In the afternoon of the same day, the commendation order from the Licheng Guard Station came down. A thick roster gave everyone who participated in the investigation of the Qi family's murder case something to know.
Ordinary soldiers are rewarded with a uniform reward of ten thousand taels of silver, and their merits are recorded once!
The strongman will be rewarded with twenty thousand taels of silver, and his meritorious deeds will be recorded twice!
The school commander rewarded him with 20,000 yuan of silver plus a Xiaopei Yuan Dan, which will be recorded as a reward for his third-level meritorious service!
Xiao Qi was rewarded with 50,000 taels of silver and two Xiao Pei Yuan Dan, which will be recorded as a meritorious service at the third level!
The reward this time was far more generous than Shen Hao expected.
Silver rewards are secondary. Except for ordinary soldiers, no one who hangs out in Xuanqing Guard will be short of money.
Although the elixir reward is joyous, it is also reasonable.
The main surprise is the merit reward, which is not something easy to get. According to the rules of the Jingjiu Dynasty, there are nine levels of merit in total, which can be stacked in stages. Whenever the merits accumulate to nine levels, you can advance to the first level of title!
To put it simply, if an ordinary person can earn the ninth rank of merit, he can automatically obtain the lowest title of first-grade viscount in the Jing Dynasty, and jump into the ranks of the nobility.
If you already have a title, you can automatically advance to the next level after the ninth rank of merit. For example, a first-grade viscount can be automatically promoted to a second-rank viscount after reaching the ninth rank of merit. Each title is divided into nine grades, and so on.
And there is another important point, that is, there is no hereditary system in the aristocratic system of the Jingjiu Dynasty. Your father is a noble, but you are not. If you want to be a noble, then you have to work hard to earn meritorious service. There is no market for the second generation of nobles in the Jingjiu Dynasty to live idle and wait for death.
It doesn't matter if you don't have the ability to save enough meritorious service for the ninth rank. You can go to the Yamen to exchange your meritorious service for physical objects, such as money or land, or even exchange it for foreign slaves.
In a word, merit is the most practical ladder for ordinary people to climb to the top of society. You can imagine how precious it is.
Take Shen Hao for example. He worked in the Xuanqing Guards for eight years, from an ordinary soldier to a small flag officer. He experienced life and death countless times, but he only accumulated two meritorious achievements. Unexpectedly, one case this time would give him three meritorious services!
Now that he has meritorious service at rank five, Shen Hao can also hope that one day he will be able to earn up to rank nine and become a viscount, right?
According to the reward amount on the roster, Shen Hao took Wang Jian to the bank treasury of the guard station and received the full amount of silver notes and merit certificates. These things needed to be distributed to each of his soldiers with his own hands.
After that, he and Wang Jian went to the alchemy room to receive their respective Xiao Pei Yuan Pills, one for Wang Jian and two for him.
"Xiao Qi, pinch me, I feel like I'm dreaming! Not only are there pills to get, but you can also earn meritorious deeds!?"
Shen Hao smiled and kicked Wang Jian on the butt, and scolded with a smile: "You can keep a low profile when you get the advantage. You are only in the third rank, and you are still far away from your father's title."
Wang Jian is not a rootless retail investor like Shen Hao. He is a serious aristocratic child. I am a second-grade viscount, and my grandfather is said to be a third-grade viscount.
In fact, there were many aristocratic children like Wang Jian in the Xuanqing Guard. After all, if you want to earn merit, Xuanqing Weili is relatively safe.
"Hey, isn't it difficult at the beginning? If you take the lead, are you afraid that you won't be able to earn any merit in the future?"
"Okay, stop flattering me. I'm only at Level 5 and I've been saving for eight years. How can I help you earn merit? Go back and tell your family the good news."
"I will go back tomorrow. Today I have discussed with the brothers in the group and booked a table at Laifeng Tower. I would like to treat you, Xiaoqi, to a drink tonight."
"Oh, okay, you've got money and you don't have anywhere to spend it, right?"
"Look what you said, it's just a visit to Fenglou. What's wrong with this small amount of money, brothers? Can you give me a favor?"
Over the years, Shen Hao and his brothers in Group A have made a lot of money. Even the ordinary soldiers have deep pockets. They are indeed masters who are not short of money.
Shen Hao was not pretentious. His subordinates invited him to have a drink to celebrate. This was a favor, but he had to pay the bills, otherwise it would not look good.
"You can give me a favor, but I have to pay for it, otherwise I'll forget it."
"Ah? Xiaoqi, why are you doing this?"
"Stop, you know my character. There's no room for discussion on this matter. Either I treat you, and it's all mine to eat, drink and have fun tonight. Or I'll go home and go to bed early today."
Wang Jian had a wry smile on his face. Indeed, his little flag officer was true to his word and would never take any advantage of his subordinates.
So it was decided that Shen Hao would serve wine to everyone in the team at Laifeng Tower in the evening as a celebration banquet.
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It's night, and the lanterns are on.
Laifeng Tower is not the best flower tower in Licheng. It can only be ranked among the first-class ones at best.
Although it is said to be a building, it is actually only three stories high. There are halls, private rooms, and of course the embroidered pavilion.
The cost here is not low, the food is average but much more expensive than outside pubs, and the same goes for the drinks. Of course, the additional thing is that you can enjoy free singing and dancing performances, and if you are lucky, you can also see various oiran performances.
However, the guests in Laifeng Tower are not really here to drink, eat, watch singing and dancing, they are mainly here to find girls.
Whether you are fat, thin, tall, short, plump or skinny, you can find them all here, and there are various ways to play them, which can definitely satisfy everyone's fetishes.
In addition, Licheng is a hub city to the west of Jingjiu Dynasty. The rich people coming and going here are like crucian carp crossing the river, so Laifenglou's business has always been very good.
When Shen Hao walked into the box, everyone was already there, and there were four tables in the large box.
In the past, six tables could be filled, but now there are only four tables occupied. The difference between before and after is just one mission. He sighed in his heart, picked up the wine bottle on the table, and sprinkled it three times to the west to the ground. It was considered as a tribute to the brothers who died in Wuyang City. This is a custom on earth, but Shen Hao didn't care, he just wanted Peace of mind.
Everyone here ate from the same pot, so they naturally understood what Shen Hao was doing and didn't say a word. They just held the cup with red eyes and imitated Shen Hao's practice of drinking a cup of wine to pay tribute to the deceased.
After a brief reminiscence, people started eating and drinking, and the scene became intense from the beginning.
What's more important is that these guys learned the rules of drinking from Shen Hao. They had a lot of fun with things like "chopping firewood randomly", "fifteen and twenty", "please just invite", etc., and some even lost their minds. He even took off his shirt, wearing a big bowl of winning and losing clothes that made others blush.
Old God Shen Hao was drinking wine, and no one came to punch him. It's not because his identity is in the way, but he is invincible in front of these scum in terms of punching, and others have no interest in coming to harass them.
Not long after, the door of the box was knocked open, and the madam and Yingying Yanyan filed in.
This is the main pleasure of choosing Laifeng Tower.
These are all singers. They can sing, dance, play, and coax people at a professional level.
Of course, there are different levels of singers. From high to low, they are divided into the first-grade Zunyi Singer to the ninth-grade Miaoyin Singer. The gap is as big as heaven and earth. The difference is not only in appearance, but also in temperament and talent. The highest among the singers in Licheng is the fifth-grade Gongmo singer, and she is praised to the heavens.
Most of the people who entered the box were singers with no class. To put it bluntly, these singers were selling laughter for a living. To put it bluntly, there was nothing wrong with them being selling meat.
Shen Hao has become accustomed to these things over the years. He still remembered that he was still very shy at the beginning.
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