please make me king

Chapter 1026 The number of full months is enough
Of course, Zhang Shun, who was anxious about the history of the Ming Dynasty, did not know that he was actually facing exactly the same problem as Li Zicheng back then.

He suddenly became an "upstart" and ate a vast area of ​​Shaanxi in one go.

However, the civil servants under his command are not enough to support the government structure, and the newly recruited officers and soldiers are starving for food and ready to move, and the enemies outside are staring at them.

So Li Zicheng resorted to the following tricks.

[-]. Sending high-ranking generals to control the military; [-]. Putting forward the slogan of "free food for three years", anyway, it will not be paid for a while;
[-]. Rape the gentry and bureaucrats to raise military expenses; [-]. Establish a civil service system as soon as possible and move towards formality.

But judging from the results, Li Zicheng still overestimated his own ability and the level of his opponent.

And Zhang Shun came from a later generation, and he obviously had a much deeper understanding of Shaanxi issues than Li Zicheng.

"What do you think is the crux of the problem?" Zhang Shun vented his temper, and then asked with a normal expression.

"Lack of money?" Zheng Chongjian couldn't help guessing.

"What do you think?" Zhang Shun was noncommittal when he heard the words, but looked at Ding Qirui and said.

Na Ding Qirui has been in Ningxia for a long time, and he has a good understanding of the local situation, so he nodded and said: "Lack of food!"

"What do you think?" Zhang Shun couldn't help turning his head to look at Zhang Bojing and Hong Chengchou.

"Uh" The two of you look at me, I look at you, I don't know how to deal with it.

On the contrary, Wang Shiqin was a general with a hot temper. He rolled up his sleeves and stood up and said, "Okay, don't ask others, let me say this!"

"The key lies in Yulin Town, right?"

"How many of you!" Zhang Shun shook his head and smiled, "Public opinion, private opinion, how to be coy, you are not as straightforward as my father-in-law!"

"That's right, this is Yulin!" Zhang Shun nodded and said.

Isn't this nonsense?

Now the generals from Yulin are almost all over the three sides and four towns. Almost controlling the generals from Yulin is controlling Shaanxi. Does anyone here know that?
"Come on, I'm only one hundred and eighty catties. If you want to kill or cut it up, it's up to you!" Wang Shiqin said with a stiff neck.

"Taishan, what are you doing?" Zhang Shun couldn't help being stunned when he heard the words, "Why do you want to kill and cut at every turn?"

"What did you mean just now, don't you want to cross the river and tear down the bridge, unload the mill and kill the donkey?" Wang Shiqin couldn't help sneering.

Hong Chengchou, Zhang Bojing, Ding Qirui, Zheng Chongjian and others broke out in a cold sweat when they heard the words.

"Hahaha!" Zhang Shun couldn't help laughing when he heard the words.

That's right, that's what I intend to do, but I can't say it straight!
He patted the old Taishan Wang Shiqin and said: "Fame can only be obtained from the horse, why don't men be named marquises!"

"All the men in Yulin are good-looking, and they have the qualifications of veteran warriors. But why do you want to lie on the credit book and eat my Qin King's salary after you have made great achievements in Daming?"

Wang Shiqin couldn't help being taken aback when he heard the words, and immediately showed shame.

It turns out that this Yulin boy has always been proud of the "Loyalty and Chivalry Festival", and he pays attention to fame and fortune but takes it from the horse.

Although in private there are unavoidable ancestral shelters, empty pay, and land occupation, etc., but they are not elegant and despised by others.

Therefore, Zhang Shun asked him the most important question.

The generals in Yulin surrendered me, were they trying to blackmail me with their strength, or were they planning to follow me to make contributions and gain fame for themselves.

In fact, due to the narrowness and poverty of the people in northern Shaanxi, and its proximity to the frontier, there is no tendency towards warlords in this area, regardless of its geographical environment or folk customs.

So Wang Shiqin felt ashamed after hearing Zhang Shunzhi's words.

However, he is also a bold person.

Now that he felt that he had misunderstood Zhang Shun, he couldn't help laughing and said: "In terms of meritorious deeds, as long as the King of Qin is upright and upright, we are no worse than anyone else in the world. I just don't know what King Qin's plan is, so as not to be suspicious?"

"First of all, I don't care what happened to you under the rule of Ming Dynasty!" Zhang Shun laughed after hearing this. "I can't use my King Qin's sword to kill the officials of the Ming Dynasty!"

"However, firstly, I need to check the number of troops, horses, armaments, etc., and secondly, I need to check the income of the land and acres of taxes. Is it okay to count the rations and receive rewards for meritorious service?"

"How much is the salary?" Wang Shiqin was quite old, and of course he would not be deceived by Zhang Shun's white teeth, so he asked the key point with his mouth open.

"Our army is not as rich as the officers and soldiers. Each person is paid a stone of rice and wheat every month, and is paid out for a full month!"

"If there is a day of meritorious service, capture or festival, there will be other rewards!"

Originally, Wang Shiqin almost laughed when he heard that Zhang Shun offered a monthly rate of "one stone of rice and wheat".

As a result, when I heard "full-term payment", I was stunned again.

"How many full months?"

"Full term!"

"Okay! If that's the case, the wealth and lives of tens of thousands of people in Yulin will be sold to King Shun!" Wang Shiqin said after a long silence.

It turns out that Yulin town has not had any rain in the whole of northern Shaanxi for eight years. It cannot be said that there is no harvest, and it has long been a situation of "cannibalism" everywhere.

Otherwise, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and others insisted on raising their heads to rebel when they were full?

Daming paid a very high salary, about two or two per month, and three cents and three cents of the ration silver, but God only knows how much he actually got.

Although Wang Shiqin has already left his post, as far as he knows, Yansui Town has been in arrears with the military for more than a year, and many soldiers have to sell their children and daughters to beg for a living.

No matter how much money there is, it's useless if you can't get it.

No matter how much money you have in your hands, it is useless if you can't exchange it for food.

People are about to starve to death, and it doesn't work to make any sense, but one ration is enough to make it work!

In fact, the military pay standard set by Zhu Yuanzhang in the early Ming Dynasty was one stone per month for ordinary officers and two stones for cavalry.

It was only with the changes in the economy and the corruption of the system that the military pay of the Ming Dynasty was set higher and higher, while the soldiers became poorer and poorer.

In fact, the principle is very simple. What Nine Sides lacks is materials, not silver.

Aside from layer upon layer of exploitation, no matter how much the court pays, if there is not enough food, cloth and other daily necessities, it will only cause prices to skyrocket and the soldiers will be miserable.

And the fact is exactly the same, in fact, in Yulin City now, even if the Ming court pays all the military salaries, two silver coins can't buy enough grain for a stone.

Therefore, to be able to get a monthly salary of one stone of rice and wheat, for Yulin, it is completely worth accepting Zhang Shun's harsh conditions.

"Okay!" Seeing that Wang Shiqin agreed, Zhang Shun couldn't help laughing.

"Tomorrow we will mobilize [-] shi of grain, escorted by Wei Zhiyou with [-] men and horses, and Ding Qirui will mobilize [-] young men to transport it to Yulin for me."

"This, this." As soon as Zhang Shun finished speaking, everyone couldn't help but look at each other.

And Lu Weiqi almost wanted to cry without tears, and he managed to collect [-] shi of grain, and you used up half of it for me with just one mouth.

After Wang Shiqin was stunned for a moment, he couldn't help but fell to the ground suddenly, and said in tears, "King Shun is benevolent and righteous, on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of people in Yulin, I thank King Shun for his life!"

(End of this chapter)