Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 515 Auxiliary Soldiers
To put it more broadly, that is to build a new interest group that can be united as one.The interest groups of the warlords are officers and soldiers like them.

If you understand these things, you will understand that whether it is Tianqi or Chongzhen, no matter how powerful they are, if they don't jump out of the old thinking mode and still roll in this circle, there will never be any change. No matter how many Chongzhen kills It's useless to supervise the army, because he will use those people next.

He is always a person who faces a whole class alone.

But Zhu Yihai set up a separate stove, pulling a group of people to face those people. With his military victory, his reforms became more and more smooth. Every time he actually occupied and controlled a place, he could carry out a comprehensive reform of that place. Bring in more supporters.

"My lord, the Shenwu Town Biao Battalion is in place."

"According to the old rules, let the standard battalion be responsible for maintaining order, start with the auxiliary battalion to pay the wages, and call the first battalion of Shenwufu to come over." Zhao Gui ordered.

Yan Keying, the commander-in-chief of Shenwu Town, brought the standard battalion together with a group of officers including the deputy general and director.

Payroll is an important day, which can greatly boost morale, so everyone attaches great importance to it.

Every pay day is even a demonstration of parade, and the ministries receiving the pay have to enter the arena with the attitude of being inspected, and they have to show their spirit.

There are 180 people in the First Auxiliary Battalion. Although they are auxiliary soldiers, they stepped into the arena with their heads held high and their chests held high.

Dressed in uniform red uniforms, each with a hat, some carrying a spear, some with a short knife.

After a brief queue display, the sentry team came forward to receive the reward.

A long row of tables was placed in the school grounds, and a group of civil servants of the general army and financial affairs sat there, with ledgers and money next to them.

They are named according to the roster, and someone is responsible for verifying the identity card and appearance.

"The husband of the auxiliary battalion commander pays one qian a day, and now pays six months, a total of 30 days, and three taels of salary. When he is away from the army, he will be paid two cents a day and six qian a month.

As usual, half of the money will be issued first this month, and the remaining half will be released later.

In addition, six buckets of rations per month will be temporarily recorded in the account, and will be reissued after the teacher returns to camp. "

Yuan Yong routinely declared loudly.

The husband pays one cent a day, plus two cents for travel food.In the auxiliary battalion, the chief is one yuan and two yuan a day, the post chief is one yuan and five yuan a day, the auxiliary battalion officer is three yuan a day, and the food allowance is also two cents a day.

This month, each auxiliary soldier is paid one tael or eight silver dollars, but the emperor specially rewarded everyone for their hard work, and rewarded them with two taels of silver in cash.

So in fact, the ordinary elders of the two auxiliary camps can receive two dragon pattern silver dollars this time, and another one or two eight silver dollars plus six buckets of grain will be deposited in the account.

The long husbands lined up, but they were very calm.

It's not the first time for them to get paid, they get paid once a month, and even in the previous Qingming Festival and Dragon Boat Festival, they also received part of the owed salary.

Handing the two silver dollars in front of him, Zhao Xiaolou smiled and signed first, and then took the silver dollar. It had side teeth, one side was embossed with a dragon pattern, and the other side was the words Shaotian silver dollar.

He held it heavily in his hand, "Thank you!"

"Thank you Long Live!"

One after another, the auxiliary soldiers lined up to receive the money, and everyone was very satisfied.

At least there are two silver dollars, and their camp head is nine yuan plus six qian for food, two qian rewards, nine eight, and actually got five three, five dragon yuan plus three large copper dollars.

The soldiers who had received their salaries thanked loudly and returned to their own ranks. Soon the first battalion finished receiving their salaries, and then they withdrew in an orderly manner, while the second battalion entered in order.

The commanders of the First Auxiliary Battalion who left couldn't wait to go to the service agency.

This is also affiliated to the Shenwu Town Logistics Office, which provides many services for soldiers, such as writing and sending letters, depositing and sending money, and even selling some daily necessities.

The elders who received the payment basically choose to send the money home immediately, and some orphans also choose to save the money, at least they will exchange it for a more portable exchange voucher, which is easy to carry and save. pin.

Saving money has interest, and sending money requires postage.

Zhao Xiaolou lined up and still planned to send the two silver dollars back to his hometown in Yanzhou. His hometown was full of mountains, but he was actually quite poor. In the past, his family relied on burning charcoal for maintenance and rented a little land. It was very difficult. He joined the army. After that, although he was not selected as a soldier, the husband camp who was able to enter the imperial camp was also very satisfied.

At the age of 20, he can now get two silver dollars every month. The two dollars can be sent back to his hometown and he can buy two acres of wasteland in the mountains. Own land.

Or save a little, two silver dollars can solve a lot of expenses for a family, and even provide for nephews to study.

If he saves two yuan a month, he can save 24 yuan a year. He still has half salary and monthly rations. If he doesn’t spend money randomly and saves all of it, he can get some rewards plus food subsidies, etc., and can save 40 yuan a year.

He can sell [-] acres of wasteland in the mountains, which is even enough for their family to build a few new wooden houses, or buy [-] acres of land to build three houses and then marry a wife. In [-], when he was promoted to a first-class soldier, he could even wait in line for a daughter-in-law without having to pay for it himself.

Holding two dragon-patterned silver dollars in his hand, water was about to flow out of his hands.

There are a lot of good things in the service agency, such as silk, cotton cloth, and even tobacco, water wine, dried meat, betel nuts and other retail items, and you can even spend money to buy some armor such as damaged leather helmets.

If you are willing, you can sit down at the counter, order a bowl of wine and make a plate of broad beans, or have a good time with fried fish.

But in the end Zhao Xiaolou was not willing to give up. There are many people in the family and life is still poor.

Although the auxiliary soldiers and civilians are not more dangerous than the Zhanbingying, they are also earned by serving as soldiers to fight in foreign lands. When he was on a boat crossing the blue waves, he even got seasick and vomited so confused that he almost thought that he would die in the waves of the sea.

"Send the money to Zhao Da'an, Zhaojia Village, Yongping Town, Chun'an County, Yanzhou Prefecture." Finally it was his turn, and he reluctantly put the two silver dollars that he had just received on the counter.

"Have you sent them all? Don't you want to save anything? You can send one yuan, or one yuan, five or six yuan. How much money can you save? We have got a lot of good things here, including Xin'anjiang cigarettes from Ningbo Cigarette Factory, and Zhoushan Factory. Xin’an River is the river from your hometown in Yanzhou Prefecture, so if you don’t buy two packs, the taste is pretty good.” The teller behind the counter introduced with a smile.

Zhao Xiaolou was a little moved. He had smoked the cigarettes handed over by other elders in the camp. He thought it was very strong at the beginning, but after the aftertaste, he thought it was quite good, especially when he was on duty at night or after a tiring transportation. , very pleasant indeed.

But cigarettes don't come cheap.

It is said that this kind of tobacco from Luzon named Tamba is processed into shredded tobacco, and after being made into cigarettes, there are ten boxes in a box, and a box of fifty sticks. , some ordinary ones are sold at twenty Wen a box.

Smoking an ordinary one is like eating a steamed bun.

"Try it." The counter directly drew a Xin'an Jiang and handed it to Zhao Xiaolou, and lit the fire for him.

Tobacco was once explicitly banned in Chongzhen, and it was not allowed to grow, sell or buy.

Tobacco began to be introduced to Daming from Luzon during the Jiajing period. At first, it was introduced as a medicinal herb. Later, in some places, both men, women and children smoked it, so that the imperial court regarded it as a demon herb and issued a strict ban.

When the Manchu Qing Dynasty was outside the customs, smoking had already begun. Huang Taiji had decreed that no planting or eating or selling was allowed. If they were caught, they would be treated as thieves and robbers. A fine of nine taels of silver will also be given to those who are captured.

For tobacco trafficking, anyone who violates the prohibition will be chopped up first and then heard, and those who are less than one catty will be imprisoned in Yizhou and sentenced to a serious crime.

But tobacco spread rapidly in the late Ming Dynasty, and after all, it was still very profitable. Even the herdsmen on the Mongolian grasslands were conquered by tobacco, and they would rather exchange a horse for a catty of shredded tobacco.

Those shredded tobacco workshops are extremely profitable.

It's not just selling tobacco leaves and shredded tobacco from Luzon and other places for processing, but tobacco has also been grown in many places in Daming.

Zhu Yihai tried the smoke at this time, and felt that it had a strong taste, not much different from the raw tobacco grown by his grandfather when he was a child. For old smokers, this stuff is indeed still very familiar with the taste.

A minister proposed to Zhu Yihai to ban smoking, but Zhu Yihai, after researching and understanding, believed that tobacco trafficking was very serious at this time, and there were even many people who smoked it, so a simple ban would not be effective.

So in the end, Zhu Yihai decreed that tobacco planting and sales should be sold exclusively. Just like salt, special authorization was required to grow tobacco, and the tobacco leaves produced could only be sold to imperial officials.

The imperial court monopolized the cultivation, processing and sale of tobacco, imposed heavy taxes on tobacco, and prohibited women and children from smoking.

Blocking is worse than dredging. If you can't stop it, then unblock it.

Monopoly control, heavy taxation, and monopoly will all have some effects on smoking bans, and they can also obtain a lot of profits and taxes, which are used to improve finances.

Compared with a simple ban, it is much stronger to push the entire industry into smuggling.

Because of this, cigarettes are also sold in military service agencies now, and there are many varieties, including high, medium and low prices. This stuff has high taxes and high profits. Like to sell.

Zhao Xiaolou didn't refuse, so he took it, took a sip and found that it was really good.

"How many boxes?"

"The quantity of this special edition is limited, [-] cents per box. It's newly arrived, and it happens to be in stock. If you like to buy more boxes, I don't know when it will be replenished next time."

Compared to other items that cost [-], [-], [-], or even hundreds of coins a box, these [-] pieces cost [-] yuan a box, and [-] pieces cost [-] Wen, which is really not expensive. Although these [-] pieces refer to Shaotian Tongbao, not those Bad old money.

"Then I'll take three packs." Zhao Xiaolou hesitated for a long time, and finally decided to buy three packs first. He liked this cigarette quite a bit, it wasn't too strong, and there was a Xin'an River drawn on the cigarette pack made of bamboo tube, which is Jiang, his hometown, looked as if he had returned to his hometown.

"Well, fifty Wen, I'll give you a box."

Zhao Xiaolou thanked him with a smile. In the end, he bought four packs of cigarettes for [-] cents, and almost used up all the change on his body, but in the end he still sent all the two silver dollars that had just been issued back to his hometown. With four boxes of Xin'anjiang in his arms and half of a burning cigarette dangling from his mouth, he smiled brightly and contentedly.

　Thank you Huanghan Xuanlongqi for your reward, thank you!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)