And then, as it was. Because they did not bear the main responsibility, Zhang Mingtong and the others only ended up with a one-year fine and a demotion to one level of retention.

However, it should be said that for such a result, there is no psychological imbalance in the hearts of the generals, but most of them are happy to see it.

After all, at this time, "righteous annihilation" is not a good word.

Of course, although Zhang Shihua chose asylum on the issue of his brother's mistakes. However, the pension for the soldiers who died in the war will not be reduced, but this time, the pension is unintentionally changed from money and grain to land.

Yes, it's the land. In this pension, all the soldiers who died in battle will be compensated with Yongye land equivalent to the pension.

And such a change can't help but make all the generals in the hall stunned. made them forget about Zhang Shihua's shelter against Zhang Shihui and other defeated generals.

After all, ancient China, as an agrarian people. The land was as attractive to the ancients as gold was to Europeans during the Great Voyage. It's all about things that can make them go out of their way to fight for it.

Therefore, when they heard that their lord was going to take out the public land as a pension, all the generals in the hall couldn't help but widen their eyes and prick up their ears, and mentioned their twelve points of spirit.

But at this time, some smart people can't help but notice. When their lord threw such a "big bomb", Zhao Ziyu, Chang Xiqiao, and Thursday Jiusan, who were standing in the forefront of civil officials, had a mediocre face. Obviously, the lord had already given the three of them a passing qi. Or, the idea, was originally the idea of one of the three of them.

Not to mention, these smart people really guessed correctly this time.

This idea was indeed proposed by Chang Xiqiao to Zhang Shihua at first. After all, Chang Xiqiao is in charge of logistics and money and food issues, and his position is equivalent to the big butler of the black-clothed army. It was only natural that such an idea could be come up with at "that time".

As for "that time", in fact, it was more than half a month's money, when Zhang Shihui and they had just led the army to attack De'an Mansion.

It can be said that since then, Zhang Shihua has not been troubled by the huge money and food expenses brought about by the army's expedition.

Although it is said that because of the fact that Jingnan has just been conquered, there is no shortage of money and food in the public treasury of the black-clothed army. But when he thought of the huge rewards and pensions after the war, Zhang Shihua couldn't help frowning.

Because since that time, Zhang Shihua couldn't help but find that the black-clothed army seemed to have unconsciously fallen into some kind of dead circle in finances and some more important issues.

Everyone knows that at the beginning, Zhang Shihua fought on the financial problems of the black-clothed army with the idea of using war to feed the war. That is, to use the elite soldiers and horses under his command to constantly plunder outwards in order to obtain more money, food and wealth. Then, in turn, use this plundered wealth to make the Black Army stronger.

In the beginning, this approach was really useful.

Zhang Shihua used this method to form an elite black-clothed army, and plundered the vast land from the Yuanmeng court, thus making his own strength faintly become the strongest in the world.

But today, when Zhang Shihua felt that he had a large enough territory and wanted to go back to civil affairs, Zhang Shihua couldn't help but be surprised to find out. Unknowingly, he has turned his army into a greedy and huge gold-sucking monster.

Although it is said that he used this monster to plunder a lot of land and a huge amount of wealth for himself. But looking back, he couldn't help but find that in the end, almost all of the wealth obtained through plunder had become the nourishment of this monster.

So when Zhang Shihua wanted to restore civil affairs at this time, Zhang Shihua couldn't help but sadly find that the black-clothed army, which seemed to be extremely powerful and like cooking oil in a blazing fire, couldn't come up with much food at all.

Because most of the money and food in his hands were "advanced" by the black-clothed army next time.

Therefore, when Zhang Shihua discovered this, an even more terrifying question couldn't help but emerge in front of Zhang Shihua's eyes.

That is the great incongruity between military and civil affairs, and the "look at the money" of the black-clad sergeants.

This kind of thing, if it is used as a metaphor, is equivalent to the owner raising a good hunting dog. In the beginning, the owner wanted to use this excellent bloodline hunting dog to get more prey and improve his life.

Therefore, in order to achieve this goal, the owner can't help but give the hound the best quality food, the best living environment and the most complete and systematic training.

Of course, in the beginning, the hound also rewarded its owner well.

In each hunt, it catches a large amount of prey for its master. Therefore, in order to reward the hound, the owner is getting better and better for the hound.

Therefore, at the beginning, the relationship between the two was naturally very harmonious. The owner is satisfied with his hound, which can catch prey every time, and the hound is also satisfied that he can find an owner who can be so good to him.

But later, as the hound grew, the hound's appetite became bigger and bigger, its taste became more and more tricky, and its conduct became more and more greedy.

Therefore, in order to satisfy the hound, the owner can only reward it with more from the prey that the hound hunts.

But who knows, the more this happens, the more the hound will have a greater appetite and a more greedy character. So much so that in the end, all the prey that the hound acquired became its own food. And the owner who has raised the hound, every time he can get is only the scraps left by the prey.

So in this way, the owner's original plan to let the hound improve his life can't help but become far away, and even gradually the hound has become a burden for the owner.

But this is not the most terrible, the most terrible thing is that if this continues, the originally loyal hound will also be raised as a wolf by his own master. A hungry wolf that eats its own master when its appetite is not satisfied.

So at this time, we can also understand the concerns in Zhang Shihua's heart.

Yes, Zhang Shihua is also extremely worried in his heart that the black-clothed army he has cultivated with countless money and food will become the biggest burden on his regime in the end. So much so that even he, the founder, will be backlashed against because of this.

You must know that Zhang Shihua's worries at this time are not groundless. When there is too much kindness and reward, what breeds is not gratitude, but the habit of the recipient and even resentment.

As the saying goes, "When a man promises to give you a hundred dollars, but in the end he gives you only seventy dollars for some reason, you feel that he owes you thirty dollars." "Yes, that's what most people think.

So Zhang Shihua was also afraid. When one day he can't meet the needs of the Black Army, and he can't give enough rewards and pensions to his soldiers after the war, the soldiers of the Black Army will feel that he, the lord, owes them.

Because Zhang Shihua had made a promise to them. If these cannot be realized in the end due to various reasons, then logically speaking, it is indeed Zhang Shihua who owes them.

Therefore, at this time, the method of only relying on money and food to support the army will not work.

Because they only use money and food to feed the soldiers, it feels like they are doing business. For example, if a soldier kills a person, they will get the same amount of money. After all, isn't this just a one-shot deal?

So when you feel that this method is not working, and tactfully inform your subordinates about this worry, that is, after Chang Xiqiao, the big butler of the black-clothed army. Chang Xiqiao, who is famous for his talent and is also a high-ranking intellectual in the black-clothed army, couldn't help but put forward the idea of replacing money and food with land.

The reason why this method was proposed was because it could satisfy the strong land plot in the bones of the black-clothed sergeant from the common people, so that he could have a stronger sense of attachment and loyalty to Zhang Shihua after obtaining a piece of land; Second, it is because Zhang Shihua's subordinates have enough land.

Yes, if the items in Zhang Shihua's hands are discounted now. The most valuable and valuable in his hands are the ownerless public fields he controls.

After all, because of years of war and the raid of wealthy households, the amount of public land in Zhang Shihua's hands can be said to be terrifying. Otherwise, Zhang Shihua would not have done such a thing as immigration in Jingnan.

It's not a big deal, the amount of public land under Zhang Shihua now, even if it is thirty or forty acres of land for one of the black-clothed sergeants under his command, is more than enough.

Although judging from the current development intensity, it is far less than the development of cultivated land in later generations. But now, any county town also has 3.5 million or 7.8 million acres of land.

Therefore, at this time, anyone who can be called a wealthy and powerful household at the level of the house and the road. In the past 100 years, the land has been annexed, and at least there are several, tens, or even hundreds of thousands of acres of land.

After all, even the Taihe Zhang family, where Zhang Shihua himself was born, still had 10,000 acres of fertile land in the family before Zhang Shihua rebelled, not to mention these powerful families that have been inherited for more than 100 years and have produced countless officials in the family.

Therefore, after Zhang Shihua's cleanup of the wealthy families in Jingnan, the number of public land in Zhang Shihua's hands has reached more than 4 million mu.

Yes, it is such a number that Zhang Shihua couldn't help but be stunned after knowing it.

There is no way, who let the land annexation of the Yuan Dynasty be the most serious in all dynasties. Although since the advent of land privatization, the issue of land annexation has arisen with it.

But even in the more than 2,000 years of feudal history, the Great Yuan Dynasty is definitely the dynasty that has the most indifference to the issue of land annexation.

In any case, the rulers of the Great Yuan Dynasty did not seem to have thought about the harm that land annexation would bring. The Han, Tang, Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties, all of which were once unified, all enacted decrees or reforms to deal with the increasingly serious problem of land annexation, and to a certain extent to ensure the interests of yeoman farmers.

But only the Yuan Dynasty did not have any laws on such a problem. Not only was there no decree, but in some respects, there was a great deal of indulgence in land annexation.

Take the monasteries of the Yuan Dynasty, for example. Because the rulers were extremely supportive of Buddhism, the social status of the monks was even equivalent to that of the famous scholars. Therefore, in the Yuan Dynasty, almost every monastery itself can be said to be the most powerful and powerful clan in the local area.

For example, the Jingmen Qifeng Temple where the Jingmen monk Li Zhi was born, according to Li Zhi's disclosure to Zhang Shihua, the total amount of land under the Qifeng Temple is at least 150,000 mu. Because the fields of their monasteries are not only all over Jingmen, but even on the side of Zhongxing Road, there are fields belonging to their monasteries.

So even if Zhang Shihua had expected it, when he heard such a scary number, he couldn't help but be shocked.

However, according to Li Zhi, in the world, like Qifeng Temple, it can only be said to be at the lower middle level. Anyway, according to him, the Wanning Temple, which is dedicated to Emperor Chengzong of the Great Yuan, has at least one million acres of land under the temple.

million acres, even if Zhang Shihua himself is a traverser. But this number is also something that Zhang Shihua can't even think of.

However, Zhang Shihua knew that what he said was not false at all, because it was clearly recorded in the history books that just over 20 years ago, when Emperor Wenzong was the emperor, the emperor who had been a vassal king in Gangneung City, once gave 162,090 hectares (Note 1) of land to the Dachengtian Protector Temple as Yongye Field.

One hundred and sixty-two thousand and ninety hectares, what a concept. If this is converted into acres, there will be 16 million acres of land! This is completely the direct painting of several roads as the private property of this great Chengtian Protector Temple.

So from this point alone, we can also imagine the drastic extent of land annexation in the Yuan Dynasty. And it is also from this point that we can also imagine how eager the people at the bottom would be for land in the Yuan Dynasty.

Therefore, Zhang Shihua's use of land as a pension is undoubtedly an itch for the black-clothed sergeants.

Because in normal times, even if these soldiers were rewarded with money and food, most of them would use these rewards to buy land.

Therefore, when the generals in the hall heard that Zhang Shihua wanted to take the land and the precious Yongye land as a pension, they would also behave like this.

Because most of them were born in the common class, they were extremely sensitive to the land, and they were already faintly aware of this. Starting today, the black-clothed army will also usher in a big storm and big change again.