Prosperous Tang Soul

Chapter 354 Blood Red Snow White ([-])

"Fifth brother, why do you think we killed all those savages last night? If we killed less, it would be nice to save some of them to help us drive the sheep!" A veteran couldn't help sighing, he committed suicide last night. He has the most people, but now he is a shepherd, driving the flock like a tortoise in the snow, and complaining constantly to Wang Laowu.

"Bah!" Wang Laowu spat on the snow in front of the veteran, and he extremely despised such a good-looking person who got cheap.Wipe off his sweat, damn it, although there is snow in the sky, but driving a flock of sheep undoubtedly makes Wang Laowu very strenuous.

Compared with cows and horses, the legs and feet of sheep are undoubtedly very short. If the short legs step on the two-foot-high snow, they will be unable to walk immediately. If it is not for the threat of the whip, those sheep will not want to take a step forward. .

But even so, a whip made of thick cowhide still had very limited effect, and Wang Laowu often ran around to drive the sheep away as if he was exhausted.

"When you killed people last night, you still yelled that you were not satisfied. Don't think I don't know. You old boy just wanted to accumulate more military merits and want to get more money when you go back. Now there is no one to help you drive the sheep again. Yelling, believe it or not, labor and management will deduct half of your military merits when you go back! Tell labor and management, how much was beheaded last night?"

"Don't, don't!" When he heard that his military merits would be deducted, the veteran immediately became anxious, and hurriedly apologized and said with a smile: "Aren't I upset that I killed too many barbarians last night? Besides, I was the one who killed brothers last night. It took a lot of effort to kill for three full hours to reach this level of ten, which is much less than other brothers!"

As he said that, the veteran couldn't help but raised his shoulders, because there were a dozen ears hanging on his shoulders.

In the army, strictly speaking, military merit requires relative evidence, and the head is undoubtedly one of the most solid evidence. Of course, at certain times, if the number is huge, it is also feasible to replace it with the enemy's left ear.

Although it wasn't the regular army of the Jieli tribe who killed this time, they were also Turks, right?
Especially under Zhang Yi's exaggeration, the Turkic people have no regular army or civilians at all. Because of their habits, these barbarians grew up on horseback since they were young, so they are born warriors as soon as they ride a horse.

Because, except for the women, the entire Shuofang defenders accepted the fact that there were no civilians in the Turks.

"You are blessed, old boy, with eighteen ears!" Wang Laowu couldn't help but sigh in admiration.

Eighteen ears represent the lives of eighteen Turkic people. According to the distribution method discussed by Li Jing and the generals not long ago, such a veteran has gained a lot this time!

Although it may not be possible to become rich and powerful, there is absolutely no problem in a stable life.

After all, although Datang's military rewards are not particularly generous, and most of the time, reputation is more important, but there are indeed many real rewards.Fertile land, land, money and food are all one of the reward items.

And the [-]th-level decapitation military merit can be mixed with four ranks of merit at the worst. According to the previous management, the official reward should not be less than five pennies, not to mention the opportunity to enter the local county government as a government servant. Qualifications.

However, these are just small heads, because in Li Jing's new military regulations, each level of head also represents an additional reward of [-] Wen.

It's not that Li Jing is pretending to be generous, but that the benefits brought to the army after the last siege are too great. That fat man Bu Jingfeng paid You Wuwei a full [-] guan coins for just the cow and sheepskin. If a large amount of wealth is handed over to His Majesty, the soldiers will be disappointed, and he dare not stretch out his hand. In the end, he can only give a part of the reward to the soldiers under Zhang Yi's suggestion, which is understandable.

Of course, this is not considered a transgression at all, and it can be regarded as a routine in the military.Since ancient times, there has been a saying that civil servants do not love money and military officials do not hesitate to die. It is said that as long as civil officials and military officials do these two things, the country can prosper.

But when it comes to returning goods, civil servants are afraid of death, and military officials love money.

"Hehe, my place is not the blessing of Master Tuo!" When the veteran said this, his wrinkled face that looked like a knife and an axe suddenly smiled like a chrysanthemum, and said with a smile: "If I didn't think about it before Dare to think, to tell you the truth, this expedition is to save some food for the family, so that the children and grandchildren of the family can eat a few more gruel. Even if I die on the battlefield, it will be worth it, let alone die In the future, the family will be exempted from taxes for three years!"

A good head of strong cattle is worth ten coppers. As long as there is a head of cattle, the manpower can be greatly saved, and the land that can be planted is relatively more.According to the land distribution policy of the Tang Dynasty, an adult man can grant more than [-] mu of land together. Although this mu is only one-third of the weight of the mu in later generations, it is not one People can cultivate carefully.

A man has [-] acres, so what about a family?
You must know that there was no such thing as family planning in ancient times. On the contrary, the country strongly encouraged childbirth, so it is very normal for a family to have four or five males. In this way, it is not at all necessary for a family to have more than 100 acres of land. strangeness.

However, while the ancients longed for land, farming was a huge problem. With backward farming techniques and simple farming tools, the output of one mu of land was often pitiful.

So at this time, what the veteran yearns for the most is that when he returns triumphantly, he can buy a cow for his family with the rewards from His Majesty and the army. In that case, his family will be considered happy.

Of course, he does not intend to pass on the art of ice making to all the descendants of the family. He stubbornly believes that such a method must only be passed on to his eldest son.Because as far as he knows, there are no less than 80 people who have learned this method in the auxiliary branch of logistics alone. Although some people only know a little bit and are not as proficient as he has learned, it is also very competitive.

So the people in the meeting discussed it secretly, and all the veterans who can make ice can only teach the ice-making method to one person.

After all, no matter how amazing something is, as long as there are more people who know it, it will be worthless!
Seeing the old soldier standing there giggling and waving the whip in the air, Wang Laowu ran over and slapped the old soldier who was over fifty years old.

If this old thing is allowed to work here again, God knows when he will be able to rush back to Shuofang?
(End of this chapter)