Holding such a silver coin with inscriptions on it, like copper coins, some soldiers did not believe it at first, and looked at the color of the silver, which was solid and high-grade silver. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Everyone is worried about the shortage of catties and two, and when they get the scale, they are completely real, and they are all excited.

In addition to the excitement, everyone is also envious of the loyal and righteous army, not to mention anything else, I heard that the loyal and righteous army is really envious of everyone.

Or deliberately to give a demonstration to everyone, Yang Xuan once again promulgated the detailed rules for the salary of the loyal and righteous army in front of the Buddha Pass, and the monthly salary is as follows:

1. Cadets (3 months before enlistment) 1 tael of silver, which is relatively lower than that of other departments, and more than 1 tael of 5 yuan silver after passing the assessment of other departments

2. Private (after 3 months of enlistment) 1 tael and 5 yuan of silver.

3. Skill allowance:

The literacy allowance is 2 yuan of silver, 3 yuan for Xiucai, and 5 yuan for lifting people; Fifteen skills such as horseback riding, musket, cannon, grenade, arrow, bow and crossbow, fighting, cycling, veterinary, langzhong, ordnance maintenance, etc., will be given a silver allowance (1 money - 5 money) after passing the assessment of each skill, and each soldier is limited to 3 skills.

(There is a 1 money allowance for passing the single assessment, 3 money allowance for the top 10 of the whole battalion competition, and 5 money and silver allowance for the top 10 of the whole regiment competition.) ）

4. Corporal (a regular soldier who has made meritorious service within two times) 1 tael and 8 coins of silver

5. Sergeant (against the four-time meritorious soldier) 2 taels of silver

6. Sergeant (who has made great contributions on the battlefield) 2 taels and 3 coins of silver

7. Squad leader 2 taels 5 money ~ 3 taels 5 money silver (divided into three levels, each level differs by 5 yuan silver)

8. Squadron leader 4 to 5 taels of silver (divided into three grades, each grade differs by 5 dollars of silver)

9. Captain 6~8 taels of silver (divided into 3 grades, each grade is 1 tael of silver)

10. Put a total of 9~13 taels of silver (divided into 3 grades, each grade is 2 taels of silver)

11. 15~21 taels of silver (divided into 3 grades, each registration difference is 3 taels of silver)

12. Guerrilla general 24~30 taels of silver (divided into 3 grades, each grade differs by 3 taels of silver)

13. 32~40 taels of silver (divided into 3 grades, each grade differs by 4 taels of silver)

14. The deputy general 50~60 taels of silver (divided into 3 registrations, each registration is 5 taels of silver)

15. The total number of soldiers is 70~90 taels of silver (divided into 3 grades, each grade is 10 taels of silver)

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As for those who are killed or injured in the war and need to be paid, in addition to the pension of 5~10 times the monthly salary, in addition, the war dead will be given a food subsidy of 1 load per year when their parents are alive and the children are minors, and 1 male will be exempted from the Ding tax; For those who are disabled, they will be exempted from the payment of one male during their lifetime.

The chief officers such as the general manager, the general manager, and the guerrilla general still have a certain amount of office expenses every year.

Judging from the amount of money issued alone, the military salary is very high, in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, a seven-grade county is only 45 taels of silver a year, and the military salary of the squadron leader here has reached the level of the county, and it cannot be said that the military salary is a bit high. (But on the other hand, the county has 3~4 times the hidden income, just like Yang Xuan's pension money, if calculated in this way, the total income of the thousand is almost the same as the income of the county.) ）

In addition, as mentioned above, if a person gets up early and works late to do business, he can earn more than 20 taels of silver a year.

An ordinary student soldier's salary is 1 tael of silver, and after the regularization, 1 tael of 5 taels of silver, plus technical allowance, the general can get 20 taels of silver, and some can get nearly 25 taels of silver a year, so it can be seen that the salary of the loyal army is still quite generous.

At present, there are 16 infantry regiments, 1 cavalry regiment, 1 artillery regiment, and 1 naval army, with nearly 40,000 people in the whole army, and the annual expenditure per person is calculated according to 25 taels of silver, which is nearly 1 million taels of silver a year.

Each person consumes 4 quintals of grain per year (150 catties per load in the Ming Dynasty), so 160,000 quintals of grain are consumed.

This is just daily consumption, if you consider weapons, armor, and rewards for meritorious service on the battlefield, it will only be more.

At the same time as the other ministries issued bounties, the various departments of the Loyal and Righteous Army repaid the arrears accumulated in the past two months and repaid the bounties.

According to the calculation of the war, the first battle of Shunqing Fucheng issued an average of one and a half months of silver, one month of pursuit battle, one month of Chengdu ZQ first battle, plus a month of reward at the end of the year, so that those soldiers who participated in all the wars, even if they did not make any great contributions, the reward silver alone was enough for four and a half months.

However, for some of those who have made meritorious service in battle, there are 200 people who have been rewarded for more than 10 months, and nearly 2,000 people who have been rewarded for more than six months are generally more than three or four months.

Yang Xuan didn't seem to mind at all, and after a little review of the documents submitted, the whole army distributed them truthfully.

Liu Liang grew up and exclaimed: "My lord, there are so many troops, and some brothers have ten months of silver reward alone, is this too much?" ”

Yang Xuan smiled: "Not much, not much at all."

Our Shangguan is to create a stage, and those who are willing to work hard can be rewarded, just like a brother in the 11th regiment who has been rewarded for 12 months, and some people talk too much, but I think it is too little.

You see, under Shunqing City, he took the lead in cutting off the legs of the opponent's two war horses, and was the first to rush to the city wall under Mianzhou City.

If in the future, most of the squad leaders, squadron leaders, no, one-tenth of the squad leaders and squadron leaders are such brothers, why worry about the Tartars not being destroyed? ”

When the generals next to him heard this, they applauded, and everyone thought that it should have been like this a long time ago.

In addition to silver coins, Yang Xuan paid special attention to the implementation of paper money this time, as a traveler, of course he knew the importance of paper money, which is why he didn't make money minting silver coins.

Looking at Ma Chao next to him, Yang Xuan smiled, looked at the merit book on it and said, "Ma Chao, you are a guerrilla general, and you are also the highest, with 30 taels of silver per month."

This time, two months of repayment, plus your reward, so there are 8 months, you say, will you move by yourself at that time, or will I help you move? ”

240 taels of silver, equivalent to 24 catties of goods, no matter what, it is not light, now listening to Yang Xuan say this, Ma Chao shook his head when he heard it and said: "My lord, how dare you dare to work hard, Xuemei (his wife) is the maid of his wife, and of course the last general is the follower of the adult."

The last general has no other ability, but there is still a little bit of brute strength, how dare this bit of silver work for adults?

My lord, don't talk about the lowly position, that is, the adult's lowly duty can be moved even if you use the strength to eat milk. ”

Next to him, Yin Chengqi glared at Ma Chao and said, "You, you don't understand what adults mean at all."

You have silver tickets in the bank, and we have silver tickets in the Zhongyi Bank. There are eight types of silver tickets, including 5 taels, 1 tael, 5 coins, 1 coin, 5 cents, 1 cent, and 1 cent.

You have 240 taels of silver this time, and if you exchange all of them for 5 taels of silver tickets, but only 48 of them, why do you need to move them around?

48 silver tickets, don't talk about you, even your one-year-old child can hold it. ”

When everyone heard this, they laughed, Ma Chao's face was red, and he shook his head and said, "Lord Shishi, you know that my wife is very powerful and has a very tight control over money.

Well, I'll get all the silver coins for the four months, and the silver tickets for the remaining four months, so that's all right? ”

Yang Xuan smiled and looked at everyone: "This Zhongyi Money Village is named after our Loyal and Righteous Army, and the silver tickets issued are mainly for the convenience of everyone to carry.

This time the silver reward is mainly to reward everyone, everyone can take all the silver coins, or you can choose to take some silver tickets, completely voluntary, I don't force everyone. ”

When everyone heard this, they nodded their heads again and again.

In addition to the silver reward, it is to award epaulettes of military rank to increase the sense of honor of the army.

Corporal, sergeant, sergeant, and samurai wear 1 to 4 iron epaulettes on each shoulder (non-commissioned officer grade)

The squad leader, squadron leader, and group leader each wear 1 to 3 brass epaulettes. (Lieutenant Rank)

Put the general, the thousand, and the guerrilla generals with 1 to 3 silver epaulettes. (School level)

The generals, lieutenants, and commanders wore 1 to 3 gold epaulettes. (General)

The next morning, everyone stood in the wind, although it was already the middle of February, but because it was still in the Xiaoice period, the weather was very cold, standing in the open space, everyone felt cold and fluttering.

In order to appear grand, a small platform was built on the mountain, and on the platform, it was written: eat the food of the villagers, wear the clothes of the villagers, and serve the country loyally.

After the assembly of the various departments was completed, Yang Xuan sat in the big tent of the Chinese army, and the generals rushed in, and after Yin Chengqi explained the principle of salary payment, Yang Xuan said: "Brothers, everyone knows that this time we robbed Haoge's camp and took back a little bit of the money that the Barbarian Qing stole from my Han people, whose money is it?"

It's our Ming people's, it's not barbaric, it's just that we took back what he snatched, but this money is the people's in any case, it's our father's brother and sister's, not us who snatched it back, it's ours.

This is everyone's credit, and everyone has been muttering, I keep saying that I want to reward everyone, but why hasn't the reward been distributed.

The day before yesterday, the secretaries of the major brigades, the assistant officers of the battalions, and the supervisors of the regiments had already posted the standards for the payment of salaries, and everyone had also read it, whether there were any problems, and if there were problems, they could stand up, and if they were true, I would correct them to everyone in person. ”

Usually Yang Xuan is very strict, on this occasion, who dares to stand up, Yang Xuan shouted three times, and after seeing that no one stood up, he smiled and nodded to Qian Bangqi, the overseer next to him, and began to distribute military salaries.

After the regiments were led by the guerrilla general Du Si and the overseers to the big tent to check the total amount of distribution, they handed over the total amount in person, and then several soldiers came to the front of the camp carrying silver coins and notes.

At that time, the officers and men of each battalion had already been assembled, and under the roll call of an assistant, the soldiers came to the front desk to receive the money from the regimental supervisors, signed and pressed their handprints, and then turned to leave.

In order to avoid chaos, Yang Xuan took a few people to inspect the battalions, and what was surprising was that many soldiers chose silver coins for one tael and 5 coins, and chose to receive paper money for receiving money.

Since each regiment was distributed separately, the distribution work was very fast, and the distribution was basically completed in one morning.

Yang Xuan originally wanted to distribute it in person like Yuan Xiangcheng, but now that there are a lot of soldiers and horses in the whole army, it takes a long time to distribute it like this, so he has to give up.