With a large number of troops, tens of thousands of elite soldiers trained by themselves, and equipped with the same arquebuses as the Portuguese, they eliminated Zheng Cai, a maritime threat, and reached an alliance with the rising Zheng Chenggong's Haikou forces, mutual assistance and mutual trade agreements, but the Longwu court did not pay attention to the Jinhua Righteous Army, but stared at the Yongli Southern Ming forces that were dead to the Qing army.

The Yongli court was still pursued by the Qing army, because their power and strength were still the bulk of the anti-Qing and Ming restoration forces.

400,000 Yongli Southern Ming Army, with most of Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, and most of Guizhou, the entire Yunnan, Guangxi, and Guangdong part of the Yongli Imperial Court is a big thing, even if Yongli is timid and afraid of things, he can't help it, but the remnants of Dashun and Daxi remain, and the addition of these soldiers with combat experience makes the Qing army have a headache and have no time to take care of the Longwu court.

In such a situation, Zhang Qiang reorganized his top management, delegated power, and got some respite, and Zhang Qiang hoped that this time would be as long as possible.

What he wants to do now is to be able to farm like other traversers, farm well, develop some high technology, take in more people from other places who have fled to the territory due to the war, accumulate strength, and force the Qing army at that time.

Wei Wuji stood outside the gate of the Governor's Palace, this week, he was full of energy, inexhaustible strength, became the vice chairman of the Joint Council of Admirals, and then he was the second-in-command in the army, because Zhang Qiang grasped the general direction and was a lord on top, so in fact, he was already the actual leader of the Jinhua Righteous Army.

Wei Wuji walked into Zhang Qiang's governor's office with a relaxed pace.

As the governor of Jinhua and in charge of the Jinhua military, Wei Wuji is very busy, it can be said that except for Zhang Qiang's personal leadership of the musketeers and musketeers, all the rebels in Jinhua are dispatched and arranged by him, which is Zhang Qiang's great trust in him.

Wei Wuji was in charge of the rebel army in Jinhua, and in addition to taking care of the logistics, garrison, and military deployment of the rebel army in Quzhou Mansion and Jinhua Mansion, when Zhang Qiang led the army to go on the expedition, in the face of threats and wars from three sides of the Qing army, he ran and echoed, repeatedly defeated the enemy's invading troops, and responded calmly, without causing Jinhua Mansion to suffer a heavy blow from the enemy, or even the crisis of falling, which made Zhang Qiang feel very satisfied and gratified.

Zhang Qiang raised his head, not knowing what was going on with Wei Wuji's visit this time.

"Meet the Governor."

Wei Wuji bowed.

Zhang Qiang stood up, took two steps, and said with a smile: "Wuji, what's the matter?" ”

Wei Wuji sat down slowly, took a sip of tea, and then said, "My lord, I'm here to talk to your lord about military expenses. ”

"Military spending?" Zhang Qiang frowned.

"Yes, my lord, since the establishment of our righteous army, we have been transformed from some righteous soldiers and hot-blooded youths, as well as prisoners for the atrocities of the anti-Qing and anti-Qing army, so the military salary has not been high, we have been constantly fighting against the enemy from the beginning, suppressing bandits, and resisting the Qing army, whether it is grain, grass or silver, it can be captured from the enemy, and it has always been very rich."

Zhang Qiang knew that what Wei Wuji said was the truth, he had been personally training those soldiers, the systematic skills of riding and chopping, and the command skills had the credit of reducing military salaries and improving morale, and the coaching skills made the soldiers familiar with him, which improved the loyalty of the soldiers to themselves, and the strict discipline training made them know to obey, and they didn't have much money, and the capture was also very rich, so in fact, the soldiers got military salaries and even the military salaries of the Han military banner.

Sometimes he even suspected that he was training an old Red Army unit that was extremely loyal to us during the Long March.

But in fact, people's hearts are all profit-seeking, at least to meet their own livelihood, and at the same time to give some living expenses to their families, and the military salary they give is often not enough to meet these basic living expenses.

But he has always known in his heart that he does not have so much gold and silver in his hands to reward the soldiers, and the soldiers have been in the cruel shadow of the Qing army, and they have no time to take care of these, and now Wei Wuji has brought it up, which proves that his Jinhua Righteous Army has been liberated from the continuous oppression of the Qing army, and they have time to consider their own personal interests.

Thinking of this, Zhang Qiang held the teacup and did not move, his eyes looked at Wei Wuji, Wei Wuji is an obscurity, never cares about interests, and has always only used actions to repay his subordinates.

He is raising this question now, which means that this problem has reached the point where it is urgent to solve it, and Zhang Qiang is grateful for this reminder.

"Wuji, tell me about our current military salary." Zhang Qiang put down the teacup and leaned forward, his eyes looking at Wei Wuji.

Wei Wuji thought for a while and said: "At present, our army is divided into recruits, recruits who receive ordinary training in the army, the military salary is 100 Wen, military uniforms, weapons, and equipment are all from the inferior products we have captured and obtained in the past, and these people are concentrated in the Jinhua Mansion, Taizhou Mansion, Chuzhou Mansion, and the military camps near the three prefecture cities in our current core territory. ”

"How many soldiers?" Zhang Qiang asked.

Wei Wuji said: "There are 10,000 soldiers in Jinhua Mansion, 5,000 soldiers in Taizhou Mansion, 3,000 soldiers in Chuzhou Mansion, and 3,000 naval recruits in Taizhou Mansion who are being trained. ”

"The salaries of these soldiers don't add up much." Zhang Qiang muttered.

Wei Wuji smiled slightly, "Yes, my lord, twenty-one thousand recruits, only about one thousand five hundred taels of silver per month. However, compared to the price of food around the territory and in the market, it is a huge disparity. ”

Zhang Qiang was a little angry, the price of four taels of grain and one stone, this is simply a robbery, one tael of silver is now equivalent to 1,300 to 1,500 Wen, and one stone of grain is equivalent to about 120 catties in later generations. (The Baidu information found is very messy, but this one hundred and twenty catties is a lot, so this one will prevail, and no one cares.) Other data are also subject to this book, and if there is any discrepancy, this book shall prevail. ）

How to say the price of four taels also exposes that the merchants around or within the territory are hoarding and want to make a fortune, which must be cracked down.

Generally, the price of grain in the Ming Dynasty is one or two two stones, or one or two or six coins around the float, (no matter how much a tael of silver is, here it is calculated with one tael of silver and ten coins, no matter how the exchange of Wen fluctuates, one coin is divided equally into one tael to exchange for how many Wen to calculate, for example, at the highest time, there is one tael for 1,700 documents, then one coin is equivalent to one coin is equal to 170 Wen.) This shall prevail in the future and shall not be interpreted. ）

Now the average of one or two around is 1,400 Wen, and four taels is 5,600 Wen.

And the military salary of 100 wen is indeed very harsh for recruits, which is equivalent to the realm of talking better than nothing.

Imagine how much this salary has on the psychology of today's soldiers.

Zhang Qiang touched his forehead, the territory finally stabilized, and he also changed from a crossing boy of unknown origin to a great warlord in the late Ming Dynasty with an army of seventy or eighty thousand, of course, Zhang Qiang didn't think so, he thought that he was a great hero who rescued the Ming Dynasty from fire and water, a glorious lord of the late Ming Dynasty.

Zhang Qiang didn't make a decision, but raised his head and motioned to Wei Wuji for him to continue.

Wei Wuji coughed lightly, cleared his throat and said: "This is a recruit, we also have a large number of other rebel soldiers who have been trained by recruits who have joined us, as well as the prisoners who have been transformed, trained by recruits, and who are innocent of their value are assigned to the towns and villages of various counties and towns to serve as militia militias. ”