After rebirth, I became a national teacher

It would be a pity to throw it away.

Yang Wanjun recalled that every year before the Chinese New Year, the army had to pay twice the usual price to buy meat.

"Take this meat to Fengyang City and sell it. Not only can we make some extra money, but if the meat is really poisonous, it will also allow the people of Fengyang to see the true face of the evil demon Du'e!"

"Your Excellency really has a brilliant idea!"

The captain flattered him and then led his personal soldiers to handle the matter.

They never expected that all their choices were within Chen Qingzhu's calculations.

Not long after, a piece of news spread quickly in the closed Zhongdu camp.

On this day, the gossiper in the barracks came back excitedly:

"I just heard a piece of news from the Seventy-Eight Guards! It's true! It's all true!"

Tong Anliang and the others looked puzzled:

"What's true?"

"Everything that Du'e Divine Master said is true!"

"There is no longer a military household system over there, it's all camp soldiers. The original veterans over 35 years old were given 30 taels of silver each to go home. After returning home, they will be allocated three acres of land like ordinary people."

"The God didn't tell them the whole story at that time. They can still receive pension every month when they reach the age of fifty!"

"After you submit to the Divine Lord, those who are injured in battle can also receive an extra twenty taels of silver!"

"If we capture spoils of war, 30% of them can be distributed to ordinary soldiers according to their military merits. Many soldiers there will be extremely rich!"

Tong Anliang and several other veterans were most concerned about this matter. They suppressed their excitement and asked:

"Where did you hear this news? Is it reliable?"

"Of course it's reliable. Someone heard the news from the casual conversation of the personal soldiers of the Lord who stayed behind! A few days ago, they took the bacon distributed by the God to Fengyang City to sell, and heard many people discussing this matter!"

"Besides, I have a fellow villager who is in the personal soldier camp. I went to ask and it is really true!"

The bag inquired confidently.

There are always some well-informed people in every centurion's office, and this gossiper is one of them.

What he said has always been highly credible.

In order to convince everyone of his words, he repeated what he had heard from his fellow villagers:

"Why did the military camp become completely closed after we were transferred to Fengyang? We were not allowed to have any contact with outsiders. It turned out that they were afraid that we would hear about what happened under the rule of the God of Du'e!"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone suddenly came to their senses and felt that his words were becoming more credible.

The soldiers all looked envious.

"According to this, the soldiers under the command of the Lord of Du'e can earn so much money, and they will definitely be able to make a good life for their whole family after they return!"

"That's just like what they said when they were recruiting soldiers: sacrifice one person for the benefit of the whole family!"

The gossiper waved his hand and said:

"After they go back, their families are living well even without them!"

He talked about the three acres of land per capita and 20% tax rate under the God's rule, and the changes that the immortal grain brought back by the God had brought to ordinary people's homes.

Finally he said:

"The reason why so many people in Fengyang City are talking about this is because the pork from the Du'e God's rule has been sold to Fengyang."

"During the Chinese New Year in the past, pork prices would always rise to 40 or 50 wen per pound. This year, because of the abundance of pork under the rule of the God of Du'e, the price of meat in Fengyang has dropped a lot."

All the soldiers listened with fascination.

"The Lord of Destiny said that his mission is to save the people from suffering. It turns out to be true!"

"Even ordinary people under her rule can live so well!"

Everyone had the same thought in their mind:

How nice it would be if they were also under the rule of Lord Du'e!

Such a scene was played out in many barracks in the Zhongdu Camp.

Of course, there is no such thing as coincidence.

The news seemed to have spread accidentally, but in fact, Zhang Liu spent tens of thousands of taels of silver to bribe some soldiers in the Zhongdu camp to spread it.

These people started to be contacted last year, and now, taking advantage of the opportunity that the personal soldiers of Zhongdu Camp went out to sell bacon, these people took action.

The matter of Lord Du'e personally visiting the military camp to deliver money and meat had originally died down, but now it has once again caused a stir in the soldiers' hearts because of this piece of news.

Such waves undoubtedly ignited the fire in the hearts of the poor lower-class military households.

What happened next was that a bunch of thunder bombs were dropped into the fire.

*

According to the custom of the Zhongdu Camp, the 20th of every month is the day for salary payment.

Even though most of the military pay was withheld for various reasons, it was still the only hope for all the poor military households.

However, on the 20th day of the twelfth lunar month, they waited from morning to noon, but there was no sign of payment of military pay.

Many people asked, but got a surprising answer:

The military pay treasury was stolen, and we have to wait for the court to allocate new funds!

This made the soldiers, who were already full of anger, explode immediately.

It was the same in the past. The court would often delay their military pay because it said the military pay allocated by the court had not yet arrived. Sometimes it would be delayed by one or two months.

No matter how important the Chinese New Year is, some money will be given out.

But now, it is becoming more and more excessive.

It’s almost the end of the year, and still not a penny has been given out!

He even made up an absurd reason that even a dog wouldn't believe.

The soldiers believed that the military pay was stolen, but it was just an excuse for those greedy officials to embezzle all the pay.

Tens of thousands of soldiers gathered on the parade ground where they used to receive their salaries, each filled with grief and anger.

Someone climbed up and shouted:

"Brothers! These corrupt officials are so heartless that they won't give us any chance to live! If that's the case, why don't we just rebel against this damned court and live a good life under the rule of the God of Du'e!"

As soon as these words were spoken, they immediately received responses from many people.

"Yes! Rebellion against the imperial court, and seek refuge with the God!"

Gradually, the scattered calls became unified:

"Rebel against the imperial court! Submit to the God!"

"Rebel against the imperial court! Submit to the God!"

The cheers were deafening and the momentum was terrifying.

The guards who stayed behind and monitored the parade ground quickly reported the matter.

Inside the general's tent, the personal soldiers reported the situation on the training ground to Yang Wanjun.

Yang Wanjun was so angry that veins popped out on his neck:

"This bunch of violent soldiers! Let the Shenji Battalion surround the training ground and bombard all of these troublemakers to death with cannons!"

A captain quickly stopped him:

"Sir! You must not!"

"Even if we have cannons, we only have forty or fifty of them. Cannons are heavy and take a long time to reload. I'm afraid that not only will we not be able to suppress all the rebellious troops, but we may even cause a bigger mutiny!"

"In my humble opinion, perhaps we can first get some money from the garrison to pay some of the soldiers, appease the majority of the soldiers, and then punish those who led the riot."

However, after hearing this, Yang Wanjun became even more furious:

"Get money from the garrison?"

"My garrison was also emptied of all its money overnight. Where can I get the money to pay the soldiers?"

Everyone in the tent was stunned.

They all looked at Yang Wanjun in disbelief.

"This...this is such a coincidence!"

The implication is that I somewhat doubt the authenticity of this statement.

Many people think that this was an excuse Yang Wanjun made to avoid paying the soldiers out of his own pocket.

Yang Wanjun's face turned even darker.

Even his closest confidants thought so, so it was even less likely that other soldiers would believe it.

As a veteran of the battlefield, he knew very well that if the riot on the parade ground was not suppressed quickly, it would likely cause a mutiny in the entire camp.