my bright sword career

Chapter 597 Generous pension
The bushes are the only plants in Guadalcanal, and the low and dense bushes provide the best concealment for the three parties fighting in the US, Japan and China.

Although the days of bombing leveled some of the bushes on the island, for this kind of tenacious job, no matter how violent the bombing is, it’s just a drizzle. After a heavy rain, the bushes will spring up from the ground like mushrooms after rain. Come out, so there are still a lot of bushes for the warring parties to hide.

Li Sanpao is an authentic Shanxi guy. He is 23 years old and only joined the army in June this year, just like most people in this era.

Before joining the army, Li Sanpao was thin and short due to malnutrition, but fortunately, this situation has been greatly improved after joining the army.

Good food and strict training made Li Sanpao's youthful peasant taste disappear in a short period of time, and now he looks like a capable veteran.

Of course, this kind of appearance is only superficial. Anyway, Li Sanpao is still just a recruit with more than three months of service.

However, unlike other soldiers, Li Sanpao can speak a little English.

Don't doubt that the reason why he knows a little English is all due to his Chinese teacher in high school. Although that Chinese teacher only taught him for a year, he still gave him some English foundation.

It is precisely because of this foundation that Li Sanpao can stand out from many other competitors and successfully join the dispatch team of the Liantai militia, and come to Guadalcanal, thousands of miles away.

Yes, you read that right. Although in the eyes of Roosevelt, Gao Hongming, Yang Aiyuan, and Master Liu, the Americans asked to send this dispatch team to serve as cannon fodder for them. I will be fooled by this.

But Gao Hongming just agreed, and besides the navy, there are even aircraft and armored troops. Not only Gao Hongming is like this, but even the quota of the dispatched team has been looted.

Why does this happen?

The reason is simple, because the U.S. government promised that they would pay the dispatched soldiers who participated in the war according to U.S. standards.

Let's take the U.S. Army as an example. The salary of the most common U.S. Army soldier is $50 a month.

Perhaps many people are not very clear about the purchasing power of US dollars in the 40s. Here I can do a simple conversion.

在40年代，一美元相当于后世2022年的103元软妹纸，50美元相当于5150软妹纸左右.
Maybe someone said again, this is not much, I want Lao Tzu to work for him for more than 5000 yuan, this life is really worthless.

But please keep in mind that this is just the basic salary of a recruit, and there are wartime subsidies and other miscellaneous things. The salary of a soldier is definitely more than one hundred dollars.

This is just the salary of recruits. As for the salaries of first class soldiers, corporals, sergeants, and sergeants, the salaries will even double.

At that time, a relatively cheap car in the United States was about $600, which meant that a recruit could buy a car with one year's salary.

For a colonel like Chi Yaohui, the annual basic salary can reach 4000 U.S. dollars, which is 2022 U.S. dollars in 412000.

In the United States, a set meal with coffee costs about 70 cents, and a hamburger costs only 25 cents.

From this point of view, the salary of a recruit is more than enough to support a family of four. If this price is converted to China, the purchasing power is even higher.

And if the soldiers died in battle, congratulations, your family members can rely on your pension for a lifetime.

The U.S. government stipulates that after a soldier dies in battle, the death benefit alone is worth [-] U.S. dollars.

This is one hundred thousand dollars in the 40s. As for how many burgers and how many set meals can be bought with this money, everyone can figure it out by themselves.

It is worth mentioning that this does not include the compensation and supplementary insurance provided by the insurance company. Not only that, the wives who sacrificed soldiers can receive a monthly subsidy of 950 US dollars, and each child can receive a monthly subsidy of 237 US dollars. until they get married.

This is why when the soldiers of the Liantai militia heard such a high salary, they rushed to sign up for the dispatch team.

As for the danger or something.

Hehe... I am not afraid of being poor, but afraid of death?

Even if you die, it's worth it if you can make your wife and children's parents live a better life.

Li Sanpao ignited the fire in front of him, and the firewood pile filled with gasoline immediately burned blazingly. Watching more than a dozen corpses in the fire slowly burn to ashes in the flames, Li Sanpao's mood was extremely complicated.

Yes, Li Sanpao is now burning the bodies of the brothers who died in battle last night.

Although the dispatch team wiped out Ichiki's detachment in the battle early this morning, he also paid a certain price.

The more than a dozen corpses in this pile of firewood and more than 20 wounded soldiers lying in the medical team are the best proof.

"Brothers, your luck is not very good. You left on the first day, but you don't have to worry, Chief Chi said, he will send a report to Chief Gao personally, and your pension will be sent to you In the hands of your family, it is enough for your family to have enough food and clothing for a lifetime."

Not far from Li Sanpao, a captain was burning paper money for more than a dozen dead soldiers who were sparked. When a gust of sea breeze blew, the paper money that had been burnt to black ash rolled up into the sky, adding to the original serious atmosphere. A little solemn.

"Sanpao." A soldier from the same village nearby stabbed Li Sanpao's arm.

"Ok?"

"Do you think we can go home alive?" The soldier from the same village looked confused. He and Li Sanpao just joined the army more than three months ago. It seems that the battle in the early hours of this morning made him also a little confused. up.

"I do not know."

Li Sanpao paused before saying: "When I came here, the officer told me that if I can't go back, the officer Gao will directly hand over my pension to my father.

My father will use this money to beg for a wife for my elder brother and my younger brother, and the rest of the money can be used to rebuild our house, so I have nothing to regret even if I can't go back. "

Xing Xing, a soldier from the same village, said: "Your old Li's family has three brothers, of course you are not afraid. But my old Xiao's family has only one seedling, if I can't go back, my mother will cry to death."

Li Sanpao rolled his eyes looking at this partner he had played with since he was a child, "I persuaded you not to come with me at the beginning, but you just didn't listen, and it's too late to regret it now.

Before coming here, the officer said that this battle will have to be fought for at least two or three years, and you won't be able to go back so soon, so you can ask for more blessings, kid. "

While the two were talking, the companion next to him poked his arm again, "Hey... San Pao, look, there are some foreign devils over there coming towards us."

(End of this chapter)