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[Today's sixth shift is delivered! ] 】

"One head of the Tartar, twenty taels of silver."

"A set of Tartar's clothes and armor, five taels of silver."

"A set of Tartar's bow and arrows, five taels of silver."

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Zhang Qiuqing took a few people to count the specific combat exploits one by one, and calmed Yu Lijun's voice, one after another, full of infectiousness. The military exploits of the Ming army were generally recorded by the military discipline officer. In the Weisu Army, there is no special military discipline officer, and the pacification between the general banner and the hundred households undertakes such a function.

In the past, the various towns of the Pingyu Thousand Households basically had nothing to do. They can't control the discipline of the troops. If you don't even have enough to eat, how can you talk about discipline? If you don't make a fuss about killing people and setting fires, you can save face. As for the registration of war exploits, there are almost none. However, it takes a lot of effort to count the casualties of one's own people.

In order to stimulate the morale of the troops, there were also special meritorious service officers within the Ming army, who were generally flag officers with sufficient energy. They spread the statistics of their exploits far away in a very excited tone. This is a tremendous encouragement to the meritorious soldiers. For others, it's a great stimulus.

Due to the lack of personnel, there was no special merit reporter in the Pingyu Thousand Households, so Yu Lijun simply assumed this function by himself. He read out the statistics of the battle exploits one by one. His calming mid-air was also sufficient, and the sound spread far away, and only the sound of his retribution was heard in the fields around the horn pier.

"Xu Xingxia, a total of seven Tartar heads, a total of one hundred and forty taels of silver."

"Xu Xingxia, a total of seven sets of Tartar clothes and armor, a total of thirty-five taels of silver.

"Xu Xingxia, a total of seven Tartar scimitars, seven pairs of bows and arrows, a total of thirty-five taels of silver."

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Yu Lijun finally remembered Xu Xingxia's exploits.

Even though he had tried his best to control his emotions and not let himself appear too excited, at the end of the reading, Yu Lijun's voice was still obviously a little different. No way, Xu Xingxia's exploits are indeed too perverted. He had a strange feeling that perhaps, in the future, he would read even more perverted feats.

"Bang Bang!"

Peng Feng took the lead in applauding with a smile on his face.

Everyone around immediately applauded, and the applause spread far and wide across the field like a tide. Liu Guangliang's three fathers and sons were about to slap their hands to pieces. Xu Xingxia's exploits this time are so prominent, he must be on the rise and soar to the sky. An officer of the general flag will never be able to run away. The Xu family, from now on, will be prosperous and rich. This is also a great good thing for the Liu family.

After all the military exploits have been read out, it is time for specific incentives. Peng Feng was in a happy mood, and his movements were also neat. He has already sent someone from Pingyu City to bring all the silver taels needed for the reward, as well as the confession documents needed for promotion. He wants to fix this matter as soon as possible, make it a sure fact, and let Wu Datou cry.

The head of the Tartar, the war horse of the Tartar, the bow and arrow of the Tartar, all added up, should be thirty and two people. Sometimes, if you are a little more generous, you will be given fifty taels and one person. Of course, now there must only be thirty taels of silver, which will not be much. The defenders of Niujiaodun killed twenty-three Tartars, that is, six hundred and ninety taels of silver. Peng Feng has not yet been generous, and he paid out of his own pocket to give out other rewards.

Calculated, of course, Xu Xingxia's reward is the most, seven tartars, that is, two hundred and ten taels of silver. It's basically equivalent to two small red deer. Relatively speaking, it is still a rich reward for killing Tartars. However, the risk of killing Tartars is much stronger than hunting red deer. Such feats are not envied by ordinary people.

Of course, this money was not from Peng Feng, but from Ningxia Town. To be precise, it was the imperial court in the end. This reward regulation was originally formulated by the imperial court. However, Peng Feng was happy to advance the funds first. Why? Raise your eyebrows! Just think about the face of Wu Datou, which is less than seven hundred taels of silver, he is willing.

"Now, please all the meritorious soldiers, line up and come up in turn to receive the reward. Please ask the Lord of the Thousand Households to reward the meritorious soldiers. Everyone else, please applaud the meritorious soldiers! Yu Lijun finally announced loudly.

In the warm applause, Peng Feng stood on a dirt slope with great interest, and a white cloth bag containing silver taels was placed next to him. This is a white cloth bag specially used for awards, which is customized by the Imperial Military Department according to unified specifications. The surface of the cloth bag is written with a special commendation text. In other words, such a cloth bag, in the Pingyu Thousand Households, I don't know how long it has been idle, and now it finally has a chance to come in handy.

The guards of Niujiaodun went up one by one, and took the heavy white cloth bag from Peng Feng's hand. Someone quietly took a look inside the cloth bag and found that the color of the silver tattoo was not bad. It's rare that there is no deduction. That's a rare thing. It seems that this time, I am indeed very happy.

In fact, Peng Feng was indeed very happy, so he stopped the deductions that he was used to in the past, such as the deduction of surnames, folding silver and the like. The silver he sent was genuine, and the weight was in accordance with the rules. He just wants everyone else in Ningxia Town to see that we have made a great contribution to the thousands of households this time. Our rewards are real and never discounted. If you are red-eyed, find a way to create a feat!

Ningxia Town is one of the important towns on the nine sides, and has always been at the forefront of the fight against the Tatar cavalry, and the deployment of troops is still relatively strong, and there are ten guards under the direct jurisdiction alone. These ten guards are the front guard, the rear guard, the left guard, the center guard, the right guard, the front guard, the rear guard, the left guard, the middle guard, the right guard, etc. In addition, there are the guards of the Qingwang Mansion. When the situation is urgent, the guards of the Qingwang Mansion will also be mobilized to participate in the war.

Under each guard, there are five thousand houses, and all of them add up, which is fifty thousand houses. The number of rated military households per 1,000 households is 1,120. If all the guards were full, the number of soldiers under their jurisdiction alone would exceed 56,000. Plus officers of all ranks, more than 60,000 people. If we add the soldiers, the establishment of Ningxia Town has more than 70,000 soldiers.

Of course, these are numbers on the books, and the actual number of soldiers may be less than half of the numbers on the books. But in any case, there are still troops of twenty or thirty thousand people. Among so many soldiers, how many Tatar cavalry can be killed? On average, there are certainly no more than a hundred a year, and sometimes there are only twenty or thirty a year.

The soldiers of Niujiaodun, in a battle, wiped out the number of Tartars that Ningxia Town could only eliminate in a year, and he, a thousand households, was designated to be promoted and made a fortune. A position of guarding the commander of the affairs will never be able to run. In the future, if there are still military exploits, maybe he can replace Deng Rubai and become the commander of the Ningxia avant-garde.

Why are there so many health centers in Ningxia Town? That's for a reason. When the Mongol iron cavalry was rampant, the Tangut kingdom was destroyed by the Mongols, and the population was massacred. The Western Xia royal family surnamed Li was almost slaughtered. As long as it was surnamed Li, they were all mercilessly killed by the Mongols. When the Ming Kingdom was established, the population of Ningxia was very sparse, and there were less than 50,000 people in the entire Ningxia Plain. Obviously, this is very detrimental to the stabilization of border defense.

What Zhu Yuanzhang adopted was the old method, that is, to directly migrate the army over and Tuntian in the Ningxia Plain. With a stroke of his old man's pen, he established ten guards in one go. A large number of military households migrated from all over the country to Ningxia Town, where they took root and multiplied. It can be said that the current Ningxia Town was developed on the basis of these ten health centers. In the beginning, there were only tens of thousands. After more than 200 years of development, there are already millions of people. Among them, the number of military households is more than half.

It's a pity that Zhu Yuanzhang didn't expect that the system he created single-handedly has existed in name only after two hundred years of continuation. The same is true for the town of Ningxia. In Ningxia Town, the shelves of the guards still exist in full, and there are indeed ten guards and fifty thousand households. It's just that in each thousand households, how many people are left, then there are ghosts to know.

It seems that the establishment of the Pingfu is 1,120 people, and the actual existence is certainly less than 700 people. The others, basically, fled. This is what Peng Feng can only do when he has some skills to stop the military from fleeing. In other thousands of households, the escape situation is even more serious than that of the Pingfu Center. For example, the Ningxia guards stationed in the desert area, the number of military households left in some of the 1,000 households is less than 400.

Rao is like this, compared with other border towns, the military households in Ningxia Town are relatively good. After all, Ningxia Town is located in the Ningxia Plain, with the Yellow River running through it, there is enough water for irrigation, and Helan Mountain blocks the wind and sand, and the output of various crops is not bad. Coupled with the developed animal husbandry, the income of Ningxia Town is relatively stable. As long as the military households work their own, it is still possible to eat enough.

Relatively speaking, the border troops of Yansui Town, Gansu Town, and Guyuan Town were not so lucky. The places where they are located are all desert areas, under the influence of the Xiaoice period, the climate is getting drier and drier, and the temperature in winter is getting lower and lower. As a result, the food production of the land is getting lower and lower, and it is becoming more and more impossible to sustain themselves, and the number of military families who have fled has increased.

It seems that there are some thousand households in Yansui Town, and there are only less than 300 people. Some of the 1,000 households in the westernmost part of Gansu Town have less than 200 people. The Tatar cavalry was raging everywhere, and it had a lot to do with the emptiness of the Ming army. What's the use of having more numbers on the books? It is not for nothing that hundreds, or even dozens, of Tatar cavalry dared to rush into the interior and plunder.

When the Later Jin Tartars rose, the Ming court, with an army of millions, could not deal with the Tartars, which was often puzzling. Actually, to put it bluntly, it's not puzzling at all. This so-called army of millions is the number of words on the books, and the ghost only knows how many soldiers there are. As for how many soldiers can fight, it is estimated that even the ghosts do not know.

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