needs it even more in the palace."

Gao Lishi said happily: "Yes, our family will arrange it for you!"

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Li Xiu took everyone to the new mansion with a eunuch. The mansion is located in Chongrenfang, which belongs to a mid-to-high-end community. The Jinzhaoyuan in various states is concentrated here, and the Imperial College is also here.

There are obviously fewer stalls and vendors on the street, but diagonally opposite the street is Chang'an City: Pingkangfang.

Compared with Yongxingfang before, this place does lack a low-level atmosphere of life, but it is very quiet in the morning and evening, which is also good.

Even though Yongxingfang is lively, it is very noisy. It starts to shout and sell breakfast before dawn in the morning.

"Your Highness, the marquis' monthly salary is 200 guan. You can hire at least twenty servants and maids. Each person will subsidize three guans in the treasury every month, and there will be 60 guans in the meat and vegetables subsidy every month."

Now Li Xiu also knew that raising samurai is not an ordinary expense. He has now added Zi Linfeng and thirty warriors. Although they are the palace guards, they can receive a salary of four jin of money from the palace every month.

But four guan coins cannot afford the warriors. Li Xiu also subsidized them each with six guan coins every month, so that each person's monthly income reached ten guan coins. Zhang Ping and Zhao Hu were also at this level.

Pei Min has the highest score, 20 stakes per month, followed by Zi Linfeng, fifteen stake per month, Gongsun Xiaomei, Zhong Kui and a deputy commander of the warrior. The three of them are twelve stake per month, and the others are 10 stake per month.

This is just the basic salary. After completing the task, you have to reward merit and do the best. At least you can start with 300 yuan.

Only in this way can the warriors work hard for him.

Not to mention that food and accommodation need to be solved by the owner, so every clan who does the task is worried about money and makes money everywhere, otherwise it will be difficult to support dozens of subordinates.

As the saying goes, "If you do a good job, you won't have less money." Money is no longer a big problem for Li Xiu. He has a restaurant in Luoyang and Chang'an, and a 2,000-acre land medicine house, which is enough for him to raise 30 warriors.

"Your Highness, this is the new house!"

After entering Chongrenfang, less than a hundred steps, I came to a five-acre house.

There are white walls, black tiles, red lacquered gates, and there is also a stone statue of Qilin on both sides of the gate.

“How big is the area of ​​the house?”

"According to the regulations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, both the Earl and the Marquis are five acres, but they are not so accurate. This house has six acres, three inches, a small back garden, and two side courtyards in the east and west, with more than one hundred houses."

When Guo Song walked into the mansion, he was indeed much larger than the house in Yongxingfang. He had a lot of rooms and was easily lost when he came here for the first time.

In fact, if you get to a ten-acre house, the number of rooms may not be as good as that of a six-acre house. Ten-acre houses must pay attention to quality and scenery, such as curved corridors, ponds, small rivers and bridges, and there is no requirement for the number of rooms.

But for Li Xiu, it is very important to have many rooms, otherwise how could he place thirty subordinates?

The east and west yards can accommodate thirty subordinates, and they all have separate side doors, which basically does not affect the main house.

There were also food and accommodation for warriors, and things from the old house in Yongxingfang were to be packed up and moved over. Several maids and servants were also to come, and more than a dozen servants were to be recruited.

Li Xiu threw all these headaches to Zhong Kui, so Li Xiu simply assigned Zhang Ping and Zhao Hu to Zhong Kui as team logistics.

The back house is not big, covering only two acres of land, one acre of land, and one large, two small and three yards.

Li Xiu and Xiaomei live in the main courtyard, Zi Linfeng and Pei Doudou live in a small courtyard, and there is another courtyard temporarily empty. Pei Min refuses to live in the back house, and he lives in the east yard.
Chapter completed!