Chapter 285 Reassuring the Army, Punishing Generals, and Mobilizing Troops
Zhang Jie really didn't expect that the princess of the regent not only had money, but also was willing to spend money.
If these money is really paid, which one of the army would say that the princess in the regent is not good to everyone?
In this way, the money they had planned before became a joke and would definitely not achieve their goal.
Just when Zhang Jie, Qiu Yue and Chen Xiancai were in a state of dismay, they saw the general on the stage. The Hong Madam stepped forward and took out a loud horn. When she opened her mouth, she made a louder sound than Huang Degong.
"I am Hong Niang, the admiral of the Imperial Guard and the chief of the Imperial Guard's first town. This time I am here to repay funds and eliminate the elected soldiers.
Next, I and Jingnanbo will distribute the military pay to every soldier according to the military list, and at the same time, the soldiers will be eliminated.
So what is the election of soldiers? How will the eliminated soldiers be placed? Let Jingnanbo tell you about it."
After the Hong Niang finished speaking, she handed Huang Degong a prepared notebook - it described in detail the conditions for the election of soldiers and the methods for the placement of eliminated soldiers.
Huang Degong took the notebook, but looked at the trumpet in Hongniang's hand with a smile and asked, "What treasure is the Red Admiral just used? Can you please give me a try too?"
The Hongniang smiled and said, "This is a megaphone. Jingnanbo's voice is loud, comparable to Zhang Fei who had drunk Dangyang Bridge. He should not need this thing."
Huang Degong hurriedly said, "If you need it, where isn't you? Didn't you hear my voice hoarse? It's just what I usually say."
Seeing Huang Degong's eyes were eager, Hong Madam stopped joking and handed over the speaker.
Perhaps it was because the loudspeaker and what the Hongniang said brought too much information that most soldiers came to their senses at this time.
Many people wanted to ask what it was about eliminating the electorate, and then they saw Huang Degong holding the magical trumpet and starting to speak.
Huang Degong was already a loud voice, and the sound was even louder when using the amplifier, which made the Hongmao unable to help but walk to the side of the station.
"Dear soldiers, the country is a lieutenant, and the soldiers are as good as their sons. They cannot bear the elderly, disabled, weak, and young people die on the battlefield, so they will eliminate the soldiers.
Therefore, soldiers don’t have to worry. Even if they are eliminated and leave the army, the governor will properly place you.
Now I hear from me the principle of delisting the electoral officers and the specific placement methods for the eliminated officers...
With Huang Degong's extremely loud speech, many soldiers who were worried about being eliminated from the army were relieved, and the robes, friends, and brothers of these people were also relieved.
Even the others, if they thought about getting farther away, they couldn't help but thank Zhu Moe in their hearts.
Because if this set of resettlement methods for withdrawing troops can be implemented, it means that they will have no worries.
Don’t worry about being disabled on the battlefield and being driven out of the army without a trap.
Don’t worry about the miserable life after being in the army for many years, the old age is weak and the body is not in charge of the elderly.
A few young people who have just entered the army and are weak can leave the army and live a life that is more suitable for them...
The soldiers were all excited and excited. When they were grateful, Zhang Jie, Qiu Yue and Chen Xiancai looked even more ugly, and their hearts were sinking to the bottom.
At first they heard that they were going to eliminate the elected soldiers, but they thought that the princess of the regent would give them the chance to continue to do something.
Unexpectedly, it was another method of a princess in charge of the country to show kindness to the soldiers.
Even Zhang Jie can't figure it out now - why is this princess so willing to pay?
Don’t you know that relocating those veterans in this way means that the court will spend a lot more money in the future?
As for Ma Degong, at first I saw the navy and army of the Princess Jianguo on the dock, I thought the Princess Jianguo was very unusual.
So, when Zhang Jie and others asked him to plan to make trouble, he thought about it over and over again, but he still cautiously refused.
However, for the sake of interests, he hinted or condoned several subordinates to participate in the matter.
Now that he saw Zhu Ma's various means to appease the morale of the army and his domineering attitude of spending money, he couldn't help but be glad that he had not participated in the money-making incident planned by Zhang Jie and the other two.
As for his subordinates' participation...what does it have to do with him? At most, it will be a crime of being punished by his subordinates.
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After Huang Degong finished reciting the contents of the book, he brought tens of thousands of soldiers to the direction of the dock and shouted in unison "Thank you the Supervisor" before the people brought by Hong Niangzi performed the selection of soldiers and paid the silver.
In order to do this well, she brought the personnel of the Imperial Guards, the Army Recruitment Department and the Military Pay Department among the Border Guards.
In addition, he brought two battalions of imperial guards to control the field.
Hong Niang was responsible for the election of soldiers and the payment of wages, but Huang Degong investigated the trouble of wages.
He first called all four generals except Xu Chong to his tent, and then summoned the four generals and guerrillas under his command to another tent.
Afterwards, he personally interrogated the generals, guerrillas, and generals of Qian, and sent personal soldiers to Zhang Jie and Ma Degong to inquire about grassroots generals and soldiers.
In this way, it took only one afternoon to find out the matter.
After dark, Huang Degong returned to the tent, glanced at Ma Degong and the other four, and said in a deep voice: "Give you a chance, and say, who is the idea of making money? Who is involved in it?"
Zhang Jie was extremely guilty at this time.
Because the incident of raising money in the army has become common, they are not very confidential about this matter.
I thought Huang Degong had been checking for an afternoon and came over to inquire at this time, and he must have figured it out.
So he knelt down with a pounce and said, "Please forgive me, I will be sorry for you!"
Huang Degong did not accept his words, but said, "It seems that you are the mastermind? Then the three of you will not all participate, right?"
When talking about the next sentence, Huang Degong focused on Ma Degong.
After investigation, he had confirmed that Qiu Yue and Chen Xiancai were involved in the slaughter, but he was not sure whether Ma Degong participated.
Among the eight generals under his command, he valued the most in Tian Xiong, Ma Degong, and trusted the most in Xu Chong, Weng Zhiqi and Huang Ming. Therefore, he really didn't want Ma Degong to participate in this matter.
Under Huang Degong's gaze, Qiu Yue and Chen Xianchi could not withstand the pressure one after another and knelt down and apologized for mercy.
Ma Degong bowed his fists and said, "The last general is not strict in control, which has led to someone under his command participating in this matter. Please punish the crime!"
Looking at the four people, Huang Degong snorted coldly in anger.
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The next day, Huang Degong submitted a memorial to apologize, in which he explained the causes and consequences of the incident of making money, as well as the instructors behind the scenes, and those who took action to ask the Ming army to punish these people.
Zhu Mai immediately gave an instruction.
If these people make trouble without any trouble, and cause mutiny, camp and roar, they will naturally be dead but not alive.
But it was true that Huang Degong's army had a shortage of news for two months. After Huang Degong returned to the camp, he stopped fighting and did not cause any disaster.
Therefore, the final solution given by Zhu Mai was: the mastermind Zhang Jie was demoted to guerrillas, Qiu Yue, and Chen Xianke were demoted to gang generals, and they were all left in the army to listen to it.
Ma Degong was not strict in control of his subordinates, and he indulged his subordinates in causing trouble and was demoted to deputy general.
As for the specific connections, rumors, and the hundreds of actual actors who caused the rioters to make money, they were all opened to military camps and never hired.
It should be noted that in the past, as Zhang Jie thought, at most, he would just find a few soldiers who were the most terrifying to whip them, and the blame would not fall on them.
Therefore, although Zhu Ma's punishment for these people was not too heavy, it was definitely severe compared to the previous military's handling of the troubles of wages.
Three days later.
That is, on April 8, Huang Degong and Huang Fei's army of nearly 70,000 people in Digang were all eliminated.
Because Huang Degong had almost no mob under his command, he ended up with only eight or nine hundred people, which had almost no impact on his army's combat effectiveness.
However, Huang Fei's troops eliminated nearly two thousand people.
After another military discussion, Zhu Ma sent nearly 20,000 troops with Ma Degong as the main general and Qiu Yue as the supplement to Luzhou Prefecture to garrison Hefei, guarding against the Qing army and Liu Liangzuo from Fengyang Prefecture to move south.
At the same time, the recruiting department and the military pay department were sent to Nihanhe Town in Jiangbei to reissue the central army led by Tian Xiong and eliminate the troops.
After Tian Xiong's troops complete the election of troops, they will go to Liuhe, north of Yingtian Prefecture River to station.
Chapter completed!