Quanzhou Health Camp, Public Office.
Huang Senping, Qianhu Quhuan, Yu Siye, Wuju and others stood solemnly.
Gu Zhengchen pointed to the imperial edict on the table and looked at everyone majestically: "The edict is very clear. From today on, I will be in charge of the Quanzhou Guard. Do you have any objections?"
No one spoke.
The imperial edict has been taken out, no one dares to object.
Gu Zhengchen nodded slightly and ordered: "Tomorrow morning, the sergeants of the guard camp will be arrayed at the training ground."
Huang Senping, Yu Siye and others looked at Gu Zhengchen in awe, saluted and left.
Lin Baifan grinds.
Gu Zhengchen spread out the paper, held it down with a paperweight, and looked at Xiao Cheng: "The Quanzhou Guard is no better than the Twelve Guards of Jinling, and even worse than those brave warriors of the Yulin Guard. In only one year, do you think you can train them?" "
Xiao Cheng shook his head: "It's difficult! Since the Yulin Guards were defeated by the Jurong Guards, His Majesty ordered Mao Xiang to retrain the Yulin Guards. Mao Xiang eliminated some weak ones, but these weak ones were other guards. The strongest among the sergeants. In other words, the current Yulin Guards are the same as the sergeants of the pro-army Duwei Mansion. They are tiger and wolf warriors who can serve as His Majesty's personal guard on the battlefield!"
"Although the Quanzhou Guards have seen blood and fought in battles, the blood they saw was not mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and the battles they fought were not thousands of troops and horses! They did not experience the most brutal wars, and did not fight until they were exhausted and then kill again. Come out with new strength. If you want to use Quanzhou Guard to defeat Yulin Guard in one year, it is impossible."
Gu Zhengchen agreed with Xiao Cheng's view.
Time is too short.
Give yourself three years to be sure to defeat Habayashi Wei.
But there is only one year. In such a short period of time, if you want to train the Quanzhou Guard sergeants into tiger and wolf warriors, fight against the Yulin Guards and win, it is not a question of whether it is difficult or not, but a question of possibility and impossibility.
Xiao Cheng looked at Gu Zhengchen and said, "Maybe you will stay in Quanzhou Mansion for a few more years."
Gu Zhengchen leaned on the back of his chair, flipping a copper coin in his right hand, pondering for a long time, and said firmly: "In one year, defeat the Yulin Guards!"
Xiao Cheng stared at Gu Zhengchen: "This is impossible!"
Snapped!
Gu Zhengchen slapped the copper coins on the paper and looked up at Xiao Cheng: "I just want to make the impossible possible! Quanzhou Guard may not have no chance of winning. Don't forget, the prince is talking about Quanzhou Guard and Yulin Guard The competition doesn’t say how it will be fought, and it doesn’t have to be a win-or-lose game!”
Xiao Cheng's expression changed: "You don't want to use firearms to win, do you? That won't work."
Gu Zhengchen chuckled and said, "Is there any point in using firearms?"
Xiao Cheng shook his head: "As I said before, this is impossible."
It is impossible to kill people in the competition, and firearms cannot be used. Without the trick of firearms, Quanzhou Wei has no chance of winning.
Gu Zhengchen took off his brush, moistened the ink and said, "I need your help."
"I?"
Xiao Cheng was very surprised.
Gu Zhengchen said seriously: "Yes, judging from the fact that you taught me archery, you are a qualified instructor. So, you should be the first instructor of the Quanzhou Guard. Only you here know best how strong the Yulin Guard is. You know how far you can train them.”
Xiao Cheng looked at Gu Zhengchen depressedly: "I want to be the instructor? I am a Qianhu member of the Imperial Guard's Mansion. You want me to be the instructor?"
"One month, three jars of strong wine."
"Five altars!"
"make a deal!"
Gu Zhengchen knew that Xiao Cheng was a good wine. Although the Gu family no longer distilled alcohol, they still steamed a lot of spirits, mainly for giving away. For example, after Xu Da received the wine from the Gu family, he promised to give Quanzhou Wei 300 bottles of alcohol.
Considering that many sergeants were good drinkers, Gu Zhengchen had someone steam a batch of spirits before leaving Jinling and brought them all to Quanzhou.
Xiao Cheng had drunk it and knew what wine was and what glutinous rice wine was.
After taking care of Xiao Cheng, Gu Zhengchen began to think about military training strategies.
For veterans like the Quanzhou Guard, it is impossible to surpass the Quanzhou Guard within a year simply by training in physical fitness and martial arts. If they want to win, in addition to paying attention to physical fitness and martial arts training, they must also have an iron will and strong resistance to strikes. , an unparalleled winning mentality, and combined with a reasonable battle formation, will have a chance.
The bright moon is in the east.
The bright moon is in the west.
The morning star watched the night go by.
The Quanzhou Guards sergeants lined up neatly on the teaching field, looking at Gu Zhengchen who was on the general stage in the morning light.
Gu Zhengchen wears a black gauze hat, a red regimental collar shirt, and a gold and silver flower belt around his waist. What is eye-catching is the patch on the regimental collar shirt. It is neither the prefect's cloud goose nor the commander's tiger, but Kirin!
This is a general uniform, not within the ninth rank!
"Military Officer's Uniform Song" says:
The duke's consort, Qilin Bai Zeqiu.
One or two embroidered lions, three or four tigers and leopards are excellent.
The fifth grade Xiong Junjun, the sixth and seventh grades are designated as Biao.
Eighty-nine is a seahorse, and the pattern is a rhinoceros.
Gu Zhengchen is not a prince, nor is he the son-in-law of Zhu Yuanzhang. Logically speaking, he is not qualified to use Qilin to mend his son. But there is no way. The court only has such a living county man. Even the Ministry of Rites is too lazy to design a set of clothes for Gu Zhengchen. Zhu Yuanzhang It's also grand. Since it doesn't have it, just use Gonghou Bo's unicorn suit.
I don't know if Lao Zhu is used to being thrifty. After asking the Ministry of Rites to give Gu Zhengchen two sets of unicorn suits, he didn't even give him the commander's tiger suit.
But Gu Zhengchen didn't mind, the unicorn was much prettier than the tiger.
Facing the Quanzhou Guardsmen, Gu Zhengchen took out the imperial edict again and shouted sternly: "Quanzhou Guardsmen listen to the edict!"
Huang Senping, Yu Siye and others led the sergeants to salute.
Gu Zhengchen unfolded the imperial edict, took a deep breath, and shouted at the top of his lungs: "The emperor is destined to carry the emperor, and the edict says: Gu Zhengchen is hereby appointed as the commander of the Quanzhou Guard. He is fully responsible for the training and training of the Quanzhou Guard, and has the power of life, death, and transfer. Not subject to provincial control, but directly taking orders from the Governor-General! I appreciate this!"
Huang Senping, Yu Siye and others were still a little shocked when they heard this decree for the second time.
The most critical part of this decree is not the appointment, but the "right of life, death and transfer"!
Huang Senping had never seen or heard of anyone receiving such a decree. Even Xu Da, Li Wenzhong and others did not necessarily have the "power of life and death" over the army!
After all, once this decree is issued, the general can install his cronies openly, drive away or even kill those who do not obey his orders, and then actually control the army and support the troops with self-respect! But Gu Zhengchen actually received such an imperial edict!
Yu Shine felt his mouth was a little dry. After swallowing a few times, he realized that his throat was a little dry.
Unparalleled power!
At this moment, Gu Zhengchen has the power of life and death over the Quanzhou Guard soldiers. Everyone's life and future are in his hands!
More than five thousand soldiers were also shocked by the content of this decree, and none of them dared to speak.
Gu Zhengchen put away the imperial edict and shouted "Accept the edict" before Huang Senping and others. After the whole army stood up, they solemnly said: "You all heard clearly and heard clearly. I, Gu Zhengchen, am the highest officer of the Quanzhou Guard! You all! I am a soldier, and it is the bounden duty of a soldier to obey orders! I will not bother to discuss with the magistrates and magistrates like I did in the prefect's yamen! I just give orders, and you just execute them! If you can't do that, leave the Quanzhou Guard!"
"I know that there are many sergeants in Quanzhou Guard who want to leave the military and switch from military households to civilian households! Now is an opportunity. In the next year, Quanzhou Guard will eliminate 2,600 sergeants, leaving only 3,000 Sergeant! This also means that nearly half of you will leave the Quanzhou Guard! Of course, from today on, anyone who wants to leave the Quanzhou Guard camp will be allowed by me and will not be held back!"
Qianhu Yu Siye frowned.
Last night, Gu Zhengchen didn't say these words.
It's over. Does he know the situation? Being a sergeant is really not as good as being a farmer. Farmers have more freedom. They can work when they want to work and be lazy if they don't want to. But as a sergeant, you have to participate in endless training. You still have to reclaim wasteland and farm land, and sometimes you have to fight tooth and nail to kill Japanese pirates and pirates, and you don’t get much compensation even if you die.
Let them leave, isn't this what they want?
There are many people who are eager to leave the guard camp. You don't need to look back to know that there is some commotion among the sergeants, and many people are looking forward to this.
Huang Senping looked at Gu Zhengchen expressionlessly, wondering what he was thinking. Thousands and hundreds of other households were also dumbfounded.
When a new official takes office, he will do everything possible. You come up with a hoe and directly cut off the roots of the Quanzhou Guard.
Without the sergeant, would the Quanzhou Guard still be considered the Quanzhou Guard?
Gu Zhengchen stood on the high platform, and he could naturally see the movements of the sergeants and the smiles on some people's faces. After the sergeants calmed down, he said: "Let's talk about food and salary. At the moment, in the guard camp, Qianhu Yue is given three stones and five measures of rice." , three stones for a thousand households, two stones and five bushels for a hundred households, two stones for the cavalry army, one stone and five bushels for the general flag of the infantry, one stone and two bushels for the small flag, one stone for the sergeant, eight bushels of rice per month for the military craftsman, and one stone for the funeral expenses for those who die in battle. If someone dies in the camp, five dou will be given as funeral expenses. Those who have a family will be given two kilograms of monthly salt, and those who have no family will be given one kilogram of monthly salt..."
Huang Senping, Yu Siye and others listened with some sadness in their hearts.
Yes, this is the reality of the generals of the Ming Dynasty. Even if they have a thousand households and are in the fifth rank, they only need three stones and five buckets of rice a month, and forty-two stones a year. An ordinary sergeant earns no more than twelve stones a year.
If you die in battle, you will basically get a big bag of rice, which is about the same as your body weight, and that's all.
Gu Zhengchen looked at these soldiers with some sympathy in his eyes.
The Ming Dynasty was famous for its low salary, and I don’t know how many years it has been scolded. But if you study carefully, you will find that the low salary that everyone criticizes is only the salary of civilian officials. Compared with military attachés of the same level, the salary is so small and sad.
Taking a thousand households as a whole, the average household income is 42 kilograms per year. Let's look at the civil servants, the fifth rank, with an annual salary of 180 stone meters.
The salary of Qianhu is not even comparable to that of a seventh-grade civil servant!
Don't be surprised. Logically speaking, civil and military salaries of the same grade should be the same, but in fact there are obvious deviations in the implementation process.
Of course, this deviation is not without reason. Soldiers fight during the war, farm in the fields during non-war times, and can also raise a few pigs and grow some vegetables. It can be seen that a seventh-grade official like this in the county cannot plow the land, raise pigs, and has no extra income...
Low salary!
Such a bloody reality has always existed in the guardhouse.
It’s no wonder that in the early days of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, many hundreds or thousands of households fled and stood on their own hills to protest. Isn’t this looking down on people? Why should civil servants make more money with pens than those with knives? ?
Gu Zhengchen knew that the sergeants were in poverty and took in orphans and widowed mothers when he was in Jurong. Their husbands died in the war and they arrived in Jurong penniless.
Why penniless?
Because sergeants don't get much treatment, and even if they die, they don't get a good pension.
