"This..." Zhao Yan was very hesitant, whether to create it or not!

According to others' opinions, there is nothing wrong with building a big house with Zhao Yan's current identity, and it is completely natural.

But Zhao Yan also has his own considerations.

As the leader of a military group, he can always lead by example. What if he builds a big house and the people below follow him?

Take Zhao Yan's current situation as an example. He lives in a small courtyard, and all his civil servants and generals dare not live in a better place than him.

"If this wind is opened, it will probably be difficult to deal with in the future." Zhao Yan said, shaking his head, "But this residence is indeed inappropriate now. Just take 100,000 taels to build a larger pavilion!"

Everyone did not expect that Zhao Yan was still so persistent, and had no other thoughts except to submit to him.

To this extent, he did not build the world's most luxurious palace, but just built a pavilion of 100,000 taels of silver... Zhao Yan felt that it was a bit luxurious to build a house of 100,000 taels of silver.

The house he wanted to build was natural and modern, but not Western. That is, the house he lives in now, and the small building he lives in is built on an old house.

For this purpose, houses of this style have been imitated by many people.

Inside and outside Zhaojiabao, there are all houses like Zhao Yan who live in. They look very modern and have a very ethnic style. Compared with traditional houses, the Tongguang family is better and brighter, and can also be built with more layers.

It is naturally more comfortable to live.

After the budget meeting was completed, the final preparation stage for Zhao Yan to get married.

The date is January 25, only a dozen days.

The wedding was held by Zhang and Zhao Quan, and other departments cooperated from time to time, and the preparations were almost done now.

This wedding banquet will prepare about a thousand tables, each with ten people.

Half of them are Zhao Yan's own people, officers in the army, and officials from all over the country.

Five days before Zhao Yan got married, people came from all over the place, and many people set out in advance, fearing that they would be delayed on the road.

The battalion commanders of each army rushed back.

Liu Heng also rushed back to Liaodong with a group of staff from Liaodong. All officers in the company level and above in Liaodong returned to Shandong. Although all the officers ran back, there was no problem in Liaodong.

The Qing Dynasty was beaten to run into the forest, and the court had no intention of entering Liaodong.

Although the officers have all returned, it does not mean that the troops have lost their combat effectiveness. There are still people in the command center left behind. At the same time, the military headquarters has also sent a group of students to the new recruits camp that changed to Denglai Military Academy to conduct internships.

Wang Wenyue also came back with the slave ship.

This is the third batch of slave ships. The second batch is the slave ship composed of more than a thousand return ships. It has been stuffed into 300,000 people, and the number of Japanese slaves transported to Shandong has reached 500,000.

The slave ships that came back this time were composed of more than 170 large merchant ships, each carrying 2,000 Japanese slaves, and directly transported back 350,000, and brought back more than 3 million taels of wealth from Japan.

At the same time, all the mixed brigades in this state were transported back.

The entire Guandong Plain has been ruined by Wang Wenyue, with almost no households left. Seven hundred thousand Japanese slaves were captured back to Shandong, leaving only a group of old and weak on the Guandong Plain.

Before Wang Wenyue retreated, the Tokugawa shogunate had reached an armistice agreement with the Japanese Catholics, and the Japanese Catholics retreated to Amakura Island.

These Catholics were also aware of their identities, and under the intimidation of Wang Wenyue, they had to retreat to Amacao Island obediently.

When Tokugawa Iemitsu brought his army back to the Kanto Plain, he was stunned by the desolation in front of him.

The entire Kanto Plain, both in towns and in rural areas, were all young and strong, and all the money was stolen. Even the little girl with good looks was taken away.

The former densely populated and rich Kanto was gone.

It has become a poor area with no labor and no gold, silver and jewelry now.

He was simply a robber! Tokugawa Izumi was so angry that he gritted his teeth, but he was helpless. The strength of the Shandong army was far from something that the shogun could resist. The only thing that made Tokugawa Izumi feel a little comforted was that his wives and concubines were returned and were not wiped out by anyone.

The Shandong army fought on the Guandong Plain and had never had any attempt to annihilate the silver women. They just plundered women but did a lot of them, and all of them were shipped to Shandong to wait for the military headquarters to deal with.

Beauty is also a resource, a very realistic phenomenon.

What made Tokugawa Iemitsu even more depressed was that all the gold, silver and jewelry he hid in the dry well were gone, and was found by the Shandong army tragically.

This completely lost his temper. He changed into a smile and went to see off the evacuation of the Mixed Brigade of Honshu.

Before the huge fleet set off, Tokugawa Iemitsu called his second son Tokugawa Iemitsu, who followed him to Shandong for Zhao Yan's wedding banquet, and gave him some instructions.

The most explained was to ask Tokugawa's family to go to Shandong to ask Zhao Yan to send more troops to station in Japan.

Tokugawa Iemitsu knew that there was something wrong with his finances, so it was impossible to be awesome.

After financial problems arise, unrest is likely to occur in Japan, so the shogunate must use the power of the Shandong army to suppress the reactionary forces.

Although the Shandong army was a little robbed, they were not interested in Japan's rule at least, but were only interested in Japan's market. As long as they acted well, their shogunate rule would last forever.

After hearing this, Tokugawa's family tantrum was very depressed.

This time he went to Shandong, and he was a proton, and he even asked the Shandong army to send more troops to station in Japan.

Although Tokugawa Ietsunobu was the second son of Tokugawa Ietsuki, when Tokugawa Ietsuki's eldest son died soon after he was born, he was the next generation of shogun.

Sending him to be a proton shows how badly Tokugawa I-Ku was beaten.

...Among the officers sent out from Shandong, except for some officers from the American and Nanyang detachments in Palembang, the other officers have returned to Liaodong.

During the period when Zhao Yan got married, the whole of Shandong was under martial law and there were checkpoints everywhere. No weapons are allowed to be brought whenever they come to Huangxian and Zhaojiabao.

All the ingredients used for wedding banquets were prepared under strict supervision and were also reviewed.

The shadow of the security police can be seen on every street inside and outside Zhaojiabao.

Although it is martial law, there is no restriction on the movement of people. As long as you do not bring weapons, you do not enter areas where idle people are not allowed to enter, and you can not create public security incidents. You can pass with a road guide.

Zhao Yan sent invitations to all the merchants in the world, so naturally there were many people coming.

Most of the 100 people who received the invitation came, and many small merchants who did not receive the invitation also came.

The guild hall outside Zhaojiabao is full of living. Some of the guild halls are invited to the guild halls inside Zhaojiabao.

The court officials invited by Zhao Yan came early except for Qin Liangyu and Sun Chuanting.

Zhao Yan was not very clear about why Qin Liangyu didn't come. Maybe she was disgusted with her defeating Chongzhen, so she didn't come. Or maybe the journey was too far and not yet arrived.

However, Zhao Yan felt that the former one might have a bigger surname.

It may be because of this reason. However, Zhao Yan didn't care much about whether he came or not. After Lu Xiangsheng and Yan Jizu came to Shandong, Zhao Yan took them to the guild hall in person.

These are all powerful allies, so they naturally need to be well received. Since Zhu Dadian came to Shandong last time, he has not left Shandong, but has visited everywhere in Shandong.

After leaving Shandong for only three years, Shandong has changed a lot, which made Zhu Dadian feel a little moved by Zhao Yan's methods, which are indeed extraordinary.

At this time, in Shandong, people with vegetables were rarely seen. When they walked to the villages of the East Sanfu, there were rows of large tiled houses everywhere, and some of them were the new style pavilions of Zhaojiabao.

The construction industry of the East Three Prefectures was also led by Zhao Yan. Many people saw that Zhao Yan lived in a good style, so they invited the craftsmen who participated in the construction of the building to build one for them. As a result, the business of the craftsmen became better and better, and the tricks were soon thoroughly studied by other plasterers. For a time, Shandong was filled with the kind of houses that Zhao Yan lived in.

Cement is not very expensive in the East Sanfu, bricks are even cheaper, and sand and gravel are everywhere. Although not everyone can afford the financial resources of farmers in some villages in the East Sanfu, there are also some. The gap between the financial resources of farmers in the East Sanfu is not huge.

Some people from those families joined the army and received rewards from soldiers and officers. Many of them followed suit, either in the garrison or outside Zhaojia Fort, and began to build their own new buildings.

As for those officials, because Zhao Yan used a high salary to support integrity, although their salary was not too high, they were very decent overall, about half the salary was higher than the court's salary. In addition, they did not have those messy gift-giving expenses, and they all followed Zhao Yan's example and built new buildings.

The gentry and merchants of the Western Sanfu also followed suit. Now the new buildings of Zhaojiabao can be seen everywhere in Shandong, and the wealth of Shandong can be seen from the architecture alone.

In terms of daily diet, the people of the East Three Prefectures usually eat rice and noodle cakes, and they almost no longer eat sweet potatoes, and they often eat meat.

Every people live a comfortable life, and they hardly need to worry about their livelihoods and money.

As long as you are willing to work, you won't starve to death.

After paying a meager land tax, the remaining grain is my own. If you work hard to cultivate, you can harvest at least seventy stones of grain a year, about fifty stones of wheat, and usually thirty to forty stones of autumn grain.

Just selling grain can bring you thirty-four taels of silver a year.

It costs money to see a doctor, and it costs money to study. If someone joins the army at home, there will be at least 24 taels of military pay a year, and the army will also provide food and accommodation. This can be sent home almost all of it. If you make meritorious service, you will have more military pay.

Currently, the military pay in Shandong is determined by military rank, not by position.

The third-class military salary is 2 taels per month, the second-class military salary is 3 taels per month, the first-class military salary is 4 taels per month, and the non-commissioned officers are 5 taels per month.

The warrant officer has 6 taels of military salary per month, the second lieutenant has 10 taels of military salary per month, the lieutenant has 15 taels of military salary per month, and the captain has 20 taels of military salary per month.

The major pays 25 taels per month, the lieutenant colonel pays 30 taels per month, and the colonel pays 35 taels per month.

The major general has a monthly military salary of 40 taels, the lieutenant colonel has a monthly military salary of 45 taels, and the colonel has a monthly military salary of 50 taels.

The highest is only 50 taels, and currently the group with the highest ranks in the Shandong army only has the rank of captains. They receive 20 taels of military pay per month. Making a fortune is almost done by fighting wars. Officers can get 1 to 5 times more war dividends than soldiers.

People have money at home and naturally eat well.

I raise some chickens, ducks, pigs and cows at home, and I can eat them by myself, and there is no need to sell them. The money for selling food is enough for food, clothing and food.

Many people often act like they are not short of money.

Due to the sufficient production, although the people have a lot of money in their hands, Zhao Yan also spends more money, and Shandong has more silver than other provinces, but the prices are similar to those in other provinces, and there is no inflation caused by the increase of precious metals.

In just three years, Shandong has undergone such a big change. Zhu Dadian couldn't help but sigh, thinking that it was a wise decision to recruit Zhao Yan at the beginning.
Chapter completed!