Since Zhang Qiang has more soldiers, since he has these loyal subordinates, and these subordinates have been canonized by him and Emperor Longwu, they are in charge of each piece, Zhang Qiang only thinks about the strategic direction, the big problem, and no longer cares about these details, so he doesn't know the salary, food and accommodation of the soldiers in the various ranks of his army.

But Wei Wuji said that the problem of recruits, I think that the salary of the militia, which also belongs to the bottom, will not be too high.

Sure enough, Wei Wuji continued: "My lord, the militia's military salaries are now distributed by villages and towns in various places, and each person is only one hundred and fifty wen per month. It's still very low. ”

"How many people are there in the militia now?" Zhang Qiang asked.

Wei Wuji said: "The militia of the three provinces now has 32,000 people. ”

Zhang Qiang did a little mental calculation, and the militia salary of the three prefectures was only about 3,500 taels of silver per month.

But fortunately, the silver was not issued by the Jinhua Righteous Army led by himself, that is, it was not included in the military expenses.

I don't know why, but he still has a little joy in his heart.

"Will these salaries be paid on time?" Zhang Qiang asked.

Wei Wuji said: "Thanks to the blessing of the lord, this silver is distributed to the heads of each village and township, and it is still a drop in the bucket, and they dare not refuse to pay it, and due to the supervision of lowly people, these military salaries are paid on time between the first and fifth days of each month, and there is no deduction or delay." ”

"That's good." Zhang Qiang was relieved, in his later life, even if the minimum wage, only a few enterprises or contract foremen rarely paid on time, and the on-time payment was the biggest factor in stabilizing the morale of the army.

Moreover, in his own territory, there has never been any cost for promotion, and there is no external benefit for these soldiers, and he will not allow the soldiers to have the opportunity to make external profits, and they will be beheaded if they are caught.

"So what is the salary of the rebels?" Zhang Qiang asked.

The soldiers of the Righteous Army are the lowest-level soldiers of the Jinhua Righteous Army, and they are regular soldiers, and after many run-ins and adjustments, Zhang Qiang finally determined the regular army structure of the Righteous Army.

The regular army of the Righteous Army is from low to high, the ranks of Righteous Soldiers, Righteous Soldiers, Skilled Soldiers of the Righteous Army, Senior Soldiers of the Righteous Army, Elite Soldiers of the Righteous Army, and Professional Soldiers of the Righteous Army.

This is the rank of the rebels in terms of rank and elite.

The soldiers of the Righteous Army are equivalent to first-class soldiers, the skilled soldiers of the Righteous Army are equivalent to the senior soldiers, the senior soldiers of the Righteous Army are equivalent to the corporals, the elite soldiers of the Righteous Army are equivalent to sergeants, the elite soldiers of the Righteous Army are equivalent to sergeants, and the professional soldiers of the Righteous Army are equivalent to sergeants.

The soldiers of the rebels were all soldiers trained by Zhang Qiang himself, or soldiers trained by elite soldiers; The skilled soldiers of the Righteous Army are all elite soldiers or soldiers trained by Zhang Qiang himself, while the senior soldiers of the Righteous Army are all soldiers trained by Zhang Qiang; The above ranks are all soldiers trained by Zhang Qiang.

The advantage of this is that the soldiers are loyal to Zhang Qiang, and he can control the army well.

Of course, now Zhang Qiang will not be so tired, he has now personally trained a full 10,000 soldiers, regular soldiers of all levels.

Now it's up to these elite soldiers to train.

The soldiers who were trained to excel were in the regular army.

And those who are overwhelmed, or have no talent, or are not suitable for staying in the army, the eliminated soldiers become militia garrisons.

The middle and skilled soldiers of the Rebels who had been trained by these soldiers were assigned to the garrisons of various places, while the best ones remained in the recruit camps to continue their training and then be incorporated into the regular army.

The regular army is divided into various arms, and the senior soldiers are trained by the righteous soldiers, and most of the cold weapons troops are assigned to the hands of these loyal subordinates who started Zhang Qiang, of course, Zhang Qiang gives each unit a thousand troops of firearms, and officers at all levels are elite, elite, and professional soldiers.

In the position of Qianhu, there are outstanding professional soldiers trained by Zhang Qiang.

As for other generals who surrendered later, or defected, they still led their troops or other soldiers who were eliminated from Zhang Qiang and others in the end.

Wei Wuji continued to talk about the salaries of the soldiers of the righteous army.

These soldiers under them also belong to the regular army.

"The current salary of the soldiers of the Righteous Army is 300 Wen, the logistics baggage soldiers, the archers of the Righteous Army, the spearmen of the Righteous Army, the sabers and shield soldiers of the Righteous Army, the cavalry of the Righteous Army, and the javelinmen of the Righteous Army, all of them are the same salary."

"The current number of soldiers in the rebel army is 30,000 men, about 6,000 taels of silver."

This is the money that Zhang Qiang's rebel government needs to pay, the recruits are about 1,500 taels, and the rebel soldiers are more than 6,000 taels, and a total of more than 50,000 people spend no more than 8,000 taels of silver every month. Not much.

In fact, most of the cold weapons in the rebel soldiers were in the hands of their subordinates, and they only had firecrackers and musketeers in their hands, as well as a small number of personal guard cavalry.

The skilled soldiers in the cold weapon unit are 500 wen per month, the senior soldier is 600 wen per month, the elite soldier is 700 wen per month, the elite soldier is 800 wen per month, and the professional soldier is 900 wen per month.

Speaking of these soldiers, they are equivalent to the rank of the cavalry and slashing system, or the level of training they have received, which represents their own strength.

Now he only has 10,000 newly trained elite firecrackers in his hands, and the salaries of the firecrackers are 100 or 400 wen higher than the cold weapon soldiers of the righteous army who are assigned to these subordinate troops.

The firecrackers are also soldiers of the Righteous Army, but the salaries of the skilled soldiers in it are generally higher than those in the cold weapon troops, and the salaries of other elite soldiers are also higher than the wages in the cold weapons troops, which is about 100 Wen.

Only the pro-soldier guards in the hands of his subordinates and the pro-soldier guards in Zhang Qiang's hands, the chasers, and the professional musketeers are the uniform salary of one or two or five yuan per month, and it is also the highest salary in the army.

But in this way, among the 70,000 or 80,000 troops, according to the 80,000 troops, plus the military salary that other state capitals need from the lord Zhang Qiang, it is only about 50,000 taels of silver per month.

Zhang Qiang and Wei Wuji both felt low, compared to other forces, that opening was not a hundred thousand taels of silver to mobilize the troops, and most of those troops did not have so many troops, thinking about Huang Daozhou's efforts to collect more than 2,000 righteous troops, the silver spent was no longer a few, and finally the army was defeated in Jiangxi.

Most of the troops of the Qing army are the Han army flag troops who are in arrears of military salaries, and the Ming army's troops who only need to be given food to fight with them, and the Qing army's own troops are not many people who lead the army to be paid, most of them are to lay down a place, and let the soldiers loot, although they have been reined in in the later period, and they also give military salaries, but the military salaries are not low, that is because they have robbed a lot of money and wealth, and they don't care about the money at all.

Among the 100,000 Qing troops, 10,000 Qing troops are considered large troops, and the remaining 30,000 or 40,000 Han military banners, 670,000 Ming army surrenders, and the military salary to be paid is only the meager salary of the Qing soldiers themselves and the Han army banner troops, and there are 60,000 or 70,000 Ming army soldiers who do not need money.

Therefore, the Qing soldiers were able to defeat the Ming Dynasty army with a numerical advantage and occupy the great country of the Han people.

It is urgent to raise the salaries of soldiers and crack down on grain merchants and prices in the territory.

This is the conclusion that Zhang Qiang has reached.

As for Zheng Cai, he also has to take care of it, maybe after beating Zheng Cai, he will have money and food to maintain the financial operation of the territory.

Thinking of this, Zhang Qiang felt a little bitter in his heart, he is a working boy, so he has such a great talent to run a government, think about those traversers, all of them are either engineering graduates, or liberal arts graduates, not to mention engineering, there are any inventions, they can let their forces quickly benefit from those inventions, feed the army and the people, and maintain the operation of the government, will complain, what else?

But this is not a reason for not paying salaries, arrears of military salaries, nor is it a reason for arsonists to plunder other forces.

That's what he thought at first, so even if he didn't have any money, even if he had some food, he had to give it, and even if the food and money were very small, he had to give it.

On the one hand, the soldier's loyalty comes from his training, on the one hand, from his achievements in resisting the Qing Dynasty, and on the other hand, he pays his wages on time, so that the family can eat enough to work hard.

What is the righteousness of the country, the righteousness of the nation, the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty, the orthodoxy is based on the fact that you give people food and let the family get benefits, there is no benefit, so the people of the Ming Dynasty and the officials of the Ming Dynasty sold the Ming Dynasty cleanly.

And the reason why he defeated the Ming army and defeated the Qing army was because of those who took the rich rewards they gave, at least in terms of loyalty, and the soldiers they trained themselves fought battles, and the other soldiers were just auxiliaries.

In any case, he survived, and all the people in so many territories were willing to join the army, and in order to continue to keep their territory under their own command, they frantically expanded the army, tirelessly fought and trained soldiers.

The problem now is to develop, to stabilize, to raise the financial level of the territory to a new height, so that more elite soldiers can get high salaries, willingly follow their own lives, and by the way, restore the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty, of course, in the end, it is their own lord orthodoxy who will rule the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhang Qiang wants to increase the salary of the soldiers in his territory, but this is not up to him, it depends on the financial situation in the territory, to understand the financial situation in the territory, you have to ask the three prefects, Mi Chun, the prefect of Jinhua, Zhou Congee, the prefect of Taizhou, and You Haibo, the prefect of Chuzhou.

As for the garrisons in other places, Zhejiang's financial expenses were those of the three prefectures, Fujian's was the expenses of the Longwu Imperial Court, and the taxes of Wenzhou were collected by the Guitai Prefecture, and Xuanyuan Longfei only had the right to lead the army to fight.

Quzhou Mansion belongs to Jinhua Mansion to collect taxes.

Thinking of this, Zhang Qiang felt that it was time to enrich the power functional departments of his Governor's Palace, and some of the taxes of these prefectures should be handed over to the Governor's Palace, otherwise the Governor's Mansion would become an ornament, and he didn't want the three prefectures to raise their own troops, so he wanted to collect the financial rights and distribute them by the Governor's Palace.

The Admiralty Joint Council should be a functional department under the Governor's Office, and the Prefects' Joint Council should also be a department below, and they should discuss and propose and decide things by themselves, which is the original intention of establishing these two departments.

Otherwise, wouldn't I have been hollowed out by these two departments?

Looks like I'm going to have to take care of some things myself.

Thinking of this, Zhang Qiang said: "You first convene a joint meeting of admirals to make a plan for the distribution of military salaries, and then take it to the joint meeting of the prefects to discuss it, and finally bring the final draft to me for approval." Zhang Qiang said to Wei Wuji.

"Yes, sir, I'll do it right away."