The intuition of women often trumps the conceit of knowledge that men are proud of.

- Mahatma Gandhi (the founding father of modern India, India's greatest political leader, founder of Gandhiism)

In Bai Feng's view, compared with the rhetoric of the righteousness of the family and the country and the integrity of the nation, the gold and silver in his hands can move the hearts of ordinary soldiers even more; it is not that ordinary soldiers in the army are unpatriotic and unethical, but that each of them shoulders the heavy responsibility of supporting their families.

Every soldier in the army is an ordinary ordinary person, for an ordinary man who is a father and son, a husband and a father, what can be more important than supporting his family and making his family live happily?

Why did the young and strong men of the empire join the army without hesitation, knowing that the casualties of the front-line soldiers were extremely heavy? It was not that they were willing to sacrifice for the country, but that the military salaries and pensions offered by the imperial military department were the only choice for countless poor families to support their families.

You must know that the people who are full of thinking about joining the army to kill the enemy and make meritorious deeds are all noble sons and daughters who do not need to rush to the front line; how many ordinary soldiers who really fight on the front line and fight to the death with the enemy with one sword and one sword can walk off the battlefield unscathed?

Officers and men who have survived bloody battles and become veterans have military salaries, soldiers who have sacrificed their lives for the country and died on the battlefield have pensions, and the most pitiful of all are those soldiers who have been wounded and disabled and forced to leave the army; they have no military pay or pensions, and after returning home, they have added to the burden on their families.

How can a poor and impoverished civilian family afford to support a young man who has been injured and disabled and has lost his ability to work? In order to maintain their own livelihood, the vast majority of disabled soldiers will still work in the fields after returning home, so that they will work to death after not living for a few years.

In stark contrast to these poor ordinary soldiers, there were those officers of all ranks in the army who were born into the nobility, who only commanded the soldiers in the rear, and stepped on the bones of ordinary soldiers and enemies to achieve their glory and military exploits, and to obtain imperial titles and rewards.

Even if some noble officers would be injured on the battlefield, after the war, they would go to the church of the Holy See with a lot of gold coins and ask the light magicians inside to help them heal their injuries.

Occasionally, some aristocratic officers had incurable wounds or scars on their bodies, and the empire would give them titles and wealth in recognition of their sacrifices on the battlefield, and those scars often became the capital of these officers to show off.

This is why the Imperial soldiers would rather die than be injured and disabled, and the Imperial noble officers are warlike, in this regard, Bai Feng's approach is to let the war doctor Hua Mu heal every wounded soldier, and distribute the captured gold, silver and jewelry to every soldier of the army according to their exploits!

In the process of leading the army to counterattack Langxiang Province and Mulhouse Province, Bai Feng not only seized all the gold, silver, jewelry, grain and grass materials plundered by the New Eight Banners, but also seized countless gold and silver treasures that Huang Taiji had no time to take away, with a total value of more than three billion gold coins!

These gold, silver, jewelry, grain and grass materials worth three billion gold coins were scavenged by the Jurchens from the provinces of Langxiang and Mulhouse, so the people of the empire and the nobles of the empire who were ruined were innumerable!

All the captured loot that can find the original owner, Bai Feng sent people to return the things to the original owner, and those who could not find the original owner were divided into two parts by Bai Feng; a small part was returned to the liberated imperial people, and a large part was directly rewarded to all the soldiers of the army.

The tens of thousands of soldiers in Bai Feng's army who died on the battlefield each received a generous pension of at least 1,000 gold coins, and the amount of pensions for officers at all levels was even doubled; this amount of more than 70 million gold coins was sent by Bai Feng to the home of each fallen soldier.

Of course, Bai Feng, who seriously lacked a foundation within the empire, used the power of the Imperial Secret Guard when he did this, and there was no possibility that the Hidden Guard and the Sophia Chamber of Commerce would do this thing in the dark.

Contrary to Bai Feng's expectations, in the process of distributing pensions to the families of fallen soldiers through the Sophia Chamber of Commerce, the reputation of the Sophia Chamber of Commerce has been unprecedentedly high, and in some towns with more family members, the reputation of the Sophia Chamber of Commerce has even overshadowed the Westminster Chamber of Commerce!

After solving the problem of the bereavement of the fallen soldiers, Bai Feng first issued an additional reward of 100 gold coins to each of the surviving soldiers who participated in the battle, and then rewarded the meritorious soldiers according to the combat exploits recorded by each legion!

As a result, the soldier who received the least reward received a reward of 200 gold coins, and the soldier who received the most reward received a reward of 1,500 gold coins, and this lucky pike-legion soldier was lucky enough to kill seven cavalrymen with two blue flags in the battle!

From the death of more than 70 million gold coins to the 530 million gold coins of war rewards, it is no exaggeration to say that Bai Feng used his practical actions to create hundreds of thousands of middle-class military families for the Tianlong Empire who did not have to worry about food and clothing.

In all fairness, what Bai Feng is doing now is something that has never been done in the history of the Heavenly Dragon Empire and even the Heavenly Dragon Continent; can the soldiers of the various legions who have received such great favor from Bai Feng not swear allegiance to Bai Feng to the death? Can they not be loyal and unswerving to Bai Feng?

Unlike most of the aristocratic officers who were mercenary, the imperial soldiers who were born as ordinary civilians were simple by nature and knew better what it meant to repay their kindness, which was why Bai Feng was relieved that the Flame Legion would return to the imperial capital and leave six legions in the northern frontier.

What if the generals of the Fire Legion swore allegiance to Charlemagne again? What if the commanders of the six legions in Northern Xinjiang chose to defect to Prince Philip? The 170,000 soldiers of these seven legions will always be loyal to Bai Feng alone!

During the boring march, Bai Feng had wanted to lead his cavalry troops to the province of Brojanson more than once, but the information sent by the secret guard one after another made Bai Feng have to give up the idea of leading the cavalry troops to rush back.

Because the prince of Pros, who was canonized by Charlemagne as the Grand Governor of the Eastern Metropolitan Mansion of the Empire, had already led an army of eight legions into the province of Brojansson before Bai Feng, and at this time, the number of troops in the province of Brojansson had reached an astonishing 210,000!

There are seven Imperial Standing Legions under the command of Prince Pross and the Blue Bird Legion adapted from the Blue Bird Swordsmen, plus five Eastern Legions that were ordered by the Imperial Army Department to assemble in the province of Brooksson, and the number of troops in the province of Brojansson naturally skyrocketed to 210,000.

Anyway, the prince of Pross had already led his army to the province of Brojansson in advance, and Bai Feng, who had lost this opportunity, had lost the idea of speeding up the march, and in the unhurried advance of the army, Bai Feng also took the time to visit the Duke of Rundstead and the Duke of Kleist.

These two dukes and commanders of the provincial garrison who were close to Bai Feng were happy to accept some of Bai Feng's suggestions, and even some of Bai Feng's requests they agreed without hesitation, which made Bai Feng grateful and quite moved.

On the fourth day of mid-July, the swaying army finally left the province of Polini behind and officially entered the territory of the Duke of Nice's province, and before going to the province of Brojançon, it was one of the stated goals of the White Peak to reach some agreement with the Duke of Nice.