"Your Majesty, has this reward been excessive?" Song Sheng said. Of course, they all noticed the dialogue between Yun Xi and Cao Xing and Liu Mao, and they were also very moved and shocked to hear that five members of their family had sacrificed their lives for the Ming Dynasty in the two generations before and after, so they had no opinion on Yun Xi giving words and temporarily inventing a 'special medal'.

But after that, Yun Xi's reward seemed to them to be a bit excessive. A hundred horses of silk and a thousand taels of gold are nothing, but the worldly positions of two thousand households, flying fish suits, and the right not to kneel to see officials really should not be granted.

Especially Song Sheng, he and Xu Huizu have sorted out the merits of the entire Western Expeditionary Army in the past few days, and all the credits that are enough for the promotion of the second level or more are remembered, among which there is no name of Liu Yi and other four people, and there is no name of Liu Mao, which shows that although their family is miserable, they have no great merit, and according to the regulations of the Ming Dynasty's current reward, it is not appropriate.

Yun Xi didn't answer Song Sheng first, but encouraged Liu Mao, who was already dizzy and couldn't find the north, and ordered the guards to arrange a celebration banquet for him, before turning his head and saying to Song Sheng: "Aiqing thinks the reward is a bit too much?" I thought it was just right. ”

The reason why he rewarded this family so much is very simple, it is because the people of their family work so hard for Daming. The command of the generals is of course very important in the war, and the effect of the same army commanded by different people is very different, but he believes that it is necessary to command more important things, that is, whether the soldiers are willing to serve the country.

Or take the well-known late Ming Dynasty as an example. When Zhu Youxiang was the emperor in Nanjing, there were still 100,000 troops in the four towns of Jiangbei, and Huang Degong and other generals were not white potatoes, but they had no will to fight when they faced the Qing soldiers who went south under the command of Duoduo, and the soldiers surrendered without a fight, even if some of the generals wanted to fight to the death with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it was useless, because there were no soldiers available, just themselves and dozens of their own soldiers, even if they wanted to resist, the Qing soldiers could completely shoot them to death with arrows and they were unharmed, anyway, the arrows could also be recycled and reused after the arrows, and there was no waste at all.

Of course, there are many reasons why the soldiers in the late Ming Dynasty had no desire to fight, and most of those reasons do not exist now, and the soldiers are also willing to serve the country, but it is still important to encourage the soldiers who are willing to die fighting for the country. The purpose of Yun Xi's invention of the medal and today's generous reward for Liu Mao's family is to create an atmosphere in the whole society in which soldiers have a higher status than ordinary people, so as to ensure that people are willing to serve as soldiers and fight for the country.

Of course, Yun Xi's policy also created some minor problems, such as some soldiers with medals in their hands relying on their small privileges to bully ordinary people when they were allowed to leave the camp. They still don't dare to squeeze the common people too much, after all, the medal will be invalid if it is used once, and whoever dares to waste the medal casually will wait to be scolded to death by his family! What's more, there is military discipline in charge. But it's still dry to eat overlord meals or something. Yun Xi has already seen many local officials' reports, and there are also imperial historians who have commented on this matter, trying to get Yun Xi to abolish this system.

But Yoon-hee will never be abolished. In fact, there is no harm in bullying and bullying the common people by soldiers who have served the country.

When an ordinary person is bullied by a soldier who has made meritorious contributions to the country, he will clearly realize that the reason why this person can bully ordinary people is because he or his ancestors have shed blood for meritorious service to the Ming Dynasty and won medals.

When this ordinary person realizes this, what will he do in order to avoid being bullied? There are two main paths in the Ming Dynasty, the first is to study and become a civil official, and the second is to be a soldier and a general. Reading ordinary people may not be able to read, you have to be a smart person to pass the exam, a more extensive road is to go to war, start from a small soldier and strive to rise little by little to become a general.

Of course, this is very dangerous, if you want to make a meritorious achievement enough to be promoted, you can't get it by mixing in the formation, you have to dare to fight, dare to rush, dare to fight hard. And in the process, it is very likely to die, so those who are willing to choose this path are the bravest people in the people.

In the case of having an upward channel and being able to squeeze into it themselves, most people will not oppose the rule of the Ming Dynasty because they have been bullied by a few soldiers who have contributed to the country, but will prompt them to actively work hard to move closer to the imperial court. The people who can be admitted to the imperial examination are all smart people, and those who are willing to serve as soldiers and fight are brave people, and the peasant uprisings of all dynasties and dynasties have become the climate under the leadership of these two types of people, and these two types of people are also people worthy of attention by the people. The two roads of the imperial examination and the war brought in all the people who deserve attention, and achieved the purpose of 'entering the middle of the country' as Tang Taizong said.

Therefore, Yunxi believes that there is no harm in bullying and bullying the common people by soldiers who have made meritorious contributions to the country to maintain the rule of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, from this point of view, Yun Xi's heart is black, but if he wants to sit firmly in the position of the ruler, especially the supreme ruler, his heart must be black, and he knows what kind of people can be bullied and what kind of people cannot be bullied, so as to maintain his rule as firmly as possible.

However, the truth is such a truth, but it can't be said publicly, so Yun Xi just said that sentence and stopped talking to Song Sheng,

(三七 Chinese )