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Chapter 484 Use the Reform to make money and hit the muzzle

It was soon the end of October 196.

While Ma Chao and Zhang Fei repeatedly took over land and expanded the results of the battle, Liu Bei was personally inquiring about the first phase of the pilot acceptance of the "renting, mediocre, transfer and loss" reform in Chang'an City, and wanted to confirm the effects of the new law in all aspects and summarize the pros and cons.

The pilot of the new law was actually only tried for less than three months, but the transportation volume was amazing. A lot of military supplies were transported to the front lines of Yinchuan County and Shangjun, which allowed the two routes to support more than 20,000 cavalry, and more infantry troops went deep into the grassland for hundreds of miles, and people ate horses until the cold winter.

The money spent is nearly one billion! This is how money is spent in war

Don’t think it’s expensive. After all, Ma Chao seized 20,000 horses. If all of them are calculated based on high-quality war horses, each horse will definitely cost more than 50,000 yuan. However, there are also pack horses and horses, and on average, it costs at least 30,000 yuan per horse, so the horse will pay back 700 million yuan.

Liu Bei was already very satisfied with the fact that he could spend nearly one billion supplies to fight this battle. When the Taiwei Duan Bing attacked the Qiang people in Liangzhou, he spent more than a year to fight for 4.4 billion, and the reference object was placed in front.

Without Li Su's reforms and the popularization of caravans at the technical level, two-pronged approaches to help the expedition save money, the logistics and military expenditures of at least 1.34 billion yuan in this battle, and it would be possible to spend more than 1.5 billion yuan if it was a little loose.

In the past three months after the new law was piloted, a total of seven counties involved in the pilot.

Among them, Anding County, Tianshui County, Fufeng County and Lanzhou County should transport combat supplies to Ma Chao's army on the battlefield of Yinchuan County, Jingzhao, Fengyi County and Hedong County, and to transport supplies to Zhang Fei's army on the battlefield of Shangjun.

Therefore, the administrative chiefs of these seven counties, officials of households/cangcao, officials of civil and military officials who were escorted by military supplies all faced this severe test. Now that the war is gradually over, they will all get a grade of performance.

Liu Bei also inevitably summoned his four major internal affairs staff to the Weiyang Palace, and finally evaluated and discussed the rewards and punishments for relevant officials, promoted advanced experience, and warned of backward negative examples.

Because of the discussion on rewards and punishments, Liu Bei was quite formal this time and asked in the Xuanshi Hall of the main hall: "Da Zichu, Yuan Chang Gongdazi, Boya has specially collected feedback from various counties these days, and has also inspected and inspected them personally. You all have a good look at how to reward and punish these people's deeds."

Xun You and others received the order and opened the "Performance Assessment Form" and took a look.

The first place in the exam was indeed Zhang Ji, the magistrate of Anding County. During the Northern Expedition of Hetao, Anding County was distributed to physical materials worth 40 million yuan and labor labor worth 90 million yuan for civilians. It is a typical poor county to provide manpower.

Before the pilot, the court approved the local freight rate, but Zhang's coordination was reasonable and the allocation of caravans and animal power was very efficient. In the end, it actually saved the court more than 20 million yuan of freight labor!

As for how he did it, according to the acceptance inspection after the war, in addition to the above two points, he also had several small optimizations: mainly to reduce the delays on the road, and the traffic jams in each distribution center did not happen much.

Similar to Zhang Ji himself, he set a "convoy timetable" to allow each fleet to stagger the time of passing through the distribution hub nodes, so that the loaders and unloaders can have work to do, so that the workers will not waste the number of labor days.

Of course, while saving the total number of corvee-service collection days for transporting residents, the civilians of Anding County under Zhang Ji's rule also complained the most about labor intensity. Because Zhang Ji's schedule was well scheduled, the dock workers loaded and unloaded day and night, and did not breathe at all.

Fortunately, Zhang neither completely enslaved people nor treats people as humans. At least he gave extra meals to dock workers, ate one more meal a day, and made sure that there were soy products such as tofu every day, and that soybean oil and plant protein were guaranteed. After counting the extra meal expenses, he still saved the court 20 million in labor costs.

This positive example of the first place in the exam is of course to be promoted to the award. Liu Bei asked Zhong Yao and Xun You the opinion that it was appropriate to be promoted from the county magistrate of 600 stones to the county magistrate of 1,000 stones. Zhong and Xun both agreed to pass it unanimously.

As for Li Su, Liu Bei didn't ask him. This was also the result of Li Su's humility in advance. Liu Bei was even more at ease with Li Su after listening to this suggestion, knowing that he had no intention of taking power.

The main reason is that this "performance appraisal form" was originally obtained by Li Su's inspection. Since he is responsible for "factual judgment", he should no longer be responsible for "value judgment" to avoid preconceived ideas.

Similar to later American and British judges were responsible for judging the value of the law, the application of the law, and the jury was responsible for judging the facts. In a murder case, the jury only judged whether the person was killed by the defendant, and the judge judged "If he killed, what crime would constitute."

After discussing Zhang Ji's rewards, the remaining five or six officials who should be promoted soon discussed the issue was mainly because Zhong Xun and others read the materials significantly faster, and they did not see many unprecedented ways to save money.

Most high-performing officials have done the advantages of Zhang Ji. Some have chosen these two or three points, while others have done the other two or three points.

The second among the officials with high performance is Fazheng, the chief of Youfufeng, who is the deputy position of Zhong Yao of Youfufeng. However, Fazheng is actually a person who is good at making strange plans and is not very good at coordinating money and grain.

However, Zhong Yao also personally inquired about the logistics coordination of Youfufeng. Zhong Yao's own internal affairs are very capable and good at employed people. It can be seen whether the following account experts deceived him, making up for Zhong Yao's shortcomings in his lack of mathematics.

Therefore, Fa Zheng was the one who won the final victory, and it was You Fufeng who gave the credit to him.

However, no one was dissatisfied with Fazheng's final supervision effect. After all, everyone knows that Fazheng was too early to follow Liu Bei. The reason why he is still the county chief is suffering because he is at a loss. When Liu Bei entered Hanzhong, he met Fazheng when he was only 14 years old at that time. After Liu Bei pacified Yizhou, Fazheng was only 16 years old.

Even now, he is only 22 years old, three years younger than Lu Su, and he is really unable to hold a high position. This is far from Liu Ba, who is already 37 years old, Xun You, 40 years old, and even Zhong Yao who is 46 years old.

Now that I have the opportunity to sell my favors and let Fa Zheng accumulate some qualifications, Xun You and Zhong Yao will not offend others, so there is no need.

Later, Du Ji of Jingzhao and three or four other officials were also considered to have excellent performance and were rewarded slightly, and some of them were adjusted for positions.

Then, there were a lot of officials who did not make any contribution and completed their tasks normally, led by Xu Shu from Lanzhou County. Xu Shu was also a strategist. He did not rely on mathematics and civil affairs and finance to coordinate, but in the end he had only made no contribution and no reason. If the Zhuge family had not invested heavily in Lanzhou County this year and built a special logistics caravan, Xu Shu would probably not be able to achieve even the best results.

After reading the merits and demerits, the rest are those who are incompetent and even maliciously made mistakes and were found.

Wei Huang from the Wei family in Jingzhao is now an official in Fengyi County, responsible for the showdown counties to raise grain. As a result, the showdown plan was not done well. Some places were expensive to buy, and some counties were obviously close to the waterway, so the freight fee was relatively cheap to transport to Shangjun. However, the people had surplus grains that could be purchased by the government for money, and then they went to those remote counties to collect more money and less grain to balance.

But Wei Huang didn't dare to trade, for fear of taking responsibility. Many of the money-saving and overall measures that could be used were useless, and in the end, it was even more than the freight estimated by the court at the beginning.

A mediocre talent like him who has no problem with character but is indeed not capable of mathematical coordination. This time, seven or eight were seized by Li Su. Although he would not be dismissed from office, he would definitely be scolded for inaction and fined for his salary.

After Zhong Yao, Xun You and Liu Ba passed one by one, they agreed to the handling opinions, wrote testimonials one by one, and supervised them how to correct their mistakes in the future and gave them a chance to punish the past and prevent the future.

However, these guys who "have no problem with character but are just not capable of ability and mathematics" are understandable and will not give up if they punish them.

There is still a type of person on Li Su's list, so he cannot be forgiven.

They thought that the new method had just been launched and could easily take advantage of loopholes, and then they thought they were fake and cashing out without knowing it, and they were greedy and cheating to make their own pockets.

Li Su and others have finished the previous part, pointing to the last few negative examples on his "performance appraisal form" and explaining:

"After my inspection this time, the Yinchuan army on Bo Qi was in good condition. After all, it was the first main battlefield. It took a long time to run in, and the court kept a close eye on it. Zhang also took on a lot of jobs and did not have large-scale fraud.

But later, Yide, who went from Hedong to Shangjun to run and grab land, cheated and had more private pockets. These people did not cry when they saw the coffin, and thought that the war would go smoothly and they would be able to win soon. As long as the court won the battle, they would not pay much attention to the logistics process. Unfortunately, these people were wrong to think so!

This time I caught two typical examples, one is the warehouse clerk of Fengyi County, named Fan Jiang, and the other is the transfer officer of Hedong County, named Zhang Da. These two have been with our army for nine years, both of whom were recruited by the king in Youzhou and Zhang Chun when he was pacified Zhang Ju. He was the one who was recruited in Youzhou. He followed Yide as a small soldier, and is now responsible for the transfer or dispatch of counties. Unfortunately, they were ungrateful and were brutal injuring the law."

Liu Bei's oldest personal soldiers have been following him for twelve or thirteen years, but the number of soldiers is very small, only a few dozen left. They have followed Liu Guanzhang since the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

Although Fan Jiang and Zhang Da were also Yuan Cong of Youzhou, they were three or four years shorter than the group of veterans who slapped the Yellow Turbans. At that time, Liu Bei was already a county magistrate/master, so the number of soldiers in this group was quite large. Fan Jiang and Zhang Da both joined the army in 187. The soldiers of their same period are still alive, with more than two thousand people. Basically, they are at least a military officer at the top of the village. If they are well, they can be a small official of two or three hundred stones.

As for those who enlisted in 188, there are nearly 10,000 people who are still alive. This group is not valuable, and those with minimum living allowance can only be regarded as a senior.

In history, Fan Jiang and Zhang Da were able to be the logistics officer around Zhang Fei. Until the eve of Liu Bei's attack on Wu, they helped Zhang Fei raise white linen to make military uniforms. It can be seen that they have some accounting skills. They have been working in logistics around Zhang Fei for a long time and are deeply trusted. Unexpectedly, they have fallen into Li Su's supervision twenty years ahead of schedule.

I heard that the person who committed the crime was Zhang Fei's confidant, Zhong Yao and Xun You did not dare to draw conclusions easily for a while. After all, they didn't know what Fan Jiang and Zhang Da would do in the future. They were not time travelers, and they also thought that Li Su used these two people as the number one negative example of greed and cheating this time, which was "the factional struggle for power and profit occurred in the top leaders of Liu Bei's camp."

"I have always heard that the former general, General Pingxi was the king's sworn brother, but General Pingxi's strategy and the degree to which he was roughly dependent on the king were obviously not as good as the right general.

The Right General wanted to severely punish the logistics officers around the two General Pingxi, without any mercy. Could it be that he would declare that his attention in the king's heart has exceeded that of General Pingxi, who is a sworn brother? It is difficult for us outsiders to get involved in such a fight between gods and gods..."
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