Chapter 47 Military Status
After the site selection of the Moguyu City Wall was completed, Wei Zheng immediately ushered in a major event that the Tiger and Leopard Army was about to face, expanding the army...
As the saying goes, "A good man does not serve in the army, and a good man does not make nails." In this society that emphasizes culture and neglects military, if you want the people to change this view from the bottom of your heart, let more than 2,000 young and strong men take the initiative to join the Tiger and Leopard Army and form an army that is truly cohesive and loved by ordinary people, a key factor is to improve the treatment and political status of soldiers.
In the past, when he had only schoolbag troops under his command, Wei Zheng could not truly reflect it.
However, now there are more people under his command, not only soldiers, craftsmen, but also ordinary people. Then, in the small area of the Tiger and Leopard Army, he broke the concept of emphasizing culture over military and despising craftsmen, and put various ideas in his mind into reality. Step by step, he can start to move slowly from changing the Ming Dynasty that has been ruined to the bottom.
After returning to the military camp, two orders quickly spread among more than 2,000 people in the military camp through oral means.
"The latest military order of the Tiger and Leopard Army: Inside the Tiger and Leopard Army, all craftsmen enjoy the treatment of chief officers of the Tiger and Leopard Army. If they are skilled, they can further enjoy the treatment of platoon leader, captain, and battalion commander of the Tiger and Leopard Army after a series of selections..."
"After volunteering to join the Tiger and Leopard Army, ordinary soldiers had a full meal every day, and had a meal of meat every two days... After being promoted to the Chief and Deputy Platoon Leader level officer, they changed to a meal of meat every day... They were promoted to the platoon leader and platoon leader or above, and had a meal alone every day, and each meal had meat... Other related treatments will be announced later..."
"In the Tiger and Leopard Army, all soldiers are not limited to their origins, they only need to be promoted by relying on their military merits..."
"All ordinary young and middle-aged people who do not join the Tiger and Leopard Army and do not have a skill, as the reward for the Tiger and Leopard Army to rescue everyone from the Tatars, must give the Tiger and Leopard Army free of charge for five years, and choose to stay or stay after five years. During the Tiger and Leopard Army, they will have a dry meal, two porridge every day, and a meat meal a week..."
The Wei Sui system was the most important military system of the Ming Dynasty and was founded by Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding master of the Ming Dynasty.
As the Ming Dynasty declined step by step, the lowest-level military households under the garrison system became increasingly difficult. As a soldier who defended the country, he even developed to the point where he could not even have enough food. This led to more and more Ming Dynasty military households fled from the garrison and became refugees everywhere in the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, military households were undoubtedly the most bitter people who could not even eat enough.
Let’s talk about the border troops that are slightly better than military households. Although they have fixed military pay every month, due to the deductions of officers at all levels and the step-by-step increase in price levels in the Ming Dynasty, the handful of military pay is not enough to support their families.
More importantly, although these border troops can receive some military pay every month, their daily life benefits are still hungry and full.
Not to mention one meal every two days, even two meals a day cannot maintain it.
Therefore, when I first heard this order, the first thing more than two thousand young men showed was that I didn’t believe it.
They did not believe that such a rebel army that was not recognized by the court would give soldiers such good treatment, and they did not believe that the Tiger and Leopard Army would attach so much importance to soldiers and craftsmen.
However, when more than 100 veterans told everyone about their personal experiences, more than 2,000 young and middle-aged men finally believed it.
Wang Junwu is a very ordinary young man among more than two thousand young and middle-aged men. However, such a dark-skinned young man has a very complicated identity.
First of all, Wang Junwu has the identity of a hereditary small banner of the Ming Dynasty.
If it were at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, although such an identity could not guarantee a wealthy life for Wang Junwu, a life without worries about food and clothing could still be guaranteed.
However, it is the late Ming Dynasty. Even if I have the status of a small flag, I can't even eat enough in the garrison.
Because of his own shooting skills, in order to survive better, Wang Junwu could only sign up to join the border army and become the lowest spearman in the army.
Although he is a spearman, Wang Junsheng is confident that with his ancestral masterpiece, he will sooner or later make a name for himself in the border army.
However, as time passed day by day, facing the military officers who had been completely corrupted by money, Wang Junwu not only did not be valued by his superiors because he had no money to bribe his superiors, but instead, because his military pay was deducted and he began to not even have enough food.
Gradually, Wang Junwu began to become desperate about the border army.
Just now, the Tartars are detained.
Wang Junwu, who was brave, subconsciously felt that he had finally had a place to use his skills and had a chance to soar into the sky.
However, the subsequent development of things was far beyond his expectations.
In the army of the Ming Dynasty, the best way to calculate military merits was the Tartars' head.
However, when Wang Junwu risked his life to cut off several Tartar heads on the battlefield, these heads not only did not bring him military merits, but instead summoned him to kill.
In order to make the Tartars' heads brought back by Wang Junwu from the battlefield, Shangguan directly suppressed some crimes that could be summoned to Wang Junwu at any time, and asked Wang Junwu to hand over all the Tartars' heads to pay for his life.
In order to survive and to continue to survive in the army, Wang Junwu had to give up his military achievements and continue to serve as the lowest-ranking leader in the border army.
The identity of a soldier was preserved, but what happened next made Wang Junwu completely lose confidence in the border army.
A month ago, the Tartars rushed into the military residence where their parents were located, and the border troops where they were located were ordered to rescue them.
However, because the officer was greedy and afraid of death and stood firm, Wang Junwu had to watch his family die at the hands of the Tartars. Not only that, the officer who was greedy and afraid of death actually brutally cut off his parents' heads in order to gain military merits...
Wang Junwu, who could no longer bear it, suddenly rose up on the spot and wanted to kill these Shangguans.
However, the other party has many people and power, but he is indeed alone. Not only does he fail, he is caught by the other party with a greater handle and is about to face the serious crime of rebellion.
At the moment of life and death, the Tartars, who had just finished the massacre, actually saved themselves invisibly and accidentally returned to the battlefield.
How could the border army, which had low morale and had no fighting spirit, be an opponent of the Tatar cavalry?
Hundreds of Tartar cavalry defeated the border troops with thousands of troops with just one charge. As for Wang Junwu himself, because his hands and feet were tied up, he could only become a prisoner of the Tartars with a face full of unwillingness to be willing to become a prisoner of the Tartars.
After this series of life and death, Wang Junwu completely lost confidence in the border army. He was determined to take revenge and was ready to find an opportunity to kill several Tartar guards and then die with the Tartars.
At this moment, the Tiger and Leopard Army appeared and gave Wang Junwu a chance to survive again.
Not only did he rescue himself from the Tartars, but he also gave himself food. More importantly, the Tiger and Leopard Army also gave him a chance to join the army to kill the Tartars.
Although the Tiger and Leopard Army in front of us was not recognized by the court, it was true that they killed the Tartars. The best proof was that all the more than 100 Tartars defending Santunbao were killed by them.
More importantly, you can eat enough to join the Tiger and Leopard Army and eat meat.
You should know that for half a year when I joined the border army, I had never even seen minced meat, let alone pork meal every two days.
Not only that, what made Wang Junwu most excited was the officer promotion system of the Tiger and Leopard Army.
Through understanding more than 100 veterans of the Tiger and Leopard Army, Wang Junwu finally believed that there was still such an army in this world that he was promoted by relying on military merits without any fraud.
In this case, Wang Junwu was confident that with his own ability, he would not take long to be promoted to the top with his military merits, and even the platoon leader, and get better treatment in the Tiger and Leopard Army.
You should know that in the Tiger and Leopard Army, as long as you are promoted to the platoon leader, you can have a well-built armor. Not only that, you can go to a separate kitchen with Wei Zheng, the highest commander of the Tiger and Leopard Army, to have dinner every day.
Even in the border army of the government army, only by becoming an officer of more than a hundred households could he possess iron armor. In the past, Wang Junwu dared not think about this. However, the Tiger and Leopard Army in front of him could easily realize this idea with his military merits and strength.
So, Wang Junwu, who has become a lonely man, immediately made a decision in his heart that no one can change, join the Tiger and Leopard Army, take revenge, become an officer, and eat meat...
What no one expected was that Wang Junwu's decision today would be a member of the Tiger and Leopard Army, which was hated by both the Tatars and the official army to the core. Of course, these are all later stories.
Chapter completed!