PS: I'm sorry everyone, the child is sick and has delayed many things. For the sake of hurrying up the time code word in the ward, is it a monthly pass?! Thank you!

The quartermaster who came to the generals' array raised his foot and kicked open the lid of the silver box containing the silver dollars, exposing the silver dollar scroll wrapped in red mulberry paper to broad daylight.

One of the guards casually took out a red silver dollar roll, broke it with force, and with a crisp and pleasant sound, dozens of silver dollars fell into the silver box.

Suddenly, there was a burst of exclamation in the camp.

"According to the system, I will come forward to receive a salary. The general's grace must be sent to everyone! ”

According to the battalion strength at that time. Eleven people and one first-class soldier, two captains, each in charge of firecrackers and pikemen, plus one captain. The top five are a team with a captain. The four teams are one sentry and one sentry commander. Two posts are a total, and a total of one is set up.

The distribution of the salaries issued by the Nanzhong Army to the Guangdong officers and soldiers in the hands of everyone is undoubtedly a silent investigation of the real strength of the Guangdong officers and troops in this form.

Those quartermasters are veterans for many years, and it is clear at a glance whether the soldiers in the battalion are veteran oilers or strong men who are temporarily brought in to make up the numbers.

"The family comes forward to receive the salary!"

Ma Rujin couldn't think of this layer, but excitedly waved his hand and ordered hundreds of his subordinates to come forward to receive a salary of three silver dollars each.

Those who were usually arrogant had already been gearing up, and when they heard the boss's orders, they immediately rushed up with a strange scream.

"Bang! Bang bang! ”

The guards beside the quartermaster raised the muskets in their hands and rushed to the ground where they were rushing towards them.

"I've been a soldier for so long, don't you know how to stand in line?!"

"Go back! Stand in line according to the formation and come back again! ”

"Those who dare to conflict. Treat it as a mutiny and execute it on the spot! ”

Several of the guards with firearms in their hands shouted loudly, and some of them were quick, and they pulled the sleeve bayonet hanging from their waists from the belt of the cowhide knife, put it on the mouth of the firecracker, and rotated it slightly, and heard a soft click, knowing that the bayonet had been tightly combined with the firecracker, which was already a short spear at this time.

"Stop it! Shameful stuff! Take sides! Stand in line and go get your reward! ”

Ma Rujin also felt that the group of family members under him was very ashamed of himself.

He ordered his men to hand over the book of war to the quartermaster, and the experience and habits of the years made him respectful to the quartermaster who did not know the rank. Who gives the family the power to pay for it?

The quartermaster ordered a man to carry over a table. Moving a chair and sitting at the foot of the flag, he took a roll call according to the military register and the compilation, and every time he came to a person, he had to look up to see the person's appearance and temperament. and the state of the armor on the body. Afterwards, someone would follow his instructions and write down his judgment of the payee in a book. After that, someone fills out a food card, which shows the soldier's life, rank, and the amount of money he should be paid. The quartermaster personally handed out the food cards to each soldier. Each soldier who received the food plate went to the side to receive his share of the salary under the guidance of the guards next to him. Every soldier who received the white flower and silver dollar smiled and thanked him, and the whole array was filled with a joyful, peaceful and jubilant atmosphere.

But. In the process of receiving military salaries, the quartermaster and his colleagues had gradually sorted out the situation of Adjutant General Ma's battalion in this process.

In a very small way, the domestic slave tenants who were temporarily brought in to make up the number were cleared out.

"What's your name?"

Ask as usual when you get the grain card.

"What's your name?"

Ask again when you take the grain card to receive the money.

More than 1,000 battalions of soldiers were combed in this way.

Soldiers who are unable to give their names, or who have to be reminded to do so before they can say their names in the military register, are unfortunately marked in the military register.

In particular, those with dark complexions, thick hands and feet, slightly panicked expressions, and incomplete armor on their bodies were marked with a specific symbol that was clear to the eyes of the quartermaster.

Other than that, the people did not move, just like any new commander who gave some reward to his subordinates, but watched coldly as the ladies were either jubilant or jury and laughing, discussing whether to take the silver to eat and drink, or to gamble.

On the side, the team of a battalion officer of the Liao Brigade alongside these local officers and soldiers in Guangdong probably couldn't stand such a move. There was a sudden thunderstorm in the crowd and a loud roar.

"Whose meal are we eating?"

Then came an even stronger roar, as if instinctive.

"Let's eat my lord's meal!"

"Whose pay shall we pay?"

"Let's take the lord's salary!"

"Whose gun are we carrying?"

"Let's carry the lord's gun!"

"Who are we supposed to give our lives to?!"

"We should give our lives to the lord!"

"What are we fighting for?"

"We are fighting for ourselves!"

"For my family to have a good life!"

After the neat and orderly Q&A, the camp recited in unison.

The officers and men of Guangdong were first startled by this majestic and neat roar, and then they were collectively scorned, "Huh! Whoever is paid will be given to whom to fight and die, this is a matter of course! ”

However, the thoughts of the officers are much more complicated!

The news of the Inspector Battalion, the Daobiao Battalion, and the Regular Barracks rushed to make the whole venue even more noisy, and it became more and more lively or chaotic.

According to their words, we are also the official army of Guangdong, and we are also here to fight against the red-haired rebels, and this reward is naturally indispensable.

But!

"What? Brother Ma, what do you say? Do you want to collect money one by one? Since the beginning of the world, this military salary has been distributed to us with soldiers, and then it has been distributed step by step, when will it become distributed to the hands of every grain who eats grain? ! ”

"That's it! If we all pay by name, we, what should we do?! ”

The meaning of the question. If they were all named and distributed one by one, not only would they not be able to deduct it, but the real strength of their respective battalions would also be exposed.

However, those who were able to mix with guerrillas, staff generals, deputy generals, and general soldiers were not fools, and they quickly found a way to deal with it.

"Brother Ma, lend me your soldiers to use them first, and after the roll call is paid, I will share 10% of your head salary!"

"That's it! Old Xia! Lend me your soldiers! I'll give you one of the same! ”

"Lao Wang! Borrow a soldier and a horse, and divide you into one! ”

"Lao Zou!"

"Lao Shi?!"

"Ichisei? Don't even think about it! ”

Faced with the demands of their comrades, a group of officials and generals led by Ma Rujin refused in unison!

"If you don't mention it, you won't mention it!"

"Twenty percent!"

"Forty percent!"

"Sancheng!"

"Deal!"

A Lend-Lease deal was reached in a short but swift manner.

Weird, isn't it? But this is in the Chinese army. Especially at the end of the feudal dynasties, it is a scene that often appears. If you are interested, you can take a look at the late Qing Dynasty condemnation novels such as "The Appearance of Officialdom" and "The Strange Status Quo Witnessed in Twenty Years". It has a vivid description of how the army eats empty salaries and how to deal with the inspection of the peak.

Sun Yat-sen often encountered such things when he organized the so-called Protector Military Government in Guangdong. Some warlords who are frustrated or have lost their strength in the field brag to our forerunners that they have some strength, and then they want military salaries, provisions, and supplements. If Guangzhou sent a checker. So he borrowed some troops from the warlord's army on the left.

The Precursors learned that this force was so powerful. Naturally, we have to find a way to provide for it. Then there is the assignment of combat missions. The warlords lay on their aunt's bed, smoking cigarettes, waiting for the battle report from the front.

The other troops won, and they also won. Then you have to pay for it, you have to pay for it, you have to pay for it, you have to pay for it, you have to pay for it, and if you defeat it, you will be able to do it. It is necessary to replenish, to restore the system, to ask for weapons and ammunition.

As a result, in order to protect the law and the great cause of the revolution, the pioneers had to raid the people in and out of Guangzhou City in order to supply these insatiable commanders.

The turtle in front climbed out of the way, and Wang Ba followed behind. With such a precedent, the warlords who had been defeated in the civil war in the provinces went south to Guangzhou to join the great cause of the revolution and carry out the great cause of protecting the Dharma under the leadership of Mr. Zhongshan.

For a time, in Guangdong, the armies of almost all provinces gathered, such as the Henan army, the Shaanxi army, the Jiangxi army, the Yunnan army, the Gui army, the Guizhou army, and so on. There is a common characteristic of these troops: there are more generals than officers, more officers than officers, more officers than soldiers, more soldiers than robbers, and more guns than bullets.

This strange phenomenon lasted until he had his own army in Whampoa.

However, at the moment, this kind of thing is commonplace in the Ming army......

"My lord, we spent more than 100,000 silver dollars, and it was worth it."

In Shouhan's Chinese military tent, the wooden tooth dog still maintained his expression that had not changed for 10,000 years, and told Shouhan about the military situation in a strange tone.

"How's the strength?"

"As we told you before, there are tens of thousands of officers and soldiers in the area near the provincial capital of Guangzhou, on both sides of the Pearl River and at the mouth of the sea, and the actual number of combatable soldiers is only more than 2,000, all of whom are the personal soldiers of officials and generals, and the characters such as family members!"

"It's good! It's time for the fire! ”

Sometimes it depends on means to mix officialdom, but more often it depends on strength. Shouhan can now proudly say that in the entire Ming army south of the Yangtze River, there is not a single unit that can match the troops of Shouhan in the left vicinity of Guangzhou.

Throwing the ledger in his hand aside, Shou Han stretched out on the bed.

"Lao Mu, pass on an order for me, so that officials at all levels in Guangdong can come to the camp early tomorrow morning!"

"My lord, this group of officials in the mainland may not be able to look down on us from the bottom of their bones, this ...... Do they come back to see you? ”

Shouhan sneered, jumped off the bed with both feet, and stepped on the wooden plank used to prevent moisture, and the soft wool blanket on it felt very good.

"Not coming? That's even better! What is the seal that the emperor issued to me that was ordered to supervise the suppression of the two Guangzhous? Just a copper bump? The thousands of soldiers and horses we arranged in Guangzhou are made of mud? Dough molding?! ”

"If you dare not come to see your boss, in the name of the governor, you will lock up those who dare to act recklessly, and then name them to participate in the survey. See which one eats the bear's heart and the leopard dares! ”

Shouhan's words were not said in vain. In his shogunate, the person who wrote the inscription book for the emperor and the imperial court had already drafted a draft, which probably meant that such and such an official did not listen to moderation and was unruly, so that he rebelled against the boundary, ruined the lives of the people, and damaged the prestige of the Celestial Empire, etc.

It is certain that on such a book, the emperor and the eunuchs of the imperial court, who were fed by Li Shouhan's silver grain, would definitely sit on Shouhan's side. Not to mention. The combat effectiveness of the army in the hands of the Shouhan. But the government and the opposition are obvious to all.

Therefore, any official on the list will definitely be arrested and imprisoned by the Tiqi sent by the capital.

And all the officials here are not fools. After receiving the official letter sent by the South Central Army, although some people jumped to their feet and scolded in front of their colleagues. righteously and sternly reprimanded Li Shouhan for his reckless behavior. But. Early the next morning, no one was absent.

Today I will perform the ceremony of court participation.

Zhang Jingxin, the military envoy of the Ministry of War, the governor of Liangguang and the military affairs of Guangzhou, and the governor of Guangdong, Jiang Yihong, the political envoy Chen Zhimei and Chen Yicheng, the envoy Huang Chenghao, the deputy envoy Shao Mingshi, the governor of Guangzhou, Zhou Chu, the prefect of Guangzhou, and other civil officials. With Ma Rujin, Xia Zhimu and other military generals, according to their respective yamen and grades, they each held their hands in front of the camp gate and stood solemnly, ready to see the governor of Liangguang to suppress the pacification, the dragon and tiger general Li Shouhan.

However, there are some strange people and things happening all the time.

At the gate of the camp, the officials were curious, excited, and anxious to observe the soldiers on duty in front of them, and speculated whether these tiger soldiers in front of them were the families of Governor Li and General Li, if these were the families of Lord Li, then what were those people in Guangzhou at this time? If they are all family members, how many family members and money and food should Master Li have?! When he was trying to develop his associative ability, the patrol royal Shi Ge Zhengqi came to everyone with disdain.

"A second-rank Dragon and Tiger General, a Wufuer! Why are you so grand? Waiting here with full clothes and official etiquette? ”

"Ge Yushi, don't talk nonsense! Master Li is the person appointed by the emperor! People who have made great contributions to the country's dynasty and society! ”

As the head of the Liangguang officialdom, although he was very dissatisfied with Li Shouhan's domineering style, Shouhan had the foresight to list the honor guard given by Chongzhen in front of the camp gate. Okay, if you don't accept me, don't you accept what the emperor has given? So, where do you place the Emperor, the monarch whom you recite dozens of times every day?

Ge Zhengqi's eyes swept at Zhang Jingxin, "Governor, this generation of martial artists is relying on some small contributions to the country, so they are good at doing things here and taking what they want." The books of the sages we have read are about to impeach this generation of martial artists! There is still a clear space between heaven and earth! ”

"You! ……”

Zhang Jingxin obviously felt that a group of military attachés such as the general of the Central Army and Ma Rujin were already a little ready to move, and their indignation was overflowing. Obviously, Li Shouhan's act of distributing favors and the strength he showed a few days ago have made these people feel like they are taking refuge, and Ge Zhengqi's words undoubtedly pushed the entire military general group in Guangdong to Li Shouhan's side, which is the so-called driving fish for the abyss and birds for the congs.

This is after the civil engineering change, the military attache and the Xungui group were destroyed, and the civil official group was dominant. The civilian-bureaucratic clique was in charge of food and salary, and regarded the generals as servants and servants, who could be humiliated and abused at will.

But this is no longer the case.

This Lord Li has tens of thousands of strong soldiers in his hands, all of whom are elite divisions, and there are huge ships on the water, each ship has dozens of large and small guns, and the power of one cannon can open mountains and rocks. What makes these officials even more convincing is that this adult does not need Guangdong's military salary, which is even more uncontrollable.

If it is a guest soldier who wants to use Guangdong's money, food, and military salary, these adults have to be picky, that is, they have the emperor's decree and appointment, but the county officials are not as good as the current management. Don't you say that you are Li Shouhan, even the flying general Li Guang back then, and you will also be angry with Captain Baling.

But now, Zhang Jingxin felt that his fate seemed to be in the hands of the Li master in the camp.

Looking at those soldiers who did not squint, Zhang Jingxin suddenly had a feeling in his heart, as if they had an indescribable, inexplicable, and incomparably powerful power. This power is something he can't understand. In the face of this force, they are as small as an ant, and they want to crush themselves as easily as ants.

In the gust of autumn wind, they stood with their heads held high, holding weapons tightly in their hands, and the arrogance of the division of a hundred battles made Zhang Jingxin's heart shake.

Some cool autumn wind swept by, blowing the fiery red helmets on everyone's heads flying up and down, flame-like, looking at the past from a distance, a churning fiery red color.

The patrol on one side, Yu Shi Ge Zhengqi, was still chattering freely.

He set his sights on Yu Ziyi, the prefect of Guangzhou, who was born in Wuyuan, a prefect who was born in Wuyuan, and raised hundreds of fat pigs and tens of thousands of catties of bacon and other meat for the Nanzhong Army and the local officials and troops in Guangdong, ready to be used for the labor army.

Although Ge Zhengqi's grade is only seven grades, which is much worse than Yu Ziyi's five-grade capital prefect, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, he has been ordered to patrol the locality. "According to the investigation of ministers and county officials, impeachment is particularly specialized, major matters are judged, and small matters are decided."

The terms of reference include inspecting the warehouse, checking the money and grain, encouraging the school, praising the good people, and eliminating the beetle, "to correct the customs and promote discipline." Where the court will correct the rituals, sacrifice and oversee the ceremony. All political gains and losses, military and civilian benefits and diseases, must be bluntly spoken. ”

Basically, all kinds of affairs in the areas under patrol can be reached out in the military, political, civil, judicial, financial, educational, and other aspects.

At present, Ge Yushi became interested in the labor army materials prepared by Yu Ziyi.

He was about to go forward to ask Yu Ziyi's prefect, where did these pigs and mutton come from, whether they came from the government treasury, what money should this money come from, and whether they were greedy for ink from it.

Seeing Ge Zhengqi coming towards him with dark clouds on his face, Yu Ziyi, as the capital, knew that something was wrong, and this damn crow was afraid that he was staring at him. At that moment, I was mentally prepared to deal with this person's harassment.

At this moment, a cannon rang out in the Shouhan camp. (To be continued......)