Chu Qing and Chang Xian were both curious as to how a dignified fourth-grade general could look like such a bear.
One was in the main hall and the other was outside the main hall. Changxian couldn't hold back and asked Tan Zhongping in a roundabout way. Chu Qing couldn't hold back and asked Tan Shangyi directly.
After the father and son said this, they understood the situation in Tan's house.
The Tan family is poor not because of a small salary, but because Tan Zhongping spends a lot of money.
Lao Tan doesn't have any bad habits, and he doesn't enjoy eating, drinking, prostitution or gambling. His only biggest shortcoming is his "righteousness".
Fengqi Camp is one of the eight camps in the garrison in Beijing, and it is also the most miserable camp in Beijing, but there is no one among them, it is the worst, at the bottom.
This is not to say that Fengqi Camp is incompetent in combat effectiveness. On the contrary, in recent years, Fengqi Camp has been the only one among the eight battalions that conducts separate operations.
Three years ago, when the Supreme Emperor had just seized the throne, the Grassland Liangrong took the opportunity to harass the border, plundered twelve border towns one after another, and massacred nearly Wanchang people.
After the Supreme Emperor ascended the throne, Long Yan was furious. Even though the foundation for the first great treasure was not stable, he still defied all opinions and dispatched one of the most elite Beijing battalions, Fengqi Battalion, out of the capital. Along the way, he gathered the military guards and Zhechong Mansion from various places and gathered 80,000 troops to leave the customs. Combat.
It is worth mentioning that it is not that the border army cannot transfer people from the border at great cost, but that the border army is to defend the border town. If they leave the border and they are stolen from the tower or hometown, it will be Barbie Q.
The Fengqi camp is a flag camp. It is best at long-distance raids. It is basically about finding a place to take revenge. After the Fengqi camp leaves the border, it breaks away from the infantry and goes deep into the grassland. If it does not fight a protracted war, it will be a guerrilla. It will avoid large tribes when it sees it, and it will avoid small tribes when it sees it. Just burn or kill, and gain level 10,000.
The Fengqi Battalion of 6,000 people was a partial division. They fought for three months and supported the war with war. In the end, the strength was almost wiped out, and there were less than 2,000 people left. The number of people was exhausted and the number was so small that they returned to the pass.
It was obviously a partial division that gained the most and displayed the vitality of the Dachang Dynasty. Compared with it, the infantry of the large army paled in comparison.
However, it is understandable that the infantry machine is not powerful enough. The Liangrong people have grown up on horseback. They cannot catch people at all. They run very fast. If they go deep into the grassland, they cannot keep up with the supplies of food and grass.
In short, if there is no Fengqi Camp, this trip out of the customs is basically in vain.
After returning to Beijing, Fengqi Battalion was still one of the eight battalions that guarded Changjing, but the establishment was ruined, with more than a thousand old soldiers left, and 23 out of 10 were left with lifelong disabilities.
It was necessary to recruit new soldiers, but these new soldiers had never been in a battle, and most of them were young soldiers. This caused the Fengqi Battalion, which was originally the most powerful, to become the weakest.
You must know that there are tens of thousands of people in the Eighth Battalion. In addition to daily training, they also have other things to do, such as building roads, cutting mountains, logging, suppressing chaos, calming people, and providing disaster relief, etc. The imperial court will assign one or more large battalions to go out of Beijing.
Although they are out of Beijing, everyone is rushing to build roads, open mountains and cut trees. The court will pay a lot of money, which is similar to overtime pay. The same money will be given to suppress chaos, calm the people and provide disaster relief, and will be distributed to the Ministry of War, which will distribute it as appropriate.
However, the Fengqi Battalion did not have many veterans, lacked cohesion, lacked combat effectiveness, and had the smallest number of soldiers, so this kind of "red job" was not their turn at all.
The other new soldiers were fine. Many of the old soldiers who came back from outside the customs were disabled and missing arms and legs.
In this case, the court provides pensions, but it cannot solve the fundamental problem. Forget about the older ones. If you have a mother-in-law and children, you can make do with it. But for the younger ones, there are elders and younger ones, and the small amount of food and salary is simply not enough. .
Tan Zhongping had always been in charge of the Fengqi camp. Seeing how successful it was, he tried every means to support the army, even spending his monthly salary. As time went by, the fourth-grade generals in Dachang Dynasty were left penniless.
After Chang Xian and Chu Qing heard this, they both felt heavy. The latter returned to the main hall. The two of them chatted casually for a few more words, bid farewell to Tan Zhongping, and agreed to bring someone to repair Tan's house another day. Next Times are certain.
After Old Tan sent the three of them out of the house, he was very happy and told Chu Qing to come and sit in the house more frequently, but it was best to choose a day when the sun was shining brightly.
When they left Tan Mansion, it was already dark. Chu Qing was worried, so he let Changxian go back to the palace with a few perfunctory words, while he took Fu San back to Chu Mansion.
Walking on the road, Chu Qing sighed: "It's not fair, it's really unfair."
"Master, what do you mean?"
"Qu Mingtong, you should settle the refugees outside the city. The refugees don't have enough to eat, but he buys slaves at low prices and entertains all day long. General Tan, take my good man from Dachang Dynasty out of seclusion to fight in the grasslands and promote our country's prestige. It's shameful, but in the mansion..." Chu Qing sighed deeply: "But General Tan's mansion is leaking everywhere, and there is not even a servant. It takes two young men to change the roof tiles... The eldest young master braved the rain himself. Climb to the roof.”
Fu San shook his head: "In the next life, even if you are a dog, you will not join the army."
Chu Qing's heart skipped a beat.
Even if you are a dog, you won’t join the army!
When a retired soldier utters these words, a dynasty is not far from being destroyed.
As a "experienced person", although Chu Qing is not an expert, he knows that the criterion for measuring whether a country is strong is its national defense strength.
There are so many countries in later generations, and some countries regard serving as a soldier as an honor, a capital to brag about for a lifetime, and a sense of pride that can be proud of for a lifetime.
Of course, in some countries, military service is compulsory. It doesn’t matter whether you are an actor or singer in a boy band or a girl band, or whether you grew up eating kimchi or barbecue. You must serve in the military unless you are a member of the military. The son of a rich man.
It’s a very simple truth. One side is a compulsory soldier, and the other side is a professional soldier full of honor and pride. Who will win and who will lose in a fight?
When a country or a dynasty has all the people despising the military, then the country is really about to end.
"The emperor was born as a general, right?" Chu Qing turned to look at Fu San: "Now that the emperor is in power, what about the generals and the army? Have they improved their treatment?"
"Master, I am just a nursing home. How could I know about such a thing?"
"Too."
Fu San patted his forehead lightly: "But I remembered a rumor."
"What rumors."
"When the emperor was still the fourth prince, he went to fight in Nanguan. The deputy general died in the battle. It must be that the food and grass were not supplied. The deputy general's head was chopped off by Fanman. The fourth prince went to rescue him and led people to slaughter the Fanman tribe. The lieutenant general restrained the body, and then rode back to the capital one by one. He rushed into the military office and beat the general in charge of food and grass dispatching into a disabled man. He also threatened that if anyone in the future did not take the lives of the troops seriously, he would kill him. Whose whole family was killed?”
Chu Qing's heart surged: "Is the Emperor so powerful?"
"It's a pity that the deputy general who died in the battle was also a fierce general. Why did he call him Wang?" Fu San sighed: "I heard that the familiar Pao Ze mentioned that the fourth prince knelt on the ground and cried bitterly when he saw the body of Deputy General Wang. The tears were so heavy that I didn’t know whether to hold my head and cry or hold the headless body.”
Chu Qing: "..."
It was a very touching thing, but when Fu San said this, Chu Qing felt weird no matter what he thought.
Yes, if you are beheaded, when you cry, should you hold your head or your body.
After thinking about it, Chu Qing felt that no matter how he hugged her, it felt wrong, and he couldn't hold one in each hand.
