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All six people looked at Liu Sheng.

Because they knew that Liu Sheng must have something important to announce.

Sure enough, Liu Sheng opened his mouth and said: "After immigrating to North America this time, the number of troops in our Chinese Department has greatly increased, and we will have to take care of more and more territories in the future. It is imperative to expand our army.

In addition, the food and other materials obtained in the county will take at least half a month to be transported.

We need to be prepared to occupy the county seat for more than half a month, or even for a long time.

Therefore, I decided to first establish the first and second battalions of the standing army based on your four-post standing army.

There is a camp commander who is responsible for commanding the soldiers and directing the battle.

There is a battalion deputy responsible for assisting the battalion command.

There is also a battalion military and political officer who is responsible for supervising military discipline, enforcing military laws, and providing ideological education to the soldiers, teaching them literacy, arithmetic, etc.

Each battalion temporarily has six sentries, and the first five sentries are soldiers - the original soldiers are also soldiers, but they also serve as cooks.

The sixth post has a 30-man scout team, directly led by the battalion commander; a 30-man military law team, directly led by military and political officers.

In addition, there will be a 20-member medical team; 18 guards, 10 distribution battalion commanders, and 4 military and political officers and battalion deputies.

There are two more civil servants: one is the clerical officer, who is in charge of writing records and confidential texts in the camp; the second is the logistics officer, who is in charge of the money and grain expenditures and related accounts in the camp. "

Having said this, Liu Sheng stopped and rested for a while.

The first is to give An Jun and Wang Dalu time to take meeting minutes.

The second is to give a few people time to digest and understand.

After An Jun and Wang Dalu stopped holding their homemade sketch pens, Liu Sheng continued.

“In addition, the battalion commander still serves as the first sentry commander, and the battalion deputy also serves as the second sentry commander.

At the same time, each post is equipped with a deputy, who can replace the commander in commanding the battle.

Finally, the army has expanded and become more formal, and it is time for our Hua Department to pay military salaries to the soldiers. "

After hearing this, several people looked serious, not surprised.

Throughout the ages, there may be armies that do not require military pay for a while, but there is absolutely no army that does not require military pay all the time.

Therefore, it is inevitable for the Hua Department to develop and pay military salaries to its soldiers.

After a pause, Liu Sheng continued: "I asked, the soldiers recruited in Runing Mansion are paid two taels of silver per month for regular soldiers, and one tael for auxiliary soldiers. If they go to war, there are often rewards.

However, even if they recruit soldiers, the salary they receive is only 50% to 60%. It's just that the soldiers can eat enough, but the auxiliary soldiers can't.

Therefore, if officers and soldiers want to support their families in addition to supporting themselves, they must make money from other sources.

For example, receiving rewards for meritorious service, or robbing people.

Our rebels’ pay doesn’t need to be much higher than that of officers and soldiers, it’s just about the same.

All the soldiers in the standing army are paid 2 taels per month compared to the officers and soldiers. The salary of pro-soldiers is higher, three liang per month.

As for the monthly pay for general officers at all levels, we can discuss it in detail later, and it can be adjusted after it is formulated.

Having said this, you may be thinking, would it be too little for the rebels to receive a salary similar to that of the official army?

The rebel army has strict military discipline and is not allowed to plunder the people. Will the soldiers be unable to feed their wives and children? "

At this point, Liu Sheng stopped and looked at a few people.

Peng Youyi was the first to express his position loudly: "Our whole family was saved by the leader. Now the leader allows us to have enough food and clothing, and we will be able to get land in the future. It doesn't matter if we don't need military pay. Who would complain about the lack of pay and silver?"

As he said that, Peng Youyi looked at the other people, as if he was going to get up and beat anyone who really said they were paid less.

Liu Erhe also expressed his position: "Chief, no one will complain about the lack of pay - we are not officers and soldiers, and we will not deduct the pay of our soldiers."

Liu Sheng nodded, "Erhe is right, our Hua Department will not deduct military pay from top to bottom, and we will never allow the deduction of military pay. Anyone who violates this rule will be executed!"

When it came to the latter part, Liu Sheng was extremely serious and murderous.

This made all six of them shiver.

Liu Sheng then smiled and said: "Relying on harsh punishments and laws to avoid the deduction of military pay can only be done for a while, but it is difficult to control it for a long time.

Our rebel army cannot repeat the mistakes of the Ming army, so when I return, I will establish a new military pay distribution system to try to avoid the possibility of soldiers being deducted from their military pay.

I haven't figured out how to do it specifically, but I definitely won't let military chiefs get paid for it anymore. "

Liu Sheng could settle the matter of military pay with one word. He told these generals to ventilate the situation in advance to avoid any estrangement.

After all, the army depends on the command of generals. No matter how powerful Liu Sheng is, he cannot directly command many soldiers.

In the early days of the rise of power, it was equivalent to drawing on a blank sheet of paper, and many systems could be established without any hindrance.

Communicate to relevant subordinates in advance, let them understand why they are doing this, and even let them express their support for doing so, so that the system can be implemented better when implemented.

The four of them, Peng Youyi, were all promoted from poor people at the bottom by Liu Sheng within a few months. There was no such thing as military pay before, so no one thought about making a fortune by withholding military pay.

On the contrary, he despised the Ming army's practice of deducting military pay.

After listening to Liu Sheng's words, they all nodded, thinking that it would be great if the system could prevent the deduction of wages.

"In addition, the price of food has increased several times or even more than ten times due to the famine, so the monthly salary seems to be only two taels.

But in our Chinese region, as long as we are allowed to trade in the future, the price of food will never be as high as outside, but will be close to the price in normal years, or even lower.

Finally, our Chinese Ministry will try our best to arrange jobs for the soldiers’ families so that the soldiers’ families can also earn money and food.

In this way, our officers and men from the Chinese Department don’t have to worry about not being able to support their families in the future. "

Several people had not thought of this far before, but now they all nodded after hearing Liu Sheng's words.

Peng Youyi couldn't help but said: "Since the leader has thought carefully, he can just tell us to do it. We all believe in the leader."

Liu Sheng said: "I am not saying this because I think we don't trust each other. I hope you can understand my thoughts and convey the thoughts of this meeting to the soldiers.

Especially you two military and political officials, this is your job, and it must be implemented in place, do you understand? "

“Students understand!”

An Jun and Wang Dalu both solemnly agreed.

Then, Liu Sheng took out a prepared brochure from the desk and stood up, saying: "Now I announce the appointment of the main generals of the first and second battalions of the standing army!"

Wen You and the other six people stood up immediately after hearing this. They all stood upright with solemn expressions.

"Peng Youyi is now appointed as the commander of the first battalion of the standing army, Zheng Erli is the deputy of the first battalion, and An Jun is the military and political officer of the first battalion!"

"Wen You is now appointed as the commander of the 2nd Battalion of the Standing Army, Liu Erhe as the deputy of the 2nd Battalion, and Wang Dalu as the military and political officer of the 2nd Battalion!"

"This order was signed by Liu Sheng, the leader of Huabu, on September 24th of the first year of Huabu!"

After hearing such a formal appointment order, which even directly abandoned the Ming emperor's chronology and switched to the Huabu chronology, the six people couldn't help but boil with excitement.

Then they straightened up and clasped their fists towards Liu Sheng and said, "We'll take the order!"

"All sit down."