Chapter 188: Willing to be a soldier and willing to be a slave

After Liu Fangrui and the Su sisters were sent to Jinan Mansion, as soon as the tense situation here passed, Jiang Feng sent people over to pick up a few girls back, but the people who were sent a few times didn't even enter the door. At the beginning, Jiang Feng could think about it, thinking that he and Liu Shunhua had not gotten along well, and he had robbed someone else's daughter, so it was also appropriate to give some face. In that case, just go a few more times.

But this time it was the tenth time, and he still couldn't even enter the gate, Jiang Feng was the one who could swallow this breath, and after the servants he sent back, he was suddenly furious.

After Liu Twelve was pushed into the door by the people behind, Jiang Feng's servants naturally took over, Jiang Feng's servants were all Tieding's family members, and they came to serve in shifts, so it was also a peace of mind, and there was also some meaning of communication in it. This kind of personal matter naturally can't be taken out, Jiang Feng squeezed out a smile on his face, and said to Liu Twelve:

"Mr. Liu, the rewards and punishments of our thousands of households have already been decided, do you think there are any rules that need to be supplemented?"

Liu Twelve nodded there, Jiang Feng's military regulations and regulations would not let the soldiers suffer, and the credit would be shared according to the beheading after the war, which also avoided the situation on the ancient battlefield that led to the collapse of the formation and the defeat of the victory because of the cutting of the head.

However, Liu Twelve talked about the same topic this time, hearing Jiang Feng mention it, he bowed slightly on the wooden chair, and now the relationship between him and Jiang Feng is similar to the relationship between generals and staff, and they treat each other as the etiquette of host and guest, Liu Twelve opened his mouth and said:

"Lord Jiang's public heart for the country is indeed very admirable, I have already read the military regulations in the morning, and this is written as a proclamation and pasted in the dock fort?"

When Jiang Feng heard Liu Twelve's words, he couldn't help frowning, and asked with some confusion:

"For the public heart of the country, we just want to make the soldiers desperate when they fight, each person has one or two taels of silver and two loads of rice, this cost is not small, for the country, for the country's work, Lao Tzu will have to pay for the court!"

Liu Twelve was stunned when he said this, he was a little confused by Jiang Feng, and slowly asked:

"Do you mean you want to have a private army that can fight?"

"Of course, spending my money is to sell my life to Lao Tzu."

Although this kind of conversation between the two sides is everyone's default truth, but when it is put on the table, it is a bit too naked, or rather, there is no court in the eyes, and there is no tomorrow. Liu Twelve, who has always been calm and calm, sweated slightly on his forehead, and the cool temperature on the mountain was obviously not the reason for the weather. He was completely confused by Jiang Feng's questioning that lacked common sense. However, when I remembered the words that my uncle Zhao Xiucai had told him, it was Jiang Feng who understood major matters, but he inexplicably lacked common sense in some small matters.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but try to ask:

"Since the adults think so, why don't you make an inventory of the family, the two thousand strong people in the new barracks are all domestic slaves of the adults......"

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Jiang Feng, who asked with some confusion:

"These people under the mountain are good soldiers, who wants to be domestic slaves!"

It is indeed a lack of common sense, Liu Twelve raised his head and sighed, patted his forehead lightly with his hand, and said with a wry smile:

"One or two silver, two loads of rice, the big tomorrow, if it is not for their own slaves, no one will spend such a large amount of money to raise, those strong if they are not adult slaves, for their own masters, who will work hard? If a domestic slave dies, he must have a pension, and if he is disabled, an adult must provide for his old age. ”

This series of questions immediately stunned Jiang Feng's question, he really didn't know such rules.

After the civil engineering changes of the Ming Dynasty, the generals began to slowly become their own personal soldiers and family members by relying on the main force of the war, and usually used the military salary of normal soldiers to support these personal soldiers, although these personal soldiers are completely the personal belongings of the generals, and life, old age, sickness and death are not in their own hands.

In fact, in the Ming Dynasty, the treatment of domestic slaves was like a big pot of rice for our state-owned enterprises in China in the modern sixties and seventies, and people were worried about birth, old age, sickness and death. It's much more comfortable than being a big-headed soldier who can't even eat.

And since it is the general's private soldier, that is, all the glory, one loss, when on the battlefield, although the generals are reluctant to send their own soldiers to the battlefield, but as long as these pro-soldiers are on the line, they are often charging into battle, and the absolute combat effectiveness is strong, of course, everyone eats and drinks well, there is no worries, all day long practice and are not afraid of death The soldiers are extremely strong after arriving on the battlefield.

The next explanation made Jiang Feng feel a little embarrassed, but Liu Twelve wanted to look up to the sky and sigh, thinking that he had always prided himself on being a wise man, but he didn't expect to follow this Jiang Daren to do the work of common sense enlightenment, Jiang Feng listened to this, patted each other's hands excitedly, and said:

"Wait a minute, I'll let the irons go down and post notices, for slaves and soldiers, they choose for themselves!"

Liu Twelve took a long breath, the explanation just now was quite physically and mentally exhausted, and his brain was also a little chaotic, he wanted to say goodbye and go back to come back another day, but before he could say the words of farewell, Jiang Feng over there twisted and said:

"Mr. Liu is also his own family now, and I won't hide it from you, after my wife was sent back to her parents' house, his damn father didn't let him go......"

There are more wry smiles today than before, Liu Twelve thought helplessly in his heart, but since it was his own owner who asked, his mind was also spinning rapidly, and the information that Zhao Xiucai told him appeared in his mind one by one.

The next day, Tie Ding went to the bottom of the mountain and read the document aloud, Jiang Feng, as a modern person, when he had more than 100 Tie Ding as domestic slaves in his hands, he was not considered to have an obstacle in his heart, because in those stories he saw since he was a child, hundreds of landlords and bullies repeatedly appeared.

But to turn the more than 1,000 recruits recruited by the Tianjin Guard under the mountain, as well as the more than 700 men from Weishan Island who defected to him, into his own house slaves, this is a house slave of more than 2,000 people, no matter what, it is a little awkward, not to mention that the means were really used when recovering Tie Ding at that time, will it be so easy for these people below?

The result surprised Jiang Feng, not only the new recruits under the mountain joined, but even the soldiers and officers of the original Thousand Households took the initiative to come to take charge of the family, but this was because the scope had already been demarcated, so they did not succeed in joining. At present, there are only four or five hundred old and weak soldiers in the Thousand Households of Yantai Mountain, and as for Jiang Feng, who is going to go to Dengzhou to take up his post in the left guard, he does not have a single soldier or a general, but he has 2,000 soldiers.

The matter of the contract document is easy to do, and it is directly taken to the yamen to go through the formalities, everything is neat, and no one dares to say anything.

Jingshi Jinyi Weidu commanded Lu Bing's Mansion, which is now the residence of the hottest person in Beijing, and although the guests who visit outside the door every day may not be as many as when Liu Jin's arrogance was at its peak, they are also lined up in a long line. But this kind of thing should be done as soon as possible.

Jiang Feng was not so powerful when Lu Bing was not so powerful, so he had a relationship with the scriptures, and everything had to be paid attention to first-come, first-served, Huifenglou now has a monthly income of several thousand taels of silver, although it is said that Jiang Feng and Lu Bing are half of the two families, of course, Lu Bing will not covet this silver.

However, the chief of Jiang Feng sent by Jiang Feng of Huifeng Lou in the capital still sent these silver respectfully every month, and Jiang Feng always sent a thousand taels of money to the monthly sea trade in Shandong and attached a letterhead of respectful greetings.

It is precisely because Jiang Feng has done so well that now his letterheads and greetings are more valued in Lu Bing's mansion, that is, they are always opened by Lu Bing's personal scrivener, and if there is any important news, it will be quickly sent to Lu Bing.

Jiang Feng has been away from Beijing for such a long time, and the monthly letters are all about saying hello or some trivial matters, which are very stylized, so the personal scrivener usually does not convey them, but this time the letter is different.

In recent years, the court has gradually changed to Emperor Jiajing's cronies, but no one's favor can surpass Lu Bing, although Lu Bing's age is not too old now, but the authority is getting heavier, and people have become calm and abnormal. In other words, he behaved quite like a forty or fifty-year-old old official, and his joy and anger were invisible.

But today, the Lu Mansion family who was serving in the main hall rarely saw Lu Bing's smile, he took two letters and looked at them carefully, and while laughing, he suddenly looked up and said to the housekeeper who was a little stunned beside him:

"Please come here, Mr. Qiu!"

The staffing of the master and the staff is basically the regular configuration of officials with real power above the fifth rank, and there are even some civil officials in the staff of Lu Bing, but this Mr. Qiu is a secretary who walks in the mansion, and some personal things are handed over to him.

As soon as Mr. Qiu came over, he was also surprised to see the smile on Lu Bing's face, and was about to ask, but Lu Bing had already opened his mouth and said with a smile:

"Go and inquire, who is a high-ranking official in Beijing, who has a lady in the boudoir......"

Speaking of this, Lu Bing couldn't help but laugh again, raised the letter in his hand and said with a smile:

"That Jiang Feng, that Jiang Feng, actually begged the official to tell his father-in-law Liu Shunhua to continue the match, haha......"