Chapter 20 Rewards
In the afternoon of that day, the commendation order from the Licheng Guards Office came down, and a thick roster gave everyone who participated in the investigation of the Qi Family Miemen case peace of mind.
Ordinary soldiers will be rewarded with 10,000 taels of silver, and they will be credited with meritorious deeds!
The wrestler rewards 20,000 taels of silver, and remembers two rounds of meritorious deeds!
The school order rewards 20,000 yuan in silver plus one Xiaopei Yuandan, and remembers the three-turn meritorious service!
Xiaoqi rewards 50,000 taels of silver plus two Xiaopei Yuandans, which will be recorded as three-turn feats!
This edition reward can be said to be richer than Shen Hao expected.
Silver rewards are secondary, and no one in Xuanqing Guard will be short of money except ordinary soldiers.
Although the pill reward is joyful, it is also reasonable.
The main surprise is the meritorious reward, which is not an easy thing to get. According to the rules of the old Jing Dynasty, there are a total of nine ranks of meritorious service, which can be stacked in stages. Every time the meritorious service has accumulated to nine ranks, you can advance to a rank of nobility!
To put it simply, if an ordinary person can earn nine ranks of meritorious service, he can automatically obtain the lowest title of the Jingjiu dynasty, the first-rank viscount, and jump into the ranks of nobles.
If you have a title, you can automatically advance to the first rank after the ninth rank of meritorious service. For example, a first-rank viscount can automatically be promoted to a second-rank viscount after reaching the ninth rank of meritorious service. Each title is divided into nine ranks, and so on.
And there is another important point, that is, there is no hereditary system in the aristocratic system of the old Jing Dynasty. Your father is an aristocrat, but you are not. If you want to be an aristocrat, you have to do your best to make meritorious deeds. There is no market for the second generation of nobles in Jingjiu Dynasty to live and die.
It doesn't matter if you don't have the ability to accumulate meritorious deeds for nine ranks, you can go to the Yamen to exchange meritorious deeds for real things, such as money or land, or even exchange them for foreign slaves.
A word of merit is the most practical ladder for ordinary people to climb to the top of society, and one can imagine how precious it is.
Let's take Shen Hao as an example. He has worked in Xuanqing Guard for eight years, from an ordinary soldier to a small flag officer. He has experienced life and death countless times, but he has only accumulated two rounds of meritorious service. Unexpectedly, one case this time gave him a full three turns of merit!
Now that he has rank five meritorious service, he, Shen Hao, can also hope that one day he can save rank nine and become a Viscount, right?
According to the amount of reward on the roster, Shen Hao took Wang Jian to the bank of the guard, and received the full amount of silver tickets and merit certificates, which he needed to hand out to every soldier under his command.
After that, he and Wang Jian went to the alchemy room to receive their respective Xiaopeiyuan pills, one for Wang Jian and two for him.
"Xiao Qi, pinch me, I feel like I'm dreaming! Not only can you get pills, but you can also earn merits!?"
Shen Hao kicked Wang Jian's ass with a smile, and scolded with a smile: "If you get the advantage, keep a low profile. You only have three ranks, and you are still far away from your father's title."
Wang Jian is not a rootless and unreliable retail investor like Shen Hao. He is a son of a nobleman with a serious sense of integrity. Lao Tzu is a second-rank viscount, and grandpa is said to be a third-rank viscount.
In fact, there are not many noble children like Wang Jian in Xuanqing Guard. After all, Xuanqing Weili is relatively safe if he wants to earn meritorious service.
"Hey, isn't everything difficult at the beginning, if you take it with you, are you afraid that you won't be able to earn merit in the future?"
"Okay, don't flatter me. I've only been at Rank 5 myself and I've saved it for eight years. How can I lead you to earn meritorious deeds? Go back and report the good news to your family."
"I'll go back tomorrow. Today I discussed with the brothers in the group. I booked a table in Laifeng Tower. I want to invite Xiao Qi to dinner tonight."
"Oh, okay, it's because the money has been sent and there's no place to spend it, right?"
"Look at what you said, it's just a mere visit to Fenglou. How can you do this to the little money brothers? Would you give me some face?"
Over the years, Shen Hao has made a lot of money with the brothers in Group A. Even ordinary soldiers have bulging pockets, and they are indeed masters who are not short of money.
Shen Hao is not hypocritical, his subordinates invite him to drink and celebrate, which is to give face, but he still has to pay the bill, otherwise it will not look good.
"It's okay to ask me to give you face, but I have to pay for it, otherwise forget it."
"Ah? Xiaoqi, why are you doing this?"
"Stop, you know my character, there is no room to talk about this matter, either I invite you, and everyone eats, drinks, and has fun at night. I will count it as mine. Or I will go home and go to bed early today."
Wang Jian had a wry smile on his face. Indeed, his little banner officer really did what he said and never took advantage of the people below.
So it was decided, Shen Hao invited everyone in the group to drink in Laifenglou at night, as a celebration banquet.
It's night, and the lights are on.
Laifeng Building is not the best flower building in Licheng, it can only be regarded as a popular one at best.
It is said to be a building, but in fact it is only three stories high. There are halls, boxes, and of course the embroidery pavilion.
The consumption here is not low, the taste of the food is average, but it is much more expensive than the taverns outside, and the drinks are the same. Of course, the addition is that you can enjoy free singing and dancing performances, and if you are lucky, you can also see performances by various oirans.
However, the guests in Laifenglou didn't really come to drink, eat, watch singing and dancing, they mainly came to find girls.
Whether it is fat, thin, tall, short, plump or skinny, there are all kinds of games here, and there are various ways to play, which can definitely satisfy everyone's hobbies.
In addition, Licheng is a hub city to the west of Jingjiu, and the rich people coming and going here are like crucian carp crossing the river, so the business of Laifenglou has always been very good.
When Shen Hao walked into the box, everyone inside was already there, and there were four tables in the big box.
In the past, six tables could be filled, but now there are only four tables. The difference between before and after is just one mission. Sighing inwardly, he picked up the jug on the table, and sprinkled it on the ground three times towards the west, as a respect to those brothers who died in Wuyang City. This is a custom on earth, but Shen Hao doesn't care, he just asks Peace of mind.
All the people here ate from the same pot, so they naturally understood what Shen Hao was doing, so they didn't say a word, just holding a cup with red eyes, imitating Shen Hao, respecting the dead with a cup of wine.
After the simple nostalgia, they opened up to eat and drink, and the scene became heated from the very beginning.
The more important thing is that these guys learned the drinking order from Shen Hao, such as "split firewood randomly", "fifteen twenty", "please just please" and so on. He even took off his shirt, and caught the red-faced winning and losing big bowls of others.
The old god Shen Hao was drinking wine, but no one came to punch him. It's not because of his identity, but because of punching, he is invincible in front of these scumbags, and others are not interested in seeking abuse.
Not long after, the door of the box was knocked open, and the bustard came in with Yingyingyanyan.
This is the main pleasure of choosing Laifenglou.
These are singers, they can sing, dance and play, and they are professional in coaxing people.
Of course, divas are also divided into grades. From high to low, there is a huge gap between Zun Yi Song Ji, who is ranked first, and Miao Yin singing girl, who is ranked ninth. The difference is not only in appearance, but also in temperament and talent. The highest among the singers in Licheng is only the fifth-rank Gongmo singer, and this is even praised to the sky.
Most of the people who entered the box were low-grade singers. To put it bluntly, these singers just make a living by selling laughs.
For these, Shen Hao has gotten used to it over the years. He still remembers how shy he was at the beginning.