After three months of recruit training in Nanyang, it was the second year of Jian'an, that is, 197. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

On the Chinese New Year's Eve of this year, the He family in Wancheng was lit up with lights to celebrate the New Year, and it was very lively.

He Yue, the current head of the He family, is the younger brother of the Empress Dowager He and He Miao, and the half-brother of He Jin.

Although this family has died He Jin, He Miao, and Empress Dowager He one after another, and no longer has any influence in the court, the He family is still a tyrant in the local area, with more than 30,000 hired serfs and more than 2,000 Ding, no matter which force comes, they dare not easily attack their dock fort, so they never give any aspect, whether it is Yuan Shu, Liu Biao, Zhang Xiu, or now Wei Yan, none of them are taken into account by their He family.

At this time, hundreds of white shadows crept closer.

The wind gradually rose, getting colder and colder, and the sky began to fall with goose feathers and snow.

The families on the walls of the fort retreated back to the castle tower to hide from the wind and snow.

The hundreds of white shadows crept close to the moat, gliding over the hard ice of the moat.

The mountains were covered with snow, and the figures in white robes were not noticed by the family.

The figures came to the bottom of the walls, threw their claws, and climbed upward, their bodies unusually agile like apes.

They came to the city wall and killed all the guards with great speed.

At this time, a large group of cavalry, dressed in white robes, with titles and horses, quietly approached the dock fort.

Four hundred elite soldiers slaughtered all the gatekeepers with lightning speed.

Four thousand six hundred elite horsemen attacked in the snow night and took Hejiawu Fort.

He Yue's bloated and fat body was chopped into mashed meat and eaten as dumpling stuffing by the tenant farmers who hated him to the core.

The bloody night of Chinese New Year's Eve is a bloody night for the He family, a relative of the imperial family.

Since then, the He family in Nanyang, like the pigs and dogs that their father He Zhen had killed, have all turned into dirt.

The He family's fertile land was distributed to tenant farmers, the He family's shops were sold to other families, and half of the He family's property was rewarded to the soldiers who ran on a snowy night, and half was retained as military funds.

In this way, in the first month of the second year of Jian'an, the more than 20 families in Nanyang County who did not respect Wei Yan's orders encountered the same bad luck as the family.

Wei Yan used the reason that they had colluded with Liu Biao and Cao Cao, and brazenly attacked, using the momentum of the autumn wind to sweep away the fallen leaves, and the rhythm of blitzkrieg, to eradicate them all.

The other families did not object, because Wei Yan would share the interests of the twenty or so families with them, allocate a part of the good land to them, and sell the shops to them.

But they didn't know Wei Yanyuan's scheme, and they didn't know that the deafening speech of later generations: "In Germany, when they (the Nazis) extended their clutches to the Weiguangzheng party, I didn't speak, because I was not a Weiguangzheng party; When they stretched out their clutches to the Jews, I did not speak, because I was not a Jew; When they extended their clutches to the Catholics, I didn't speak, because I wasn't a Catholic; Eventually, they stretched out their clutches to me, and no one stood up to speak for me! ”

Wei Yan just wanted to be like Hitler in later generations, cutting off dissidents little by little.

In the past few months, Wei Yan used the excuse that some families had collusion with Liu Biao and Cao Cao to destroy those families, and after a while, Wei Yan used the excuse that some families had collusion with Yuan Shu, who was the emperor, to destroy those families.

Subsequently, Wei Tie's gold-touching army set out and stole all the ancestral tombs of the He family and other families, and the gold and silver treasures inside were swept away.

Wei Yan's financial crisis was solved in an instant, so he began to reward meritorious people again.

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Among all the princes, Wei Yan's military morale is the strongest, not only because Wei Yan's army will be brainwashed, but also because Wei Yan is generous, the food and salary standards he formulated far exceed those of other princes, and even far exceed Cao Cao, and every time he robs the family, half of it is used to reward the three armies.

His method can stimulate the morale and fighting spirit of the soldiers in a short time, but in the long run, of course, it is not a long-term solution, and the money bag can't stand it.

Finally one day, Li Yan, Deng Zhi, Hu Ji, Dong Ju and other officials in charge of finance couldn't bear it anymore and came to advise Wei Yan together.

Deng Zhi had a straightforward personality and said bluntly: "Lord, rewards and punishments are clearly wanted, but the lord is now so indiscriminately rewarded, and he can't steal it." ”

Li Yan also said: "For the way of the king, how can it be clear? Merit is not rewarded indiscriminately, and crime is not punished indiscriminately; Listen to rumors, but don't listen to rumors; The king is so, and it can be clear. Now the lord is all good, but there is only one point, indiscriminate reward, not stopped! ”

The two of them spoke sharply, confusing Wei Yan, and hurriedly asked, "Where did I indiscriminately reward?" ”

Hu Ji said: "The soldiers of the three armies defeated those hostile families this time, and their achievements were mediocre, but they were so indiscriminately rewarded, and their subordinates were afraid that the appetite of the soldiers would be raised by the lord, so they asked the lord to give a big reward for a small achievement."

The great cause of the lord has not been accomplished, and there is a lot to spend. Now a horse costs 20,000 to 100,000 yuan, a sword costs 700 to 900 yuan, a knife costs 600 to 800 yuan, a bow costs 500 to 600 yuan, a crossbow costs 2,000 to 20,000 yuan, a bow and arrow costs ten yuan, a crossbow arrow costs nine yuan, a set of armor costs 7,000 to 8,000 yuan, and a set of waistcoat costs 7,000 to 9,000 yuan...... And most of the money that the lord received from those powerful people was rewarded to the soldiers, and when it was his turn to buy war horses and build weapons and armor, he had no money, isn't this an indiscriminate reward? ”

Dong Ju added: "My lord, you have never personally managed military supplies, and you don't know the price of firewood and rice. Although horses, weapons, and armor are not cheap, they are not the most expensive compared to people. Each soldier consumes at least 20 stone of grain per year (at this time, one stone of grain is about 40 catties in later generations), according to the current market price, it costs about 4,000 yuan, each soldier consumes 300 yuan of salt every year, and each soldier's clothing is also 3,000 yuan per year, and when it comes to military salaries, each soldier must be paid at least 8,000 yuan a year, and every time a soldier dies in battle, his burial expenses are at least 3,000 yuan, and the pension of each general who dies in battle is 100,000 yuan to 1 million yuan. War horses must not only eat grass, but must be fed fine grain, and each horse must eat forty stone of grain a year, which is equivalent to eight thousand yuan. The lord still wants to buy ploughing cattle, and now ploughing cattle are scarce, and I am afraid that a ploughing ox will cost 5,000 yuan. The soldiers did not eat only grain, but also meat, and a pig cost at least 800 yuan, and each sheep also cost 400 yuan...... For these countless places to spend money, I don't know if the lord has any considerations in his heart? ”

(According to the price index at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it is estimated that 1 money is equivalent to 1 yuan now, and at this time, foreign silver is far from flowing into the East Land, and the difference between gold and silver prices is not as big as that of later generations, gold one catty = 6500 ~ 15000 money (the national price is 10000 yuan), silver one catty = 2000 ~ 3500 money)

Hearing them say this, Wei Yan calculated the latest batch of rewards, and estimated that there were three or four hundred million yuan, according to the price of horses at this time, he could buy almost 10,000 war horses, and those soldiers except for some of the money to supplement their families, most of them were not squandered by eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, and such a rich reward would not be of any benefit to their future.

It's just that those rewards have already been issued, and if they are taken back, I am afraid that it will shake the morale of the army.

Wei Yan thought about it, and wanted to find a way to kill two birds with one stone, not only to let the soldier get real benefits, but also to let him use the money to develop.