Qian Song

Chapter 28 clear rewards and punishments
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On the day when the landlord's armed forces led by Yu Yancheng were wiped out, in addition to Yujiazhuang, the Huben Army and Fang Baihua Army took advantage of the situation to take down four Zhuangzi belonging to the landlord's family of the Mingshe.

And the other seven Zhuangzi, either occupying favorable terrain and sticking to the Huben army or Fang Baihua army to keep them out of the village, or relying on the strong private armed forces in the village to repel the attack of the Huben army or Fang Baihua army, or There was a family with four bed crossbows, and they shot and killed [-] or [-] Huben soldiers in one shot, scaring the rest of the Huben soldiers and fleeing. In the process, they even trampled to death and injured many Huben soldiers.

It can be said that Li Cun led the Huben Army to wipe out the elite armed landlords led by Yu Yancheng, and did not have as many casualties as the Huben Army and Fang Baihua Army to attack these Zhuangzi belonging to the landlord's family belonging to the Mingshe. Only the one with four bed crossbows Zhuangzi let the Huben army kill and wound nearly a hundred soldiers.

The morale of the Huben Army and Fang Baihua Army, which had high morale, suffered a serious setback. Some soldiers of the Huben Army and Fang Baihua Army even thought that it would be better to just withdraw the troops. Anyway, five Zhuangzi had already been defeated, and one of them was Qingxi. The richest Yujiazhuang is enough for everyone to eat for a while.

How could Li Cun let this trend rise?
After learning about this situation, the first thing Li Cun did was to suspend the attack on the remaining seven Zhuangzi, and give rewards to the soldiers who had made great achievements in the previous few battles.

The first contribution of Li Cun was given to Niu Meng who led the cavalry to attack Yujiazhuang successfully.

Collective first-class merit was given to Li Cun, who was standing in the first row of the Macedonian phalanx at that time, and the tiger and horse army who followed Niu Meng to attack Yujiazhuang, and successfully captured the other four Zhuangzi belonging to the landlords of the Mingshe. Soldiers.

The other rows of soldiers in the Macedonian phalanx won the collective second-class merit.

The other infantry who participated in the Battle of Linjiadian were mainly the infantry that belonged to the Mandarin Duck Formation and won the collective third-class merit.

The [-] recruits responsible for the feint will be rewarded.

In addition, Li Cun took the trouble to personally select the outstanding military achievements.

For example, Zhao Han'er and Er Ganzi, who were lucky enough to stab Yu Yancheng at that time, won the first-class individual merit. After Zhang Shi lost his command ability, Su Dong, who decisively ordered Zhang Shi and took the lead in charging the enemy, also won the individual award. First class merit.

After judging the military merits, Li Cun directly rewarded the meritorious ones.

Li Cun's first reward was Niu Meng who won the first prize.

Specifically, Niu Meng will be promoted to the former commander of the Tiger Ben army, and he will be rewarded with a thousand coins and a beauty.

What is leadership?

Commander is the official name in the Northern Song Dynasty. He can command up to five battalions, each with 500 troops, for a total of 500 troops.

To put it more vividly, the commander is equivalent to the brigade commander of later generations.

Therefore, although there is a word "generation" in front of it, Niu Meng is too excited to find Bei after gaining the real power of the former army commander, even if he himself is a strong contender for the commander.

As for the thousand coins, although it is equivalent to 23 in later generations, it is not worth mentioning at all compared with the acting commander.

As for the beauties, this has to be said.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, or generally speaking, throughout ancient times, until Yongzheng, there were always prostitute camps, and it was a tradition to gather the families of enemies and criminals into the prostitute camps as prostitutes.

A more typical example is Liang Hongyu, the famous anti-gold female general.

For this kind of practice, Li Cun, a later generation, can't accept it.

But tradition is tradition, and if it is changed rashly without a reasonable reform, it will definitely arouse the resentment of the soldiers.

Li Cun is not the kind of person who blindly does things according to his own feelings without considering the overall situation.

Besides, Li Cun still has a small part of the thinking of this era.

In addition, Li Cun also needs to motivate his followers.

After comprehensive consideration, Li Cun introduced the system of rewarding the families of enemies and criminals to those who have made meritorious service.

Although this is not civilized, and there is no human rights at all, it is better than the family members of those enemies and criminals.

As for who gets what kind of beauties, first of all, the one with the highest merit will be selected first, and so on.

Niu Meng chose for a long time among a large number of criminal women, and finally chose a beautiful woman with a charming figure and a hot body to take away directly.

Someone recognized this woman as Sai Mudan, a famous prostitute in Yangzhou. It is said that Yu Yancheng bought her back from a brothel in Yangzhou for [-] yuan a few months ago. She is Yu Yancheng's favorite concubine.

Many people are envious of Niu Meng, and they also want to taste what this beauty worth [-] yuan is like? !

Niu Meng knew that Li Cun was trying to motivate the soldiers, so after carrying Sai Mudan into the crowd, Niu Meng kissed Sai Mudan fiercely in public, and laughed loudly: "Beauty, give Grandpa Niu a smile!" One, or Grandpa Niu will give you a smile?"

Sai Mudan knew that these mobs were murderers without batting an eyelid, and she was a master at welcoming and escorting, how could she not know how to save her life?

Sai Mudan smiled immediately, as beautiful as a peony flower in full bloom, and then said nonuonuo: "How dare I let the general laugh at me, or let me laugh at the general, and the general sees how beautiful the smile of my slave is?"

In the eyes of the group of bumpkins around, Sai Mudan's smile is not only pretty, it is like a fairy descending from the earth. Their hearts are all broken by Sai Mudan's smile, and they all think: "If such a beauty can hug a Hug and rub, it will kill me, and I'm willing to fucking!"

The second person to be rewarded by Li Cunsheng was Zhao Han'er.

I don't know if it's stupid people who have stupid blessings, or Zhao Han'er is a lucky general.

In addition to standing in the first row of the Macedonian phalanx and obtaining a collective first-class merit and stabbing Yu Yancheng to death, Zhao Han'er's battalion was also lucky enough to defeat the Zhuangzi of a big landlord named Li Jia. And won a collective first-class merit.

In this way, Zhao Han'er won two collective first-class merits and one individual first-class merit, which belongs to the person with the greatest contribution after Niu Meng.

Li Cun's reward to Zhao Han'er was to promote Zhao Han'er as the acting commander of the Huben Central Army, and reward him with three hundred coins and a beauty.

In fact, Li Cun didn't think that Zhao Han'er's character could lead soldiers to fight.

But Zhao Han'er's contribution lies here, and it is a big taboo of the commander of the army not to reward those who have meritorious service.

Besides, Zhao Han'er also has Zhao Han'er's advantages, at least he absolutely obeys Li Cun's orders, and Li Cun reckons that Zhao Han'er will not hesitate even if he wants Zhao Han'er to die.

And the Huben Central Army will be with Li Cun almost all the time. At critical moments, Li Cun will help Zhao Han'er command the Huben Central Army, and Zhao Han'er only needs to obey orders.

The key point is that Li Cun really doesn't have any available commanders. He just wants to operate in secret, and there is no suitable candidate.

No one would have thought that Zhao Han'er, a single-minded person, could become a general and become rich and beautiful!

This made countless people feel aggrieved, thinking: "How come I don't have the life of Zhao Han'er?"

It's time for the beauty pageant.

Everyone was dumbfounded!

Zhao Han'er didn't choose the beautiful one, but chose a woman who was thicker than Tu Shi.

Someone asked Zhao Han'er why she chose this one, and Zhao Han'er said, "She can work, and she can be a helper for my wife."

Many people secretly laughed at Zhao Han'er for being stupid, saying that Niu Meng chose the one worth [-] coins, but Zhao Han'er chose the one that was not worth even [-] coins.

However, these people only dare to whisper now, because Zhao Han'er is already a general, a general who can decide their fate, who would dare to laugh at Zhao Han'er in public again?
The third person to be rewarded by Li Cunfeng was Er Ganzi.

Like Zhao Han'er in front of the second pole, standing in the first row of the Macedonian phalanx won a collective first-class merit and stabbing Yu Yancheng won a personal first-class merit.

The difference is that the Zhuangzi that Erganzi's battalion went to fight did not take down.

But when the two sides were fighting, the second pole stabbed the coach of Zhuangzi to death with one shot, and won a second-class personal merit.

Li Cun's reward for the second pole is to promote the second pole to be the deputy general and acting commander (equivalent to the deputy brigade-level acting battalion commander in later generations), with a reward of 250 coins and a beauty.

To everyone's surprise, the second pole actually chose Tian Cui'e, the daughter of the landlord Tian Mo.

This woman is a famous beauty in Qingxi.

crazy!

Many people are crazy!

Er Ganzi, a person who doesn't even have a proper name, unexpectedly got a well-known beauty from Qingxi who is well-educated and reasonable!

What a shame! ! !
Next, one after another, those who received the reward appeared.

However, the soldiers of the Huben Army soon discovered that the further they went, the fewer rewards they received.

Later someone concluded:

If you want to be qualified as an agent to command a first-class officer, you must have at least two first-class meritorious service.

If you want to be qualified as an agent of the first-class military officer, you must have at least one first-class meritorious service or three second-class meritorious service.

If you want to be qualified as a proxy for a first-class officer, you must have at least two second-class merits.

Even if you want to become a regular, you need one second-class merit or three third-class merits.

Even for the corps leader to become a full-time member, a third-class merit is required.

But when it came to the awards, each person was rewarded with only one coin, one jug of wine, and two catties of meat.

As for those who stayed behind before, there was no reward at all.

They can't blame Li Cun for not giving them a chance to make meritorious service, because those who stay behind are the worst-trained batch, and they are not qualified to go to the battlefield.

As a result, the ranks of the soldiers of the Huben Army, who were all about the same, were suddenly separated.

Then, some happy and some sad.

Those with high military merits will get promoted and get rich, and there will be beauties.

Those who have no credit can only salivate and look at the scenery with high credit.

Even more exasperating, Niu Meng even brought Sai Mudan into his big tent in public.

Afterwards, Sai Mudan's cry of refusal and welcome resounded through the entire barracks, making those who got nothing almost smash the gun barrels in their hands.

Of course, these people who have not made any achievements are not the worst.

The worst part was that during the battle, some of them turned around and ran away in fright.

After they were caught and returned, their heads were beheaded directly.

In addition, all those who died in battle were rated as martyrs, and their families could receive one hundred martyrs' condolences. If there is any good thing for the Huben Army, priority will be given to the families of martyrs.

Rewards are rewarded for meritorious deeds, and punished for demerits. Li Cun has definitely achieved clear rewards and punishments!
Hearing Sai Mudan's cry in his ears, Li Cun looked at those people who were going crazy with envy, and thought to himself: "With me, you still want to eat a big pot of rice? Dreaming!"

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(End of this chapter)