As soon as he got the results of the interrogation, Wei Yuan immediately sent people to capture all the leaders of the caravan and interrogate them personally.
The person who came out to make friends with the officers in the caravan was a deacon, and the person in charge of the caravan was a middle-aged man with an unattractive appearance. He had a late Daoji cultivation and mediocre talent.
As soon as he saw Wei Yuan, he cried out that he was wronged.
Wei Yuan sat still, flipping through the files in his hand, and when he was tired, he said, "Do you want to buy land in Qingming?"
A flash of shock flashed in the manager's eyes, but his face was blank, and he said: "The younger one just travels between two places to do business, and what he buys and sells is grain.
Cloth, armor ore, these are not prohibited! I have never thought of buying a field, Qing Ming has acres of land for sale?"
Wei Yuan said calmly: "You should know how powerful this Jidu Envoy can come to interrogate you in person. With your mediocre skills, you still want to hide something in front of me? I will give you one last chance. If you don't tell the truth,
, then he will be beheaded. This Jiedushi envoy wants to behead someone, and there is no need to explain to anyone. Say, who is your envoy?"
The supervisor's face changed, but under the vibration of Wei Yuan's Dharma-like aura, his whole body trembled, his consciousness was frozen, and he could hardly move.
He suddenly kowtowed and said repeatedly: "I wish you could speak! I wish you could speak!"
At this time, the door of the room opened, and a jailer came in, handed over a confession, and said: "Sir, all the deacons have been recruited. They were entrusted by Wang Kui, the nephew of the Duke of Zhao, to come to Qingming to wait for an opportunity to buy acres of land.
. He said that he has already spotted several fields, and their locations are as follows."
Wei Yuan glanced at the confession and knew that those fields were close to the core area of ​​​​Qingming. They could basically meet the standards of spiritual fields and were quasi-spiritual fields. Now because the spiritual fields are far from being completed, they have been
If you grow ordinary rice, one acre can produce 600 kilograms.
Spiritual fields and mortal fields are completely different prices. Mortal fields in the human domain usually cost a few taels of mortal silver per acre, and this kind of top-quality fertile land only costs one tael of silver. And spiritual fields start at a hundred taels of silver. Qingming and others look similar.
After the quasi-spiritual field of the mortal field is converted into a spiritual field, even if it is just barely enough to reach the threshold,
It's worth at least eighty or ninety taels of silver. This is a price difference of nearly a hundred times.
These fields total more than 3,000 acres, but the benefits after conversion are hundreds of thousands of taels of silver!
Liu Fei's pension request was five acres per household, which didn't seem like much. Even if it was top-quality fertile land, five acres was much lower than the normal pension for elite frontier troops. And for the sake of the pension, Liu Fei also proposed that all surviving soldiers in the battalion could be eligible.
There is no reward for military merit, it seems very upright and awe-inspiring.
If Wei Yuan agrees to his request, more than 1,000 acres of potential spiritual land will be taken away from the more than 200 people of one battalion alone. Together with similar requests from other battalions, more than 3,000 acres of potential spiritual land will be taken away.
However, Wei Yuan knew every bit of the land in Qingming, so he couldn't hide this trick at all.
Planting ordinary rice in spiritual fields only consumes a little fertility but can store spiritual energy. This is the reason why Wei Yuan does not leave them alone for the time being. He wants to raise them for a few years first.
I waited until there was no more spiritual land to open before using these plots of land. I didn’t expect that they would be targeted.
Obviously, this war happened suddenly, and exchanging pensions for farmland was a temporary move.
I have to say that this plan is quite clever. The total pension that all captured officers can apply for is about 10,000 acres. Among Qingming's current more than 5 million acres, it is only a drop in the bucket. If it were switched to other places, or in charge of this
It's Cui Yu, Xu Yi, Yu Zhizhuo, etc. who are involved. Maybe they have already been approved.
When the families of those who died in war get the fields, the caravan will quietly buy the fields from them, and Wei Yuan will not be able to deal with it. If it is taken back by force, it will damage Qingming's reputation and offend Zhao.
The country is powerful and powerful, and it is unreasonable.
Wei Yuan had already figured out the cause and effect before he came, and after getting the deacon's confession, he verified what he was thinking. He immediately told the caravan manager: "Fornicating with an officer, secretly investigating the geographical land under my jurisdiction, no matter what, it is a capital crime."
"Whoever comes, pull him down and behead him, and hang his head at the gate of Yong'an City for public display."
The caravan manager never expected that the situation would turn out like this in such a short time. His face suddenly turned pale, he kowtowed repeatedly and said loudly: "If you kill me, you will chill the hearts of the caravans all over the world! Mr. Wang will not let you go.
Yes, Duke Xiang will not let you go!"
Originally there should have been a sneer and harsh words here, such as "Believe it or not, I can do anything with just one word..."
But Wei Yuan felt that harsh words were limited, and it was not worth wasting it on a caravan manager. It would be a waste to spray it on any prince, and only Duke Guo was worthy of such treatment.
So Wei Yuan waved his hand, and the monk dragged the supervisor out. In the blink of an eye, there was a scream. The scream was short and shrill. When Wei Yuan heard it, he knew that these jailers were still obeying the rules.
If the executioner of the Western Jin Dynasty had been replaced, there would have been many more tricks. It would be completely different whether or not he was given money before execution. If he was not given money, he would use a curled-edged knife to behead the capital, and it would not be able to cut it clean even after several cuts.
Except for the supervisor, the deacons who came forward to communicate with the officers were also beheaded. The remaining upper-level managers of the caravan were all detained and used as hard labor, and their families were not allowed to redeem their people. Half of the caravan's property was confiscated as compensation, and the other half required the caravan owner to come in person.
Qing Ming can only get it back if he pleads guilty.
After dealing with the caravan, it was the officer's turn.
Liu Fei was convicted of crimes such as exceeding the rules, forming a party for personal gain, secretly exploring geography, inciting mutiny, and intending to commit rebellion. He was still beheaded after using his past merits to compensate for the crime, but skipping the step of showing his head to the public. All the soldiers in the third battalion were exempted, but they had accumulated merits.
Clear.
The captain colluded with the foreign enemy and was beheaded, and his head was displayed to the public for three months. The other commanders had their military positions and military merits cut off, and they were beaten and used by the guilty people to accumulate merits again. The soldiers in their respective units were exempted from guilt and their merits were halved.
After dealing with the troublemakers, Wei Yuan also announced the regulations on pensions for the fallen.
First, depending on the status and cultivation level of the deceased, the status of the orphan will be automatically upgraded according to the corresponding military merit; second, the orphan's monthly ration will be increased by one level; third, the orphan will have a chance to be promoted to Daoji. If he does not have the promotion talent, he can be discounted.
A certain amount of fairy silver. Fourth, a one-time pension of a certain amount of fairy silver.
At the same time, Wei Yuan also revised the previously convicted criminals, soldiers, civilians, registered officials and other systems, and re-promulgated them after optimizing the details.
Status promotion still adopts the system of accumulated merit. To be promoted from a criminal to a soldier only requires twenty military merits. According to Qingming's current laws and regulations, killing one enemy in formation is worth ten military merits. In other words, killing two enemies on the battlefield can get rid of the crime.
Civilian status. But apart from going into battle to kill the enemy, other ways of accumulating military merit are much slower.
It takes 100 military merits to become a civilian to become a civilian, and 500 military merits to become a registered official from a civilian. In the official level, the maximum can be promoted to a registered general in the imperial court. But starting from the command, all must have a Taoist foundation.
Cultivation.
The lowest level of pension for those killed in battle, and orphans within two direct generations can be promoted to status based on twenty military merits. In other words, if one person in the family is killed in battle, the whole family can get rid of the status of criminals. The higher the cultivation level and status of the fallen soldier, the higher the status of the family members.
Chapter completed!