Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 17 Mutiny
The sky is full of red clouds, and the evening breeze is gentle.

Zhu Yihai was summoning Wu Kai to discuss the handover of the Haimen Guard City Defense to the Yongwei First Battalion, when he suddenly heard loud noises outside the general's mansion.

"What's the noise?"

Wang Chuang reported loudly outside, "Back to His Highness Jian Guo, I don't know who leaked the news that His Highness Jian Guo came here, and there are also thieves who deliberately spread rumors to create confusion, and instigated many Haimen guards and Xieying soldiers to come and ask for rewards Please rest assured, Your Highness, the Yongwei Battalion has already guarded the general's mansion, and they can't make a fuss."

Hearing this, Zhu Yihai was silent for a while, not panicking.

There are only 120 capable soldiers in the entire Haimen Association Battalion. Although the Haimen Guards should have [-] soldiers, how many real soldiers are there?

It is estimated that Mr. Zhao Qian was dissatisfied after he was kicked out just now, and wanted to make a noise, and even wanted to arrest him, Zhu Yihai, so that he could claim credit.

Wu Kai also obviously thought about it, with an uneasy look on his face, he knelt down to apologize to Zhu Yihai, "It's the last general who is incapable of discipline, please allow me to go out and deal with these bastards, Your Highness."

Zhu Yihai just smiled, "What is supposed to come will always come. I wanted to say that I will clean up these bad things later, but since there is trouble, let's clean it up first. You can rest assured and wait here. Wang Guerzilla is a brave man." A mighty general of the guard, Lord Yasukuni's adopted son, not to mention three hundred Franc gunners alone."

Zhu Yihai poured Wu Kai a cup of tea and pushed it over.

Wu Kai was sweating profusely, he had just received a reward from General Kaiyuan and General Huangyan, but this happened to his subordinates.

After drinking a cup of tea, the commotion over there has basically subsided.

Wang Chuang came in with a heavily tied officer, but it was Wu Kai's brother-in-law Zhao Qianzong.

"Zhao Jin, you are so courageous!" Wu Kai angrily stepped forward and whipped him a few big ears.

Zhao Jin had several teeth knocked out, knowing that there was no way out, but he just spat at him, "Bah, Wu Kai, you've got your heart covered with lard, and you insist on dying, but you don't care about your brothers Future? Who doesn't have a family, who doesn't have parents, wives and children?"

As he said that, he even yelled at Zhu Yihai, "Do you think it is still the former Ming Dynasty? Do you think that with your title of king of Lu, you can really be the supervisor or even the emperor? Just dreaming, this Ming Dynasty is rotten to the root. There is no way to save it. It's time to change the court and change the surname!"

Zhu Yihai just looked at him coldly, "People have their own aspirations, you can't force it, you wanted to vote for the Tartars earlier, but I let you go for General Wu's sake. Suicide."

Wu Kai gritted his teeth, "This kind of thief is unreasonable, please Your Highness Xu Zuichen cut this thief with his own hands!"

Zhu Yihai asked Wang Chuang, "How many people followed this Zhao?"

"There are more than a dozen people in the lead, and there are 200 people who are following the mess, and many people who don't know the situation are also coming here, but don't worry, Your Highness, we have completely controlled the gates of Haimen Weicheng and the general's mansion. We have also taken control of the association camp at the Town God's Temple."

Zhu Yihai was bored by this.

The bold Mr. Zhao Qian is just a fool.

"Cut off the thieves who are determined to surrender. As for the dozen or so guys, let them go, fire them from the army, and let them go."

"Your Highness?" Wang Chuangzi was surprised.

"Just punish the culprit, and forget about the rest." Zhu Yihai didn't want to mess with these idiots.

"However, since they are causing trouble in the name of asking for salary, it means that there is such a thing. General Wu, what is the salary owed by the Haimen Association and Haimen Guard?"

Wu Kai lowered his head and said, "It's very serious."

How serious is the situation, that is, the Shanghai guards have monthly rations for the army, and the Taizhou generals and soldiers have military salaries, but in fact, the arrears are serious.

Since the establishment of Haimenwei, it has also opened military settlements, but in fact the military settlements are not enough for the monthly grain supply. Haimenwei’s rated monthly grain is about 590 six stones, but the farmland of the guards only accounts for [-]% of the monthly grain supply. , and the remaining [-]% needs to be supplied by Linhai, Huangyan, Tiantai and other counties in Taizhou Prefecture.

Later, the guards were reformed, and the monthly rations of the guards were no longer distributed by the Weicang, but were managed and distributed by the Taizhou government.

Theoretically, for the Ming Dynasty Guards, the monthly ration of cavalry is two shi, the monthly ration of ordinary sergeants is one shi, the family members are given two catties of salt, and the homeless are given one catty of salt. catty.

In addition, for military operations such as combat, equipment, border trimming, and autumn prevention, additional rations will be provided, and the payment will be calculated according to the itinerary.

Roughly, a guard is equivalent to four or five dollars a month in silver.

However, this is only theoretical. In fact, the guard system collapsed. Not only were most of the military fields of the guards occupied by officers, but the burden on local states and counties became heavier and heavier, and their finances collapsed. , so I can only keep paying IOUs.

The 3000 men and horses in the Taizhou General Association Battalion are the battalions recruited after the collapse of the Weisuo.

At the beginning, soldiers were recruited from the military households of the guard, and they were given two taels of silver and two bolts of cloth as rewards. Later, those who voluntarily were given five taels of silver as settlement expenses, and their families were exempted from five shi of tax and grain. The two family members will be exempted from corvee labor.

Later, if there were not enough volunteers, they were recruited again, and one soldier was given three taels of silver, and one additional member of the family was exempted from corvee.

All voluntary and recruited soldiers are not given monthly rations and travel rations, but only four buckets of rations per person per month.

Later, Anjiayin continued to decline, down to about three taels, but the ration was increased, and the standard was one stone per meter.

Later, when wars became more frequent, the standards for recruiting troops were raised. Each recruit was given three taels of Anjia silver and two taels of grain and silver.

At the time of the apocalypse, the monthly military salary of the Liao army was about two taels, while the frontier troops from Guizhou, Sichuan and other places entered Liaodong to fight, and the monthly military salary standard was close to three taels.

Back then, Qi Jiguang's Qi family army had a daily military salary of 18% of the ration and [-]% of the travel ration. The annual military salary standard was about [-] taels of silver.

On the surface, the remuneration is still quite high, but in fact it is greatly discounted.

The guards of the Haimen Guards hadn't received their monthly rations for a long time. Even the battalions of the Taizhou Association Camp, only those 120 people could get their salaries, and the rest could only fend for themselves.

Even if they went to make a living by themselves, they had to pay General Wu Kai a sum of money every month, which was equivalent to paying the money so that they would not have to stay in the barracks and instead earn money to support their families.

Zhu Yihai knew that the finances collapsed at the end of the Ming Dynasty, but the Central Plains and outside the customs continued to fight, so the imperial court finally had to levy three additional salaries in addition to the regular tax, more than 700 million Liao salaries, more than 200 million suppression salaries, and more than 700 percent training salaries. The huge three-payment levy has brought countless suffering people, but it is still unable to meet the needs of military expenses.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the normal annual income of the imperial court was more than 12 million taels, but in the [-]th year of Chongzhen, the additional payment was as high as more than [-] million taels. Corrupt officials also took the opportunity to increase corruption.

East Zhejiang was originally a prosperous place, and Haimen was very prosperous because of its port and wharf, where merchants gathered, but it was still affected by these, the most direct one was that the Haimen guards could not receive their monthly rations, and the Taizhou Association was seriously owed wages.

Today, some people use unpaid wages to make troubles, which has a strong mass base, and it will be ignited at the slightest touch, like dry wood meeting a raging fire.

Zhao Qian can always be killed, but since the matter of lack of payment and food has been provoked, it is not so easy to calm down.

Zhu Yihai stood up.

"Go outside and meet everyone, and discuss how to solve this problem."

"Your Highness, the crowd is raging outside, you must not go out."

"I'm already in charge of the country, don't you dare to see your own people and soldiers?"

Zhu Yihai waved his hands and strode out.

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(End of this chapter)