The wind rises and falls, and the autumn leaves in the sky are rolled up and fall down like a goddess scattering flowers. Red, yellow, and green look gorgeous and colorful under the sunlight.

Unfortunately, for the soldiers in the Beijing camp, the biggest benefit of autumn is that the price of food drops. The copper coins in their hands become valuable and they can buy a lot of things.

"The weather is getting colder and colder."

Wang Fuchun muttered and stood at the gate of the military camp to inspect. The beautiful scenery in other people's eyes was a sign of coldness to him.

Suddenly, a team of mules and horses slowly drove into the military camp. They watched four-wheeled carts pulled by donkeys slowly come in. Countless people in the camp were also watching.

"what happened?"

"I heard that he came from the palace and brought a reward!"

Hearing this, Wang Fuchun was overjoyed.

At the beginning of the month, he returned from Liaodong with the army. After resting for a few days, he heard that all the generals had received rewards, and many of them had been promoted to noble titles.

After so many days, it was finally their turn.

Looking at the endless motorcade, first the carts of wooden boxes, and then the conspicuous fat pigs imprisoned in wooden fences, and the jars of wine, Wang Fuchun's mouth almost watered.

"My dear, why don't you die happily?"

The arrival of the motorcade aroused all desires.

However, the whole town could only endure it and watch the commander-in-chief hand over the matter.

The reason why it is called a town instead of the previous wing is simply to adapt to the situation and change the military system.

After years of fighting, the military system of the Beijing camp has matured and an effective combat organization has been formed.

Military ranks distinguish status and treatment. The fourth-class sergeants, captains, lieutenants, and generals are divided into four levels: right, middle, upper, and large. Generals only have two levels, which are divided into hussar generals and state-holding generals.

In terms of military organization, the alliance and wing systems were changed into battalion, regiment and town systems.

That is, every hundred people form a team, and every five hundred people form a battalion. The five battalions plus the regiment headquarters form a basic regiment of 3,000 men.

Among the five battalions, there are three infantry battalions, one team of shields, one team of captains, one team of archers, two battalions of firecrackers, one team of cavalry at the regiment headquarters who also serve as communication scouts, one team of artillery, one team of cooks, and one team of personal soldiers.

Soldiers, and the rest are clerical and staff establishments.

In this way, among the three thousand people, there are artillery, cavalry with multiple roles, as well as muskets and basic infantry. Their combat capabilities are beyond imagination.

The regiment leader is a guerrilla general or a general.

The four regiments plus the headquarters regiment, totaling 15,000 people, form a town, and the head of the town is the general soldier.

This is the infantry town structure.

In addition, with the development of the war in the past few years, the Beijing camp has also begun to formulate extensive cavalry towns.

That is, cavalry with muskets and artillery.

However, unlike infantry, cavalry requires more and is organized differently. There are three thousand people in a regiment, and there are only one thousand real cavalry. The remaining two thousand are auxiliaries, which can also be called attendants.

This is because the cavalry in the Beijing camp implements a system of one person and two horses. It seems too tiring to take care of them, and they must be assisted by others.

However, these auxiliary soldiers are also reserve cavalry, and can take to the battlefield as long as there is a sufficient supply of horses.

In addition to infantry and cavalry, there are also musketeers.

The organization is the same as that of infantry. What is more special is that all musketeers have short knives on their muskets.

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This also means that after the gunpowder is exhausted, they can engage in bayonet fighting without directly losing combat effectiveness.

In addition, there are also heavy artillery for support. They are all powerful red-coated artillery, which can be said to be experts at demolishing cities and demolishing strongholds.

Therefore, after several years of intermittent reorganization, the strength of the Beijing camp has successfully exceeded 160,000.

Among them were 120,000 infantry, 30,000 cavalry, and 10,000 artillery.

In addition, there are the Bohai Sea Division, Donghai Navy, and Nanhai Navy. Although they are under the command of the Fifth Army Commandery, they have not been returned to the Beijing camp.

If you include them all, it would be over 200,000.

In the past, if there were only a few hundred thousand people in the capital, especially in a border capital like Beijing, it would have looked like they were dying.

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Even after Li Zicheng destroyed the city of Beijing, there were still 70,000 to 80,000 old, weak, sick and disabled people in the capital camp.

Standing all over the city walls of Beijing, there would be more than 200,000 people standing there.

The Northern Song Dynasty raised 500,000 to 600,000 forbidden troops in Kaifeng to embolden them.

But now the world has changed. Today is an era of mixed cold and hot weapons, and the cost of raising troops has skyrocketed.

For example, if an arrow is disabled and recycled, the gun head can be used for several years, but the gunpowder is really gone as soon as it is consumed. After a hundred rounds, the barrel will be scrapped...

The cost of raising these 150,000 people exceeds that of the previous 500,000 people.

For one town of soldiers and horses, one year's salary, food, clothing, and losses would cost 500,000 yuan for ordinary infantry, three times that for cavalry, and 8 million silver coins for ten towns.

There are also large-scale local patrol camps and naval forces, with annual military expenditures exceeding tens of millions.

If it is during a battle, it will be doubled.

So although the muskets are sharp, they are purely made of money.

Too far away...

Return to the military camp.

After the motorcade entered the military camp, everyone was called to the school grounds.

At this moment, the cloth covering the donkey cart that had just entered was lifted.

For a moment, the brand-new silver coins stacked on the car were exposed.

The silver-black silver circle is very eye-catching.

There was an uproar in the crowd, many people's eyes widened, and they were noisy.

"My sons, these are the money from the palace. They have just been minted and have not been used yet. They are just to reward you for your meritorious service in Liaodong."

In an instant, the atmosphere reached its peak.

Then, the merit rewards were distributed according to the order of first, second and last merits.

Then they are sorted according to the first, second and last third of each battalion in the regiment.

The ranking within the town is due to the different rewards; the ranking within the regiment is to increase seniority and add luster to future promotions.

With the same merit, those with more seniority will definitely have priority for promotion.

In front of a dozen tables sat the town's gendarmes and clerks.

One is to confirm meritorious deeds, and the other is to register them.

"Tian Fuchun, Third Town, Second Team of Battalion A, Captain Li Changshou, yes or no?"

Tian Fuchun exchanged the rotation positions, couldn't wait to come to the table, and began to receive credit.

Or merit points.

"Yes, that's right."

"In the battle of Liaodong, the third town ranked second and received four points of merit. Battalion A ranked last..."

"The merit points are four, do you want fields or silver?"

the gendarme asked without looking up.

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Although 99% of people will choose land, there are still some fools who will choose silver dollars.

"I heard that the land is in Liaodong?"

"That's right." The clerk nodded.

"It's still the land!" Tian Fuchun gritted his teeth and agreed.

In the merit system, one merit point is exchanged for one acre of cultivated land or two silver coins. Anyone who is not a fool will choose land.

Now that the world is at peace, the price of land on the market has increased significantly. An acre of irrigated land in the capital is worth more than ten silver dollars, and ordinary dry land is worth more than seven dollars.

The average price is 5 yuan in Hebei and Shandong, and the cheapest ones are in Shaanxi, Gansu, and Yungui areas, with an average price of 3 yuan.

As for Liaodong, the weather is cold and the war is over, so both are too much.

But there is no way, no matter how bad the earth is, it is still earth!

Moreover, in order to curb land annexation, the emperor increased the deed tax significantly, and the tax rate reached a huge 50%.

If you spend ten yuan to buy an acre of land, you still have to pay the deed tax of five yuan.

If you don't hand it over, it won't work. The court won't recognize it, and if someone robs it later, there won't be any place to file a lawsuit.
To be continued...