At the end of Ming Dynasty: I, Sun Kewang!Desperate comeback!

Chapter 62 Pensions

"Soldiers, you are loyal to me, Sun Kewang. Although I, Sun Kewang, has been rewarded, I still feel that I am a little unkind to the soldiers." Sun Kewang glanced at the front army and shouted loudly.

"The lord's kindness is not insignificant!" The soldiers of the front army called out.

"The Lord's kindness is not small." One word is passed down to ten, ten to a hundred, and a hundred to thousands.

For a moment, all the soldiers in front of the car shouted.

Seeing this, Sun Kewang was quite satisfied, and then he said in a deep voice: "Soldiers, you have risked your life for my Sun Kewang, and you will take the rewards in your hands as a matter of course!"

"But it is gratifying that we have conquered a province, but do you think we, Sun Kewang, should forget the eight brothers who died in our front army? If you loyal soldiers die for our sun Kewang in the future, Shouldn’t I, the king of the country, forget you?”

"Don't forget!"

"Don't forget!"

"Don't forget!"

The emotions of all the soldiers in the Qianqian Army were ignited. In this era, being a soldier is already a high priority if you can eat food. If you can still get paid, your morale and combat effectiveness will increase.

After his death, no one cares about him in Daming, and his family can only drift with the tide in this chaotic world.

Only under the hands of the Qing Dynasty and Sun Guozhu, will you get a pension after you die, but our Qing Dynasty inherited the Ming system, and it is common for soldiers to drink soldiers' blood when they are alive. Just son of a bitch.

However, the Qianqian army was able to pay the full amount, which is one of the reasons why the morale of the Qianqian army was so high.

Now Sun Kewang decided to bring up the affairs of the former army officers and soldiers, so that they can see the love of him, the lord!

"Yes! My Sun Kewang wants to reward you living soldiers of the Qianqian Army! My Sun Kewang wants to reward you even more for the dead brothers of the Qianqian Army!" Sun Kewang waved his hand.

All of a sudden, hundreds of family members appeared around the handsome platform.

There are Yu Ding, female relatives, and children in these families, but there are very few elderly people.

After all, what is the average life expectancy in the Republic of China?In the troubled times of the late Ming Dynasty, the average life expectancy of a person in their 20s would be good!
With an average life expectancy of more than 20, the elderly are basically rare.

What is troubled times?It is not easy for young people to survive. Ordinary people do not live long because they work all year round. In troubled times, the elderly are the first batch to be screened out.

Even though they have been stable in Yunnan and Guizhou for ten years, there are still not many old people in Jiaqianjun's family.

"From today onwards, if the brothers in my former army die for my grandson Kewang, their families will not only be able to receive half-payment to raise their children as before, but also every year, the lord of the country will give them a stone of grain to help them support their families!" Sun Kewang Shout out.

"The lord is very kind!"

"The lord is very kind!"

"The lord is very kind!"

The officers and soldiers in front of the car were moved in their hearts, and they all shouted.

In fact, the Manchu and Qing Dynasties also had a similar policy of supporting their families with half the salary. Although the Manchu and Qing Dynasties were not popular among the people, they tried their best to maintain the morale of the military.

But still the same sentence, the problems of the Ming Dynasty are more or less the same as those of the Qing Dynasty. The treatment of the Eight Banners soldiers can be guaranteed, but the green battalion soldiers still have accumulated diseases.

The 60 green battalion were raised improperly for tens of thousands of people, and even the slightly stronger rebels couldn't be suppressed, so they had to let the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners go around to fight the fire. One can imagine the treatment of the green battalion soldiers.

"Besides that! The pensions for the soldiers of my former army will not be distributed according to the previous grain, and the pension will start at 60 taels of silver!" Sun Kewang shouted again.

Soon, the pensions of 210 and eight soldiers were distributed one by one by the officials and sent to their families.

When Sun Kewang was in Yunnan and Guizhou, there was a shortage of gold and silver. At the beginning, his annual income was a few 10 taels of silver, and later he had an annual income of more than 100 million taels of silver.

What can this little money do?Therefore, soldiers' salaries and pensions are mostly settled by food distribution.

Now that there is not enough food, the policy has to be changed, otherwise the number of the former army will increase and the casualties will be large. Sun Guozhu originally did not have enough food, so what is the sense of being in a hurry?

"The kindness of the lord, ten thousand deaths cannot be repaid."

Hundreds of family members knelt in front of Sun Kewang. The distribution of 60 taels of silver was no less than a gift of rebirth to these family members!
"Get up, this is what the lord of the country should do!" Sun Kewang said slowly.

Hundreds of family members knelt and kowtowed three times to Sun Kewang with red eyes, and the surrounding soldiers of the driving army were also full of emotion, and many people's eyes were also red.

The pension of 60 taels of silver was a number that the former army officers and soldiers could not even imagine.

In fact, 60 taels of silver is not too much now.

At the beginning of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the pension was 30 taels of silver like that of the Ming Dynasty, but Huang Taiji could pay it in place, and Chongzhen couldn't even pay the living people, so how could the dead be paid?
So the Qing army paid out the money, and the Ming army's pension was called silver that was rewarded but not rewarded. All in all, the Ming army died in vain.

After the Qing army entered the customs, the treatment was improved.

200 taels of silver will be given to the elite soldiers of Ba Yala, 150 taels of silver will be given to ordinary Eight Banners vests and infantry armor, and 100 taels of silver will be given to those who die in battle.

As for the green battalion soldiers, horse soldiers are given 70 taels, and infantry soldiers are given 50 taels.

Sun Guozhu's starting price of 60 taels of silver seemed worse than Baoyi, and only better than Green Camp.

However, due to deductions, the pension of the Eight Banners soldiers can only be about [-]%, let alone the Green Camp soldiers.

Of course, even if this is the case, the 60 taels of the Qianqian army are only equivalent to coated clothes, and they are not as good as the Eight Banners soldiers.

However, you must know that the pension of the former army in Yunnan and Guizhou was only twenty or thirty taels of grain. According to the grain price in Yunnan, it was only a dozen taels of silver. This was suddenly increased to 60 taels, which suddenly improved a whole amount in the hearts of the soldiers and their families. Four times!
"Long live the lord!" Someone shouted.

"Long live the lord!"

All of a sudden, the whole school field burst into cheers!For the soldiers in front of the army, the change of pensions shows the kindness of the king to them.

But in fact, this is just a helpless method by Sun Kewang.

Although the Jiaqian army only had [-] or [-] shi of grain in Yunnan and Guizhou for pensions, the [-] or [-] shi of grain in Yunnan was indeed only worth a dozen taels, but in the area ruled by the Manchu Qing, the price of grain was several taels of silver per stone. !
Now that Guangxi has initially decided, the price of grain is still at a high price of several taels of silver. The 60 taels of pension for the former army cannot even buy twenty shi of grain!

After all, silver is just a currency, and its specific value depends on how much it buys.

Of course, Sun Guozhu is not fooling the soldiers of the former army. After all, when he first entered Yunnan, he paid three yuan per liter of rice and two taels of rice. .

After the Great Reign, food prices fell rapidly. In the tenth year of Shunzhi, during the great counterattack, even in the mountains and valleys of Yongchang Prefecture, the price of food per stone was no more than [-] yuan.

(End of this chapter)