Head, it's a very valuable thing.

Especially at the end of the Ming Dynasty, since the Ming Dynasty, the military merit system of the Ming Dynasty was calculated based on heads.

The value of the enemy's head is determined by the enemy's combat effectiveness.

The harder the head to cut, the more valuable it is, and the easier it is to cut the head, the cheaper. Tatar heads are the hardest to cut, so they are the most valuable. If you cut off a Tatar head, you can be promoted to one level, plus 20 taels of silver, and you can get 50 taels of silver if you don't want an official.

The Jurchens are secondary, but now the Jurchens' heads are already in the background, and they are already ninety taels of silver.

The current price is 90 taels for Jurchens, 50 taels for Mongols, 20 taels for Xifan, and 10 taels for thieves.

It seems good and motivating.

However, the head system directly weakened the battle of the Ming Dynasty.

The first major drawback is that there are a large number of good and risky achievements, although the civilian officials have formulated a lot of audit methods for this, however, the Ming army cannibalism in order to snatch the head can not be curbed in any case, and the third is to directly lead to the Ming army's battle is no longer to destroy the enemy as the ultimate goal of the war, but to grab the head as the ultimate goal.

This kind of reform, the final result is that the combat effectiveness of the Ming soldiers is getting weaker and weaker, everyone only thinks about snatching the head, rather than completing the established strategic purpose, to complete the combat purpose, the commander gave an order, everyone thought of how to grab the head, not to annihilate the enemy.

Annihilating the enemy army, that is to be desperate.

Snatching heads, that's what can be exchanged for money.

For the Ming army, any strategy formulated cannot be implemented, because in the tactical execution stage, everyone is rushing to grab people's heads, is it meaningful to complete the established strategy?

In any case, it will not be commended, but it is still a little more realistic.

Of course, it is not that no one has tried to carry out reforms.

For example, the Qi family army is a unified order, and after the end of the war, the heads harvested will be distributed equally.

However, after the Battle of the Hunhe River, the Ming Dynasty began to be completely rotten.

In the end, he became a fellow countryman, borrowing your head to receive a military merit!

In Beijing, there is even a special head sale, and if you don't go to the battlefield, you can get military merits, the soldiers get money, and the nobles get promoted.

As for the combat effectiveness of the Ming army, which is getting weaker and weaker, who cares?

In fact, it is not impossible for the Ming army to restore its combat effectiveness.

Either join the Qing Dynasty, or join the peasant army.

The four members of the Zhang family were all registered, and Pan Juren testified that the identity of the thief could not escape, and the head of their family was worth at least forty taels of silver.

Zhang Xingyuan trembled, never dreamed that his life was hanging by a thread, he trembled and said: "Chen Zhutou, I have no grudge with you, why should you?" How about sparing my life? ”

Chen Zhutou smiled and said: "Old man Zhang, it's not that I want to kill you, if you want to blame yourself, I don't know how you offended Pan Juren, don't worry, I'm fast, eighteen years later, you are a good man again!" ”

Zhang Xingyuan's whole person was frightened.

"Chen Zhutou, if you want to die, let us be a ghost! My father gave the heirloom to Pan Juren, why did this Pan Juren kill my whole family? Zhang Mu spoke, holding the stone in his right hand and grinding the rope frantically, desperately delaying time.

This hemp rope is very familiar, and for a while, it is really grinding.

"How do I know?"

Chen Zhutou spread his hands: "Okay, the time is almost up, go to the underworld and ask the king of Yama!" ”

A crowd began to laugh.

Smack!

With a slight sound, Zhang Mu was overjoyed that the rope was broken.

He quickly looked at the situation in front of him, his body had vomited and diarrhea before, although he didn't know if it was because of his own crossing, he cured the disease on his body, but his body was weak, and he was beaten again just now, and his physical strength was insufficient.

In his previous life, he was a soldier, and he also had some grappling and mixed martial arts, but at this time, it really didn't come in handy.

In this case, it is really a life of nine deaths.

There are five people in total, and they are still equipped with weapons in their hands, and if they rush up, they will definitely have no life.

It's just that, at this time, you have to fight anyway.

"Chen Zhutou, I still have family heirlooms in my family, do you want it!" Zhang Mu suddenly spoke: "I'll give you my family heirloom, you let us live!" ”

"Do you still have family heirlooms?" Chen Zhutou couldn't help but be slightly stunned, and then sneered: "What are you kidding, I have searched up and down your house, how can there be heirlooms?" ”

Zhang Mu said: "Nonsense, how can this heirloom be placed at home?" Wouldn't that be easily stolen? ”

Chen Yong felt justified when he heard it, and he thought about it in his heart, but the depths of his eyes showed a bit of greed.

The ancestors of the Zhang family were also generous, and there may be a lot of heirlooms, at that moment, he asked: "Okay, where are your heirlooms?" I'll take it, and if it's true, I'll let you go!" ”

"Right in ......"

Zhang Mu opened his mouth, and a group of catchers all pricked up their ears, but their attention was relaxed.

But Zhang Mu suddenly broke free of the rope, made an improvement, and instantly landed heavily on the temple of the fastest catcher who relied on himself.

Airplanes!

This catcher suddenly felt a roar in his temples, and the whole person stumbled back three or four steps.

As soon as he retreated, Zhang Mu bent down, and immediately pulled out the saber from his waist, and then, making another progress, he stabbed forward hard, and heard a pop.

This catcher, the whole person was stabbed by Zhang Mu.

"You ......"

This catcher's eyes widened, and Zhang Mu pulled out his saber violently, blood shot out, Zhang Mu turned around slowly, his eyes stared fiercely at Chen Zhutou and the remaining three catchers in front of him, and his mouth made an extremely murderous voice: "Come on!" ”

Like a beast!

At this time, Zhang Mu looked fierce, but in fact, he himself knew very well that it was these few actions that had bottomed out his physical fitness.

A few simple movements, in the previous life, it was easy to do, but now, this body is still too weak.

At this moment, Zhang Mu is also ready to fight for his life, even if he dies, he will take one away.

It's just that Chen Zhutou and the three Zhukuai were afraid, seeing Zhang Mu so ferocious, and then, they made a move that surprised Zhang Mu.

They, run!

Scattered and fled?

"That's it...... This? ”

Zhang Mu was stunned for a moment, originally thought that he was mostly dead today, and as soon as he crossed, he was about to see Yama, but he never expected that these few catchers would turn around and run.

Scatter and flee!

Zhang Mu maintained a vigilant posture for a long time, not that he didn't want to move, but that his body was exhausted and he really couldn't move, and there was a full time for tea, and his whole body fell to the ground with a 'poof'.

"Second brother, second brother, you, hurry up and untie the rope for me!" Zhang Xin came to Zhang Mu with a panicked face: "Hurry up, they will be back in a while!" ”

Zhang Mu opened his mouth and wanted to speak, but he felt that he didn't even have the strength to speak.

After a long time, I felt that I had regained some strength, and I swung my knife to cut the ropes on several people.

"Second child, are you alright?" Daniel Zhang looked at Zhang Mu with concern.

If they can survive today, they all count on the second brother.

Zhang Mu shook his head: "It's okay!" ”

I touched my stomach, and I only felt hungry, this feeling was something I had never experienced in my previous life, whether I was a soldier or went to the countryside to help the poor, I didn't have this feeling of extreme hunger.

Look at your right hand again, just now I sharpened the hemp rope, but my hand was worn out.

He reached out and touched the corpse beneath him.

Covered in blood.

This is the first time he has killed someone.

Zhang Mu didn't know what his mood was, but he understood that in the situation just now, either you died, or I died, if you don't kill them, if you die, it will be yourself.

After groping around the corpse, Zhang Mu found what he wanted.

Food.

Two loaves.

However, this cake is stained with blood, and it seeps into people when they look at it.

Zhang Mu stretched out his hand and broke the two cakes into four pieces, his father, brother, younger brother, and one for himself.

It is imperative to recover your strength as soon as possible and leave this place of right and wrong.

Although it was stained with blood, Zhang Mu didn't care, and he opened his mouth to bite fiercely - hard, mixed with blood, which was also extremely difficult to swallow.

Zhang Mu didn't speak, just silently swallowed the cake in his hand.

Zhang Xingyuan on the side was also very hungry and wanted to eat something, and when he saw that he was covered with blood, he couldn't help frowning, and he couldn't eat at all.

Seeing this, Daniel Zhang just silently broke off the blood-stained area, ate the blood-stained place himself, and left the clean cake for his father.

The third Zhang Xin took a few bites, but he felt that it was difficult to swallow, and threw the cake to the other side.

Zhang Mu picked up the cake and swallowed it little by little.

"Dad, what are we going to do next?" Zhang Xin broke the silence: "Our family, will we be thieves in the future?" What should I do with the imperial examination in the future? Dad, you say something, what will our family do in the future? ”

Zhang Xingyuan didn't know what to say, so he was silent.

And Zhang Mu felt that his physical strength and strength had recovered, Zhang Mu began to search for the body of this fast catcher, the official uniform on his body was stripped naked, and in addition, five taels of silver were found.

The silver is not worth as much as their heads.

It seems that the eighty taels of silver given by Butler Shen are all on Daniel Zhang's body.

casually, he made a bag of official uniforms and wrapped the saber, Zhang Mu stood up and said, "Dad, let's go!" ”

"Where are we going?" Zhang Xingyuan was also at a loss.

Zhang Mu sighed and said, "I don't know, it's not safe here, let's go quickly!" ”