Da Wei Chun

Chapter 111 clear rewards and punishments
"If you kill a thief in the formation, you will be rewarded with three fights of food. If you capture the enemy's armor and horses, you will be rewarded with a stone of food... If you win a big victory, the whole army will be rewarded..."

Li Chengzhi's voice was resounding, and the hearts of all the generals and squires were slightly shaken when they heard it.

The reward is so heavy?
As long as this group of thieves is eliminated, the total number of rewards will have to be above Qianshi...

It sounds strange, how could there be no reward for winning a battle?
But it depends on the actual situation and even more on the regulations.

According to the Northern Dynasty's custom, all rewards for military exploits are evaluated after the fact based on the record, gains and influence, and at most they will be rewarded at the level of the team leader.

Most of the time, ordinary soldiers have no share, and only generals who love soldiers like sons will share a little bit of their rewards to use for the army.

But basically it’s just a few meals of delicious food and drink, even if you have enjoyed it.

Not to mention that Li Chengzhi would not set down the rewards of ordinary soldiers before fighting such a battle.

Just one thing, if there are not so many seized, can the chief general still pay for it out of his own pocket?
What's more, more than [-]% of those who accompanied Li Chengzhi this time were the citizens of Chaona County, and those who protected were also the gentry and common people in Chaona territory.

But he, the commander, is an outsider. To put it bluntly, if he worked tirelessly and defended the city for you regardless of gains or losses, that is enough benevolence and righteousness, and he still pays for the army out of his own pocket?
There is no such thing!

What surprised everyone even more was that maybe Li Chengzhi really paid for it himself.

As the detective report said, this is a new army hastily formed by a group of refugees. Even if they are wiped out, how much can they capture?

A few rotten wooden guns, or a few pieces of tattered linen?

No one wants a free gift...

But no one doubted whether Li Chengzhi was talking big, and whether he would fulfill it by then.

During the conscription period, the gates of the barracks were filled with golden corn. As long as they were selected as conscripts, a sergeant would distribute a bucket of food to their families.

Forget it, in less than ten days, Li Chengzhi recruited nearly [-] soldiers, and sent out at least [-] stone grains...

What's more, Li Chengzhi actually sent people to pull the poor horses, donkeys and mules to help Xinding's family cultivate the land, which made his prestige even higher.

This is like standing a tree at the gate, and seeing the shadow immediately.In Chaona County, there is no one who does not praise Li Chengzhi, and the soldiers of the whole battalion even regard Li Chengzhi as a reborn parent...

This is the magic weapon for Li Chengzhi to dare to say that he will win this battle!
A group of military leaders secretly thanked Li Langjun for his expense, while a few squires settled their accounts.

Including Zhang Jingzhi and Guo Cunxin are thinking about how much rice, food and labor should be donated to prevent Li Chengzhi from losing money, and how much should be shared among the various clans...

Li Chengzhi didn't know what these people were thinking, seeing a group of generals showing joy, he couldn't help sneering: "Don't just listen to rewards, there are also punishments...

However, those who do not listen to the drums, do not retreat when they ask for money, leave the battle without authorization, loot and seize, or hide robber armor, guns, knives, and goods, they will be beheaded.Family members are expelled from good status and criminal status...

If there are generals who lie about their military achievements, those who are greedy for the merits of soldiers, those who do not know rewards and punishments, or those who engage in fraud for personal gain, the crime will be increased..."

When he said this, Li Chengzhi's complexion was frosty, and his tone was even more stern than he had ever seen before, and everyone who listened tightened up in awe.

It must be the same as the reward, what Li Chengzhi said, he must be able to do it...

Among them, there were generals who heard that the reward was so heavy, and wanted to covet the military merits of their subordinates and take the opportunity to make a small fortune, but hearing that he was so strict, similar thoughts disappeared.

Hearing Li Chengzhi's next words, these people were even more uneasy.

Those scribes who preached in the army before, actually want to go out with the battalion?

One for each team, in addition to being responsible for the distribution and recording of food and grass in the team, it is also responsible for recording meritorious service, stimulating the morale of soldiers, and strictly enforcing military discipline...

This is clearly the meritorious service of the march and the law. Li Chengzhi nicknamed it the clerk, and there must be one in the team?
According to the military system, there may not be a single meritorious officer in an army (more than 1000 people), most of them are counted according to what the military leader says...

Most of these literati were born in rich families. Even if they were concubines, they had a good environment since they were young, and they had enough food and clothing. Naturally, they would not pay attention to these small money.

Besides, only reading and literacy can make sense.After these days of preaching, let’s not mention how deep the soldiers’ experience is. Don’t these scholars understand what will happen to themselves and their families if the army is defeated due to lax military discipline?
Absolutely not with a warlord who has crooked thoughts...

Who made Li Chengzhi have a good uncle, but all scholars in Jingzhou can be regarded as disciples and grandchildren of the Guo family.

There is no shortage of scholars, so Li Chengzhi naturally wanted to give it a try, to see if he could learn from the successors of later generations and sink political propaganda work to the grassroots.

At least let the soldiers know who they are fighting for, and they don't have to worry about not being rewarded for their meritorious service, let alone being corrupted for military merit.

Whoever it should belong to is whoever it is...

It seems to have done well enough, but Li Chengzhi felt that he could do better.

He pondered for a while, and then said amazingly: "Whoever died in battle will give his family twenty shi, or ten catties of copper, or rent ten acres of Li's private land, and cultivate it for five years for free... The army will be doubled, and the auxiliary Pawns halved..."

Everyone's shocked eyes almost popped out.

Not to mention going on an expedition with the army, even if he died in battle, he would be exempted from tax, grain and corvee for two or three years at most. I have never heard of people rewarding food, money and land?
Even if there is a reward, shouldn't it be the official land?

But think about it again, Li Chengzhi is only a white body after all, what name does he have to be the master of the government?

Those official fields that have been granted to the recruited soldiers are just a one-year loophole!

Li Langjun should be worried that the gentry will not cooperate, and it will not be easy to force him, so he can only pay for it out of his own pocket...

All the generals had mixed feelings, wishing they could accept their heads and worship...

What is a private field?

The Great Wei Field System: Men over 60 years old are granted [-] mu of open fields for cultivating millet grain. They are nationalized at the age of [-] or after death.

Only those with mulberry trees are considered private fields, which can be passed down from generation to generation, and can also be traded...

How many generations of the Li family fought and how many clansmen died in the battlefield, and there is only [-] mu of private land, one can imagine how precious this thing is.

Li Chengzhi said that the reward was given out... No, even the rent will not work.

It's still the same sentence: if the battle is won, the profit will be more than [-] people from four to five thousand households in the court. Why do you Li Chengzhi pay for it?
The members of the Li clan were secretly complaining: Mr. Lang is planning to go on the "Road of Saints" and never return?
Fortunately, it is only rented, not given away.

Otherwise, if there is an acre missing, after Erlang knows, he will definitely peel off a layer of skin and let him kneel in the ancestral hall for a few days and nights...

"No way!" Before Li Chengzhi finished speaking, Guo Cunxin stood up and gave him a hard look, as if to say: It seems that you really lost your memory, and you forgot how vicious your father was?
If you break a few bones, it's considered light...

Then he turned his head and looked at Zhang Jingzhi and the representatives of the squires: "What do you think?"

Zhang Jingzhi bowed to Li Chengzhi from a distance: "Thank you, General, for your righteous deed, but it's not in line with etiquette!"

It means that being a saint also has a degree, if you really do this, where will you leave the court and the big family?
Then he turned his head and looked at the patriarchs: "Although food is in short supply, and copper is not easy to collect, but thousands of acres of mulberry fields can be collected, right?"

"Come on!" The squires didn't raise their beaks much.

Even if they don't know soldiers, they can figure out why Li Chengzhi set the reward so high.

If the first battle is invincible, it is very likely that they will be defeated so far and let others slaughter them. Therefore, there is nothing wrong with Li Chengzhi's practice of stimulating the morale of the soldiers as much as possible and avoiding their worries.

On the other hand, it's just that the harvest is less every year, which is how many times stronger than the death of the family and the destruction of the incense of the ancestral hall...

(End of this chapter)