Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 398
When he said this, Liu Chengzu and Ma Liang, the two former Baiganchuan soldiers, were not easy to fake, so they had to express to Zhang Dapeng that they were willing to seek truth from facts.

Zhang Dapeng was naturally very happy to praise the two, and then said that there are only a few bandit leaders in the area, and there will be more opportunities to make meritorious deeds in the future, so we must take a long-term view.

Although Zhang Xian and Zhou Xiucai felt a little pity for them.

But Zhang Dapeng also told Liu Chengzu and the others that he was very satisfied with their performance today. When this mission is completed and they return to Chongqing for camp, they will be promoted, at least to be the eighth-rank team leader. If they perform well, At that time, the sixth and seventh ranks will also have a great chance to master Qianzong.

Zhang Dapeng said that the reward would be given out, because he was away, so he ordered the thief's right ear to be cut off and taken away. It will be used as a proof of merit in the future. As for the head, he will dig a hole and bury it as a mark. It can be verified.

He asked Zhou Xiucai to distribute the rewards to everyone one by one, and then recorded them.

Except for the silver reward for the first rank, other meritorious rewards are only recorded in the book. For example, although this is a small-scale battle, there is no such thing as vanguard, jumping, or meritorious service rewards, but it is still possible to be the first.

With the silver in hand, everyone is very satisfied.

Zhang Dapeng won 90 taels of silver alone, but he was not overly happy. After all, he is also a veteran of the imperial camp. He has experienced many battles and received many rewards. He even has a wife, a field, a house and children.

Even after he became a battalion officer, his monthly salary was 50 taels, and there was another 150 taels of public silver a month. Although the public silver was used for office expenses in the camp, in fact, there was a lot of money left over, which was also given to the battalion officers. subsidy.

In addition, as a battalion officer, he also has famous food for generals who are similar to civil servants. The empty salary is an additional subsidy given by the imperial court to the generals according to their rank, which is equivalent to the salary of eight additional soldiers for the defense.

One soldier is four or two in one month, and eight is 36 taels.

The battalion officer’s monthly salary is 50 taels, plus these eight famous grains 36 taels, his monthly salary is 86 taels, not counting the 150 taels of minister’s silver per month, and there is still a lot left for subsidies. His monthly income is One hundred taels, this is still a formal legal income.

Not counting other rewards, gifts, etc.

In today's imperial camp, battalion officers are a huge threshold for generals. As long as they can enter the sequence of battalion officers, that is, become fifth-rank military officers, their salary will be greatly improved.

A battalion officer, who guards the fifth rank, has a monthly salary of 50 taels, while the first battalion has four sentry officers, each of whom pays three taels of silver a day, which is actually nine taels of silver a month.

Sentinels have the title of Qianzong, and some have the title of general. There are five famous grains for the title of Qianzong, and there are four for the general.

If it is a sentry officer with a general rank, the monthly salary is nine taels, plus 18 taels of food, which is 27 taels of silver, and the thousand general title is 31 taels of silver.

Compared with the battalion officer, the difference is several times.

Therefore, the battalion officer is an important watershed for the generals of the Shaotian Dynasty today. They can enter the fifth rank, especially after serving as a battalion officer. The monthly income is more than 100 taels of silver, which can not only support their families, but also live a good life. of life.

As for small military officers with the rank of commander in chief, commander in chief, commander in chief, etc., about 30 taels of silver a month is not bad.

Compared with the income of the military officers of the Ming Dynasty, it has increased by many times. At least with this salary, they can live and even support their families. It is not the official annual salary of a dignified general. It's only a few dozen taels of silver.

In the past, the soldiers of the Ming army were paid extremely low salaries, which could not be paid on time and were deducted in various ways. The soldiers could not support themselves, let alone support their families, so it was very normal not to be able to fight.

So in the past, the military households and frontier soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were discriminated against. If you were a soldier, others would add a bad name to your front. If you are a soldier, you can’t even marry a wife. No one looks down on you.

How can such a person defend his home and country, how can he have fighting power?

However, Zhu Yihai's current policy is to push these Ming soldiers into a position that everyone envies. They have to live well, live with dignity, and be admired and respected.

Starting from raising food and salaries, then military rewards and so on.

In the past, Zhang Dapeng was a part-time worker, and he had no money left in his hands throughout the year, but now he can face tens of hundreds of taels of silver, and his heart is calm.

By the fire, Zhang Dapeng called Zhou Xiucai, "I don't know much, and my handwriting is even worse. I would like to ask Zhou Xiucai to write two letters for me."

"Okay, who are you writing to?"

"A letter to my daughter-in-law. She is now raising a child in Zhoushan. I haven't seen her for a long time. I miss her very much."

Zhou Xiucai took out a pen and paper with a smile, and quickly wrote a family letter to Zhang Dapeng's wife, and then began to write the second letter, Zhang Dapeng read it, and he wrote it.

But after Zhang Dapeng read a few words, Zhou Xiucai dared not write.

Because what Zhang Dapeng read at the beginning was that the minister Zhang Dapeng greeted the Lord Long Live in Baoning Mansion, Sichuan, and then some reports to the emperor...

After all, Zhou Xiucai was a scholar of the Ming Dynasty, so he naturally knew some official document formats and some official rules.He didn't expect that a fifth-rank garrison could write a letter directly to the emperor.

"Scholarly?"

Zhou Xiucai came back to his senses and asked in a low voice, "Really write a letter to the emperor?"

"Well, when I came to Sichuan, Long Live Lord told me that I remember to write letters often when I come here..."

Zhou Xiucai couldn't believe it, the small defense of the fifth rank could reach Tianting directly?But after thinking about it, this person was from the imperial camp, so he must be the emperor's confidant.

So he picked up the pen and started writing, because it was written to the emperor, and I heard that the letter was directly submitted to the emperor's imperial examination, which made Zhou Xiucai very excited, and tried his best to write the best handwriting.

Zhang Dapeng's letter to the emperor is full of ramblings, from what he saw and heard along the way to Sichuan, to the garrison of the Ming army in Chongqing, and the situation of soldiers, horses, money and food in the camp, and even what he saw and heard in Hanzhong this time, including the fact that he just attacked and wiped out a group of people here. He reported to the emperor the Zhiyao yellow thief, the disabled Sichuanese he met on the road, including the tragic situation of his Zhou Xiucai family.

Zhou Xiucai's hands trembled uncontrollably, and he almost wrote several words wrong.

A letter from Zhang Dapeng made him sweat profusely.

He couldn't help but think highly of Zhang Dapeng's defense in his heart, he could directly report to the emperor's defense, what kind of small military officer was he when he made an appointment.

Originally, he was just grateful to Zhang Dapeng for rescuing their family, thinking that there would be a caregiver on the way with them to escape from Sichuan and go to Hanzhong, but now he is not active enough.

Perhaps he should find a way to stay in the imperial camp, by this Zhang Shoubei's side?
In this troubled world, this Zhang Shoubei, and the Holy Son of Heaven behind him, are indeed rare good people in the world, and they are worth following.

(End of this chapter)