Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 396

Those words stunned everyone.

The one-armed Zhang Xian felt a little uneasy, "Lord Qian Zong, we are a group of disabled people, how can we enter the imperial camp and become the army of Qian Zong? How can we still get paid?"

Zhou Xiucai also felt that something was wrong. He wondered if Mr. Zhao Qian, who was very fierce just now, was trying to force the young man?Although it sounds like the other party is the Yulin Army from the east of Zhejiang, and he is a fifth-rank garrison. His monthly salary is 50 taels of silver, and there is also 150 taels of public silver. The treatment is amazing.

Deep in the imperial battalion, are you afraid that there will be no soldiers when you come to Sichuan?
And these people, the disabled and the disabled, the old and the weak, are not serious soldiers. His three sons are suitable, but they are too hungry and thin.

Zhang Dapeng smiled and said, "Don't get me wrong, everyone, I didn't mean to force the young men, but now that we are going to go north to Hanzhong together, then everything will be done according to the military system. Everyone takes up arms, and for the time being it is me The soldiers of Ming Dynasty are soldiers commanded by me, Zhang Dapeng, since they are soldiers, they must be paid."

"From now on, you are the soldiers of the imperial camp temporarily recruited. Of course, when you arrive in Hanzhong, you can resume your status as a citizen, but, for the time being, you are temporarily the soldiers of the imperial camp, so the salary is calculated on a daily basis. Military order, but if someone is captured, he will be rewarded according to merit."

Everyone who heard this was dubious, but Zhang Dapeng and the others were able to take the risk to relieve them, and wiped out fifty yellow thieves at once, which inevitably made everyone feel that he was trustworthy.

"Zhou Xiucai, you are currently acting as the clerk of the battalion officer. Just now, you wiped out fifty yellow thieves. You can record the entire operation process, as well as the credits of each of you beheading and assisting in beheading, as well as the weapons, money and food seized. The loot must be recorded in detail, and this will be reported to the camp when the time comes."

Zhou Xiucai nodded quickly. He is good at doing these things. Now he is a little panicked, and being able to do something makes him feel more at ease.

"As soon as you serve as the secretary, I will pay you another one and two cents every day."

"No, no, I'm just doing what I can."

But Zhang Dapeng waved his hands and said, "From now on, you are a soldier in my battalion, and everything is based on obeying military orders,"

"By the way, everyone has worked hard just now. According to the imperial camp reward and punishment system, everyone will be rewarded according to their merits. Let's give out rewards now."

When the money was really sent to the hands, everyone was still in a daze.

But the real money is in his hand, although it is not much, but it is real silver after all, it is a military reward.

Like Zhang Xian with one arm, he rushed very fiercely just now, this old man who was the only one left when his whole family died, just now he chopped down several thieves with a She knife, and then repaired several times.

Zhu Yihai puts a lot of emphasis on military merit, not only paying attention to generous salaries to support the army, but also paying attention to military merit rewards.

Rewards are divided into city rewards and head rewards.

Taking the siege of a city with a cloud ladder as an example, the first person to attack the Fucheng will be rewarded with 250 taels of silver, the state city will be rewarded with 200 taels, and the county seat will be rewarded with 150 taels of silver. The reward for entering the county is 200 taels of silver.

By analogy, the first five people who invaded Fuzhou County will all be rewarded with siege silver, with 50 taels as the base.

This standard is actually Zhu Yihai directly quoting the Mantars, using the same standard, since the enemy can afford it, I, Ming, of course can't be inferior, so that everyone can be more brave.

There are also two types of silver rewards for charging and falling into the battle. One is for those who have a strong enemy in front and have a solid formation and can advocate victory.

Rewards ranging from 50 taels, 40 taels, and 30 taels were given according to military merits.

In addition, the silver rewards for water battles are divided into three classes according to the size of the ships, and the first four, three, and two people who jump on the enemy ship first are rewarded in turn. 1 taels for a third-class boat, 100 taels for a third-class boat, 80 taels of silver for the second person boarding a first-class boat, 60 taels for a second-class boat, and 80 taels for a third-class boat, with 60 taels as the standard, decreasing in order.

There are not only rewards for silver, but also rewards for officials. Wherever the soldiers go, or the enemy is separated by a solid wall, or greeted by a large formation, those who can stand up first, and those who charge more than the crowd, should be awarded according to their meritorious service. Thousands of chief officers.As for those who first jump over the enemy's ship to make meritorious service, they should be awarded the captain, garrison, and thousand commanders according to the size of the ship, and each should be rewarded with silver to show encouragement.

In addition to these, Zhu Yihai still emphasized the first-level military rewards.

The Ming Dynasty has always attached great importance to the first merit system. During the Hongwu period, Japanese riots occurred along the coast. Zhu Yuanzhang’s reward standard for military merit is that every soldier of the general banner who captures one archer alive will be rewarded with ten taels of silver. 12 taels, beheading one level twelve taels.

Later, during Zhu Di's period, he went out to Mobei again and again, paying more attention to the first merit. The order of rewards and punishments in the army he drew up clearly stipulated that if the sentry horse captured a thief alive, he would be rewarded with 30 taels of silver.If you win a head, you will be rewarded with 20 taels of silver.

During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty, barbarian thieves in the south rebelled, and the imperial court encouraged the soldiers to suppress the thieves and introduced a new policy: three or more heads of thieves would be beheaded, and the military rank would be promoted to one level. Rewards, no promotion.

After the change of Tumu Fortress, the record of military merits became the main incentive system for the Ming army.

During the reign of Emperor Xianzong of the Ming Dynasty, the reward system was more comprehensive.

First of all, different rewards are given according to the area where the enemy was killed. The first rank is divided into four ranks. The first rank is the northern captives in Ningxia and Datong. Two heads can be promoted to one level, and the third class is the Fanmiao barbarian bandits in Shaanxi, Sichuan and other places, and three heads can be promoted to one level.The fourth rank is the mainland anti-thief. If you capture six heads, you can be promoted to a higher rank. For the fourth rank, the upper limit is the third rank. Only material rewards will be given for the excess, and no promotion will be given.

Secondly, the rewards are differentiated according to the gender and age of killing the enemy. Except for the northern captives, the heads of women and young men are not used as the basis for promotion, but only for material rewards. , the heads of strong men, young men, and women are all used as the basis for promotion. The difference is that if the head belongs to a strong man, the promotion is actually conferred;

In addition, the rewards of officers are linked to the number of beheadings of their subordinates. For officers such as generals and commanders, if they lead an army of [-], their subordinates will be promoted to one level for every five beheads; By analogy, the upgrade limit is still three levels, and those who are all command envoys and above have a maximum of two levels of agency.

After more than 200 years of experience in the Ming Dynasty, the first meritorious service system has become more and more important, and even the same life has different prices.

The advantage of the first merit system is that it is more intuitive, based on the head, simple and direct, but the disadvantage is that it is easy to kill indiscriminately and ask for merit, or even kill the good and pretend to be meritorious, and even sell first-level merit among soldiers.

As the only basis for the promotion and rewards of sergeants is the head, soldiers generally suffer from the bad habit of killing indiscriminately; but war is not a normal event. Killing the number, killing the barbarians on the frontier, killing the generals of the enemy army, and killing the young boys of the tribe have been repeatedly prohibited.During the Wanli period, some civil servants disclosed that the barbarians on the border of Yanzhen had basically surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, but the soldiers guarding the border rushed into the barbarian residences in pursuit of military exploits and massacred them. The brutality and bloodshed can be seen.What's more, cut off the heads of comrades-in-arms on the battlefield, and killed the nationals who were captured by the enemy to claim credit.

Indiscriminate killing, killing the good and pretending to be meritorious, and buying meritorious service are all serious problems in the Ming army, and there are even cases of internal fighting on the battlefield.

But for Zhu Yihai today, the Ming army cannot fight, and the Tartars, internal thieves and other forces are seriously threatening him. There must be a relatively complete and generous reward system to motivate soldiers.

Therefore, even though many ministers believed that there was something wrong with the imperial court’s original system of meritorious deeds, especially the first-level meritorious rewards, Zhu Yihai still insisted, and formally decreed to draw up a system of military meritorious service rewards for the Shaotian Dynasty. There are also detailed regulations on attack, charge, and water warfare, as well as reconnaissance, decapitation, and capture.

In the past, the heads of the Mongols were the most valuable, followed by the Jianzhou Jurchens, then the Miao Man, and finally the internal thieves. Zhu Yihai adjusted it, and now the Manchurian Tartars are the most valuable, that is, the Eight Banners Manzhou, including the Eight Banners Manzhou The Mongols, Koreans, Hans, etc. in the village, followed by the Mongolian Army of the Eight Banners, the Han Army of the Eight Banners, then the Green Army of the Qing Army, then the Miao Man, then the inland rebels, and then the bandits and bandits.

Zhu Yihai's new military merit system is relatively complicated. It first emphasizes collective military merit, then individual military merit, and at the same time focuses on the first-level military merit.

For example, according to the comparison of the strength of the enemy and our two sides, the battle with fewer hits and more, breaking the city and breaking the formation is the first battle, the two sides have equal strength is the middle battle, and the battle with more hits and fewer is the next battle, and then according to the enemy's kill rate, the More than [-]% of the kills are regarded as top rewards, [-]% of them are middle rewards, and less than [-]% of them are lower rewards.

In this way, the most meritorious service is obtained in the battle, and the least military merit is obtained in the next battle, and it is further divided into third-class merit according to the performance of the soldiers.
The first rank in the battle can get five ranks of military merit, the first rank in the battle and the first rank in the middle ranks are four ranks, and the ranks in the next battle are all one rank.

In addition, jumping and swinging skills, pioneering skills, etc. have been established.

Compared with the general third-class skills, these two skills are equivalent to special-level skills. For example, the jumping skill is very strict. When facing the bandits, the arrows and stones are not handed in. The vanguard advances, and the thieves are defeated For jumping, this has to be a charge breaker, and there is a strict number limit.

If there are less than 1000 people in the Bandit Breaking Formation, the number of dancers should not exceed 20 people. If it exceeds [-] people, one more person will be added for every [-] people. The number of people who are pioneers should not exceed [-] people.

If there are more than 1 captives, the head of the prisoner will be allowed to dance, and if there are more than 1000 prisoners, he will be the first-class case. If the number of thieves is less than a thousand, he will be punished for poor quality.

(End of this chapter)