In ancient times, those who led troops to fight wars and paid attention to timely rewards, and the soldiers worked hard to make great achievements in the front, and if they were careful about rewards, they would chill the hearts of the soldiers of the three armies.

It is rumored that Zhang Xianzhong has plundered countless gold and silver treasures for more than ten years, and the first battle of Phoenix Mountain was beheaded by the Manchus, and half of the wealth fell into the hands of the Tartars.

The Tartars of Haoge's department retreated thousands of miles away, and now they have withdrawn to Hanzhong, and the volunteers have attacked the city all the way, and it is rumored that Zhang Xianzhong's treasure finally fell into the hands of the volunteers.

In the end, how much of Zhang Xianzhong's wealth fell into the hands of the volunteers, there may not be that one who knows, but after several battles, the value of the property seized by the volunteers is calculated in millions.

After nearly three months of hard fighting, the volunteers won the field battle and defeated the main force of the Tartars, pursued the enemy for thousands of miles, and won a victory unprecedented in Wanli.

In addition to the normal distribution of military salaries, Yang Lin prepared a special reward for everyone this time, that is, silver coins.

After several months of minting, 200,000 taels of silver have now been minted, and now is the right time to take this opportunity to present them to everyone.

Looking at everyone present, Yang Lin smiled and said: "Everyone, let me show you a thing, after four months of minting, the first batch of silver dollars has been born, but they are all real catties."

Ladies and gentlemen, this time I have decided to give you a special reward, all those who have made meritorious contributions, and issue silver coins. ”

Two soldiers walked in with a plate of silver dollars with white flowers, and looked at the silver dollars marked as 1 yuan, 5 yuan, 2 yuan, 1 yuan, and 5 cents, and everyone felt quite excited.

On both sides of the front and back there is a volunteer money system, the value of the currency is written on the obverse, and a samurai with a gun is cast on the reverse side, and the pattern is quite exquisite.

Some of the people took it and bit it with their teeth, and felt that this silver dollar was much better than the loose silver used on weekdays.

Some people are worried that there is a shortage of catties and two, and getting a scale is completely real.

This is more convenient than the use of loose silver, in the past the use of loose silver, need to get the silver village over the scale, often there is a shortage of catties less than two.

After the victory, Yang Lin officially promulgated the salary standard of the volunteers.

In addition to the normal job salary, there are also job allowances related to various professional functions, which are manifested in the following ways:

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

Private (after 3 months of enlistment) 1 tael 5 pieces of silver.

Skills 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, 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.) ）

Corporal (a regular soldier who has made meritorious service less than twice) 1 tael and 8 pieces of silver

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

The sergeant (who has made great achievements on the battlefield) 2 taels and 3 coins of silver

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

Squadron Leader 4 to 5 taels of silver (divided into three grades, each rank differs by 5 taels of silver)

Captain 6~8 taels of silver (divided into 3 levels, each level differs by 1 tael of silver)

Put a total of 9~13 taels of silver (divided into 3 grades, each grade differs by 2 taels of silver)

15~21 taels of silver (divided into 3 grades, each grade differs by 3 taels of silver)

Guerrilla General 24~30 taels of silver (divided into 3 levels, each level differs by 3 taels of silver)

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

Lieutenant 50~60 taels of silver (divided into 3 grades, each grade differs by 5 taels of silver)

Total soldier 70~90 taels of silver (divided into 3 levels, each level differs by 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, if the parents are alive, the child will be given a food subsidy of 1 load per year when he is a minor, 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 invisible income, just like the implementation of the pension, if this is calculated, the total income of 1,000 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 volunteer army is still quite generous.

In order to motivate the officers and men of the three armed forces, on the basis of normal military salaries, a certain amount of rewards will be issued according to the number of battles and battlefield performance.

Some of those who have made meritorious contributions to war have been rewarded with silver for more than 10 months, and nearly 2,000 people who have been rewarded for more than six months are generally rewarded with silver for more than two or three months.

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

Qian Bangqi was shocked: "My lord, there are so many troops, and some brothers have ten months of silver alone, is this too much?" ”

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

We Shangguan just want to create a stage, and those who are willing to work below can be rewarded as long as they work hard.

Just like a brother in the 7th Regiment who rewarded silver for 12 months, some people talked 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 Baoning City, these brothers should not only be rewarded, but also trained well in the future, leading the troops as a model of battle.

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 Lin 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 did not make money to mint silver coins.

Looking at Jing Keqin next to him, Yang Lin smiled, looked at the merit book above and said: "Jing Keqin, you are a 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 Lin say this, Yao Chonglie shook his head when he heard it and said: "My lord, how dare you 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 Bu Ning and Yao Chonglie, 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, Bu Ning and Yao Chonglie blushed, shook their heads and said, "Your Excellency, you know that my wife is very powerful and manages money very tightly.

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 Lin smiled and looked at everyone: "This Zhongyi Money Village is named after our volunteers, 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 against the wind, although it was already early March, but because it was still in the Xiaoice period, the weather was very cold, standing in the open space, everyone felt cold.

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 Lin sat in the big tent of the Chinese army, and the generals rushed in, and after Yin Chengqi explained the principle of paying salaries, Yang Lin said: "Brothers, everyone knows that this time we robbed Haoge's camp and took back a little bit of the money that the barbarians looted 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 Lin is very strict, on this occasion, who dares to stand up, Yang Lin called 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 Lin took a few people to inspect the battalions, and what was surprising was that many soldiers chose silver coins for one tael and five 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 Lin 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.