It has been 20 days since the beginning of the apportionment of the land, and in the past half month, under the promotion of Jiang Guotai and Xu Cheng, the results of the apportionment of the mu have been remarkable, and it has been found that 41,31 acres of hidden land and 23 acres and 6 minutes and 8 percent of the hidden land have been found, and 13,200 hidden households have been found.

Li An was shocked to see, only these three mansions and one division are like this, not to mention the rich places such as Jiangnan, Huguang, etc., Ming Shi died here!

In the process of apportioning the land into the mu, a total of 12 large and small landlords were copied, and 320,000 taels of silver and 210,000 stones of grain were copied.

With these 320,000 taels of silver, it can be regarded as solving Li An's urgent need, and now that the silver is available, it is time to pay the soldiers. Without further ado, Ang Lee decided to pay the whole army today, and the salary was also adjusted when the military system was adjusted.

After the adjustment, the monthly salary is 1 tael of silver for miscellaneous soldiers; Knife player, pikeman 1.3 taels of silver, archers 1.4 taels of silver, fire commanders 1.4 taels of silver, gunners 1.6 taels of silver, cavalry 1.5 taels of silver.

The officer's monthly salary is 2 taels of silver; The total flag is 4 taels of silver; put a total of 6 taels of silver; 10 taels of silver; guerrilla 15 taels of silver; 20 taels of deputy commanders; The total number of soldiers is 25 taels of silver. Counselor, Zuo led away the civil officials.

Li An called Ma Siliang, and the two began to calculate the salary.

In the current army, there are 16,645 pikemen, 12,687 sword and card players, 2,635 cavalry, 2,756 archers, 4,867 musketeers, 262 gunners, 1,095 officers, and 1,846 miscellaneous soldiers (men, grooms, etc.).

The non-commissioned officers of the five towns were to be issued a total of 55,021.5 taels of silver, and the officers counted 5,760 taels of silver, and the whole army totaled 60,781.5 taels of silver.

After Ma Siliang and Li An finished calculating, the two went to the treasury together, and in a quarter of an hour, more than 60,000 taels of silver were counted, and Li An instructed the guards to load the silver taels into the car, and ordered 1,000 guards to escort them to the barracks.

Soon Li An and Ma Siliang arrived at the barracks with Yinliang, Wu Sanxing and others were already waiting at the gate of the camp at this time, and when they saw Li An turn over and dismount, Wu Sanxing and others hurriedly bowed their hands. After seeing the ceremony, Li An asked the general soldiers to notify the soldiers in each town to prepare for the salary, and set up ten salary points in each town, and strive to finish the salary within one day.

The guards escorted the silver two slowly into the barracks, and pushed them to the big tent of the Chinese army, Li An and others were already in the big tent at this time, after the silver two were sent in, Ma Siliang divided the silver two into five equal parts according to the number of people in each town, and Li An instructed the guards to send the five equal points to the towns.

Under the supervision of the general soldiers and generals of each town, the silver taels began to be distributed, and Li An continued to patrol the towns to strictly prevent the generals from deducting the silver, and strive to distribute the silver to each soldier.

The first knife player who received 1.3 taels showed an excited look on his face, and hurriedly hid the small piece of silver in his hand carefully in his arms, he was indeed happy, how could there be so much silver in the past, and there were three or four achievements in the hands of the soldiers.

Although Li Dingguo is strict in governing the army, and there are few things about drinking soldiers' blood and eating empty salaries, less does not mean that there is none, and this kind of bad habit is inevitable in Li Dingguo's army.

Li An saw that the soldiers received the salaries, and he was also a lot more relieved, and the combat effectiveness of the soldiers after the salaries was greatly improved. Without any exaggeration, there is a huge difference between the combat effectiveness of a soldier who is fully paid and those who are not paid.

It turned out that after the weak soldiers of Daming surrendered to the Eight Banners Army, the soldiers who were full of food immediately burst out with amazing combat effectiveness, and turned around to beat the other armies of Daming to the ground, and the main force to destroy Nanming was also the surrendered Ming army.

The Qing Dynasty, which learned the lesson of the fall of the Ming Dynasty, was able to guarantee military salaries most of the time, especially the soldiers of the Eight Banners were rarely in arrears, which also made the Qing Dynasty rule for 200 years of continuous uprisings, but it has always been firmly in the country.

Now the average soldier gets 1.3 taels of silver per month, and half a stone of grain. This salary will definitely rise in the future, and now the small business has no choice but to send so much, and Li An can only go bankrupt if he increases the salary.

In the afternoon, the money was finally distributed in the towns, and Li An was a little tired after staring at it all afternoon, and after a hasty meal in the camp, he returned to the city to rest.

At the same time when Li An returned to the city to rest, in the Pingxi Palace of Kunming, Wu Sangui, who was wearing a cloth and face armor, was discussing with Xia Guoxiang, Gao Dejie, Guo Zhuangtu and others. Wu Sangui received the news that Yuanjiang Mansion and Menggenfu had been captured seven days ago, and three days ago he received the bad news that Mengding Mansion and Cheli Xuanwei Division had defected to Li Dingguo.

On the day that Wu Sangui learned that Yuanjiang and Menggong had been captured, he sent a messenger to the Qing court. Fortunately, the Qing court was ready to take action against Li Laiheng and Liu Tichun in Chongqing, and had assembled heavy troops in Kunming, so he only needed to recall Xia Guoxiang, Guo Zhuangguo and others who were stationed abroad to Kunming.

For Li Dingguo and Wu Sangui, he responded with a twelve-point spirit, but Wu Sangui didn't pay attention to it, and he still remembers the picture of beheading Nikan and forcing Kong Youde to death.

Wu Sangui is still puzzled now, a month ago the spies obviously found out the news, saying that Li Dingguo heard about the death of Emperor Yongli, and he was so angry that he couldn't afford to fall ill, and he was still overjoyed when he heard it, thinking that the southwest would be stable from now on.

Unexpectedly, a month later, Li Dingguo jumped up and down, and attacked the second mansion in a row. Is this really as the folk legend goes, and the number of great bright qi is not exhausted?

This evening, Xia Guoxiang, Guo Zhuangtu and others had just returned to Kunming before they had time to eat, and they were called to Pingxi Wangfu by Wu Sangui.

After Xia Guoxiang, Guo Zhuangtu and others came, Wu Sangui asked the maid to serve tea to the generals one by one. Wu Sangui took a sip of tea and said, "Seven days ago, this king got the news that Li Dingguo led his army to capture Meng Gen and Yuanjiang Erfu. ”

After that, Wu Sangui picked up the teacup and blew the tea leaves gently, watching the reactions of the generals, especially paying attention to Ma Bao's reaction.

This Ma Bao was originally Li Zicheng's general, and was captured by Wu Sangui during the Great Battle of Shanhaiguan. After following Zhao Liangdong, and then attached to the old department of Li Dingguo, Zhang Xianzhong's righteous army, Li Dingguo can also be regarded as Ma Bao's old master, and Ma Bao is very brave and resourceful in leading the troops, Wu Sangui has to pay attention.

Sure enough, after Ma Bao heard the news of Li Dingguo's comeback, a trace of joy flashed in his eyes. Wu Sangui, who was holding the teacup, keenly noticed the flash of joy in Ma Bao's eyes, and his face was silent, but he had killing intent towards Ma Bao in his heart.

Xia Guoxiang said at this time: "Li Dingguo is not easy to deal with, since he has captured Yuanjiang Mansion, then the next step is likely to be Kunming. ”

Xia Guoxiang is Wu Sangui's son-in-law, both civil and military, good at planning, but his strategic vision is sometimes good and sometimes bad, and he can rank among the top five figures in Wu Sangui's camp.

Wu Sangui heard Xia Guoxiang's words and nodded in agreement. Guo Zhuangtu spoke at this time: "We need to harvest the autumn grain in advance, in case Li Dingguo calls, won't the grain outside the city be cheap for Li Dingguo." Guo Zhuangtu is also Wu Sangui's son-in-law and the head of logistics in Wu Sangui's camp.

Wu Guogui opened his mouth to support the strategy of Xia Guo and the others, this person was Wu Sangui's confidant, and he followed Wu Sangui during the period outside the Guan.

Gao Dejie, who had been waiting impatiently next to him, hurriedly spoke: "How can you be so cowardly, what is there to be afraid of a mere Li Dingguo, it is not ashamed to hold on and grab the autumn grain, the last general will ask for orders and lead troops to exterminate Li Dingguo." "Gao Dejie is a fierce general under Wu Sangui.