It was not that simple that Lu Xiangsheng presided over the abolition of the Liaodong border army. It involved more than 100,000 Liaodong border army. Although Yan Yingyuan's assistance and Zu Dashou and Zu Dale and others' strong support, such a layoff involves the vital interests of the soldiers after all, so it takes a lot of effort to be stable.

When the Liaodong border army was recruited and expanded, the military households were mainly drawn from the vicinity of the capital. These military households were different from ordinary people. The family basically relied on the military pay of the military households, and often went to the army alone. The whole family moved and came to the military location. Although Su Tiancheng was an official in the Ming Dynasty court, he made up his mind to abolish the military household system, but in the capital, it was a place firmly controlled by the imperial court. Don’t even think about the matter of abolition of the military household system. The imperial court absolutely opposed it, so the ideological understanding of the military households here would not be able to be changed for a while.

Although the Jin court had completely abolished the military household system, it also required great energy to be consumed, mainly to stabilize these military households, so that they had food and a place to live. In the southern region, Zhu Shenxuan and others consumed too much energy and tried their best to resettle these military households, especially those military households that had been officials for generations. After so many years, they had long degenerated. The heroic spirit of the ancestors was lost without a trace, and what was left was how to eat empty wages and how to plunder the people's wealth. Such officers were determined to be sacked, and leaving them was just a disaster.

The Liaodong border army also involves such issues.

When the army was expanded, the thought of the increase in the number of people was also dependent on the court's temporary ability to take out a certain amount of military pay. Most of the Liao pay was allocated to the Liaodong border army for use, so it could still be maintained. In the later period, when the Ming Dynasty was about to collapse, the Liaodong border army was on the edge of collapse and could hardly be maintained. Fortunately, the autumn wind in Jiangning camp swept away the fallen leaves, and soon overthrew the Ming court and began to carry out necessary rectification of the Liaodong border army.

After discussing with Zu Dashou, Zu Dale and others, Lu Xiangsheng made careful plans with Yan Yingyuan. The general opinion was to let these military households return to their original locations. The government had already taken back their arable land. After these military households returned to their original locations, they changed their original household registration, re-registered, and became ordinary people. It was not a big problem to live a peaceful arable land life.

But the time is not very good. The spring plowing season has passed. If the imperial court needs to take out a large sum of silver and at least give these military households a certain amount of settlement fees. After returning home, they can live and ensure that every household will not starve to death or rebel when the autumn harvest comes next year.

After weighing the trade-offs, Lu Xiangsheng proposed a budget, which required nearly two million taels of silver. Even Lu Xiangsheng himself was shocked and felt that it was too difficult to report to the court.

However, the matter of laying off soldiers cannot be delayed. Moreover, the current Liaodong border army was directly raised by the imperial court, including the families of these soldiers. If the delay lasts for a long time, the court will suffer greater losses.

Of course, when Lu Xiangsheng was preparing to abolish the Liaodong border army, the establishment and unified issuance of bank notes were still in the process of planning and not officially put into practice. Therefore, Lu Xiangsheng considered that the court was under too much pressure. After all, the astronomical silver of the imperial court had been consumed in defense of the Black Death.

While Lu Xiangsheng and others were still stepping up their planning, some abnormal situations occurred in Liaodong, and many rumors appeared. The court would not care about the Liaodong border army. The Liaodong border army was the army of the Ming Dynasty. The court would definitely not believe it. Maybe the court would send troops to suppress the Liaodong border army, etc. Although these rumors have not been widely spread, they have attracted the attention of Lu Xiangsheng and others.

The situation in Liaodong was already very complicated, especially when the Ming Dynasty court occupied Guangning and after the mutual trading was launched in Guangning, a large number of Manchus, Liaodong merchants and Liaodong Han people entered Guangning, and through Guangning, they entered Jinzhou and Ningyuan City and other places, and some of them stayed directly to do business. The Ming Dynasty court did not express any objection to this situation.

After the Liaodong border army surrendered to the Great Jin court as a whole, it did not require the integration of the public security situation in Liaodong from a stable perspective, and the court was also clear, because the Later Jin Tartars once again occupied Guangning, Xipingbao and Yizhou, and the mutual markets in Guangning naturally disappeared, and trade and exchanges all depended on merchants still in Liaodong.

This also indicates that there must be a large number of spies from the Later Jin Tartars in Liaodong, taking the opportunity to collect intelligence.

Lu Xiangsheng knew very well about Tang Haitai’s lesson back then.

Just when Lu Xiangsheng was suspicious, the intelligence from the court was also sent, and the information was clearly stated. The Later Jin Tartars were deliberately disturbing the situation in Liaodong and wanted to take the opportunity to make profits. This information was based on the situation in Liaodong. In fact, Lu Xiangsheng also had such an analysis.

However, there are also requirements in the information that Liaodong must maintain stability, not be chaotic, nor can it carry out large-scale cleaning activities to avoid panic. Once large-scale migration activities occur in Liaodong, the mainland will increase its pressure.

This made Lu Xiangsheng very embarrassed and he didn't know what to do.

Soon, Lu Xiangsheng's memorial was approved. What he unexpectedly asked for was the resettlement fee of 2 million taels of silver, and the court actually allocated 2.5 million taels of silver.

It is easy to do things with money, which has been the eternal rule.

With this money, Lu Xiangsheng was not worried at all.

The resettlement plan taken out by the Liaodong Governor's yamen is very clear. For ordinary soldiers, each with ten taels of silver, they will return to their original place of residence, take the certificate issued by the Liaodong Governor, and go directly to the government. At that time, the government will resettle everything. The resettlement fee will be different for officers of all sizes. The highest general can get the resettlement fee of five hundred taels of silver, which is also a huge sum of money.

The resettlement costs of the Liaodong border army were also paid in the form of paper money.

At the same time, Lu Xiangsheng also received a task, that is, Liaodong must set up a bank, and in accordance with the requirements of the court, paper money, gold, silver and copper coins will not be circulated and used in principle.

The best way to crack down on rumors is to implement many resettlement tasks as soon as possible.

The governor's yamen began to make great moves.

The highest command in Liaodong is the Liaodong Governor's Office. As for the original position of Ji Liao Governor, because the emperor held this position, it was revoked and established. No one dared to hold this position. Besides, Liaodong's main task is to deal with the Later Jin Tartars. The strength of the imperial court is very strong. There is no saying that the Later Jin Tartars casually entered the pass and robbed. The current situation is completely different from that of more than ten years ago. The Later Jin Tartars were in a passive position, so there was no need to mobilize multiple forces to deal with Liaodong. It is enough for the Liaodong Governor's Office to assume this responsibility.

The scope under the jurisdiction of the Liaodong Governor also showed clear changes. Except for the Shenyang, Sarhu and other places south of the Liaohe River and north of the Liaohe River, they were all included in the jurisdiction, which also indicates that the court must wipe out the Later Jin Tartars and unify the entire Liaodong.

According to the sergeant, the difficulty lies in the fact that the officers and ordinary soldiers did not have much opinion. With ten taels of silver, a few months of life was enough. After returning to their hometown, as long as they had cultivated land and grew their own food, their lives would definitely not be very problematic. Besides, some border troops in Liaodong received letters from relatives and friends in their hometowns, saying that their hometown had changed, and at least they would not go hungry if they had food, so these ordinary soldiers could be successfully resettled.

In response to this situation, Yan Yingyuan made a suggestion that all the abolition officers, no matter where they were originally from, would stay in Liaodong. First, they would stabilize these people to avoid them from scattering them, and would vent their dissatisfaction everywhere. As long as they stabilize these people, I believe the problem would not be very big.

Lu Xiangsheng accepted this suggestion and began to carry out large-scale layoffs on the Liaodong border army in two steps.

For a time, Liaodong became lively. Every day, a large number of soldiers left Liaodong with their families, entered the pass from Shanhaiguan, and walked towards their hometown. This situation lasted for more than a month.

The first time the sergeant received the banknotes, he couldn't believe it at first, thinking that the court was fooling them, why could not get the silver? However, along the way, these banknotes were very convenient to use, exactly the same value as the silver, and were easy to carry. Sergeant gradually accepted it completely. Later, the sergeants who were laid off in Liaodong unanimously agreed that banknotes were more convenient than gold and silver, and they were not worried about being lost, nor would they attract the attention of others.

Of course, there are also many Han people from Liaodong. These people stayed in Liaodong and the government was responsible for giving them the land they cultivated. As for the arable land planted by the Liaodong army, because the harvest season has not yet arrived, it is converted into silver according to the grain output, and the number of people is equally cashed to the abolition soldiers.

All the officers who were laid off were left in Liaodong and arranged in the two cities of Jinzhou and Ningyuan. These officers used to vent their dissatisfaction because they had an army in their hands, but now the army has been laid off. The soldiers happily received resettlement fees as required, either left Liaodong or returned to their hometown to farm. In this way, the officers had no place to vent and did not dare to lose their temper at will.

The situation stabilized, and the rumors disappeared invisible.

Lu Xiangsheng was very comfortable. A seemingly difficult thing was completely arranged in just two months, and the deployment of the soldiers was all in place. A large army of 100,000, 10,000 were stationed in Heishan, 30,000 were stationed in Dalinghe City, 10,000 were stationed in Jinzhou, 10,000 were stationed in Ningyuan, and the remaining 40,000 were stationed in Shanhaiguan.
Chapter completed!