Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 163 Rewards and Awards

"Finally we have captured Kaifeng City. This is the first major city conquered by the Ming army, but it will definitely not be the last." Zhu Cihong excitedly presented Shi Kefa and Zhang Yong with his memorial.

At the same time, the long-lost system reappeared.

"Congratulations to the host for conquering the big city of Kaifeng, your reputation will spread far and wide, Li Zicheng and Dorgon will be shocked by your feat.

But please don't stop there, you still have a long way to go before unifying the world, and the Chinese civilization circle has not yet surrendered under your feet. "

This is the first time the system has said so many words to Zhang Peilun, Zhu Cihong can hear from this voice that the system is very satisfied with his achievements.

"The quest reward of [-] Daming Imperial Guard Fire Gun Cavalry has been issued, please pay attention to extracting the host."

Zhu Cihong didn't expect that the system would give him a thousand guards and gun cavalry this time, which meant a lot to him.

The manufacture, equipment, and training of firearms are very expensive. An elite firearms unit can be said to be piled up purely with money.

At present, in the Ming, Dashun, and Qing Dynasties, the scale and elite of the firearms troops are led by the Qing. Zhu Cihong's Daming is not as good as the Mite Qing because the quality of firearms is too poor and the training is like playing house.

As for Li Zicheng's Chuangjun, because most of the time he didn't even have a decent base, and most of the areas he controlled were severely damaged by the war, so he couldn't arm a large-scale firearms unit at all.

In fact, firearms have been realized by everyone since their birth. Since the Song Dynasty, firearms have been used in military affairs on a small scale.

For example, thunderbolts and firearms, but due to the backwardness of productivity and technology, they have not become the mainstream of warfare. It was not until the Ming Dynasty that firearms became the king on the battlefield.

For example, in the Wanli War to Aid Korea in the last century, the number of troops sent by the Ming army was far less than that of the Japanese army, not even as many as the Korean army, but it relied on powerful artillery to bombard the Japanese army.

Now that it is the middle of the seventeenth century, the forces of all parties naturally understand the importance of firearms better. However, during this period, the difficulty of making firearms and the test of a force's ability have also reached a higher level.

Although the economy of the land under Mi Qing's control is far inferior to that of Daming, but because there are no constraints from gentry and officials, more resources can be mobilized to invest in the military.

The red-clothed cannon that the Ming Dynasty learned from Westerners at the beginning became the housekeeping skills of the Qing army at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

A large part of the reason for Li Zicheng's consecutive defeats in front of the Qing army was due to the red cannon. Most of his troops were hand-to-hand infantry. They were slow and their defense was not very good. When he encountered the Qing army in the majestic formation, The cannon in red will be defeated by artillery fire very quickly.

Before, Zhu Cixi only had a hundred imperial guard fire cavalry, which was not large enough. It was okay to guard him for a while. In a frontal battle, there was no way to deal with the enemy because of the number.

Now there are more than 1000, which is enough to make up a thousand households. With so many guards and cavalry, Zhu Cihong can use many tactics of appearing and disappearing.

"Long live, long live, since we have won the battle, shouldn't we give some rewards to the generals?" Liu Bao saw that Zhu Cihong was in a daze for a long time, and gently patted him on the shoulder to remind him.

"Oh yes, Qian Qianyi, you come to draft an edict for me, authorize Zhang Yong as Jing Pingbo, and reorganize his troops into the Wuwei Qianjun. The 3 people in his troops are divided into five guards."

Although Zhang Yong has 3 people and about five and a half guards, he can barely be organized into six guards, but the account cannot be calculated like that, and the number of troops cannot be expanded casually, otherwise, if it becomes customized, the army will be too big in the future. , although Zhang Yong is [-]% loyal to Zhu Cihong, these problems will not occur.

But I'm afraid that other people will follow suit and ask for expansion, which will be troublesome. Although Zhu Cihong is the emperor and rich all over the world, he can't afford so many soldiers.

Now there are as many as 200 million people in the north and south of the Yangtze River, whether it is the guard army, battalion soldiers, or local soldiers. Maybe some of them don't receive much money and don't work, such as the guard army, and some people don't work. They are Yin soldiers, which only exist in the account books.

However, the military pay and rice grain were still issued by the imperial court. From the beginning of the Tianqi Chongzhen Dynasty, the treasury would spend money as soon as it was available, and there was no way to keep it.

Now that the territory of several provinces has been lost, the situation is even worse, but due to the huge military pressure, the burden of raising soldiers for the imperial court has not been reduced, but has become even heavier.

Although Zhu Cihong opened the Lijin Bureau to collect taxes from merchants, he still barely maintained it. But as long as Zhu Cihong launched a large-scale offensive and war, the country's economy would collapse immediately, and the rule in the rear would also be disintegrated.

But even if there is no war, Zhu Cihong still has to give out the money, rewards, rewards, and promotions, and he has to. There is no choice at all.

"Gao Jie, Liu Zeqing, and Xu Dingguo each entered the first rank of military officials, plus Zhu Guo, Gao Yuanjue was awarded General Zhaoyong, and Duwei Qingche."

"The Ministry of Zhang Yong rewarded 5 taels of silver and 6 shi of rice grain; the ministries of Gao Jie and Liu Zeqing rewarded 2 taels of silver and [-] shi of rice grain; the Ministry of Xu Dingguo rewarded [-] taels of silver and [-] shi of rice grain."

Shuashua spent nearly 20 taels of silver and more than 6 shi of rice grain. Zhu Cihong bleeds a lot.

But these must be spent, even if Zhu Yuanzhang is resurrected, it will be unavoidable. The soldiers fought so hard, how could they sell their lives without some money and rice.

What's more, Zhu Cilang's money is not much compared to their salaries. On average, a person has one or two taels of silver, which is roughly a person's salary for one or two months. In today's era of soaring prices, he can't eat a few meals The wine is gone.

Soon, Qian Qianyi wrote a beautiful imperial edict. Although he is the second assistant of the cabinet, he is now regarded as an imperial literati by Zhu Cihong. To a certain extent, he can be regarded as Qian Qianyi's best destination .

"Well, let's stamp it." Zhu Cihong said to Liu Bao.

Now Liu Bao has been appointed as the eunuch who is in charge of the ceremonies and seals. He is in fact and in name the eunuch with the highest status and power in the Ming Dynasty.

"Send this edict immediately, and let Wang Fuen distribute the silver and rice grains from the inner treasury." Zhu Cihong waved his hand and asked Liu Bao to send these things out.

Unlike in the past, Zhu Cihong was afraid that the money, rice and food would be embezzled by the officials below, so he dared not put them in the treasury, the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of War, but handed them all over to the internal treasury of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for safekeeping.

Maybe this institution will be corrupted in many years, and it will also embezzle huge wealth in the internal treasury, but at least not now.

(End of this chapter)