When the morning dawned again, there was no one in their condolence squad to ride horses, and the six horses dragged a dozen pieces of fur felt tied together with hemp rope, on which they carried their entourage to the catch. It took half a day for Chen Mu to figure out the first-level merit of the Ming Dynasty...... It's so fierce!

The Ming Dynasty used the first level of military merit from beginning to end, from the army to the people, from the nine sides to the interior, and the thieves were all recorded by the head and ears. The reward given by the imperial court during the Hongwu period was 50 taels of silver for robbing a ship of the Japanese in the near sea and killing the Japanese invaders, and the same 50 taels for the head of a Japanese robber, and 20 taels for killing the Japanese in land battles. In the Jiajing period, regardless of whether the hosts, guests, officers, and civilians of the land and water were fast, as long as they killed a true Japanese leader, they would be promoted to the third level, and they were unwilling to be rewarded with 150 taels of silver; The true widow is promoted from the thief to one level or rewarded with fifty taels of silver; The Han thief is twenty taels.

As for thieves in the sea, they can invite them to sink ships, or chase them up mountains, so that they cannot come near the harbor; If the thief has come near the port, he has the courage to intercept it, so that the thief will not be allowed to land; If the thief has landed, he is able to charge and break through the battle, or take away his momentum, or chase him out of the country, or force him out of the ship, so that the place may not be brought to disaster; or those who have few troops and many captures, these are all miraculous feats!

Moreover, the official reward is not constant, and it also pays attention to inflation, and when there are many thieves, it is easy to get the first rank, and the reward money is less; When there are few thieves, it is difficult to obtain the first rank, and the reward is more. And Chen Mu and their thieves this time belong to the mainland thieves, which is the lowest reward, the official price is five taels, and I don't know how much they can actually get.

"But this first-level merit is not so easy to get, brother, you don't know, I heard the old military household from the north say that the nine-sided killing of good and risky skills is very powerful, most of the Ming people who ran back from the border were killed by the nine-sided military household and carried their heads to receive the reward, and they also had fur jackets!"

Shao Tingda killed the two thieves at night, and when Bai Yuanjie ordered the pursuit, the reckless insect still had the strength, chased it out and caught a thief by the forest, although he was shot in the shoulder by a feather arrow, there was no major problem after dealing with it, and it was second only to Chen Mu who killed the thief last night. Now he walked in front with the rope that tied the thief, and his eyebrows were fluttering, and he was foaming at the mouth when he talked about military exploits, "Even if the Ming people who fled back were wearing civilian clothes, they could cut off their heads and put on fur jackets, saying that they were Beiyu, and Beijing City when the weather was good." ”

Killing good and risking merit is not uncommon in history, and it is not a strange thing for Chen Mu, this obviously cannot have a shocking effect on him, and he slowly nodded his head and walked forward, but when Shao Tingda mentioned Beijing, Chen Mu became interested and asked, "What's wrong with Beijing City?" ”

Tianshun is the name of the Ming Dynasty, and it is almost a hundred years ago. Chen Mu looked at the five big and three coarse reckless insects with intriguing eyes, how can his brother still have this insight?

"It's all spread, and you don't know, brother." It's this look again, it's this look again! Especially last night, Bai Yuanjie looked at him like an idiot, and now this Shao Tingda dares to look at him with this look. Raising his hand, he slapped Shao Tingda on the back of the head with a hand wrapped in white linen, and Chen Mu urged: "Hurry up!" ”

"Eh, let's talk about it, is it the Cao Qin Rebellion, the soldiers and horses in Beijing put down the rebellion and killed all the beggars in order to cut off the head and receive rewards, so scared that the people in the city did not dare to go out for several days, tsk." Shao Tingda pursed his lips and shook his head, but at the end, he put his huge head next to Chen Mu and asked in a low voice, "Brother Mu, you said we should have a chance...... To kill or not to kill? ”

Chen Mu turned his head sharply and stared at Shao Tingda with wide eyes,! What kind of thinking do people have in mind?

The People's Liberation Army, which is accustomed to seeing the situation between the army and the people, and does not take the people's stitches and threads as its program, suddenly threw him into this era of bandits like combs and soldiers like grates, and he really couldn't accept it for a while.

As if looking at the hair by Chen Mu's eyes, Shao Tingda scratched his head and said with a distressed look: "Brother, don't look at me like this, our military life is too difficult!" ”

Shao Tingda's words reminded Chen Mu of the first day he arrived in this world, when his five big and three thick brothers rubbed their hands and knocked on the door of their room to borrow rice, and they couldn't help sighing, and said in a soft tone: "Okay, this will capture one of the two heads, the credit is enough for you to make a fortune, and you don't need to kill the people." ”

Shao Tingda nodded while looking back at the rope-pulled captive, grinning as if he was looking at silver.

Chen Mu can see it, before yesterday, he had seen the blood killing of people in Shiqi, the silent bannerman, but after last night, the rest of the people had seen life and death, and their spirit was immediately different.

The Ming army killed the good and risked the merits, it is easy to understand, it can be understood, Chen Mu is also unacceptable. He can't control others, at least he can control his own people, and kill good and risky merits? Don't!

In the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, Lu Bu was compared to an eagle, saying that it was used when he was hungry, and he was hungry when he was full. But now, in Chen Mu's opinion, the military households of the Ming Dynasty are no longer just hungry eagles, and it is good to have enemies. But I don't know how many guards in the world like Qingyuanwei have no foreign enemies in the Ming Dynasty, and I don't know how many poor military households like Shao Tingda. The Ming Dynasty was calm on the surface, but who knows what lies under the dark tide?

In last night's battle, they captured three and killed twelve thieves, and they gained a lot. In comparison, the casualties were negligible, and Zhang Yongshou's four bannermen died, one of whom was killed by his comrades in a panic and hit the center with a bird's gun. Chen Mu originally counted him as seven people, Old Man Zheng was cut on the thigh in the battle, and now he is sitting in the back carriage, lack of medical means is estimated to be called Zheng Lao Cripple in the future, in addition to him, there is also one person killed, Chen Guan, who abandoned his weapon and fled at the beginning of the battle, he approached the horse, and was shot by Bai Yuanjie because he thought it was to seize the horse and escape.

After the battle, Bai Yuanjie said that he stopped almost all the bandits who rushed into the camp, and kept praising his combat strength, and there was a lot of awe in the eyes of others when they looked at him, only he knew it...... It's really luck to kill five thieves and not die yet.

Camping at night, although out of the Black Ridge, the experience of night fighting made everyone more vigilant than before. Chen Mu was bored eating salty and hard dry food, thinking in his head about the good things and hiring a cook to eat a good meal, when he saw Zhang Yongshou walking over with a smile on his face, and said to Chen Mu: "Brother Chen, take a step to speak?" ”

Chen Mu was a little puzzled, carefully put the dry food back in his bag, nodded and got up and walked away with Zhang Yongshou for a few steps, only then did he see Zhang Yongshou smile and said: "Brother Chen, you and I are fighting side by side, Zhang will not say those lies." Brother Chen now has eight heads in his body, I don't know if he plans to use them to promote the actual award or exchange for rewards? ”

Eight? Chen Mu only had a little doubt and knew that Zhang Yongshou had counted all his beheadings, and he wasn't sure what Zhang Yongshou meant, so he nodded and said: "In the next family, you want to exchange the five heads for silver, Zhang Xiaoqi?" ”

"That's so good, it's better to discuss!" As soon as Zhang Yongshou heard that Chen Mu wanted to change the reward, he stroked his palm and said, "Brother Chen will give up the first rank, how much reward can Guangzhou Mansion give, and how much Zhang will buy, what does Brother Chen think?" ”