Chapter 870 Returning Heroes (1)
Dressed in a military uniform, Huang Kuang stood in front of the wall of Huayin City, looking at this familiar city.
Although he has only been away for three months, Huang Kuang is a little homesick.
The soldiers around the "Childe ......" stood behind him and stabbed him in the waist.
In the March of Xiliu Camp, after Huang Kuang and these family members who went out with him, their feelings and relationships have progressed by leaps and bounds.
The melting pot of the army is a place where the feelings of subordination and the party of the village are strengthened.
Especially in the Han army, the fellow villagers under a trilogy, as long as they do not have the hatred of killing their fathers and taking their wives, generally, after the battle array, they will become comrades who can entrust each other's backs to each other.
Nowadays, the sons of these families and Huang Kuang are no longer in the master-slave master-servant relationship as in the past.
Rather, the affiliation of the upper and lower.
Huang Kuang needs them to fight bravely for themselves, kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, and glorify the lintel.
These soldiers also need Huang Kuang to lead them to capture the flag and gain military merits.
Each other, like vines, both prosper and lose.
"This expedition, thanks to the ...... of all the monarchs" Huang Kuang bowed to his siblings: "If it weren't for the monarchs who fought bravely to kill the enemy and drove forward for me, how could I have today?" ”
"When you return this time, all taxes will be halved in your family, and all past loans will be written off!" Huang Kuang, like all the Han army officers who had returned victoriously before, made his own promise to his troops.
After winning the battle, not only the court and the Son of Heaven should reward their own army.
Generals at all levels must also be rewarded layer by layer.
Undress and push food to eat.
There are even generals who will give their all. Assign your own part.
For example, when Wei Qihou Dou Ying returned victoriously, the first emperor rewarded a thousand gold. Wei Qihou put all of them on the threshold of his own house, and let the diners take it for themselves.
There is also the current Prime Minister Zhou Yafu. He took out all his rewards and money, and gave alms to his subordinates, rescuing and raising orphans and widows.
And in the lower strata, such a situation is more common.
The team leaders and Sima often give their rewards to their subordinates.
This is called the city's grace and righteousness.
And the family soldiers and pro-soldiers will be treated better.
Often, the man's contract of sale with his family is dissolved, if any. It is even more common to pay half of the tenant rent, and even pay for the other party's conscription.
Huang Kuang did this, which belongs to the tradition of the Han army.
Because, every self-motivated and hard-working officer of the Han Army understands.
Money is useless at all, and it's not rare at all.
Everyone is from a rich family, at least the son and nephew of the landlord, and the family has a big business. It's not bad for the money.
And everyone lacks soldiers who can die for themselves on the battlefield, kill the enemy desperately, and obtain military exploits.
The military system of the Han army, when calculating the military exploits of beheading. The military exploits of the officers are counted as net beheadings.
Without soldiers and subordinates fighting desperately for themselves, their status and future are as dangerous and fragile as the ants above Qingping.
Children of the scholar clan like Huang Kuang. They are very clever to understand - their future and status and titles, the prosperity of the family. It depends on the bravery and hard work of his own soldiers and soldiers.
Therefore, Huang Kuang then said: "In addition. This time I will give all my reward to you, and I will not take a penny! ”
This decision immediately cheered his family soldiers and his own soldiers.
Everyone said: "Son's faithfulness, villains dare to die in revenge!" ”
Everyone was smiling, and their mouths couldn't close.
This time I followed my son on the expedition, but in March, although it was hard, although I almost died several times.
But it's worth it!
Since then, the big guys have all gone from being under the fence, and the slaves who don't even have the title and household registration book have become commoners, and some people have even relied on military merits to raise the title by several levels.
In addition to the change in status, the actual benefits are even more exciting - even if it is just a calculation of the part of one's own income, the least one person can get a share of one or two hundred thousand dollars.
This is equivalent to the savings that the Huang family can only save for a lifetime!
And the one who has the most can even have a reward of as much as 100,000!
Qian 100,000 yuan, 20 years ago, already belonged to the middle class of the Han family, and was recognized by the government as a scholar - one of the requirements of the Han family was 100,000 yuan, and the starting point of the recommendation was 50,000 yuan in the first emperor.
"Let's go, let's go home......" Huang Kuang looked at his own soldiers after making a promise, and also showed a smile of relief and joy.
These soldiers were the capital of his rise the next day.
With their courage and support, he also has the opportunity to rise in the future.
And the reason why he is so rewarded is also because he was promoted.
He fought in Nanchi, followed Sun Zhen, took the soldiers, fought hard to kill the enemy, and in the pursuit, he was lucky and beheaded a Xiongnu nobleman.
Although the other party is in his sixties, he is old.
Huang Kuang didn't even have much effort to kill him.
However, after the examination of the head, after the identification of the captive, it was known that what he killed was Yin Zhixian's relative, a Xiongnu householder.
Although it is not a high-ranking nobleman like Dadanghu, it is also one of the great achievements recognized by the Han army.
As a result, he was promoted from team leader to Sima.
Although it was only another Sima of the Xiliu Battalion, this was a huge leap.
Under Sima, he can only obey orders from others, without any autonomy, and when he is ordered from above, he will charge.
However, the officers at the Sima level already have the qualifications to take charge of themselves.
In the county, a Sima can sit in one place and control the county soldiers of several counties.
Of course, Huang Kuang's ambition is definitely not to go to the county for retirement.
He's still young!
He still wants to keep climbing!
Lieutenant, lieutenant, is his next target.
And his ultimate biggest dream is to be ordered by the Son of Heaven, to be a general, to stand on the left side of the court, to wear a red robe and a purple waist, and to be famous in Dahonglu. Towards the Taimiao.
Of course, he was well aware. If this dream is to be realized, there must be war.
Only in the midst of war. Only then can we break the restrictions of class and break through the shackles of seniority.
Otherwise, if he has been fine, with his family background, social status and connections, he may be just a school captain until he dies.
"In the next war, I will strive to enter the main force and be the general in the front!" Huang Kuang thought in his heart.
This time, the Great Wall came out of the Great Wall in front of the fine willow camp, although it won countless victories. But in fact, the military merits are much inferior to the hussar army that fights head-on.
This can be seen from the number of princes and feudal lords announced this time.
This time, the Han army gave birth to one hundred and forty-five feudal lords and thirteen marquis in one go.
However, the Willow Camp did not even get a tenth of the places.
Although the Hosoliuying has more rewards than the others, this title and official position are inferior to others.
This is the difference between support and workhorse.
If you want to be promoted and make a fortune, you must undoubtedly be the main force.
As for Huang Kuang, the good news is that he has been selected as one of the cuirassier reserve officers of the Xiliu Battalion.
Together with his boss Sun Zhen, he will go to the Tiger Benwei after the summer to train and gain training and combat knowledge of the cuirassiers.
Then return to the Hosolius Camp. Organize the cuirassiers of the Hosoyanagi battalion.
This is an honor and a guarantee of the future.
But there are also great challenges.
Cuirassiers, notoriously high elimination rate.
Tiger feather forest, a total of 6,000 soldiers. But only two thousand people passed the screening.
And before they entered the Tiger Feather Forest, they were the elite selected from thousands of people in the world.
As for the cuirassiers, even a captain. The elimination rate is also terrible.
It is said that only two or three out of ten people can do it.
Everyone else was returned.
But as long as you pass the assessment. Became a cuirass officer.
This future can only be said to be limitless.
Now. In the world of the Han family, there were only 2,000 cuirassiers.
Among the two thousand cuirasses, there were only less than 400 captains, but only 200 captains, 40 team leaders, 20 Simas, and 10 captains.
In other words, today's cuirass Sima, as long as he is not a mid-way soldier, in the future, the generals and marquis, it will be easy, and even Jiuqing can come in turn.
"I, I will glorify my ancestors!" Huang Kuang said in his heart.
Then, he took his subordinates and entered Huayin City.
When he entered Huayin City, he found that the entire city gate was already crowded with the old folks who had come to welcome him home.
The rangers who used to frolic with him, play, and fight cocks and lackeys looked at his costume with a look of worship and admiration.
Many even shouted in the crowd: "Da Lang! Boom! But do you still want to be a soldier? The younger brother is willing to serve Da Lang and drive for Da Lang! ”
In the Han Dynasty, if you want to change your fate, the only way to join the army is the most practical.
The main purpose of the Han army's return to his hometown is also to select qualified soldiers from his fathers and sons to enrich his ranks.
However, in the past few months in the army, Huang Kuang has learned a truth - the army does not require reckless men who like to act as personal heroes.
On the contrary, most of the army prefers those peasant children who are honest and simple and do not say a word.
Just like the fine willow camp, they never choose rangers, they are all filled with good families.
The Han family's Yulinwei and Hubenwei only chose soldiers from Beidi and Longyou, as well as Liangjiazi and Beidi knights of Daiguo.
Therefore, none of these former playmates are in his plan.
The source of soldiers he wanted was in the countryside, in the countryside, in those honest, hard-working tenant families and homesteaders.
And this requires his father's help to investigate the family style and observe the person.
Be sure to choose a loyal and reliable farmer's son, preferably a young man with whom you have a tenant relationship.
Only such a source of soldiers can be reliable, useful, and help oneself.
In addition to these rangers, the three elders and squires of Huayin City also came.
These people are all elders that Huang Kuang was familiar with before.
At this moment, these people's eyes lit up one by one, as if they saw a rare treasure, and they came forward one after another, shouting and asking for warmth.
"Nephew, I'm your uncle of the Wang family......" The pot-bellied businessman rubbed his hands and stepped forward to brush his face: "Do you remember?" I hugged you when I was a kid! ”
There are also literati with feather crowns and scarves, and they arched their hands and said: "Huang Xian's nephew, I am good friends with the third generation of the Ru family, I knew when I was young, you are not a thing in the pool, and now, it is really ......."
There are even official figures who used to be very strict with him in the past, and said with a smile: "Martial arts, the cadre of the country, I already knew that Huang Jialang was a hero, and he was treated harshly in the past, but it was a spur, and sure enough, it was ......."
And these people go around the old age, and in the end, they will mention one thing: virtuous nephew, I have a daughter in my family, twenty-eight years old, very virtuous and virtuous, I have admired virtuous nephew for a long time, I don't know if the virtuous nephew is willing to see it?
But Huang Kuang is just enthusiastic about these people, and he responds to a story.
Before joining the army, Huang Kuang never thought that he could be where he is today.
However, now, he has a small amount of merit, because of Sun Zhen's relationship, his name is even known to Wei Chi, the commander of the Xiliu Battalion, and he has also been appreciated by the latter.
Therefore, his ambition will inevitably swell.
"To be an official should be a ruling Jinwu, and to marry a wife should be to marry a ......" he groaned in his heart, and then spit out the name: "Han's female ......"
Two years ago, when Huang Kuang was still a ranger, he rubbed shoulders with a noble girl on the streets of Chang'an, and he was shocked ever since.
Later, after Huang Kuang's efforts, he inquired and learned that the other party was the granddaughter of the current patriarch, Gong Gaohou Han Yandang, although he was only a concubine, but it was not something he could cling to.
But now......
"As long as I can become a cuirass Sima, I can ask Du Wei to be my matchmaker and come to the door to propose marriage, and Gong Gaohou will not refuse a cuirass Sima to propose marriage......" Huang Kuang clenched his fists, and he felt that his life was bright.
This is why the best men of the Han family will work hard to join the army.
Because, the army has its own golden house, and the army has its own Yan Ruyu.
As long as you have the ability, you will make military achievements.
Once unattainable, even if it is a fantasy, it is impossible for a noblewoman, a lady, will be dressed up by her family in an instant, carrying countless dowries, sent into the house, be your good wife, make an oath of white head, take the covenant of one heart, hold the hand of the son, and grow old with the son!
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At this moment, the various township pavilions in the entire Guanzhong generally have an atmosphere similar to Huang Kuang's homecoming.
Those heroes who joined the army and joined the army returned from the front line with military merits, siblings and a better life in the future.
Many families have had their circumstances completely changed.
From the house of the common people, to the family of scholars, the home of the general, the number is not countable.
Many rangers and fugitives have been whitewashed because of this, from the sinners and shame of the family to the glory and pillar of the family.
But it's not all joy.
There are also many families who have not waited for their sons, husbands, and brothers to return safely with honor and wealth.
What they were waiting for was a coffin.
The local officials came to his house with the soldiers carrying the coffin.
The coffin was covered with the battle flag of the army in which the hero was alive.
"Boss, please mourn and change, noble son, fight bravely, bravely kill the enemy, you are really a good husband and a good man......"
Along with the coffin, there were also the hero's pensions and rewards, as well as the plaque of the [royal martyr's family] issued by the imperial court.
According to the latest edict of the Son of Heaven: those who die in the king's affairs, martyrs, their families, martyrs, my humerus, the backbone of the country, and their orders are more than Shandong, and officials are sent to inspect them.
According to the Han law, this family has enjoyed many privileges since then, and can also reduce or exempt field taxes and forced labor, and will also receive condolences and rewards from the state during the New Year's holidays. (To be continued.) )
PS: Huhu, there's another cute master!
Thank!