Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 516

Yan Keying sat there, watching battalions of people coming, queuing up, roll call, receiving pay, watching the boxes and bundles of silver dollars unpacked and sent out, feeling a little pained in his heart.

He is not someone who has never seen money. After all, he has been in the southeast sea for many years and has also commanded a fleet. Local trade can also earn a lot.

But to be honest, a long husband can have more than three taels of silver plus six buckets of grain in a month, which is a bit too rich.He has many brothers under his command, from all corners of the country, including red-haired fans, black ghosts, and small Japanese, etc., but he has never been treated so generously.

Not to mention that the battle barracks are more generous.

A high-ranking soldier is still a soldier, and he can get five taels a month.

The battalion officer of a military battalion paid 50 taels a month, and gave the minister an additional 150 taels of silver, and ten famous grains, which was dozens of taels.

This kind of treatment, this money is scattered.

"Mr. Yan, it's your turn!"

Yan Keying, as the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Battalion, commanded a town with [-] soldiers in [-] battalions, and nearly [-] auxiliary soldiers.

The imperial camp also receives a share here.

Zhu Yihai personally set the rule that the battalion officer pays 50 taels a month, which is the basic salary, the standard standard, that is, the basic monthly salary for two battalions of 1000 guerrillas is 100 taels, and the standard salary is 200 taels for the two standard assistant generals. , is [-] taels.

And the commander-in-chief of the imperial battalion who commands a town has a basic salary of 500 taels a month.

In addition, he can also receive sixty famous grains, 300 taels.

Not counting the envoys and silver.

Only the basic salary plus food is 800 taels a month.

Under the reward, there must be a brave man!

Zhu Yihai has never been stingy with the soldiers, and even many officials have repeatedly told the emperor that the officers and soldiers are treated too well, but Zhu Yihai is unmoved. The brothers are fighting for the country with their heads up, and a soldier is four or five taels of silver a month. how?
The reason why battalion officers and soldiers have a lot of money is because they are chief officers. They not only have to take the lead, but also make decisions for the entire army. If these generals are paid too low, they will inevitably embezzle, embezzle, or even plunder.

Zhu Yihai would rather spend his money on the bright side.

Are you still afraid that the officers and soldiers will lead the army to get rich?
As an earl and the father of the emperor's concubine, Yan Boying, the 800 taels of silver are nothing to him, but after a year, it is still 600 taels, not to mention the envoy's silver, salary, salary, etc. .

How many soldiers are there in the imperial camp alone?

Yan Keying came back to his senses, and went up to sign to collect his own share. The 800 silver dollars were almost a small bag, and weighed dozens of catties. The Chinese Army Guerrilla helped him carry it.

"Tomorrow, go buy some pigs, sheep, wine and vegetables to share with the brothers in the standard camp!"

Zhao Gui carefully presided over the work of distributing the wages. It was not until the battalions were all paid out that they were finally distributed to all places, and the finance department of the general logistics was the last to distribute them.

Zhao Gui was the last to receive the money.

He asked Mr. Zhang from the General Logistics Department to send it to him.

He is now paid 50 taels of silver a month, plus 100 taels of silver to support Lianyin. This treatment is very generous, and it was specially set by the emperor for the chief officers of logistics and finance in the army.

The monthly salary is based on the standard of the battalion officer, and the money for supporting the honesty is based on the standard of the county magistrate of Zhongxian County.

150 silver dollars, and another 150 silver dollars for the envoy.

Theoretically, the envoy's silver is office expenses, even including the expenses of hired book servants, etc. If there is any surplus, it is also his.

But Zhao Gui didn't receive the money, but transferred him directly to the financial account of the General Logistics Department. In the past, if there was a surplus, he would keep it in the account and would not use a cent of the money privately.

150 silver dollars is already a very generous amount of money for him.

Compared with him, his cousin Zhao Fu is not treated so well. Zhao Fu only gets nine taels of silver a month, plus one tael for subsidy, and there is no extra money for maintenance and envoys, which is not enough, so he only pays ten taels of silver. January.

But the food, lodging, and clothing expenses are all covered by the military, and there is no additional expense, which is 120 taels a year.

Zhao Gui received his 150 yuan half-rate, which is 75 yuan, and sent 50 yuan back to his family directly, and kept 25 yuan for himself, which was used for some usual expenses, and even helped him sometimes after sending the money back. Soldiers with no money are urgently needed.

He will now spend some money every month to help the refugees outside Dengzhou City.

The tea shop at home has already opened, because Zhao Gui and his brothers sent money back, and now his in-laws are in charge of running it, but they are still doing well, receiving a lot of tea processing and earning a pot of gold.

Now it is starting to renovate and expand the tea house, and bought a few new tea mountains, and plans to make it bigger and stronger next year. For example, Zhao Gui sent back a lot of money, and the family even bought a nice country yard with a paddy field for renovation. You can live comfortably, and you don't have to worry about water leakage in the thatched house.

Zhao Gui's children have also started to study. Because of his salary and salary, the family is doing well now. His wife even wrote to say that she plans to buy a mulberry garden, get some looms, and recruit some women to raise silk weave.

Zhao Gui appreciates his wife's vision and supports her in doing it.

He also needs to buy some grain fields, but he believes that the south of the Yangtze River will be very stable in the future, and the emperor has the determination to open up the sea for business, so the development of tea and silk weaving in the future will definitely have better long-term benefits.

After paying the salary, each battalion will take turns to take a day off as usual.

Let everyone relax a little bit.

For the Shenwu Battalion in Dengzhou in Liuzhen, it was actually relatively easy for them. It was safe and lively, there was no shortage of various supplies, and there was no danger.

Yan Keying, the chief soldier, also called the battalion and above officers of Shenwu Town to have a dinner to celebrate that day. He spent money as a host, bought some seafood, and also bought pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks, and set up a few rich tables.

Ever since she followed Zheng Zhilong to the north and was appreciated by the emperor, she took her daughter as a concubine, made her an earl, and was promoted to the commander-in-chief of the imperial camp. Yan Keying's status has indeed improved a lot.

But in terms of real power, it's not as big as he imagined.

He is said to be in command of more than 1 soldiers in the whole town, but the military command office, supervision office, staff office, logistics office, and equipment office are all in charge of a large amount of direct business. A group of deputies transferred from above, such as the eunuch of the supervising army and the deputy chief soldier.

Even the battalion officers below, few of them are his old brothers from Fujian.

He was not satisfied at first, but now he is getting used to it. This is how the imperial camp is like. People from all over the world, even people from different backgrounds. .

In a town of Shenwu, there were several soldiers who followed the emperor, and more than a dozen had served as soldiers for the emperor. Therefore, although he was the commander-in-chief of the entire army, he commanded a fleet with him when he was in Fujian. , which is equivalent to the situation of one of the princes in Zheng's group is completely different.

Basically, he can't directly intervene in the food, equipment, and personnel and supervision. He even has special personnel in charge of training and commanding the troops.

It is said that he is in charge of the overall situation, but in fact it will be discovered that he, the general soldier, is actually tightly restrained.

At first Yan Keying thought it was the emperor's purpose to target him, but later he found out that the imperial camp had such a structure, so he calmed down, which was good.

Shenwu Town went from [-] to [-] to [-]. Now that the army is strong, he can often go to Laizhou to meet the emperor.

He basically has no burden now. He patrols the camp every day, holds meetings with officers, and has a special person in charge of specific affairs. The most important thing is that he doesn't have to worry about the issue of military pay and food. The money and food are basically no more than his hands. The court has always been very good. For food and salaries.

Training and garrisoning are also managed by the Military Command Office and the Staff Office. Military discipline is also managed by people from the Supervision Office, and other things such as patrols, spying on intelligence, counter-inference, etc. are all managed by people.

Specifically, when it comes to the co-standard battalion below, the chief officials at all levels are responsible for the overall supervision.

To be honest, now he even feels that he is dispensable, and he usually just signs there to read reports and so on, and he doesn't fight wars, so it's very relaxed.

While stationing in Dengzhou, each battalion took turns to pull out actual combat drills, went to the mountains to suppress bandits, and went to the countryside to organize and train the village regiment. Everyone was very busy, but he was free.

Most of the time now he is free to go to the teaching camp in Shenwu Town to attend lectures, and listen to the officers analyzing tactics, such as drawing maps, infantry coordination, infantry coordination, musket hollow battle formations, etc. Don't say, these lessons It was also very inspiring to listen to.

They are all talents.

The outstanding commanders of the entire army take turns to receive training and instruction, so that these frontline non-commissioned officers who can fight the most can also have stronger commanding capabilities, and reserve them as low-level officers.

This kind of thinking is very good. Anyway, the Zheng family did not use this method in the past. The Zheng family usually recruited some good seedlings to be servants, then generals, and then sent down to the bottom to become small bosses and gradually become captains.From the small captain to the medium captain, finally to the big captain, and then to the fleet commander, they are promoted level by level.

Basically, they all come from the servant team. There are their own children, and there are also good seedlings in the team. They all have to be brought by their side first. , and will also accept these good seedling servants as foster sons and the like.

But here in the imperial camp is another training system. There are teaching teams in each battalion, and there are teaching camps in the military town. The emperor of the imperial camp also has a training camp for non-commissioned officers, an officer corps, and a lecture hall. Low, middle and high levels of officer training.

And after each training, most of them will be adjusted by him.

The training in the military town is to transfer from one battalion to another, and to coordinate with that association, while training at the headquarters of the imperial camp is to transfer between military towns. This kind of mobility undoubtedly increases the emperor's control.

In particular, some excellent young non-commissioned officers are often transferred to the emperor's imperial court to serve as bodyguards after training, and then they will be promoted and appointed in March and half a year.

The imperial camp is full of servants of the emperor and disciples of the emperor, and the officers of the imperial camp are also extremely loyal to the emperor. Now even some of the old brothers he brought from Fujian are very loyal to the emperor now.

When facing her confidant, Yan Keying also had to sigh, "When it comes to the ability to make money, the Zheng family is no worse than today's, but when it comes to the ability to use money, although today's money is spent fiercely , but it is really used on the edge of the knife. Look at every time the salary is paid, does everyone keep shouting thank you for long live?
Do you think that after each payment, the soldiers became more loyal to the emperor? "

The family general sighed, "Today's favor for soldiers is indeed something that the Zhu family in the Ming Dynasty did not have for more than 200 years. This kind of courage is unmatched."

Yan Keying shook his head, "The most important thing is that you can see that Wansui sprinkles money like this, and it can continue. This is the real skill. A battalion officer can not only pay 50 taels of silver a month, but also 150 taels of envoy silver, and the standard is 250 taels." Two, 350 taels for the Xietong, 500 taels for the envoys who guard the general army for a month, and rations for officers at all levels,

From big soldiers to officers at all levels, such a generous salary can still be implemented, there is no shortage of salary or food, and even rewards for meritorious service. Don't you think such an army is terrible? "

The general nodded, "There are many people in the husband's camp who want to squeeze their heads in. The elders in the husband's camp all day long dream of entering the camp to kill the enemy and make meritorious deeds. Their biggest dream is to become a battalion officer. A year's salary and food, plus envoy's silver, are all less than 3000 taels, and you can get rich when you become a battalion officer!"

"If you die in battle, you will get 50 taels of silver, if you are injured in the first class, you will get 15 taels of silver, if you are injured, you will get 30 taels of silver, if you are injured, you will get [-] taels of silver, if you are injured, you will get [-] taels of silver, and if you are disabled, you will get [-] taels of silver. If you do this, who is afraid of death!"

"It's terrible for the imperial camp to do this. No matter whether they are officials or soldiers, they are not afraid of death, and they are willing to obey military orders. They even look forward to fighting and begging to fight. Who in the world can defeat this kind of army?"

The general nodded, "The treatment of the Tartars is no more than that, but how many people are there? How many times can they fight? If the fight continues like this, I dare say the Tartars won't last for a few years."

After all, Yan Keying had been on the coast of Fujian before. He was a pirate and was not an insider in the system. "Why did no one think of using this method when there were so many emperors in the Ming Dynasty for more than 280 years?"

The general smiled, "Sir, I think there must be smart people, and there are many, but because there are too many smart people, they always have their own thoughts and schemes, just like this world. The gentry are not even willing to pay commercial taxes, so you think they will be willing to levy taxes and give a lot of money to these Qiu Bawufu?"

"Opening sea trade is of great benefit to the imperial court, but what do those gentry and bureaucrats do? They firmly oppose the sea ban, but privately they are more active than anyone else in smuggling and trading at sea. These fucking guys make money without paying taxes. , let them take all the good things,

So, it's not that there are no smart people in the court, but that there are too many smart people, and they all only calculate their own interests. "

Yan Keying slapped his thigh, "You summed it up well, it's really like this bird, damn it, after saying this, I feel more and more courageous as the emperor's son-in-law, this is an emperor through the ages!"

"Don't say anything. From now on, let's serve His Majesty well. In the future, we may be able to leave a name in history, and become the eternal prince who will rebuild the Ming Dynasty!"

　Thanks to Daiming Zhongliang Li Laiheng and En-Hai Youlan for their rewards.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)