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Chapter 42 Serving as a soldier and eating food

Chongzhen was noncommittal.

At present, the enemies of Ming Dynasty have changed from bandits to slaves.

However, Chongzhen didn't say much to Huang Degong, and even if he did, he didn't understand.

Chongzhen asked Huang Degong: "Uncle Jing'an, can you lend me six thousand taels of silver first?"

"Why did Your Majesty say this?" Huang Degong hurriedly fell to the ground again, and said in panic, "All the pay and silver in the army belong to the Ming Dynasty, and they all belong to Your Majesty, Your Majesty, why are you borrowing words?"

"Oh, I made a mistake." Chongzhen waved his hand.

"Then I'd like you to allocate six thousand taels of salary to me."

"I will go get it now." Huang Degong stood up and walked back.

Chongzhen called over ten barbarian generals including Wu Ba Tan, Meng Ke Tu and others.

Now that we have returned to Jiangnan, it is time for the Lun Gong reward.

Needless to say, this major detour and retreat, which totaled more than five thousand miles, was definitely a military miracle. Thinking about it now, Chongzhen felt like he was dreaming.

The reason why he was able to return to Jiangnan alive was largely due to a thousand Yiding people.

Therefore, whether it is to reward merit or to win over people's hearts, something must be expressed.

"I told you on the Chahar Grassland that as long as you protect me and return to Nanjing safely, I will grant you a title and make you a nobleman of the Ming Dynasty!"

"Now, I am standing on the edge of the Yangtze River."

"On the other side of the river is Nanjing. You have completed the escort mission."

"And I should fulfill my promise and grant you a title."

Hearing this, Wu Ba Tan, Meng Ke Tu and other ten barbarian generals suddenly became excited.

Titles, the emperor is going to give them titles, and they will become nobles soon!

As a Mongolian, Yiding people have a deep-rooted concept of nobility.

On the grassland, the number of nobles is very rare, and most people are just slaves of the nobles.

Moreover, nobles have various privileges. They can beat and kill slaves as they please. They can also sleep with slaves' wives or daughters as they please. Slaves cannot even resist.

Because the Great Zhasa Order stipulated that slaves were only the property of nobles.

After a pause, Chongzhen said again: "I will now designate ten of you as loyal and brave men!"

The promotion of officials requires the cabinet staff, but the imperial title can be decided by the emperor.

However, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were extremely stingy in conferring lordships, and most of the conferees they conferred were viscounts and barons below earl, and there were very few marquises and counts.

As for dukes, they are even rarer.

During the Jiajing period, it was felt that the number of viscounts and barons was too large, which had already caused a certain burden on the national finance, so they simply revoked these two titles and did not recognize the old titles.

Therefore, Lao Zhu's family has always been stingy towards officials and relatives.

This problem mainly stems from the root cause, that is, Zhu Yuanzhang guarded his relatives as much as he guarded against thieves.

In this regard, Jiannu was much more generous. When Jiannu first entered the customs, he conferred the title of a lot of marquises. Even trash like Xu Dingguo was mixed up with a first-class fine nihafan (first-class son).

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Jiannu could even be granted titles by kings at his request, such as Wu Sangui and King Sanshun.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty was finally able to take over the Central Plains, and this was a major reason why they won over the Han landlord class through a large number of titles!

It was precisely because the Manchus generously awarded titles to the Qing Dynasty that the Ming army and the generals who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty were so motivated that they fought against their own people even more vigorously than they did to build slaves, and they swept through most of China in a short period of time.

So at this point, Chongzhen decided to learn from the successful experience of establishing slaves.

As for the financial burden, the Ming Dynasty's finances are in such a bad state, and they are not short of the annual salary of these nobles. The annual salary of a viscount is only two hundred dan, which is equivalent to two hundred taels of silver?

The annual salary of the ten viscounts is only two thousand taels.

If you cut off one prince, you can raise dozens of viscounts.

This sounds like a long story, but it is actually just a change of thought in Chongzhen’s mind.

After hearing Chongzhen's words, Wu Batan and the other ten barbarian generals were overjoyed.

Although they are only the most junior barons among the fifth-class titles, they are also nobles. From this moment on, they not only broke away from the military status, but also transcended the civilian class and became the powerful people of the Ming Dynasty!

Chongzhen smiled slightly and said: "When you get married again in the future and have new heirs, you will have one son to guard hundreds of households, and it will be hereditary!"

Wu Baotan was really ecstatic waiting for this.

How can one son serve as a royal guard for hundreds of households? Is it hereditary?

This means that the official status of Jinyiwei Baihu can be passed down from generation to generation.

At that moment, Wu Baotan and the other ten people all knelt down on the ground, stuck out their buttocks and sang loudly: "I am waiting to thank you for your great kindness, my emperor, long live, long live, long live!"

Not far away, Hu Guozhu looked here with envy.

He didn't know what he was envious of, it was just envy anyway.

Perhaps they were envious of Wu Batan and the others for being granted the title of baron, or perhaps they were envious of the fact that they could protect one son from being hereditary and replace hundreds of royal guards? Or perhaps they were envious of the emperor's ability to win over people's hearts?

"Stay flat!" Chongzhen raised his hands to signal Wu Bantan to stand up.

When Wu Bahui and others got up happily, Chongzhen continued: "I was able to return to Jiangnan safely this time. You ten people deserve the most credit, but your subordinates also worked hard and made great achievements, so I also have corresponding rewards for them. You guys

Just tell your subordinates that I will jointly confer them the title of Imperial Guard Banner!"

Wu Ba Tan and others immediately told the Yi Ding under their command of the good news.

As soon as the news spread, a thousand Yiding cheered enthusiastically.

These Yiding have also lived in western Liaoning for a long time, and they also have a good understanding of the Ming Dynasty and what kind of existence Jinyiwei is.

Although the reputation of Jinyiwei is not very good, after all, they are the emperor's personal soldiers. They have a very high status and good treatment. They also hold the power of reconnaissance, arrest, interrogation, etc., and they can go around wherever they go!

Now they not only joined the Jinyiwei, but also became the general banner of the Jinyiwei! They are in the seventh rank!

This means that they have become the emperor's personal soldiers from now on, and they can walk sideways wherever they go.

How can one not be happy about such a good thing? Any normal person, no, every individual would be ecstatic.

Amidst warm cheers, Huang Degong came back again, and brought three boxes with six servants. The boxes were heavy and probably contained quite a lot of things.

Chongzhen pointed to the box and said to Wu Baotan and others: "This is the salary for April. You can organize the sons and daughters of your respective bids to come to me to collect it, one hundred households and one hundred households."

Starting from April, a thousand Yiding began to follow the emperor in the north and south.

Therefore, it is only natural that the emperor should pay the salary. There is nothing to say.

At that moment, Wu Batan and the other ten households returned to their respective queues and began to organize the barbarians to come forward to collect their pay.

Because the General Banner of Jinyiwei has just been sealed by imperial edict, this time you can receive the monthly salary according to the same method as the Guan Ning Army. The monthly salary of the cavalry of the Guan Ning Army is 1.6 taels of silver, plus 1 shi rice of the original color.

However, in order to save trouble, the imperial court usually replaced the true color with the folded color.

Moreover, the official price given is extremely low, with 1 stone meter only discounting 0.4 taels of silver.

So later on, the monthly salary of the cavalrymen of Guan Ning Army became 2 taels per month.

Then the pay is divided into three categories: seat pay, line pay and war pay. The sit pay is the pay when you are stationed in a place, the line pay is the pay after you set off, and the war pay is the pay when you encounter a war.

Normally, the traveling rate is twice the sitting rate, and the combat rate is three times.

One thousand Yiding were obviously to be paid at three times the war rate.

Soon, Wu Batan came forward with the Yiding he had marked.

Wu Ba Tan was an official and received an annual salary, so he did not receive a monthly salary.

The first person in line was a short and stocky Yiding who came forward with an excited look on his face.

"Are you Wuladu?" Wang Chengen asked with a smile while holding the roster.

"Yes." The Yiding named Wuladu nodded repeatedly, "Little man Wuladu."

Wang Chengen asked again: "Whose soldier are you serving as?"

"Ah?" Wula Duo was stunned when he heard this.

I didn’t ask about this when I received my salary before.

Gao Qiqian on the other side reminded in a low voice: "Be a soldier of the Ming Dynasty."

"Oh, oh oh oh." Wula Du woke up from his dream and said quickly, "This villain is a soldier of the Ming Dynasty."

"Speak louder." Wang Chengen frowned and said, "We didn't hear you clearly."

Wuladu immediately shouted: "Become a soldier of the Ming Dynasty!"

"Yes." Wang Chengen nodded and asked, "Whose food do you eat?"

"Ah?" Wula Duo was stunned again when he heard this, but he quickly reacted and said, "I'm eating the food of the Ming Dynasty!"

"Wrong, wrong." Gao Qiqian quickly corrected him, "Eat the food of Long Live Lord!"

"Oh, oh." Wula scratched her head and shouted loudly, "Eat the food of Long Live Lord!"

"That's right." Wang Cheng'en picked up the brush and lightly ticked the roster, and said with a smile, "Uladu, the salary for April of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen was supposed to be 6 taels, but it was actually 6 taels!"

Gao Qiqian took out two silver coins from the box and handed them to Wula Du.

Wuladu put the 5 taels of silver into his mouth and bit it gently, leaving a clear tooth mark.

Seeing this tooth mark, Wula Duo immediately grinned from ear to ear, thinking that Long Live Master is really good, and the salary for April was paid directly, and the salary was three times the actual war salary!

Unlike Uncle Ping, who often defaults on his salary arrears, and the delay lasts for half a year.

There is never any salary or war salary, and sometimes the salary is reduced.

Soon it was the second Yiding's turn to receive his salary, and this time the process was much smoother.

"Your name is Mikeqi?"

"Yes, the villain is contemptible."

"Whose soldier are you serving as?"

"Be a soldier of the Ming Dynasty."

"Whose food do you eat?"

"Eat the food of Long live the Lord!"

"Mi Keqi, the salary for April of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen was supposed to be 6 taels, but it was actually 6 taels!"

A Yiding man named Mi Keqi also received two silver coins. He also took a bite first, and when he discovered that they were really silver, he smiled happily and turned into a flower.


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