After the General Administration receives the fields, how to distribute them fairly is also a problem.
Guo Niansheng recommended his nephew Guo Huan to take charge of this matter, and Zhang Yangquan appointed Guo Huan as the magistrate of Jiangdu County.
Jiangdu County Government Office is located about two miles west of the General Manager's Office. Because of the existence of the General Manager's Office, it has never had any sense of existence. All major and minor matters must be consulted by the General Manager's Office.
This time, Guo Huan handled the matter of dividing the fields in an orderly manner, which made the county government more aware of its presence. The people also knew that there was a county magistrate named Guo Huan.
Just as the people of Jiangdu were eagerly waiting for their fertile land, news came from Zhenjiang. After leaving 10,000 defenders in Zhenjiang, Wang Mengge withdrew to Jiqing Mansion with the remaining 20,000 troops. The day after the news came, Zhang Yangquan held a merit-discussion and reward meeting at Beimen Camp.
In the thirteenth year of Zhizheng, it was the tenth day of the fifth month.
In the early morning, the sun rises from the horizon, the sunshine is bright, and the warm breeze makes people feel comfortable.
The morning exercise has ended, and the soldiers of the North Gate Camp gathered in a corner of the school field, forming a small circle around each other to have breakfast.
After Geng San queued up to eat, he couldn't help but be overjoyed. There was another egg in the porridge. Since the capture of Jiangdu, the soldiers have been able to eat an egg every morning.
Everyone knows that this is a reward from the chief manager, and they are particularly happy.
Geng San came to his hundred-man team with a steamed bun in his mouth and a rice bowl in both hands.
The soldiers formed four circles. In one of the circles, a few clever soldiers moved to the left and right to make room for him.
Different from the usual bustling atmosphere during meals, today everyone is particularly quiet and even a little nervous.
Geng San is also as nervous as them, because today is the day of rewards based on merit, and it is also the day that everyone is most looking forward to.
One of the soldiers next to Geng San was a new soldier named Liu Wu. He was originally a villager in Shangshui Village and was drafted into the army after capturing Jiangdu.
Liu Wu had no merit at all, until he couldn't get promoted. Instead, he was the most generous and said cheerfully: "Geng Baihu, you have made a lot of achievements this time, you will definitely be promoted to Qianhu!"
Another captain of ten shouted: "What is the commander of thousands? I heard that the army will have three new commanders and six deputy commanders. Brother Geng will definitely become the commander!"
Geng San also knew about this and laughed and scolded: "Fart! I have become the commander of the capital. What do Xu Qianhu and Shan Qianhu do?"
Having said that, I have high hopes for the position of deputy capital commander.
Although he is the fourth brother Geng, he is short in stature and not very strong.
In this battle of Mawei River, although he was lucky enough to have a head-on confrontation with the enemy, he only killed two people, not even as many as his several ten-captains!
He secretly inquired and found out that the person who killed the most this time was Zhao Desheng, who killed more than forty people. Even his brother Geng Si killed more than twenty people.
With this little merit alone, he was in danger of being promoted to a thousand households, but luckily there was a spy, Li Yi, who gave him a merit.
He asked Shanzhu, who was responsible for statistics of military merits, and the general manager was very fond of this matter and recorded him as a medium meritorious officer. So Geng San felt that there was still hope for him to be promoted to deputy commander!
While he was thinking, a young soldier mustered up the courage and said: "Hundred households, when the statistician pulled me over to ask for questioning two days ago, I said I killed three people, but they insisted that I only killed two!"
When Geng San heard that this kid had killed more people than himself, he felt a little annoyed. He snorted and said, "Didn't the police officer in your ten-man team tell them?"
The soldier said with a mournful face: "Baihu, the inspection soldier of our team is dead."
Verifying credit can be a laborious task.
Since the Warring States Period, in order to prevent false claims of military merit, something would often be cut off from the deceased. Sometimes it was the ears, sometimes the head.
However, doing so can easily result in killing good people and taking credit for merit. Therefore, starting from the Han and Tang Dynasties, military merit assessment gradually changed to battlefield performance, such as "reaching first" and "falling into battle".
Those who climb first are the first to scale the city wall, and those who are trapped are the ones who break through the enemy's defense line and open the way for the army to attack.
Le Jin and Fan Kuai stood out by virtue of being the first to get there, while Gao Shun was a fierce leader.
In order to accurately record merit, Zhang Yangquan and Qin Lingjun racked their brains for a long time and came up with a way.
It is relatively easy to assess military merit. Zhang Yangquan's soldiers were specifically responsible for this during the Battle of Mawei River. When he hid behind to supervise the battle, it was equivalent to being assessed.
At that time, Wang Da fought bravely with the wild boar, and he was credited with winning the battle.
However, the assessment of merit can only cover a small number of people after all, and the military merit of most people still has to be judged by counting the number of kills.
So the two selected one person from each ten-man team, who did not participate in the battle, but hid behind to record their merits, and they were named Jichabing.
Geng San waved his hand and said: "You don't have to worry. If the surveillance soldiers die, they will ask the soldiers who were nearby when you were fighting. Generally there will be no deviation!"
The soldier said anxiously: "They said they had already asked and said that the third person I killed was not dead, but was killed by another centurion!"
Geng San's face sank. This involved pretending to be a military leader, so it was no small matter. He asked, "Are you sure you killed that person?"
The soldier nodded repeatedly: "I stabbed his neck, there is no way he is still alive!"
The other soldiers started to boo: "Isn't that bullying? Baihu, you have to make the decision for your brothers!"
Geng San looked a little ugly.
Because of his good temper, his soldiers were often bullied by others. They could tolerate it before, but this time they started pretending to be military leaders. Is that okay?
"Which Centurion is the opponent's team? Who is the Hundred Household?" he asked.
The soldier gritted his teeth and said: "He is a soldier of Sun Hu Baihu. The statistician knew Sun Baihu, so he decided that he was right and stopped me from pursuing him any further!"
Geng San was immediately furious. Sun Hu, relying on Hou Baisi's support, always liked to bully others, and he knew this.
However, Sun Hu entered Longtan Village a year later than him. In the past, he would not bully him, but he would dare to cross the line this time!
He stood up suddenly and asked, "Do you still remember what that corpse looked like?"
The soldier hurriedly said: "I have been thinking about this recently, and I can still remember the face of the corpse in my dreams!"
Geng San knew for sure that the bodies of Maweihe Nanmen Army were buried in the nearby woods.
It had only been a few days, and the body was not rotten. If it really happened, he had nothing to fear if he dug up the body!
So he took two strong men with him and went all the way to Sun Hu's hundred-man team. They saw Sun Hu naked and wrestling with one of his men.
Geng San shouted: "Sun Hu, come here, I have something to ask you!"
Sun Hu turned around to look, sneered, waved and said, "Isn't this brother Geng San? Why, do you want to play with me?"
Geng San said: "Don't pretend to be stupid with me! Did you let your subordinates pretend to claim the military merits of our brothers?"
Sun Hu's face changed slightly, he strode over, pulled Geng San aside, and said solemnly: "Geng Baihu, don't talk nonsense. Pretending to be a military leader is a capital crime. Am I crazy?"
Geng San shook off his hand and said, "Did someone among your men steal the head of one of my brothers?"
Sun Hu folded his arms and hummed: "I know this, but I'm not trying to take credit for it. I asked the policemen and found that the man was not completely dead. He moved on the ground. My soldiers shot him again.
Kill him!"
Geng San sneered: "If you want to say that, then let's dig out the body and examine it to see how that person died! How about that?"
There was a little cold sweat on Sun Hu's forehead.
Although the Longtan Village in the past also paid attention to rewards based on merit, it paid more attention to seniority. After Zhang Yangquan entered the village, the army was promoted entirely based on merit, and seniority played an increasingly smaller role.
Sun Hu relied on his bravery. During this battle, he followed the mountain pig and got a test of being trapped in the battle. He was very proud and did not look down on people like Geng San who were old but not very good at fighting.
Having said that, the military discipline of Longtan Village is strict, and Sun Hu would never dare to violate it. That is to say, he heard that one of Geng San's soldiers died, so he had the courage to steal the military merits of a man's head.
I thought that an honest man like Geng San would swallow his anger, but unexpectedly he came directly to the door.
Sun Hu was also afraid that things would get serious. If he found out that he had falsely taken the military merit, he quickly surrendered: "Forget it, I won't argue with you. Let this credit belong to your team. I will go and tell the statistician that it's okay."
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Geng San didn't want to really get things done, so he threatened: "There will be a merit-based reward meeting soon, and I won't pursue it this time. Next time something like this happens again, I will definitely report it to the manager!"
After finishing speaking, he led his men back to the Centurion and told the result to the soldier.
The soldier was overjoyed and kowtowed to Geng San repeatedly to thank him. All the soldiers also cheered and praised his family!