Countless silver piled up into a mountain, the silver light was brilliant.
The soldiers looked at the silver mountain from a distance, feeling enchanted.
"How much money does this cost?"
"I'm afraid it's probably a hundred thousand."
"One hundred thousand taels? One hundred thousand taels is not that much. I estimate that I can only get one million taels of silver."
Everyone couldn't help but talk. Opposite the soldiers, the supervisor and cabinet ministers were waiting.
The Chinese army sat with a banner in the middle.
This flag was sent from Shaoxing. It is very huge, one foot six feet high and one foot big. It is made of black and green satin, with white silk as the border, and the flag head is decorated with beads.
There are several banners hanging on the flag, each representing a direction. Each banner is also painted with graphics, and in the center of the flag is the Yin and Yang Bagua.
There is a fur ball on the top of the bamboo pole, which is made of yak tail and is called shao. It is said that the use of shao to decorate the bamboo basket originated from the Yellow Emperor. After he defeated Chi You, he cut off Chi You's hair as a decoration for the bamboo basket.
This established the sacred status of the 纛.
The Great Banner is naturally the highest-level military flag of the Ming Army. Usually, the Bagua Taiji Banner is specially stored in the Banner Temple. Every year, the Banner is sacrificed in spring and autumn. The Banner Temple is also dedicated to the gods who protect the banner.
Flag-headed generals, six-flag generals, five flag gods, and even gods in charge of warships, gods in charge of golden drums and horns, muskets and cannons, gods in charge of bows, crossbows, flying guns and flying stones, gods in front of and behind the formations and the Wuchang Gods
, as well as the Fire and Thunder God of the founder Zhu Difeng, etc.
Asking the Chinese army to come out and sit on the flag, this is not ordinary.
Now that the banner of the Chinese Army has been erected, and so much money has been placed under the banner, everyone knows that something big must have happened.
"The auspicious time has come!"
"Flag sacrifice!"
A general wearing armor came on horseback and shouted loudly.
The Supervisor Zhu Yihai put on the full military uniform of the Supervisor just sent by Xing Zai. He wore a golden phoenix-winged helmet decorated with gold Zhenwu Emperor, and a fire-breathing golden dragon on each side.
Wearing armor, square collar, double placket, sleeveless, with open trains on the left and right sides and at the back. The placket is decorated with jujube-shaped gold buckles and cloth button loops. The whole body is covered with fish scale-like armor plates, arranged in layers, and the left and right sides of the chest
Each is decorated with a golden rising dragon.
The upper body, collar, shoulders, bottom and other places are all embroidered with red gold cloud and dragon patterns.
Both shoulders are golden unicorn-shaped shoulder armor, decorated with red shoulder tassels.
The bottom hem of the front and back parts of the garment are decorated with double rows of colorful fringes, and a narrow-sleeved robe with colorful clouds and dragons is worn under the armor. Armbands are worn on both arms, made of red velvet ribbons and golden armor. The waist is tied with a yellow belt.
And hang swords, bow bags, quivers and other weapons.
Putting on this emperor's military uniform, it looks majestic and majestic.
Zhu Yihai passed by Zuohu and walked forward until he came to the tooth flag in front of the camp gate.
The military flag is sacrificed, but the Ya flag is sacrificed. The Dahu flag is sacrificed in the Qihu temple and is sacrificed according to the spring and autumn seasons.
In peacetime, when the army offers sacrifices to the flag, the tooth flag is sacrificed.
The ivory flag, as the name suggests, is a flag decorated with ivory on its pole.
When the emperor or the general went out on an expedition, he would set up an ivory-decorated flag in front of the military camp. The gate of the camp where the ivory flag was erected was called the tooth gate, also called the military gate. In the Ming Dynasty, it was called the governor, and the admiral was called the military gate, which is where it comes from.
"Bring a sacrifice."
When sacrificing flags in the military, three animals are usually used as sacrifices.
But sometimes there were sacrifices, mainly using captives.
Today, Zhu Yihai also wanted to use people to sacrifice the military flag. Guards wearing flying fish uniforms and carrying embroidered spring knives escorted a large number of people up.
One is unkempt.
"Prove your identity!"
The new commander of the Jinyiwei, Ma Jixiang, brought people forward to verify their identities according to the roster, and then reported them one by one.
"Yu Kai, the magistrate of Yanzhou, Zhu San, the puppet king of Yiyang, Zhao Huaiming, the commander-in-chief, Fang Shiyan..."
More than 300 people committed crimes.
At this time, everyone was in a state of disarray, but their names were all well-established. There were officials from Yanzhou Prefecture and County, such as Yu Kai, the former prefect, Wang Liang, the former patrol officer, Deng Zhong, the recommended official, Huang Zhenfei, the county magistrate, etc.
There were also deputy general Fang Shiyan, the former son of Fang Guoan, and Zhao Huaiming, the former commander-in-chief of the Hongguang Dynasty.
Even King Yiyang, who had previously claimed to be the supervisor of the country in Longyou, had been taken away by the imperial camp prisoners. It was found that he was a rogue named Zhu Mingsan, pretending to be a member of the royal family, pretending to be King Yiyang, and conspired with Fang Guoan.
There are also many local gentry and powerful people.
Now, these people are all wearing shackles and chains and being escorted to the school grounds.
Zhu Yihai directly wanted to take their tooth sacrificial flag.
And the money on the school grounds was all stolen from their families.
Although Yanzhou has many mountains and hills and few fields, the famous Anhui merchants in the late Ming Dynasty had to pass through Yanzhou when going to Hangzhou and going to sea. At the same time, it was also an important route to Hangzhou, Fujian, Guangdong and even Jiangxi.
Therefore, Yanzhou Prefecture is the second largest prefecture among the eight prefectures in Zhejiang, after Hangzhou. It is very prosperous and the people here are also famous for doing business. In fact, there are even a large number of Yanzhou people among the famous Huizhou merchants.
There are many businessmen with a net worth of hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands taels, but when they insist on fighting Zhu Yihai, they finally experience the terrible end.
Even in the past, they had a way to stabilize military leaders like Fang Guoan in troubled times, but now they made misjudgments one after another against the Supervisor State.
They gave the uncle more than one hundred thousand taels of silver, hoping to settle the situation with the supervisor, but they failed to achieve their goals and ended up getting burned.
Zhu Yihai was extremely angry and immediately sent the Jin Yiwei, Dongchang and Yuying to capture them all. This time he was not polite at all.
I ask you to take the initiative to make up for the shortfall, pay the arrears and return the occupied land. If you still play this trick, then all the money will be confiscated directly.
Young Master Fang Fengnian stepped forward tremblingly and began to read out the charges against the villagers.
He also didn't expect that the matter would end like this.
As I recited each name, my body couldn't stop shaking, and my hands and feet felt cold.
By the time I finished reading the last word, I felt like all my strength had been drained out of me, and I almost fainted.
"cut!"
"Decided!"
Zhu Yihai coldly spit out the final verdict.
There is no need to wait for the Autumn Queen to ask for execution, and there is no need to go through the Ministry of Punishment or Dali Temple for review and kill directly.
Killed more than 300 people in one go.
Bloody and bloody.
These more than 300 people were just the first rebels, and their direct blood relatives could not escape the blame. Although they were exempted from the death penalty, they were all confiscated from their homes and exiled to various mines and salt fields to do hard labor.
Only those under the age of fourteen were exempted from hard labor, but they had to earn their own living.
Blood dyed the tooth flag red.
Heads of people were being killed, and there was a dead silence.
After killing the people, Zhu Yihai began to distribute rewards.
The Imperial Guards garrisoned in Yanzhou were sent first, and the new recruits were given five taels of home silver, and then the first month's salary was paid in full.
Then, the garrison of the former Yanzhou Guards Qianhu Station was given three months' additional monthly rations, plus three months as severance pay.
Then, the arrears were repaid to the subordinate officials of Yanzhou Prefecture.
After paying them, Zhu Yihai repaid half of the owed wages and last month's wages to several other imperial camps around him. He also paid Jinyiwei and Dongchang and others by the way.
The officials and scribes of the Liangtai lined up in a row and distributed money on the spot according to the roster.
Many soldiers lined up excitedly to receive their pay.
Some people got their food and salary and found out that they really got money.
"Huang Jixiong, soldier of the left brigade of the Zuobiao Zuoxie outpost of the Yuying Warrior Town, third-class soldier rank, newly recruited into the army, formerly a soldier of Yanzhou Guards Qianhusuo City."
"Now it's time to pay you the severance pay from the original guard station, six months of rations, one stone of rice per month, a total of six stone of rice, and the current price of stone and rice is two taels of silver, which will be discounted to you twelve taels of silver."
"You were recruited into the Imperial Warriors' Town and were given five taels of silver as a settlement allowance."
"You are newly enlisted in the army, but as a rule, regardless of the day of the first month, you will still be paid a full monthly salary. The daily salary of a third-class soldier is one cent and three cents, which is three taels and nine cents a month."
"So I should give you a total of twenty-nine taels of silver."
Huang Jixiong was stunned on the spot. This tall but thin man thought he heard wrongly.
"Didn't you say before that you would be given three months' monthly salary as severance pay?"
"Well, the supervisory country feels sorry for you, so we will give you an additional three months as severance pay."
Huang Jixiong asked again, "If I am recruited into the Imperial Warriors Town, will I still have An Jiayin?"
"Of course this is true. If you lose An Jiayin when you enter the imperial camp, wouldn't it be unfair to you? Your Highness has always been kind and will never treat you badly."
"Six stones of rice can be converted into twelve taels of silver? In the past, every stone of rice could be converted into eight coins of silver."
"It's calculated based on the current price of rice." The clerk replied patiently.
"If you confirm it is correct, you will receive the money." The scribe said again.
Seeing the clerk take out the silver, Huang Jixiong couldn't help but ask again, "Aren't you going to deduct the money?"
"What money will be deducted?"
"That's just deducting clothing expenses, shed expenses, food expenses, etc." Huang Jixiong used to be a guard in Weisuo City. Later, he was included in the Yanzhou guerrilla camp and became a camp soldier. He can be considered a veteran. He has been in the military camp for a long time.
, and have long been familiar with the methods used by superior officers to deduct military pay.
Everything from meals to salt and vegetables, to camp tents, and even weapons and armor were all deducted, and Shangguan had to take 30% of his salary. Originally, Zhou Fugui was a guerrilla, with a battalion of one thousand soldiers, but in fact there were less than 200 soldiers.
, they were all the city guards from the original Qianhusuo, and each man and horse had two plaques and received double pay.
But the pay was owed some last time, and Zhou Fugui deducted some, so the soldiers couldn't get much at all.
Zhou Fugui even wrote the names of more than a dozen prostitutes from the brothel he liked into the military camp roster, and also received a monthly salary.
He even gave loan sharks to soldiers.
Therefore, Huang Jixiong had to work two jobs as a soldier. During the busy farming season, he had to work in the fields for Zhou Fugui. During the slack farming season, he had to help him pledge goods and smuggle goods. However, he could barely make ends meet all year round. He was a bachelor and didn't even have a wife.
Can't even get married.
Logically speaking, since he was a soldier and worked part-time, he should have married a wife and bought land to build a house with a lot of children.
But that's just how it should be. In fact, you won't see silver skin all year round.
It has always been the military officers who tried to find ways to deduct everyone's money. When did it become so good?
The monthly grain can be exchanged for silver, and you can still get two liang and one stone to give silver, let alone one dollar and three silver a day, how can you really give that much?
I got a sum of severance pay, another sum of settlement allowance, and other good things.
When the money was placed in front of him, he was stunned for a moment.
The silver was bright and shiny, but it was different from the usual ones. It was not a silver collar or a precious silver ingot, nor was it scattered silver, it was actually pieces of foreign silver coins.
But if you look closely, you will see that it is not the foreign silver used by the people, but silver with dragon patterns and Chinese characters on the front.
"This is?"
"This is the Shaotian dragon-patterned silver dollar newly issued by our household department. This one is worth one tael of silver. The actual fineness is 778, which is lower than the precious silver. It is mixed with some copper. However, it should only be used at face value. It should not be used.
Cut it or weigh it for use. Of course, if you are not used to this kind of silver dollar, you can also take it directly to your bank and exchange it at the counter of a branch in various places. One dollar can be exchanged for one tael of silver, as much as you have."
Twenty silver coins with dragon patterns are larger than copper coins, but much smaller than ordinary silver cakes.
Picking up a piece, it was a bit heavy and had no holes in the middle. When he touched the dragon on it, he felt a very strange and sacred feeling, but also a little doubtful.
One tael of silver mixed with copper is actually only 70% 78 cents of silver. Those 10 taels are actually only 70 taels, 70 cents and 80 cents? That’s not right. The grain silver is not full, so these ten taels of dragon silver should be worth more than a few grains of silver.
But it’s still at least two taels less.
Twenty-nine taels of silver is actually about four taels less?
After Huang Jixiong figured it out, instead of being angry, he felt relieved. He always felt uneasy unless he was deducted. Now that he had been deducted by 20%, he felt more at ease, and even felt that he was not deprived of much.
