Faster than expected, the Feng Guozhu successfully picked up the Song Jin Guo Wulie and other left-behind personnel and returned to Zhengjiazhuang, including the American David and seven female soldiers.

Long Qian said to the dusty Song Jinguo, "Old Song, I have made a fortune this time, and I have been waiting for you to take stock." You hurry up and go to Ye Yanbing and count all the belongings of the Zheng family's mansion, but don't touch the personal belongings of the female dependents, let alone enter the inner room of the female relatives casually. Got it? ”

"Done." Lao Song happily agreed. He already knew the general situation of the battle for the village from Feng Guozhu and Chi Chunxian, especially listening to Feng Guozhu say that the warehouse full of grain and the large pile of gold and silver in Zheng's house made him even happier.

Feng Guozhu didn't laugh at Lao Song's wealth obsession, because he knew that Lao Song was not happy for himself, he was thinking about the supply of the whole army - this Shanxi old man.

Sun Juan, who followed Lao Song back to his new home with him, saw Long Qian as if they had seen relatives, chattering around Long Qian, asking this and that, which made the originally quiet and solemn Zheng Family Ancestral Hall suddenly angry, and the injured people who were healing were also excited.

Long Qian smiled and said to the seven female soldiers, "I'm afraid I can't rest, you should hurry up and take care of the wounded, this time I temporarily recruited two Langzhong, one of whom is a bone-setting doctor with good skills, you can follow him to steal some skills." ”

The two Langzhong, Zheng Haoran and Cheng Fugui, were shocked to find that there were women among the bandits. The presence of these women relieved the two young doctors, who were very skillful in changing the blood-stained strips of cloth for the wounded, which they called bandages, and they skillfully examined the wounded's injuries, and chatted merrily with them, evidently with each other. Their arrival made a great change in the somewhat dreary infirmary, as the ringing horse leaders were called, and the wounded were excited, and they all told them about the battle, and of course about the death of so-and-so, and then the cheerful atmosphere became heavy, and one of the very young women actually sobbed, making the two doctors suspect that the dead bandit was her husband.

Zheng Haoran and Cheng Fugui were "caught", Cheng Fugui knows a little bruises, Zheng Haoran is completely a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, and he is very famous in the nearby ten miles and eight townships.

They couldn't refuse the call of the ringing horses, they simply didn't dare.

To the surprise of the two, these ringing horses that scared them to death seemed to be completely different from what they imagined, they were all wearing the same gray uniforms, and they were uniformly sewn at first glance; They speak kindly and never scold; Not only did they ask them to treat the wounded Xiangma, but they also asked them to treat the wounded villagers—most of whom had been sent back to their respective homes for treatment, accompanied by of course, or taken on bail; Their leaders, especially the one known as the Commander, visited the wounded several times, inquiring about the wounded and comforting his soldiers. It was evident that he got along well with his soldiers; To their surprise, they were still behind, and the horses took the medicine from Zheng Haoran's pharmacy, and they would ask the price and pay on the spot. Zheng Haoran had the audacity to raise the price, and they still paid. Not only that, but Hibiki also gave them two silver, one tael every five days! And it's paid in advance. Now they have been working for five days, and in another day, the second tael of silver will fall into their pockets. Zheng Haoran, who has good medical skills but is extremely obsessed with money, has lost his initial fear after a few days of running-in with the Mengshan army, and he even looks forward to their long-term stationing, so that his business will be much better - he doesn't need money to eat and can earn six taels of silver a month, not including the income from selling medicine, where can he find such a good thing?

"Hey, girl, how much do they give you a month?" Taking the opportunity, Zheng Haoran asked Sun Juan, who looked like the head of seven women.

"Give money? No, we are soldiers of the Mengshan Army, and our Mengshan Army does not pay salaries, and we don't even have a commander. Sun Juan replied.

"No, there will be later." Long Qian happened to walk through the door, heard the conversation between Zheng Haoran and Sun Juan, and turned into the house, "Doctor Zheng is fortunate, you have excellent medical skills, my two feverish subordinates, after taking the medicine you prescribed, the fever will subside immediately." What do you think? How about joining my army? I'll pay you the highest salary, and I'm guaranteed to earn more than you would if you were going to open a clinic. ”

"You want me to join your army?" Zheng Haoran pointed to his nose in surprise. In fact, there are not many things for him in the past two days, but he still comes to the ancestral hall every day to "sit for consultation".

"Yes, the army needs doctors. You're here, I'll choose two clever ones for you, and follow you as an apprentice. ”

"This, I'm afraid it's not suitable__" Zheng Haoran subconsciously refused.

"Not reluctantly. If you don't want to, forget it. Haluha, I won't bother you. Long Qian said to Sun Juan, "Just now you said that our Mengshan Army will not pay salaries, which is wrong, from this month onwards, we will start to pay salaries." ”

"For what? Wasn't it good before? Sun Juan intuitively felt that this would bring about a series of changes.

"Heh, there are still people who miss the days when they were not paid__" Long Qian smiled, "You can't live an ascetic life all the time, everyone will marry a wife, of course, you also have to get married, have children, and many places need money__" After speaking, he seemed to remember something, turned around and walked quickly.

The decision to establish a military pay system was made after the Song and Jin dynasties had inspected Zheng's house day and night. As soon as this idea was put forward to Zhou Yi, Ning Shijun and others, it was immediately approved. Long Qian ordered Ning Shijun's staff group to draw up a plan to be implemented after convening a meeting to study it.

In the eyes of Song Jinguo, this attack on Zhengjiazhuang made the Mengshan army rich.

Before the return of the Song and Jin Kingdoms, the firearms and ammunition had been counted, and a total of 738 rifles of various types and more than 70,000 rounds of ammunition were seized. In addition, there were two bronze cannons, a large amount of gunpowder, two revolvers, a telescope and other military supplies. With this batch of imported rifles of very good quality, the troops were completely reloaded, and all of them were equipped with German-made rifles, and several hundred of the replaced guns, damaged guns, and slightly inferior guns, were temporarily put into storage.

The amount of gold and silver that has been produced is enormous, more than 34,000 taels of silver, and 500 taels of gold leaves. In addition, there are dozens of silver tickets with a cumulative amount of 30,000 and 500 taels, because the silver tickets are issued by Jinan and Qingdao money banks, so these silver tickets are not useful for the time being.

Antiques and jade have all been bookleted, and no one in the whole army understands the value of these things, including Ning Shijun, who is the most connoisseur.

Zheng Jing also has a treasury with a lot of cloth, all white cloth, according to the captured Zheng Jing housekeeper, this batch of cloth is Zheng Jing from Shanghai back, ready to open a cloth village, only paid the deposit, has not yet paid the final payment. Now it's cheaper for Mengshan Army.

The grain exceeded everyone's expectations, Zheng Mansion is very large, there are more than a dozen large stone warehouses in the grain depot alone, full of sacks full of grain, some of the bottom have been moldy, the preliminary statistics are not less than 100,000 catties, seeing the moldy grain, Song Jinguo couldn't help but scold.

In addition, more than 30 horses, cattle, sheep and pigs and other livestock were also seized.

It's always like this, some people can't eat it and let it mold and rot, while others are hungry. is very rich, but he exploits the villagers like this.

Long Qian was very generous this time, and took out 5,000 taels of silver to reward the whole army at one time, and all the officers and soldiers who participated in the battle of seizing the village were rewarded with 15 taels of silver, of which the dead received another 10 taels of bereavement, and the wounded were respectively given 5 taels and 3 taels of recuperation silver according to the severity of their injuries. In addition, Long Qian organized the selection of a total of 21 officers and men who had outstanding performance in this battle, and the company platoon commander and his staff group were determined by Long Qian and Zhou Yi, and the rest were selected by each company, and the indicators were all lowered to the company. After the report is approved, each person will be rewarded with another 10 taels of silver.

Among the company-level officers, Ye Yanbing and Lu Shan were rewarded. Wang Mingyuan and Feng Lun, who took the initiative to attack and take down Bai Wei, were not rewarded.

The officers and soldiers who stayed behind in Mengshan only received five taels of silver each, but they did not complain, after all, they were just guarding the gate, and they did not run long distances, bleeding and sweating.

In addition, Long Qian asked Song Jinguo to have a dinner, slaughter two pigs and two sheep, buy wine, and let the officers and soldiers have a good meal. At the same time, Long Qian announced that starting from the second day after the dinner, the rest and recuperation were over, and all the personnel, except for the injured and sick number, all resumed their exercises and training.

As soon as the decision was announced, the entire Mengshan army immediately burst into thunderous cheers. Since Long Qian took charge of the army, everyone thinks that the commander is good at everything, but it is too hard. Usually not to mention rewarding, even meat is rarely eaten. This time, Commander Long was generous, and gave everyone this more reward at once, and there was also news that the commander was ready to pay him, which made the whole army happy and energetic.

However, Long Qian made a decision, that is, all the silver taels of the reward were not issued to him, but deposited in the logistics group, kept accounts, and if he wanted to use it, he would find the logistics team to withdraw it in advance.

Long Qian explained: We are destined to fight fiercely, if the silver is sent to me, it will be a big problem to carry and preserve, and it is simple to stay in the logistics group, this is like depositing in the bank, when to spend it, the squeak is.

That's fine, everyone thinks it's good.

But this is a problem, many of the war dead have no heirs, and they can't receive this generous reward at all.