Between the paths in Xiangshan County, Zhou Xing led two entourages on horseback with an anxious expression.

Chen Mu was overjoyed to pacify the thieves in Huangliang in just three days, and when he got the news, Xu Laoqi's head had been teleported to Guangcheng, but before he had time to be happy, he heard that Chen Mu had speculated that Zeng Yi and Xu Jinmei wanted to attack Guangzhou.

When Zhou Xing arrived at the Xiangshan Thousand Households, a high platform was erected on the open space of the Thousand Households, and the flag army was executing.

More than seventy people, read in the first offense, each with twenty military sticks.

The sound of crackling was endless, and the banner army and Yu Ding of the entire Qianhu House were gathered together, watching the sticks to the flesh in the sun, listening to the screams continuously, which made people's spines chill.

Sun Ao took the lead in the execution, and he and Deng Zilong were also punished, one of them was fined one month and the other was one month.

Deng Zilong was late with the troops, Sun Ao didn't arrive directly, don't care if the mountain road was bombed or there is no road at all, the military law doesn't care about this.

Chen Mu specially told Sun Ao, who was executed, to let his subordinates not fight to death, but to fight to death, not to mention twenty military sticks, one stick can beat people to lifelong cripples.

But even so, these injuries will not be relieved for two months.

After four rounds of fighting, more than 70 people on the battlefield who did not listen to the orders of the officials and scattered in formation to pick up money, and those who were cowardly cleaned up, and they were each supported by the banner army and barely stood under the high platform, with a handful of snot and tears.

Sometimes crying is not a human instigation, it is not difficult to hold back tears when it is painful, but it is not okay to be humiliated.

Dare to be angry but dare not speak, it is humiliation for the flag army.

Fu Yuan's banner army came from the tenant farmer's family in Xiangshan County, and they had neither the courage to go to sea to plunder, nor the talent to take the imperial examination, and worked for the landlord all year round, in exchange for a few stones of rice and grain to survive, and never saw a few taels of silver in his life.

More than a pound of silver ingots are thrown all over the ground, and you can pick them up as long as you bend down, who can hold back?

Twenty taels of silver were placed in front of them, and the poor and frightened people dared to kill people, and the whole family dared to do it.

The silver was taken away by Shangguan before he could cover the heat in his hand, and he went back to the guard in exchange for a beating, which one was not wronged!

"Chen ordered to beat you, twenty military sticks per person, do you know why? I don't know, there are two reasons! ”

After the execution, Chen Mu walked up to the high platform, waved his hand and swept over the tortured sergeants standing in front of him, and said: "The Huangliangdu thieves are just a small role, not even the enemy, there is no bloody battle and no wave battle, twenty-two people died in the mountain attacked by thousands of households, three died on the mountain, eight were carried down the mountain and six were rescued, twenty-seven flag soldiers were killed, one lost his arm and two became lame." ”

"Going out is a war, and you will die if you fight, you put your head on your waist, not to mention defending your family and country, you were born and grew up in Sri Lanka, and it is not an exaggeration to protect the territory and the people. You don't fight bravely to kill the enemy, but go to rob the profits, others are desperately bathing in blood, you get the money, is that the money you deserve? ”

"One of the reasons is that it violates the military law to snatch and hide the war spoils, this is because your first offense is only twenty military sticks, otherwise you will be fined food for half a year, what will your family members do?"

"The second reason is that you deserve to die! The big enemy on the battlefield is at present, but he abandons the robe Ze and disregards the coaxing of the small profits to the chaos of the army formation, if it is not for the flag army to sober up and stop the enemy, even if you grab the money, can you come back alive? ”

"It's just going to pull more of your comrades to die together!"

In fact, Chen Mu can understand, although he looks like a scolding when he stands on the high platform, he can understand the approach of his flag army in his heart.

Understanding is understanding, but people have affection and the law is ruthless, especially when it is stated that the matter of military law involves the interests of everyone on the battlefield in the future.

"After the punishment is over, I will keep it in my heart, follow Chen, listen to Chen, I dare not say that I will make each of you rich, but I will never let you and Yu Ding starve and freeze. After the battle is over, the meritorious Chen will naturally be rewarded, it is yours and yours, not yours, even if you rob it, what can you do? Pay 100 households! ”

Fu Yuanzheng, who was standing in the audience, straightened up and listened, and suddenly heard Chen Mu shouting his name, and was so frightened that he didn't have the courage to lead the troops to jump out of the door to kill the thieves, and suddenly looked up and saw Chen Mu pointing to his side.

Although he couldn't understand the meaning of Chen Mu's action, Fu Yuan still took three steps and two steps to stand on the stage, and arched his hand: "Thousand households ......"

Chen Mu waved to his side, Wei Balang came over with a wooden box, opened the wooden box and filled it with neat silver, Chen Mu took out two ingots and gave them to Fu Yuan and said: "Fu Baihu fought bravely, took the lead in attacking the walled gate, and was rewarded with forty taels of silver; Take it, and I hope you will fight valiantly in the future. ”

After Fu Yuan thanked him, Chen Mu called Shi Qi up again and rewarded him with ten taels; This was followed by more than 50 banner troops from two hundred households, including some of the banner soldiers who had been beaten for picking up silver on the battlefield, all of whom were rewarded with three to five taels of the first rank according to their merits, one tael of rewards for brave battles without a head, and five cents for those who had battles.

In addition, the injured have five coins of decoction and five coins of silver to recuperate; The bereavement pension for the dead in the war was sent to the family members in two, and one Yu Ding was made up as the flag army.

All the rewards were given to the military by Chen Mu, which seemed to have become a tradition when Chen Qianhu distributed silver and food.

When he held his wrist and handed the silver to the flag army, Chen Mu said a word or two of encouragement to everyone.

"I saw you, you fought very bravely, next time you make meritorious service, Chen will give you a silver reward!"

"It's okay to be punished, but if you're injured, you're a good man, you will obey the military orders in battle, and you will be rewarded in the future!"

"I remember that you have two sons, and the summer will pass away, use this silver to buy some cotton to make winter clothes, don't let the doll freeze!"

Even those banner soldiers who were beaten because of military law could not be dissatisfied at this time, and everyone who got the reward was happy and grateful, even those who didn't get the reward, and they also looked at Chen Qianhu on the high platform with shining eyes.

"Don't sigh if you don't get a reward, practice hard, there will be a battle to fight in a few days, and you will come back alive! Let's disperse! ”

In less than two hours, more than 300 taels of silver were spent, Chen Mu didn't feel the slightest distress, and in a few days, there was also the reward of the Guangzhou Mansion for the Huangliang thieves, even if a head was only two taels, and more than 70 corpses also had hundreds of taels of silver, and he also made a lot of money.

The rest of the silver can be considered for the flag army to change clothes, leather armor and iron armor, and the gap is still very large.

If there is good armor, with several times the strength of the troops, and better weapon superiority to fight the Huangliang Du bandits, the casualties can be at least ten less!

The flag army dispersed in a mess, and when he turned around, Chen Mu found that Xiangshan County Ling Zhou Xing was waiting with the officials, and watched Chen Mu walk down with a smile.

"Why didn't you tell Chen when the Zhou County Order came." Chen Mu asked Qi Zhengyan, the head of the family's soldiers, as he walked, approached and said, "Why does Brother Zhou have to run in person, if there is anything to let his subordinates pass on a word." ”

"It's okay, Chen Qianhu, don't blame the soldiers, it was Zhou who didn't let the report be reported, and Zhou only saw what the reward and punishment were today!"

Zhou Xing shook his head with a smile and sighed, then stretched out his hand to the north, and said to Chen Mu: "On that day, thousands of households sent troops, and Zhou saw that the soldiers of the Thousand Households Banner Army were poorly dressed, so he wrote to the state government when he went back, and asked for a hundred pairs of iron armor, two hundred pairs of leather armor, and three hundred pairs of cloth armor for you to solve the urgent need." ”