Later generations often said that there is no money that cannot be solved. This sentence also worked in the seventeenth century, and when Cao Zongbing stated that he could pay rent, everything was not a problem.

Several middle-level officials who were deeply involved in the canal immediately said that as long as they paid money, then a warehouse area not far from the old school could be allocated. This warehouse area has complete facilities, wharves, and fences, which will definitely meet the needs of Cao Zongbing.

Governor Qu, who was sitting at the top, also nodded with satisfaction after seeing that the problem was satisfactorily resolved, and announced that the warehouse would be temporarily allocated to General Cao's soldiers.

This can't be blamed on the governor's lack of help. A rogue official like him usually does not interfere in the intertwined canal affairs that are implicated in various ways. These canal "rules" that have been honed over the past hundred years have long taken root in Jinshui, and they are not something that can be easily changed by him, a governor in charge of the army.

Besides, he couldn't offend those middle-level officials for an unknown southern general soldier - behind these people are all major forces eating on the river, and even the emperor will have a headache when he hears the words salt and grain, and his old man really can't get on the table.

Now that the person surnamed Cao is willing to give money, then the problem is equivalent to a satisfactory solution and the conflict is avoided, so why not?

Therefore, Governor Qu happily announced that the next topic would be food supply.

As a result, the next topic began to tear up again.

The reason for the tearing is that when Cao Zongbing proposed to support some grain and grass, Kong Peng, who was in charge of Tianjin's local military affairs and reorganized the soldiers, horses, money and grain, immediately said, "Tianjin Wei only allocates five days of grain and grass." Five days later, if your department has not finished resting, you might as well go to the market to buy grain, anyway, General Cao has silver. ”

Kong Pengda couldn't get used to this sturdy southern general soldier from the beginning.

The reason is very simple: when the soldiers and horses of other Qinwang passed through Tianjin, they were all in a hurry to go to Beijing to participate in the general battle. And this Cao Zongbing is good, at the beginning of his dismount, he actually put on a fight to live in Tianjin Wei'an's house, which made Kong Yan unbearable.

What is involved here is the question of who pays the bill.

Kong Peng's implication was that Cao's army planned to stay in Tianjin for too long, which was beyond a reasonable range, and the expenses should not be paid in advance from here. Because theoretically speaking, Cao Chuan, the guest army, is equivalent to being invited by the Ministry of War to help in the capital. Therefore, all expenses should be reimbursed by the main family, that is, the military department.

Since it is a guest army, it is time to go to the capital after a few days of rest. Tianjin Wei's side is at most like other Qin Wang Jun, according to the rules, a little bit of grain and straw on the road, and he has fulfilled his duties.

And when Cao Zongbing heard Kong Peng's words, his face couldn't help but sink.

In the plan of crossing the public, this time to go north, in the early stage, it is necessary to stay in Tianjin, wait and see the situation and wait for the bottom. Because of this, Zhang Dongdong and the others originally didn't expect much supply from Tianjin.

However, the naked style of eating big households is still a bit too much, "only give five days of grain and grass, anyway, General Cao has silver".

It's like a rich person going to work at work. Rich people can take out their wages and ask everyone to spend them, which is a favor. But you can't just not pay your salary just because people have money, right?

So Zhang Dongdong was furious. Probably because the monitoring number was kind enough not to ask for food and grass before, giving these silverfish an illusion.

"If you have money, you won't use it to subsidize the deficit of your yamen." Zhang Dongdong's face sank, and he immediately turned his face, "Five days of grain and grass?" Joke! Which Qinwang soldiers and horses, do you dare to allocate only five days of food and grass? Don't you see that my southern soldiers are easy to bully? ”

Kong Yanshi is a four-rank civil official, so naturally he doesn't want to be the deputy chief soldier of Raushzi who came from outside in front of him, so when he heard this, he immediately retorted, "Southern soldiers? A few days ago, there were many southern soldiers who went to the capital, and I didn't see any of them cowering and wanting to hide in the back road to rest. Hmph, I'm so afraid of Jiannu, if I go back to Fujian, Tianjin Wei can't afford to raise an uncle. ”

"Dare to deduct the military quartermasters, favor the Tartars, I will participate in this book, can you afford to resist?"

"Hehe, that's a big hat. Although Cao Zongbing is on the top, the lower official is here to follow. ”

"Yo, it's still a hob meat. Then when Ben will be short of food, he will take it by himself, and I will see how you take it. ”

Zhang Dongdong, a cultural person, although he was sent to impersonate Emperor Cao by the organization to drive ducks on the shelf, but in the past two years, he has been in contact with the government officials every day, managing the soldiers and horses, and the so-called residence and qi and nourishing the body.

"Bold, shut up!"

At the critical moment, Governor Qu finally reacted and stopped the two from spraying each other in time.

To tell the truth, including the civil and military cadres in the hall, everyone was dumbfounded, no one could have thought that these two would squirt so quickly, and no one could have imagined that this Cao Zongbing had such a big temper and was open-mouthed, and he dared to be so rude to the four-grade civil officials.

"Now that we are in a national crisis, you are all colleagues, and the imperial court is relying on it as a dry city. How can you be so disrespectful of decency? Look what you're talking about! ”

"The lower officials know their mistakes"

Seeing that the big guy was angry, Cao Zongbing and Kong Tongshi knew that they couldn't quarrel, so they had to salute and admit their mistakes.

After glancing at the chief soldier Wang Hong, Governor Qu couldn't help but shake his head, this Cao general soldier from Fujian was full of weirdness, and it was not easy to deal with, so it seemed that he still had to come forward to break the lawsuit.

Thinking of this, the governor turned his head kindly and asked, "Pokong, how many soldiers and horses do you have, and how much food do you want?" ”

After thinking about it, General Cao replied, "The last general has brought 400 regular soldiers with me this time, and I want to recruit 600 auxiliary soldiers locally, and I have to buy enough 2,000 horses." ”

Speaking of this, Cao Zongbing stretched out three fingers, "Okay, I'll suffer some losses, a total of two battalions of soldiers, three thousand taels of silver, one settlement, and the rest of my own official bag." ”

The criterion proposed by Zhang Dongdong is very simple, and all people and horses add up to only 1,000 soldiers, so if the average monthly salary per capita is three taels of silver, it is three thousand taels.

Regarding the salary of soldiers in the Ming Dynasty, each emperor has different changes, so I will not repeat it here.

In short, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, due to the flight of a large number of military households, the quality declined sharply, so the imperial court began to change the field army to a conscription system.

Soldiers under the conscription system must be paid a settlement silver when recruited, a "monthly salary" when they are stationed, that is, a basic salary, and when they march to fight, they must also be paid a "travel salary", that is, a combat allowance.

What Cao Chuan and Tianjin officials are asking for today is a month's salary for two battalions of soldiers, with each soldier paying three taels.

Theoretically, three taels of silver is the standard monthly salary of Chongzhen Dynasty soldiers.

The monthly salary of the Chongzhen Dynasty followed the Apocalypse Dynasty. During this period of time, the Guanning Iron Cavalry stationed on the front line, not counting the cost of military horses, the monthly salary of the soldiers was converted into two taels of silver.

As for those Qinwang troops who traveled thousands of miles from Yunnan and Guizhou and from Shaanxi and Gansu, the monthly military salary standard was three taels of silver.

Of course, the above figures are only the standards published by the imperial court. As for how much a soldier can get, it's hard to say, it will vary from place to place.

For example, the Guanning army can basically get the full amount, and as for the financial crisis in other rear areas at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the actual military salary is extremely low. The arrears of wages in the Ming Dynasty began in the twenty-seventh year of Wanli, and there was no way to count them.

This is also one of the reasons why the Ming army failed to exterminate Li Zicheng and Hou Jin, and the defeat began with finance.

And the amount of salary that Cao Zongbing wants this time is to open his mouth according to the normal standard of Qin Wangjun, theoretically there is no problem, it seems that he has suffered a loss, if he really has 2,000 horses, the cost is much more than that of soldiers.

"It's really unashamed!" After hearing this, Kong Yanshi laughed angrily, "Two thousand horses, it's really nonsense!" ”

Kong Peng had already identified this Cao general at this time, and he was a liar who ran the train with his mouth, and he only brought a few hundred soldiers to fight the garbage general of the autumn wind.

And General Cao no longer bothered with Master Kong at this time, but just stared at the governor.

"E" Master Qu stroked his beard at this time and began to think about it.

Unlike Kong Yanshi, Lao Qu had just read Xiong Wencan's handwritten letter, so he didn't think that the one surnamed Cao was here to fight the autumn breeze.

However, he didn't think that the surname Cao just now was the truth-just kidding, six hundred auxiliaries were just that, how much silver did two thousand horses have, and they came out when they opened their mouths? Do these southern soldiers ride horses?

So Lord Futai finally made a handful of mud, "Convert it into grain and rice according to two thousand taels of silver, and allocate it at one time, how about breaking the emptiness?" ”

After hearing this conclusion, Cao Zongbing immediately agreed-it was originally a quarrel for "Liwei", as for that bit of silver, Tianjin officials probably cared a lot, and they didn't pay attention to it at all.

After an unpleasant meeting, everyone present was busy flashing. Kong Yanshi was particularly unhappy, and after glaring at Cao Zongbing fiercely, he brushed his sleeves away.

And Zhang Dongdong stayed and exchanged a few words with the two bigwigs, and made an appointment to wait for two days to settle down, and then invite the bigwigs to take a look on the boat, and then left.

The next thing was very simple, the northbound fleet set sail again, and after bypassing the acropolis, it headed west along the Haihe River, and turned into the Ziya River not far away, and then several combat ships stopped along the river by the wooden pier outside the old school yard.

Ten other transports went to a warehouse on the other side of the river to unload their cargo.

At the same time, the hundred households sent by the Wei Institute were standing in front of the old school yard, watching in amazement as a group of "Hanako" walked down from the strange boat.

These people are dressed in gray-black, colorful strange costumes, which at first glance look like Hanako. However, when they got closer, Baihu found that the strange people were real elite soldiers, all with big shoulders and round waists, holding black and shiny strange guns, and their expressions were fierce, and they were by no means ordinary soldiers.

After this group of "flower-shirted soldiers" entered the old school yard to inspect the circle, the ship began to come down one after another, wearing green jackets and holding long-haired southern soldiers, and then the sailors wearing blue jackets.

In short, in the cognition of the hundred households, there is not a single soldier wearing a fat jacket of the Ming Dynasty, and those who get off the ship are all weirdos.