Huguang guest soldiers, who accounted for half of the Liaodong Army, reacted very enthusiastically to the policy of retiring and returning to their hometowns in batches brought by Yang Hao.

Although the monthly salary of the soldiers in Liaodong is more than that received in the mainland, the Guanwai belongs to the front line of the war with Jiannu, and all the materials here need to be transferred from the rear, so the price is expensive.

Jinzhou and Ningyuan are okay, because there are many soldiers and people, so there are many merchants, and the high prices in the market are not very outrageous. But the sergeants stationed in remote forts such as Daling River are outrageously expensive if they want to buy something.

Moreover, the enemy faced by the Liaodong Army was too strong, and the troops stationed in Jinzhou and Ningyuan were still able to rely on the strong city to defend it. The troops stationed in the small forts were often either slaughtered or taken captive as Aha, i.e., slaves, under the first attack of the Jiannu.

These guest soldiers nominally have a military salary of one or five to two taels a month, as well as a monthly ration of five dou per month, but under the general judgment of household rations and the exploitation of officers at all levels, they can only get about half of it.

In this case, it is undoubtedly a joke to want them to fight hard against Jiannu. Being able to rely on the city to resist the attacks of the Jianzhu slaves, they are already very loyal.

Moreover, they were all guest soldiers from other places, except for some officers who took their families to the local area, or intermarried with the local Liao people, most of the soldiers' families were in their hometowns. It has been more than 10 years since the war in Liaodong, and the longest-recruited veterans here have been recruiting for more than 7 years.

For them, missing their relatives back home is also a very heavy emotion. Therefore, when they heard that they could return to their hometown with a retirement pension, the mood of these guest soldiers suddenly became positive.

Some veterans even feel that they are really happy to take the severance pay and return to their hometowns first, and then go to the recruitment notice of the imperial court to recruit soldiers, and they can also get another settlement fee.

The main dissatisfaction with the imperial court's policy of reinstating the military was the officers at all levels, and the reduction in the number of soldiers under his command undoubtedly reduced their share of the army's salary. And out of fear of the invasion of Jiannu, they were also reluctant to let these soldiers go home.

However, the main purpose of Yang Hao's exit this time was to negotiate peace with Houjin, so these officers could not use the pretext of Jiannu's invasion to oppose the policy of restoring soldiers.

And Yang Hao, who is in charge, has been in Liaodong for a long time, and he has enough deterrent power for the generals of the main army in Liaodong.

Zu Dashou, the leader of the Liaoxi Jiangmen, failed to appear in Ningyuan, which made Yang Hao quite dissatisfied. Although Zu Dabi is known as Zu Er's madman in the army, he does not dare to go crazy for civil officials like Yang Hao.

When this literati marshal Yang Hao was defeated by Salhu, he dared to kill the two general soldiers who fled first without hesitation, who knows if he jumped out to oppose it, and whether he would use it to sacrifice the flag.

Without the support of the local generals in western Liaoning, these officers of the guest army could only silently accept the policies mentioned above by Yang Hao at the army reorganization meeting.

In addition, the policy of distributing the incorruptible silver brought back by Man Gui also eliminated the last rebellion in the hearts of these officers.

As a matter of fact, under the series of army rectification policies of disarmament, clearing tun, and banning farming, it was the Liaoxi Jiangmen who suffered the greatest losses.

Disarmament only reduced their chances of deducting food and wages, but compared with the main army of Liaodong and the guest army, the treatment was much worse.

The monthly salary of the main army of Liaodong is only five yuan, although there are five buckets of monthly food, but the main army of Liaodong comes from the local guard, according to the regulations, the military ration must be provided by the guard, and the insufficient part will be made up by the household department.

Compared with the household grain judges and officials who controlled the distribution of salaries, the officers of the guard were obviously more greedy.

If it is said that 70% of the household ration can still be distributed, then the monthly ration issued by the officers of the guard station is about less than half.

After all, these officials are still taboo and deducted too harshly, and they will cause a mutiny. But the officers of the guard were not afraid of these sergeants at all, after all, their families were under their own control.

No sergeant would have trouble with the officer of the guard who controlled the fate of his family, at most he would have fled.

Now the imperial court cleaned up the tuntian outside the Guanguan and forbade the cultivation of tuntian in the area north of Ningyuan. However, the large area of fertile land near Ningyuan and between Ningjin is basically the industry of Jiangmen in western Liaoning, and this policy is undoubtedly equivalent to directly pointing to the faintly formed group of military officers and landlords in western Liaoning.

However, these policies proposed by the imperial court were supported by foreign generals such as Man Gui, You Shilu, and Zhu Mei. Regarding the opposition of these generals, the Liaoxi generals headed by Zu Dabi knew what they were for.

After the defeat of Guangning, under Xiong Tingbi's will, the land outside the pass has been completely lost to Nurhachi.

However, it was obvious that Nurhachi was still very clear at that time, and knew that the Houjin, with a thin population, could not swallow the entire land outside the Guanwai, so he chose a shrinkage tactic.

Sun Chengzong went out of the customs and restored the land, with Man Gui, Yuan Chonghuan and others making the greatest contributions. The reclamation of the fields near Ningyuan is under their efforts.

But as soon as the threat of the Houjin was gone, after the fugitive Liaoxi Jiangmen returned, he began to unite with the Liaoxi gentry to seize these lands.

The Liaoxi generals and the Liaoxi gentry believed that these lands should be returned to the Liao, and then the Liaons should guard the Liaoland, and these guest troops should not be allowed to occupy these fields.

Of course, the Liao people in their mouths will never refer to the ordinary people who have fled, and the slogan of Liao people guarding Liao land is indeed very touching. But for those officials, what is even more touching is that under this slogan, the land that the state has spent a lot of money to restore is transferred to their own name.

In this feast of dividing up the fields, Man Gui, You Shilu, Zhu Mei and other guest generals could only watch as Liaoxi allocated a large area of fertile land to himself.

But when Jiannu really started to attack, the Liaoxi generals who were cowering in Ningyuan City were reluctant to even go out of the city gate. Watching the Houjin army calmly besiege Jinzhou City, in the end, it was Man Gui who led his troops to attack, which made Houjin realize that Jinzhou was not without reinforcements.

These guest generals have long been dissatisfied with these Liaoxi generals, and now they can let them suffer losses, why not support the imperial court.

In this situation where the host and guest armies were holding each other down, the reorganization of the Liaodong Army finally began. The first batch of demobilized soldiers was 1,739 soldiers, of which 786 were guest soldiers.

According to the demobilization policy formulated by Chongzhen himself, in addition to a certificate of rehabilitation, each soldier should also be given a retirement pension equivalent to one year's military salary, 18 taels.

Of course, in order to reduce the back and forth transportation of silver taels, he and some sergeants received retirement pensions and mixed into the army again. The retirement pension was issued in paper money, 23 yuan and 4 cents per soldier.

The small flag is 40 yuan, the total flag is 80 yuan, and the 100 households are 120 yuan.

Although the sergeants of the first batch of reprimands were happy to leave the army, they were a little distrustful of the banknotes issued by the imperial court, and they directly regarded the banknotes as worthless Daming treasure banknotes.

The ordinary soldiers with no background planned to consider themselves unlucky, and those low-ranking military attachés who had been restored quit, and they surrounded Sun Yunhe, who presided over the distribution of restoration fees, and begged in a low voice, hoping to exchange half the price for silver taels.

After Wei Zhongxian was driven out of Beijing by Chongzhen, Sun Yunhe pretended to be his grandson everywhere in the capital, and it was not easy to get back up.

During the Chinese New Year, he had to go to such a bitter cold place outside the gate to do things, which made him depressed enough.

And the supervision system for the distribution of money and grain set up by the emperor made him dare not stretch out his hand even though he was the principal, for fear of being told by someone and being questioned by the emperor.

And paper money is not silver taels, and cannot be corrupted by changing the color or deducting the quantity. According to Chongzhen's requirements, the preferential conditions for retired soldiers have long been announced, and Sun Yunhe does not dare to gamble with his head that no one will sue.

Seeing a large sum of money pass by his hand, he could only sigh in anticipation, which deepened the irritability in his heart.

These low-level military attachés actually dared to come to the door to make trouble, which immediately made him angry, and he immediately scolded these military attachés: "You thieves and prostitutes..."

For the angry scolding of this bad-tempered Lord of the Hundred Households in Brocade, these low-level military attaches endured it as soon as they bowed their heads, but they did not give up their requests, and still closely followed Sun Yunhe to ask for silver.

For these military attachés, as long as they can get some silver back, what is it to be scolded by the officials? In their careers, they have become accustomed to being scolded by superiors and humiliated by civilian officials.

In their opinion, a few words of scolding will not kill people, but if they can get some money back, they can save their lives in the future. Besides, the scolding language of this Jinyi Guard military attache is just like this, which is not at all as vicious and mean as their superiors and those civil officials.

For these border soldiers in his eyes, Sun Yunhe's green tendons on his head were exposed, and he felt that he was already on the verge of breaking out.

If it weren't for the lack of manpower in his office, he would have ordered this group of ruffians to be driven out of his yard.

Just when Sun Yunhe's emotions were on the verge of getting out of control, Zhang Tiqian, a hundred households in brocade clothes, walked in from outside the courtyard.

Zhang Tiqian, who always had a smile on his face, couldn't help but be taken aback when he saw so many people standing in the courtyard.

"What are you doing around Sun Baihu? Don't you want to make trouble? ”

"We're not here to make trouble."

"We're here to ask for money."

"We have been guarding the frontier for the imperial court for so long, and we have no merit and hard work, right? How can you take a few pieces of paper and send us away? ”

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Under the protests of the military attaches in the courtyard, Zhang Tiqian had a general understanding of what was going on.

He had a different division of labor from Sun Yunhe, who presided over the restoration, and he was responsible for establishing a system of military judges in the Liaodong Army, so he had been talking to people in the camps for the past few days, and had not returned to the house for several days.

After listening to the grievances of these military attachés, Zhang Tiqian immediately pulled his face down and said, "Don't argue, what kind of system are you?" Honestly, if it weren't for Your Majesty's grace, would you have been able to return home and be reunited with your family?

Although I have a pension system for non-commissioned officers, there is no retirement pension system. And you guys usually deduct the salaries of the sergeants below. Take it to spend all day and drink, but now you are talking about His Majesty's retirement money, is it possible that you want to rebel?

You are now receiving a much higher retirement pension than those ordinary sergeants, and you can still fill the official vacancy when you return to the township, so you are not satisfied, what do you want? ”