After nearly three years of bargaining, relying on the two years of beheading and offering prisoners, the imperial court finally gave Dongjiang a military salary of one or four coins of silver and one stone of rice per soldier, which was equivalent to Liaozhen. Since Mao Wenlong had already incorporated all the fleeing Liao people into Dongjiang Town as military households, he also registered all the farmers who farmed the land and the fishermen who fished.

According to this instruction, Huangshi counted all the 7,000 men of Changsheng as soldiers, including more than 1,000 soldiers, nearly 6,000 auxiliary soldiers, and Zhang Pan's Lushun also counted more than 20,000 soldiers, and finally a total of 170,000 troops in Dongjiang Town!

In this way, the annual salary will exceed 2 million, but it is a pity that the officials of the Ministry of War do not agree......

The Ministry of War intends to count according to the method of counting soldiers as strong men and old and weak men as men, but in this way, there are as many as 80,000 men from 18 to 40 in Dongjiang, so the Ministry of Household proposes another identification method, that is, only recognize that soldiers with weapons are counted as soldiers, and the rest are not counted, such identification standards are more beneficial to Lushun and Changsheng, Lushun has absorbed a large number of weapons and equipment, and Huangshi has also captured a lot in these two battles.

In the end, 2,000 soldiers were surveyed on Changsheng Island in Huangshi, and as many as 4,000 in Lushun, while there were only 32,000 people in the entire Dongjiang Town, and the final salary was 480,000 taels. However, due to the financial constraints of the imperial court, only half of it could be paid, so Dongjiang Town could get 240,000 taels of silver every year in the future, and in addition, the household department would also allocate 200,000 taels of supplementary salaries to Dongjiang Town, which could be regarded as a write-off of the arrears from the first year to the fourth year of the Apocalypse.

Changsheng Island's own production, coupled with the annual military salary of 15,000 taels, Huangshi estimates that it can support 1,000 soldiers to become off-duty personnel, and only off-duty soldiers can fully cultivate and wield combat effectiveness. If we take into account its own maritime trade smuggling, Huangshi is confident that it will form a professional force of about 2,000 people.

After everyone finished dividing the cake, Huang Shi began to pack up and prepare to leave, of course, Mao Wenlong invited guests to dinner in the evening, and there were also some Dongjiang military generals performing at the dinner table, Huang Shi couldn't help but think that if he brought He Baodao, he could show off again.

Seeing this room full of young generals, Huang Shi couldn't help but admire in his heart: "The Dongjiang Army is really a young army." ”

There was a young military attache who came over and muttered to Zhang Pan for a long time, and then sat down on the edge of Huangshi, this young military attache was Chen Jisheng, Mao Wenlong's pro-army commander and mastermind.

In Huangshi's previous life, Chen Jisheng became the leader of the Liaodong warriors after Mao Wenlong's death, and after he took charge of the Dongjiang Army on Phi Dao, he believed that the previous policy of strictly guarding the island led the Jin army to retreat without a fight, and it was not a good way to kill the enemy and serve the country. Therefore, Chen Jisheng deliberately left a gap for the Houjin army to use 6, and then took advantage of the unstable foothold of the Houjin army to counterattack, and immediately retreated to lure the enemy to reinforce after killing and wounding, and so on for five days, cutting thousands of bodies.

Huang Taiji hated this deeply, and secretly ordered Liu Xingzhi to try to obtain Chen Jisheng's rank, Liu Xingzhi received Huang Taiji's order and landed on Phi Island, and attacked and killed Chen Jisheng who came to greet him, but when he then raised troops to surrender to the Manchu Dynasty, he was also killed by Mao Wenlong and Chen Jisheng's old troops, but the chaos in Dongjiang Town also worsened day by day.

It was these histories that made Huang Shi extremely distrustful of the generals of the Later Jin Han Army, but he couldn't take these things out and explain them to the generals of the Dongjiang Army.

Similarly, another conclusive Houjin Xizuo Wang Zideng also asked Huang Taiji for credit in the letter, claiming that he had framed Mao Wenlong in Yuan Chonghuan, and that it was Mao Wenlong who died on Shuangdao. This is the same as another document of the Later Advance Detail, which also boasted in front of Huang Taiji: it was they who secretly reported Mao Wenlong's rebellion in front of Yuan Chonghuan, so they led the Shuangdao Rebellion and the Dongjiang infighting.

These traversers can see history, which makes Huangshi feel that he can make the following judgment: the two big people he can absolutely trust in Liaodong are Yuan and Mao. Because Emperor Taiji of the Later Jin Dynasty did not think that Mao Wenlong would rebel, and Huang Taiji also believed that Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong for the sake of counterplots.

Of course, this also shows that Huang Taiji really likes to use the room, and Huangshi must be careful in this regard, and cannot repeat the mistakes of Mao Wenlong.

"General Huang, please. After Chen Jisheng sat down, he toasted a glass of wine.

For Mao Wenlong's henchmen, Huang Shi naturally didn't dare to be rude, and hurriedly raised his glass and said, "General Chen, please." ”

Chen Jisheng talked about the issue of military salaries in a roundabout way, because Lushun and Changsheng Island were closer to Dengzhou than the Dongjiang River, and Huangshi and Zhangpan both had heavy troops, so theoretically, Dengzhou's silver salaries would naturally go directly to their station. However, Mao Wenlong wanted to use the silver for business, and he made a good calculation to use the approval of the prison army to buy low-priced cloth and tea in Dengzhou, and then traffick it to North Korea to sell it for ginseng and grain, and Dongjiang Town could get several times the amount of materials by using the difference in price.

Although the embezzlement of military salaries for trading is not good, but the forced sale and forced purchase of the vassal state of Korea is even more unpleasant, and the tribute paid by North Korea to the Ming Dynasty has always been to be given in return, not so much a tribute, but a kind of trade. However, Mao Wenlong had already persuaded the Ministry of Rites to set up the tribute road on Dongjiang Island, and he only planned to give half of the reward, and he also planned to offset it with the materials purchased at a low price. But this Chen Jisheng is really eloquent, and it is also a truth to talk about it, and Huang Shi nodded again and again.

In fact, after arriving in Dongjiang, once Huangshi appeared, Mao Wenlong and others did not dare to force his tactical skills, and as for the officers and soldiers trained by Huangshi, they were regarded as Huangshi's private property, and they would not have thought of taking some of them directly under Dongjiang. Theoretically, the military salary that should be allocated to Huangshi is, according to feudal tradition, the same as Huangshi's officers and soldiers his personal property, just as Huangshi himself belongs to Mao Wenlong.

So Chen Jisheng came to be a lobbyist, hoping that Huangshi and Zhang Pan could donate some military salaries to help the trade of the Dongjiang headquarters, after all, on average, Huangshi and Zhang Pan are considered to be large sums of money, and the share of military salaries they get is also very large, which is much better than other Dongjiang officers who suffered.

"Can General Huang look at the points?" Chen Jisheng said this like a beggar, and then looked at Huangshi with a blank eye, hoping that he would spare some money.

I don't know how much Zhang Pan's lineage has been given? Huang Shi calculated in his heart.

(End of Section 24)

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