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For several days, several nights, the teams did not collect their teams crossed mountains and ridges, and they investigated the movements of the enemy bandits everywhere. Mei Zhihuan, Zhao Cheng and others even sent their elite servants out, but it was strange that no thieves were found nearby.

Finally, Ye Bubu took back the report when he went deep into the bandit's nest in Yinghuoshan District. There were indeed signs of going out when he returned to the left fifth camp, but the action was suspended.

Although this was good news, Zhao Cheng and others did not dare to be careless. They kept mobilizing the brave men of various villages and even recruited Minzhuang to deploy guards along the southern foot of the Dabie Mountains.

Zhao Cheng and Mei Zhihuan even directly regarded Taiping Station as their temporary headquarters. Even Hutou Pass is now stationed at the main barracks and horse teams of Baosheng Fort.

Seeing that there was no possibility of fighting for the time being, Liu Jun asked Zhao Cheng for leave.

"My subordinates plan to go back to Xiwan to recruit another team of recruits, and also purchase some supplies, so they come and ask for a few days off."

Zhao Cheng also knew that Liu Jun was planning to expand the Nine-Headed Bird to more than 300 people. He fully supported this plan. Anyway, as long as he didn't need to withdraw money, he would agree.

"The thief has not moved yet. It doesn't matter if you take a few days off. But if you want to go and go back early, you have to guard Hutou Pass." Mei Zhihuan said that although Baosheng Fort has troops stationed in Hutou Pass in Taiping Township, this army is considered a mobile force and must be maneuvered according to the enemy's situation. According to the deployment, Liu Jun's nine-headed bird is the guardian force guarding Hutou Pass.

After obtaining approval, Liu Jun returned to the inspection office.

"Jiye, come here to sit down, I have something to say to you." Li Chunjiang greeted Liu Jun with a little low expression.

"What's wrong?"

"Oh." Li Chunjiang sighed, "Jiye, I may not be able to control the Nine-Headed Bird's business in the future." When he mentioned this, he frowned. It was definitely not his whim. Later, he met Liu Jun, and they established this horse team together, recruited soldiers, purchased weapons, trained team members, and then sent troops to suppress bandits. Along the way, Li Chunjiang felt very at ease. He really felt that he was doing something useful and something real.

However, because of his injury last time, his family began to oppose him continuing to build the village group. He had insisted, but now after the news of a large number of thieves in the east were about to come, Li Chunjiang's parents really completely opposed him and stayed in the village group again. This time he was not allowed to object.

Li Chunjiang's father was very damn. They would not object to the fact that he wanted to pay money and grain, and would take out a large amount of money and grain to support the fight against the bandits. Even if he wanted to send people, the Li family could organize a group of servants and servants, but Li Chunjiang could no longer stay in the village group.

This decision is unquestionable, no discussion.

The Li family also expects Li Chunjiang to take the imperial examination tomorrow, win the Jinshi and win the top scorer. How could he let him take risks? The last time he beat a few thieves, he was already injured. If the sword was inserted a little more, Li Chunjiang would be defeated. Now the bandits in the east are thousands of bandits wandering around the world, with no eyes on swords and guns, who dares to take risks?

Liu Jun had expected this, and he was not surprised when he heard it, and he was not even unhappy. Li Chunjiang helped him a lot before. It can be said that if there were no Li Chunjiang, there would be no Nine-headed Birds Team. However, after all, he could not have been able to stay in the village group all the time.

Even Liu Jun suddenly felt that Li Chunjiang's withdrawal is not necessarily a bad thing. After he withdraws, the Nine-Headed Bird is no longer from the Li family, no longer from Li Chunjiang, but from him Liu Jun.

Even after Li Chunjiang withdrew, Liu Jun was not afraid of the money and grain support of the Li family. He had already had a large amount of money and grain reserves.

Due to Li Chunjiang's insistence before, the Li family did not have much influence on the Nine-Headed Bird, and the one who had influence was Li Chunjiang. Now, as soon as Li Chunjiang left, the Nine-Headed Bird will truly belong to him Liu Jun. He is no longer the team deputy, but the leader.

In this regard, this may be a good thing.

"Even if you are no longer in the team, you are still the founder of Jiutou and the founder. You can still support me and my brothers behind your back in the future." Liu Jun said with a smile. Li Chunjiang withdrew, but Liu Jun still hopes that Jiutou will get the support of the Li family in the future. Even if you don't have their money and food, you also hope to use their influence.

Li Chunjiang smiled and felt a little better. "Yes, if you have any questions in the future, you can come to me."

"The money from Qiting has not been withdrawn yet," Liu Jun mentioned the money.

That was nearly 30,000 taels of silver. It was said that the money belonged to the Nine-Headed Bird, but the Nine-Headed Bird was built by Li Chunjiang. This matter must be made clear now, otherwise problems will likely occur in the future.

However, Li Chunjiang didn't care about this. "What do you think of? That money is the money in the team. If there is that money, the team will not have to worry about money and food for a while. If the money is used up, you can come to me again, and I will help raise funds."

Seeing Li Chunjiang so free and easy, Liu Jun admired him very much. This is a very pure person, and Liu Jun would not be able to do this.

Liu Jun also smiled, "What are your plans next?"

"I will go to Nanjing in a few days to visit some friends. Then I will come to Beijing at the end of the year to prepare for the next spring exam." Li Chunjiang said, "Jiye, what about you, have you decided to take this year's martial arts exam?"

Liu Jun shook his head, "Nothing is going to think about it now, let's see it later. I just asked Zhao Bingxian for leave. You accompany me to go back to the Queen's City first and ask your brothers to move all the old barracks to Hutou Pass. In addition, you have to go back to recruit new recruits, and you have to check for me. Besides, you have to help me propose marriage to the Lu family last time, and you can't escape."

Li Chunjiang laughed, "Of course I, Li Chunjiang, keep my word. You can wait and see. I will definitely succeed and help you talk about this marriage."

The next morning, before Liu Jun left, he first gave rewards to the meritorious soldiers who had been rescued in the last battle to rescue Zhao Dagu.

Last time, I beheaded a total of 50 levels, with 20 taels of silver at each level, and a total of 1,000 taels of silver. However, most of the people who killed the enemies in that battle were old team members such as Liu Jun and Zhang Shan. In fact, only five new recruits killed, and most of them killed them together.

Finally, Liu Jun suggested that each recruit would give 5 taels of silver and 20 taels of old team members. A total of 600 taels of new recruits were rewarded, 300 taels of old team members, and 100 taels of left. No one had any objection to join the team.

Liu Jun was also a little worried when he gave out nine hundred taels of silver at once. He felt that it was time to make some changes to the reward system, otherwise it would be fine now. If he fought a bigger battle and killed hundreds or thousands, he would be unable to support the reward.

The merits of the head level should be retained, but we cannot give so many rewards. The first level twenty taels are too high. We should divide them into some levels, such as the head level into five types: northern barbarians, southern Japanese, brigades, bandits, and bandits. Each type is further subdivided, for example, it is divided into five levels: leader, leader, elite, ordinary, and old and weak.

From the Northern Barbarians to the bandits, the rewards at the first level are ten to two taels, and one tael is reduced to one tael for each level.

One is the leader of the Northern Barbarians, and the elite ones are ten taels, the leader is two taels, and the leader is two taels, and the ordinary ones are reduced by two taels, and the old and weak are reduced by two taels. One is the leader of the Northern Barbarians, and the leader of the Northern Barbarians is 12 taels, one is ten taels, one is eight taels, and the old and weak are six taels.

Of course, the reward of first-level merit is reduced, so some collective military merits must be strengthened. It is best to calculate the first-level merits according to the unit, regardless of the individual first-level merits, but are evenly divided by the entire team, which is more fair. In addition, the collective merits must be calculated, such as how much wins are rewarded with more hits, how much wins are rewarded with more hits, how much wins are rewarded with less hits, how much wins are rewarded with more hits.

Liu Jun felt that this was a very complicated calculation method. He still had only a preliminary idea, but the new military merit system was necessary. Otherwise, with cavalry, infantry, and artillery teams in the future, it would definitely be that long-range troops would kill more enemies, and melee troops would be the least worth it. This would affect fairness and easily affect morale.

On the way, Liu Jun told Li Chunjiang about his idea. After hearing this, Li Chunjiang nodded frequently, "This method is good. It is more fair and just."

Although the Ming army had a ready-made military reward system, it was actually difficult to implement it. For example, the Ming Dynasty once stipulated that in battle with Japanese thieves, those who captured one Japanese thief alive and those who captured one Japanese thief alive would be rewarded with fifty taels of silver. Those who captured one Japanese thief alive on land would be rewarded with twenty taels of silver. The commander of the guards, Qianhu and other officials must obtain one Japanese ship and the thief to be promoted to one level, and those who received fifty taels of silver and fifty invoices of money would be rewarded with fifty taels of silver and fifty incisions.

When Yongle arrived, the army was divided into extraordinary skills, first and second skills, and the extraordinary skills were upgraded to two levels, and the first skills were upgraded to one level, but the second skills were not promoted. In Yongle, military merit calculations were mainly based on combat performance. It was also stipulated that if one whistle horse captured one enemy thieves alive and one enemy came, the one who came was rewarded with thirty taels of silver, and if one thief came, the one who came was rewarded with thirty taels of silver.

Later, in the ninth year of Xuande, it was stipulated that the law of killing barbarians in the south was to behead three or more people who were killed and those who were given the heads were upgraded to one level.

In the later stage, we pay more attention to the upgrade of beheadings, such as killing the Northern Lu, cutting one head to upgrade one level, cutting two heads to upgrade two level, cutting three heads to upgrade three level, and cutting three level to upgrade three level.

During the Jiajing period, the Japanese heads were killed at one level and were promoted to three levels. Those who were unwilling would be rewarded with 150 taels of silver. Those who were unwilling would be rewarded with 150 taels of silver. Those who were unwilling would be rewarded with 50 taels of silver.

The court gave high military merits to the army, and often could be upgraded by one level of killing, and even rewarded dozens of taels of silver. However, in fact, border troops often earn very few gains, so they often kill good people and make contributions. Even if they really get something, the officers of soldiers are often falsely taken and the rewards are deducted.

Although the reward level of killing a level of tens of taels is high, it is just empty talk if you can't get it.

The nine-headed bird's silver reward is to give as much as it is, and there is no case of deducting it from falsely claiming it. Therefore, the old case of killing a thief with twenty taels of silver is obviously too high, especially when they face some bandits and bandits.

However, there is one disadvantage to the Nine-Headed Bird, that is, the official army has won merits in killing, and in addition to rewarding silver, there is also an upgrade, and can be promoted. The Nine-Headed Bird is a village hero, and now he is even more considered a personal servant of Liu Jun. If they kill the head, there is no official who can be promoted except rewarding silver.

The money is still rewarded, but it is more fair to allow the team members to accept it.

Along the way, Liu Jun and Li Chunjiang discussed while walking. From time to time, Liu Jun would call Zhang Shan, Wang Qian and Zhang Donggou to ask for opinions.
Chapter completed!