Become the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Chongzhen!

Chapter 334

"Go to the school grounds in the afternoon to collect your salary, don't bring armored soldiers."

"what?"

The generals of the Ming army who belonged to the local army and did not belong to the core Guanning army under Wu Sangui, subordinate to Liaodong town, were shocked to hear such a message from the black flag savage messenger.

What does this mean?
As soon as the envoy left, several young generals gathered together either in a daze or frightenedly.

"The savages are going to kill us!"

"Don't panic, there is still a difference between Savage and Daming, and it's just for us to send people, not to let everyone go."

"Are you going? Are you going? If you send someone, I will send someone."

"I haven't seen the salary for half a year, and we have to tighten our belts during the Chinese New Year. If Tongzhou and Changping didn't provide us with some food, we wouldn't be able to survive the winter!"

"Then you mean to go?"

Let's talk about it.

The officers and soldiers of Liaodong Town who originally worked in Shanhai Town, Funingwei, and even in Ningyuan and Jinzhou in the early years still sent people to collect their salaries.

But each of them was very nervous.

Later, when they handed in the list and paid all the money, they fell into a difficult predicament.

"The salary is out of hand, it is yours, but you only send one person, we have to send someone to follow, pay attention to avoid the salary being falsely claimed, right? Can you move it? If you can't move it, it will be regarded as not receiving it. .”

Ye Qian looked at these big soldiers jokingly, wanting to see how they could remove hundreds of taels or even thousands of taels of silver by themselves.

"It's not allowed to help each other, each takes his own, so as not to get mixed up and make it difficult to keep accounts!"

All of a sudden, the soldiers looked at the pile of silver with melancholy.

Although Daming’s silver output was not high, it relied on its trade surplus to harvest silver from surrounding areas, and the main harvest target was the Wa country, which produced a large amount of silver.

In this way, the internal economy and trade of Ming Dynasty are all settled in silver.

Salary is no exception.

However, the collapse of the treasure banknote system, coupled with the chaotic current situation, has led to a big problem in the circulation of silver, and it is also a huge chain of interests.

It also makes large-scale cash transactions such as military pay, which will be very hard work.

In addition to counting the money, you have to ask a few people to carry the money.

Right now, the seven soldiers who came to collect their pay belonged to different generals.

After looking at each other, a soldier stood up.

"Brothers, just wait here, the silver on my side is the lightest, I will send the silver back first, and then report to the brothers' Shangguan!!"

The person who came to inquire about the news didn't bring anything, but the man rolled up his sleeves and put the heavy box containing more than 800 taels of silver on his arm.

Gritting his teeth and roaring angrily, he walked out of Tongzhou City with difficulty carrying the silver in the expectant eyes of other soldiers.

If you give money, you will die.

This is basically the idea of ​​being a soldier these days.

Han Chinese, Manchurians, and Mongols are almost the same. Over the past few years, the black flag savages have gradually moved away from the innocent time at the beginning, and they cannot do without money.

Those with a little morality, such as the Han people, can work hard without money.

But after a long time in arrears, this integrity and spirit gradually dissipated.

And when the big pen carried a large box of silver and left Tongzhou City in full view, then pawned his own weapon and rented a donkey cart to rush back to Changping Prefecture.

The officers and soldiers of Liaodong Town who originally followed Wu Sangui, the former commander-in-chief of Liaodong, in Changping Prefecture suddenly boiled over!
Pay money!
These scattered troops are basically under the control of Wu Sangui, and after Wu Sangui surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, the salary he got from the Manchu Qing must first be closely followed by the Guanning Army under his command. He was not paid, so he owed a lot to the officers and soldiers of Liaodong Town.

This time I actually got the money! ?

Still full amount of money!

The officers and soldiers of Liaodong Town rejoiced.

The interior of the Guan Ning Army was gloomy.

Because the salary is not their share.

In other words, this salary is not so easy for them to receive.

The officers and soldiers of Liaodong Town only need to send someone to hand over the payment.

If Guan Ningjun wanted to receive his salary, he had to go there one by one in person.

Wu Sangui would definitely not agree to this kind of behavior of digging into the foundation of the Ning army.

but.

As long as they have rebelled against the Qing Dynasty, they have been in arrears of payment for as long as they have, and when they did not rebel before, the payment was not paid in full.

It was okay, it wasn't too long, the soldier gritted his teeth and passed.

But the officers and soldiers of Liaodong Town, who are almost like the same family as the Guanning Army, took their salaries and squandered them in Changping Prefecture and Tongzhou, so they could only watch.

Wu Sangui also knew that if the comparison continued like this, the army would definitely start to make trouble, so he called his generals to discuss how to get the salary.

And after Zhengheiqi's first batch of salary was distributed, the effect was remarkable.

Several officers and soldiers of Liaodong Town, who were still under Wu Sangui's account, simply didn't come.

Those who came heard that Wu Sangui planned to ask a group of generals to jointly ask Nanjing for military pay.

"Ah."

The general of Liaodong Town who took the money couldn't help laughing to himself.

Count on Daming?

Although Tongzhou's salary was given by the savages, it really fell into the hands of the soldiers.

Daming sent it over, if you have a conscience, you can cut [-]% off, and if you are unscrupulous, you can directly fold it in half or even lose [-]%!

And it's hard to say whether to give it or not!

It's nothing more than holding a meeting with great fanfare to fool the big soldiers.

The meeting broke up unhappily. Everyone was very familiar with their current situation, and they also understood why Zheng Hei Qi operated like this, but the white money was a pure conspiracy, and they couldn't refuse it.

"It depends on how long Guan Ning's army can resist."

After Zhu Youjian learned of Wu Sangui's predicament, he couldn't help smiling.

The Han army like the Guanning Army is more restrained than other armies.

Most of the armies composed of Han people have high moral integrity and bottom line when they are not in a desperate situation.

Of course, there are also moments of madness.

After all, there are common problems that should be there.

But what Zhu Youjian dared to be sure of was that the Guan Ning Army would not raise the butcher's knife to the people of Changping Prefecture because of lack of pay, and there would not be too many looting.

Especially the salary of Zhengheiqi is placed here.

They can come and pick it up anytime they want.

And as long as they get it, the differentiation will begin.

"Let the sticky poles be prepared, and try to get the officers and soldiers of Liaodong Town to return to Tongzhou, Shanhaiguan, and even Ningyuan to serve. If they are willing to return to their hometown, they will check Ningjin's account books and list the properties of the soldiers under his command, as well as those in Ningyuan City. The property will be given back as usual, and then try to integrate them into the flag."

"Hey, I've made a note of it."

"Ah."

After nodding, Zhu Youjian looked at Sheng Jing's note about North Korea's movements.

North Korea, which was supported and funded by Ming Dynasty, naturally had to pay attention.

But there is something worth noting in the new booklet.

The King of Joseon suddenly became seriously ill, and now he is no longer able to handle the government affairs. The government affairs of the Joseon Dynasty are all handled by the Joseon King.

Hot-blooded middle-aged Li Hao.

The content of the letter stated that he was more radical than the king of Joseon. He had only been in charge of the country for half a month, and the reform of the military was already in full swing. As the target of his imaginary enemy, it was naturally Zhengheiqi, who had replaced the Manchu Qing in Liaodong.

It's just that relatively speaking, Li Hao doesn't have any feelings of bitter hatred towards Zheng Hei Qi.

Most of them just regard being hostile to Zhengheiqi as a choice to achieve their own political goals in order to gain more support from Ming Dynasty.

So.

He is more troublesome than the previous king of Joseon.

It is also more qualified for the position of King of Korea.

What Zhu Youjian is sure of is that North Korea will definitely be able to call under his leadership in the future, but it will only be able to call in the short term.

(End of this chapter)