On the Liping front line (today's southeast of Qiandong), after the defeat of Ahanikan, the counties came to vote one after another, and Guo Chengfen, the prefect of Liping, assessed the prefects who came to meet one by one, and eliminated those who were corrupt and stubborn or had a bad reputation.

Looking at these magistrates who came to visit, Guo Chengfen pointed to the stack of newspapers in front of him and said: "Everyone, have you all heard of the new deal for adults, what is the new deal for adults?" Here is the "Outline of the New Deal", which talks about how to implement the New Deal.

In addition, there are more than 200 newspapers here, many of which publish the results of the New Deal. You can study it, and also, the "Popular Journal" is published every day, so you should read it more.

Ten days later, the royal government will send a new policy inspector team for training, and then the county magistrates, county officials, household houses, officials' rooms, and prison room secretaries will come to study for three days, and then each county will establish a implementation team to implement the new policy.

Ladies and gentlemen, the implementation of the new policy has been successful, and everyone knows the benefits after acceptance.

As long as the implementation of the new policy is accepted, the prefect, prefect and county officials in various places can receive 1 time more living allowance and 1 time of official expenses on the basis of the existing income every year.

Officials such as county officials, chief clerks, and wardens can get 0.5 times more living allowance than Yulu, and they can get 0.5 times more official expenses. ”

Hearing such many benefits, the eyebrows of the officials danced, and some expressed melancholy and said: "Lord Prefect, it is completely collected in accordance with the standards set by the imperial court, and there is no fire consumption and no random apportionment, is the tax collected in this way enough?" ”

Guo Chengfen shook his head and objected: "Liu Zhixian, you were only a party in the past, you should know that my dynasty is malfunctioning."

The number of land population reported in our local area in the past is seriously unworthy of the name, and many of the land population is still the number of the Hongwu period, how can this be done?

Also, during the Hongwu period, two guards were established, and neither the bandit invasion nor the Tartar invasion played a role at all.

These health centers should be set up in prefectures and counties, and officials should be appointed, which can also increase the land population.

The most important thing is the business endowment, why are those ruffians in the bazaar so rich that they are so rich, mainly because they collect the merchant endowment on behalf of the government when they rush to the market every day, and there are always seven taels of silver down to the market, in this case, why does the government put such a big oil and water and do not make money?

Think about it, even if we are not as rich as Jiangnan, there are always four or five bazaars in each county, how many business gifts can we receive in a year?

There is also a mine endowment, in Yun (Nan heard that the silver mine endowment used to be 100,000 taels per year, and now it is more than 200,000 taels in less than half a year.

Ladies and gentlemen, you may have heard of the Parliament, after the implementation of the new policy, 2 percent of the taxes collected will go to the prefecture and 1 percent to the government.

Let's do it well, just like some people say, this new policy is stricter than Zhang Taiyue's examination law, which only requires annual reporting of results, and if the new policy is not implemented well, the black gauze hat on everyone's head will be taken off by the local council."

At the sound of the black gauze hat, some officials sighed, while others repeatedly said yes.

At the same time, Li Dingguo and others reorganized the local health center.

The small Liping Mansion has a bronze drum guard and a Wukaiwei, mainly to prevent the Miao rebellion, and according to the instructions of the Guogong Mansion, the two guards were each changed to a county.

Establish a garrison camp to protect the local tranquility.

After the volunteers arrived at the place, they ordered the generals of the guard to return the land they had forcibly occupied within a time limit to compensate for the loss of the government

All of the land returned was given to the military households and ordinary people below.

Although this caused dissatisfaction among those former guards officers, these hereditary guards were accustomed to local prestige, and of course they were unwilling to lose their former power.

But the soldiers below are completely different, of course, those who are strong and skilled in martial arts are willing to enlist in the army, if they join the field army, the monthly salary of the army alone is enough 1 tael and 5 yuan of silver, even if they do not become a field army, if they become a garrison force, they also have one or two silver per month, which is stronger than the military household of the cadre guard.

Those capable military households think so, and many honest military households are even more so, everyone used to farm and was exploited by the officers of the guard, which was worse than ordinary farmers.

Now, all the land in the health center has been converted into private land, and the tax is no more than 6 liters of rice per mu for fertile land, and 6 liters of wheat per mu for dry land, although that is higher than that of ordinary farmers.

However, most of the land in the health center is flat, and the harvest is guaranteed by drought and flood, and the grain harvest in the field is high.

The guards are really rotten, and now there is no hereditary status, and there is very little reaction to the recreation.

After Yang Xuan of Yunnan and Guizhou strongly suppressed the two rebel guard commanders, wiped out their three clans, and collected all their money, no one dared to rebel again.

Li Dingguo was initially quite interested, which was not only similar to what the rebels did, but also more thoroughly, completely under the slogan of restoring the discipline of the imperial court, and doing it in a positive manner.

After doing this for half a month, after being hit hard, the Qing army's Shangshu Ahanikan was actively dispatching troops and preparing to counterattack after retreating to Jingzhou.

After receiving the order to march, Li Dingguo asked the generals Yang Wei, Dou Minwang, Dusi Wang Guoxi and others to discuss.

Today, the 12th town has already reached the establishment of a type B town.

It includes the town headquarters, 1 concord and 1 infantry regiment, 1 escort battalion (2 cavalry brigades, 2 guard brigades), 2 2-pound artillery brigades, 2 baggage battalions, 1 supplementary battalion, and 1 field division.

It was decided to leave Dusi Wang Guoxi to lead the supplementary battalion and baggage battalion to garrison Liping and Duyun, while Li Dingguo and Yang Wei led the main force to Jingzhou.

Looking at the thousands of people around him, Li Dingguo was full of feelings, and said to the guerrilla Yang Wei next to him: "General Yang, do you feel that there is any difference between the Volunteer Army and the Great Western Army now?" ”

Yang Wei was also born in the Great Western Army, and was later defeated and captured and transferred to the Volunteer Army, the two have a certain relationship, and they have gotten along very well in the past few months.

Now when I heard Li Dingguo talk about it, he smiled and said: "All the commanders, how different is this?" Our 12th town is still only the establishment of a type B town, and now there are 3 infantry regiments, plus each other's battalions and artillery, and the tens of thousands of righteous troops in the past cannot reach such a momentum.

Look at it, all of them are strong, well-trained, and all of them are well-armoured, and with this momentum, there is no such thing as the old Banzai's pro-army in the past."

All of us have a fortune, and a soldier has twenty taels of silver and two stripes of silver in a year, which is more than what he earns as a long-term worker in the landlord's house.

Of course, there are also troubles, such as some people in the army who like to prostitute, which was not possible in the past. ”

Li Dingguo said with a smile: "Yes, prostitution, the prince is too good to everyone."

Who had a salary when we were in the rebel army in the past?

Now the military salary is more than that of the Ming army, and there are such rewards and such rewards.

I think it's the right thing for everyone to send more money home every year.

The soldiers have nearly 20 taels of silver every year, so that they can not only ensure the food and clothing of the family, but also sell the land and find people to cultivate the money.

Now the land is more wasted, where can 5 taels of silver not buy an acre of good paddy field, so that even if the world is dissolved and returned to the field in the future, so that there can be dozens of acres of land? ”

Yang Wei smiled: "Yes, in the past, we have always asked the soldiers to do this, and everyone has also begged the prince to give orders directly.

The prince thought that the situation was complicated, some were orphans, some were in other places, and some parents were tainted with bad habits, so the principle of voluntariness was adopted.

Soldiers can choose how much they receive, how much to subsidize the family, at first everyone was quite suspicious and worried that the family could not receive it, now there is no problem, there are parents and wives and children at home, more than half of the choice is handed over to the parents at home for safekeeping, and they keep a little pocket money.

Don't you know, the family received military salaries from the township chief every month, and everyone in the surrounding towns and towns asked if the volunteers could recruit people? ”

This is a method of military salary issued by Yang Xuan, most of the soldiers of the Volunteer Army are recruited from the locality, and many of them have parents and brothers at home, and many soldiers often ask people to send money and silver back to their families after getting military salaries (military salaries are high).

In this way, there is a strange phenomenon, after collecting taxes such as field tax, ding tax, business tax, mining tax, salt tax from the local government, and then sending soldiers and horses to the front line carefully to send them to the soldiers, and finally many soldiers have worked hard to send them back to their hometown parents.

After the promotion of silver coins, especially after the opening of Zhongyi Money Village, Yang Xuan adopted another method to distribute military salaries, and set up an account for all soldiers and soldiers, and several sub-households on the basis of the main household.

Soldiers who enlist in the army can choose how much they receive and how much they mail to their parents at home, this policy was very popular once it was introduced, many people only receive a small part for their daily expenses, and the vast majority of them are distributed by Zhongyi Qian Zhuang at a fixed time every month.

Everyone had doubts at first, but Zhongyi Qian Zhuang did not disappoint everyone:

Basically, it is paid at the same time every month, that is, the military salary is paid on the first day of the junior high school in the army, and the parents at home can receive it on the same day with the passbook, and the interest will be calculated on the subsequent receipt.

Everyone didn't believe it at first, even if you find the fastest fast horse, it won't be distributed on the same day, right?

Many people asked the secretary general of the army to write letters to ask, and some even passed by the door to inquire, and finally received a positive answer, which made many soldiers happy.

Since then, most of the soldiers who have a good family have handled passbook deposits and withdrawals, and some have bluntly said that adults give everyone subsidies in disguise, and some bluntly say that adults post money to make money.

Of course, modern people understand more about what is going on, and they understand that the biggest beneficiary of this matter is not these ordinary soldiers, but the government.

In the past, the government collected money and property and handed it over to the national treasury layer by layer, and finally sent heavy troops to the front line to distribute it to the front-line soldiers.

Now, fortunately, the army and the government are only registering and making records, and they are only opening accounts in Zhongyi Qianzhuang, and the taxes collected by the local government no longer need to send heavy troops to the higher yamen and to the front line as in the past.

The relatives of the soldiers have a passbook to receive money every month, just like the parents who went out to work in the 80s, every time they raise the passbook in their hands, it will inevitably arouse the eyes of everyone and encourage everyone's enthusiasm for joining the army.

What is more important is to connect the soldiers themselves with their hometown parents, and after being promoted on the battlefield, the amount received by their hometown relatives will of course increase, so that not only will they be proud on the battlefield, but their families will be able to straighten their waists and behave as people.

If you become a deserter or are dealt with by military law, your family will also know that you have to pay back the military pay in a few months, and the infamy spreads quickly, and your parents are ridiculed in their hometown.

Yang Wei now mentioned the matter of Zhongyi Qianzhuang, the two looked at each other and smiled, Li Dingguo sighed: "It is really not easy for the prince, although he robbed more than two million taels of silver from the righteous army, and also seized millions of taels of silver from Haoge.

But if you look at the fact that we now have 100,000 people, plus the local garrisons, the annual military salary alone is more than 2 million taels of silver, and if you add the expenses of the local government, it can exceed 2.4 million taels of silver, which is really difficult for adults. ”

Yang Wei smiled: "All the commanders, this is not counted."

In addition, all counties are building water conservancy, and all counties are building roads, which all cost money.

There are also very few corrupt officials in the localities, and as soon as they are corrupt, they are immediately reported. ”

Li Dingguo smiled and said: "At first, I felt very aggrieved, just like I was nearly thirty years old, and I had long passed the age of reading and writing, and I actually asked for an hour every day to learn to write, and asked everyone to be able to understand the art of war.

Although everyone was dissatisfied, in the past few months, although everyone could not read the handwriting, with the assistance of the chief of the military department and the assistant office, everyone was still able to understand some books.

In particular, the "Training Textbook" written by adults is half of the pattern and half of the text, and some of it is very exciting to read. ”

Yang Wei smiled and said, "Yes, they are all commanders."

The prince said that those who don't read much are doers, but if they can read more, many people can become characters like Lu Meng and Guan Yu.

If you can't read and write, it's like relying on the master in the army for many things in the past, how can this work?

are all commanders, many people say that our adults are saints who have not been born for five hundred years, and many people say that we are also the true son of heaven, this time they were robbed of the head by Feng Youqing, and we can't be left behind next time. ”

Li Dingguo nodded heavily and said, "Yes, the prince refused everyone's request this time.

But many gentlemen bluntly said that if the crusade is successful in the future, everyone will fight to the death. ”

In mid-February 1650 (the 4th year of Yongli), the volunteers arrived in Jingzhou, and Ahanikan saw that the volunteers were strong, and led the troops to storm the left flank with Yan Fangyu of the green battalion, and led two Jialamunmeng cavalry to storm the right flank of the volunteers.

Jingzhou is located in western Hunan Province, with many mountains and hills, which is not conducive to cavalry warfare at all.

Seeing the Tartar cavalry coming, Yang Wei, who was guarding the right flank, occupied a favorable position, quickly formed a military formation with two-wheeled carriages and knife carts, and used tiger squat cannons and Franc machine guns to fight back, and ordered soldiers to shoot with muskets, bows and crossbows, so as to block the Tartar attack.

On the left flank, the volunteers attacked the Tartar defense, Li Dingguo used 15 elephants as assault arrows, and the rattan players, spearmen, sword players, wolf players, and archers followed closely behind, assaulting the opponent's army formation.

Seeing more than a dozen elephants killed by Li's department, although the soldiers and horses of the green battalion were on guard, the battlefield was too shocking.

The war elephant walked like a fly in this mountainous area, hissing from its mouth, and its huge paws stepped on the ground to make people's hearts jump, and they suddenly rushed over, not afraid of swords and guns at all.

The bold desperately resisted in front, and the timid saw that the brothers around him were trampled under their feet, and they retreated regardless of the generals' obstruction.

The Green Battalion soldiers who remained in place later discovered that the real threat was not the war elephants, but the soldiers who followed them, who were not only well-equipped and swift in their movements, but also dared to charge in groups.

In less than an hour of fighting, the positions of the green battalion were broken one after another, and Yan Fangyu led thousands of green battalion soldiers to rush with their heads.

And Li Dingguo led the army to follow closely, just like the blitzkrieg of the German army in the previous life, with elephant assault in front and infantry attack in the back, so it was unstoppable on the battlefield.

In such a strange situation on the battlefield, the right flank was full of eight banners and could not win in the short term in the face of the volunteers who gathered in the camp and defended it, while the soldiers and horses of the green battalion on the left flank had been broken by Li Dingguo's elephant array, and now the whole army had been defeated, and many people jumped into the city with frightened faces.

The barbarian Qing Shangshu Ahanikan knew that it was difficult to support himself, and he wanted to flee back to the city, but was attacked by a division (battalion) cavalry sent by Li Dingguo, so the department was very damaged and fled back to the city.

Li Dingguo attacked the city with elephants, and the elephants of 5,6 tons rushed under the city gate, suddenly squatted down, and after the impact, the city gate was crumbling and could not be supported.

After three days, the Volunteers finally entered the city, and the Manchu Shangshu Ahanikan, the staff leader Duerde and others led their troops to flee to Yuanzhou (today's Zhijiang).

After attacking the city, Li Dingguo was elated, and said that he was invincible in the world with his invincible elephant soldiers. (Historically, Li Dingguo used elephant soldiers to defeat the enemy many times, and it can be said that elephant soldiers are an important weapon for him to defeat the enemy, and this book only tries to restore it as much as possible).