In the first year of Yuanting, on the afternoon of August 11, Huo Guang was busy with official business in Shangshutai, Liu He was still sleeping in a hangover in the greenhouse hall, and Tian Yannian "inspected" the warehouse near Xiadu and returned to Chang'an.During the war, Chang'an's Dasi Nongfu was always busy.As the Ministry of Finance of the Han Dynasty, the Qin system in the early Han Dynasty was still called "Zhisu Neishi", Emperor Jing changed its name to Danong Ling, and Emperor Wu changed its name to Dasi Nong in the first year of Taichu, leading the world to Qian Gu for the common use of the country.The officials of the Dasi Nong have Taicang, Junyi, Pingzhun, Dunei, and Jitian Wulingcheng.Salt and iron city two chiefs.In addition, the county and state warehouses, agricultural supervisors, and the sixty-five officials of the capital are all under Yan, and the most important of them is the capital internal order in charge of the treasury money and goods.Today's capital is called "Yin Wenggui", he is a soldier in Huo Guang's hometown of Hedong, lost his father at an early age, relied on his uncle to live, and became a little jailer when he became an adult, knowing the law, and practicing good swordsmanship.At that time, the general Huo Guang was in charge of the government, and his relatives lived in Pingyang, and the slaves acted recklessly, often carrying swords and soldiers to bully men and women on the street, and the officials could not prohibit it, nor did they dare to prohibit it.Only Yin Weng became a city official with strict rule of law, and he used the methods of cool officials to manage these slaves honestly, he was honest and not bribed, and he was afraid of it.also emerged because of this, and was appreciated by Tian Yannian, who was the Taishou of Hedong at the time, even if Yin Weng was arrogant, Tian Yannian also believed in it, and was promoted all the way, from the death history to the Fennan Governor Post, Fennan Dazhi.Tian Yannian also recommended him as the captain of Xihe County, responsible for the affairs of Biansai Tuntian, and now he is at war with the Xiongnu, and the cost of money, grain, and straw is huge, and he needs to have honest and capable people to co-ordinate, and Yin Weng was transferred to the Beijing Division, and he made an internal order in the capital."
I used to manage millions or tens of millions of dollars, but now it's tens of thousands."
Flipping through the booklet, Yin Wenggui felt that he had a heavy responsibility.The most important responsibility of the metropolitan government is to keep the annual income of the big Si Nong, live within the means of income, and make budget planning.The bulk of the income is taxes, salt and iron, even tribute, public land leasing, etc., about 400,000 yuan per year, hidden in the capital, in addition to the water balance commander can also create 250,000 yuan of profits, can also be used for public purposes.As for the Shaofu money of about 180,000 yuan, it is used for the royal family, and it will only be used to save the urgent needs of the great Sinong when it is urgent.After a full calculation, excluding the expenses retained by the counties to repair bridges, pave roads and canals, the central government can get 650,000 yuan in revenue a year, and the officials will spend 200,000 yuan, and most of the rest will be used as military expenses.The rations of the soldiers and the county soldiers could be solved by relying on the agricultural capital and the local finances, and they had achieved self-sufficiency, although most of the Han troops prepared their own clothes, but they also had to pay some from time to time, spending 40,000 yuan a year.The horses with a big appetite have to rely on the continuous subsidies in the capital, 360,000 war horses in each pasture of the Han Dynasty, the horses are eaten for a month, and the soldiers are used for a year, plus the long winter in the northwest borderland, the grass is not enough, or you have to eat grain, plus the horses and slaves and maids, it costs about 200,000 yuan a year to raise horses!
In addition, there are a huge number of armored vehicles and ships to be repaired, especially the arrows and vehicles as consumables, which will cost about 60,000 yuan a year to enrich the arsenals of various places.In the blink of an eye, only 150,000 dollars were left in the treasury, which would be stored in the inner warehouse.Disaster relief, river embankments, the construction of the Great Wall, and the construction of barriers all depend on it.In the thirteenth year of Xiaozhao, although there were a few wars, the scale was not large, and about one million dollars were saved, which was somewhat of a feeling that "the money of the capital division was accumulated by a huge amount of money, and it was rotten and could not be studied".However, with the re-opening of the Western Regions by the Great Han Dynasty, coupled with the two battles in the first year of Yuan Ting, all the savings of more than ten years were smashed out in one go!
War is an abominable four-legged gold-swallowing beast."
The Art of War says that the army is 100,000 yuan, and the daily cost is thousands of gold, I think it is far more than that."
After coming to Chang'an for a few months, Yin Weng's return to the capital began to lose his hair.During the Pingxi Qiang period, the daily military expenditure was about 10 million, and after more than three months, 100,000 yuan was smashed, plus the post-war reward for soldiers and burial expenses, a total of 140,000 yuan was spent.The five generals conquered the Xiongnu even more remarkable, fighting 160,000 horsemen, more than 200,000 head of livestock, the cost was amazing, horses and armor soldiers had the accumulation of weekdays, but they also had to prepare winter clothes, levy hundreds of thousands of people, and transfer grain over a distance of thousands of miles.From July to now, in just one month, the cost has surpassed Pingqiang, reaching 150,000 yuan!
If the war continues until the beginning of spring, nearly a million dollars in the capital treasury will be empty!
Looking at the dwindling treasury, Yin Wenggui was very worried, if Dasi Nong and Shui Heng ran out of money by then, they could only continue with the Shaofu banning money.We must also be wary of those officials who take advantage of the war to take advantage of it, since the beginning of the war, many corrupt grain officials and petty officials have appeared in various counties, and these people will never be killed.Fortunately, there is one thing that makes Yin Wenggui somewhat comforted, that is, after he secretly checked the accounts of the capital in recent years, at least on the books, he did not find any loopholes.But the account is not trustworthy, Yin Wenggui paid attention to the military food and equipment sent to the front line by Dasi Nong, at least when he left Chang'an, he was also greedy, and the source was still clear.And when he went to visit the Dasi Farmland Yannian Mansion, he found that Tian Yannian's life was far less glamorous than it looked like on the outside, the cuffs were lined with patches, and the children of the Tian family were also splendid on the outside, including ugly clothes."
Those businessmen in the market rumored that Dasi Nong was greedy, most of them were slander, and he was still as honest as being too punctual in Hedong."
Yin Wenggui was completely relieved, but he didn't know when Tian Yannian knew best when to be greedy and when not to be greedy.The Pingling project can be done with hands and feet, but the five generals' expedition to the Xiongnu is a major event that Huo Guang has devoted his efforts to, and he has kept a close eye on it, and the clothing, food, and grain distributed to the various armies must be undamaged.So even though he has tens of millions of dollars in his hands every day, he doesn't put a single penny or grain of rice into his pocket.It seems that everything is as usual, but recently, Yin Wenggui also found a problem, and today he came to report to Tian Yannian: "Dasi Nong, the three generals of Qilian, Huya, and Duliao set off from Shuofang, Wuyuan, and Yunzhong respectively, and the local agricultural commanders and county warehouses of the army, horses, and grains bear a part, and then transfer a part from Sanfu to the north. ”"The grain that arrives in Shuofang and the clouds is largely the same.However, the money and grain sent to Wuyuan, the money and grain supplied to Huya General Tian Shun were a little different, because the people's carriages and horses were insufficient, and a large amount of grain was stranded in Shangjun and could not be sent to Wuyuan.Tian Yannian flipped through the thin book sent back by the front line, and it was true, and Tian Shun also complained in the book.He sighed: "The amount of grain and straw in transit is too large, and the carriages, horses and people are limited, in my opinion, Shangjun is probably the priority to transport Shuofang and grain in the clouds."
Brother Zi, you also know that these local officials are the best at watching people cook, General Qilian is the main force, and General Duliao is the son-in-law of the general, they don't dare to slack off, Tian Shun is just the son of the late prime minister, so it's easy to bully, so he will follow. ”Tian Yannian shook his head, bitter at the ills at the grassroots level of the empire.The Han is too big, everything has to be implemented by people, and the wisdom and foolishness of the person in charge of each link will affect the efficiency.It takes time for the central and local governments to communicate, and the front-line military resources are tight, but a large amount of grain is stranded on the road, piled up in a certain warehouse, and even rots.When did the two armies send people to the transit station to carry food, snatch the baggage, and even draw their swords against each other?
And the generals and captains on the front line, who is the first and who is behind in the baggage transportation, are also particular, and the scorers, such as Hou Renhong of Xi'an, must be the first to get the baggage grain when they stop at the Jiuquan side of Dunhuang.Yin Weng returned to the head, this is indeed unavoidable, even if he and Tian Yannian go to the town in person, they can't manage every link.As everyone knows, of course, there are drawbacks, but Tian Yannian did it deliberately this time, he has been a big farmer for many years, he knows how to deliver grain and straw with the highest efficiency, and he also knows who is the most bad.For example, it is no wonder that a grain officer with low prestige, poor ability, and unpopular subordinates was sent to Wuyuan from the Kanto region to be responsible for the logistics transfer of General Huya.In the end, the knife couldn't cut Dasi Nong's head: the grain sent from Chang'an to Shangjun was sufficient, and the ordinary order was not recommended, so he didn't have to bear the responsibility of holding the lord together.Besides, now that the problem is discovered in time, Tian Yannian will immediately dismiss that person, but can Tian Shun wait until then?
Now the problem has arisen, when General Huya came out of the fortress, there was not enough grain?
Yin Wenggui was very worried that this might affect the war, and Tian Yannian was also worried, but he knew in his heart that the "possibility" had to be removed.In the case of insufficient food, the lord general must be uneasy, and he can't let the stranded grain fly to the army when he appeals to the imperial court, so he can only bite the bullet and get out of the jam.At that time, Tian Shun will definitely be able to remember that when he left Chang'an, Tian Yannian, who was the confidant of the general, kindly reminded him: "Jun is not the son-in-law of the general's former official, don't make too much meritorious service, so as not to be too sharp." ”The trap has been dug, and then it depends on whether Tian Shun will jump in, the general ordered the five generals to go out of the fortress for 5,000 miles, how far can he go when he is not enough food and is worried in his heart?
When it was almost dark, Tian Yannian knew the result.One of Huo Guang's sons-in-law, Ren Sheng, the supervisor of Yulin, hurriedly came to Tianfu and said that the general had invited him over.Tian Yannian immediately threw himself out, and when he got into the car, Ren Sheng was a little anxious, and whispered to him: "Dasi Nong, something big has happened!"
”Ren Sheng was not related to another guy surnamed Ren, who was in charge of the Yulin Janissary after Xiao Zhao's death, and was also in charge of monitoring Liu He's behavior.The general is not a fairy, he can hear thousands of miles away, look in all directions, he wants to summarize his program, and specific things have to rely on his subordinates to implement, in Huo Guang's words, they are the "owls" on the chessboard.And Tian Yannian, who is the most loyal to Huo Guang and the most ruthless and decisive, is the best among the heroes, the big Sima Army Sikong Du Yannian is responsible for making suggestions, and the general Shi Tian Yannian is responsible for making decisions, he can be said to be Huo Guang's eyes and nose, sniffing out and eradicating the enemy.Now only the two of them remain in Chang'an, and the rest of the sons-in-law and nephews are relatively young and have limited abilities, they are ordinary chess pieces, and they have no other advantages except for being trustworthy.Under the chess pieces, there are also chess pieces, and those jobs of spying on Liu He and his cronies are handled by a few Yu Linwei who are promoted by nepotism under Ren Sheng."
Recently, Huangmen Shixian has been favored by the emperor, and he drank with the emperor all night last night, and when he left the palace this morning, several Yulin rode to follow, and he just entered the nine cities and lost them."
When listening to Ren Sheng's complaints, Tian Yannian's face was serious, but in fact, he was hey, how could a few Ren Sheng's sons and nephews with a rough temperament keep an eye on Tian Yannian's "owl" Shi Xian?
To put it mildly, what Ren Sheng is doing now is exactly what Tian Yannian did ten years ago, which is really far behind.It wasn't until the evening that those anxious little Yulin finally found Shi Xian's traces, but this person appeared in a grand presence near Guangming Gate in the east of the city, and was talking with people in a lilu.After Xiao Yulin rushed in, they found that the room was empty, Shi Xian had stabbed himself to death, and there were two charcoal basins next to him that had been extinguished because the kettle had been overturned, and Tian Yannian, who had not finished burning, listened very carefully: "Oh, I don't know what is written on that silk book?"
”Ren Sheng didn't dare to say any more, and only led Tian Yannian into the shogunate, and in the hall, Huo Guang sat behind the case, and his expression was not unusual.But just summoning Tian Yannian alone late at night is enough to show the seriousness of the matter, whenever a general encounters a major event and needs to be discussed, the first person who comes to mind is always Tian Yannian!
Seeing Tian Yannian arrive, Huo Guang looked at his cronies, pondered for a moment, and told him one thing first: "An urgent report was sent from Biansai: Huya General Tian Shun left the fortress at the end of July, and only walked more than 800 miles, and when he reached Danyuwu Water, he stopped the troops and returned to Wuyuan!"
”Huo Guang looked at Tian Yannian: "Zibin, in your opinion, why did Tian Shun not move forward?"
”PS: Chapter 3 at night.