Section 262 The Call of the Banner

Sure enough, it was the two thousand presidents, they went to Shi Kefa to file a complaint, accusing Yang Chao of bullying his subordinates, forcing them to leave Xinjiangkou, and wanting to dominate here in an attempt to misbehave.

In the past few years, there have been no reports of a few officers making trouble, openly pulling flags and rebelling, and there are more people who have robbed homes and houses and fallen into the grass, and there is no need to say where in Henan, and it is no longer possible to distinguish between officers and soldiers or bandits, that is, there are such situations in the Jiangnan region, and in Xuzhou and Yongcheng, there are military attachés at the level of general soldiers who take the lead in rebellion.

However, the cause is often because of the arrears of military salaries, and the officers and soldiers really can't survive to rebel, and there doesn't seem to be such a situation here in Xinjiangkou, Yang Chao made a new great contribution, and the emperor rewarded 10,000 taels of silver, and promoted one level, there should be no reason to rebel, but why did he force his officers to do so just after taking office.

Therefore, Shi Kefa did not dare to be careless, and immediately sent someone to summon Yang Chao, with his understanding of Yang Chao, Yang Chao is not an ordinary reckless military attaché, he should have read books, and he still has the country's righteousness in his heart, otherwise he would not take the initiative to rescue Haizhou when he was in Huai'an.

At the same time, Shi Kefa summoned Yang Chao to figure it out in private, and finally solved it in private, but it was too late when there was an incident.

Shi Kefa didn't want to be just in office, and as a result, he encountered such a thing as a mutiny, especially if it was a fierce general like Yang Chao who made trouble, something really happened, Shi Kefa really didn't know who to find to suppress it, because Yang Chao led people to kill 10,000 captives, and if he rebelled, I am afraid it would not be 120,000 officers and soldiers who could stop it.

Shi Kefa has another thought, that is, he doesn't want to see a fierce general like Yang Chao and be forced to make trouble, he still has the heart to protect Yang Chao, and the book tied to Yang Chao a few days ago is an example.

Shi Kefa sent someone to summon him, but Yang Chao didn't think much about it. immediately followed, he didn't actually know that Shi Kefa had regarded him as a disgruntled martial artist who would make trouble at any time.

Arrived at the Yamen of the Ministry of War. In the back hall, I saw Shi Kefa sitting in a precarious position, his brows furrowed deeply.

"The last general, Yang Chao, has seen Master Shi!"

Yang Chao saluted in a proper manner.

"Get up."

Shi Kefa said softly.

Yang Chao stood up. Seeing Shi Kefa's signal, he immediately sat down at the table.

Shi Kefa retreated at this time: "Yang Chao, what the hell is going on, why are you forcing the left and right parts of Xinjiangkou to be Qianzong?" ”

Yang Chao couldn't help but sigh secretly, these two people really complained, it seemed that they were not giving up, but Shi Kefa's new official took office, and he obviously had no friendship with those two military attachés. But he has some friendship with Yang Chao.

Although Yang Chao doesn't think that Shi Kefa will favor himself, he should not distinguish between right and wrong and target himself.

So Yang Chao took out a set of rhetoric that he had thought of a long time ago: "Master Shi Mingjian, the officers and soldiers under the last general have made great contributions to the victory in Haizhou this time. But the court wiped out all the head officers with a word, and these big-headed soldiers complained one by one. ”

Shi Kefa nodded, his face even more gloomy, sure enough, because of dissatisfaction.

But Shi Kefa advised: "This is the idea of the saint, and you can't be a courtier with resentment." ”

Yang Chao sighed: "The last general naturally doesn't dare to be resentful, but his subordinates are not rewarded for their merits, and they are full of complaints. These people are the heroes of the Ming Dynasty. He is also the life and death brother of the last general, and he can't bear to be punished, and he is afraid of provoking a mutiny. So the lower official promised to help them move. First of all, he will get the position of two thousand generals in Xinjiangkou. Only then did he discuss with the left and right Qianzong, hoping that they could go to other water camps and vacate these two positions. ”

Shi Kefa nodded as he listened, but he couldn't figure out the key for a while, such as why Yang Chao didn't seek martial arts positions in other places for his subordinates, so he set his sights on Xinjiangkou.

But as long as it's not a mutiny, it's not a troublemaker, everything is negotiable.

After Shi Kefa heard the complaint of the left and right ministers. I really looked through the military books and documents of the new Eguchi battalion, but I found that there should have been five thousand headquarters. It's just that two of them were abandoned and have never been restored.

Since Yang Chao's subordinates are because of the problem of official shortages. It's better to push the boat down the river and restore these two thousand headquarters.

Thinking of this, Shi Kefa opened his mouth and said: "Yang Chao, I know your situation, many of your generals have military exploits, but the imperial court also has its own hardships this time, but you can rest assured, the imperial court will not treat the loyal and good people badly." Although the court can't reward it for a while, the official can do it once. There are two parts in the new Jiangkou, and the official can call the shots and allow you for the time being. When you go back, you can report the military merits of the meritorious soldiers, and the official will make the decision for you! ”

When I heard that there was such a good thing, it was originally just to squeeze out the two Qian Zong who had nothing to do, but I didn't expect to get two abandoned Qian General Soldiers, but this kind of thing is probably a trivial matter for Shi Kefa, and it is not easy for Yang Chao.

In fact, what Yang Chao didn't know was that although these two thousand headquarters were abolished, they were not written off in the military register, and they still existed, so Shi Kefa didn't need any process to restore them, if they had already been written off in the military register, that is, Shi Kefa wanted to restore it, and it was not so easy, he had to report to the Beijing Military Department, and even finally asked Emperor Zhu for approval, the barracks of thousands of people, who said that it would be established.

However, the restoration of these two barracks, and the fact that they are two abandoned barracks, means that there are not only two thousand generals, but also vacancies, from the general and the hundred generals to ordinary soldiers.

It means that Yang Chao can install two thousand generals and four generals, so that all the officers who can start will be promoted to one level.

But it doesn't mean that Yang Chao gave up the two thousand headquarters on the left and right, but Yang Chao didn't plan to compromise, the two thousand presidents, each took Yang Chao a thousand taels of silver, but not only did not give up the position, but sued Yang Chao, if they didn't take the silver, Yang Chao didn't want to force them, they would just continue to talk, but they took the silver, but went to sue, don't blame Yang Chao for not paying attention to the rules.

It's just that there is no good way to clean them up for a while, and Yang Chao's own affairs have not been sorted out yet, especially his own army, and there have been some unexpected problems.

First of all, there are officers and soldiers, and many of them do not want to continue to be soldiers.

This is not difficult to understand, in this battle of Haizhou, Yang Chao was captured, and finally got hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. Even the most ordinary soldiers were finally given two hundred taels of silver, and some officers even received a reward of five hundred taels of silver.

In the past, they came here to be a soldier and eat food. As a result, he became rich all of a sudden, and it would be abnormal if he did not have a desire for pleasure.

So since returning to Nanjing. began to have soldiers quietly convey their apologies to Yang Chao through the officers, revealing their desire to go home.

It's just that because of feelings and worries, after Yang Chao gave them a month's vacation, they still returned to the camp one after another, but they no longer had the previous enthusiasm in training, and they got together all day long to talk about building a house and marrying a daughter-in-law.

Soldiers have money in their hands, so they don't want to fight, and this situation exists even in later generations.

It was even more common in the Ming Dynasty. In the big idea, being a soldier is regarded as the most inferior profession, and only people who can't live a real life will consider becoming a soldier, so it is very natural and reasonable for them to want to quit before and after.

However, this situation is obviously extremely unfavorable to military officers, especially Yang Chao, a 'careerist' who purposefully controls his own force and thus gains power.

For example, the rebellious Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng, such as the warlords Zuo Liangyu and Zu Dashou, they also faced this situation.

Warlords like Zuo Liangyu and Zu Dashou were often accustomed to plundering civilians. Sometimes it was true that there were no supplies, but more often they were followed by the peasant army for the purpose of looting. The peasant army robbed it again, and they robbed it again.

Zuo Liangyu and Zu Dashou's way to deal with it was to let the soldiers spend the money in their hands as soon as possible, and they allowed, or even connived, the soldiers to develop the habit of spending money lavishly, encouraging them to eat and drink, and prostitution, as a result, the money stolen by the soldiers often quickly turned into pleasure. Then there is a desire to continue to rob, and you can continue to serve as a soldier for them.

Of course, Yang Chao didn't want his subordinates to develop such a bad problem. As a soldier with himself, Yang Chao hopes to train them to become social elites. Of course, this is difficult, these illiterate soldiers want to train into social elites, I'm afraid there are not a few out of a thousand, but Yang Chao at least hopes that they will become useful people.

Therefore, they will not be accustomed to those stinky problems, so they can only find a way from other aspects.

Building a house and marrying a daughter-in-law is a good thing, the so-called people who have constant property have perseverance, but it also makes these people's hearts become stable, and no one is willing to work hard.

So Yang Chao has not found a good way, so he has been laissez-faire, all the soldiers who told him that they wanted to go home, Yang Chao allowed them to go back, but did not promise them to leave the camp, just gave them a temporary vacation, let them go back and think about it.

Yang Chao thought that when he was in Haizhou, his soldiers had cultivated a basic sense of honor, and after receiving that kind of glory, Yang Chao did not think that these soldiers were willing to go home and farm in a down-to-earth manner, Yang Chao hoped that the hidden sense of honor in their hearts could summon them back.

That's why those soldiers think about it.

I didn't expect it to have some effect.

At that time, the soldiers who indirectly expressed to Yang Chao that they didn't want to do it, more than half of them in the first few days, and a month later, hundreds of people changed their minds, they planted at home for a few days, and after some days of calm, they suddenly felt uncomfortable, the money in their hands seemed to be not enough to change their fate, they built a house and married their daughters-in-law, and some even didn't marry their daughters-in-law, and the eldest brothers who were waiting for their daughters-in-law at home were about to turn white, of course, they had to follow their brothers first.

They held two hundred taels of silver, still felt poor, still had to face the loess with their backs to the sky, worked hard, but could not earn much money, and at this time the attraction of the military camp to them became stronger and stronger.

More importantly, they always feel that their life is dull, which makes their young spirit feel depressed, as if they have no energy at all to live, and slowly the banner with the word 'Yang' written on it begins to appear frequently in their sleep.

In fact, they don't know any sense of honor, they are just called by this flag.

By August, there were 400 people who were willing to come back, but there were still 100 people who were determined not to come back.

Yang Chao knew that these people would never be able to go to the battlefield again, so Yang Chao decided to reorganize the barracks, this time Yang Chao wanted to be more comprehensive, more complete, and more formal, and completely establish the military system! (To be continued...... )。