The income of the current soldiers of the New Army is mainly composed of three aspects.

The first is the land voucher issued at the time of enlistment, and the land voucher will increase if you have been awarded meritorious service or promotion during the service.

The statement given by the Marshal's Mansion is that this land coupon is the real land, and the land coupon can be directly exchanged for arable land, but after getting the land, you have to pay taxes according to the regulations, so the soldiers with few men in the family are not willing to really exchange land.

Now this land coupon is also valuable, I heard that it is about 5 per acre, and there is a rising trend, and even in the people, it can be directly used for money.

The second benefit, of course, was the military pay, which was paid by a mixture of copper coins and food stamps, and since the food of the new army soldiers in the barracks was free, these were really only useful for the purchase of non-staple foods, such as extra meat and wine, and the sugar that now occasionally appears.

Soldiers from poor families were naturally not so reluctant, so although the military salary was only paid for two months, most of the soldiers had accumulated a lot of money.

As the saying goes, "wealth does not return to the hometown, such as brocade clothes at night", with money in hand, it is also human nature to go home to honor your father and mother, and show off in front of your fellow villagers and neighbors.

In fact, this is also an important reason why many soldiers strongly want to take a few days off.

Li Kui himself had the same thoughts, especially after he forgave his brother and sister-in-law for being harsh to him before he was deep down.

Therefore, this time when he went home to visit relatives, Li Kui also bought a five-foot flower cloth for his sister-in-law, and a tael of brown sugar and a piece of jujube cake for his little nephew.

Of course, the most important thing is the old lady, in addition to the fish and meat noodles, Li Kui plans to send the old lady a consistent amount of money, with such a sum of money, if there is something wrong with the brother's family, she can also help, so that even if the sister-in-law is harsh, she should take good care of her mother, right?

Well, the old lady also has to have a good dress to wear, so the fabric must also have a copy of the mother, which is ten feet.

As for Li Kui's own ......, what Li Kui wants most now is to have a good drink, the wine in the barracks is limited in supply, and a good wine like Li Kui can only be half full in front of him after saving a few months, which is really hungry.

But when he left the barracks, there was no problem with how much he drank at home, so Li Kui specially bought a large jar of rice wine and planned to take it home to drink it.

Li Kui carried the burden, held the wine jar in his arms, gently arranged his palms on it, listened to the sound of the wine syrup swaying in the altar, and walked briskly and beautifully in the direction of the sun.

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At the same time, Liaodong.

Ah Hudie rode on his horse and walked home proudly.

He also led another horse on his left hand, and in his right hand he pulled a rope at the end of which was tied around the necks of a man and a woman.

These are the biggest gains of Ahudie's expedition, two horses and two minions.

In addition, there are some sheepskins, cheese and a small amount of millet that are not worth mentioning.

But this was enough, as a novice Jurchen warrior who had just become a soldier, before Ah Hudie followed the Great Khan on the expedition this time, he only had a bow, an iron knife and the food that Lord Mouke received.

No horses, no ironclad, and no minions.

It's a lot better now, in the process of fighting with the Mughu, Mou Ke, to which Ah Hudie belongs, made a battle exploit and completely grabbed a large tribe of Mugwu people who were caught off guard.

Ahudie excelled in the battle, killing two Mughal riders who tried to resist, and thus being given two horses and two minions.

Master Mook also promised to give him another armor when he returned home—iron armor was impossible, but cloth armor or linen armor should be fine.

Although these things can only block light arrows from a distance, they are much better than just wearing thin clothes.

With these, the next time he goes on an expedition, Ah Hudie can participate in the battle as a real armor soldier.

Well, I heard that the neighbors of the co-conspirator said that the next expedition should be to Qingzhou, which swept the Han land?

Then he has to grab a few mothers-in-law - the Mugwu woman behind him has a sheep smell, and Ah Hudie doesn't like it at all.

When he entered his own village, Mok didn't talk nonsense, he hit a dozen horses and went back to his house directly, and his spoils were naturally packed up by minions.

Ah Hudie's family only had the two minions he had just captured, so he had no choice but to say hello to the familiar soldiers, and he led the horse and the minions to his home.

When he arrived at the door, Ah Hudie shouted at the top of his voice: "Amma, Amma, look, I have snatched so many good things!" ”

After shouting several times in a row, there was silence in the room, and no one answered.

Realizing that the situation was not good, Ah Hudi quickly threw down the reins of the horse, opened the firewood door by himself, and ran towards the house.

He saw that his Amma was cowering on the big kang in the middle of the house, with two quilts around his body, motionless.

"Amma!"

Ah Hudie screamed, in recent years, he has seen many such scenes - because the Jurchens are not good at farming, coupled with the continuous slaughter of the Han people in the territory, the price of grain in Liaodong is high, and there are starving people to death every day every month, which is mostly similar to the situation of him Amma.

When Ahudie's Ama went to the Central Plains, his leg was cut off, and although he escaped death, he could no longer follow the army.

If you don't go out with the army, naturally there is no booty to subsidize the family, and there are no servants at home to help, so as a result, Ah Hudi went on the expedition, and the old man who couldn't move couldn't even go to Moke's house to borrow food or pawn some clothes and bedding.

As soon as the food left by Ah Hu was finished, he starved to death at home.

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In August of the thirteenth year of Jianxing, the Liaodong Jin State took the initiative to attack the grassland Mengwu and achieved phased results, the Mengwu army suffered heavy losses, the entire Modong was swept by the Jin army, and the Modong tribes had to retreat to the west.

The Jin attack yielded a large amount of booty, including the most important population, horses, and cattle, sheep, livestock, and grain cheese that could somewhat alleviate the famine that was quietly spreading in Liaodong.

Although the number of the latter is very small, it is not much of a problem to cut out some of the old and weak, and eat the rest until the next expedition.

For the Jurchen aristocracy, that was enough.

As for those soldiers who can't eat the next expedition, can they exchange them for the spoils of war?

Silver, gold, wealth, horses, and slaves. There are also cattle, which are large animals and cannot be killed casually, but it is permissible to sell them to the nobles for some grain.

Where there are people, there is class, not to mention the Jurchen, a primitive regime that has not escaped the shackles of slavery.

Slave owners don't care about the lives of their subordinates, and Jurchen slave owners are no exception.

The wealth in the hands of the low-level soldiers is rapidly concentrating on the aristocratic class, and the soldiers' lives are actually not much better than the Jiangbei serfs, and the only advantage is that the Jurchens can have a place to rob a little bit and subsidize their families.