Chapter 332 Secretly crossing Chencang(2/2)
Yan Jinglue's words sounded nice, and the troops were actually paid. The result was that the money was added to two or two months of silver, but was it actually paid? Wasn't it also the case that half of the money was paid and half was owed?
Three buckets of rice are gone. How much better is it than before?
As for those of us who are officials, I am a dignified Qianzong, and my annual salary is only fifteen taels of silver. What the hell, I only make a little more than one tael of silver a month. I am an official of the sixth rank.
The Green Camp of the Qing Army was famous for its low salary, which was basically inherited from the Ming Dynasty. For example, the dignified admiral and the first-rank military minister had a salary of only 81 taels a year, and the combined monthly salary was only 6 taels or 8 taels.
Therefore, the Qing government increased the salaries of military officers, including vegetables, candles, charcoal silver, and heart-red paper silver, adding up to six hundred taels a year, which equals fifty taels a month.
Although it has increased nearly ten times, for a dignified first-class military minister and a general who controls a province's green camp, this amount of money is nothing?
As for this General Zhao Qian, he is only a sixth-grade General Qian. Even the Shunzhi court has not yet given junior officers of this level other benefits besides salary. They are not entitled to any salary or other benefits for the time being.
Their apparent income is fifteen taels of silver this year, and then some lumi.
Yan Wogong reformed the Green Camp in Jiangnan and gave soldiers a salary increase of two to one month. He also gave officers such as General Qian and others a salary.
Mr. Qian gets a salary increase of thirty-six taels a year, and Mr. Ba gets a salary increase of twenty-four taels a year.
The fifth-level defense received an additional 48 taels of salary silver, the fourth-level Dusi received an additional 72 taels, and the guerrillas received an additional 120 taels.
Mr. Zhao Qian now earns three taels a month, but he is still only a little over four taels a month. He is not as good as a small soldier in the Ming army. A top-class soldier earns at least four taels a month.
Who can be happy if he can't compare with the Ming army's thousands of generals, or even with a small soldier?
Mr. Zhao Qian used to be an officer in the Ming Dynasty. In the past, the Ming Dynasty had a shadow-accounting system for followers, which is similar to the current food system in the south. It turns out that the followers of Ming army generals can also shadow-account for quotas of money and food.
But now the pro-military famous food system implemented by the Ming army in the south is more formal, comprehensive and generous.
But my father-in-law Yan was rectifying the situation, not learning the good things, but learning all the bad things.
Everyone finally found a way to make a living by reselling gunpowder, but now Chen Jin wants to chop off their heads.
This is completely no way to survive.
"Damn it, let's go against it. I'm still here fighting and working hard for them, but they are plotting against us in every possible way. So why are we going against it? Go against it!"
"Yes, there is no way to survive. If you rebel, we will contact other brothers to rebel together."
Mr. Zhao Qian stroked his beard and said, "Let's just stop doing it. Let's find a way to capture this Chen Jin. Then we can use Jiangzhou's fort and more than a hundred cannons to surrender to Lu Jianguo. Wouldn't we be able to change the situation and bring wealth to the world?"
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The officer who came to report the news did not expect Mr. Zhao Qian to be bold and quickly gave a thumbs up.
"Brother, I'll do it with you!"
Chapter completed!