Chen Mu didn't have any idea of putting on a show, this was a routine operation to win people's hearts.

The Beiyang warlord also knew how to pay the soldiers, and Chen Mu naturally knew it.

But from the bottom of his heart, he thinks that the role of handing over the food to the flag army is nothing more than the fact that the leaders of small companies in later generations will transfer their wages to employees who are in urgent need of money, and the effect is not bad, but it is not much better, after all, from the bottom of his heart, these fields belong to the flag army, and they deserve to get their share.

At most, it's just a bumper harvest, and Chen Junye is a good omen.

But the truth is much better than he imagined, Chen Mu summoned the flag army, and all the fifty flag troops were present, not to mention, as soon as he heard that the head of the flag rice was going to give each household ten stone of military food for food, and there were a lot of Yu Ding who dragged the family.

Ten stones of food is not much, just enough for the banner army of four or five people to eat two full meals a day.

The problem lies in Chen Mu's 'should' and the 'should' of the flag army, which is cognitively biased.

The young banner army on the south bank of the new river stood in front of him, his chest and waist were straight, his face flushed with glory, and he shouted like a learner, 'I am willing to smear my liver and brain for the general flag'; the old banner army trembled and watched as Chen Mu ordered people to put ten stones of military rations without sand on the cart so that the horses could not walk, and their wrinkled faces were full of tears.

Not to mention that Yu Ding's women and children cried together.

In the eyes of serfs, they never took it for granted about food, about money, about all the pleasures and good things in the world, and about themselves.

On the contrary, they should endure hardship, they should suffer, they should starve and freeze, and they should abandon their leaky huts to go to the kennel and pigsty to sleep with their livestock in the cold winter.

Surviving, surviving is the greatest deserving.

Other than that, there is no other luxury.

Ten stones can be sent down in the first season of rice in half a year, even if there are fewer in the second season, five or six stones, it is more than in previous years!

"It's a good thing, don't cry."

There was too much food, and the fifty banner troops had been distributed for a long time, and the food was only distributed in the evening, and the flag army was still grateful to wait in front of the general banner yamen, and Chen Mu still had one more thing to do.

Although five hundred stone grains were sent out in one day, Chen Mu still had to continue to send them.

"The military rations, Chen Mou has enough, this is because this year's expedition, the flag army fought bravely to death, the general flag was full, and only more than 20 people came back. From tomorrow onwards, you will have to practice every day, and these grains are for your family, so that Yu Ding has no worries. Chen Mu looked at the flag army in front of the formation, and said loudly: "There are also flag soldiers in the center as a reward!" ”

As soon as Chen Mu said this, the flag army couldn't wait to put up his ears.

Do you want to be rewarded?

"I also want to reward, Lao Zheng, last year's An Yuanyi, Yu Ding, who went into the hole to dig the soil, five stone grain per person, sent it down!"

As soon as the words fell, the lower flag army and Yu Ding whispered, Chen Zongqi's matter of letting people dig in the hole is not a secret under the general flag, everyone knows it, but except for the ten flag troops led by Chen Xiaoqi at the earliest, no one else, whether the flag army or Yu Ding, is willing to do that kind of thing.

Even if they are forcibly pulled, they are all grinding and grinding, and they can't do their work.

Boiling nitrate is a vigorous work, and without the pressure of the flag officer, even if the new nitrate cave has three times the manpower of the previous one, it can only make slightly insufficient results.

If you want to take it, you must first take it.

And Chen Mu knew what the Banner Army Yu Ding wanted most, asking for food.

"Last year, they boiled out 2,000 catties of nitrate, this year's big hole, you continue to dig, wait until the spring of next year, Chen Mou to see how much you can dig out of your more than 30 dings, how much to boil, if it is 4,000 catties, the same reward of five stone grain per person. If it is 5,000 catties, each person will be rewarded with six stone grains! ”

As soon as Chen Mu finished speaking, the flag army below couldn't hold back, and someone shouted loudly: "Chief Banner, my family will go too!" ”

"I'm going to go too!"

This can still mobilize the enthusiasm of the flag army Yu Ding than the previous twenty stone grain, Chen Mu smiled, suppressed the shout of the flag army, and said: "Don't worry, the farm has not passed, and when the farm is idle, there should be something for you to do this winter, and when the time comes, you will not avoid things, Chen will not hesitate to reward, whoever contributes to Chen, Chen will let whoever live like a person, understand!" ”

"Some people don't like to hear this, right? What does it mean to be human, huh? Chen Mu smiled, waved his hand and swept the five small flags at the front of the queue, and said: "Chen's small flags used to be military households, as long as Yu Ding listens to the drive, Chen will give you food to ensure that you are full and do not starve and freeze; As long as the flag army dares to fight to the death, Chen will ensure that you will be rewarded with silver, and you will never be stingy! ”

"Got it? Let's disperse! ”

Chen Mu waved his hand to disperse the flag army, and the flag army left with a thousand thanks, he stopped Shao Tingda and the others: "You wait in the Yamen, Zhengyan and Junxiong will go to Phoenix Street with me-Qimai, it's nothing for you, go back and rest first, and take someone to Guangcheng tomorrow with silver, buy seven or eight war horses and five buffaloes and come back." ”

The two small flag officers were ordered to leave, and then prepared their own troops, and Chen Mu took the two swordsmen and swayed pacing horses to Fenghuang Street in Qingyuan City.

He now understands why the ultimate reason for the change of dynasties in the past can be found in land annexation. He did not need to pay taxes on the 300 mu of the best farmland owned by the thousand households in Qingcheng, because these 300 mu of land were evenly distributed among the other 4,700 mu of military land, and these 300 mu of private land without taxation brought him an income of 400 stone of grain from one crop of rice.

The second crop of rice is generally lower than the first season due to the decline in land fertility, but the situation is slightly better because of the potassium fertilizer.

This means that 300 acres of land can bring him an income of five or six hundred taels of silver per year.

You don't need to work hard, but you earn more than you work hard!

He led his troops to fight the rebels on the banks of the Xinjiang River, and he didn't know how many people he killed, and the reward that finally fell into his hand was five hundred taels?

Driven by such interests, which powerful, financial, and landed person would not passively annex land?

Not to mention that the first rice of the 100 households this year has already accumulated a thousand stone of military rations.

But Chen Zongqi is not other Wang Zongqi and Li Zongqi, and the 100 households where Chen Zongqi is located are not the 100 households where Wang Zongqi and Li Zongqi are located.

Drink water and don't forget about the well diggers.

Therefore, if Chen Mu wants to drive his horse to the Bai family's mansion on Phoenix Street at this dusk, he must tell Bai Yuanjie that Bai Deputy Qianhu's arrangement of the health center or the small reform of the personnel system will work.

The surplus of thousands of stone military rations under his banner, the flag army is almost out of production, and Yu Ding can eat enough, which is the best proof.

The banner army withstood the combat strength of the two guards, and Yu Ding did two Yu Ding's farming, of course, he also ate two people's grain.

Letting the banner army eat the empty salary that was originally controlled and abolished by the guards can bring qualitative changes to the guards.

But Chen Junye's action of knocking on the Bai family's mansion in the dark was destined to come to naught, Bai Jingchen and Zhang Yongshou, a hundred households of the old Zhang family, and the officers who had been Qingyuan's commanders for several generations had already gone to Guangzhou Mansion to be busy with the great cause of the three of them's military exploits and promotions.

Chen Mu could only leave a message to Bai Qi, asking Bai Yuanjie to send someone to Anyuan Station to find him as soon as he came back, and rushed back to sleep with his head covered in the starry night.