Late Tang

Horses have no grass and no fat, and people have no windfall.

47 yuan, this is indeed not a small amount, this amount of money is enough for two officials, Wang Xiaowei and Zhang Zuoli, to take risks and develop a greed for ink.Not to mention them, even Li Jing was moved by it, and secretly calculated in his heart, even if they were divided equally, each person would have more than 4 yuan. For more than 4 yuan, you can buy four acres of fertile land at home, or buy two hundred buckets of grain.What's more, Li Jing shot and killed five thieves alone, including two bandit leaders who offered huge rewards.Just those two bandit leaders are worth 180 pieces of silk and 20 coins.These two rewards add up to nearly [-] yuan.

But he only thought about it for a moment, and then he immediately woke up.

Li Jing looked at the sky, and it was already bright at this time.The mountains are green and daisy, hidden in the frost and fog.

"Lieutenant Wang and Zhang Zuoli, if you kill the enemy to repay your merits, you must be the leader of the bandit. Besides, if the 250 pieces of silk were lost to the bandit, wouldn't the higher-ups be held accountable?" Li Jing asked cautiously. .

Wang Zhong smiled and said: "Under normal circumstances, it is true that cutting off the head is counted as merit, but this is not the case in all cases. For example, in field battles, there is a custom that you must not stop to cut off the head when you are fighting. The records of joining the army will be verified by a special marching record room. Like this time, if we did not meet the gang of bandits later, we need to cut off the head of the bandit for verification. However, we encountered the enemy again later, and it was too late to cut off the head of the bandit who killed the enemy. It is also allowed. As for the loss of those silks, it was all because of the thieves. We were ten against hundreds, and it was not easy to break through after a battle. How could the boss blame us again? Woolen cloth?"

Zhang Zuoli also smiled and said: "Brother Li's worries are also known to us. We all know about this matter. I just listen to my brothers' arrangements and will never remember that you are at a disadvantage. This time you killed the five thieves alone, and the two leaders They all died at your hands, we will write down all these, and the big rewards will all belong to my younger brother."

According to Zhang Zuoli, ten enemies were killed, and Li Jing killed five alone, including the second thief.Wang Zhong killed one enemy, Wang Xiaoshi, Li Qiusheng, Li Xiaoshan and Li Xigou each killed one enemy.In addition, Wang Zhongji was seriously injured, Zhang Zuoli was slightly injured, six members of Wang Jiacheng were slightly injured, and Wang Liang died in battle.

According to the practice of all armies in the late Tang Dynasty, killing the enemy is meritorious, and rewarding the wounded is also rewarded.An officer like Wang Zhong who is seriously injured will be awarded ten guans according to the third rank of the United Army's military exploits, and the fourth rank for minor injuries and five guans.Ordinary united soldiers such as Wang Jiacheng, for serious injuries, are classified as the fourth-class merit, with five guan for money, and for minor injuries, for the fifth-class merit, and for three guan for money, each has a reward.If Wang Liang died in battle, it would be equivalent to a third-class merit pension, and he would be richly rich.

Regarding this, Li Jing thought about it carefully, and felt that it was a bit inappropriate for him to remember five kills.After all, Captain Wang was an officer and was seriously injured.If he hadn't restrained the bandits, he wouldn't have been able to kill the five enemies.So after thinking about it, Li Jing suggested that it is enough to record four kills by himself. After all, killing four enemies can be regarded as the first rank in military merit, and it doesn't make much sense to remember more.

In addition, he also proposed that the thief's head monkey cheek face was counted as the kill of Wang Xiaowei, and Zhang Zuoli was credited with the scar face's head.In this way, Li Jing killed four enemies, Wang Xiaowei killed one enemy, who was the leader of the bandit, and Zhang Zuoli also killed one enemy, who was the second leader of the bandit.The remaining four kills remain unchanged.

As for the two sums of money, the rewards offered by the two leaders were naturally obtained by Wang Xiaowei and Zhang Zuoli.In this way, Wang Xiaowei had to offer a reward of [-] pieces of silk and [-] pennies.Zhang Zuoli got eighty bolts of silk and ten pieces of money.Li Jing got forty bolts of silk and twenty pennies.Li Xiaoshan, Xiao Shitou, Li Xigou, and Li Qiusheng each got ten bolts of silk and five strings of money.

This proposal made Wang Xiaowei and Zhang Zuoli somewhat surprised, especially Zhang Zuoli, who had no first-level merit, now Li Jing not only gave him one, but also gave him a second-leader bandit leader. It is worth eighty bolts of silk and ten guan coins.With this first-level merit report, in addition to offering a reward, he must also receive other rewards.

Captain Wang was also taken aback. The bandit leader gave him up like this, which really surprised him.He thought to himself, even if it was himself, it would be impossible to share the credit with them so happily.In his heart, he did have the idea of ​​envying Li Jing's military achievements, but he just thought about it for a while. After all, Li Jing saved him twice in a row, and he couldn't open his mouth at all.Unexpectedly, Li Jing seemed to be able to guess what he was thinking, and he really happily gave him such an important bandit leader, which made him happy and moved, and he couldn't help but think highly of Li Jing.

The so-called reciprocation, Captain Wang really needs this head to be promoted.After pretending to evade a few times on the surface, he accepted it with a smile.Then he immediately suggested: "My brother gave such a big gift to my brothers, we should not be too stingy as brothers. How about this, Zhang Zuoli and I will write down the great achievements of my brother in detail in the list of merits, and when we arrive in Penglai, we will direct The boss has guaranteed my brother an official position."

"In addition, the 250 bolts of silk were originally collected by your Wang Li village. You and I don't want this share. It's all yours. How you divide it with your fellow villagers is up to you. gone."

Even if the 250 pieces of silk were divided among 11 people, one person could still share more than one piece of silk, not to mention that both of them were officers, so they would definitely get the most of it.Now they say that they don't want to share this part, and it can be regarded as returning Li Jing's favor.

Li Jing was not too polite, after all he had paid a lot, no matter how polite he was, it would make Wang Zhong and the others feel that Li Jing was unwilling to make friends with them.

In addition to Wang Liang who died, there were nine other people who came out of Wangli Village. 250 bolts of silk, everyone can share a lot.

Finally, Li Jing discussed with everyone and decided to give 50 pieces of silk to the dead Wang Liang.Even though Wang Liang died, the higher ups would give him a pension.But even if there is a pension, there will definitely be some deductions, and not many can get it.What's more, on the surface Wang Liang is still Li Jing's brother-in-law, and Wang Liang is also engaged to Li Jing's younger sister.As the first dead companion who came out of the same village, everyone has no objection to this decision.

Especially those four descendants of the Wang family, speaking of having some relatives with Wang Liang, they couldn't help but feel a bit sad.Seeing that Li Jing proposed to give 50 pieces of silk to the Wang family, they all agreed.

There are 0 pieces of silk left, nine people share, how to divide?Everyone looked at Li Jing, and they also heard that Li Jing had given up the military merits of his two bandit leaders to Zhang Zuoli and Wang Xiaowei, which made Wang Xiaowei give them all the silk.

"Brother Xiucai contributed the most. If it wasn't for Brother Xiucai, we would all have gone underground with Wang Liang this time as companions. Let me tell you, each of the 0 pieces of silk, Brother Xiucai, will get 1 piece, and the eight of us will each get 10 pieces. "Little Shitou was the first to speak out. Although his surname is Wang, he is actually closer to Li Jing than Qiu Sheng and the others.

Wang Liugen and the others nodded. They were very satisfied to get 10 bolts of silk, which was worth 40 yuan, and they were free from buying [-] buckets of rice.Taking the silk back will solve the food for the family this year.

Only Wang Dong said with some dissatisfaction: "I have no problem with more points for scholars, but why is there such a big difference? When fighting bandits, although I didn't get the first rank, I did my best. If it weren't for me and Liu Gen With Xiaowei Wang on his back, how can he last till the end?"

Li Xiaoshan also yelled at the same time: "Now you have not lost your life and you still have some money, so you can be content."

Seeing the people coming out of the same village, they were divided into two groups at this time.Li Jing couldn't help but smiled wryly in his heart, now that he left Wangli Village, there were only a few partners he could trust and rely on, and he didn't want them to be divided into two groups to fight non-stop.

After thinking for a while, Li Jing said: "How about this, Xiaoshan, Xiaoshi, Xigouzi and the little carpenter, you four have ten pieces of silk each, after all you all have a first-level skill. Liugen and Xiaodong, the four of you , ten pieces of silk for each person, and I will share ten pieces of silk with each of you from my share, so that each of you has twenty pieces of silk, how about this?"

Seeing that Li Jing gave them forty bolts of silk from his share, but didn't share it with Xiao Shitou and the others, Wang Dong immediately felt that Li Jing was kind to them, so he nodded in agreement.

Immediately, Li Jing asked people to take 250 bolts of silk from the donkey's pack, and gave them all according to the agreed number.Li Jing got 80 horses, Wang Dong and the others got 10 horses each, and Xiao Shitou got 40 horses each.Li Jing planned to give another [-] horses to each of Wang Zhong and Zhang Zuoli, but they insisted on not accepting them, so they finally had to give up.

All the young people in Wangli Village were happy after the silk was divided. This can be said to be the first money they earned.The joy of harvest also drove away the previous fear. Everyone carefully wrapped the silk and put it back on the donkey's pack.Just wait until the prefectures and counties, and find an opportunity to send these silk trustees back to the village.

After finishing these, the boiled water and porridge have been cooked, and everyone gathered together to drink the porridge happily.Wang Zuoli had also finished writing the battle report, and also helped Wang Zhong write a copy.Li Jing has read both reports. Although there are some exaggerated words in them, they are basically reliable.Both reports emphasized Li Jing's bravery and wit, saying that Li Jing has the talent of a general and can be used to great effect.

After breakfast, everyone's physical exhaustion and mood gloom were swept away.Li Jing helped Wang Chong onto the horse, and Wang Zhong said with a smile: "My brother is helping me onto the horse now. When I return to the state, my brother will also help me for a while. This time, no matter what, you can give the official a gift." , Leaping into the sky!"

Li Jing smiled slightly, looked into the distance and said: "By the auspicious words of Captain Wang, I hope so!" Although he said it plainly, his heart was full of expectations.Although he knew in his heart that even if he could really confer rank to an official, it could only be a junior official of the ninth rank who had just entered the stream.But although this seems like a small step, it is actually a big step for soldiers and officials, and it is a step that many people cannot cross in their lifetime.

His father had never crossed this step in his life, but he was different.

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