Chapter Seventy-Eight: Documents of the Ministry of War
The military doctor on the ship helped Gangzi take out the arrow in his body, but the military doctor said that although he was not alive, the arrow injured his internal organs, which required a long time of recuperation, and was no longer suitable for the battlefield. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
In the dark night, a Ming warship sailed quietly on the sea, the battleship covered in the night was like a sea monster exuding a hideous atmosphere, Gangzi's real name was Zhao Gang, a person from the Daimyo Mansion, Chongzhen participated in the new army during the first year, and then followed Chongzhen to the north when he toured the north, first was assigned by the military department to defend the city in Jinzhou, and then went to Jiangdong with Lu Xiangsheng, the soldier of the military department, to participate in the war against the Jurchens.
The sea breeze in Liaodong Bay is still very cold in this season, Zhao Gang unconsciously tightened his clothes, and he didn't know why Zhao Gang had an unknown fear in his heart when he left the army and faced an ordinary life, even if the cold wind of the night could not blow away the fear.
Thinking that he has lived in the army all these years, as well as his comrades-in-arms, and now he is about to be injured and retired, his heart is indescribably reluctant, standing on the deck blowing the sea breeze, Zhao Gang is more and more confused about his future, the best years of his life are spent in the army, everything he has learned will not do anything except the ability to march and fight, and now that he has left here, what to use to support himself, how to face this society after he goes back, and how to face his family after being away from home for many years.
After the warship docked on Changsheng Island, many people happily began to take out a big bag of human ears and Jurchen officer heads in the port to prepare for silver, and some pulled out all kinds of trophies in the cabin, this series of busy hot chats, as a wounded person, all this has nothing to do with Zhao Gang, everything is done by other comrades-in-arms, as for the money that was shared, there is no need to worry about this, you must know that those guys who knew crooked brains in the past are now hanging in the harbor. Before departure, everyone was registered, there were special registration personnel, and after the items were counted, all the rewards were uniformly distributed in the army.
Zhao Gang silently went to the general alone to report his situation.
"Your situation, the military doctor has already reported, this is your paperwork, tomorrow morning you will take the warship to the three customs, and someone will arrange your journey home when you get there, such a result may be a good ending for you, go, go and say goodbye to your comrades" Zhao Gang took a package in the general's hand, resisted the urge to cry, and saluted the general to say goodbye.
In the barracks after dinner, Zhao Gang said to his comrades-in-arms, "The general has arranged for me to retire, and tomorrow morning, I will leave here on a warship." A large crowd of people also wept and mourned.
"Everyone, be happy, this is a good thing, I didn't leave a disability, I retired like this, it's better than dying on the battlefield in the future" The guy who seemed to be the captain of the group stood up and comforted everyone.
"Come and take out the documents sent to you by the Ministry of War and let everyone see, many people here haven't seen that thing yet" Seeing that everyone's mood was still a little low, some people began to coax and change the topic.
"Let's see what is written on it" Many big bosses stretched out their heads, and the military department got the paperwork, which is rare, and a group of people looked at it for a long time, and only felt that the words were written beautifully. But few people can understand the content inside.
"If any of you know how to read, let's talk about what is written in it" A group of big bosses looked at it for a long time before they were embarrassed to find that none of them could understand this document.
"What to rob, out of the show, Xiucai, you come to see what is written" Xiucai is just a nickname, when I was a child, I went to a private school for a few years and knew a few words, of course, I didn't get into Xiucai, but everyone often asked him to write some family letters or something, and all of them jokingly called him Xiucai, but this guy has a good personality, and everyone called him not angry like this, but accepted it arrogantly.
"Come, let me take a look, it is written that Zhao Gang, a soldier of the Daimyo Mansion, fought bravely on the front line to kill the enemy, and made outstanding achievements, and now pardons all taxes in his family, and those who forcibly collect taxes are not guilty of killing him with a paper." Shengdou small people are more important than profit, and now the Ming Dynasty is corrupt, and the imperial power does not go to the countryside. And what he can give is only a great righteousness, he is the master of this country, the emperor of the empire, as long as he says that the tax collector is not guilty of killing with a document in hand, then this sentence is righteousness, that is, innocent, even local officials dare not be embarrassed.
As long as you dare to sentence the owner of the criminal instrument to murder with the instrument in hand, then you are disobeying the emperor's order, which is disrespectful, and countless people will reach out to pull you down, and then climb up and do it yourself.
"The emperor is good to us. It's much stronger than the previous emperors, so isn't it that as long as you leave the paperwork, you don't have to pay taxes for generations" Someone whimsically arrived.
"You think too much, there are small words underneath, the document is only for the owner, see it, the famous man on the document Zhao Gang, this document can also be used by Zhao Gang, don't think about it" How can there be such a good thing, no taxes will be paid for generations.
"That's not a loss, as long as I work hard to live to be 100 years old, I won't have to pay taxes for 100 years, and how much money will be left in 100 years" This is a foolish idea.
"You are already in your twenties, and you will live to be a hundred years old, and you only have more than seventy years left" Xiucai covered his head, who handed in this guy's arithmetic, and it is not easy to hand over this level.
"Whatever, the emperor will go to the battlefield for you, fight bravely for you, and when you return to your hometown in the future, you will also give me a document like this, you look at the outstanding military achievements, this is going to be placed in the ancestral hall, then you can glorify the ancestors" The eyes looked at the documents, and the saliva was about to come down.
"What else is in your package, take it out and take a look" A group of people began to messily surround Zhao Gang to ask for the package from the general.
"Ah, I haven't read it yet, wait until I'll look through it," he said, and a letter was found in the package, a few taels of silver.
"There is actually a letter, open it and see" After opening the envelope, I saw that there was a silver ticket of two hundred taels inside, on the front, Chongzhen silver ticket, the imitator was all over the door, and the whistleblower got his family property in general, and other words, and the back is any Huangzhuang can be exchanged for equivalent cash silver, and there is a list of silver rewards.
"It's actually a silver ticket, it won't be the same as the Daming treasure banknote, it's a piece of waste paper" In view of the previous Daming treasure banknotes, many people have no sense of security about the silver ticket.
"This can't be nonsense, there are my fellow villagers among the retired soldiers in the past, and now there is still contact, the last time I wrote to him, the current Chongzhen silver ticket, not only in the Huangzhuang can be exchanged for full cash, go to the store owned by the government, buy things with discounts, take it to pay taxes, but also can only pay eight layers, now many people want to try to save their silver into the Huangzhuang, in exchange for some Chongzhen silver tickets to pay taxes, but the group of eunuchs who manage the Huangzhuang, do not accept it at all, now only the retired soldiers in the army will issue Chongzhen silver tickets, It is said that the emperor was sympathetic to the soldiers, so these silver tickets were only issued to the soldiers to use, "After experiencing the Daming treasure money incident, the credit of the imperial court is completely stinky."
In desperation, Chongzhen had no choice but to print new silver tickets in his own name, and forcibly promote them in the army, not only stipulating that the local emperors should exchange cash in full, but also setting up various preferential treatments for the new silver tickets, so that the money would flow out of the hands of retired soldiers to condense the credibility of his silver tickets.