Emperor Ming Dynasty

The wind rises and falls, and the autumn leaves in the sky are rolled up, falling like a goddess scattering flowers, red, yellow, and green, which look colorful under the sunlight.

Unfortunately, for the soldiers in the Beijing camp, the biggest advantage of autumn is that the price of food has dropped, the copper coins in their hands are worth more, and they can buy a lot of things.

"The weather is getting colder and colder."

Wang Fuchun muttered, standing at the gate of the barracks to inspect, the beautiful scenery in the eyes of others, in his view, it was a sign of cold.

Suddenly, a group of mules and horses slowly drove into the barracks, watching four-wheeled carts pulled in slowly by donkeys, countless people in the camp also watched.

"what happened?"

"I heard that they came from the palace, and they brought rewards!"

Hearing this, Wang Fuchun was overjoyed.

At the beginning of the month, he returned from Liaodong with the army, and after resting for a few days, he heard that the generals had all been rewarded, and many of them had been promoted to titles.

After so many days, it was finally their turn.

Looking at the continuous stream of motorcades, first the carts of wooden boxes, then the conspicuous fat pigs imprisoned in a wooden fence, and the jars of fine wine, Wang Fuchun's saliva was almost drooling.

"Hey, why don't you die quickly?"

The arrival of the convoy aroused all desires.

However, their entire town could only bear with it, watching the commander-in-chief hand over.

The reason why it is called a town instead of the previous wing is nothing more than adapting to the situation and changing the military system.

After years of fighting, the military and horse system of the Beijing camp has matured, forming a set of effective combat establishments.

Military ranks distinguish between superior and inferior status and treatment. Fourth-class soldiers, school, lieutenants, and generals are divided into four ranks: right, middle, upper, and senior, while generals have only two ranks, divided into generals of hussars and generals of the town.

In terms of military establishment, Xie and Yi were changed into battalions, regiments and towns.

That is, every 500 people form a team, every 3000 people is organized into a battalion, and the five battalions plus the regiment headquarters constitute a basic establishment of a regiment of [-] people.

Among the five battalions, there are three battalions of infantry (one team of shields, one team of long hair, and one team of archers), two battalions of firecrackers, and a team of cavalry who also serve as communication scouts at the regiment headquarters, a team of artillery, a team of cooks, and a team of soldiers. Team personal soldiers, the rest for the preparation of documents, staff.

In this way, among the 3000 people, there are not only artillery, but also multi-level cavalry, as well as firecrackers and basic infantry, whose combat capabilities are beyond imagination.

The head of the regiment is a guerrilla general or general.

The four regiments plus the headquarters regiment, a total of 5000 people, form a town, and the head of a town is the general soldier.

This is the infantry town structure.

In addition, with the development of the war in the past few years, the Beijing Camp has also begun to extensively organize cavalry towns.

That is, cavalry with muskets and artillery.

However, unlike infantry, cavalry has more requirements and a different organization. 3000 people form a regiment, and the real cavalry is only 1000 people. The remaining 2000 people are auxiliary soldiers, which can also be called attendants.

This is because the cavalry of the Beijing camp implemented a one-man and two-horse system, which seemed too tiring and required assistance.

However, these auxiliary soldiers are also reserve cavalry, and they can go to the battlefield as long as they have enough horses.

In addition to infantry, cavalry, and musketeers.

The organization is the same as that of the infantry, and what is more special is that all musketeers have short knives on their muskets.

This also means that after the gunpowder is exhausted, they can fight bayonets without directly losing combat effectiveness.

In addition, there are heavy artillery for support, all of which are powerful red-clothed artillery, and they are experts in demolishing cities and villages.

Therefore, after several years of intermittent reorganization, the strength of the Beijing Battalion has successfully exceeded 160,000.

Among them were 120,000 infantry, [-] cavalry, and [-] artillery.

In addition, there are the Bohai Navy, the East Sea Navy, and the South Sea Navy. Although they are under the command of the Five Armies Commander's Office, they have not returned to the Beijing camp.

If you count them all, it will be more than 20.

If in the past, there were only a few hundred thousand people in the capital, especially in a border capital like Beijing, it would be a look of death.

Even when Li Zicheng conquered the city of Beijing, there were still [-] to [-] old, weak, sick and disabled in the Beijing camp.

Standing all over the city wall of Beijing, it takes about 200,000 people to be conservative.

The Northern Song Dynasty raised five 600,000 forbidden troops in Kaifeng to strengthen their courage.

But now the world has changed, and now is the era of mixing cold weapons and hot weapons, and the cost of raising soldiers has skyrocketed.

For example, the arrows can be recycled, and the gun head can be used for several years, but the gunpowder is really gone as soon as it is consumed. After firing a hundred rounds, the barrel will be scrapped...

Feeding these 150,000 people cost more than the previous 500,000 people.

For one town of soldiers and horses, one year's salary, food and clothing, and wear and tear, the average infantry would have 500,000, and the cavalry would have three times the loss. Ten towns would cost 8 million silver dollars.

There are also large-scale patrol battalions and naval divisions in the local area, and the annual military expenditure exceeds [-] million.

If it is during the fighting period, it will be doubled.

So don't look at the sharpness of the musket, but it is purely piled up with money.

far away...

Go back to the military camp.

After the convoy entered the military camp, everyone was called to the school field.

At this moment, the cloth covering the donkey cart that had just come in was lifted.

For a moment, the brand-new silver coins stacked on the cart were exposed.

The silver-black silver circle is very conspicuous.

There was an uproar in the crowd, many people's eyes widened, and there was a commotion.

"My sons and daughters, these are coins from the imperial palace. They have just been minted and have not been used yet. They are just to reward you for your meritorious service in Liaodong."

In an instant, the atmosphere reached its peak.

Afterwards, they began to share the meritorious service rewards according to the order of the first, second, and last meritorious deeds.

Then they are sorted according to the first, second, and last of each battalion in the regiment.

The order within the town is due to different rewards; the order within the regiment is to increase seniority and add luster to future promotions.

For the same credit, seniors must have priority for promotion.

In front of a dozen or so tables sat the gendarmes and clerks of the township.

One is to determine meritorious service, and the other is to register.

"Tian Fuchun, the third town, the second team of the Jiaying battalion, captain Li Changshou, is it right?"

Tian Fuchun switched positions, and couldn't wait to come to the table and start to claim credit.

Or points of merit.

"Yes, that's right."

"In the battle of Liaodong, the third town took the second place and got four points of merit, and the first battalion ranked last..."

"The merit point is four, do you want land or silver?"

asked the gendarme without looking up.

Although ninety-nine out of ten people would choose land, there are some fools who would choose silver dollars.

"I heard that the land is in Liaodong?"

"That's right." The secretary nodded.

"It's land!" Tian Fuchun gritted his teeth and responded.

In the merit system, one merit point is exchanged for one mu of cultivated land or two silver dollars. As long as you are not a fool, you will choose the land.

Now that the world is peaceful, the price of land on the market has increased greatly. One mu of irrigated land in Gyeonggi exceeds ten silver dollars, and ordinary dry land also exceeds seven dollars.

The average price in Hebei and Shandong is five yuan, and the cheapest ones are in Shaanxi, Gansu, and Yungui, where the average price is three yuan.

As for Liaodong, the weather is cold and the war is about to end, so both are too much.

But there is no way, no matter how bad the earth is, it is earth!

Moreover, in order to curb land mergers, the emperor aggressively increased the deed tax, and the tax rate reached [-]%.

If you spend ten yuan to buy an acre of land, you have to pay the deed tax of five yuan.

If you don't pay it, it's okay, the court will not admit it, and you will be robbed by someone in the future, and there will be no place to file a lawsuit.

If this is exposed, it will even affect future generations to take the imperial examination.

"Now the land is in Liaodong, and the outside of the customs is different from the inside of the customs. Therefore, according to the new rules, a little merit can be exchanged for three acres, and it cannot be resold."

"In addition, the town rewards three yuan for the first achievement, two yuan for the second achievement, and one yuan for the last achievement. You can get one silver coin..."

"Rewards from domestic funds, half a piece of cotton cloth, half a catty of salt, and half a catty of vinegar, please keep the voucher and go to your regiment headquarters to get it..."

The subsequent rewards are all quite standard, which is not unusual for him, but when he heard about the three acres of land, he was instantly taken aback.

"Doesn't that mean that I can get twelve acres of land?"

As a small boss, the battles in the past few years have only accumulated fifteen acres one after another, and this trip is actually worth the two or three trips before.

If this is exchanged, it will be quite comfortable to go to Liaodong to settle down.

For a moment, he was in a trance, took the certificate, and slowly moved out.

Everyone maintained great joy and discussion on this matter: "The emperor is too generous——"

You must know that in recent years, the land in Gyeonggi, Hebei, and Huguang has basically been divided. Most of the land rewards in the capital camp are in borders like Shaanxi and Gansu, or in Henan. There has never been a saying that one equals two.

The value of Xuntian is decreasing, but the enthusiasm of the soldiers remains the same.

No way, no one has too much land.

Everyone knows that with the peace of the world, land resources are getting less and less, familiar land is getting more and more expensive, and it is not easy to buy, and some rewards are good.

Tian Fuchun held back the joy in his heart. At this moment, he was thinking of leaving the army and transferring all the land in Shaanxi to Liaodong. After a few years, he could accumulate some land and start his own family.

"The slaves are gone, I'm afraid there will be no more battles in this world..."

"What if there is no war, I still want to earn land and marry a wife—"

"No more wars, no rewards, hey..."

Standing in a long queue, Tian Fuchun was shocked while holding the voucher tightly.

He turned his head abruptly, like a frightened tiger, and said in a low voice:

"What do you mean?"

"There is no battle!"

The soldier behind him glanced at his bare shoulders, without a military rank, and said angrily, "How do you say it, the birds are gone, the bows are hidden, our Beijing camp is sweeping the world, who dare not submit?"

"If you don't fight, you will have no meritorious service, and you won't get the fields..."

After finishing these words, Tian Fuchun was startled.

The soldiers of the Beijing camp around him buzzed and thought about the future.

For soldiers like them who practiced fighting, it would be aggrieved if they really spent their time in the barracks eating money.

Fighting wars can not only lead to promotion, capture can make money, but also rewards.

Who can maintain a normal mind after having tasted this.

"What nonsense, isn't there the Kaka Mongolia in the north, and there is also a Mongolia in the west, how could there be no war?"

"Impossible, the world is so big——"

Controversy continued, affecting order.

Yingzheng could only go out, and roared angrily: "Be honest with me, if anyone yells again, don't drink the fine wine later—"

There is no one in the army who is not gluttonous, so they all stopped talking.

Wang Fuchun returned to the room with the cloth on his back and salt and vinegar.

The barracks were built with mud bricks, covered with a layer of tiles, and a row of large one-story houses was built with the team as a unit, and then divided into [-] rooms.

Each room is ten feet long and two feet wide, accommodating ten or ten people.

Coupled with the wooden fence, it is where a team of people is.

Then with the five teams as the core, form a battalion.

Then the big trap encloses the small circle, forming a hollow circle layer by layer.

In the middle is a large-scale school field.

Five people make one team, and ten people make one even.

Due to sufficient money and food, and doing things for myself, although it is a Datong shop, it is spacious and bright.

Wang Fuchun crossed the regiment's sentry post, then went to the battalion, the team, and finally arrived at his own camp.

What caught my eye was the rows of shoes, socks and clothes at the door, full of stink.

Entering the room, there are towels, wooden basins and eating guys, neatly placed behind the door, so you can go out to eat as soon as possible.

Then, there are long rows of heated kangs, on which are mats made of reeds, and then neatly folded square quilts and wooden pillows.

The order in the army is strict, and the bedding is required to be neat and the room is clean, and the military judge will conduct spot checks from time to time.

At the end of the month, the ten are sorted, and the youngest is the most unlucky.

All the people have to be taken out and beaten with military sticks.

Only ten blows, neither light nor heavy, if it hurts for half a night, it will be fine.

Not to mention taking off the buttocks and spanking, I still have to clean the latrine for a month.

Who can resist this?

As a superintendent, Wang Fuchun has no privileges and can only enjoy the Datong shop.

Put things in the innermost place. This place is usually a place for groceries, but now it is a place for rewards.

"Boss, are you back?"

Seeing him under his hand, he immediately took it and placed it,

The cloth is placed in the cabinet, and the clay pots of salt and vinegar are carefully placed separately.

Clay pots have to be returned, and if you don’t want to return them, you can just buy them for a penny.

Pottery is worthless, which is several times more expensive.

"Excuse me, is this battle really over?"

Suddenly, all the chiefs gathered, and a certain chief couldn't help asking.

"I don't know, ask the captain, the battalion is going."

Wang Fuchun said angrily: "There is still school in the afternoon, this time I have to write silently. I don't want to sweep the yard in the team. If any of you are slow, you will wash socks for a month—"

After the establishment of the Military Academy, it has never stopped. It has been teaching soldiers to read and write, the horns and flags, and the basics of weapon usage fees.

It can be regarded as bringing some comfort to the boring training life.

However, the ranking of meritorious service has too much influence, which leads to the ranking of everything in the army.

The punishments are similar, and they all have to do the work, either sweeping the yard, or cleaning the toilet, chopping firewood, cooking and other sundries.

So much so that the Huotou army only needs to cook vegetables, and the rest of the work is contracted.

Thanks to Xuntian's encouragement, the morale of the soldiers in the Beijing camp was high, but when the news of the end of the war came out, there was an uproar in the Beijing camp.

The military judges in charge of punishment and rewards noticed the situation and gave feedback.

There was nothing trivial in the barracks, and the news came to the emperor quickly.

"finally come."

In Yuquan Villa, the emperor, who was admiring the elegant demeanor of the fallen leaves, could not help but sigh when he heard the situation.

This is not what he expected.