Chapter 496: I'm Going Home

Convincing Zhao Tuo is actually very understandable.

Having said so much earlier, it is basically convincing.

And now it's here again, and the answer is naturally Zhao Tuo's future arrangement.

If the imperial court can't give Zhao Tuo a satisfactory arrangement, even if Zhao Tuo knows that he can't beat him, he still has to touch the imperial court.

After all, if you demolish my house and don't give me a house, even if I am a fool, I will fight with you.

"Although the general is an official of the previous dynasty, His Majesty still recognizes the general's efforts in Lingnan over the years, and also recognizes the silent cultivation of the soldiers here."

"Therefore, the arrangement for the general is at the same level as Qi Hou Tian Dan, and as for the future position, it can only be determined after the general returns to Luoyang to talk to His Majesty."

"And the soldiers, they are treated the same as the Han army, and after the Nanjun barracks enters Lingnan, they will take over the current defense."

"In addition, soldiers will also be evaluated, if they pass the grades, they can continue to stay and serve, if they do not pass the grades, they can only retire and go home."

"If you don't want to continue to serve, you can also directly propose to retire, and all conditions will be the same as the current treatment of the Han army."

Zhao Tuo listened very carefully, and the others also listened very seriously.

As for Zhao Tuo's arrangement, he actually has nothing to say.

At present, in the entire Han Dynasty, only Tian Dan, the king of Qi, surrendered as the monarch, and he led the entire Qi State to join the Han Dynasty in a peaceful way.

Therefore, it is natural for the Han Dynasty to give him high treatment, although the Han Dynasty does not recognize his identity as the monarch of Nanyue, but in terms of treatment, he gave the same treatment as Tian Dan.

In other words, on the surface, it does not recognize the South Vietnamese State, but in fact, it is placed by you as a monarch.

Based on this alone, Zhao Tuo couldn't find any contradictions to pick at them.

And the position needs to be determined after going to Luoyang, which is understandable.

As for the placement of the soldiers......

"Envoy, can you tell us more about the placement of the soldiers? We don't know what kind of treatment this Han army is! Zhao Tuo asked directly.

Things have come to this point, and he is happy with his own arrangements.

So I didn't mention it, but focused on the soldiers.

At least after it spreads, it can also leave a good name for itself.

And these people came with him after all, and now no matter what, he must settle them well.

"Recruits have five dollars a month, and now the price of food for the Han is four dollars and one stone."

"And you belong to the troops stationed at the border, so it is six yuan per month, and for each year of military age, the monthly military salary will increase by one dollar, and when you retire, you will be given a one-year military salary as a reward based on the military salary of the last year before retirement."

"Most of the soldiers under the general's command have been in the army for more than ten years, but unfortunately, this system has only started for a few years, so everything has to be carried out according to the main force of the Han army."

"However, Your Majesty is well aware of your hard work, so it has been decided that the placement of the soldiers will be distributed according to the veterans of five years of military service, and two years of Yulu will be issued as a retirement reward."

"In other words, an ordinary soldier can get a reward of two hundred and forty yuan."

"However, now there is a shortage of coins in the country, so this reward can only be issued at a low price in the form of grain, that is, sixty stone of grain per person."

"Hehe, you won't lose anything, you're convinced!" Zhao Tuo said speechlessly.

Is sixty stone a lot of grain?

A lot!

Is it really much?

Not much at all.

For a warrior, sixty stones, that is, about twenty months' ration consumption.

For ordinary people, this is enough for a family to save money for a year.

But the question of more or less cannot be seen in terms of quantity alone.

It's about contrasting.

Before that, no country had ever heard of the idea of returning rewards after retirement.

It doesn't matter if it's money or food, even a grain of grain is not given more.

Now the Han Dynasty is willing to spend such a large sum of money or grain to settle them.

No, it's not just them, but there are also many Han troops that Zhao Tuo doesn't know.

And under such favorable conditions, coupled with the emperor's shrewd command, it is no wonder that the Han Dynasty was able to dominate the world and conquer the Quartet in just a few years and ten years.

Although Zhao Tuo was also curious about whether the imperial court could come up with so much food?

But he won't ask this kind of thing, it's too innocent.

Since Sui He has promised here, it must be able to be taken out, and the loss of words will not be beneficial to them, but will make them fall into a more passive situation in Lingnan.

……

The news soon spread in Panyu.

Then through Panyu, it quickly spread to every corner of Lingnan.

"Hey, have you heard? We're going home! An old man with gray hair and a gray beard shouted excitedly at the villagers.

"Home? Isn't this home? The same old man with gray hair and weak legs responded as he sat under the big tree at the entrance of the village.

"North, home! We're going back to our hometown! ”

"Ma Er, you're okay with your brain, right? I'm all old, what are you tossing? ”

Ma Er was the first to inform the news, but listening to his companion's words, there was some displeasure on his face: "What's wrong with your age?" I'm just going home. ”

"Huh! This mountain is high and the road is far away, don't you know what is going on the road? I didn't see it, but I died on the road first! ”

"Even if I die on the road, I have to go back, it's been more than ten years, and I can finally hear the news of going home!" As he spoke, Ma Er actually shed tears.

"Okay, okay, don't mention it, it's not like no one went back in previous years, but they all came back after not going far, and even if you go back, what can you do? Won't the government pay you back, and arrest you and clean you up half to death? Besides, after all these years, even if you go back, will you still be able to find your door? I heard that there was a lot of chaos in the north a few years ago, what if I go back and find that my family is gone? It's better to stay here, at least there is still a thought in your heart! The old man with weak legs and feet said unhurriedly.

There is some truth to what he said, at least to paralyze himself.

As long as I don't go back, I will think that my family is alive and well.

These people are already old, and when they came out, they were in the prime of their thirties, and after more than ten years, they are gradually approaching the age of fifty.

There are only a few years left to live, and some of them have already married and had children here.

There are also some people who migrated with their families back then.

There are not a few people like Ma Er who have been thinking about their families and have never married a wife and had children.

It's just that there is one sentence he didn't tell Maji.

That is, he seems to have forgotten that the imperial court has a marriage policy.

The mountains on their side are high and the emperor is far away, and the number of women is already small, so this policy cannot be implemented.

But not necessarily in my hometown.

First of all, Ma Er's group of people did not come here as criminals, but as a serious army.

It's just that when I got older, I gradually withdrew from the army.

At the same time, when there were women back then, they were also the first to choose.

Ma Er was thinking about home, so he didn't choose, he always looked forward to going home one day.

And Ma Er has been away from home for more than ten years, and he has completely cut off contact with his family, not because he wants to break it, but because there is no contact channel at all.

According to the policy of the imperial court, maybe Ma Er's wife and the children of her new husband will be over ten years old at this time, right?

You said that if you find out that your wife has become someone else's wife, and you have given birth to a child, and you have lived with someone for so many years, how bad will it be in your heart?

Therefore, going back is not necessarily the happiest.

Staying is not necessarily the end of the world.

They don't have many years to live, Ma Er is not bad, there is nothing wrong with it, look at other people, the whole body is either this pain or that pain, especially when it comes to rainy weather, the whole person is in pain as if he has been closed by the ghost gate.

"Then I'm going back too!" Maji's face showed an unusually determined expression.

What if the wife remarries?

When I left home, there were still two sons and two daughters in the family, and they were my own seed after all.

And after being away from home for so many years, I don't know what happened to my elderly mother......

There are many people like Ma Er who insist on going back.

There are also many people who want to go back, but don't dare to go back.

At first, it was just a private rumor, but soon, more official news came out.

And at this time, when everyone heard all the content clearly, it suddenly dawned on me.

Great Qin is dead?

That powerful and invincible Qin Dynasty actually died?

Well, the Qin Dynasty is not dead, and it doesn't have much to do with them.

This so-called Lingnan Legion has not much real combat effectiveness.

Half of the cut is worthy of him, but in fact, the real combat strength is only about 50,000 people.

And just these 50,000 or so people are not front-line troops, most of them are recruited from the remnants of the Six Nations.

There are also from Guanzhong, but after Zhao Tuo came to power, in order to completely get rid of the dependence on the Qin Dynasty, the old Qin people who came out of Guanzhong have basically been wiped out.

So now the rest, ninety out of nine, are the remnants of the Six Kingdoms.

And what surprised them the most was that it was not any of the six kingdoms that destroyed the Qin Dynasty, but a country called Han.

He not only destroyed the Qin Dynasty, but also destroyed the main force of the rebellion, the Chu State.

Not only did he destroy the Chu State, but he even pinched the Seven Kingdoms together?

Well, it's been so many years, what kind of homeland is not homeland, for those of them who have been away all the year round, this kind of ideological concept is not as deep as it was at the beginning.

Now they miss their homeland and their old people even more.

The older you get, the easier it is to recall the events of the year, the people of the year.

And when everyone knew that the Han Dynasty would reward them, everyone was shocked......