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Zhang Chao carried his father's fifteen-pound iron gun and finally arrived in front of the gate of the Bailu Che Riding House Camp, and squatted on the wall at the door and hurriedly greeted the soldiers on duty who were basking in the sun.

"Brother Iron Gun, I'm here so early today."

"What's the matter, why did you find a descendant to help you carry a gun today, whose descendant is this, so handsome."

Dad grinned and said happily to the two goods, "This is my son, Zhang Chao." ”

"You're so good at us, why did such a big son come out of the iron gun?"

"I'm new, can't I?"

"Really, then we're going to congratulate you." The two guys looked around Zhang Chao very enthusiastically.

"That's a double blessing, old iron gun. We have good news for you, I heard from the general that you are going to be honored. ”

At present, it is the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, although it has just won the battle of the Central Plains, but the world is undecided. Therefore, Li Tang is still very generous to the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. Those soldiers who went to the battlefield had a great chance of being rewarded if they had military merits.

In order to reward the soldiers, the Tang Emperor Li Yuan adopted Yang Guang's loose post and Yang Jian's loose official name to reward merit. These titles are known as the Honors of the Beginning of the Kingdom.

However, the medal and the medal officer are still two sets of things that go hand in hand at this time. The character of the medal is idle, while the characteristic of the commander is scattered, the medal has no rank and no rank, and the commander has rank and can even be promoted at this time.

Li Yuan started from Taiyuan, in order to buy people's hearts, a large number of medals were awarded, and at this time it was already a bit overflowing, so the imperial court is now adjusting this, with the intention of abolishing the flooded medals and integrating the medals into the system of honors.

There are actually two sets of honors under the name of the early emperor of the country, one is the name of the loose post in the name of various doctors, and the other is the name of the military position of the Zhou Sui Dynasty such as the governor and the general. Of these two sets of honors, the former set is mainly awarded to those local dignitaries, and the latter set is mainly awarded to meritorious soldiers in the army.

Of course, the most valuable thing is the system of honors headed by Shangzhu State.

In the Tang Dynasty, the two sets of civil and military officials gradually formed two sets of loose posts, which were not finally integrated into the system of honorable officials. Later, it also became an important criterion for Tang officials to determine their ranks. The conferral of officials is first to confer the rank of the dismissed officer, and the rank of the official is to determine his ministry.

But nowadays, the casual and loose officials have been overdone, and they have become empty and have just a name, which is really different from the honorable officers.

At the very least, the awarding officer has a field of honor, but the name of the medal does not have a field.

Although my father is now only the commander of the government army, he also has the name of the Junior Commander of the Beginning of the Nation, and he is also the eighth-order Grand Governor of the Ten Ranks of the Meritorious Officials of the Beginning of the Nation.

The Metropolitan Governor sounds very funny, but it is just a name, and when the name is awarded, there will be a reward for money, and then there will be no other eggs.

Therefore, when my father heard that he was going to be honored again, he didn't think so.

"Ouch, you old iron gun, you're still loaded. Tell you, it's not a medallist, it's an officer. The commander of the twelfth turn of the military cavalry lieutenant. ”

The commander is twelve turns, and the military cavalry captain is one turn, that is, the lowest level.

But even if it is the lowest level, the martial cavalry captain is also subordinate to the seventh grade.

Officers have rank but no position, to put it bluntly, they enjoy the treatment of a certain level, but they don't care about things. One of the most important benefits of this treatment is the award of land by the honorable officer.

The first transfer of military cavalry lieutenants will be awarded 60 acres of merit land according to the system, which is a permanent grant of land and does not need to be returned like a mouth dividing the field. Moreover, if the rank of the commander is high, the children can still be shadowed into the ranks.

"Oh, yes."

Daddy seemed a little too calm.

Zhang Chao felt that his father was a person who had gone through strong winds and waves, and he was once a school captain. The infantry captain is a six-grade officer. Although Zhang Chao hadn't heard his father say that he had awarded any loose officers and honors in the Sui Dynasty before, but the ministry officials all have Zhengliu, a captain who has been in battle for a long time, and the commanders will definitely not be low, and under normal circumstances, the military generals and commanders are higher than the rank officers.

Dad, who has been through wind and rain for a long time and is accustomed to strong winds and waves, seems to be a little pampered.

In the eyes of those Guanzhong soldiers who don't have much knowledge, the martial cavalry captain who looks down on the seventh grade is quite good, and one officer can divide sixty acres of land. But Daddy was calm.

In the morning, many soldiers came to the White Deer Riding Mansion one after another. Most of them were called to return to their hometowns last time, and now they have come to receive the reward.

The government soldiers went to war, and it was not a one-time conscription of the entire military government to fight, but it was also in batches, just like Fanshang and Zhenshou.

The last time my father was called to go on the expedition for more than ten months and nearly a year, according to the regulations of Datang, if the expedition is more than ten months, then he will be exempted from the campaign within ten months after he returns.

It turned out that the White Deer Riding House was held in May, with a group of 160 people, and each group took turns to run for a month. I had to turn twice in October, and now I'm back from the expedition for nearly a year, and the next two rounds of a total of two months on the mission of the guards are exempted.

This year's expedition to the Central Plains was a siege battle against Luoyang, and the battle of the Tiger Prison against Dou Jiande was not protracted, and the battle was not fierce, so the soldiers who went out from the Bailu Che Riding Mansion basically came back.

The government soldiers did not have food and salary, but there were subsidies for training, town guarding, fanshang, and expeditions. In particular, there are subsidies for conscription and fighting, and there are rewards for meritorious service, and if the results of the war are good, there are also rewards.

Zhang Chao stood on the school field of Cheqifu with his father's iron gun, and found that this was not the slightest bit of a military camp, but it looked like a rural market.

Lively, noisy.

There are 800 people in the Cheqi Mansion, 160 people are in Beijing to stay in the guard, 16 are training and guarding in the military mansion, the remaining three shifts, two classes are farming at home, and the last 16 is the daddy's class, who came back from the expedition, and today they all rushed to the military mansion to receive rewards and subsidies.

The group on duty is not training today, and they are all around the returning comrades, or villagers, on the playground. The 800 soldiers of the Bailu Che Riding Mansion are either neighbors or relatives.

The military system of the Tang Dynasty was actually inherited from the Northern Zhou Dynasty and passed through the Sui to the Tang Dynasty, based on the Juntian system.

Five households are guaranteed, 100 households are li, and five miles are townships.

Datang selects government soldiers once every three years, basically two dings for each guarantee. According to the calculation of five households per insurance, two dings per household. To be more specific, it is that those who are equal in wealth take the strong, those who are equal in strength take the rich, and those who have even financial resources take more first.

Once selected, they have a military name, which is a lifetime service, from the age of twenty-one to sixty-one.

The soldiers of Bailu Riding Mansion are basically from Bailu Township and several surrounding townships, so everyone is an acquaintance of Shili and Eight Townships.

Daddy's group went on the expedition, one hundred and sixteen when they went, and more than one hundred and fifty when they came back, but less than ten died, and more than ten were injured, but they were not too serious, which was also a very good result.

The two classes of government soldiers got together, just like the old peasants gathered when they were cooking a banquet in the countryside.

A group of three, a group of five, just find a piece of land to squat and chat together.

When it came to which regiment and which brigade died in battle, everyone sighed together, and some people said that he was still the third brother of the wife of the son of my third aunt's eldest brother, but it was a pity that he was still so young.

Everyone talked about the past of the war dead, about the situation on the battlefield, and about the poor orphans and widows he left behind.

But speaking of which, everyone did not complain too much about the war and the imperial court. Serving in the army and fighting in the war is a natural thing in everyone's opinion, and it is as normal as farming and handing over the emperor's grain.

It was almost noon, and everyone was chatting about the same, when the general of the chariot came out.

There are also officers such as Sigong Sicang and other officers of the Cheqi Mansion, as well as officers at all levels such as captains, brigade commanders, and team leaders.

Daddy, on the way back from the war, the record of the war in the Central Plains was also reported to Chang'an early, and it had been checked during this time. Now, the military merits have been verified above, and the military merit rewards and food subsidies for the expedition have begun to be distributed to the victorious government soldiers.

The general was a man in his fifties, with a very strong length and gray hair. Several of his subordinate lieutenants still looked very general-oriented, but the brigade commanders below were waiting, and they were not much different from ordinary farmers.

On the school ground, in addition to more than 300 government soldiers, there were also many onlookers, including family members of government soldiers like Zhang Chao, as well as some residents in the township.

Today, the barracks are so lively, and even some smart villagers have even set up stalls at the gate of the barracks, or set up pots and stoves, and began to cook cakes and noodles, ready to take the opportunity to make a few transactions.

The general did not stop or drive away the civilians who entered the barracks, and let everyone stand or squat to watch the excitement.

There are not many money and food subsidies for the expedition, and if there is no military merit, the reward is very small, especially money.

The newly cast Kaiyuan Tongbao of the Tang Dynasty is bright and yellow, but many government soldiers have only received three or four hundred.

This amount surprised Zhang Chaoda, and he went out to fight for ten months, and actually gave a subsidy of more than 300 yuan? More than 300 texts is not more than 300 articles. On average, it's only thirty or forty wen a month, and one penny a day subsidy?

This is too picky, right, what can you do with a penny?

But he looked at those Guanzhong men, every time they heard their names and stepped forward to receive the money, they were very happy, and their teeth were full of smiles, three or four hundred yuan, in their eyes, it seemed to be a lot of money.

After ten months of fighting, you will exchange two or three catties of copper coins? Zhang Chao couldn't figure it out.

After the copper coin subsidy was paid, the grain was distributed again. The food is millet, which is more, basically everyone has about one stone. This stone is ten buckets, one bucket of ten liters, which is a volumetric unit. The weight of rice and wheat grains is different under the same volume, but Zhang Chao estimated that one stone of millet, that is, one hundred and twenty city catties, fortunately, it was shelled, otherwise, Zhang Chao really couldn't believe that Datang was so picky.

After the money and food subsidies are distributed, it is the reward for military merit.

Rewards for military merits include both individual and collective military merits.

The merits of each person have already been reviewed by special personnel from the imperial court, so now the Cheqi Mansion only distributes the corresponding rewards according to the merits above.

Some have more military merits and more rewards, others have fewer rewards, and others have not.

The rewards for military merit include honors, money, food, cloth, silk, and gold and silver. Of course, there are also those who are honored and promoted.

Dad is relatively eye-catching among the meritorious recipients, and he really has to be rewarded with a martial arts lieutenant and seven subordinates. Because one of the deputy of the team on this expedition died, and finally let Dad fill the deputy position of this team.