When all the generals heard Liu Yuliang's words, they were all in high spirits, and they were all excited to clasp their fists at Liu Yuliang and said, "Thank you, my lord!" ”

"Okay, okay, as long as you are dedicated to killing the thief and being loyal, the hour is not early, let's get here first today!"

After speaking, Liu Yuliang said to Wang Feng, the money and grain official, and asked him to send the military salary to the generals, and then went to the back office.

After the meeting was dismissed, the generals surrounded Wang Fengcheng and urged him to pay everyone a military salary.

Wang Fengcheng had a bitter look on his face at this time, he originally had two million taels of military salary, but who knew that when he just left the capital, he was halfway there, and half of the silver was left in his hand, which called him how to send it!

But Liu Yuliang's explanation, he didn't dare to slack off, and in desperation, he had to lead the generals to the treasury to lead the army to pay the salary.

But at this time, he could imagine the shocked scene when the generals saw the amount of military salaries!

Because Mao Daxing, the general of Datong, was the first to propose to Liu Yuliang in the hall just now, and the other generals were grateful to him, so when they led the army's salary, they all consciously let him be the first to start receiving it.

However, this military salary was originally a happy thing, but when the military salary slip arrived, Mao Daxing was taken aback when he saw it, and couldn't help but say to Wang Fengcheng: "Lord Wang, this time the general will bring 5,000 Datong border troops to suppress the bandits, according to the rules, I should receive 40,000 taels of silver at this time.

Even if the "water money" is removed, the general should have at least 28,000 taels in hand, why only give me 20,000 taels now, this ,,, this ,,, is 8,000 taels less! ”

"Water money" is a metaphor for the people to pluck the feathers of geese and leave traces of the wind, which is used as a metaphor for the people who manage the money, but all the money that flows out through their hands, they have to intercept a part of it, and this part of the money is called "water money".

According to the rules that have been slowly formed in the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years, now the army pays military salaries, and in the hands of generals, the "water money" of this military salary has reached an appalling thirty percent!

Faced with such a situation, the generals had no choice but to admit it!

However, there are policies and countermeasures, and in the face of this three-percent gap, many generals use the vacancies of soldiers to offset it, or take limited silver to support some of the families whose combat effectiveness is okay, and the remaining soldiers are almost all old, weak, sick and disabled, and these soldiers are just sending some barely living rations and silver.

Therefore, this civil official group is greedy for military salaries, which is also an important reason for blowing the sheng out of the Ming Dynasty's family system!

Although it is said that this "water money" is very hateful, but because this is a common phenomenon in the Ming Dynasty, and it has also been acquiesced by everyone, then if Liu Yuliang comes according to the rules, then Mao Daxing will not say anything.

But now, on the basis of deducting 30% of the water money, it will be deducted again, and this deduction is 20%, which makes Mao Daxing not surprised!

As soon as Mao Daxing's words came out, the generals next to him were also stunned, no, the emperor values the bandit war so much, and you people dare to stretch out their hands like this!

One by one, they also hurriedly checked the military salary slip in their hands, and sure enough, the amount of military salary was less than they should have received!

A hot-tempered general couldn't help but yell at Wang Fengcheng: "You can't do this, this is the silver that the soldiers exchanged for their lives, you have eaten so much this time, we can't live!" ”

This general roared, and the other generals couldn't control so much, while all the generals are here now, don't make a fuss at this time, and make trouble in the future, the ghost will still take care of you!

"That is, we originally collected 30% of the "water money", which was enough for us, but now we have to collect another 20%, isn't this our life? ”

"There is no reason for this, the emperor is not bad for hungry soldiers, this time the emperor suppressed the bandits, and specially paid two million taels of military salaries, who doesn't know about this, now you eat half of it in one bite, you let us drink the northwest wind!"

"It's half less now, and the silver bounty ghost who has finished the battle knows if there is still one!"

"If you don't give an explanation today, I'm not done with you!"

In fact, what they don't know is that the officials who handled it this time confiscated their water money, there is no way, and now the treasury and internal funds are out of money.

When the head of the household department Bi Ziyan came up with the amount of the military salary of two million taels of silver, it was on the basis of excluding the money for fetching water, otherwise, it would be more than two million taels!

In order to prevent those officials from being greedy for ink, Bi Ziyan made it clear to them that even if the silver that went out this time was one or two less, he would report to Emperor Chongzhen, and you would be responsible for the consequences!

Emperor Chongzhen attaches great importance to the war against bandits this time, and now he hears Bi Ziyan say this, those officials naturally dare not stretch out their hands, for fear that their heads will not be guaranteed at that time.

But Bi Ziyan did a lot of calculations, and he didn't count Liu Yuliang's boldness, and he actually divided one million taels of silver as soon as he left the capital!

Poor Bi Ziyan did not hesitate to sacrifice his career in order to make up these two million taels of silver, offended so many colleagues, and even offended many friends, but he made a wedding dress for others.

Facing the clamor of the generals, Wang Fengcheng was also bitter and couldn't speak.

Pity him for being timid, after Liu Yuliang took half of the military salary, he was afraid that something would happen, and he didn't dare to take it again even if he was stunned for a tael of silver, so this time he was completely innocent, from beginning to end, he was not greedy for ink even a copper plate!

"Listen to me, generals! Listen to me! ”

Wang Fengcheng's bitter words were to let those generals be quiet, and in the face of more and more powerful generals, he also had to deal with them carefully!

After the generals calmed down, Wang Fengcheng said: "Yes, the imperial court has issued a military salary of two million taels of silver, but now the 100,000 soldiers eat horses and chew horses, and it is a huge expense every day.

The rest of the military salaries, when the bandits are exterminated, Lord Liu will make up for you at that time, and please understand Lord Liu's hardships! ”

When the generals heard Wang Fengcheng's words, they were all skeptical, if he could really make up for it, it would not be unacceptable, after all, the silver was still enough to satisfy himself, as well as the use of his own family.

As for those ordinary soldiers, they really can't do it, so they can only wait first! ()

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