Chapter 196 Public ownership of the spoils
With encouragement, the soldiers under Huang Zhong's headquarters were already exhausted after many days of fierce battle, and at this moment, they were slightly depressed.
But at this moment, the morale of the army was rising again, and the desire to fight was rising on his face.
What's the matter with Yuan Yao's reward even if they were wiped out?
The so-called eating food when you are a soldier.
In this era, soldiers were willing to join the army as strong men, and often wanted to eat a bite of food and kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, which could be used to help the family.
Now Yuan Yao personally promised that any death in battle that vowed to defend Wankou to the death will be counted on the merit book.
Even if you are unfortunately killed on the battlefield, you will have a double pension to make your family feel safe for the rest of your life.
How can such rewards not make the soldiers happy?
With a thought, Yuan Yao even ordered the soldiers of the entire army to form a formation. He slowly ran to the front of the army, rode on the high-headed war horse and looked around the soldiers around him, shouting loudly:
"Sir, from now on, I will make a military order. From now on, all the spoils seized from fighting between battle formations will need to be handed over to the direct superiors, and then uniformly distributed."
As soon as these words were spoken, the formations below suddenly started to talk and the soldiers were suddenly feeling unfair.
how so?
How can this work if it is uniformly distributed?
According to the military system that is currently common in the princes of various states, the seized soldiers and other spoils such as armor all follow the system of "the capable ones are here to stay".
If you have the ability and seize a lot, you only need to hand over a very small part of it after the war, and the rest belongs to you.
This system has been around for a long time, and the soldiers have gradually accepted this system. From another perspective, this is indeed relatively fair to everyone.
After all, those who can do it will work harder!
If you have the ability and courage, eat more meat. If you don’t have the ability, you will naturally be unable to afford to drink soup.
But now Yuan Yao said something, he wanted to hand over the seized spoils in full and then distribute them uniformly.
If one soldier seized 100 pieces of armor and the other soldier only seized ten pieces, wouldn’t that mean that the two of them would be as much spoiled in the end?
This move is very unacceptable to the soldiers.
Why share it with others?
After all, military camps have always been respected by martial arts.
The soldiers respect the strong, and they never want the weak around them to enjoy their convenience.
Yuan Yao was also quietly observing the reactions of the soldiers. He pondered for a while and was already at a loss in his heart. Then he waved his hand to stop the discussions between the formation and said loudly again:
"Authentic, if all the spoils are confiscated and distributed uniformly, most of the soldiers in the army will be dissatisfied and will be convinced that I am so powerful, but why do I get as many spoils as my fellow comrades who are weaker than me?"
"Isn't this a huge unfair?"
As he finished speaking, he saw that the soldiers of the various tribes had gathered together on Yuan Yao's handsome figure, waiting for the following text.
After a pause, Yuan Yao then said:
"But this is not what I meant. I want to fully possess this spoil and not give any privileges to the brave soldiers who fight."
"Therefore, I will next stipulate that when the spoils are implemented in the future, the corresponding record will be given for each soldier, and then when the promotion or appointment is promoted or rewarded according to merit, our army will use the amount and amount of spoils seized as important measurement indicators in the future."
A few words were solemnly spoken.
In fact, this system has been thinking about in Yuan Yao's mind for a long time, but he has been suffering from the lack of a suitable opportunity to propose it.
After all, the privatization of trophy has been around for a long time in this era, and all sergeants may have become accustomed to this deep-rooted concept.
It is very difficult to change in a short while!
The trophy is publicized and distributed uniformly, and the property registered before being handed over for assessment. Subsequent promotion and appointment will be carried out and included in the indicators of rewarding merits.
This move will also have several benefits for privatization.
First, confiscation of spoils can be used to allocate the maximum benefits of the property obtained in a reasonable manner, so that the strong soldiers will not always get a big head, while some soldiers with slightly weaker abilities will have little gain.
Yuan Yao actually values a large army more. An elite army has strong comprehensive strength in all aspects, not just a certain group of people is a strong army.
On the other hand, it inspires every soldier with military merits, rewards and promotions.
If you want to get military merits, be promoted to generals, and obtain honors belonging to the superiors, you can only work hard to improve your ability to fight between battle formations and seize more spoils and hand over.
In this way, the soldiers of the entire army can be motivated to move forward from the perspective of the army to become stronger.
Not only that, according to Yuan Yao's idea, he also planned to set up an inspection organization in each department after the establishment of this public system, appoint a series of personnel such as inspectors to be responsible for the statistics on the handover of spoils, and then submit them regularly to themselves for review and verification.
The directly affiliated generals were also monitored to prevent some generals from deducting the spoils after they were handed over.
This will also be announced by Yuan Yao next.
"Of course, I will understand that once the spoils are handed over, some generals will definitely be selfish. When they see the wealth, they will take the opportunity to take the spoils for themselves, and not allocate them to their soldiers."
"In response to this situation, I will set up a supervision organization among the departments in the future to specifically monitor this area. If I find out who deducts the spoils, I will be severely punished and will never be tolerated!"
"Everyone must be engaged in accordance with military law!"
After a while, Yuan Yao slowly popularized the system that was about to be improved for the entire army.
This move also focuses on making changes to the combat power and cohesion of the soldiers under his command.
After hearing this strategy, at least most soldiers can accept it.
After being the first to receive the support from the generals, Yuan Yao also decided on the matter for the time being.
When the war is over, reform will be initiated.
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With the successful defense of Wankou, the Jingzhou army also wanted to take advantage of the Yuan army's great achievements in the land of Jiangdong to seize the opportunity to seize the territory. The plan to take advantage of the situation ended in failure!
Because Ankou was not captured, the Jingzhou army also failed to take the initiative in controlling the situation.
This led to the fact that the main general Huang Zu had to retreat to a shallow entrance more than 30 miles upstream to station in a confrontation with Ankou.
But Huang Zu was determined to destroy Lujiang. Even though the main force of Yuan's army came to help at this time and the fighter opportunity had been lost, he had no intention of retreating.
He is still entrenched in Lujiang and is eyeing it.
Chapter completed!