Chapter 51: Forced to demonstrate
Last time, I talked about urging the carpenter to visit the "mahout guard" and was neglected, and meditated outside the gate to refine qi, but with a scan of his divine sense, he found that the situation in this camp was different.
"Hey, since the life of the 'military people' is much better than that of ordinary people in the outside world, why not limit the lively scene? Could it be that there is something wrong with this 'mahout guard'? ”
In fact, the carpenter did not pay attention to the fact that he was in the late Ming Dynasty at this time, and the treatment of the garrisons in various places was far from being comparable with the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Although the salaries of the guards in the capital of all dynasties were the highest, the combat power was not necessarily the highest.
The garrison of the capital is the most elite army of all dynasties, with the best welfare benefits, few combat missions in peacetime, and every day in addition to routine training is to maintain law and order in the capital, and on rest days you can enjoy its private life. Therefore, it is not uncommon for the capital to guard Tuntian, after all, the treatment at the feet of the Son of Heaven is good.
The reason for this is that the monthly military salary and food subsidies of the Beijing garrison are very large, after all, the imperial court collects taxes from the world's Tuntian military status, and most of them are used on the Beijing garrison. The garrison troops were stationed in the counties near the capital, and the salaries of ordinary soldiers even exceeded the county order.
In addition, the garrison soldiers have their own real estate near the Beijing Division, and they are all provided by the imperial court, as long as the garrison soldiers do not retire, basically the house can be lived in casually, even if they are discharged, the garrison soldiers can also pay half the price of the property, and easily buy this house.
The "family members of military status" of the garrison also receive a monthly allowance, which not only provides free study, but also provides a living allowance. Therefore, it can be considered that the soldiers and military families of the Beijing garrison can be regarded as the middle-income class of the Ming Dynasty, that is, equivalent to the so-called "middle class" in later generations.
Although there are strict institutional requirements within the Beijing garrison, their benefits are still very high, such as the families of soldiers who are killed in battle, and their families can receive a large amount of compensation. At the same time, the male descendants of soldiers who died in battle also had a qualification to enlist in the garrison of the capital.
However, compared with the garrison of the capital, the garrison mode of "tuntian" and "camping" is often used for the border guards, that is, the "guard station".
This type of army has to face sudden enemies or sudden wars every day, and the army cannot be moved casually, but can only operate in fixed areas. Therefore, the border "garrison" is the best "test product" for the implementation of the model of both tuntian and camping, and it is conducive to dealing with war.
The "garrison of the garrison" in charge of the "cantonment" spends most of their daily training sessions, and after training, they will reclaim wasteland around the garrison for their families to cultivate.
With a cantonment base and their families cultivating the land here, the soldiers of the guard station have the ownership of the cultivated land and enjoy the benefits of the cantonment system. What is even more exaggerated is that 30% of the cultivated land income of the soldiers in the tuntian camp in the border area is handed over to the military camp, and 70% is enjoyed by themselves, and the imperial court does not collect any taxes.
Most of the garrisons were located in remote areas, and all the local cantonments implemented a policy of dividing land, and each soldier had a piece of land for housing. The soldiers could build houses without giving any money. Although this model is very tempting, the border soldiers are also threatened by foreign enemies all year round.
Soldiers often don't know if they will be alive tomorrow, which makes the "guard military cantonment" in the border area a high-risk occupation. Therefore, the imperial court also allocates special funds to the border soldiers every year, so that their welfare benefits are close to those of the capital garrison, but most of them have money to spend on their lives.
Therefore, in order to soothe the hearts of the border soldiers, the imperial court turned a blind eye to the border garrison and the enemy smugglers, so don't think that the border soldiers are disgraced every day, but they don't know that their pockets are quite bulging, after all, they are all loyal to the imperial court.
However, there is another important question, that is, if the imperial court always turns a blind eye to them, what will happen if they do not work hard to fight?
For this problem, the rulers of all dynasties have been very mature in their thinking, after all, the families of the border soldiers live in the cantonment area, and once they do not work hard to resist the enemy, it is their family members who suffer.
Therefore, the border soldiers are fighting with their lives in order to protect their families. Therefore, the garrison soldiers of this guard station are not only rich, but also very effective, and even more powerful than the garrison of the capital, and even the border army of 1,000 people can resist the attack of more than 10,000 enemy troops.
To a certain extent, the "garrison system" and the "camping system" not only relieved the officers and men of the garrison from worries about their lives, but also saved the military families from the huge losses caused by the death of their husbands and fathers. As long as the soldiers of the military family's family are killed, then the family will receive compensation from the imperial court and preferential treatment from the military camp.
Just when the carpenter was investigating a huge "mahout guard" in great detail, he suddenly found that the gate was opened, and it was the guard who led two teams of soldiers, armed with guns, spears, and firearms, running out in line, separating the two sides of the road, as if escorting himself, and shouted loudly: "The prince is invited!" ”
"Hehe, finally thought of Lao Tzu?" The carpenter opened his eyes and glanced at the other party and sneered: "I actually made Lao Tzu wait for an hour, this is the hospitality of your prince?" Go back and tell him that unless he comes out to greet him personally, Lao Tzu will not enter your bullshit barracks! ”
"Hey, I said. What happened to the prince asking you to wait outside the gate for a night? The leader of the guards scolded: "You scoundrel of unknown origin, don't think that it is great to move out of a 'political envoy'? Without evidence, I'm afraid it's a spy! Believe it or not, tie you up and torture you first? ”
"Hmph, the big punishment is waiting? Come on, as long as you have this ability, Lao Tzu will lie on the ground and let you kill? Let you cut off your head and kick it as a ball? ”
"Hmph, I've really seen bragging, I've never seen such a shameless one!" The guard leader waved his hand, and twenty or thirty soldiers from two groups gathered around them, dividing them into two circles, inside and outside. The first team in the inner circle picked up their guns and spears and resisted them, while the first team in the outer circle half-crouched on the ground and operated firearms.
"Don't you want to be caught? When? As soon as the words fell, a group of soldiers in the inner circle saw the leader's wave of his hand, and they stabbed their spears forward.
"Huh? What about people? Why is it gone? The leader of the guards, who originally wanted to force the other party to give in, suddenly found that the light in the encirclement flashed, and the unknown person seemed to have fallen into the quagmire and disappeared.
In a panic, some of the soldiers picked up their guns and spears and stabbed them into the ground, while others kept an eye on them. Only the outer wall bearer was a little calmer, but he also held the musket with both hands, ready to fire the flint, after all, this was an "arquebus", which was worse than a "bird's gun".
Immediately afterwards, the leader of the guards found that he was lifted up by a strong grip on his throat, and left the ground as if flying in the air, not only feeling suffocated and uncomfortable, but also unable to even cry out for help, so he could only dance vigorously, which immediately caused an uproar among the soldiers.
This is the masterpiece of the carpenter after casting spells such as "Earth Escape", "Invisibility", "Wind Resistance", and "Strength", but let the other party throw a mouse trap.
When the leader of the guards rolled his eyes and foamed at the mouth, the carpenter landed on the ground again, and threw the suffocating and unconscious leader of the guards to the ground with a casual throw, and immediately fell like a piece of. However, what followed was the ping-pong sound of bird-gun muskets.
I saw that the carpenter's body was covered with a layer of green mang, that is, the "qi forbidden" spell, and after being shot at close range by more than a dozen muskets, it actually sparked, and a dense sound of ping-pong broke out, and his body was beaten into a "sieve", and blood was splashed three feet later, after all, he was not wearing "body armor".
"Uh...... It hurts! The carpenter knelt on one knee with a pale face, and laughed at himself with a painful face: "It seems that the cultivation realm is not in the 'True Dan Stage', and casting this 'Qi Forbidden' spell still can't resist firearm attacks. However, fortunately, Lao Tzu was able to predict the prophet and cast the 'sending staff' in advance. ”
"Hit! Shot! "You deserve it, you deserve it!" "Hmph, even the top helmet and armor can't stop the firearm attack! The soldiers shouted.
"Hehe, that's not necessarily." As soon as the carpenter's voice fell, he endured the pain, used all his strength to stand up slowly, and began to laugh at the group of gunmen: "Although your firearms are very powerful, they are mortal weapons after all, how can they harm the lives of 'cultivators'?" Look closely! ”
In front of everyone, the carpenter gritted his teeth and ripped off the bloodstained clothes on his upper body, revealing more than a dozen "gun holes" that had stopped bleeding, and at the same time signaled to everyone with bad intentions: "Don't be stupid and stunned to see the excitement, hurry up and clean up for him, and by the way, the autopsy." ”
In fact, the carpenter will run the "continuation" of the "Seventy-two Techniques of the Left Way of the Side Door" with all his strength at the moment he is shot, and at the same time, he will also run the "Nine Tricks of Exquisite Tricks" with all his strength, which will immediately minimize the damage of the bullet to himself and quickly repair the body, and also transfer the fatal damage to the target out of thin air.
The soldiers were skeptical, but they did not dare to ignore the life and death of the leader. So, everyone rushed up, broke hands and feet, and was ready to rescue, only to accidentally find that the armor on the leader's body was soaked in blood stagnation, and when they opened the armor, there were more than a dozen blood holes on their bodies inexplicably.
"Oh no, everyone has been tricked!" "Is the boss really dead?" That's impossible! "Hurry up, hurry up and collect the corpse, and go back to report to the Hou Ye!" ”
After a brief panic, the soldiers hurriedly carried their leader back to the barracks, while the carpenter continued to return to the original roadside stone pier and meditated cross-legged on his knees to refine qi, just waiting to see this "Nantong wait" joke, who let him force himself to demonstrate?
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