More than 30,000 officers and soldiers from Datong Mansion gathered in Killing Tiger's Mouth, and they wanted to come to Naturalization City to ask for money by killing Tiger's Mouth.

According to the regulations of the Ming Dynasty, at the end of each year, the border soldiers can advance three months' military salary for the New Year.

Wang Zezhi didn't know about this, but he knew, and he didn't plan to pay this money again.

Originally, in order to stabilize these people, he had already given out more than 600,000 pieces of silver for nothing.

The money in his hand was snatched from the squire of Datong Mansion at the risk of killing his head.

It is not a strong wind.

Why do these people think that he should take out the money for free, is it because Chongzhen gave him a nominal chief soldier.

The general army of Shanxi, to put it nicely, is in charge of the soldiers and horses of the whole territory of Shanxi.

In fact, he couldn't even move the soldiers and horses of Datong Mansion.

All he could do was the soldiers and horses of the guerrilla battalion.

If he wants to call the soldiers and horses of the whole territory of Shanxi, he needs Chongzhen's order or the order of the military department to hang the general seal on him.

This is also the reason why Wang Zezhi has not moved the sergeant of Datong Mansion.

Datong Province belongs to the northern border, one of the nine towns on the nine sides.

According to the list recorded in Datong Prefecture, there are more than 138,000 troops stationed in Datong Prefecture.

However, since he paid the sergeants of Datong Mansion, after statistics, there were only 37,413 sergeants in Datong Mansion.

Even when Lin Dan Khan went south, he died some of the battles and some of them fled.

There shouldn't be only so many sergeants in Datong Mansion.

The reason why there are only so few sergeants in Datong Mansion is that officials and generals at all levels eat empty salaries.

The salaries of Ming Dynasty officials were very low.

This is true for civilian officials, and even more so for military generals.

The civil officials deprive the people of the people's fat and the people's anointment, and the military generals do not have such conditions, but they have their own methods.

The generals first deducted the cost of weapons and equipment, which caused the problem of low quality of weapons in the border army, but the civilian officials of the DPRK and China will also participate in it, so they all turn a blind eye and close one eye.

Then it's time to take out the empty amount and eat the empty salary.

For the more than 138,000 people registered in the military department of Datong Prefecture, the household department allocated military salaries according to this figure.

In fact, the real number of sergeants in Datong Mansion is not even 60,000.

Among them, the salaries of more than 70,000 sergeants were divided among officials and generals at all levels.

For this situation, the ministers of the court and the central government are not unaware, but they are too deeply involved, not to mention that the minister is the emperor Chongzhen, who can only acquiesce.

Now there are more than 30,000 soldiers of Datong Mansion gathered in the mouth of the tiger to wait for the pass, and came to the Naturalization City to ask for wages.

Ah Niu, who was guarding the city, knew that the matter was very important, so he closed the city gate as soon as possible, saying that he was going to the naturalization city to ask for instructions.

That's why these sergeants were blocked in the mouth of the killer.

"Pass the order, and when the time comes, kill the tiger's mouth and open the city gate, and let them go out of the customs to naturalize the city.

Oh, by the way, ordered the steel-armored heavy cavalry to escort the two hundred shield guards of the town guards.

Go ahead. ”

"Yes."

The herald received the order, and the herald went.

Wang Zezhi unfolded the map, looked at the more than two hundred miles between the Tiger Killing Mouth and the Naturalization City, and smiled sinisterly.

More than 200 miles away, the Datong sergeant had many foot soldiers, and the middle was full of wild wolves.

When the time comes, either these sergeants have killed all the wolves, or these sergeants have been killed by the wolves.

Wolves are not human, they are more cruel than humans.

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sub-hours.

Kill the tiger's mouth, Guannai.

More than 30,000 Datong soldiers gathered between the Killing Tiger Mouth and the Datong Right Guard.

Originally, if these soldiers wanted to go out of the customs, they didn't necessarily have to go to the Killing Tiger Pass, and they could also go out if they were also at the gates of other Great Walls.

They are gathered here because they have been gathered. The picture is broadcast all over the world

Zhang Yaoyang, the surviving general flag of the right guard of Datong.

He is also the person with the highest position in Datong's right guard, and this gathering of people to ask for salary is what he called for.

"General Banner, do you think we can get paid this time?" Zhang Yaoyang's subordinates looked at the dense sergeants outside the city and asked worriedly.

"Of course you can, you know, the military salary that the court owes us is his payment.

This time, there are a lot of us, and there is an old saying that the law does not hold the public accountable.

There are so many of us, to put it mildly, if he dares not to pay, we will be like Guyuan's brothers, and he will rebel. ”

Zhang Yaoyang held on to the city wall of the right guard, squinted his eyes, and said fiercely.

"Shhhh The general flag said cautiously, this is to kill the head. His subordinate whispered.

"Hmph, it's almost the New Year, and I can't even open the pot at home, if I don't have a good year this year, I don't care if he kills his head or not."

Zhang Yaoyang said indifferently.

"Bah, the court of the dog, my mother died because she didn't have money to treat the disease, if he dares not to pay us.

General Banner, as long as you say a word, the brothers will follow you and turn it back. Zhang Yaoyang's other subordinate spat and said angrily.

"Don't be impatient, don't be impatient.

You see, there are still a lot of people who have the same idea as us, and our brothers are all begging for a living with their heads pinned to their trouser belts.

We are tired and tired, and we haven't had a good time for years.

If he dares not to pay us this time, hmph, then no one will want to have a good year. ”

Zhang Yaoyang looked at the more and more sergeants outside the guard, and a strange brilliance burst out of his eyes.

It was a kind of look that feared that the world would not be chaotic.

"The gate of the Tiger's Mouth is open!

The gates of the Tiger's Mouth are open!

The commander-in-chief of Shanxi has an order, and all the sergeants can set off and go to the Naturalization City to receive their salaries.

The commander-in-chief of Shanxi has an order, and all the sergeants can set off and go to the Naturalization City to receive their salaries. ”

The herald who killed the tiger's mouth rode his horse, and proclaimed loudly as he rode his horse.

Zhang Yaoyang was first excited, he was excited because he could receive a good year, and then he was disappointed.

He was disappointed because he had no reason to rebel.

The sergeants who came to ask for wages outside the city got up one after another, packed their things and prepared to go out of the customs to receive their salaries.

"Inform the brothers, pack up the guys, and go out to get paid."

"Yes."

When the sergeants of the right guard of Datong heard this, they began to get busy with joy on their faces.

Not long after, a team of four people with torches in a row came out of the mouth of the killing tiger and headed towards the Naturalization City.

After this team completely walked out of the mouth of the tiger, the gate of the mouth of the tiger was quickly closed.

On the city wall, the herald looked at the group that was moving away and sighed.

He came with a steel-armored heavy cavalry and two hundred shield soldiers.

Even if he is heavily protected, the journey is very thrilling.

These wolves are cunning, ferocious, and cruel.

If it weren't for the armor of the Steel-Armored Heavy Cavalry, they might not have survived.

The herald couldn't help but silently pray for them in his heart, hoping that they would survive.

Because, he felt that Wang Zezhi was a little cruel in doing this.

After all, these people are also border soldiers who defend their homes and country.

In fact, he didn't know anything about these people.

These people are called border soldiers, but they are actually bandits.

Because the imperial court did not pay military salaries for a long time, Shangguan squeezed their labor force.

These people have been suppressed for a long time, and this time because Lin Dan Khan went south, most of them were no longer restrained by Shangguan.

Even if Wang Zezhi paid them back their salaries, they would still loot the villages, not that they did not have military salaries, but that they were used to oppressing the people.

To put it bluntly, these soldiers, named border soldiers, are actually bandits.