This new standard of military pay and pension for Ming Dynasty guardsmen is much higher than before.
Those killed in battle will be given three years' pay, those wounded in battle will be given one year's pay, and those wounded in first class will be given an additional year's pay, which is a one-time supplement of two years' pay.
If the soldier is disabled and retired from combat, he will be given a monthly ration of one tael of silver and three buckets of rice.
Even widows, orphans, old parents, etc. will still be provided with food rations after he is killed in battle.
Comprehensive protection.
In particular, although the monthly salary has not changed, a pension has been added, which is deposited for three months every year. In the future, if you are killed in action, die of illness or disabled, and retire when you are old, the payment will be doubled in one go.
Comparing Tatars in all aspects.
If one of their cavalry is killed in battle, they will be given one hundred and fifty taels of silver, and we will give them full pay for three years.
They gave us ten taels of silver for burning and burial, and we also gave them.
Whatever the Tatars can provide, we must keep up with them. We cannot be worse than them, at least we must be similar.
They gave them thirty acres of land, and Zhu Yihai proposed that anyone who became a superior soldier would also be given thirty acres of land.
They were taken from official fields or former garrison fields and sold to soldiers at a price slightly lower than the market price.
And the payment for the land can be divided into 20 to 30 years. If you spread it out, the money you have to pay every year is very small. For example, how can one acre of land be sold for only three taels of silver?
Thirty-year installments are also interest-free.
Thirty acres of land only costs three taels of silver a year. If there is a disaster, the repayment can be suspended for one year. In this case, if you cultivate thirty acres of land, you don't have to worry about the repayment of these three taels of silver.
A first-class soldier can get forty-and-a-half taels a year in salary, and he also has a pension of twenty-seven taels.
"Your Majesty, I feel that Your Majesty really cares about the soldiers and is unwilling to let them down, but this standard is indeed a bit high. Selling these thirty acres of land to the soldiers in installments without interest is basically equivalent to giving away the official land for free. That will be increased by three months every year
Pay is not much now, but a first-class soldier can accumulate 27 taels in one year, which is 270 taels in ten years. If he can get 810 taels in thirty years, one hundred thousand soldiers can be eight thousand one hundred taels.
Wanliang!"
"Although the Tatars give generous treatment to the soldiers of the Eight Banners, the combined total of the Manchu, Mongolian, and Han Eight Banners is only less than 100,000, and their treatment may not be fully implemented."
"General Liu doesn't need to say so much. It's true that the Eight Banners paid less than 100,000, but they really gave the money. Although there will be some embezzlement and corruption, this is the problem of the people below. The Tatar court really gave it.
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We now have more troops than they do, but that is because we are a new army and are not as well equipped, not as well trained, and not as experienced as them, so we must train more troops.
Fifty or sixty taels of silver a year for a soldier should not be too much. These are the guards who are on the front line and fight with their lives for the country. This money is worth spending and must be spent.
When the Tartars are driven out and the Central Plains is restored, we will march into Kuma and release the Nanshan Mountains with swords and guns. Then it will not be too late to reduce the army and save military expenses. Now, we are reluctant to throw money at the army and soldiers. This is to abolish martial arts and seek death!
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"I believe that even the Tatars are willing to smash, and they can smash so much money in the army and on the soldiers, so why can't I do it? Why don't I, the Ming Dynasty, have no money to smash, and still refuse to smash?"
"I want to tell you and the people of the world, if it weren't for these soldiers who sacrificed their lives and shed their blood without caring about their own lives, how peaceful would Jiangnan be today?"
"Think about the evil the Tatars have done over the years. Last year they massacred Yangzhou, turning the city of 800,000 people into a ghost prison.
Like Yangzhou, which was massacred, there were countless towns that were not massacred, but were looted. Without the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who fought back, how peaceful would Jiangnan be today?"
"Look at Huainan, Shandong, Henan and other places now. They are still in the flames of war and in dire straits. Therefore, the soldiers are guarding the front lines and killing prisoners. The gentry, landlords, craftsmen, merchants, farmers and common people in the rear should also unite as one.
We are united as one, each contributes his or her own strength, landlords pay grain, merchants pay taxes, and work together to create peace!"
All the ministers were very excited after what he said.
However, after Liu Zongzhou pondered for a while, he still argued with reason. He agreed to increase the benefits for the soldiers, but he also believed that the current financial pressure was great, and even the expansion of the army had to be done step by step.
He proposed that the provincial battalions in each province should be reorganized faster. Especially in the rear provinces, only one town should be reorganized first. For example, in the seven provinces of Fujian, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Guangxi, and Guizhou, only one town should be reorganized first, and 5,000
Even three thousand soldiers would be fine.
Without fighting, reorganizing two towns with 10,000 people would be too much pressure.
With three to five thousand, and with some group training, stabilizing security in the rear should not be a problem, and a lot of expenses can be saved.
Both the Jiangxi and Guangxi camps can be temporarily omitted, and they can be started slowly in the future.
Eight thousand people are still too many for each town in the imperial camp. There should be five thousand soldiers per town. The existing twenty-one towns of this headquarters are enough, and we can even keep only twenty towns, with a total of one hundred thousand soldiers.
The four-line camps in Huguang, Sichuan, Guizhou, Shaanxi-Gansu, and Fujian should also be changed to five-thousand-man camps, or expanded into two-line camps with four thousand men each.
In short, Liu Zongzhou believes that an army is not just about having a large number, but it also needs to be elite and able to fight. If the number is smaller, it can be equipped with stronger equipment, and military pay, food, and grass can be better guaranteed.
Even in provinces where military camps are set up, additional provincial camps can no longer be set up, such as Fujian, Huguang, Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu. In this case, each city in the four provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, and Jiangxi will have one provincial camp.
Then the three provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Anhui are under the responsibility of the imperial camp headquarters and the Beijing camp, and there is no need to set up provincial camps.
In this way, there are 20 towns in the imperial camp headquarters, three towns in the Beijing camp, four towns in the Xingying camp, and four towns in the provincial camp, a total of thirty-one towns, with 5,000 soldiers in one town, and 1,88 auxiliary soldiers, which is a total of 150,000
Five thousand combat troops, plus 55,800 auxiliary troops, totaling more than 200,000.
A soldier's pay is fifty or sixty taels, and the military pay is over ten million, but it has been reduced a lot.
Zhu Yihai opened his mouth to Liu Zongzhou, but did not object.
In fact, the successive military victories of the Ming Dynasty, especially the successive victories of the imperial camps led by the emperor, were comprehensively reshuffling the forces in the areas controlled by the Ming Dynasty, including areas not under direct control.
For example, Sichuan has successfully reorganized its army, and Jiangxi and Hunan have also reorganized well. As for Guangdong, Guangxi, and Fujian, they have also been involved in several games. They have captured Ding Kuichu, reused Qu Shichu, transferred Zheng Zhilong, and sent the imperial camp southward.
Basically, Lingnan was brought under control.
Yunnan was still in turmoil, and Zhu Yihai happened to send some of the aristocratic and not-so-obedient military leaders from Guangxi to drive the tigers and devoure the wolves, and then mobilize the tigers away from the mountains, taking the opportunity to speed up the control of several provinces.
Generally speaking, the more battles the imperial camp wins, the better the situation at the front will be, and the more obedient the rear will be.
The Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions are now run like iron barrels by the imperial camp, and now Huainan has been taken over, half of Shandong and Liaonan.
The situation on the Tatar side is getting worse and worse. Their traditional fighting methods were defeated by Zhu Yihai's chaotic cloak boxing method. And the Tatars were in internal strife, Dorgon died suddenly, and his two brothers also
Then being killed will also set off a new round of reshuffle.
This will inevitably affect the Tatars as well.
Therefore, at this stage, the Ming army had actually reached the peak of its offensive temporarily and had no energy left to fight again.
The newly captured Huainan, Denglai, and Lushun will all need time to consolidate. Without a certain amount of time, it will be difficult to immediately launch a larger-scale attack on important towns such as Xu, Ying, and even Jinan.
Moreover, Zhu Yihai did not want to besiege these fortified cities and heavily armed groups at all.
It is one thing to avoid the reality and attack the fictitious in mobile warfare, but it is another thing to attack a fortified city by force. This kind of siege warfare is very easy to cause heavy casualties. Zhu Yihai is not willing to besieged easily.
Moreover, now he also needs time to rest and digest the newly occupied places.
Therefore, the deployment may need to be readjusted next. It is also necessary to make some appropriate adjustments to the imperial camp. We may even add the 21 towns here, the capital camp in three towns, and the provincial camp, etc., with more than 200,000 troops, and then refine it into
It is worth trying to turn twenty-three towns into 112,000 soldiers.
In the past, violent troops were required by the situation, but now the strategic situation is so good that there is no need to do so.
Those who are withdrawn cannot be sent away directly, but can be pulled to the rear.
As Liu Zongzhou suggested, the four camps can be divided into two. Then the provinces with imperial camps do not need to set up provincial camps, or two towns can be changed into one town, and five thousand can be changed into three thousand.
Transfer some imperial camps from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to Lingnan, 8,000 to the Fujian camp, and then transfer 7,000 people there. Then it can be divided into three, becoming the Fujian camp, the Guangdong camp and the Guangxi camp, or only three to five thousand people can be transferred there.
Add some local battalions and reorganize them.
The original battalions will continue to be reorganized, and most of them will be disbanded on the spot, or transferred to local regiment training, and will no longer be on active duty.
It not only saves military expenditures, but also takes back the military power in Lingnan. With the military power in hand, local administration, justice, finance and taxation will naturally be fully under control.
According to this idea, in the end, the imperial camp can completely control the place and the provincial camp can be completely dismissed.
The imperial camp represents the central authority and re-controls the local factions.
And the imperial camp is the emperor's personal army, which naturally means that the emperor has complete control over the court.
Doing this would naturally be very beneficial to Zhu Yihai.
As a result, the emperor happily accepted Liu Zongzhou's suggestion and decreed that the imperial camp would be reorganized again. The three towns of the Beijing camp would be stationed in Sanjing, Nanjing, Shaojing, and Tokyo.
The imperial camp will be divided into the headquarters and the traveling camp. The headquarters will be organized into five compartments, front, rear, center, left and right, each with four towns under its jurisdiction. Each town has ten battalions of 5,000 combat soldiers and 1,800 auxiliary soldiers.
The original four imperial camps, Xingying, will be expanded, and Fujian Xingying will be reorganized into Fujian Xingying, Guangdong Xingying, and Guangxi Xingying.
Huguang Xingying will be reorganized into Huguang Xingying and Jiangxi Xingying.
Sichuan-Guixingying will be reorganized into Sichuan Xingying, Guizhou Xingying and Yunnan Xingying.
Shaanxi-Gansu Xingying will be reorganized into Shaanxi Xingying and Gansu Xingying.
The four battalions will become ten battalions. The soldiers transferred from the four battalions, local provincial battalions and part of the headquarters will be reorganized. After the reorganization, each town will have 5,000 combat troops and 1,800 auxiliary troops. Each province will no longer have additional provincial battalions.
The four towns in the back compartment of the imperial camp guard Zhejiang, the four towns in the left compartment guard Anhui, the four towns in the right compartment guard Jiangsu, the four towns in the middle compartment guard Shandong, and the four towns in the front compartment guard Liaodong.