We agreed to come here to enjoy the blessings, but after a few days, we ate chaff every day. Lan
This made the soldiers of the Qi army accumulate anger. When they saw the food in the barrel again, they started to make a fuss.
"Why is the food worse than the food in the north?" Qi's soldiers protested loudly, "We want to eat meat!"
Song Jun's cook, who was carrying the rice bucket, was surrounded and quickly explained, "We also eat this every day, everyone is the same, we still want to eat meat!"
Naturally, the Qi soldiers didn't believe it. A man said: "Don't try to lie to us! Brothers, they must have deducted our food! Let's go and see what they eat!"
After the five hundred Qi troops crossed the river, Ma Degong was showing off in Chuzhou City, but they ate chaff every day and felt a fire in their hearts, thinking that the Song army was treating them differently.
After all, Song Dynasty was rich and promised to give him money as long as he came over. The treatment could not be so bad.
In fact, although the Song Dynasty was wealthy and had high military expenditures, ordinary soldiers lived a miserable life. Lan
The Song Dynasty adopted a strategy of strong branches and weak branches. Among the Song army, the forbidden troops were treated well, followed by the troops stationed at the border. The inland Xiang troops were no different from the slaves of the generals.
The status of military generals in the Song Dynasty was low, and the generals did not have power, so they naturally had no choice but to make money.
Therefore, even famous generals like Han Shizhong have some ideas about military pay.
Although Zhao Tai's annual military budget is far less than that of the Song Dynasty, and is not even a fraction of that of the Song Army, the treatment of ordinary soldiers in the Qi Army is actually no worse than that of the local army of the Song Army.
Although the Southern Song Dynasty allocated a lot of money, most of the money went into the pockets of officials and generals, and it was good to have half of it in the hands of the soldiers.
In addition to having ideas about military pay, they also had an eye for military supplies and food. As a result, ordinary soldiers in the Song Army lived a very average life.
Although the military expenditure of the Qi army is small, the money does not go through the generals. The newly formed bureaucratic team maintains the efficiency and integrity of the new force. For the time being, there is no phenomenon of empty pay and blood soldiers. Lan
Therefore, for the same amount of money, the Qi army could eat meat, but the Song army could only eat chaffy vegetables due to repeated deductions.
When these five hundred soldiers were on the north bank, they ate rice bought from the Southern Song Dynasty every day, and they could also eat fish every three days. It can be said that they were better than the Song army in terms of food.
Of course, this is mainly due to Zhao Tai's development of whaling and fishing industries in Haizhou, which can provide the army with a large amount of sea fish.
If the land of Qi did not have the advantage of fish and salt, the soldiers of the Qi army would have to eat pickles every day like the Song army.
In fact, Zhao Tai also wants the soldiers to eat pork and mutton, but there are no pastures in Shandong, the livestock industry in the villages and towns has not been restored, and even the breeding problem has not been solved. People can't buy piglets and lambs if they want to raise them, so it is not possible for the time being. .
At this time, the five hundred Qi troops abandoned their food buckets and rushed directly to the Huotou camp to see what the Song soldiers were eating.
Everyone rushed in confidently, believing that they were being treated differently. They all thought that Song Jun was carrying a lot of fish and meat on their backs, but they didn't expect to lift the lid of the pot and eat all the rice, bran, radish and pickles. Lan
"You guys should eat this too!" The leading Qi army officer said with disbelief on his face.
The Song Army general who was responsible for guarding the Qi army came after him, with a somewhat different expression on his face, "We only have two meals here, how could you eat better than this in the north?"
The soldiers of the Qi army stopped talking after hearing this, "Damn, I was tricked by Ma Degong!"
At this time, the leader of the Song Army who was responsible for surveillance hurried over with his soldiers. Seeing many Qi troops crowded here, he couldn't help shouting: "Zhi Niang, what do you want to do? Do you want to rebel?"
When the Qi army saw that the Song army was eating the same food as them, their anger was half gone. In addition, with the absence of the officers, the soldiers had no backbone, and their arrogance was immediately suppressed.
At this time, the Song army all asked why, and couldn't help but sneer again and again. Among the Song army, only officers like him could eat and drink every day. If they, the soldiers, could also eat meat, how could the officers make money?
Du Tou glanced at everyone with disdain, "Who do you think you are? If you want to eat meat, wait until you become an officer! Do you like to eat or not? If not, I will starve."
The soldiers of the Qi army had no choice but to go back to eat without an officer.
"Damn it, I have seen through it all. Song Jun is here to enjoy the blessings of being an official, and we will suffer!"
"Yes, Ma Qianhu and his officers went to prostitutes in the city, and they ate hot and spicy food, while we ate bran-thick vegetables."
"In that case, King Linyi's side is better."
"Yes! Occasionally we can eat meat and vegetables without talking about meat, but officers also have to eat from the same pot as us."
When the Qi army was eating, they would inevitably complain to each other. The Song army's officers were not good people and the food for the soldiers was not good.
This made the Song army who guarded them gradually curious about what they were eating in the north and what the Qi army generals were eating. Lan
The soldiers were locked up in the camp without any training and just bragging and beating all day long. Over time, the soldiers on both sides became familiar with each other.
At this time, Song soldiers always heard Qi Jun say that the north was good, so they couldn't help but inquire about some news about the north. But every time Qi Jun said that the food in the north was good, with white rice, broth, and fish, Song Song The sergeant didn't believe it.
They always said, "It's so nice in the north, why are you crossing the river?", which made the Qi soldiers speechless.
A few days later, more than 2,000 Qi soldiers brought by Lu Wenhuan also entered the camp. After they had a meal, the Qi soldiers started to make trouble again, and many people began to clamor to return to the north bank.
This made the Song Army officers and soldiers in custody wonder, is life in the north really better than them?
Shi Zhaizhi was generous to the generals and gave Lu Wenhuan 20,000 yuan at once.
Lu Wenhuan's salary in the Qi Army was only 20 guan a month. With the current military salary, he had to work without food or drink for more than 80 years to save such a huge sum of money. Lan
Therefore, Shi Zhaizhi's plan was extremely tempting to the officers of the Qi Army.
If you have a darker heart, you can pull someone over, and then swallow all the money like a horse gaining power, or only give part of it to your subordinates. It can be said that you can save a few years of hard work.
Faced with such a huge sum of money, Lu Wenhuan was actually a little shaken in his heart.
However, Lu Wenhuan was not a short-sighted person. Zhao Taizhong used the Lu family brothers and insisted on regaining the rivers and mountains. He could see that the King of Linyi would achieve great things in the future.
Twenty thousand guan is indeed tempting, but compared to the possible achievements following Zhao Tai, Lu Wenhuan chose the latter.
He had not been in the Qi army for a long time, but during this period Zhao Tai integrated the military and government, Shandong exuded vigorous vitality from top to bottom, and the vassal government showed high efficiency, which was not comparable to the Song Dynasty that had lost its will to enter and was sluggish.
At this time, in the inn, Lu Wenhuan saw the officer sent by Xia Gui and asked him to go back and suppress his subordinates. Lan
Lu Wenhuan asked the reason and learned that the soldiers across the river were quarreling in the camp because of the food, so he immediately said: "Help me get up, I have to go to the Zhiji Department first and let Mr. Shi improve the food for the brothers! The food will not be improved. , how can we retain people?”
