open sea

Chapter 79 Balance
Chen Mu has no intention of showing off, this is a routine operation to win people's hearts.

The Beiyang warlords also knew how to pay the soldiers hand in hand, and Chen Mu naturally knew it too.

But speaking from his heart, he thinks that the effect of handing over food to the banner army is nothing more than that the leaders of small companies in later generations transfer wages to employees who are in urgent need of money. The effect is not bad, but it is not much better. I said in my heart that these fields belonged to the Banner Army, and they should get their share.

At most, it was just a bumper harvest, Mr. Chen Jun asked for a good omen.

But the reality is much better than he imagined. Chen Mu summoned the banner troops, and all fifty banner troops were present. Hearing that the head of the banner crops, he would give each household ten shi of military rations for food. Yu Ding, who brought his family with him, also came a lot.

There is not much food in ten shi, just enough for the Banner Army with four or five people to eat two full meals a day.

The problem is that Chen Mu's 'should' and the flag army's 'should' are cognitively biased.

The young Banner Army who returned from bloody battles on the south bank of the Xinjiang River stood in front of him, his chest and waist straight, his face flushed with glory, and he shouted like a tongue-in-cheek, "I would like to lay down the ground for the General Banner"; the old Banner Army tremblingly watched Chen Mu ordered people to put ten shishi of unsand-mixed military rations on the cart so that the horses couldn't walk, and his wrinkled face was full of tears after suffering enough.

Not to mention Yu Ding, women and children crying together.

In the eyes of them who were born as serfs, there is never any reason for food, money, all the enjoyment and good things in the world, and about themselves.

On the contrary, they deserve to suffer, suffer, suffer from hunger and cold, and they also deserve to abandon their air-tight huts and sleep with livestock in the kennels and pigpens in the cold winter.

To survive, to survive is the greatest reason.

Other than that, there is no other luxury.

The first season of rice in half a year can produce ten shi, even if the second season is less, five or six shi is more than in previous years when the rice is the most!

"It's a good thing, don't cry."

There was too much food distributed, and the fifty banner troops took half a day to distribute the food, and the food was not distributed until almost evening, and the banner troops were still waiting gratefully in front of the main banner office, and Chen Mu had one more thing to do.

Although five hundred stones of food were sent out a day, Chen Mu still wanted to continue sending out.

"Mr. Chen has enough rations. This is because this year's expedition, the flag soldiers died bravely, and the general flag was full, and only more than 20 people came back. From tomorrow onwards, we will practice every day. These rations are for your family members. Yu Ding has no worries." Chen Mu looked at the banner troops lined up in front, and said loudly: "There are still banner troops in the camp for rewards!"

When Chen Mu said this, Banner Army wanted to prick up his ears.

Still want to reward?
"There is also a reward, Old Zheng. Last year, Yu Ding, who went into the cave to dig the soil in Anyuan Station, received five stones of grain per person. Let it go!"

As soon as the voice fell, the Lower Banner Army and Yu Ding began to whisper, Chen Zongqi asked people to dig soil in the hole, it was not a secret under the General Banner, everyone knew about it, but except for the first ten Banner Army led by Chen Xiaoqi, The others, neither Qijun nor Yu Ding, were willing to do that kind of thing.

Even if he was dragged away by force, it would still be slow and slow, and he would not work hard.

Boiling nitrate is a labor-intensive job. Without the suppression of the flag officer, even if the new nitrate hole has three times the manpower before, it can only produce slightly insufficient results.

If you want to take it, you must first give it.

And Chen Mu knew what the Banner Army Yu Ding wanted most, food.

"Last year they boiled 30 catties of nitrate soil. This year's big hole, you continue to dig. Wait until the spring of next year. Chen will see how much more than [-] of you can dig and boil. If it is [-] catties, each person will be rewarded with five stones." Grain. If it is five thousand catties, each person will be rewarded with six stones of grain!"

As soon as Chen Mu finished speaking, the flag army below couldn't hold back anymore, and someone shouted loudly: "General Banner, I'm going too!"

"I'm going too!"

This can mobilize the enthusiasm of Yu Ding, the flag soldier, compared with the previous [-] stone grains. Chen Mu smiled, suppressed the flag army's shout, and said: "Don't worry, the busy farming season has not passed yet, and when the farming is slack, there should be something for you this winter." Do it, when the time comes, if you don't avoid things, Chen will not hesitate to reward, whoever contributes to Chen, Chen will let him live like a human, understand!"

"Is there someone who doesn't like to hear this? What is human appearance, huh?" Chen Mu smiled, waved his hand and swept across the five small flags at the front of the queue, and said: "Chen's small flags used to be from military households. As long as Yu Ding listens to drive, Chen will reward you with food, so that you will not go hungry or cold; as long as the flag army dares to fight to the death, Chen will guarantee you more officials and rewards, and you will not be stingy!"

"Understand? Let's go!"

Chen Mu waved his hand to disperse the banner troops, and all the banner troops left gratefully. He stopped Shao Tingda and the others and said, "You are waiting at the Yamen. Zhengyan and Junxiong will follow me to Fenghuang Street—Qimai, without you It's over, let's go back and rest first, and tomorrow I will take people to Guangcheng with silver, and buy seven or eight war horses and five buffaloes back."

The two small flag officers took the order to leave, and then prepared the horses with their own soldiers. Chen Mu took the two sabers and wobbled on the horses to Fenghuang Street in Qingyuan City.

He now understands why the dynasties have changed in the past, and the final reason can be found in land annexation.He owns [-] mu of the best field in Qingcheng Qianhu, and he does not need to pay taxes, because the [-] mu of land is divided into another [-] mu of military land, and the [-] mu of private land without tax , one season of rice brought him four hundred shi grains of income.

Due to the decline in soil fertility, the second-season rice harvest is generally lower than that of the first season, but he has potash fertilizers, and the situation is slightly better.

This means that three hundred acres of land can bring him an annual income of five or six hundred taels of silver.

You don't need to work hard, but you can earn a lot more than working hard!

He led his troops to fight with the rebels on the banks of the Xinjiang River. I don't know how many people he killed. In the end, the reward that fell into his hand could be 500 taels?

Driven by such interests, which powerful, financial, and landed person would not passively annex land?
Not to mention that Baihusuo already has a balance of thousands of shi in the first crop of rice this year.

But Chen Zongqi is not other Wang Zongqi and Li Zongqi, and the Baihusuo where Chen Zongqi is located is not the same as the Baihusuo where Wang Zongqi and Li Zongqi are located.

When drinking water, don't forget the well digger.

Therefore, Chen Mu wanted to drive his horse to the Bai family's mansion on Fenghuang Street at dusk. He had to tell Bai Yuanjie that the arrangement of Bai's thousand households for the guard or the small reforms in the personnel system would work.

He has a thousand shi army rations left under his banner, the banner army is almost out of production, and Yu Ding's ability to eat is the best proof.

The banner army surpassed the strength of the two guards, and when Yu Ding worked as a farmer for two Yu Ding, of course he also ate two people's food.

Let the Banner Army eat up the empty salary that was originally abolished by the guard system, and it will bring qualitative changes to the Guard Army.

However, Chen Junye's action of knocking on Bai's mansion in the dark was doomed to come to nothing. Bai Jingchen and Zhang Yongshou, a member of the old Zhang family's hundreds of households, and their ancestors who had served as commanders of Qingyuan for several generations, had already gone to Guangzhou Mansion to pay their respects. Personal military exploits and promotion are busy.

Chen Mu could only leave a message for Bai Qi, telling Bai Yuanjie to send someone to Anyuan Station to look for him as soon as he came back, and Xingye hurried back to sleep with his head covered.

　good morning friends!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)