Under Zhu Yihai's military merit reward system, when soldiers fight, they must first determine the formation and victory based on the scale of the battle and the outcome, then determine the third-level merit based on the individual performance of the soldiers, and finally select Tiao Dang and vanguard based on the scale of the battle.
The number of special military exploits.
Secondly, when jumping into the city as a vanguard, those who break the formation will be rewarded with official and silver rewards, and those who capture the head will also be rewarded with military merits, and can even be promoted based on their heads.
In short, Zhu Yihai's new merit reward system is more generous than the one before the Ming Dynasty and is more motivating for soldiers.
Let's just say that Zhang Dapeng and the others annihilated fifty yellow thieves. This is not a small feat. After all, they only killed four of them and fifty of them. With a small number of people, they annihilated all of them. They captured a lot and rescued eight civilians.
The yellow-shaking thieves killed were inland bandits, the lowest grade and the least valuable polling merit, but it was the polling merit after all. The first-class Eight Banners Manchuria, the second-class Eight Banners Mongolia, the Eight Banners Han Army, the third-class Green Camp, and the fourth-class Miaoman
, fifth-class mainland thieves, and sixth-class thieves and bandits.
Zhang Xianzhong's Xiying bandits can be regarded as the fifth-class inland bandits, while the Yaohuang bandits can only be regarded as the lowest-class sixth-class bandits.
If you kill the Eight Banner Manchu Tatars, you can advance to a level with one head, but if you kill the Yellow Thief, you need six heads to advance to the next level.
A total of fifty were killed, but Zhang Dapeng was not greedy for credit and evaluated his merits carefully with everyone.
"I killed nine, Yang Wei killed seven, Liu Chengzu killed seven, and Ma Liang killed five.
Zhang Xian killed six
The one-armed Zhang Xian hurriedly said, "Of the six I killed, four were actually killed by Zhang Shoubei. I only made up for it with one more stab, so they can't be counted as mine."
Zhang Dapeng said, "What you kill is what you kill. There is no saying whether you can make up for it or not. This counts as your first-level skill, and I count it as the follow-up skill."
Although Zhang Xian felt that this credit was a bit overwhelming, Zhang Dapeng still insisted and asked Zhou Xiucai to record it truthfully.
Not only do they record the beheadings of each person truthfully, but they also record in detail the age, appearance, gender, age, etc. of each person they beheaded.
After finally registering, Zhang Xian and others still felt that it was not appropriate. How come more than half of the fifty thieves' achievements were attributed to cripples like them.
In particular, many of them were obviously just last-minute hits after they were knocked down by Zhang Dapeng and the other four.
But Dapeng still insisted.
"How about we record all these young and strong men under the names of the garrison adults, and just record these women, old and weak people under our names?" Zhang Xian asked again.
Zhou Xiucai also thought this was a good idea. After all, he had heard from Zhang Dapeng that the military exploits in the imperial camp were very complicated.
These yellow thieves can at most be considered for sixth-level military merit, and only the young and strong among them can be rewarded with merit and promotion, while the rest, women, children, old and weak, can only be rewarded with silver coins. This is still a big difference.
"There's no need to be like this. I, Zhang Dapeng, am not the kind of person who is greedy for merit and risking rewards. Moreover, I am just some swindler."
"Record it truthfully."
For the sixth level of head merit, a head of Eight Banners Manchuria is worth sixty taels of silver, with a difference of ten taels for each level. At the end, the sixth level of inland bandits is worth ten taels of silver for one head. If it is captured alive, five will be added.
If the person killed is a woman, old or young, the price will be reduced by five taels.
Zhang Dapeng beheaded nine people, all of whom were young and strong. Each one was ten taels, and nine was ninety taels. The six-level young and strong people from the mainland can be upgraded to one level.
This time it was enough for him to level up.
As a battalion garrison officer, he had 500 soldiers and 180 auxiliary soldiers under his command. According to the rules, an officer of his level could be promoted to a higher level only if his subordinates beheaded more than ten people.
Fortunately, he killed nine of them himself, and others killed forty-one, for a total of fifty levels, which was enough to advance to the next level.
The first-level decapitation system originated from the Qin Dynasty's first-level merit system. If one beheaded, one would be promoted to a higher rank, so it was called the first-level meritorious service.
In today's Ming Shaotian Dynasty, ordinary soldiers can advance to one level by killing the heads of the Eight Banners and Manchurians, and they can advance to a maximum of three levels. However, it takes six to kill low-level mainland bandits like the Yellow Thief.
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As for the silver reward, a thief's head is worth ten taels of silver, and five taels for young and old are actually not too much. You must know that in the Jiajing and Wanli periods of the Ming Dynasty, the first-level reward for the Jurchens of Liaodong and the Japanese pirates from the southeast had already reached fifty taels.
Even a hundred taels.
Although there is a lot of silver reward, it is not easy to get it. After all, you have to defeat the enemy first and then cut off the head. You have to take it back and have it passed by the officials sent by the superiors.
And many times, the head cannot be cut off and taken away in battle. Without the head, there is no head-level skill. Especially the head of the Liaodong Jurchen is even more rare. It can't be beaten, and it is even harder to take away someone's head.
During the Chongzhen period, a small courtyard house in Beijing cost only fifty or sixty taels of silver. The standard given by the imperial court was basically one house per head.
But it is very difficult to get it, so there are many ways to kill good people and take credit, grab heads on the battlefield, and even buy and sell credit. This is because heads are hard currency, very valuable, and can even be promoted.
This is like someone in later generations spending 5 million to buy a lottery ticket that someone else had won 5 million in. When he went to claim the prize, he had to pay taxes and donations. In the end, he only got more than 3 million, but lost more than 1 million. Why did he
Want to buy?
Because it can turn black into white and wash it.
This was also the case in the army of the Ming Dynasty. Some children of aristocratic families or generals, who had no merit, spent money to buy their heads. Your head was originally worth fifty taels, but he might give you sixty taels or even a hundred taels of silver.
I bought it and reported it, why?
Because the heads can not only be exchanged for silver rewards, but also the heads can be accumulated to increase the rank.
At that time, the Qi Jiajun felt that this type of military merit was not very good, so they specially stipulated in the Qi Jiajun that five soldiers wearing merit uniforms should be set up in each hundred-man team to be responsible for beheading on the battlefield. Apart from them, other soldiers
No beheading is allowed on the battlefield.
After decapitating the heads of the soldiers, the reward of these heads will be divided among the heads of the entire army of 100 soldiers, so as to avoid the situation of robbing heads on the battlefield and delaying the battle by cutting off heads.
Zhu Yihai originally planned to use it, but in the end he did not use it immediately because he felt that although military merit rewards had many shortcomings, they were indeed very good at boosting morale.
If you cut off a head on the battlefield, you can buy a house instead?
Who is not impulsive?
For example, the head of an Eight Banners Manchuria is worth sixty taels, and the full monthly salary of a high-ranking imperial soldier is only four taels and five cents of silver, and the full annual salary is fifty-four taels. Cutting off the head of an Eight Banners Manchurian is worth more than
A year's salary.
A long-term worker in the south of the Yangtze River only earns three taels of silver a year, including food and accommodation. Cutting off a Tatar's head is equivalent to twenty years' wages. Who wouldn't be tempted by such a generous reward?
Many of the imperial soldiers were miners, fishermen, and long-term tenant workers recruited from Yiwu, Jinhua, and even Zhoushan in eastern Zhejiang. They have always had extremely low incomes and struggled to survive. Now they have such good people.
If they are rewarded with military merit, they will naturally work hard.
If the first-level skill is turned into a collective skill of a battalion or a sentry, and then divided equally among everyone, Zhu Yihai feels that this will lose the meaning of the first-level skill, and it can be treated as a collective military merit. Why bother to go there again?
Is beheading so bloody?
Yang Wei and Liu Chengzu both killed seven, but among them were young and old. Ma Liang only killed five of them, which was not enough to kill six young and strong mainland thieves to advance to the next level. He could only receive
Rewarded with silver.
Yang Wei has five young men, two old and young, which is equivalent to sixty taels of silver. Liu Chengzu has four young men and three old and young, which is worth fifty-five taels of silver. Ma Liang has three young men and two old and young, which is worth forty.
Two silver coins.
The one-armed Zhang Xian killed six, although four of them were replaced by Zhang Dapeng's sword, but after all, this was considered his beheading.
Zhang Dapeng still asked Zhou Xiucai to record rewards according to the reward standards for soldiers in the imperial camp, so there were six young men and sixty taels of silver reward, which was even enough to move up a level.
As for the other group of people, you have two and I have one. Almost everyone has a share.
Fifty yellow thieves, twenty young men, thirteen women, seven old men, and ten half-grown teenagers and children, this is a small team under the banner of Yuan Tao, the king of yellow thieves.
Zhou Xiucai was recording and couldn't help but ask, "There's not so much money to reward, is there?"
Twenty young men are worth two hundred taels of silver, and the remaining thirty are calculated as five taels, which is one hundred and fifty taels, for a total of three hundred and fifty taels of silver.
Zhang Dapeng said, "They are all worthless things. They are not the real Tatars of Jianzhou. They are only three hundred and fifty taels of silver. The gold and silver we seized is more than this amount."
Zhou Xiucai said, "A seizure is a seizure, and a reward is a reward, right?"
He felt that the seized gold and silver property, weapons, guns, tents, pots and pans, etc., were registered in the register. As for the gold and silver, they must have been divided among the four of them, and at most they would take some out to reward everyone.
But now Zhang Dapeng actually wants to pay the reward directly to the captured people, and all the rest has to be registered.
This made him admire Long Live Lord's Royal Guards even more.
Are there any military officers in the world who are neither afraid of death nor greedy for money?
If there were a few more soldiers of the Ming Army in Sichuan, how could they have allowed the yellow thieves to cause trouble in central Sichuan for more than ten years? How could they have allowed the western thieves to wait and enter Sichuan again and again to cause chaos?
No wonder the emperor raised the flag in eastern Zhejiang, and in a short period of time he was able to turn the tide and help the building from falling. Just look at Zhang Dapeng and these officers and soldiers of the imperial camp, they are like a team.
Zhou Xiucai suggested that it would be better to adjust it.
For example, in the beheading of Yang Wei and Liu Chengzu, how many old and young people were replaced by young and strong people? Ma Liangque's level and the old and young among them were also replaced by young and strong people, so that they could all gather enough heads to upgrade to one level.
It’s graded.
Military merit is rare, and promotion is even harder.
Zhang Xian and others are also willing to help adjust it. In fact, they are not willing to take this first-level gong and are willing to give it to Zhang Dapeng and the other four.
Liu Chengzu and Ma Liang were a little moved. They were originally stone pillar soldiers under Qin Liangyu. Their families were also poor mountain people. They wanted to change their destiny when they were soldiers. It was not easy to be transferred to the imperial camp. This time they came out because they wanted to
After making some achievements, who wouldn’t be tempted by the opportunity now?
Zhang Dapeng did not refuse directly.
Yang Wei, who followed him from eastern Zhejiang, said that as an emperor's imperial guard and a member of the imperial camp, he was also the captain of the team. Although he was only an eighth-grade military attache, as an officer of the imperial camp, he was relatively upright and unwilling to do such a thing.
