"If you kill a thief in formation, you will be rewarded with three fights of food. If you capture the enemy's armor or horse, you will be rewarded with one stone of food... If there is a big victory, the whole army will have other rewards..."
Li Chengzhi's voice was so resounding that the generals and squires were slightly disturbed when they heard it.
The reward is so heavy?
As long as this group of thieves is eliminated, the total reward will be more than a thousand stones...
It sounds strange, how can there be no reward for winning a battle?
But it depends on the actual situation and even more on the regulations.
Customized by the Northern Dynasties, all rewards for military merit are evaluated afterwards based on the results, gains and influence, and at most the reward is at the level of the team leader.
Most of the time, ordinary soldiers have no share. Only generals who love their soldiers like their own sons will share some of their rewards to use their troops.
But basically, if you have a few good meals and drinks, you will be rewarded.
There is no way Li Chengzhi would set the rewards for ordinary soldiers before the battle was even fought.
Let me just say one thing, if not so much is seized, can the general still pay for it out of his own pocket?
Moreover, more than 90% of those who accompanied Li Chengzhi on this expedition were Chaona County citizens, and they were protecting the gentry and common people in Chaona. The nature of this battle was to protect the family and the country, and not to defend against the enemy.
But he, the coach, is an outsider. To put it bluntly, he works hard and defends the city for you regardless of gains and losses. This is enough benevolence, but he also has to pay for the army out of his own pocket?
There is no such reason!
What makes everyone even more surprised is that maybe Li Chengzhi actually paid for it out of his own pocket.
As the detective report said, this is a new army hastily formed by a group of refugees. Even if they are completely wiped out, how many captures will be made?
A few rotten wooden guns or a few pieces of rags?
No one wants it for free...
But no one doubts whether Li Chengzhi is talking big words and whether he will fulfill them when the time comes.
During the recruitment period, the gates of the military camps were filled with bright yellow corn. As long as a candidate was selected, a sergeant would give a bushel of grain to his family.
Some good people did the math. In less than ten days, Li Chengzhi recruited nearly 3,000 troops and sent out at least 300 shi of grain...
Later, Li Chengzhi actually sent people to take horses, donkeys and mules to help Xinding's family farm, which made his prestige reach its peak.
This is like putting up a tree at the camp gate, and the shadow will be seen immediately. There is no one in the county who does not praise Li Chengzhi, and the entire battalion regards Li Chengzhi as their reborn parent...
This is the magic weapon that Li Chengzhi dares to say will win this battle!
A group of military leaders were secretly grateful for the expense of Li Langjun again, while a few squires were settling accounts.
Including Zhang Jingzhi and Guo Cunxin are thinking about how much rice, food and labor should be donated to prevent Li Chengzhi from losing money, and how much should be shared among the various forts and clans if there is really going to be a big victory...
Li Chengzhi didn't know what these people were thinking. Seeing the happy faces of a group of generals, he couldn't help but sneered: "Don't just hear about rewards, but also punishments...
But those who refuse to listen to the drums, refuse to retreat after asking for money, leave the formation without authorization, rob and capture, or hide thieves' armor, guns, knives and property secretly, will be beheaded. Their family members will be expelled from the good family and will be convicted...
If there is a general who lies about his military achievements, who is greedy for the merits of his soldiers, who is unclear about rewards and punishments, or who engages in malpractice for personal gain, the crime will be increased..."
When he said this, Li Chengzhi's face turned frosty, and his tone was even more cold and stern than anything he had ever seen before. Everyone who heard this was in awe.
It must be just like the reward, what Li Chengzhi said can be achieved...
Some of them heard that the reward was so heavy, and they thought about the general who was greedy for his subordinates' military exploits and took the opportunity to make a small fortune. But when he heard that he was so stern, similar thoughts disappeared.
Hearing what Li Chengzhi said next, these people became even more uneasy.
Those scribes who had previously preached in the army were actually going to go out with the battalion?
One person in each team, in addition to being responsible for replenishing and recording the distribution of grain and grass in the team, is also responsible for recording merit, stimulating the morale of the soldiers, and enforcing strict military discipline...
These are clearly the military meritorious service officer and the law officer. Li Chengzhi nicknamed him the secretary, and one of them must be assigned to each team?
According to the military system, there may not necessarily be one meritorious officer in an army (more than a thousand people). Most of them are determined by whatever the military leader says...
Most of these scribes came from rich families. Even if they were commoners, they had a good environment and had enough food and clothing since they were young. Naturally, they would not be interested in such small money.
Besides, only by reading and being literate can we understand things. After these days of preaching, let’s not mention how deeply the soldiers have experienced it. Don’t these scholars still understand what will happen to themselves and their families if military discipline is lax and leads to a defeat?<
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I definitely won’t get along with a war-headed vigilante who has evil intentions...
Who gave Li Chengzhi a good uncle? All scholars in Jingzhou can be regarded as disciples and grandsons of the Guo family.
There is no shortage of scholars, so Li Chengzhi naturally wanted to give it a try and see if he could learn from the masters of later generations and bring political propaganda work to the grassroots.
At least the soldiers should know who they are fighting for, and they don't have to worry about not being rewarded for their meritorious services, let alone the military merits being corrupted.
Whoever belongs to you belongs to him...
It seems that what he has done is good enough, but Li Chengzhi feels that he can do better.
He pondered for a moment, and then made a surprising statement: "For those who are killed in battle, their families will be given twenty stones of grain, or ten pounds of copper, or ten acres of Li's private land will be rented, and they will be farmed for free for five years... The army will be doubled, and the assistants will be given."
The troops were reduced by half..."
Everyone's eyes almost popped out of their heads in shock.
Not to mention accompanying the army on an expedition, you are just a soldier. If you die in battle, at most you will be exempted from taxes, grain and corvee for two or three years. I have never heard of people being rewarded with grain, money and land?
Even if there is a reward, shouldn’t it be official land?
But think about it again, Li Chengzhi is just a white man after all, what name does he have to be the leader of the government?
Those official fields that have been sealed to the soldiers who applied for recruitment have only been exploited for a year!
Li Langjun should be worried that the powerful gentry will not cooperate and will not be able to force the situation, so he can only pay for it out of his own pocket...
All the generals had mixed feelings and wanted to bow down...
What is private land?
Dawei Tianzhi: Men over fifteen years old are granted 40 acres of open field for cultivating millet. They are returned to the state at the age of sixty or after their death. During this period, they pay grain according to the system and serve in the army.
Only those with mulberry trees are considered private fields, which can be passed down from generation to generation and can also be bought and sold...
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The Li family has worked hard for generations and many people have died in battles, but they only have 3,000 acres of private land. You can imagine how precious this thing is.
Li Chengzhi said he would give out the reward... No, even renting it would not work.
It’s still the same sentence: The battle is won, and the benefits are for the 30,000 or so people of the 4,000 to 5,000 households in the entire DPRK. Why do you, Li Chengzhi, pay for it?
The Li clan members were secretly complaining: Is Lang Jun preparing to go on the "road of a saint" and never return?
Fortunately, we are only renting, not giving away.
Otherwise, if Erlang finds out about the loss of an acre, he will definitely peel off a layer of his skin and make him kneel in the ancestral hall for several days and nights...
"Don't do this!" Before Li Chengzhi finished speaking, Guo Cunxin stood up and glared at him fiercely, as if to say: It seems that you have really lost your memory. You have forgotten how vicious your father was? No matter how many bones you break, they will be considered light...
Then he turned his head again and looked at Zhang Jingzhi and the squire representatives: "What do you think?"
Zhang Jingzhi bowed to Li Chengzhi from a distance: "Thank you very much, general, for your righteous deeds, but this is not in line with etiquette!"
It means that being a saint also has a degree. If you really do this, where will the court and the great family of the court be?
Then he turned his head and looked at the clan leaders: "Although food is in short supply and copper is hard to come by, it is possible to raise thousands of acres of mulberry fields, right?"
"Come on!" Several squires said nothing.
No matter how ignorant they are of soldiers, they can still figure out why Li Chengzhi set the reward so high.
If he fails to win the first battle, it is very likely that he will be completely defeated and left to his own devices. Therefore, there is nothing wrong with Li Chengzhi's approach of stimulating the morale of his soldiers as much as possible and avoiding their worries.
On the other hand, it is just a smaller harvest every year, which is many times better than the death of people and the annihilation of the clan, and the loss of the incense in the ancestral hall...