The reason why Wang Yu did this was naturally for his own purpose.
You know, the most indispensable thing for today's Bingzhou Army is cavalry.
Because every infantryman can become a quite qualified cavalry with a little training, not to mention, Wang Yu still has more than four months.
In the past few months, the Bingzhou Army has been recruiting troops. As soon as the recruitment notice was posted, the people of the nine counties of Bingzhou immediately became excited.
Because Bingzhou's treatment is really good for ordinary soldiers. As long as they join the army, they will not only be exempted from hard labor, but will also be rewarded for their military exploits. If they unfortunately die in battle, their relatives will be given pensions.
Although this payment quota, from today's perspective, feels very oppressive. After all, only five guan of money will be given to each family member according to the number of people a year. But you must know that for ordinary people in this era, this is undoubtedly a lot of money.
A huge sum of money.
You must know that the money used in the Han Dynasty at this time, even though the value of horseshoe gold has depreciated due to the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the unit of money has not changed.
The usual currency is equal to one thousand and five baht.
And Wu Guan Qian is equivalent to five thousand and five baht.
You must know that the wages of private servants at this time include food and beverages. Under this premise, one person can earn between 200 and 450 baht per month.
It can be said that the pension alone is equivalent to working for ordinary people for more than a year.
Of course, some people may ask why the Bingzhou Army does not have military pay.
In this regard, we can only say that throughout the historical records of the Han Dynasty, for most of the time, there were only records of salaries being provided to officers, but no mention of salaries to soldiers.
This is enough to show that there was no military pay for being a soldier at that time.
After all, during the Han Dynasty, a compulsory military system was adopted where all the people were soldiers.
According to the "Han Official Rituals": "In a civilian year, a person is considered a righteous person at the age of twenty-three, a guard at the age of one, an officer or a knight at the age of one."
In other words, every adult man must perform military service starting from the age of twenty-three. At that time, military service was the same as corvee service and was an obligation of the people, and the state would not provide money.
Unless you can hold a military position and enjoy the salary provided by the state.
Or the border troops, although they were not given military pay, they were given food and sometimes salt. This was also because the border troops had to face attacks from foreign tribes all the time.
If you don't recruit from locals, it's impossible to rely only on outsiders. After all, the Han Dynasty has a vast territory. If you recruit outsiders, the country will not provide resources.
Walking such a long distance, you have to prepare food and drink yourself, and you have to bear the expenses yourself. It is really unrealistic and no one wants to go.
Therefore, the imperial court at that time stipulated that anyone who did not want to serve as a "garrison" soldier could be exempted from the garrison by paying 300 coins.
If 10 people do not go, then the court should charge 3,000 yuan as free garrison fee, and then the court will use the money to hire people to go, and they will be there for 30 days, and the hired people will get the money.
However, the imperial court finally discovered that this method was completely useless. There were no problems during peacetime. Once war broke out, these temporary soldiers hired alone would not be of much use.
Therefore, for the sake of border security, the imperial court could only stop the border troops in large numbers. Although there was no military pay, the family would be reissued with corresponding food every month, and there were also preferential policies!
In addition, the people recruited by the border army are basically local people. For the safety of their families, they are naturally willing to accept recruitment from the imperial court.
But at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when the world was really in chaos, people were eating each other and starving to death everywhere. It would be good to be a soldier and feed them. You have to do it without paying any money. At least you can eat people without worrying about being eaten by others.
Therefore, some novels that recruit soldiers through military pay are completely nonsense.
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Not to mention the Han Dynasty, which had insufficient productivity development, even the Tang Dynasty, which was known as the prosperous Tang Dynasty, was unable to pay soldiers.
Because the Tang Dynasty continued the equalization of land system and the military system since the Northern Wei Dynasty, the most important feature of this system was the integration of military and peasantry.
In normal times, the soldiers of the government are farmers who cultivate the land. They train during the farm breaks and join the army to fight in wartime.
Moreover, the weapons and horses for the soldiers to participate in the war were provided by themselves, and there were Zhechongfus across the country who were responsible for selecting and training the soldiers.
Although the Fu soldiers have no money, the whole family can be exempted from taxes, which can be regarded as a kind of compensation.
But later on, the Fubing system was gradually destroyed. This was because the targets of the Fubing recruitment were mainly farmers with equal land. By the time of Xuanzong's reign, land annexation became increasingly serious and the system of equalization was destroyed.
The government military system also lost the economic conditions on which it was implemented.
In addition, soldiers originally had a limited time limit, but soldiers were often forced to stay by Shangguan, and even stayed in garrison for a long time without returning. This led to people avoiding service, soldiers fleeing, and the government military system was abolished.
And what follows is the recruitment system!
When they saw the word "raise", everyone finally laughed - they are rich!
Soldiers become professional soldiers and receive military pay on a regular basis.
But the money is not free, and soldiers must choose carefully.
Especially during the late Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties and the Ten Kingdoms period, it was stipulated that soldiers should be able to wear three layers of armor, a bronze helmet on their head, wield a twelve-stone crossbow, carry fifty arrows, carry a sword, and wrap three layers of armor.
Only those who can run a hundred miles from dawn to noon can be recruited.
Therefore, those princes with military power in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms were all so lawless. After all, according to this configuration, one was definitely worth ten.
Even the world of high martial arts that Wang Yu currently lives in is not so demanding on soldiers. It is conceivable why Zhao Da is so afraid of generals.
After all, when a military general is in power and has such a powerful force under his command, it can be said that changing dynasties is a very easy task.
It is worth mentioning that even in the Song Dynasty, where the commodity economy was highly developed, the salary of the Imperial Army in the Northern Song Dynasty was about 45 guan per year, and that of the Xiang army was about 30 guan.
In the early Northern Song Dynasty, one tael of silver was exchanged for two guan of money. In other words, even for the Forbidden Army, the annual military pay was only twenty-two taels.
Therefore, no matter how much money Wang Yu had, he would not be able to set a precedent and give military pay to soldiers, because as long as he is a normal person who can do calculations, he will know how terrible this expense is.
Without paying military salary, Wang Yu naturally had his own strategy, which was to follow the reward and punishment system of later generations. Although the soldiers did not have a basic salary, their commissions were large.
If you can kill the enemy on the battlefield, or be the first to ascend, capture the flag, or kill the general, you can earn a lot of money.
If someone accidentally dies in battle, or leaves the army due to disability, a pension will be paid. Although the money may not be much, it is enough to allow ordinary people in this era to live a good year.