Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 110
Chapter 110
After punishing the spearmen, they were given a meal of braised pork.

At night, he called them one by one into his barracks to comfort him.

Tell them to reward them for defeating Jiang bandits, and punish them for fighting for meritorious service indiscriminately.

Then he told them that he planned to give them meritorious service.

In this way, he fully demonstrated his clear side of rewards and punishments.

Twelve people have only nine heads, so naturally it is impossible for each person to have one.

They quarreled because of unfair distribution. This situation has existed since ancient times.

Head rewards come from the state of Qin in the Warring States period. The military merit system of the state of Qin was extremely strict. Soldiers beheaded one level can get first-level meritorious service, and beheading five people can get five servants. At the same time, beheading can also release the convicted parents and relatives. , so that relatives who were enslaved could be liberated.

The strict military merit reward system ensures that as long as the soldiers of the Qin State fight bravely and kill the enemy, they can improve their own destiny and make a poor commoner, or even the offspring of a criminal, become a nobleman or an officer.

Therefore, the soldiers of the state of Qin were extremely brave when fighting, and at the same time, with severed heads wrapped around their waists, they bravely rushed forward to kill evil spirits, which made the soldiers of the six countries frightened.

It can be said that the reward of the head made the prestigious Qin army.

Therefore, many dynasties after the Qin Dynasty inherited this system, and the Ming Dynasty was no exception. In the early Ming Dynasty, there were other rewards, and in the later period, the credits were calculated based on the head.

What is puzzling is that the Qin army, which received a head reward, was unparalleled in combat power, while the Ming army, which also received a head reward, was depraved and corrupt.

In fact, the root cause is not in the head reward system, but in the implementation. Since the Qin Dynasty, most of China has overcorrected and believed that the Qin Dynasty’s demise was due to severe punishment and harsh laws. Therefore, most of the later dynasties emphasized gentleness, and the laws were very tolerant under the advocacy of Confucianism.

Yang Chao didn't understand this. A country would perish because of the strict enforcement of the law?This is simply unreasonable.

Even if the punishment of the Qin Dynasty is indeed unreasonable, the law will never punish innocent people. Compared with the heavy punishment of criminals caused by strict enforcement of the law, Yang Chao believes that the harm of ineffective enforcement of the law is greater.

Under the Confucian ruling philosophy, the country is full of an illusion of generosity and benevolence, but in fact, darkness and filth flow in the dark.

Yang Chao can't control the darkness of the society, but he must consider the problems in the army.

There are some unreasonable aspects of the head reward system, especially after thousands of years of implementation, various gaps have been discovered long ago, the most serious ones are "killing the good and pretending to be meritorious" and "competing for the head".

Needless to say, killing the good and pretending to be the leader of the bandit is to kill the civilians and pretend to be the leader of the bandit to claim the merit; to fight for the leader is sometimes on the battlefield. The corpses of dead enemies, and even fighting each other, caused the enemy to escape calmly.

To make matters worse, some enemies took advantage of this situation and fled with extra equipment and threw dead bodies all over the place. As a result, when the Ming army was fighting for the head, they killed one of them with a carbine and defeated the Ming army instead.

Back then, Marshal Qi Jiguang often encountered Japanese pirates doing this. The Japanese pirates even threw away some of their beheaded heads or a large amount of property and fled. When the Ming army was fighting for it, they suddenly killed a carbine and defeated the Ming army.

Although Yang Chao's soldiers were not fighting on the battlefield, they still belonged to the nature of fighting for heads.

The solution to killing good men and taking meritorious deeds is strict military law and military regulations, and officers' high awareness. Qi Jiguang's army will not kill good men and false meritorious deeds, because Qi Jiguang himself will not do this, and he can always kill enough soldiers. There is no need to do this for human heads. According to historical records, Qi Jiguang killed more than 15 heads of Mongolian invaders.

As for the solution to scrambling for the head, Marshal Qi adopted the method of emphasizing combat performance and depressing the beheading method to suppress it.

The Qi family's army "takes the charge first as the first merit, and the one who captures and beheads the second." No matter how many heads there are, one hundred taels of silver will be rewarded first, and after the robbers are defeated, they will still be divided into dead ranks, which is an exception to the meritorious deeds."

Killing the enemy collectively, just like Yang Chao this time, an enemy may be killed by several people at the same time, Marshal Qi has also encountered this situation.

Marshal Qi Jiguang's combat method is centered on mandarin duck formations. When fighting against Japanese pirates and Mongolia, he has compiled and practiced different forms of mandarin duck formations. Everyone kills the enemy in one army formation. It is really difficult to tell which enemy is in a chaotic army. Which soldier killed it.Therefore, Marshal Qi distributes the heads according to the position of the team, and at the same time, the heads are cut by fixed people. On the battlefield, soldiers in the battle formation are not allowed to leave the army at will to cut off their heads.

"In the duck formation, the leading soldiers holding long cards, long spears, wolf whisks, etc. are not allowed to cut off their heads with their knives. After the battle, the first team will discuss their merits together."

"Each head is counted as 30 taels. The spearhead of the first card is divided into 20 taels, the first soldier is divided into [-] taels, and the remaining soldiers are divided into [-] taels. Although the fire soldiers do not go into battle, the team has meritorious service, and they are also divided into five coins. Each piece The bird gunners of this team are also divided into two."

Marshal Qi solved all the problems Yang Chao encountered, and Yang Chao thought it was reasonable.

So I explained to several soldiers that since Marshal Qi Jiguang had used this method, they were very convinced.

In the end, Yang Chao took out the six heads and divided them equally between the spearmen. Each half-level would not be able to increase one level, but the reward was more than ten taels. Not only did Yang Chao not withhold it, he even said that he would send it to them without waiting for the Ministry of War to verify and issue it. Instead, pay in advance with your own money.

As for the remaining three heads, one was given to Zhang Damiao, and he was promoted to a level to become the leader of the team.

The other two were shared among the archers.

The credit was quickly reported in this way, and the paperwork was compiled and sent to the immediate boss first.

Zuo Si was directly under the central government, and the chief executive of the central department was very happy to see that Yang Chao had beheaded the head of the Jiang bandit, because he also had a share of the credit for the beheading.

Immediately very enthusiastically said that he would report it as soon as possible and let Yang Chao wait for the good news.

Yang Chao also thoughtfully sent up 100 taels of silver, and Mr. Qian also accepted it with a smile, saying that he also needed money to do some activities, and believed that the credit would come down faster.

The reward for nine heads is less than 300 taels, and 100 taels is enough for activities.

But the credit for it is something money can't buy.

Back in the camp, Yang Chao immediately promulgated the new military merit system and publicly preached to the soldiers.

It is not allowed to cut off the head during the battle, and all the work of cutting the head will be carried out by the soldiers around Yang Chao.

The other soldiers can just fight.

At the same time fulfill their promises.

Take out 500 taels of silver from the city.

In front of all the soldiers, the bounty money began to be distributed.

(End of this chapter)