Lord of Ming Dynasty

"That's good." Zhang Qiang was relieved. In his later generations, even the lowest wages, only a few companies or contractors rarely pay them on time, and paying them on time is the biggest factor for stabilizing the morale of the army. .

Moreover, in his own territory, there has never been any start-up fee, and there has never been any external profit for these soldiers. He will not allow soldiers to have the opportunity to make external profits, and behead them if they catch them.

"Then how much is the salary of the rebel soldiers?" Zhang Qiang asked.

The rebel soldiers are the lowest-ranking soldiers of the Jinhua Rebel Army, and they are regular soldiers. After many adjustments and adjustments, Zhang Qiang finally determined the regular army structure of the rebel army.

Rebel Regular Army ranks from low to high, Rebel Soldiers, Rebel Skilled Soldiers, Rebel Senior Soldiers, Rebel Elite Soldiers, Rebel Elite Soldiers, and Rebel Professional Soldiers.

This is the level of the rebel army divided by military rank and elite level.

Rebel soldiers are equivalent to first-class soldiers, rebel skilled soldiers are equivalent to first-class soldiers, rebel veteran soldiers are equivalent to corporals, rebel elite soldiers are equivalent to sergeants, rebel elite soldiers are equivalent to sergeants, and rebel professional soldiers are equivalent to sergeants.

The soldiers of the rebel army are all soldiers trained by Zhang Qiang himself, or soldiers trained by elite soldiers; the skilled soldiers of the rebel army are all elite soldiers or soldiers trained by Zhang Qiang himself, and the senior soldiers of the rebel army are all soldiers trained by Zhang Qiang; They are all soldiers trained by Zhang Qiang.

The advantage of this is that the soldiers are loyal to Zhang Qiang, and he can take good control of the army.

Of course, Zhang Qiang is not so tired anymore, he has personally trained a total of [-] soldiers, including regular soldiers of all levels.

Now leave it to these elite soldiers to train.

The soldiers who are trained to excel are in the regular army.

Those who cannot be reused, or have little talent, or are not suitable for staying in the army, the eliminated soldiers will become the militia garrison.

The rebel soldiers and skilled rebel soldiers who have been trained by these soldiers, the middle ones are assigned to various places for garrison, and the top ones still stay in the new barracks to continue training and then they are incorporated into the regular army.

The regular army is divided into various arms, and senior soldiers are used to train the rebel soldiers. Most of the cold weapon troops are assigned to these loyal subordinates who started from Zhang Qiang. Of course, each of Zhang Qiang’s troops is given a firecracker with a strength of a thousand households. Soldiers, officers at all levels are elite, elite, professional soldiers trained.

The outstanding professional soldiers trained by Zhang Qiang were placed in the position of Qianhu.

As for other generals who surrendered or defected later, they still led their troops or other soldiers who were finally reorganized and eliminated from the hands of Zhang Qiang and others.

Wei Wuji continued to talk about the salaries of the rebel soldiers.

The soldiers under them are also regular army soldiers.

"The current salary of the soldiers of the Rebel Army is [-] cash. The logistics soldiers, the Rebel Archers, the Rebel Spearmen, the Rebel Sword and Shield Soldiers, the Rebel Cavalry, and the Rebel Javelin Soldiers all receive the same salary."

"The current number of rebel soldiers is 3, and the military pay is about 6000 taels."

This is the money that Zhang Qiang's rebel government needs to pay. The recruits are about 500 taels, and the rebel soldiers are more than 6000 taels. A total of more than 5 people spend no more than 8000 taels a month.Not much.

In fact, most of the cold weapons in the soldiers of the rebel army are controlled by their subordinates, and they only have firecrackers and musketeers in their hands, as well as a small number of personal guard cavalry.

Skilled soldiers in the cold weapon force receive [-] Wen per month, senior soldiers receive [-] Wen per month, elite soldiers receive [-] Wen per month, elite soldiers receive [-] Wen per month, and professional soldiers receive [-] Wen per month.

Speaking of these soldiers, they are equivalent to the military rank of the cavalry and slashing system, or the level of training they have received, which represents their own strength.

Now I only have [-] newly trained elite firecrackers in my hands. The salary of the firecrackers is [-] to [-] yuan higher than that of the rebel cold weapon soldiers assigned to these troops. .

The gunfire soldiers are also soldiers of the rebel army, but the wages of the skilled soldiers in them are generally higher than those of the skilled soldiers in the cold weapon army, and the wages of other upward elite soldiers are also higher than those in the cold weapon army, which is about [-]% higher. arts.

Only the personal guards in the hands of the subordinates and the personal guards in Zhang Qiang's hands, the chasseurs, and the professional musketeers received a unified salary of one to two five dollars a month, which was also the highest salary in the army.

But calculated in this way, among the 5 to [-] troops, based on the [-] troops, plus the military salary that other state capitals need to pay the lord Zhang Qiang, it is only about [-] taels of silver per month.

Both Zhang Qiang and Wei Wuji felt that it was low. Compared with other forces, it was not 10,000 + taels of silver to mobilize troops that time, and most of those troops did not have such a large number of troops. Thinking about Huang Daozhou's efforts, he could only recruit more than 2000 volunteers. The silver is no longer a minority, and finally defeated Jiangxi.

However, most of the troops of the Qing army were the Han army banner troops who owed their salaries, and the Ming army surrendered troops who could fight with them only if they were given food. The Qing army’s own troops did not have many people to lead the army’s salary, and most of them laid down a place. , Let the soldiers plunder, although they have restrained themselves in the later period, they also pay the soldiers, but the pay is not low, because they robbed a lot of money and wealth, and they don't care about the money at all.

Among the [-] Qing troops, [-] Qing troops are considered a large force. The remaining [-] to [-] Han flag troops, and [-] to [-] Ming troops surrendered. Military pay, and [-] to [-] Ming soldiers surrendered without money.

That's why the Qing soldiers were able to defeat the Ming army with a numerical advantage and occupy the great country of the Han people.

It is urgent to increase the soldiers' salaries and crack down on grain merchants and commodity prices in the territory.

This is Zhang Qiang's conclusion.

As for Zheng Cai, he had to be taken care of. Maybe after winning Zheng Cai, he would have money and food to maintain the financial operation of the territory.

Thinking of this, Zhang Qiang felt a little bitter. He is a wage earner, so he has such great talent to run a government. Think about those time travelers, all of them graduated from engineering or liberal arts. Needless to say, engineering, what invention? All of them can allow their forces to quickly benefit from those inventions, feed the army and the people, and maintain the operation of the government. Liberal arts students are even more likely to be officials. They are used to the operating mode of the future government, so they can get it no matter what. Money is more than enough to maintain the operation, and besides working hard and complaining, what else can I do?

But no matter what, this is not a reason for not paying wages, arrears of military pay, nor a reason for plundering other forces. If you want the soldiers to work hard, you can only pay wages honestly.

That's what he thought at the beginning, so even if there is no money, even if there is some food, he has to give it out, even if the food and money are very little, he still has to give.

The loyalty of a soldier comes from his training on the one hand, and his achievements in fighting against the Qing Dynasty on the other hand. Just follow you to work hard, no food, no salary, who will follow you to work hard.

What is the righteousness of the country, the righteousness of the nation, the orthodoxy of Ming Dynasty, the orthodoxy is based on the fact that you feed others and let them gain benefits. There is no benefit, so the people of Ming Dynasty and the officials of Ming Dynasty sold out Ming Dynasty.

And the reason why I defeated the Ming army and the Qing army was because those who took the generous rewards I gave, at least in terms of loyalty, the soldiers I personally trained fought, and the other soldiers fought. , but only auxiliary.

Anyway, I survived, all the people in so many territories are willing to join the army, and in order to continue to keep my territory under my command, I am crazy about expanding the army, fighting tirelessly and training soldiers.

The problem now is to develop, to stabilize, to raise the territory's finances to a new level, to allow more elite soldiers to get high wages, willing to follow their lives, and to restore the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty by the way. His lord is orthodox to rule the Ming territory.

Zhang Qiang wants to increase the military pay of the soldiers in his territory, but this is not up to him. It depends on the financial situation in the territory. To understand the financial situation in the territory, you have to ask three prefects, Jinhua prefect Mi Chun, Taizhou Zhou Porridge, the prefect, and You Haibo, the prefect of Chuzhou.

As for the garrisons in other places, those in Zhejiang were paid by the finances of the three prefectures, those in Fujian were paid by the Longwu court, and the taxes in Wenzhou were collected by Guitai Prefecture. Xuanyuan Longfei only had the right to command troops to fight.

Quzhou Prefecture belongs to Jinhua Prefecture to collect taxes.

Thinking of this, Zhang Qiang felt that it was time to enrich the power and function departments of his Governor's Mansion. Part of the tax revenue of these several mansions should be turned over to the Governor's Mansion, otherwise the Governor's Mansion would become a decoration. He didn't want the three mansions to raise their own soldiers. He wants to collect financial rights and distribute them by the Governor's Office.

The admiral's joint meeting should be a functional department under the Governor's Mansion, and the prefect's joint meeting should also be a department below. They discuss and propose and decide things by themselves. This is the original intention of setting up these two departments.

Otherwise, wasn't he being emptied by these two departments?

It seems that I have to deal with some things myself.

Thinking of this, Zhang Qiang said: "You first convene a joint meeting of admirals to decide on a military salary distribution plan, then discuss it with the joint meeting of prefects, and finally bring the final draft to me for review." Zhang Qiang said to Wei Wuji.

"Yes, my lord, I will do it right away."

Chapter 152 Military Pay [-]

This is the second time that Zhang Qiang has convened all the high-level officials, and it is also the first time that the members of the two joint meetings have been convened to hold the first joint meeting.

"It was proposed by Admiral Wei Wuji to increase the soldiers' salaries. Do you have any opinions after reading the proposal?" Zhang Qiang asked, looking at the two joint meeting personnel sitting on both sides.

Mi Chun stood up, "My lord, seeing how low the soldiers' salaries are, I also think that the soldiers should be paid more, but unfortunately, Jinhua Mansion's taxes this year may not be able to meet the military's proposal."

"Why?" Zhang Qiang asked.

Mi Chun motioned to his follower master to bring over the account book, opened the account book, and read: "Jinhua Mansion has received 23 refugees who fled this year, plus the original 22 people, Jinhua Mansion The actual population is now 50."

"Oh——" Zhang Qiang heard He Jin's exclamation.