Chapter 31: Conscription in All Directions (4)
After Gao Ming made a big fuss about the county government, he rode back to his fiefdom. He didn't know that after he left, their county magistrate was furious in the back hall of the county office, and repeatedly said that he would go to the table to impeach him. Of course, the county magistrate named Zhang Meng doesn't really want to impeach Gao Ming. First, he felt that he was at a loss for this matter, and second, Gao Ming was the son-in-law of the Jinyang Wang family, not to mention Wang Rong and Wang Yan, the two three princes of the court, who were the uncles of Qianwei Taishou and the wife of others. In the end, he could only comfort himself by saying in his stomach that it was not too late for ten years for the gentleman to take revenge.
Gao Ming vented, and his mood was no longer so depressed. When he returned to the fiefdom, he found that there was a black area in front of his house, and Du Chou had already gathered three hundred and fifty-seven people.
"Not bad, not bad. Gao Ming dismounted and handed the horse to a slave who had already stepped forward to greet him, and secretly praised in his heart, "This Du Chou is really neat. ”
But he didn't know that Du Chou didn't use what he said to give these people a month's military salary. In Du Chou's view, military service is a matter of course. This is no small feat. If you give money this time to recruit soldiers, you will have to pay it back next time, and you will have to give it again and again in the future. As long as it is not given once, no one will come to military service. The reason why he was able to recruit so quickly was simply to have people ride around the fiefdom on horseback, and shout that the top ten would each be rewarded with ten copper baht, and the last ten would be flogged ten times. When Gao Ming approached, he saw a man lying on a large rock, and a man with a whip behind him was beating his back with the whip in his hand while counting.
Taking advantage of the gap between the unfinished whipping over there, Du Chou whispered to him what had happened before and after, and Gao Ming, who listened to it, frowned.
He intuitively felt in his heart that Du Chou's method was right, but looking at the numb faces on the other side, the loose postures, and the clothes like beggars, his already sunny mood became gloomy again.
"Why don't there be monks?" Gao Ming knew that there were more than twenty monks in his fiefdom.
"My lord," Du Chou said with a wry smile, "How can a monk serve in the military like a civilian? The monks on the Shangluo side enthusiastically joined the army, which could be performed in front of high-ranking officials and nobles. In our small place, who are the monks showing? They are all sitting at home waiting for the county magistrate to come and conquer them. ”
Du Chou's words made Gao Ming speechless for a while.
You monks enjoy the best resources in this country, and when the state and county are in trouble, you let the commoners rush to the front? What's even more fucking is that this is legal, and there is nothing in the laws of the Great Jin Dynasty that says it's wrong.
If you don't touch things, you can't see it, but when you touch things, there are problems everywhere in this Great Jin Dynasty, up to the imperial court, down to every family.
It's just that he doesn't have time to think about how to solve these problems now. As a person from the future world, even if he has never joined the army, he knows a lot of the most basic common sense in the military.
Discipline and morale are the two most important things.
Look at this rabble, where there is a hint of discipline and morale. Just this rabble, on the battlefield, I am afraid that it is also the level of pig teammates.
He raised his arms, pressed his hands down again, and said loudly, "Big guy sit down with his knees crossed first." He originally wanted to shout a little and stand up like his own military training, but the words still pressed back into his stomach.
After seeing these numb civilians slowly sitting on the ground, he spoke again: "The first thing I want to tell you today is why we want to do military service. I know that the big guys don't want to serve in the military, after all, fighting a war means killing people. Today, the big guys are talking freely, and they all say why they don't want to serve in the military?"
As soon as he said this, not to mention the people sitting below, Du Chou was dumbfounded, and said in his heart that this lord would not have taken the wrong medicine today. Morale can only be drummed, not vented by itself. This is originally a rabble, and if you leak it like this, you don't need to be beaten by others, and you will be ruined.
Seeing that everyone looked at each other without speaking, Gao Ming spoke again: "Whoever can say one will be rewarded with a copper baht." Gao Ming now knows that for a small family, the cost of the whole family a year is definitely not more than 50 copper baht. Although a copper baht seems to him to be insignificant, it is very difficult for many civilians, especially in such remote areas, to earn.
There will be brave men under the great reward. As soon as Gao Ming's words fell, a man stood up in an uproar among everyone. Although his whole body was trembling because of his nervousness, he still mustered up the courage to say, "Lord Lord, when we and other civilians go to the battlefield, they will be like mustard in front of the monks, and they will not be able to fight back at all. Although the imperial court stipulates that meritorious service can be rewarded, with our ability, this meritorious service is unthinkable. ”
"Well, yes, come up and get a copper baht. What's your name?"
"Back to the lord, the villain is called a dog. ”
Gao Ming saw that the dog leftover happily took a copper baht from Du Chou's hand and returned to the original place to sit down, holding the copper baht tightly, and said with a smile: "The dog is left, but you have to hide it, and you will use it for your daughter-in-law in the future." ”
When everyone heard this, they all burst into laughter, and the atmosphere became lively.
"Your Excellency," said another of the people, who immediately stood up and said, "We and other civilians share the firepower of the monks in the army, and needless to say, we have a good meal, and even a full meal is a luxury. Every time you have to go to war, you can only eat a full meal. ”
"No one cares whether we live or die, only the life and death of the monks are the most important. ”
"Not to mention the armor or anything, even the weapons are the most tattered, and sometimes there is only a wooden stick in the hand. ”
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After listening to everyone's complaints, Gao Ming pressed his hands again and signaled everyone to be quiet.
"Ladies and gentlemen, since I have been appointed as the Marquis of the Servant Pavilion, and since you are already my subjects, I will naturally be responsible for everyone. Gao Ming said loudly with a resolute and unhurried face: "Military service for the imperial court is something that each of us must do, not only for the imperial court, but also for ourselves. Country, country, country has home. I think many people already know that the displaced people are looting everywhere in Shudi, although it is still far from us, but if we don't prepare and don't go to military service, then what will we do if the displaced people come over one day?"
"Of course, I take everything you just said to heart. I don't care what is stipulated in other places in this Great Jin Dynasty, I solemnly announce here today that all the people of my servant Daohou Kingdom will receive a military salary of ten copper baht for every month of military service. Those who die in the battlefield receive a pension of 20 silver baht, and their children are given priority in school. The disabled shall never serve in the future and shall be exempt from all taxes ......".