Chapter Twenty-Six: Can You Have Both?

Diao Min Gao Shu came to Zhang Jingming and said in a whisper: "I call it Gao Shu, Gao is the height of a tall tree, and a tree is a tall tree." My family lives on the high slope of the loess, and the wind blows from the slope......"

Zhang Jingming frowned and said, "Speak well, don't sing." ”

Gao Shu sighed and told his information one by one. As for the identity card, in the Great Song Dynasty, basically, as long as you were registered in the government when you were born, basically everyone has one.

It's like an ancient ID card, but the information may not be so comprehensive. There is no portrait, just a birthday and place of origin, and the name is made later.

It is needed when you go out, stay in a hotel, and go in and out of the city. Therefore, the fugitives and wanted criminals of the Great Song Dynasty can only go to the deep mountains and old forests to hide, or they occupy the mountains as the king and fall into the grass as the coward, they want to live incognito, and they can't go to the city for the rest of their lives, right?

After Zhang Jingming entered Gao Shu's identity, he said with a smile: "Okay, congratulations on you are now a member of our Zhenjiang Army." ”

Then, he turned around and took out two ingots of silver from the wooden box behind him and handed them to Gao Shu: "This is your first year's military salary, as well as your settling-in allowance, collect it and don't lose it, and report to the military camp outside the city tomorrow." ”

Gao Shu turned around, grabbed a silver ingot in one hand and laughed: "I'm rich!" I'm rich! ”

Then he ran off the stage in a puff of smoke.

With the first person to eat crabs, there are more people who want to eat crabs.

Two ingots of silver, that's it, not to mention them ordinary people, even when Tang Ning sent this money, he felt pain.

Originally, he only wanted to pay a quarter's military salary at first, but then he calculated the settling-in allowance and other miscellaneous things, and found that it was better to pay a year's military salary plus the settling-in allowance.

These two ingots of silver, not to mention ordinary people, are low-level officials of the Great Song Dynasty, as long as they are not too excessive, they are enough to spend for five years. With such a huge windfall, few people can resist this temptation.

For a time, there were not many people who raised their hands to join the army, and there were many women with their heads bowed to join the army.

Tang Ning spent a lot of effort to make everyone stop, and he shouted loudly: "I know you all want this money, but our Zhenjiang Army, as a new army, has no requirements for soldiers!"

First of all! Those over the age of 35 will not be accepted! Persons under the age of 16 will not be accepted! If you can't endure hardship, but come for money, this jurisdiction advises you to leave quickly. Otherwise, you will bear the consequences, don't come to your family crying after you die!

Secondly! If there is anyone who wants to run away after receiving the money, Ben Chan will tell you. As long as you dare to do this, the government will not only arrest you yourself in prison, but even your family will suffer with you.

Up to your eighty years old

Mother, down to your three-year-old daughter, I won't let anyone go! ”

"Damn, the taste is so heavy? Forget it, slip away. After Tang Ning said this, some people with ulterior motives had already left.

Although there were many people who stayed, they were not as crowded as they were at the beginning.

Looking at them, Tang Ning smiled and said: "However, I dare to pat my chest and say that the welfare of the Zhenjiang Army is the best in the whole Song Dynasty, or even in the whole world."

First of all, as long as you join the Zhenjiang Army, during the service period, the soldier's immediate family does not have to pay the Spring and Autumn Tax.

Second, the term of service is 50 years old, and a soldier who has reached the age of 50 can return to his hometown, and someone will send a pension to his home every month, and an ordinary soldier can also enjoy the treatment of a court official.

Third, rewards in the army are distributed according to work and commissions according to performance. As long as you fight bravely, getting rich overnight is not a dream! ”

Speaking of this, Tang Ning's eyes swept over the red-eyed people in the audience, and said with a smile: "I'm done talking, whoever wants to join, please come here to sign up."

You are also welcome to inform your family or write to your friends and family. The Zhenjiang Army recruits soldiers, not limited to Runzhou locals. Even if he comes from Danzhou, he is also the brother of our Zhenjiang Army, and he also enjoys the treatment of the Zhenjiang Army. ”

The eyes of the people in the audience were very red, and some men over thirty-five hated that they were born at the wrong time.

To be honest, it's not just these two ingots of silver. Even the fact that you don't have to pay the spring and autumn taxes is enough to make people fight for their heads.

There were many kinds of taxes in the Song Dynasty, but the heaviest tax was the Spring and Autumn Tax. This belongs to the seasonal tax, and the officials of all dynasties have pointed to this spring and autumn tax to live.

This point was also won by Tang Ning after discussing with Zhao Xu in the capital, and what he wanted to build was not an army that fought for money, but an army loyal to the country and the people.

However, in this era of war and chaos, this is too idealistic. Therefore, if you want to turn them into your ideal soldiers, you must solve their worries.

The family does not have to pay the spring and autumn taxes, and if they can live to be discharged from the army at the age of 50, even if they have been a daughter-in-law for many years. When I go back home, I don't do anything, and someone comes to give me money every month. Who wouldn't want to live such a day? Who wouldn't think?

The soldiers didn't want anything else, saying that they wanted to serve the country, and Tang Ning did not deny that a small group of them must think so.

But most of them are still forced to live out of helplessness, or disaster victims, or prisoners, they are forced to go to the battlefield, not because they want to go.

One active, one passive. This is the core idea of Tang Ning to form the Zhenjiang Army, and this is to make the Zhenjiang Army an important part of his ideal army.

In the afternoon and an hour after dinner, more than 100 people signed up one after another. The eight wooden boxes were empty, and Tang Ning's flesh hurt terribly.

Early the next morning, when the car carrying the military salary and Tang Ning and others arrived near the platform, they saw that dozens of people were already waiting here.

On this day, more than 200 people were accepted.

In the month that followed, people from all over the world were moved. From Hangzhou, from Xiuzhou, from Yangzhou, across the river, and even from Kaifeng.

All in all, by the beginning of July, the Zhenjiang army had grown in size to 2,000 men.

There were also some unpleasant incidents during this period, and Tang Ning's partner He Yu effortlessly arrested the person who took the money and ran away.

The only fly in the ointment is that He Yu's prejudice against himself has not changed. This kid shut up and asked for money to himself, opened his mouth to scold his mother, Tang Ning couldn't help him, after all, Zhao Ren's affairs still have to rely on this little brother.

Gao Shu came here at the end of May, and in April Downing played this guy in Tokyo City, and this guy hid in a gutter and wrote a letter to his father, crying about what happened to him.

His father replied in the letter, saying that Tang Ning, why didn't he make others make you mess with you? It's all a sign of love for you! Gao Shu felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say it, so he was depressed and could only go down the canal and come to Runzhou to join Tangning.

Everything seemed to be on track, and there weren't too many people coming back throughout July. It's just that it's worth 500, and the enthusiasm for signing up is much lower than in June.

But Tang Ning is also happy to see it, a new army, what do so many people do. The military salary is almost unaffordable, and it is taboo that they dare not pay out of their own pockets and privately support the army.

Wang Shi has a lot of opinions about Tang Ning, and she feels that she has been snubbed by Tang Ning.

God knows how Tang Ning has come over these days, in order to show that he is one with the soldiers, Tang Ning trained with them, ate a big pot of rice together, put his legs on the body of an unlucky ghost and slept naked.

That's it, I have to find time to accompany Wang Shi, my body is extremely haggard.

Fortunately, Wang Shi still understood Tang Ning and did not force Tang Ning to pick a date to get married. When drinking with the future father-in-law-to-be, Wang Zhongxian and Cao only mentioned it, when they were free, and when they would talk about it.

For Wang Shi and his father-in-law's understanding, Tang Ning was extremely grateful. On the one hand, he didn't dare to belittle the training of this army, because this was a new army that Zhao Xu had high hopes for.

On the other hand, he felt that he owed Wang Shi a lot.

Every time he thinks of this, Tang Ning can't help but sigh, you can't have both fish and bear's paws, Mencius doesn't deceive me.

"But it's okay to be poor and ugly." Gao Shu's resentful voice came from beside him.

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