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Chapter 1174 Bonuses for the uprising troops

The battle of Haizhou City was the success of the propaganda war between the Far East Army, and Xu Mingwu and others planned to expand the scale.

Nan Qinli, who has a well-business acumen, suggested that high bonuses be adopted to encourage Zhou army generals to surrender!

All Zhou generals who actively led their troops to surrender in an established manner will enjoy the treatment of an "uprising team". If they do not enter the prisoner-of-war camp, they do not need to undergo transformation. They will directly receive the "green card" of the Ming Dynasty and enjoy the same treatment as the people of the Ming Dynasty.

The leading generals enjoy higher-level treatment and are rewarded with high bonuses.

To this end, Nan Qinli also specially formulated a reward system, which obviously regarded the surrender of the Zhou army as a business poaching person.

Those who lead more than 50,000 troops to surrender to the Far Eastern Army will be rewarded with 700,000 silver dollars in one lump sum.

Those who lead more than 10,000 troops to surrender to the Far Eastern Army will be rewarded with 130,000 silver dollars in one lump sum.

Those who lead more than 5,000 troops to surrender to the Far Eastern Army will be rewarded with 60,000 silver dollars in one lump sum.

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Those who lead more than 100 troops to surrender to the Far Eastern Army will be rewarded with one thousand silver dollars at one time.

If you come here yourself, you will be rewarded with ten silver dollars, and you will be able to get ten silver dollars after one...

It is equivalent to a person with ten silver dollars in heads, which can be bought in groups. The more people you get, the more rewards you get.

After hearing this, Xu Mingwu was shocked. Is this a fucking thing about Pinxixi?

However, the price of this bounty is at least much more reliable than Xixi. He immediately made a decision and asked the Pianpainting Department to print the flyer and work overtime to print it!

What is the concept of 700,000 silver dollars?

It’s almost 70,000 taels of gold! Whatever you can buy 70,000 taels of gold, is so valuable if you have 700,000 silver dollars!

These money was definitely attractive enough to most of the generals of the Zhou army to support them to give up everything from the Great Zhou Dynasty and pull the troops to take risks.

Not to mention the Zhou army soldiers who often surrendered, even those white colonists, who saw so much gold, were afraid that their eyes were worth it and their parents didn’t recognize them!

For the Far East Army, this deal is very cost-effective. What the Far East Governor’s Office lacks the most is wealth!

The era of arrogant navigation began, and European powers such as Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, Britain, and France successively landed around the world, and in the process crazily plundered huge amounts of gold, silver and black slaves.

According to statistics from the "Silver Capital" written by German scholar Gond Frank: From the 16th to the 18th century, a total of 133,000 tons of silver (about 3.56899 billion taels of silver), of which 100,000 tons flowed into Europe and 32,000 tons of silver flowed into Asia through Eurasian commodity trade (mainly China).

(I have written earlier that the total circulation of silver in the world was about hundreds of millions of taels, and the Ming Dynasty accounted for more than half of the circulation of silver in the world. That was the circulation of the money market, just like copper and copper coins were two different things.)

The Europeans mined and plundered huge amounts of gold and silver from the Americas through shameless and bloody robbery means, which was the root cause of the formation of European capitalism and the outbreak of bourgeois revolution, and it was also the most critical "first pot of gold" for the outbreak of the industrial revolution in Europe.

At that time, Emperor Zhu, despite the opposition of his ministers, led his troops to Luzon in person, opened up the international route from Southeast Asia to America, and seized the root cause.

He also took the mercenaries of the royal family as the vanguard, seized the Spanish colonies and seized their wealth.

Later, the Ming Dynasty established the Far East Province and established the Governor's Office. After Xu Mingwu came, he worked hard for several years, integrated all forces, and made Spain's colonies in South America clear, becoming an absolute nouveau riche.

The bounty price can be said to be a ruthless move by the Far East Army.

Although 700,000 silver dollars is a large amount, it can be exchanged for the enemy's 50,000 army to surrender without fighting. For the Far East Army, which is tight, it is definitely a good deal!

Even if the Zhou army's hundreds of thousands of troops were "buyed" like this, the Far East Army would not lose.

What America lacks the most is people. How cost-effective is spending millions of silver dollars to buy hundreds of thousands of people, or the army and bringing vast land?

It takes only a few years to make a profit. If this army goes east to the Rockies and grabs a few waves of British and French colonies, it will be a big profit!

Nan Qinli is worthy of being a businessman family, and she settles the accounts clearly as soon as she takes action.

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In the Zhou army's imperial camp, Wu Sangui looked at a leaflet sent back from the front line and was so angry that he smoked.

He gritted his teeth and scolded: "Buy it with money directly, shameless! Shameless! It's so shameless! How could there be such a shameless person in the world! Cough........ Cough......"

"Your Majesty, please calm down!"

"It's not good, the emperor coughs up bleeding, please pass it to the imperial physician!"

.........

Xu Mingwu frequently used ruthless propaganda moves, and the previous Far East Army conquered Haizhou City, punishing the shock brought to the Zhou army by refusing to surrender, which achieved obvious results.

Wherever the Far Eastern Army passed, there were Zhou soldiers sitting on the ground everywhere along the way, and a large area of ​​them stretched out. As long as they were white, they were used as white flags.

When Zhu Daneng's cavalry division passed by, countless Zhou army soldiers rushed up from both sides, blocking the road ahead, holding a white flag to demand surrender and demanding treatment.

Zhu Daneng had to order a gun to fire into the sky to warn them, so they drove out of the main road and allowed the large army to continue to pass.

Seeing the miserable appearance of these Zhou soldiers, Zhu Daneng immediately asked: "Hey, how many people are you in total? Are there any troops in front?"

The wounded soldiers of Zhou army below immediately shouted: "General..."

"We..."

"Little man..."

Zhu Daneng immediately became angry, took out his hand gun and shot him in the sky, and the surroundings immediately became quiet.

"Damn it, I can only say it alone! You say it!" Zhu Daneng pointed at a person with the highest military uniform.

A selected Zhou army officer sat on the ground, his face was covered in blood and his head was covered with gauze. He looked at Zhu Daneng and said timidly: "General, our general heard that the Far East Army was coming, and he led his brothers to the north early in the morning. The troops had long dispersed..."

"We brothers don't want to follow us, so we want to stay and wait for Minggou... No, it's the king's army... we all want to join the Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Daneng nodded and asked again: "These are the only people? Are there two thousand people?"

The number of surrenders was related to his treatment. When the officer heard that the number was wrong, his face changed drastically. He was as if he had suffered a great injustice, and immediately said: "General, there are more than two thousand people, at least five or six thousand!"

He pointed to several nearby places: "Look, there is a large area here, there, and there is a lot of people sitting there, all of us brothers... There are also rivers to the north, and mountains to the east, and some...."

Zhu Daneng was very satisfied and nodded and smiled: "Very good! Your behavior is worthy of praise. Go and count the number of people in our military paintings. After you click, you will get the silver round!"

The surrendered general was overjoyed: "Thank you, General! I wish you generations of kings and princes!"

...

Faced with some important military cities, the Far East Army was not in a hurry to attack, and the first thing was to persuade them to surrender.

General Zhenwu Sun Ksi, who was stationed in "Guangning" city, and Xu Mingwu placed great hope for him.

Because Sun Ksi's fief was "Guangning", he also gave it a name for his hometown. Since he betrayed Hong Chengchou and surrendered to Wu Sangui, he took his wife and children from Dongdu City to Guangning.

This means that you are tired of your family. As long as you surrender, the whole family will be safe.

"Guangning" is located at the pass of the mountain pass, just like Guangning City in Liaodong, the Ming Dynasty, and is not easy to fight.

Of course, the Far East Army has a great advantage from the air to the ground. It is not that it cannot be defeated, but that there will be a lot of casualties if it should be fought, and it will waste a lot of time.

Therefore, Xu Mingwu offered a very high price to Sun Ksi. As long as he led his troops to surrender, in addition to retaining all vested interests and rewarding 700,000 silver dollars, he would also add 100,000 silver dollars.

One morning, Xu Mingwu sent an envoy to the city to persuade him to surrender, and they kept saying to Sun Ksi, you are lucky.

First, your wife and children are around you, and there are no worries.

Second, before you, the Zhou army general at the Duke level had not taken the initiative to revolt, you were the first to catch up.

In order to make a good start for the first time and take the lead in the following, we are willing to give you greater benefits. At least there will be a banner, and you must seize the opportunity!

Before the fight started, I surrendered and took the initiative to revolt. If the fight started, it would be considered as being captured and nothing...

However, Sun Ksi was still very hesitant. He didn't seem to think that the "first surrendered Duke" was glorious.

Of course, he didn't feel embarrassed, after all, he was also an old professional surrender, with similar resumes to Wu Sangui, Wang Jinbao and others.

The reason why Sun Ksi hesitated was to take advantage of his reputation as "first".

The negotiators of both sides struggled all morning, and Xu Mingwu continued to use air formations to place flyers in the city, and promoted the good policy of "rebellion bonus" to Zhou Jun.

Sun Ksi was worried that he could not control the people below and was surrendered by his generals. He then settled for the second best. After gaining some benefits, he led his troops to surrender.

The Battle of Haizhou and Guangning persuaded surrender was a decisive battle for the Far Eastern Army to destroy Zhou in the northern expedition.
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