With tears in her eyes, Concubine Yuan Xue was escorted by two knife and axe men and driven out of the gate of the white-clothed camp.

Wu Feng stared coldly at her back, without any pity.

Concubine Yuan Xue went to Hedong, and she may not violate military discipline again, but Wu Feng expelled her from the white-clothed camp, firstly, to make an example of chickens and monkeys, and secondly, he did not want to leave a hidden danger in the white-clothed battalion.

In ancient times, there were famous generals, and the mistakes of the soldiers were hidden on weekdays, and it was not until before the war that all the charges accumulated for a long time were announced, and everything was dealt with strictly. This is a method of coercing and suppressing with ferocity and forcibly boosting the morale of the army.

But this method must also be supplemented by generous rewards in order to make the soldiers serve the dead. Wu Feng forbade them to plunder, so he had to promise a reward greater than what they had received from their captivity.

Wu Feng said to the soldiers who were silent on the field: "The punishment has been punished, and now is the time to reward." You went with me to fight the bandits in Hedong, although it was not a life-and-death battle, but you also hung your head on your belt to do things. ”

As he spoke, he snapped his fingers, and saw a soldier walking up with a huge tray.

This person is not from the white-clothed camp, but a secret agent lent by Hua Zongdai to Song Shannei, and now he is also dressed as a soldier.

The tray was covered with a sheet of red silk, bulging very high underneath, and a faint light was shining through the silk.

The spy walked to the bottom of the platform, and as soon as Wu Feng pulled his hand, he crushed the red silk at will, not a piece of cloth, but a piece of scrap, fluttering in the wind.

Pinching softness is as rigid as it can be seen that Wu Feng's rock-collapsed palm power has seen the way, and if he practices for a while, he will be able to knead soft things such as silk cloth and cotton into rice flour like bricks and stones.

The tray was covered with white light, scorching in the morning sun.

For a while, many people gasped.

"Here are nearly 100 ingots of silver, 50 taels each, which is equivalent to half a year's salary. Wu Feng said: "This is just a reward before departure, when you go to Hedong, as long as you make meritorious contributions, you will naturally be rewarded, and the war dead will also pay a lot of money to their families." If anyone is afraid to go. If you stay, you won't be expelled from the white-clothed camp like Concubine Yuan Xue, but you don't need to take this silver. ”

Wu Feng can be regarded as taking out all his family wealth to sacrifice the army, but he knows this investment. It will soon pay off.

The white-clothed battalion was full of regular samurai, and the soldiers' salaries were ten taels per month, according to the practice of Iwakuraden. And the militia only had three taels of silver a month when they were fighting. On weekdays, it's just a few good meals with wine and meat.

But these ten taels of silver may not all be issued in their hands, it is customary to deduct military salaries, and the white-clothed battalion is a direct subordinate unit of His Royal Highness Iwakura, but the general rated military salary must also be deducted half. As for the peripheral warriors of Hong Meng and Qin Yu, their monthly salary is only eight taels of silver, and when they meet a good lord like Wu Feng, they are often rewarded, and if they meet mean, most of them will be deducted.

Of course, most of the soldiers in the white-clothed battalion were born as slaves in the Iwakura Palace. They are generally rewarded, and they may not care about the monthly salary, and these fifty taels of silver are not much for them.

But this shows Wu Feng's attitude, he is not a person who spares rewards. Today it is fifty taels, tomorrow it may be five hundred taels or five thousand taels! As long as you do a good job, you will naturally be greatly rewarded.

Soldiers rushed up and took the large silver from the plate.

Ninety-seven ingots in all, were cleanly taken. Xin Standby has not taken it, and Concubine Yuan Xue has been expelled. And because those spies were not soldiers of the white-clothed battalion, they did not receive rewards, except for Wu Feng himself, there were exactly ninety-seven people.

"Good. It seems that everyone is willing to take this money. ”

took Wu Feng's money, which was equivalent to selling his life to him, and he had no complaints since then.

Wu Feng said: "Everyone, now I am going to Iwakura to eliminate the bandits and protect the merchants. Chambers of Commerce are protected. Naturally, we can collect commissions from the Chamber of Commerce, and we can use the relationship of the Chamber of Commerce to run the industry by ourselves, buy cheaply and sell expensively, so as to make profits. Now that the Valley of Forgotten Sorrows has been destroyed, and there is a great emptiness in the Hedong region that needs to be filled, we only need to open up the situation, and the gold and silver treasures will naturally roll in, so why should we plunder and ruin our reputation? In the name of the ancients, we will raise troops through business, and we will not take the slightest of the people but the soldiers will be rich, and all the people will be of one mind, and the supply of the army will be better than those troops who use plunder to boost morale. If the people are lost by plunder, it will be unprofitable. ”

Wu Feng's words are to move with profit, the so-called wealth moves people's hearts, unless they are extremely vicious, since they hear that they can get more property instead of plundering, they will naturally abide by military discipline.

It's just that Wu Feng won't say that the famous general who raised soldiers in business ended up, because that person has great power in the military, politics and business worlds, so that the king felt that the tail was too big to fall, so he ordered his personal guards to take it down, accused him of rebellion and beheading, and all his family property was confiscated, and the world called it the self-destruction of the Great Wall.

Because of that person's Yin Jian first, Wu Feng understood that he must be cautious and cautious in his actions, first of all, to ensure the interests of Deng Aihou, and to ensure that in addition to Deng Sanshi's faction, all the real power figures in the Iwakura Palace must be satisfied, and then consider making money for himself and entrapping the hearts of the soldiers, so as to minimize the risk.

After saying this, the dim eyes of the soldiers gradually flashed brightly.

Wu Feng said: "Those who move the hearts of mortals are often the word wealth. I will wait until Hedong to go, there will be no shortage of goods, and if someone can't control the lower side and go to the Qinlou Chu Pavilion to hang around, I am also unwilling to restrict, but only limited to the time when there is no war and specially designated leisure, during the combat or emergency training, I will issue a military order, if there is a ** or fornication with the people's women, it will be treated as adultery, no wonder I am ruthless. ”

This is said with a human touch, but it also gives Wu Feng's bottom line, and he can't spoil the military because of the things below.

People who are rolling in blood and fire tend to become intense, and if they can't vent, they are very prone to accidents, and maybe there will be something bad between male soldiers. But if a person who marches and fights is immersed in the gentle countryside all the year round and loses his physical strength, then he will not be able to fight.

Several major dynasties or Tianzifeng, these major sects, simply set up camp prostitutes and put the female dependents of the serious criminals into it, and there are also widows who have no food and clothing and voluntarily become camp prostitutes, or orphan girls are sold into the military camp by distant relatives.

However, the Iwakura Hall was too small to set up a prostitution camp. It is also a good idea to enrich the soldier's money bag with a generous reward and be able to solve physiological problems on his own.

At this time, I saw Wu Feng's eyes suddenly turn to several female soldiers in the camp and smile slightly.

The number of female warriors was already smaller than that of men, and there were even fewer soldiers on the battlefield, but most of the soldiers in the white-clothed battalion were slaves and maidservants of Iwakura dignitaries, and there were female soldiers.

"If a few girls see some little white faces over there, it's not a shame to spend some money to fight back. I heard that the yin and yang in Beiyan have reached the extreme, and many female patriarchs have gone to the market to openly buy beautiful teenagers' income houses......"

Hearing this, the male soldiers couldn't help but laugh one after another, and the female soldiers all turned red.

Women who can enter the barracks have a clean style of life, but now the inferiority of men and women is still the mainstream in society, and many things cannot be said, Wu Feng is so provocative, of course, everyone can't help laughing.

But after some admonition, such ridicule is really conducive to narrowing the distance between him and the soldiers.

This is the so-called combination of rigidity and softness, and the combination of grace and power. (To be continued.) )