Yang Wenguang in front of him is very different from the young general with white flour lips in Romance. Although his face is not dark, he looks calm and experienced. He has a big and round waist, and he is obviously a powerful person with Kong Wu.

Xu Ping said: "General Huzi, it is indeed very comparable to ordinary people. Come on, bring a chair for General Yang!"

The shopkeeper next to him moved a chair and put it on. Yang Wenguang thanked him and sat down.

Gao Daquan pointed to another person beside him and said, "This is Di Qing. When he was young, he beat people up and injured them, and was assassinated and was assigned to the army. Because of his outstanding martial arts, he was selected as the imperial guards and is now with me."

After hearing this name, Xu Ping couldn't help laughing. Gao Daquan is quite good at making friends with players. He just asked two people to come out to drink, but they were all famous figures in later generations.

Di Qing was because his brother fought with someone, and he served his sentence on behalf of his brother and was tattooed for his army. The assassination was naturally charged to the prison camp of the Xiangjun. The tattoo on his face was the treatment of criminals. The imperial guards would not be tattooed there, but they were usually in unpredictable positions such as wrists and tiger mouths. Moreover, the imperial guards were treated relatively high, and they received a salary until they were sixty years old. After they were expelled from the sixty years old, they received half a salary until they died of old age. Ordinary small officials were not as good as them. How could they be charged to commit crimes? Di Qing was selected by the imperial guards when he was selected from the Xiangjun. He had a qualified figure and had tried the bow and horse equipment before he was transferred to the imperial guards.

The positions Xu Ping had basically managed to pay the military's money and grain, and he was deeply touched by the military expenditure in this era. When it comes to financial difficulties, the "three redundant" often talked about the "three redundant" of officials and soldiers, but the actual big end was on military expenditure. In this era, in other words, a local raising an imperial guard requires taxes from three households to provide grain and rice, which does not include the money from the big hair that really raises soldiers. The money comes from the Sansi and the inner warehouse. In terms of money alone, one cavalryman costs more than one hundred guan a year, and one infantry costs sixty or seventy guan a year. The imperial guards actually have a shortage, but the money and grain distribution are always sufficient, and the actual expenses are more. In terms of treatment alone, the imperial guards are not something that they can be just wanted.

The other side of respecting civil and suppressing military officials is the purchase of money from military officials. At the same level, the salary of military generals is much higher than that of civil officials. The income of ordinary soldiers of the imperial guards is much higher than that of public officials, and the income of the wing army is even more comparable to that of the servants. If the political status of military officials is suppressed, economic compensation is required. People who are in the army are not stupid, so how can they not be beneficial?

The Song army could not fight at least because the money was not given enough. Except for the troubled times like the Five Dynasties, the income of the Song Dynasty soldiers in peacetime was much higher than that of other dynasties. However, combat effectiveness will not increase with the increase of income.

Di Qing was selected as the Imperial Guard and his life was pretty good. If he had been confused for a lifetime, it would have passed. But although he was a humble background, he had ideals and could fight. This would be a bit embarrassing among the Imperial Guards of the Three Yayas. The Imperial Guard is a place where people talk about connections and backgrounds, and he doesn't fight in peacetime. An outsider is more capable than others everywhere, and he will dislike everyone in everyone's eyes. In the end, Gao Daquan chose to stay by his side, and he is also considered a Yuhou.

Gao Daquan was not going well after joining the Imperial Army. Although he had Xu Ping as a backer, and even the emperor personally tested it, he praised him very well, but it was useless. The promotion was quite smooth, but he had never held real power for so many years and had always been a deputy. In this era, the one with the sub-name in the official title was not necessarily the deputy. In most cases, he was actually the official position. The real deputy positions in the army were Du Yuhou and Yuhou. It was already very clear that the Yuhou was often used as the name of the senior generals. The real power of the imperial army was controlled by the official position. Even if it was in front of the general of the Eighth Control Army, the three capitals of the horse army and the infantry army were also idle positions. There was no real power in his hands, and he needed other dispatches to control the army.

This kind of life is not easy to be excluded. Even though he had never managed the regular army, he was a real person who could give orders. After arriving at the Imperial Army, the officials were getting bigger and bigger, but there were always so many people in charge. The military-level deputy officers had five or six thousand soldiers in one army, and they could only take Di Qing, a follower when they came out. You should know that the senior officers in the Third Yamen had similar status to him. Whoever went out was not to be surrounded by others. Many of the followers were silk and satin.

Gao Daquan has a calm personality and silently handles the difficulties he has. Xu Ping has been very kind to him, and he has never mentioned these trivial matters in life. In fact, it is useless to tell Xu Ping. Not to mention Xu Ping's status, even the prime minister of the dynasty cannot control the three yamen. Unless he is a mixed force like Lu Yijian, he can use the opportunity of nominating the general of the army to exchange interests with the powerful figures in the army, otherwise he can only watch.

At this time, Di Qing was just a little officer and there was nothing special. Xu Ping remembered his name in his heart and ordered the shopkeeper to move a chair and took a seat at Yang Wenguang's.

Seeing that Li Di and Chen Yaozuo were a little unhappy, Xu Ping said: "I was in Yongzhou and went out of the city for several miles, and they were all barbarian villages. Yongzhou was a vast area of ​​thousands of miles, but the imperial court could manage less than a thousand households, just two or three counties. In a few years, it was able to enlarge the land as a resident, build sugar sugar business, and finally break through Jiaozhi, which was all due to the joint efforts of the military and civilians. So when I saw those who joined the army, I looked particularly friendly, and the two of them were tolerant."

Li Di said: "This is the village of Longtu. We will naturally follow the guests and don't need to mind."

Gao Daquan could see that the two husbands were a little unhappy about the middle and lower-level generals sitting with them, so he bowed to Xu Ping and said, "The officials have something to do here, so we are inconvenient to disturb us, so we go to talk to Tan Hu."

Xu Ping nodded: "Okay, you haven't seen each other for some days, so it's good to talk about brotherly feelings."

Yang Wenguang and Di Qing stood up and said goodbye with Gao Daquan.

Watching the three of them leave, Xu Ping said to Li Di and Chen Yaozuo: "This tall collection, with me making a lot of contributions in Yongzhou, I returned to the capital and joined the imperial guards. Although the promotion was still rapid, it was a little unsatisfactory."

Li Di said: "In his current status, he has a lot of money and food, so he can be considered rich and noble. What else is there to be unsatisfactory?"

"The person who once went to fight to kill the enemy and made military achievements is different from ordinary martial artists in the Taiping World. He always has some thoughts in his mind. Although this time it was a chance encounter, I guess he was waiting for me in his heart. What the three yamen looks like? The two husbands must know in their minds. I am afraid that they all have a bad life. Now that the northwest is in chaos, I see Gao Daquan's meaning, I am afraid that he wants to leave the capital and go to the border to make military achievements, so as to save some idleness."

Chen Yaozuo said: "It is a good thing to have this idea. If we have the chance after we return to Beijing, we might as well let them go to the northwest. With their current status, it is difficult to have the opportunity to stand out in the capital. When we go to the border, we will at least take charge of the troops of every state and a county. We really have the talent of generals and commanders, and we can only stand out in that kind of place."

Xu Ping nodded and stopped talking. When talking about these things with the two people who wanted to be prime ministers, they were not attentive and a little disrespectful. As long as they gave them an impression, there was a shortage of people on the frontier positions and they would just send them there when they remembered.
Chapter completed!