The next morning, the chief general Zhang Hong and the military supervisor Zhang Chengye walked into the meeting hall of the military envoys in Daxie Village City one after another. Li Guan is currently working on the director of Daxie Island. When they come in, they looked tired and their eyes were covered with bloodshot. Judging from their appearance, they should have been staying up all night last night for the dirt. Li Guan expressed his concern to the two appropriately and poured them a cup of hot tea himself.

Feng Zhang's original position in the meeting hall was a soft couch, with silk wrapped in velvet, which was very comfortable to sit on. However, after Li Yan arrived, he immediately took the soft couch down and replaced it with an iron-cast chair. Of course, the iron chair could not be compared with the soft couch with velvet cushions, but Li Yan used this to remind himself that this position in Daxie Village is not easy to sit, and he must be vigilant at all times, otherwise Feng Zhang would be the lesson of the past.

Li Chen's guards stood in a stern manner at the door of the meeting hall and under the iron seat, wearing silver cloaks and silver helmets. It turned out that Li Chen had a 100-person personal soldier. However, in order to prevent the family members from expanding in his army, Li Chen changed the family members to personal soldiers, and they were all revoked and organized into various battalions. Since then, the family members no longer exist in the army of Shamen Town. Although the officers had personal soldiers in the army, the personal soldiers did not follow the generals, but were organized in a fixed battalion. The generals and lieutenants were transferred away, and the personal soldiers would not follow him, but were the personal soldiers of the new generals. In this way, the officers no longer had private soldiers, and all the soldiers were formally organized.

However, the power of Shamen Town is constantly expanding, especially after occupying Daxie Village, many officers unanimously agreed that Li Guan's safety was related to the entire army. Therefore, it was proposed to re-select elite troops for Li Guan to form a team of servants. However, Li Guan refused without hesitation. He knew that if he opened the gap for this servant, the other generals later would definitely reorganize their private soldiers in the end. This result was something Li Guan wanted to avoid. With the generals having private soldiers, this was the beginning of the generals' self-respecting force and even the beginning of separatist rule. There will be no harm in the short term, but when the power grows bigger in the future, this will be a great harm.

Li Guan refused to reorganize the servants, but the generals were unwilling to compromise. Finally, after a long discussion, the generals unanimously decided not to form servants, but to build a new guard camp. After Li Guan opposed it again, he changed the guard camp into a guard capital.

However, although the newly drawn elite guards are only one unit, they are not the size of an ordinary 200 people, but a total of 500 people. They are divided into five teams, each with a hundred people. The new guards are all wearing silver-painted iron armor, and in addition to silver helmets and silver armor, silver sheaths, silver round shields, and longbows, each person is also equipped with a composite gun rod and an eight-foot silver spear composed of triangular spears. It is completely a horse spear. A silver spear is equivalent to the price of ten ordinary spears, and each standard silver spear costs thirty stakes.

Silver armor, silver helmet, silver tassels, cloaks, and silver swords, silver shields, silver spears. The newly built five hundred guards are majestic, with the unique silver spear, called the silver spear guards. They are also equipped with war horses, a total of 500 war horses, all of which are tall Liaodong white war horses, pure white without any miscellaneous hair.

Under the iron seat, Li Yan and the commander of the Silver Spear Guards on duty today are Li A San, a former Liaodong hunter, a prisoner of war in Qingnipu and a slave in Shamen Town, now wearing silver armor and a silver cloak on his shoulders. He stood on Li Yan's iron seat with his waist straight, straightened his chest and raised his head, pressed the silver knife at his waist with one hand, and held an eight-foot silver spear in the other. He was majestic, like a silver armored general.

Early in the morning, in the hall, except for Zhang Chengye and Zhang Hongda, more than a dozen civilian staff members including Du Zhongwu, Cui Zhiyuan and Li Chun gathered together. All civil staff members were very energetic today. Li Guan recently asked Li Huier's workshop to make a new batch of civilian robes. Silk round-necked official robes, plus hard horns to spread their wings and heads, the magic was flying.

Each staff member also wore a wolf talisman on his waist, which was made by Li Yanxin by craftsmen. There are seven types of wolf talismans, gray wolf, green wolf, brown wolf, black wolf, purple wolf, silver wolf, and golden wolf. This is based on the fish talismans of the court, but the fish talismans of the court are only qualified to wear, and there are only two types of silver fish and goldfish. Li Yan imitated the fish talismans and made the wolf talismans, with the purpose of forming their own unique order within Shamen Town.

Li Yan himself wore the Golden Wolf Talisman. Lin Wei, Wang Chong, Megan, Huang Beard and other battalions were all silver Wolf Talismans, and Liu Shouqian and other ten deputy generals were all purple Wolf Talismans. However, Zhang Hong, Du Zhongwu, Li Chun and others were also silver Wolf Talismans, and even the military supervisor Zhang Chengye was given a silver Wolf Talisman by Li Yan.

As soon as these wolf talismans were fired, they attracted many people's attention. The reason is very simple. Zhang Hong's official official rank is several levels different from Lin Wei and others, but now they also wear silver talismans. Many of the eighth and nine-rank staff members below are wearing purple wolf talismans and black wolf talismans. Compared with the ten deputy generals, all the top and top teams, the wolf talismans obtained by civilian staff are obviously one to two levels higher than generals of the same level. This fact is already telling everyone that Li Guan attaches great importance to the status of literati and even puts the status of literati above the generals.

At present, the civil servants who wear silver, purple or black wolf talismans are all exhaling. Most of the military generals do not value them much. Whether in the general's mansion or among the various fortresses below, the civil servants are not very high. But now, Li Guan is publicly stating that they have improved their status.

Li Guan sat on a high iron chair and looked down at everyone. He was very happy to see the excited appearance of these civil servants. If Shamen Town wants to grow and achieve success, he cannot rely solely on military generals. Civil and military officials are like legs. Any leg is short, they are just disabled and cannot walk steadily. How to talk about running and jump? After the founding of the Five Dynasties, Song Taizu made many regulations to restrict military personnel, and even set a precedent for respecting civil and suppressing military personnel. In the future, China will not be able to escape this framework for thousands of years. The two Han dynasties of Song and Ming dynasties were both such, which made Song and Ming dynasties still rich for hundreds of years, but they were always suppressed by foreign tribes. During the Ming Dynasty, military generals of the second and third rank even had to kowtow to official positions of six and seven ranks. A civil servant of the fifth rank could even kill military generals of the second rank, killing them first and then reporting.

He did not want his internal affairs to become the autocratic power of the generals in the Tang Dynasty at this time, nor did he want to become the same as the Song and Ming Dynasty worshipping and suppressing martial arts. No matter which side he leaned too much, it was not a good result. At present, there was a bad trend in Shamen Town. The generals' status increased steadily due to the victory of several wars. The civil servants were often ignored because they usually did some work that was not visible and uncovered. This was a bad signal. If they continued, it was inevitable that the generals would no longer have civil servants.

This time, Li Yan issued a letter with the wolf talisman and deliberately raised the status of civil servants, that is, to show his attitude to the generals.

"Zhang Jianjun, Zhang Bingcao." Li Guan's voice resounded throughout the hall, attracting everyone's attention. "It seems that you haven't been asleep all night last night. I don't know what I asked you, but have you come up with a plan?"

Zhang Chengye cleared his throat and said with the eunuch's unique slightly sharp voice: "Go back to Yanei, we and Zhang Bingcao worked hard last night and racked our brains. It was not until dawn that we finally came up with a preliminary distribution plan. Yanei, do you really want to distribute these spoils to everyone?"

"Of course!" Li Chan said: "Suppressed Feng Zhang's rebellion. It depends entirely on His Majesty's protection, the support of Jieshuai and all the adults. You can first tell us the planned allocation plan and let everyone discuss it."

Zhang Hong had a bitter face, as if he was going to send his children to the wolf's den to feed the wolf. "General, the plan we have formulated is to first send His Majesty the Emperor a tribute wine worth 100,000 guan worth 100,000 guan of Wuliang jade liquid tribute wine, perfume, ice grain, silk and other tributes, plus 100,000 guan of 200,000 guan of tribute salt, and 200,000 guan of copper coins and 200,000 pieces of silk!"

Li Guan nodded. The combined value of these things offered was more than 500,000 yuan. Although he knew that the maximum cost of tribute wine and other items, which were claimed to be 10,000 yuan, was only a few thousand yuan for 200,000 yuan for tribute salt. What was really worth was the 100,000 yuan for 200,000 yuan for 200,000 yuan for 200,000 yuan for silk. Originally, Zhang Chengye had to offer food, but Zhang Chengzong refused on the pretext that the grain was difficult to transport.

But even this is the case, Li Guan was still a little reluctant. He was short of money now and had to contribute 100,000 guan at once. Too much.

"I heard that the emperor likes to play polo and fight cocks and gooses. This way, 100,000 guan of copper coins is too heavy, and it is very troublesome to transport them to Chang'an. I think it would be better to exchange 100,000 guan of coins and 200,000 silk for 100 horses, 20 falcons, 100 pairs of roosters and gooses, plus 100 silk silk, 100 volumes of Buddhist scriptures, and 100 large Buddha statues. How about it?"

Zhang Chengye calculated in his mind that he had lost 100,000 guan and 200,000 pieces of silk. Although it was a little less, the things added by Li Guan were more popular with the emperor. He immediately nodded with a smile and agreed: "Okay, let's follow the Yanei. Don't worry, we will personally escort these things to Beijing this time. We will definitely ask our father to truthfully report to the emperor's loyalty. A contribution worth 500,000 guan is a rare loyalty, and we will definitely not disappoint the Yanei."

Li Guan was waiting for this sentence in his heart. The brothers of the eunuch Tian Lingying and several senior generals of the imperial guards later played polo in front of Emperor Xizong to win the Jiedushi and several important positions. He hoped that if he gave such a big gift, the young and ignorant emperor would be happy for a moment and personally awarded a title of one and a half title for himself. Even if the official position was not high, if it was personally awarded by the emperor, it would be of great help to him.

He gave the emperor a gift worth 500,000 yuan, and of course there were no fewer others. Li Guan was also suffering from heavy bleeding this time. In order not to make others jealous of him, he took advantage of the situation.

Under the emperor, the one who gave the most money was Song Wei, the governor of Ziqing. Zhang Hong and others discussed that they gave Song Wei 100 war horses, 1,000 long spears and swords, 300 pairs of iron armor, 500 leather armor, 300 bows, 300 crossbows, and 100,000 arrows. They also added 20,000 stones of grain, 10,000 stones of salt, 10,000 stagnants of money, and 200,000 pieces of silk. Li Guan really invested a lot of money to Song Wei. Song Wei was the governor of Ziqing. At present, Li Guan’s biggest backer behind Li Guan, and even whether Li Guan could finally get the territory of Da Xie Fort depends entirely on his meaning. This gift was even heavier than what the emperor received.

Among them, Yu Yan from Guanzhong and Yu Cong, the brother prime minister of Yu Yan from Chang'an City, each sent 50,000 yuan. Teacher Cui Yunqing and Li Yan directly sent 100,000 yuan, Zhao Wang Li Yan, and Dengzhou Governor Song Wen, each of them. In addition, Dengzhou Prison City Envoy, Longshanying, Chishan Town, Moudong Shouzhao, Dengzhou Tuanjie Camp, and several camps, Li Yan also sent 10,000 yuan each.

There are also many civil and military officials in Ziqing Town and Dengzhou, and Li Guan also presented gifts one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, hundreds of cents.

This was a big share of the spoils. Li Guan directly took out about 30% of all the seized money, grain and property, and it was as high as one million stalemates. It would be impossible to divide it. Although Shamen Town won several battles, it had already been jealous of many people. This time, it even took down Da Xie Village. If it was not expressed again, the consequences would be unpredictable.

Li Guan was originally planning to take out half to share the spoils, but Zhang Hong, the butler, was really reluctant to let it go. He even said that if Li Guan really wanted to take half of the money to divide the money, then he would jump into the sea.

"By the way, Qingnipu also needs to prepare a thick thank-you gift. How did you arrange it?" Li Guan asked, everyone gave it to him, and Li Guan could not forget Li Lingfu who came to help.

"Three thousand demoted slaves, another hundred cans of divine fire, plus thirty warships of all sizes. The rest also prepared 20,000 stones of food, one thousand swords and guns, and one hundred thousand arrows." Zhang Hong said with a heartache: "According to the general's order, the thank-you gifts should be as generous as possible."

"Yeah, not bad." Compared to the military camps in Dengzhou, Qingnipu is currently the only ally Li Guan who can come to help immediately when he has something to do. Li Guan must thank them very much.

Seeing that among the list of all the stolen shares, except the emperor and prime minister Yu Cong, only Qingnipu was not from Song Wei and Cui Yunqing's side, so Zhang Chengye couldn't help but ask: "Did Yanei not give away any of the military leaders of the Pinglu Army, including King Jingwu of Qingzhou?"

Li Guan smiled. The military leaders of the Pinglu army had nothing to do with him. Besides, since he was Song Wei's person, he could no longer try to please Wang Jingwu. It is often better to please both sides, but it is better to only be both sides. Li Guan cannot even lose the support of Song Wei and the others now. Anyway, he ignores Wang Jingwu, and the result will not change much.

Hearing Li Guan's answer, Zhang Chengye just smiled, "But I think Yanei still missed some people."

"who?"

"The first one is naturally that he is now a lieutenant of the Shence Army, also serves as the Privy Council envoy, and is in charge of the government affairs. He is called the emperor by the emperor as his father. The yamen offered the emperor but did not give him gifts, for fear that the matter would be reversed. We thought that we had to prepare a big gift, at least not less than 100,000 yuan of gifts. In addition, the ministers in the court in Chang'an City also had to give each of them a gift. Even the heads and minds of the three provinces and six ministries in Chang'an City had to prepare a gift, which was appropriate."

Li Guan couldn't help but feel a little painful, but he knew that these gifts were really better to give. Finally, he had to say, "Let's do this, the imperial court's official is probably not short of some copper coins, so he prepared a batch of white wine, fruit wine, rock sugar, perfume, Buddhist scriptures and other products produced in our own workshop. So, prepare a quota of 300,000 yuan, give Lieutenant Tian a hundred thousand yuan, and prepare a total of 200,000 yuan for the rest. Zhang Jianjun is more familiar with the stable affairs, so he will be responsible for it."
Chapter completed!