Chapter 155: Where Do Rewards and Punishments Come From?
Chapter 155 Where do rewards and punishments come from?
Author: Fat Bird Goes First
Chapter 155 Where do rewards and punishments come from?
If such a great contribution was given to Yu Dayou, he would be immediately reinstated to his original position, or even directly promoted to the rank of third-level commander.
But Lin Mojun couldn't bear such credit.
The reason is very simple. For matters like inheriting hundreds of households, the superior government office can simply review it and submit it to the Ministry of War for filing.
However, for such a huge contribution, not only did the Ministry of War specifically ask for cooperation, but also the relevant personnel were asked.
Once Lin Mojun's female body was exposed, it was a crime of bullying the emperor in the feudal era.
Su Ze said to Lin Mojun: "The male rabbit's feet are twitching, and the female rabbit's eyes are blurred."
After saying this, Lin Mojun's whole body trembled. Su Ze knew that she was disguised as a man!
Lin Mojun looked at Su Ze. She opened her mouth, but she didn't know how to speak.
It was Su Ze who said: "I am from Changning Guard, and the next plans are all for Changning Guard."
Su Ze pointed to the half-stranded Centipede and the deer king's armor and said:
"With these, Chang Ning Wei's credit cannot go away."
Lin Mojun somewhat understood what Su Ze meant. The centipede and the large armor were both symbols of the Deer King. As long as these two things were present, the credit for wiping out the Deer King would not go away.
Su Ze said: "Wait, wait until Liangjun can take over the military position, and I will give him the credit for his contribution."
Lin Mojun was silent. Su Ze's suggestion moved her. She originally took the position of Baihu temporarily for her younger brother. She simply left this great contribution to Lin Liangjun after he inherited Baihu, and then took Centipede.
He is wearing a large armor and goes to receive the reward.
Su Ze said this, but he had other thoughts in his heart.
This credit is too great, not to mention whether Changningwei, a small 100-household office, would be robbed of credit by Shangguan for such a credit. Even if the Ming court really gave a full reward, given the situation in the southeast
We must let Changning Guard go around to quell the rebellion.
In later generations, the Qi family's army fought in the north and south. What was the final result?
You must know that Emperor Jiajing was a very jealous, mean and unkind emperor.
Didn't you see that Yu Dayou had made great contributions in the southern and northern campaigns, but was dismissed from his post after a major defeat?
Zhu Wan was framed to death after destroying Shuangyu Island.
Zhang Jing, who was robbed of his credit and framed and killed next year.
Hu Zongxian, who later defeated Japan but was imprisoned and finally committed suicide.
No one who has made great achievements in pacifying Japan will die well!
Jiajing's reward Chang Ningwei must also be able to hold it.
Many people think this is the emperor's mental trick and a superb way to control his subordinates.
This is to lead oneself into the emperor, without the emperor's life but standing on the emperor's side.
If a leader deprives you of all the credit if you make a mistake, suppresses you and PUAs you at the same time, and is very picky about positions and salary increases, how many employees would be willing to work for such a leader?
The fate of Yang Tinghe and his son, and the fate of Xia Yan, were all seen by the civil servants.
With the influence of Changning Wei and Su Ze, getting involved in the power games of the upper class is a dead end.
What Su Ze needs is time, time to accumulate enough food and slowly become king.
Seeing that Lin Mojun had been persuaded, Su Ze said:
"Didn't the old people say that as long as we occupy Dong'ao Island, we can keep the Japanese pirates away from overseas? Now Dong'ao Island is ours."
Lin Mojun looked at Su Ze and said, "Are you threatening Japan's self-respect?"
Su Ze shook his head and said: "The Japanese have been destroyed, so how can we threaten the Japanese's self-respect?"
Su Ze suddenly said: "Hundreds of households in the Eastern Jin Dynasty migrated southward, and northern overseas Chinese with high surnames moved to the south. How could they suppress the southern gentry?"
Lin Mojun shook her head. She only knew about the old events of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the battle between Fu Jian and Xie An. Su Ze's question had already touched her knowledge blind spot.
"The foreign high-ranking northern sects were able to continue to control the state affairs of the Eastern Jin Dynasty because of the refugees who came north."
"Refugee?"
"Refugees go north. They are disaster victims, but disaster victims may also turn into ferocious beasts."
"The southern gentry in the Eastern Jin Dynasty were afraid of the refugees from the north, and needed the high-dressed families from the south to maintain the refugees. The refugees from the north needed land and policies, so they also had to rely on the high-ranking families from the north."
Su Ze pointed to the sea and said: "Now the government does not know the situation at sea, and the remaining Japanese pirates do not know the situation on Dong'ao Island. The only one who knows all the information is our Changning Guard."
"As long as there are Japanese pirates at sea, the imperial court will need our Changning Guards, people will need to patrol the sea to protect the sea, and merchant ships will need warships to escort them."
"With the Centipede here, we can trick other Japanese pirates into coming to the island, and then trap and kill them."
"In short, maintaining the illusion that King Lu is still around is more beneficial to Changning Guard than having King Lu die."
Lin Mojun was completely silent. Back then, her father died fighting the Japanese pirates, and no officers or soldiers in Fuzhou City came out to rescue him.
The last time Xu Shisheng framed Chang Ningwei, the county government immediately deprived his father of the imperial edict that he had only earned by dying in battle.
She was already disappointed with the court in her heart, but such a great contribution was not just hers alone. Lin Mojun asked:
"How should the soldiers who follow the soldiers reward their merits?"
Su Ze said: "Reward for merit, what's the difficulty? Does it make any difference to ordinary soldiers whether rewards come from the imperial court or from hundreds of households?"
At this point, Lin Mojun already knew that Su Ze was on his side.
But why does Su Ze’s theory that relies on Japan’s self-respect seem so strange?
Is Su Ze going to rebel?
Lin Mojun suddenly came up with this idea.
rebel?
There are rebellious lords, rebellious generals, rebellious refugees, and rebellious miners in this dynasty, but there are no rebellious scholars.
Just kidding, Su Ze is a well-known scholar in Fujian. The prefects and counties all say that he can become a Jinshi. Would such a person rebel?
Even if he can't win the Jinshi, Su Ze can sell hundreds of taels of silver for one article. How can such a person rebel?
Lin Mojun knew that the development of Changning Wei to what it was now was all due to Su Ze's contribution.
Lin Mojun suddenly thought of something, she stood up and said: "Crooked Hoof Man!"
Everything Su Ze said was based on blocking the news.
The Japanese pirates were all besieged on Dong'ao Island. It was not difficult for the Changning Guards to keep the news. Even if the news leaked occasionally, no one would believe that the Changning Guards could make such a contribution.
But the Crooked Hoof people are different. They wander on the sea and come into contact with many forces in case the news is spread.
Su Ze smiled slightly, pointed to the seaside and said, "Look, aren't they back?"
Sure enough, they saw the Crooked Hoof Man's fleet on the beach. Lin Mojun looked at Su Ze and said, "How did you do that?"
Su Ze said easily: "The Crooked Hoof people need land, and there is land on Dong'ao Island. It's that simple."
Su Ze was also a little nervous. On the way to Dong'ao Island, he was negotiating with the leader of the Crooked Hoof people, Repo.
If the Crooked Hoof people did not abide by the agreement, Su Ze would have no choice but to sail after them.
Now that the Crooked Hoof people are back, it means that they accept Su Ze's suggestion and stay and settle on Dong'ao Island.
There are more than 500 people in this group of crooked hoof people, but there are only less than 100 strong and healthy people. The land on Dong'ao Island is enough for them to cultivate and support themselves.
The Crooked Hoof people did not want to drift on the sea, but they had no choice but to drift on the sea. If they could have land for farming, they would very much yearn for land.
Su Ze's promise of land to them, coupled with his reputation in treating people on ships, made Je Po willing to believe him for once.
Now it seems that the crooked hoof man made the right bet.
Although she did not see how the Changning Guard miraculously defeated the Lu King's fleet, Repo now had no doubts about the strength of the Changning Guard.
The Deer King is a giant owl that has roamed the southeastern and southeastern coasts for more than ten years!
Lin Mojun's injuries were not serious. She was helped to stand up by Su Ze and ordered her men to take over the remaining Japanese pirate ships.
After the death of King Lu, other Japanese pirates had no will to fight and surrendered to Changning Guard one after another.
After imprisoning these Japanese pirates in the bilge, Su Ze led the Changning Guards to land on Dong'ao Island and began to eliminate the remaining Japanese pirates on the island.
These Japanese pirates were frightened by the explosion and surrendered immediately when they saw the Ming army, but some still fled into the mountains.
However, Su Ze is not worried. There are no other islands near Dong'ao Island, and it is impossible for these Japanese pirates to swim back to the Japanese country.
There are Japanese pirates in the mountains and forests of the island, which will make it easier for Changning Guard to manage the residents of the island in the future.
In addition to Japanese pirates, Su Ze also found surviving Ming people from the island.
They were all captured by Japanese pirates and brought to the island, and the hardest-hit among them was the rowing slave on the Centimaru.
The flames on the deck of the Centimaru did not burn for long. The deck of this warship, which was built with all the money of King Lu, had been treated with fireproofing.
Even the leakage at the bottom of the Centipede was not too serious. Su Ze used two small boats to tow it back to the port.
However, the Japanese pirates on board were not so lucky.
A bilge slave named Jiao Quan took advantage of the chaos to revolt, cut off the shackles that bound the slaves, and led the bilge slaves to kill all the Japanese pirates on the ship.
When Su Ze boarded the ship under the banner of the Ming Army, Jiao Quan, a seven-foot-tall man, cried bitterly to Su Ze.
The Japanese pirates killed his parents, wife and children, and revenge was almost the entire meaning of his life.
When he heard that Su Ze had shot the deer king, Jiao Quan bowed to Su Ze and said:
"The general is my benefactor, and I am willing to be his slave to repay him."
Su Ze lifted Jiao Quan up and said, "It is my duty to kill the Japanese. It is my dereliction of duty to fail to protect the border and the people."
Su Ze pulled Jiao Quan and said, "I, Chang Ningwei, are going to build a sea outpost on Dong'ao Island. Are you willing to stay on the island?"
Jiao Quan and the other slaves looked at each other. They were all kidnapped to the island by the Japanese pirates, and their families had been destroyed.
Their homes have been destroyed by Japanese pirates. The key thing is that if the imperial court wants to requisition food, they will not be able to hand over the food and will have to flee.
Su Ze added:
"The outpost on Dong'ao Island is a military guard and is exempt from the food tax."
Hearing what Su Ze said, Jiao Quan immediately said: "We are willing to stay on Dong'ao Island."
In the days that followed, Su Ze drove the Japanese to build a dock. He handed the Japanese to Jiao Quan and others to look after them. They had a deep hatred for the Japanese, so they naturally drove them to death. Several Japanese died of exhaustion on Jiao Quan and others.
Under the whip of everyone else.
Su Ze also took Captain Alfonso, who could write and calculate, to measure the land and allocate fields to the Quti people and the Ming people on the island.
The Centipede was towed to the shore, but it had to wait until Lin Xianzong brought the tools to the island for repairs.
The sunken ships that were not destroyed by the explosion and the sea of fire were all salvaged and dragged to the shore. These are good timber. Even if they cannot be used to build ships, they can be left to the Quti people and the people of the Ming Dynasty to build houses.
Lin Mojun recovered from her injuries very quickly. She led the Chang Ning Guardsmen to search the island for several days and found all the property looted by King Lu.
When he saw the silver found in the castle tower, even Su Ze was no longer calm.
It’s really profitable to be a Japanese pirate.
The castle tower has a total of five thousand taels of silver hidden by the deer king. There are also gems, porcelain and silk that the deer king stole in the castle tower.
In addition, there are four cannons on board the Centipede, three of which are Franco cannons and the other is a cast iron front-loading smoothbore cannon.
The front-loading smoothbore artillery is the red cannon that was regarded as an important military weapon in the late Ming Dynasty.
This cannon is a six-pounder. According to ship-borne guns, it can only be regarded as a medium-sized gun. However, in the East of this era, it is already a very terrifying weapon.
Su Ze naturally accepted these four cannons with a smile, but it was a pity that Lu Dawang's remaining eight cannons sank to the bottom of the sea with the explosion. With the current diving and salvage technology, they can only be disappointed.
In addition to artillery, Su Ze also successively captured fifty blunderbuss.
After all the supplies were counted, Su Ze realized why the Japanese pirates continued to be banned. It was because the Japanese pirates made too much money.
Nowadays, the trade between the Ming Dynasty and the Japanese state can be said to be a route full of silver. It is the so-called "Warring States" period in the Japanese state, and the famous names from all over the country have purchased weapons and started an arms race.
The silver from the Japanese country flowed into the Ming Dynasty, and was exchanged for Ming Dynasty goods and then sold to Westerners in exchange for weapons.
It is said that the Shimazu family of Kagoshima hired a Toryo gunman as a trainer and formed the "Iron Cannon Team" (Birdgun Team) with a total number of 200 people.
Whether it is plundering places, smuggling trade, or collecting protection fees, the Deer King has made a lot of money.
After the inventory was completed, Su Ze and Lin Mojun finished their discussions and began to reward the soldiers for their merits.
All soldiers and sailors who participated in this battle were rewarded with ten taels of silver.
At the same time, Lin Mojun promised that in the future, in addition to providing three meals a day, the Changning Guardsmen would receive an additional monthly salary of one tael.
Su Ze also recruited soldiers who were willing to be stationed on Dong'ao Island on the spot. The nobles stationed on Dong'ao Island were rotated every three months, and their monthly salary on the island was one tael more, that is, two taels of silver a month.
Two taels of silver a month!
We must know that the monthly salary of Qi Jiajun, the highest-paid army in the Ming Dynasty in the future, will only be one, two, and five taels of silver!
For the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who were often deducted from their military pay, this was a fairly high salary.
For a shopkeeper like Lin Deqing in the city, he only received less than 20 taels of silver a year plus the end-of-year reward. A big-headed soldier receiving so much money already made them burst into tears of gratitude to Lin Mojun and Su Ze.
In addition to the reward money, Lin Mojun also promoted several soldiers who killed more enemies in this battle to small flags, and also sent condolences to the injured soldiers and gave them money for soup and medicine.
At this point, the Changning Guards felt at ease, and Dong'ao Island was decided accordingly.
However, the Ming court was completely unaware of what was happening at sea. There were still reports of various Japanese pirates appearing on the sea, and government offices at all levels in Fujian were in constant fear.
Su Ze took advantage of the Japanese self-esteem and finally took the first step in his plan to expand overseas.
It was just that Lin Mojun was exposed behind Lin Mojun's daughter. When the two of them were alone, Lin Mojun felt a little embarrassed.
On the contrary, Su Ze didn't care. At least now Lin Mojun no longer had to wear a veil when seeing him.
After everything is done, I can finally continue my liver experience.