Guo Kan said with a dark face: "Since the Ming King has such elite soldiers, he still wants to surrender Guo, that is why Guo has the value of surrender!" He stretched out two small thick radish-like fingers, "A certain family has two conditions. If the Ming King responds, he will surrender. If the Ming King responds, he will surrender. If the Ming King does not respond, he will not surrender even if he dies in battle!"

Guo Shoujing smiled and said, "Tell me."

"First, Guo's soldiers were trained by Guo's efforts, and only Guo could use them, so they could not be handed over; second, Guo wanted 1,000 pairs of steel armor, and after opening the city, he would give 300 pairs of them first, and the remaining 700 pairs were delivered within three months."

Guo Shoujing frowned: "Zhonghe, if you don't give up military power... Then should your soldiers be granted titles and fiefs? The Northern Ming army does not have much salary, so they have to use farms and serfs to make up for it."

The feudal army was always divided into two types: payroll and unpaid. The mercenaries of the Southern Song Dynasty were paid troops, while the Mongolian army and the Han marquis were payroll troops. The unpaid troops mean that the owner of the army did not directly pay the salary, but replaced it with land, ranch or other methods.

Of course, there are also some armies that have both. For example, the Mongolian Qiexue Army and the Northern Ming Sage Army all granted land (the land of the Mongolian army is not granted individual soldiers, but to the thousand households where the soldiers are located, and the thousand households are responsible for the soldiers' equipment and expenses). However, the military salary received by the Northern Ming Sage Army (including ordinary soldiers who did not receive the Sage Army) is not generous, and it is only enough to support the family. However, with the 300 acres of land for the Sage Army or the 100 acres of land for ordinary soldiers (the Eight Banners are 150 acres, but there is no military salary at all), the income is not low.

Giving land, especially the title of sects and land, would turn the soldiers into the "right ministers" of the Ming king. Naturally, they would not be loyal to their superior officers. According to Europeans, "the vassal of the vassal is not my vassal", and these vassals who gave land were all vassals of Chen Dexing, not vassals of the Northern Ming officers. Moreover, there was a great instructor system in the Northern Ming army, and Chen Dexing himself was a "demigod", so there was no soil for warlords to be produced in the Northern Ming army.

"Don't have any land titles. The 3,000 brothers from a certain family just collect money to fight!" Guo Kan said, "It's better to come and see it! They usually pay according to the ordinary Ming army. They give a sum of money before going into battle, and after the battle, they will discount the money according to the credit. Don't tell me that the Ming King has no money, he can monopolize the maritime trade!"

...

"Guo Kan wants to hold the soldiers, I'm afraid he has some ambitions!"

When Chen Dexing returned to the camp under Pingluan City, Guo Shoujing had already returned with Guo Kan's conditions.

After hearing Guo Shoujing's return, Chen Dexing just said lightly, without showing any disagreement. The lord soldiers and the Eight Banners soldiers could not meet everyone's requirements. The military system that Chen Dexing now adopts is actually an upgraded version of the military system, which turns the military soldiers into military nobles, and does not have to serve each other like military households. Just serve for one generation, you can get the status of a farm and aristocrat. For ordinary soldiers, it is very generous, so the middle and lower classes of the Northern Ming army worked very hard to fight.

For the senior leaders of the Northern Ming Army, they could step by step with their merits and become great nobles, and theoretically they would have the opportunity to become feudal princes. It is good to draw cakes, but it is not easy to eat them in their mouths.

But for a warlord like Guo Shoujing who is really a little powerful, it is not very good. A small warlord like Yan Zhongsi who has no strength even has the power to resist. Naturally, he can only accept it with his nose. However, Guo Shoujing's 3,000 people are all elite soldiers in a hundred battles. If he is equipped with a steel armored sword, his combat power will still be above Qi Xue. Of course, he is unwilling to let Chen Dexing annex it like this!

Warlords like Guo Shoujing were everywhere in the north, in the Central Plains, and even in the Southern Song Dynasty. After Chen Dexing entered the Central Plains, he faced the problem of how to use it, integrate or eliminate them.

The warlords will be eliminated immediately, which is quite in line with the thinking of later generations, but Chen Dexing knew that this would not work. Because this era is an era where warlords are everywhere.

Not only the Han marquis in the northern region, but the Southern Song Dynasty vassal states were warlords, but even the Southern Song Dynasty Tuanlian, who were in charge of the scholars, and the Mongolian sect kings. In fact, they were all warlords. Those who were not included in the warlords were Chen Dexing’s lords, the Eight Banners, Li Yan’s palace soldiers, and the direct lineage of Kublai Khan’s Central Ulus.

"Okay!" Chen Dexing slapped his thighs and said to the left and right with a smile, "The Lord's command is also worthy of Han Hou! Everyone knows that Guo Kanbing is good at fighting. If he can truly submit, it will be of great use in the future."

He turned his head and said to Guo Shoujing: "Ruosi, let's go and tell Guo Kan that the Gu Wang has agreed to his conditions and give him 3,000 troops, and the military pay will be paid according to ordinary Ming troops. If there is any war, additional money will be added. As for the land, the land in the Central Plains cannot be granted to him. In the future, the Gu Wang will go to great food and will have a vassal state of his Guo family!"

...

In September of the second year of Xianchun, the city of Yanjing.

This northern land-name capital is located at the foot of Yanshan Mountain, guarding the passage from the grasslands in the south of the desert to the Han area of ​​the Central Plains. With Yanjing as the core and distributed in the north and south of the Yanshan Mountains, the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, which are distributed in the north and south of the Yanshan Mountains, is a barrier for the North China Plain to resist the invasion of nomadic peoples outside the Frontier. After Shi Jingtang ceded this homeland that originally belonged to China to the Khitan, the heart of the Han area in the Central Plains was completely exposed to the military frontier of the northern iron cavalry. The advanced agriculture and handicrafts owned by the Han people in the Sixteen Prefectures were used by the Khitan, Jurchens and later Mongolia, making the blades of these barbarians outside the Frontier sharper and their troops stronger. They were able to show off their strength in the Central Plains for more than 400 years in history!

In this time and space, although history has taken a major turning point, it has not affected the prosperity of this famous northern city at all.

At least in the view of Liu Xiaoyuan, who came from afar, Yanjing City was even more noisy and noisy than when he left last time.

People from various ethnic groups intersected, teams of camels and carriages and horses kept coming from all directions. Wooden wheels wrapped in iron circles crushed the stone slabs on the streets. The bulging Mongolians were wearing scimitars on their waists, and wandered around the city with swaggers. They saw delicious food and fun things going up and took them, but they didn't know how to give them money. None of the Han people and Semi-men who opened shops dared to have a dispute with the Mongolian master.

Liu Xiaoyuan knew that these domineering Mongolians must have just come from Kaiping. They are all Kublai Khan's direct descendants. There were still people who were in charge of Kaiping, so they would not be in vain. When they arrived in Yanjing...

Why no one cares when he arrives in Yanjing? Prince Mo Ge and Marshal Wulianghetai are ignored?

When Liu Xiaoyuan was inexplicably surprised, he suddenly heard someone calling his font size: "Mingjing, Brother Mingjing!"

He hurriedly looked in the sound and saw a short, fat, bearded Confucian scholar waving to him at the door of a restaurant. The man was carrying a wine gourd and a few oil paper packages, which were obviously some side dishes to eat.

This person turned out to be Yao Shu's nephew Yao Shu, whose courtesy name was Duanfu and his pseudonym was Mu'an. He originally studied Neo-Confucianism with the great scholar Xu Heng in Jingzhao Prefecture. He participated in the imperial examination a few months ago and passed the imperial examination. He was sent to Yanjing to be an official.

Because they are both "second-generation traitors" from Mongolia, the two not only know each other but also have good personal relationships.

Liu Xiaoyuan got off the horse, threw the reins to the congman, and strode forward to him, bowed and said, "Brother Duanfu, I haven't seen you for a long time, can you be safe?"

The short and fat man Yao Sui did not answer immediately, but looked at Liu Xiaoyuan seriously: "Oh, why are you dressed like a Mongolian? I almost didn't recognize you, brother."

He grabbed Liu Xiaoyuan and went to the restaurant: "Your clothes are so good, you don't have to pay for wine... I'll treat you to a good meal quickly. These days are so painful in Yanjing, and people are hungry and lose weight."

Liu Xiaoyuan looked at the chubby Yao Sui and slowly followed him into the restaurant. The boss inside saw him dressed like a Mongolian dress, and he looked like he was about to cry.

The two northern Confucian scholars ignored these things and went straight to the second floor and entered a elegant seat with open doors and no one inside. After sitting separately, Liu Xiaoyuan called a few dishes, took out a small silver ingot and threw it to the servant. Seeing that the other party was happily down, he turned his head and wanted to talk to Yao Sui, but saw that the other party looked stunned.

"You, you... did you give the money?"

"Ah..." Liu Xiaoyuan nodded.

Yao Sui clapped his hands and shouted, "Why don't you give the Zhongtong money?"

"Zhongtong Chao?" Liu Xiaoyuan shook his head. He was a close minister of the Khan. He was appointed as the Privy Council of the Yuan Dynasty. He was the kind of high-ranking official who did not have to rely on money to live. Of course, he didn't know much about Zhongtong Chao Chao because no one dared to use the money to bribe.

"That's it..." Yao Sui took out a piece of paper money and placed it on the table, complaining, "This is paper wiped with butt! One or two can't be used as a monday silver. Now the entire Yuan Dynasty official generals use this as salary! It's okay for the Mongolians, just take whatever they want, and we Han officials will suffer!"

"What do you like to take it just by taking it!" Liu Xiaoyuan was stunned and stunned, "No one cares?"

Yao Sui shook his fat head and said helplessly: "No, no one cares about it... I don't know why this matter is like this. Anyway, no one cares about it, and he is lawless!"

Liu Xiaoyuan frowned tightly, "So... so many people in Yanjing City?"

"They all moved from other places," Yao Sui said indignantly, "The Ming thieves have already fought to Pingluan Road... They have committed all kinds of evil deeds when they kill and set fire. The people have no way to survive, so they went to Yanjing to seek survival under the leadership of the guards from all over the country."

"What?" Liu Xiaoyuan was even more surprised. When did the official of Dayuan be so kind? And... this is not right. How to solve the problem of eating by gathering so many people in Yanjing City? Drive the population around the city into the city to consume food is one of the methods of the Mongols to attack the city. It is impossible for Mo Ge and Wulianghetai to know, why have they brought everyone into the city by themselves? (To be continued)
Chapter completed!