The Red House starts from Liaodong

Chapter 89 The Veteran Weeps
Tang Qing'an was short of money before, but money is still important to him now, but it is not the most important thing anymore.

He is even more short of supplies.

There are 3000 soldiers in Jinzhou and 4000 sailors, making a total of 7000. These military salaries are provided by the imperial court.

Although he distributes it to the soldiers, it is not something he can afford by himself, and it has not yet reached this point.

Sergeants are really expensive.

According to the Liaodong system, the Jinzhou soldiers paid one tael or four qian per month, half a dendrobium of rice, and 16 tael or eight qian per year, six stones of rice.

For 7000 people, they need 28 taels of salary a year, plus generals, they need 600 taels of silver a year.

The food and salary needs 20 shi a year. If only relying on the supply from Jinzhou, it will take more than [-] mu of land a year to grow enough sorghum.

That is to say, excluding Jinzhou, all the land on the island will be used to supply [-] soldiers, and it is not enough.

This is only to guarantee the food and wages.

Battalion soldiers are not military households. Others go to battle as soldiers to kill the enemy, with their heads tied to their belts. They must be able to feed the whole family in the rear. The food salary of six shi a year is barely enough for a family of three to eat.

If there are many people in the family, they need to find another job to support themselves. Adding nearly 17 taels of silver a year, they can support five or six people and buy oil, salt, pot cloth and other supplies.

A couple, plus one or two old people, have three or four children, and the salary of being a soldier is not enough.

And this salary is already very low.

Compared with the barbarian soldiers, they are regarded as slave owners and can exploit the slaves at home. It is good that the soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty are not exploited by others.

Comparing the two, the treatment of barbarian soldiers is far from comparable to that of Zhou soldiers.

So if you want to beat the barbarian soldiers, not only can you not reduce the current treatment, but you have to increase it.And when there are casualties on the battlefield, the pension money and food are even more astronomical.

So Tang Qing'an is very clear, not to mention that he only has Jinzhou now, even if he really has millions of Liao people in the future, his dependence on the mainland will only increase.

He didn't know if Mao Wenlong had any ambitions in history, anyway, he is very loyal to the court now.

But he specially dispatched a ship to transport thousands of catties of fresh fish to the capital to send to various prefectures. Although the fish is not expensive, it is also his heart.

"In this transaction, Liaodong Jiedushi and I communicated perfectly. [-]% of the interest belongs to you, [-]% of the interest belongs to Beizhen, and [-]% of the interest belongs to Jinzhou."

Juniper was a little confused when he heard the words.

He was originally the treasurer of Jinling, and followed the big house to the north.Earlier, Tang Qing'an was also taken by him when he was a child, but now, although Tang Qing'an has become the deputy commander in chief, he is a second-rank military officer in the military governor's mansion.

But these days, Tang Qing'an remained the same as before, and with his previous friendship, Juniper was not too restrained.

"Brother Ang, the profit from this business is huge, why don't you seem to care about it?"

Tang Qing'an and Chen Deyan looked at each other and smiled.

Seeing this, Juniper knew that he had said something wrong.

Chen Deyan explained with a smile.

"It's not your fault, this incident happened not long ago, the Liaodong Economic Strategy has already reached an agreement with the local barbarians and Neikalkha leaders to trade in various places in Beizhen.

The condition is that Mongolia assists the Great Zhou to jointly fight against the barbarians and keep Beizhen. Otherwise, if Beizhen is lost, how can the horse market exist. "

Juniper nodded, he could not worry about these military affairs.

"According to the agreement, in the exchange of materials every year, [-] horses will be obtained, and [-] horses will be distributed to Jinzhou, [-] horses will be supplied in two years, and [-] horses will be supplied in three years."

That's a huge amount.

But this is the court's expense, what's the matter with Guan Tang Qing'an?Is he going to buy these horses for silver?
Chen Deyan said goodbye to Tang Qing'an with a smile, and pulled Juniper away. The latter was about the military plan, which could not be revealed to Juniper.

Now that Tang Qing'an is short of horses, war horses are the first element.

Originally, he took the time to meet Juniper, but now he doesn't have much time to reminisce about the past, the most important thing today is to see Zhao Gouyong.

In the study, Zhao Gouyong had already drank a cup of tea, and when he saw Tang Qing'an coming in, he stood up to greet him.

"Sit down."

Tang Qing'an smiled and pressed Zhao Gouyong down, and then sat down by himself.

"Each battalion has [-] soldiers, many of whom are old and weak. I plan to abolish all of them and recruit new ones.

Moreover, many generals also need to be changed, and some of them are not suitable for their original positions. "

Zhao Gouyong has already made preparations.

Over the past few days, Tang Qing'an has vigorously cleaned up the internal affairs and expelled many people. He reckons that the army will not miss it.

It was rumored yesterday that he would see him today, so there was already speculation.

"How will the dismissed sergeants be placed?"

Now in Jinzhou, serving as a soldier and eating food is the best job. Otherwise, he can only grow military fields and keep rations for his own use every year, and the rest of the materials are distributed according to needs.

I can't be a soldier, have no food and pay, and go to the days of eating every two days. I'm afraid these people will feel resentful.

"I have three places to go, one is to be a fisherman and provide boats, which is enough to support the family, the second is to be an apprentice craftsman, although the salary is not as good as being a soldier, but it can also be settled safely, and the third is to be sent back to the customs and defected by myself relative.

Moreover, if these people are disbanded, not only will they do nothing, but they will also send some money as severance pay to express their affection. "

Among the Liao people, there are quite a few people who have blood feuds with the barbarians. These people are not afraid of the barbarians when they serve as soldiers.

However, the court's food and salary are not enough, so they can only support these people, so some positions must be vacated.

Seeing that Tang Qing'an said it so clearly, Zhao Gouyong had made up his mind.

What he cares about now is how his troops will be arranged and whether there are too many redundancies.

However, Tang Qing'an did not continue to tell Zhao Gouyong the details, but said that he would send military preparation officers to the army to check and assess, as a basis.

If you want to do things according to the process, it is even more beyond Zhao Gouyong's ability to point out, so you can only retreat helplessly.

Looking at Zhao Gouyong's leaving back, Tang Qing'an thought about how to deal with this person.

Relying on Shi Nai, the Liaodong economic strategy, and the care of Shandong's chief envoy to participate in politics, all the civil officials he elected in Jinzhou were approved.

Through these civil servants to control the local affairs of Jinzhou, in order to achieve great power in Jinzhou.

But after all, Zhao Gouyong is a general appointed by the imperial court, the second military chief of Jinzhou, and the former general of Fuzhou.

Many generals in Fuzhou still responded to Zhao Gouyong's order.

Although the relationship between the two is relatively harmonious at present, it is because both of them are more restrained, not how consistent their views are.

"Keep it for now."

Tang Qing'an shook his head.

It is easy to get rid of Zhao Gou, but I am afraid that it will cause the court to speculate, which will not be conducive to the current situation.

After sending Zhao Gouyong away, Tang Qing'an immediately asked someone to invite Wang Xuan and Fang Shizhen to come in, and stood up to greet them at the door.

"General."

"Vice Envoy Wang, Vice Envoy Fang, please sit down."

These two were also promoted by Tang Qing'an, so they were very cautious.

Tang Qing'an smiled and chatted with the two of them for a while, and only when it was time to raise important matters, said, "For the Fuzhou side, 2000 people will be dismissed, and for the Jinzhou side, 1000 people will be dismissed. Do you have any objections?"

"But it's up to the general to decide."

The two of them had already known what happened today, and they also guessed Tang Qing'an's thoughts.

After everything was finalized, Jinzhou's vigorous disarmament and recruitment started at the same time. The recruitment was organized by the second brother Liu Chengmin and Xu Shoufu.

The reason why Xu Shoufu was added was that he had people's hearts towards him, and the other was that he was a general of Fuzhou after all, which could calm people's hearts.

……

The entire Jinzhou people are in panic, some people are unwilling to resign, and some people want to remove their armor.

"Old man, where are you going?"

A veteran asked furtively.

"How do you know I'm leaving the camp?"

"I don't know you yet. You have always been afraid of death. Now that you have this opportunity, there is still a good place to go. How can you let it go so easily?"

The man smiled wryly, without hiding anything, and said in a low voice, "I'm going to be an apprentice craftsman, although the money is a little less, and with the ladies farming the land, I can support a few boys by saving money."

"Why don't you go to sea with me? My captain told me that among the three ways out, the first is to go fishing.

Although it is a new thing, the captain said that he went to sea with the general, and he also heard those civil servants talk about it, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the sea to eat the sea, relying on the sea to eat the sea, and relying on the sea can not be hungry. "

The man shook his head.

"I have only one son and one daughter than your family. Although the general will not treat us badly, who can predict what it will be like to work in the fishing ground? I can't afford to bet on it."

The ten taels of severance silver per person is already a lot.

The general also said that the families of retired soldiers will give an extra bucket of rice every month for three years, and from the fourth year onwards, it will be reduced to half a bucket of rice every month for ten years.

For such a great kindness, that person has nothing but gratitude and no complaints in his heart.

Someone wanted to persuade, but the fellow next to him heard it and scolded, "You two old guys, you slipped fast."

"Why don't you retreat?"

"I'll give you a fart. The whole family depends on me to support them. How can I support my family with just the money and the monthly bucket of rice?"

In the entire Jinzhou, except for the sergeants who work twice a day, and the laborers who work once a day, the rest of the people eat twice a day.

Who can stand eating like this for a long time.

"That's true, you have two old ones above you, and six young ones below you, and your mother-in-law is also withered and dry. Apart from being able to give birth to children, the rest are of no use."

A few people were chatting first, when the drums in the camp sounded, and when they heard the drumbeat, they knew that the whole army was called, and they immediately returned to the team.

There were more than [-] people in the battalion, and each team formed one by one. After a while, I saw the generals in the army, accompanied by several civilian officials.

Those people held the roster in their hands, rolled their names according to their names, and then paid severance pay.

Some of the remaining sergeants were envious, while others were disapproving.

After reading the name, the leading official said loudly.

"The general has an order. In order to reward the surviving sergeants for killing the enemy with heart, double pay will be paid at the end of this year, and each will be rewarded with three pieces of cloth."

After the official finished reading, he looked at the soldiers in the camp with a smile.

really.

"The general is mighty!"

"The general is mighty!"

Under the leadership of the soldiers, all the soldiers shouted.

Veteran Marin's eyes were wet.

Looking at the old man, Gao Zhen is the same.

The two had been soldiers for half their lives, and now they want to take off their robes, but after all, they are a little bit reluctant, and let go of all the unhappiness in the past.

(End of this chapter)