"Do you mean to say, a tael of silver and a tael of grain...... With such a high price, I have never heard of it, why don't you go and grab ......"

Not only this second-class member of the imperial court, but even the company commander of the Haw Par Army who said this price also thought that this price was too high. Because, at such a price, it is not at all selling grain......

However, in the face of the military order, although the company commander thought that these people would definitely not buy it. However, he still said the price with the same expression. Then, quietly watch the other party and wait for the other party to come up with a final decision.

And the situation in front of us once again surprised everyone.

The second-rank member of the imperial court, who had just let out an exclamation, did not leave directly with anger, but quickly fell into deep thought.

The family and the henchmen who protect the entire convoy have a total of 60 people to support. According to the calculation of two catties of grain per person per day, it is 1,800 catties of grain in half a month, which is just enough to fill a large cart......

According to the price of one tael of silver and one tael of grain, it is eighteen thousand taels of silver, which is the same as the load of an ordinary carriage.

Faced with the situation in front of me, I felt the hunger that was already close to my back. Although he was very distressed about the eighteen thousand taels of silver, this court official still nodded in agreement without hesitation. Swap money for food......

Although Wei Zheng, who was far away in Beijing, did not know these specific things, he clearly knew that in just a few days, the Haw Par Army collected money from the city and sold grain, and collected at least 10 million taels of silver from the high-ranking officials and imperial relatives who had left Beijing.

If you add the belongings and mansions they left in Beijing City, it will be 20 million taels. Even 30 million taels is possible.

But. Wei Zheng at this moment. There is no heart for the money.

Because, there is a more important thing than silver in front of him that needs to be done, that is, recruiting troops, recruiting troops from tens of thousands of border troops.

When Emperor Chongzhen left the city of Beijing, he took with him 10,000 forbidden troops. However, there were still 40,000 battle-hardened border soldiers stationed in Beijing. According to the agreement, these 40,000 border soldiers have two days to leave Beijing. Departure to Nanjing.

Therefore, the imperial court gave Wei Zheng two days. In two days, how many soldiers Wei Zheng can leave in the 40,000 border army, and let them join the Tiger and Leopard Army depends on Wei Zheng's ability.

And to let these border army soldiers leave the imperial court, stay in Beijing, and join the tiger and leopard army. The first problem that Wei Zheng needed to solve was to enter the barracks and contact these border soldiers......

In order to solve this problem, Wei Zheng held a large sum of silver in his hand. Again, it played a vital role.

To say that the most pitiful group of people in the Ming Dynasty, except for military households. It's a soldier.

Because of the influence of the Ming Dynasty's emphasis on literature and light on military force, the Ming Dynasty was scattered in the armies of various places, and even if it was an officer, it did not have a high status. In addition, the Ming court often made ends meet and owed soldiers salaries, because there was no silver, and the status of soldiers was even lower.

There is not much to say about the low status, and more importantly, he has not been duly rewarded for killing the enemy on the battlefield by sacrificing his life and death.

Looking at the civil officials of the imperial court who are lower in grade than themselves, they can eat and drink spicy food in the rear. And he took a meager military salary and worked the front line. Of course, the generals in the army will be very unconvinced.

Under such circumstances, making money, eating empty salaries, and deducting the poor military salaries of the soldiers under his command have become an atmosphere in the Ming Dynasty army.

However, with these alone, how much silver can the generals in the army make?

Therefore, in the entire Ming officialdom, except for the Beijing City, the Beijing officials, the military generals in the army, are the poorest people.

After working hard for half his life, he drank the blood of the soldiers, and finally saved a family business in Beijing. What now? With the emperor's sentence to move the capital, he had to give up all of them.

Those civil officials and relatives of the emperor who have a lot of money in their pockets have nothing, and with their strong economic strength, they can easily buy a family business again when they arrive in Nanjing. However, if you don't have enough money, you can't.

Therefore, after the holy purpose of moving the capital spread among the army, tens of thousands of soldiers fell into panic.

In particular, generals at all levels in the army are directly confused about their future.

And at this moment, a news spread quickly among the generals at all levels of the army like a gust of wind......

"The Haw Par Army welcomes all generals to encourage their officers to join the Haw Par Army, and encourage a veteran to join the Haw Par Army, and the Haw Par Army will give ten taels of silver. If the generals themselves are willing to join the Haw Par Army, the Haw Par Army will pay a one-time settlement allowance ranging from 100 to 10,000 taels of silver according to the rank of each general...... However, all generals who join the Haw Par Army must obey the orders of the Haw Par Army, re-enter the military academy to study, and rearrange their military positions and ranks according to their academic performance......"

The generals in the army, who were worried about the silver, were directly moved when they heard the news.

Of course, some people may say that even if these generals want to exchange veterans in the army for silver, they do not dare to do it.

Because, after losing the soldiers, even if they arrived in Nanjing City, they would be beheaded by the angry Emperor Chongzhen.

However, there is a good saying, that is, there are policies at the top, and there are countermeasures at the bottom.

Although the veterans are gone, the equipment of the soldiers under his command is still there. On the way to Nanjing, he can make up for the shortfall among the generals in the way of Guò Lazhuangding......

Of course, there are also some generals in the army who are directly interested in the idea of joining the Haw Par Army.

For these people, they are all real military men. What the imperial court has done has disappointed them again and again. Rather than following such a court that seems to have no future, go around fighting. It is better to join the Haw Par Army and follow the Haw Par Army to continue to stay in Beizhili and fight the Tartars.

Of course, the strict military discipline of the Haw Par Army is far higher than the military salary of the imperial court...... It is also a fatal factor that attracts them.

In this way, in just one day, the recruiting point arranged by Wei Zheng at the entrance of the barracks received more than 5,000 veterans sent by generals at all levels of the official army.

Although Wei Zheng paid tens of thousands of taels of silver for this, Wei Zheng did not feel heartache at all.

Because, in the eyes of Wei Zheng, more than 5,000 veterans, as long as they are equipped with officers and weapons, they can immediately form combat effectiveness.

If you recruit new recruits yourself, it will take at least a year of training to bring the more than 5,000 recruits to the level of these veterans in front of you. In a year, the cost of a musketeer division is at least 500,000 taels of silver, and this has not strengthened the various consumption and food of the usual training of 5,000 recruits......

More importantly, it is a matter of time.

More than five thousand veterans, a month at most, can participate in the battle. Five thousand recruits, at least one year, to participate in the battle.

Therefore, for Wei Zheng, buying veterans with silver is definitely a surefire deal. (To be continued......) R1292