When Huang Degong heard what Zhu Aao said, he couldn't help but thought: Something bad has happened.

Zhu Ailao had always called him General Huang before, but now she actually called him Uncle Jingnan. She was obviously really angry.

He immediately expressed his position: "I will return to the army to investigate this matter strictly, and I will definitely give an explanation to the supervising country!"

Zhu Ainao said: "What do you want me to explain to you? If it is just an ordinary payment, then it is payment. If someone is conspiring to cause trouble, they will be found out and dealt with according to the military law of the Ming Dynasty!"

Disposed according to Ming military law?

If this matter in the army were handled according to the Ming Dynasty's military law, it would be very severe, and many people would probably lose their lives.

Although Huang Degong didn't want to see this result, he still bit the bullet and said: "Yes!"

Zhu Yusao said again: "Wait at the dock for a moment, and let the person responsible for selection from the Imperial Guard and Border Guard go with you, and reissue the Qianxiang first.

Don't let the salary check affect the progress of the selection.

The selection must be completed within three days, otherwise it will affect our fight against the Qing Dynasty in Jiangbei."

"I understand!"

When Huang Degong disembarked, Zhu Yurao turned his attention to the military camp in Digang.

She was really not nervous about Huang Degong's military dispute over pay.

Huang Degong's total army in Diggang was less than 50,000.

The sergeants of his army were paid according to the official regulations of the Ming Dynasty, which was one tael of silver and eight measures of grain per month.

Considering that rice is now more expensive than silver in Jiangnan, even if one month's worth of rice is converted into three taels of silver, a soldier's two-month payment will only amount to six taels.

The two-month debt of 50,000 people only adds up to more than 300,000 taels.

In this way, the money alone from the "miraculous medicine" sold to Zuo Liangyu in Wuchang was enough to pay for it several times, not to mention that she had brought a lot of money and food with her on the ship.

If she was really short of money and food, Nanjing, Yangzhou, Suzhou, Hangzhou and other places also had plenty of money. As long as she defeated the Qing army, she could get the money and food from these places at any time.

···

Diggang Camp.

The military camp that was supposed to be quiet and solemn was now noisy, with many soldiers gathering everywhere, loudly discussing Qian Xiang and Princess Kunxing's deprivation of Marquis Huang Degong.

"Brothers, although we were often ignored by the Nanjing court in the past, the Nanjing court was willing to give up official positions and titles and directly made our uncle a marquis.

But now the Marquis has voted for the Princess of the Prison State. Not only has he not been promoted to a noble title, he has also been deprived of the title of Marquis.

The prison princess is so harsh to the Marquis, how can she be nice to us?

Therefore, we must first ask for the full military pay from the prison princess, otherwise who knows what hard life we ​​will live in the future?"

"You're right! If the princess wants us to surrender, she must make up for the lack of sound!"

"In my opinion, not only must the princess be repaid, she must also be given a reward of silver! Otherwise, with the current price of food, two months of salary and silver will not be enough for us to spend one month!"

"I'm thinking that since the Marquis has voted for the princess, the princess will definitely let us attack Nanjing City later. Nanjing City is so difficult to fight. If we don't give you a yawn and a reward of silver, we will never move!"

"Yes, we won't move unless we get paid!"

“···”

Zhang Jie and Chen Xiance gathered in Qiu Yue's tent.

Hearing the noise of the soldiers outside, Zhang Jie couldn't help but smile triumphantly and said: "What did Ma Degong say that he didn't want to get involved in this matter? Without him, wouldn't we have gotten the matter out?"

A strange look flashed in Chen Xiance's eyes, and he said: "Ma Degong said he didn't want to get involved, but I see that there are quite a few of him among those who are making money.

In my opinion, this person is just afraid of being held responsible if something goes wrong, and he may be hoping that things will get bigger than the rest of us, so that the Princess of the Prison Kingdom can be promoted to a higher position for everyone."

Qiu Yue was a little worried and said: "There are so many people making trouble for pay, can we control it?"

Otherwise, when the Marquis comes back, we won't be able to put an end to the situation for a while, and if we really anger the Marquis, we might get punched."

As we all know, when Huang Degong punished his generals, he neither used whips nor military sticks, but used fists.

In his words, only by eating fists can you improve your memory.

After listening to Qiu Yue's words, Zhang Jie said nonchalantly: "What are you afraid of? How can you be called a soldier if you don't make a fuss about pay these days? Let's not talk about our Marquis's army, how can other troops not make a few noises every year?

Thirteen years before Chongzhen, it would have been possible to be beheaded for making a fuss over pay, but thirteen years after Chongzhen, the most they could do was to have the leaders whipped."

Zhang Jie was smiling when he heard a panicked shout from outside: "Uncle Hou... is back!"

As the shout spread, the surrounding noisy voices immediately disappeared.

When the three of them came out of the camp and took a look, they saw the soldiers who had been arguing before, running towards their respective camps in a panic like mice seeing a cat.

Seeing this, Qiu Yue couldn't help but ask: "What should we do next?"

"Nothing can be done." Zhang Jie said with a smile, "We are raising money just to show our attitude. I guess now the Marquis knows about it, and so does the Princess of the Prison.

Next, they will either give out money and silver rewards to appease the soldiers; or they will give us a few promotions and rewards to help appease the soldiers.

Which court in this world is willing to spend money? What's more, the prison princess has an army of 100,000 to support, so she will definitely be reluctant to spend money to reissue the arrears in our camp.

On the contrary, if we are promoted, the marquis is given a title, and a reward of about one hundred thousand taels of silver is given, then the matter of raising wages can be suppressed.

In this case, is there any need to say what the prison princess will choose? She will definitely choose to promote us to a higher rank."

"What Lao Zhang said makes sense." Chen Xiance nodded in agreement.

Qiu Yue also breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that the plan of the three of them was settled.

Thinking about it, even if Huang Degong knew about it, he could forgive them - after all, they were doing this to express their grievances for Huang Degong and hope that Huang Degong would be promoted to the title of Duke.

After the three of them finished speaking, they dispersed and returned to their camps.

Before the three of them reached the camp, they heard the sound of drums.

This is beating drums to gather troops.

The three of them were not surprised. There was a dispute over pay in the army, and Huang Degong would definitely beat the drum and gather troops to solve the problem.

Immediately, the three of them ordered their troops and horses and rushed to the large school field near Huang Degong's tent.

I saw that Xu Chong had led 8,000 elite soldiers from the personal army camp to set up defenses inside and outside the university grounds - the personal army camp was absolutely loyal to Huang Degong and had not participated in the pay dispute before, so it would definitely be used to control the field.

Therefore, this matter was also expected by Zhang Jie and the others and they did not think much about it.

However, after the three people and Ma Degong's team lined up in the main campus, they saw groups of soldiers wearing plate armor and general hats or flying saucer hats walking into the main campus.

The ones at the front were carrying large boxes and placed them directly under the ordering platform, making a heavy muffled sound when they landed.

The officers and soldiers were very experienced. When they heard it, they knew that these boxes were filled with silver, and they immediately became excited.

However, because Huang Degong was standing on the general stage, looking majestically below, no one dared to move or speak.

Although Huang Degong treated his soldiers well, he was also strict in running the army. No one dared to violate military regulations in his presence.

The brightly armored soldiers under Jian Guo's command suddenly numbered six to seven thousand people.

It didn't stop until the last heroic female general walked in with hundreds of female soldiers.

When the female general walked up to the commander's platform, Huang Degong immediately cupped her fist and said, "Red Admiral."

On the dock, Huang Degong got acquainted with Lady Hong, until Lady Hong became the admiral in charge of the military affairs of the Imperial Guard at Zhu Yu's house, and she was deeply trusted.

The red lady didn't care much, she cupped her fists in return and said to Huang Degong, "Uncle Jingnan."

Then he made a gesture of invitation.

Neither of them likes to be polite. Huang Degong immediately stepped forward and said with a serious and displeased look: "Just now I was participating in a military meeting on the royal ship, but I got an urgent report from the dock saying that you are waiting for payment - it's simply

Let me be completely embarrassed in front of the Supervisor!"

In the last half of the sentence, Huang Degong's tone was so serious that many soldiers who voluntarily participated in the pay dispute couldn't help but lower their heads, feeling ashamed and regretful, feeling that they shouldn't be making pay today.

"I was going to go back to the camp to deal with this matter severely, but the supervisor was very generous. When he heard that you were two months in arrears, he immediately asked the red admiral of the Imperial Guard to bring some money over to make up for your wages!

And instead of the previous one tael of silver and eight dou of grain per month, it will be discounted by three taels of cash, which means that this time you will receive the full six taels of silver!"

Hearing this, even with Huang Degong in charge, many soldiers couldn't help but shout excitedly——

"Is this a salary? Really?"

"Receive six taels of military pay in full at once? Am I not dreaming?"

"Didn't you say that Princess Jianguo would be bad to us? She actually gave out so much salary at once? What's wrong with this?"

“···”

Ordinary soldiers could not believe it, were surprised and laughed, or seemed to be in a dream.

Zhang Jie, Qiu Yue, Chen Xiance and Ma Degong, who were standing in front of their respective armies, were also extremely surprised.

Among them, Ma Degong looked fine, while Zhang Jie and the other three were surprised and all looked ugly.
Chapter completed!