Section 110: Retribution

After punishing the spearmen, they were given a meal of braised pork to eat.

In the evening, he called them out one by one and was relieved in his barracks.

Tell them to reward them for winning the bandits, and punish them for their indiscriminate struggle.

Then tell them that he intends to repay them.

In this way, he fully shows his side of rewards and punishments.

Twelve people, only nine heads, naturally it is impossible for one person.

They quarrel because of unfair distribution, and this has happened since ancient times.

The head reward comes from the Qin State during the Warring States Period, and the Qin ** Gong system is extremely strict, and the soldiers can get first-class merit by beheading one level, and five servants can be obtained by beheading five people, and at the same time, beheading can also release the parents and relatives who have been convicted, and liberate the relatives who have become slaves.

The strict military merit reward system ensured that as long as the soldiers of the Qin State fought bravely and could kill the enemy, they could improve their own destiny, so that a poor commoner, or even the descendant of a criminal citizen, could become a nobleman and an officer.

Therefore, the soldiers of the Qin State were extremely brave when they fought, and at the same time, they wrapped their heads around their waists, and rushed forward to kill the evil ghosts, which made the soldiers of the Six Kingdoms terrified.

It can be said that the head reward has made the famous Qin army.

Therefore, many dynasties after the Qin Dynasty inherited this system, and the Ming Dynasty was no exception.

What is puzzling is that the Qin army, which was rewarded for its head, was unparalleled in combat power, and the Ming army, which was also rewarded for its head, fell **.

Since the Qin Dynasty, most of China has been overkill, and they all believe that the fall of the Qin Dynasty was due to severe punishment and strict laws, so most of the later dynasties emphasized Huai Rou, and the law was very lenient under the advocacy of Confucianism.

Yang Chao didn't understand this, a country would perish because of the strict implementation of the law? It's just incomprehensible.

Even if the punishment of the Qin Dynasty is indeed unreasonable, the law will never punish the innocent, and Yang Chao believes that the harm of poor law enforcement is greater than the excessive punishment of criminals caused by strict implementation of the law.

Under the Confucian concept of rule, the state is full of the illusion of generosity and benevolence, but in fact darkness and filth are running in the dark.

Yang Chao can't control the darkness of society, but the problems in the army must be considered.

There are irrationalities in the system of rewarding heads, especially after thousands of years of implementation, all kinds of vacancies have long been discovered, the most serious of which are 'killing the good and risking merit' and 'competing for the first rank'.

Needless to say, killing good and pretending to be a thief is killing civilians and pretending to be the head of a thief to lead the merit; Fighting for the head means that sometimes on the battlefield, after defeating the enemy, the soldiers do not want to immediately pursue and defeat the enemy, but instead compete for the dead enemy's corpse on the spot, and even fight each other, causing the enemy to flee calmly.

To make matters worse, some enemies took advantage of this situation and fled by throwing dead bodies on the ground, and as a result, when the Ming army was fighting for the first rank, they killed a horse pistol, and the result was a great defeat for the Ming army.

At that time, Qi Jiguang often encountered the Japanese Invaders doing this, and the Japanese even directly abandoned some of the heads they cut off, or a large amount of property to escape, and when the Ming army was scrambling, they suddenly killed a horse pistol and defeated the Ming army.

Although Yang Chao's soldiers were not fighting on the battlefield, they still belonged to the nature of competing for the first rank.

The solution to the problem of killing good and pretending to be meritorious is strict military law and military regulations, and the high consciousness of the officers, Qi Jiguang's army will not kill good and pretending to be meritorious, because Qi Jiguang himself will not do this, and he can always kill enough heads, and he does not need to do this, history records that Qi Jiguang killed more than 150,000 Mongolian soldiers.

As for the solution of competing for the first rank, Qi Dashuai adopted the method of attaching importance to combat performance and suppressing the beheading.

The Qi family army "takes the person who charges into battle as the first merit, and the one who captures and beheads the head is second", "when the confrontation is held, but the thief is killed, and it is not allowed to covet the reward and pick up the dead rank", "All the officers and soldiers bravely climb first, charge to break the enemy, and see the public eye, regardless of the number of heads, will be rewarded with one hundred taels of silver first, and the thief will still be divided into the death level after the peace, and the merit will be unusual."

Killing the enemy collectively, just like Yang Chao this time, an enemy may be killed by several people at the same time, and Qi Dashuai has also encountered it.

Marshal Qi Jiguang's tactics are centered on the Mandarin Duck Formation, and different forms of Mandarin Duck Formations have been arranged and practiced when fighting the Japanese and Mongolians, and everyone kills the enemy in a military formation, and it is really difficult to tell which enemy was killed by which soldier in the chaotic army. Therefore, Qi Dashuai assigns the heads and military merits according to the different positions of the team, and at the same time, the heads are cut by fixed people, and the soldiers in the battle formation are not allowed to leave the military formation at will to cut the heads on the battlefield.

"In the duck array, the long card, the spear, the wolf and other leading soldiers are not allowed to take the head of the knife to cut the head, just the first to rush to kill, the thief who is killed by the team of short soldiers to cut the head, each of which is allowed to be cut by one person, and it is mentioned behind the battle. After the war, a unified team made meritorious contributions. ”

"Each head is divided into thirty taels, the first card gun is divided into twenty taels, the first soldier is cut two taels, and the rest of the soldiers are not divided into one tael, although the firefighters do not go into battle, the team has merit, and it is also divided into five coins. Each team's bird is also divided into two taels. ”

The problems encountered by Yang Chao were solved by Qi Dashuai, and Yang Chao also felt that it was very reasonable.

So he explained to a few soldiers that since Marshal Qi Jiguang had used this method, they were also very convinced.

In the end, Yang Chao took out six heads and divided them equally among the spearmen, and each person could not be promoted by one level by half a level, but the reward was more than ten taels, Yang Chao not only did not deduct it, but even said that he would not wait for the Ministry of War to verify and issue it to them, but would pay in advance with his own money.

As for the remaining three heads, one was given to Zhang Dawei, allowing him to be promoted one level to become the team leader.

The other two were given to the archers.

The credit was quickly reported in this way, and the paperwork was made and sent to the top boss first.

Zuo Si is directly under the central part, and the central Qianzong is extremely happy to see that Yang Chao actually killed the head of the Jiang bandit, because of the credit for the killing, he also has a share on his head.

immediately said very enthusiastically that he would report it as soon as possible and let Yang Chao wait for good news.

Yang Chao also sent a hundred taels of silver to him, and Mr. Qian also smiled, saying that he also needed money to move, and I believe that the credit will come down faster.

The reward for nine heads is less than three hundred taels, and one hundred taels for activities is enough.

But money can't buy the credit.

Back in the battalion, Yang Chao immediately promulgated a new military merit system and publicly preached it to the soldiers.

During the battle, it was not allowed to cut off the head, and all the work of cutting the head was carried out by Yang Chao's personal soldiers.

The rest of the soldiers just fought.

And at the same time keep their promises.

And he took out of the city five hundred taels of silver.

Began to give out bounties in front of all the soldiers.