The year-end bonus to the soldiers of the Runing Camp was the result of discussions between Wu Shigong, Deng Qifan, Xue Yongli and other aides and military officers. The growth of the Runing Camp has been intensified to this day, in order to maintain the loyalty of the officers and soldiers under his command, ideological education is inevitable, and necessary material rewards are also indispensable.

This is just like modern enterprises. In addition to paying attention to corporate culture, successful enterprises have annual salary increase and year-end bonus increase are also an important means to gain loyalty to the enterprise employees.

Wu Shigong continued: "Our Runing Camp has developed to this day. Some of the brothers here started their own businesses with our officials at the beginning, and some joined halfway through. Although they had been in the Runing Camp for a long time, they have done a lot of things for the growth of Runing Camp."

"However, when many brothers joined the Runing Camp, they couldn't have a few full meals at home. But now, no matter how, the family is always free of food and clothing with my own brothers."

"But that's the case? The Runing Camp still needs to develop, so can't Runing Camp make you rich and prosperous? There is no need to say anything else. I here promise that when I return from this expedition, as long as the brothers here do not have a family, I will arrange a wife for each of you!"

"Do you brothers still want to live this day of being a bachelor?"

"I don't want to!" The atmosphere of the soldiers suddenly became motivated. They replied loudly in unison, and then a burst of cheerful laughter broke out.

After laughing for a while, Wu Shigong pressed down with his hands, calming the soldiers for a while, and then said: "This time I go to the extremely cold place in Liaodong. It is not dangerous, that is, I am lying to all brothers."

"But this time the imperial court also mobilized troops from all over the country to gather outside the pass. We don't have to shoulder any heavy burdens for this war. Anyway, there is a tall one to hold on."

"As long as we all unite and obey the orders of our officers leading the team, I promise that we will bring all the brothers back no matter what."

Wu Shigong's army has been established since now. After every expedition, he will bring back the injured soldiers who died in battle and return to his hometown, and even the ashes of the war horses who died in battle and are buried. Therefore, Wu Shigong's promise did not arouse any soldiers' questions.

"But there are always casualties in wars, and I am unwilling to let all my brothers live on the tip of a knife for the rest of my life. Therefore, I have also decided that the brothers who join our Runing Camp can retire and return home as long as they serve in our Runing Camp for eight years. When they encounter wars, the one month of service will be calculated as two months. In other words, fighting for four years is equivalent to serving for eight years."

"Of course, if a brother is willing to extend his service after his service, I will welcome him. If he is unwilling to extend his service, I will never force him. However, retired brothers will transfer to local militias. In case of war, retired brothers still need to defend their hometown!"

"This specific retirement regulations will be announced to all brothers in detail in the future. However, this policy will definitely be implemented."

In fact, since Wu Shigong's army was established, Wu Shigong has heard some of the officers' reactions. Some of his soldiers and even some officers have become a little tired of war during years of intense military training and life-and-death battles.

Therefore, Wu Shigong took advantage of the situation to launch the retirement matter. With the guarantee of retirement, the soldiers and soldiers also had some hope of escaping from the dangerous war. This also played a great role in stabilizing the morale of his Runing Camp.

Besides, forming a reasonable flow of soldiers in the Runing Camp is also of great benefit to strengthening Wu Shigong's strength. Because through the flow of soldiers, the number of soldiers receiving complete military training will also increase. Those retired soldiers will also become military backbones in local militias, thus forming the reserve army of the Runing Camp, implicitly expanding Wu Shigong's army number and strength.

Another thing is that only Wu Shigong himself knows. The world is about to be in chaos, and wars are frequent, and those retired soldiers are actually not likely to completely retire. Wu Shigong just gave them a hollow glutinous rice dumpling.

But Wu Shigong's concern for these soldiers can be said to be in place. When the world is in chaos, the retired soldiers at most lament that they have a bad life. No matter how they are, they will not blame Wu Shigong.

However, Wu Shigong's words did not cause a great response from the soldiers. They were not unwilling to accept Wu Shigong's policy. After all, not all soldiers like to use their lives to gain wealth and future in wars, and most soldiers still hope to live a stable life. Therefore, the soldiers are still very welcome to Wu Shigong's policy.

But many soldiers are also used to the life of serving as soldiers and pay. They think about what to do if they can’t get the salary after retirement and they can’t get the salary after they retire? Are they going back to the hard days of the past?

As if he knew his soldiers’ thoughts, Wu Shigong continued: "All retired soldiers don't have to worry, I will not let you go."

"In the future, there are two ways to collect military pay, one is to pay full amount, just like now, the other is to only receive 70% of the military pay, and the collection of military pay is also a combination of silver and food coupons."

"A brother who chooses the second way of harvest can, after retirement, each person can collect more than 20 acres of land from the official to his or her own according to his or her family's condition and his or her position in Runing Camp. As long as he or she pays 10% of the land harvested to the official, the land can be passed down from generation to generation."

Wu Shigong's words immediately caused a sensation among the soldiers. Being able to own land by himself, even if it is affiliated with Wu Shigong's name, is a great happiness for most soldiers who are from peasants.

In fact, the military pay deducted by the soldiers is quite small compared to the price of those lands, and it seems that Wu Shigong suffered a great loss.

However, in order to defend their own land, and because without Wu Shigong's protection, the land owned by those retired soldiers would be in danger of being taken away, these people would intentionally or unintentionally become Wu Shigong's loyalty.

Besides, in addition to reducing the distribution of military pay in the near future, Wu Shigong will also increase the distribution amount of food coupons in the distribution of military pay. This is also quite beneficial to Wu Shigong saving the cash in his hands and extending the distribution time of Wu Shigong's army's military pay.

Now the food coupons here in Wu Shigong actually have some currency functions. If the Ming Dynasty court had not issued paper money, Wu Shigong would have avoided unnecessary trouble. Wu Shigong might have printed the quantity of coins on the food coupons rather than the quantity of food.

As for the tricks between the number of grain coupons issued and the amount of grain in Wu Shigong's inventory, any modern person with some modern financial knowledge understands it. Of course, in order to ensure his reputation, Wu Shigong is still issuing grain coupons according to the amount of grain in stock. When conditions are ripe in the future, Wu Shigong will also issue them at a premium.

Of course, if there is a great economic crisis in the future, Wu Shigong will definitely issue food coupons indiscriminately. As for inflation, Wu Shigong will also ignore it. At that time, Wu Shigong must have reached the point of life and death, so why bother with the floods of others?

After listening to Wu Shigong's words, all the soldiers present were silent for a moment, and then a deafening cheer came out. The morale among the soldiers suddenly boiled to the extreme.

"Sir, wise!"

"I wish to die for the Lord!"

"Kill all the Tartars!"

...

The slogans came one after another, and Wu Shigong also smiled and nodded repeatedly to the soldiers.

Wu Shigong listened to those slogans and thought: "I'll kill all the Tartars! This time, Runing Camp was about to escape. It's best not to encounter any Tartars."

"But my two battles last time was to be a turtle, and this time I wanted to run away as a rabbit. This Ming Dynasty version of the tortoise and hare race, my own Runing camp was played all. However, this man is a turtle and a rabbit, how can it sound so awkward!"
Chapter completed!