Chapter 145: Envy
Zhu Youxiao brought Qin Liangyu and Wei Zhengxiong to Jinzhou.
Don’t ask why Zhu Youxiao could mobilize the troops from Shanhaiguan. After all, he was the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. It’s okay to mobilize some troops. The emperor personally came to you. Do you dare not listen and try to rebel?
As for why only the wolf soldiers and Shizhu soldiers were mobilized, or if Zhu Youxiao was not very relieved about the soldiers and horses of Shanhaiguan. After all, they were local snakes and they were always hang out in Liaodong, so they could be called arrogant soldiers and generals. Zhu Youxiao was a little worried that they would not obey the commands by then.
But there is no such concern when mobilizing the wolf soldiers and Shizhu soldiers. The wolf soldiers and Shizhu soldiers came from afar, and everything needed to be supplied by the imperial court. If the local officials were evil, they would dare to cut off food for the two teams in minutes. Therefore, Wei Zhengxiong and Qin Liangyu could only rely closely on the emperor and the imperial court, hoping that the emperor and the imperial court would remember more and not abandon them.
The journey of more than 300 miles is long or short. Fortunately, the soldiers at this time were all iron feet, and they rely on a pair of steady big feet to fight. Although they were running on their feet, the speed of the marching was still very fast. At this speed, they should be able to reach Jinzhou in two days.
I saw a long dragon moving rapidly from south to north towards the official road in Jinzhou.
Three large armies advanced side by side. The left wing was the wolf soldiers led by Wei Zhengxiong, the right wing was the stone pillar soldiers led by Qin Liangyu, and the middle was the three thousand guards.
Zhu Youxiao was riding on the horse and grabbed the reins tightly, for fear that it would fall off by accident. Zhu Youxiao, who was riding alone for the first time, was very nervous. His skin was sore that his thighs were overturned by the saddle. The base of his legs and thighs seemed to be on fire, and it was painful to be rubbed.
To be honest, Zhu Youxiao really wants to give himself a big mouth now. When he set off, he refused to make a carriage in order to show off and insisted on sharing the joys and sorrows with the officers and soldiers. Now he has a slap in the face! It’s not as easy as he thought!
My mother! How far is this far!
But gradually Zhu Youxiao adapted, and for some reason, he suddenly couldn't feel the existence of skin thighs, just as if he had never had skin thighs. It was so strange.
So Zhu Youxiao became bolder inexplicably, and even dared to carefully hit the horse's whip that was indefinitely unseen, and then said with a smug silence!
Fortunately, this horse was carefully selected, and then the horse carefully trained by the palace was not so frightened and had a very gentle temper, otherwise Zhu Youxiao would probably cry.
On the way, Zhu Youxiao discovered something strange. Although Wolf Bing and Shi Zhubing had already worn brand new mandarin duck battle jackets, their boots were uniformly strung together with a hemp rope and hung around their necks, and they seemed to be wearing straw sandals under their feet.
When he was camping in the evening, Zhu Youxiao came outside the tent of a Shizhu soldiers.
A few Shi Zhubing, who were resting in the camp, were talking in a low voice, and Zhu Youxiao could not understand anything. He thought he was envious of something.
Zhu Youxiao blocked Qin Liangyu, who was about to lift the curtain of the camp, and made a ban on her voice. He wanted to hear what the soldiers inside were talking about.
The embarrassing result was that Zhu Youxiao could not quite understand other people's dialects, so he had to let Qin Liangyu start translating.
A leader in the tent was bragging about his experiences to his men.
"Do you know? Just the black-bodied Qiu Ba who was with us today, do you know how much money they paid for a month?" Shi Chang sold his hand and deliberately attracted the attention of the soldiers in their camp.
"He is a large army in the capital, and he should pay a lot of money. I guess he must have at least one month......" A soldier in his grade stretched out ten fingers and thought about it. Maybe he thought the number was too big, so he retracted two fingers: "It's at least eight hundred cents!"
"Eight hundred cents, but a lot... no... no lot..." The soldier next to him said with envy.
It's really a lot. Thinking about it, I only have 300 cents a month, but I don't pay it every month. I haven't seen any salary for half a year. Even if I only have three dou of food per month, they can barely starve to death. Even so, they will still join the army, because if they don't join the army, they will really starve to death. At least they can still eat, and if they die, they will not feed wild dogs if they die.
Zhu Youxiao glanced at Qin Liangyu who was ashamed and couldn't help but feel a little surprised and a little clear. It seemed that these stone pillar soldiers were really not easy to live.
"Didn't the court allocate you military salary and food?" Zhu Youxiao asked in a low voice for fear of disturbing the people in the tent.
"This..." Qin Liangyu lowered her head and did not dare to say it.
She was stumped to tell the emperor that the military pay allocated to them by the imperial court disappeared after a few changes? Or is the grain distributed to them every year that is mixed with moldy rice in the grey and bran?
With only 30,000 stone pillar soldiers, Qin Liangyu recruited them only after spending all his family property. Among them, there were only 10,000 elite soldiers, and the rest were all new recruits.
Zhu Youxiao did not continue to ask, because the answer was already in his heart.
"Continue." Zhu Youxiao's voice became a little deeper.
"Bad!" Shi Chang looked at his subordinates with contempt. His ignorant ones were all mud legs that had never seen the world, and were far inferior to him.
"Tell you, it's this number!" Shi Long stretched out his two fingers and shook them.
"Two hundred texts! Uncle Takamu, you're talking too little. Qiu Ba from the capital only takes this little. I heard that the bricks on the ground in the emperor's palace are made of gold, so he can't bear to give this little money? He will pay the money to his subordinates?" A young soldier said that he was very disbelief.
"Huh!" The remaining soldiers also started to make excuses. They knew who this person was. They were really a person who would die if they didn't brag about it all day.
"Tell you! It's two taels of silver!" Shi Chang said hurriedly when he saw that they didn't believe it.
"Two taels of silver!" a soldier shouted.
"And it's real. The silver ingots sent directly to the hands are not a penny. I heard that each person still has ten taels of silver for the An family fee when recruiting soldiers." Shi Chang said with envy. When he was recruited, the An family fee was only one tael of silver and two tango of grain, not to mention the salary, which is only six hundred cents a month and still can't get the food. Even if the food ration is only four dou per month than these subordinates.
As soon as the two taels of silver was said, the Shizhu soldiers were immediately stunned. They grew up one by one and said nothing, as if their movements were frozen.
Chapter completed!