After a while, Wang Tong had already summoned everyone, and everyone stood there quietly, looking at Dong Ce's back, and no one dared to speak. Shi Jin and the others naturally stepped forward and stood beside Dong Ce, and the pier was already naturally split into two small groups.

Dong Ce turned around, his eyes calmly swept over those dun soldiers.

This was the first time he looked at these dun troops, and there were four dun troops in front of him, plus their family children, a total of seventeen people. All of them were yellow-skinned, unkempt, and their clothes were tattered and patched, and they were dirty, more like beggars than soldiers. Their family members are even more dish-faced, and at a glance, they know that they haven't eaten enough for a few years.

There are only two people, and their complexions are quite normal.

This is the soldier of the Ming Dynasty!

Dong Ce suddenly felt a panic in his chest. This dynasty, the military peak in the early stage, Emperor Taizu Hongwu, Emperor Yongle of Chengzu, and hundreds of thousands of tigers swept through Siyi, laid this great river and mountain, and laid the foundation of the Ming Dynasty. However, in the later period, especially after the Tumubao Change, the status of the warriors declined sharply, and the civil officials drove the generals like pigs and dogs. The treatment of the soldiers is extremely low, and the day is not safe, and many guards have their land encroached upon, and they even have to rely on their wives and daughters to be secret prostitutes to barely survive.

I can't even eat enough, so what are you talking about fighting and killing the enemy? It's no wonder that hundreds or thousands of Ming troops often encounter dozens of Houjin soldiers, and they will *one* book* read *small* and say that YBDU scattered in a hurry and collapsed, can they be blamed for this?

What can they, the people at the bottom, decide?

"At least my soldiers, absolutely not!" Dong Ce secretly made up his mind in his heart.

He said, "Tell me your own names!" ”

Everyone was silent, and no one dared to speak first. Dong Ce couldn't help but smile bitterly, his previous prestige seemed to be a little too good, and these people were obviously afraid that he would die now.

After stretching for a while, he was still a tall and sturdy man with a good complexion, and arched his hand first, and said: "If you go back to the adult, the little one's name is Zhang Qisi, and he is not collected at night in the pier." ”

It's not the night, no wonder, Dong Ce said secretly.

In the Ming Dynasty, the night does not collect to the elite of the battalions and forts, due to the danger, can be selected into the night is the Ming army in the extremely outstanding figures, the Ming Dynasty to their treatment is also very generous, even if they are killed and wounded, the descendants have a preferential reward, at the end of each year, the official will also set up a altar for them in the town to sacrifice.

Of course, at this point, there is almost no preferential treatment, but they can still receive more military pay and food than the Dun army, no wonder their complexion will be much better.

With him taking the lead, the rest of the people also said it one after another.

The remaining five dun armies were two nights: Zhang Qisi and Zhai Rang. Three dun soldiers, Su Dacheng, Li Gui, and Wang Yu.

"Wang Yu also stayed?" Dong Ce raised his eyebrows and asked in a little surprise.

No wonder there were only four people here, and it turned out that the one was recuperating at home.

Wang Tong leaned in his ear and whispered: "Originally, Wang Yu was also Xia Dongrun's person, but he pierced the thigh for the leader, and he was unable to move, so Xia Dongrun threw him down." ”

Dong Ce nodded, with a smile on his face.

Wang Yu's mother-in-law, Zhao, came out of the crowd, knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly, crying: "Master Dong, the man of my family has offended you, I kowtow to you, you can spare him!" ”

As he spoke, his forehead slammed into the ground, very hard.

Behind her, two little girls, who were seven or eight years old, unkempt and couldn't see their appearances, looked at their mother at a loss and burst into tears.

When Dong Ce saw this scene, he couldn't help but sigh.

He said gently: "Sister-in-law of the Wang family, you get up." I used to shoot at Wang Yu because he was disrespectful, but now, I am the commander of Anxiang Dunjia, he is a soldier in Dunzhong, and he treats my subordinates equally, and he will never suppress and retaliate. ”

He glanced at the crowd, "This is also for you." However, if Wang Yu still doesn't know what to do, then ......"

"Don't dare, he must not dare." Zhao was overjoyed and kowtowed again and again.

"Get up!" Dong Ce said again, and she got up.

Dong Ce's eyes swept over everyone's faces, they were in their thirties for two nights, just in the prime of life, one tall and strong, the other short and strong, and they all looked usable. That Su Dacheng was shriveled and shriveled, it seemed that a gust of wind could blow it, and when he touched Dong Ce's eyes, he immediately showed a flattering smile. And Li Gui looked like he was in his fifties, his face was wrinkled, and his old eyes were cloudy, but the occasional flash of light reminded Dong Ce that he was not so incompetent and mediocre.

Dong Ce had a bottom in his heart, coughed lightly, and said, "From today onwards, this official will be the first captain of this Anxiangdun." The temperament of this official, you will naturally understand it slowly in the future, and you can't rub sand in your eyes, so the officers under my hands are honest and diligent, don't be careful! Do you understand? ”

"Understood." The crowd sparsely responded and said.

Dong Ce pointed to Shi Jin and a few people: "My brothers are all single, they have no family members, and they are not happy to cook by themselves. Therefore this supper has fallen on your heads, and your families take turns cooking for them every day and bringing it to their rooms. Li Gui, I'll leave this matter to you. ”

As soon as they heard this, Li Gui and the men and women of several other families suddenly had bitter faces on their faces, and they looked very reluctant.

According to the rules of the Ming army, each town on the nine sides has the southern soldiers and the northern soldiers, and the southern soldiers are also the guest soldiers who have a monthly salary of one or two and a half dollars, five buckets of rice in their true colors, and two or three dollars of silver per month, and one stone of silver and one tael of silver in the northern army every month. The rules are set like this, but it's hard to say how much they can be implemented.

At the end of the next season, there is no prohibition from top to bottom. When the money came out of the central cabinet of Beijing City, it had to be scraped by those lawless civil officials, and then when it came to the localities, from the governor, governor, general soldier, staff general, garrison, management officer, and even the lowest level of the first commander, they all had to reach out and take a handful. Basically, it's three or seven points, not to give you seventy percent, but to deduct your seventy percent!

And it's just these three percent, not every month. Most of their land has been encroached upon by officers of all ranks, and in the past few years, there have been successive droughts, and the output is very small, and there is a large family behind each person who has to be fed, and it is only enough to survive without starvation. This is like a fragile biological chain, but now Dong Ce is trying to stuff something into this biological chain, and it is a behemoth. There are still five Dunjun families left, and Dong Ce has a total of six people, even if one is responsible for one, it will be a lot of rice and grain every day.

And it seems that these six are all big-bellied men. If you want to support them, maybe your own children will starve to death.

The wrinkles on Li Gui's face deepened, and he opened his mouth to refute, but he didn't have the courage to do so after all.

Dong Ce had long expected this to be the case, he smiled slightly, and said, "We don't eat and drink for nothing. Let me ask you, how much money does Xia Dongrun deduct from you every month? ”

Everyone's eyes were cast on Li Gui, and he said stubbornly: "Back to the master's words, Xia Tou'er...... Xia Dongrun, I don't know how much we were deducted every month. However, the amount of silver in hand was only two cents and seven or eight cents. ”

"I won't deduct this money from now on." Dong Ce waved his hand and said: "Even if it is compensation for you, in addition, we have brought some corn to support this month first, and when the silver salary is released next month, the days will be much better." ”

After speaking, he asked Shi Jin and the others to hand over the rice they brought to Wang Gui.

Looking at the yellow corn that added up to a hundred catties of those burdens, the color on everyone's faces dissipated.

Today is the fifth day of the sixth month, and the monthly military salary is paid on the day of the month, and there are still ten days to go, and these millet are enough. They used to eat cakes made of sorghum rice mixed with wild vegetables, which were very unpalatable, with only a small amount of corn in them. At this time, if the corn is sent down, maybe you can still get a little light with it.

"Is that enough?" Dong Ce asked.

"Enough, enough." Li Gui said in a stacked voice.

Dong Ce said lightly: "But let's talk about the ugly things ahead, I am exempting the silver money, and I am handing over the corn to you, I think I have done enough authentic, if any of you dare to be shoddy and not give the full amount, don't blame me for being polite." ”

Everyone's hearts were terrified, and they didn't dare to say it.

"Okay, then today's matter will fall here, and everyone will disperse." Dong Ce waved his hand.

He was also quite depressed at this time, and he also wanted to wave his hand and give everyone a meal of chicken, duck and fish, but he ate it vigorously, but the problem was that there was no money! Just this little bit of corn, or the red sleeves gritted their teeth and squeezed out of the house, Shi Jin and a few people, all of them couldn't keep money in their hands, either prostituted or gambled.

A penny is hard to beat a hero.

The dun army dispersed, and through today's events, they also clearly realized that although the newly appointed Elder Jia, although ruthless, was very humane, and he was not such an unreasonable person. Under his hands, as long as he is honest, life should be good.

Nothing was said all night.

Early in the morning of the second day, when the night was as cold as water, Dong Ce got up.

The houses have two rows, built opposite each other. Each row of houses is divided into several small rooms, each room has a fire kang inside, and there are pots and stoves, water tanks, dishes and other things outside, which are used by the defenders and families in the pier. Even these things belong to the public government, not private, and if they are transferred, they cannot be taken away.