"The emperor's uncle decreed that one level of beheading would be rewarded with 50 acres of land! Two levels of beheading would be rewarded with a coat of slaves..."
On the Qing army's side, the team has been organized at this time, and Zhang Jing from various positions is announcing rewards.
The reward method of Duduo's department is relatively casual, unlike Emperor Zhu's, which already has strict rules and regulations - a strict system requires strong financial resources to guarantee it, otherwise it will not be realized!
Therefore, before each battle, the reward standards need to be announced.
And Duduo didn't have much money on hand, so of course he couldn't give out bonuses, and he couldn't give too many titles to the people below him. Officials and titles have no salary and no actual duties, so they are empty-handed. What is the use of giving them away? But Duduo has plenty of land! There are fewer people outside the customs and more land, and you can have as much land as you want.
Therefore, land has always been the target of Duduo's rewards for his subordinates.
However, the land in the Qing Dynasty was "owned by the emperor", and only the right to use it was granted. The right to use land can only be inherited and cannot be transferred in other forms other than inheritance, and the heir must be male. Because those who are qualified to receive land grants are bannermen who can undertake military service!
The land granted to the bannermen requires only a small amount of land rent, but the bannerman himself or his son who receives the land must bear corresponding military service - the military service in Duduo is not just as simple as sending an individual; You have to bear the burden of luggage, armor, horses and a certain amount of rations.
This is a lot of expense! Although Duduo will give the following certain subsidies (called luggage silver) based on the scale of the war, its duration and its own financial situation, it is certain that nine out of ten will be insufficient. The shortfall will have to be obtained through land management.
And operating the land requires labor!
So if we just give them land, the people below will have no energy... there will be no labor force! How much effort does it take to cultivate 50 acres of land? Without people to work, it is just a wasteland.
Therefore, the second reward target given by Duduo is the slaves, or serfs, or tenants.
On Duduo's side, slaves and tenants are actually the same thing... because Duduo has liberalized the recruitment of bannermen in order to expand the source of troops. As long as they voluntarily leave the customs and are willing to serve as soldiers for Uncle Duduo Yes, they are all bannermen. Therefore, the quality of the bannerman uncle is not good enough.
And those who are not willing to serve as soldiers, and are unwilling to bear the taxes and labor of the green flags and craftsmen (the merchants and craftsmen who have left the customs are all included in the green flags), then the only option is to rent land - they are preparing Here is the coated slave.
Whoever rents the land is the owner of the land. The obligation of the slaves is to pay the rent. In theory, the wife and daughter do not have to serve the master... In addition, it is not the "master" who decides how much the land rent will be. Forget it, it was stipulated by Duduo's small court that it couldn't be too high, otherwise no one would be willing to leave the seclusion as a slave. It cannot be too low, otherwise the master will suffer losses.
In addition, the slaves of the slaves are not necessarily "private"; there are also "public" slaves, that is, they rent public land and pay rent to the Duduo government.
Generally speaking, the life outside the Guanwai is still passable, but there is no freedom (except for Xianglv, other bannermen are not free either). Once the "master-slave relationship" (actually the relationship of renting land) is established, there are only two There are two ways to legally terminate the title: one is death (if Bao Yi still has a son, the son will continue to be Bao Yi); the other is military promotion.
Baoyi can also join the army as a soldier, and can also achieve meritorious service. After making meritorious deeds, you can also get land and clothing. The coating will be replaced after it is coated. That is to say, the coat he got will replace him to farm the land for his master, and he will become the master of the banner man.
Therefore, some young farmers who have been working as coatmen for several years, have saved a little family fortune, and want to take a step further are also willing to join the army.
Therefore, there are many coated soldiers in Duduo's army.
In addition, there are many coated slaves who serve as heavy supplies or auxiliary troops in the army. The former are generally "publicly owned" and can be rented free of charge when out in battle. The latter are mostly "private coats" of the old Manchurian vests. The vest soldiers are very grand, and it would be too tiring to serve them without their coats.
The baggage soldiers and auxiliary soldiers can also be granted land and clothing if they have military merit... Even if they don't have any great merit, as long as the Duduo army makes good profits in the pass, they can still get some property.
To put it bluntly, Duduo, the great uncle of the Qing Emperor, was also a "businessman warlord" who treated the army and war as a business. How else could he have fun?
"Master Zhang Jing, we haven't entered the territory of Nanmanzi yet, where are we going to catch the slaves?"
"Master Zhang Jing, where are you going to find so many slaves?"
Some people in the Qing army who were preparing to go to war were already doubting Uncle Duotai's "solvency". Uncle Duotai had plenty of land, but where could he catch Baoyi?
Looking at the current situation, it seems that there is no way to enter the territory of the Ming Dynasty...
Duduo has already expected this kind of doubt, so Niu Lu Zhangjing below now has something to say.
"Don't worry! The Emperor's uncle said that there are many slaves in Beizhili!"
"As long as we defeat Shi Kefa and get the emperor out of Tianjin Guard, why won't Beizhili have to let us go through all the trouble?"
Northern Zhili is almost completely destroyed... There are still 30,000 to 40,000 Mongolian warriors causing trouble somewhere! These people were originally tricked by Shunzhi into being cannon fodder, but Shunzhi got hot-headed and walked out of Beijing and was trapped in Tianjin Wei. At the same time, he also attracted the Ming army to his side. So these Mongolians just herded the sheep and no one took care of them! They are now at war with the people in Beizhili!
However, the people in Beizhili now live together in fortress-like villages. It is not easy for the Mongols to plunder them, but if Duduo's regular army wants to go up, that is another story.
"Long live the great uncle! Long live the great uncle, long live the great uncle..."
After knowing that Duduo would not become a deadbeat, the Qing army, which was ready to go, was finally inspired and began to shout for long live.
Dodo himself, at this time, was escorted by 2,000 fully armed Baja soldiers, wearing a white plate armor, riding a brown Andalusian horse with a shoulder height of more than three feet, and came out of his camp. The camp gate appeared in front of tens of thousands of "White Qing troops" who lined up neatly.
After the Battle of Jieshi Mountain, Duduo's authority rose again, while the independence of the Nine Banners outside the Pass declined further. In order to further weaken the presence of the Nine Banners, the Qing troops under Duduo began to unify their uniforms, using white as the main color of their uniforms, flags, and armor.
Seeing the excitement of the three armies, Duduo breathed a sigh of relief and gave an order to the generals surrounding him: "Start setting up the formation!"
Because the Ming army's large army was approaching, Duduo's army did not have to run too far to the battlefield.
The battlefield is right outside the gate of Duduo's camp!
The formation laid out by Duduo was very simple. Among his "Ten Yamen" infantry troops, the "Nine Yamen", with about 21,600 people, formed a large horizontal array with two rows at the front and back based on the Niulu horizontal array.
Two large horizontal formations are composed of 40 and 32 Niulu horizontal formations put together respectively. The front of each Niulu horizontal formation after unfolding is about a hundred steps, and a certain space is left between the Niulu horizontal formations. Therefore, when the 40 Niulu horizontal formations in the front formation are fully deployed, they form a front of about 5,500 steps.
On the flanks of the two large horizontal formations, many baggage vehicles were placed to prevent the Ming Army's musketeers from detouring.
In front of the two large horizontal formations, there are 8 field Wu Zhenchao Ha Niulu, with a total of 96 3-pound cannons lined up, and the firepower is still very fierce!
Duduo's cavalry, including all the valiant cavalry (the traditional Eight Banners vests) and forward battalion cavalry, as well as Duduo's own Baya soldiers (actually also traditional cavalry), are placed in the open area behind the formation and in front of the camp. .
The "baggage and clothing soldiers" all stayed at the camp to look after Duduo's house. The "auxiliary coated soldiers" follow their masters (valid cavalry and Baya soldiers).
In addition, there were 8 Niulu belonging to the infantry yamen who were ambushing in Deshengdian to prevent the Ming army from making a detour from Deshengdian.
Therefore, the actual number of Qing troops who went to battle was as many as 66,000!
But the Ming army that first appeared in front of them was less than 20,000... What's going on?
