A horse cannot be fat without night grass, and a person cannot make money without windfall.

Forty-seventy-seven thousand yuan is indeed not a small number. This money is enough for the two officials Wang Xiaowei and Zhang Zuoli to take risks and develop a greedy heart. Not to mention them, even Li Jing was moved by it and calculated in his heart that even if it was divided equally, each person would have more than 40,000 yuan. For more than 40,000 yuan, he could buy four acres of fertile land at home or buy two hundred dou of grain. What's more, Li Jing shot and killed five thieves, and there were two bandit leaders who offered a large reward. The two bandit leaders were worth 180 pieces of silk and 30 stagnant coins. The two rewards combined were nearly 200,000 yuan.

But he just thought about this for a moment and then immediately woke up.

Li Jing looked at the sky, and it was already bright. The mountains were green and hidden in the frost and mist.

"Prince Wang and Zhang Zuoli, if you kill the enemy and report the merits, you must be in charge of the thief. In addition, if you say that the 250 pieces of silk are lost to the thief's hands, will the superiors not hold them accountable?" Li Jing asked carefully.

Wang smiled and said, "Usually, cutting the heads is indeed counting merit, but not all situations are like this. For example, in field battles, there is a custom that you must not stop and cut the heads during the war. Military merits are checked by a special marching record office. For example, if we do not encounter that group of bandits later, we need to cut the heads of bandits. However, we encountered the enemy again and did not have time to cut the heads of the enemy, which is also allowed. As for the loss of those silk, it is entirely because of the thieves. We used ten to hundreds, and after the battle, it was not easy to be able to break through. How could our boss blame us again?"

Zhang Zuoli also smiled and said, "We also know that Brother Li's worries. We all know this. I will follow my brother's arrangements and will never remember you who suffer. This time you killed five thieves alone, and both leaders died at your hands. We will write down these, and then the rewards will be my brother."

According to Zhang Zuoli, ten enemies were killed, and five people were killed alone, including two thieves. Wang Chong killed one enemy, Wang Xiaoshi, Li Qiusheng, Li Xiaoshan and Li Xigou each killed one enemy. In addition, Wang Chongji was seriously injured, Zhang Zuoli was slightly injured, Wang Jiacheng was slightly injured, and Wang Liang was slightly injured.

The army of the late Tang Dynasty was a practice that if he had merits and was injured, he would also be rewarded for merits. An officer like Wang Chong was seriously injured and was given a third-level military merit of the united soldiers, and a fourth-level military merit was given a fourth-level military merit, and a fifth-level military merit was given a reward for merit. If Wang Liang died in a battle, it would be equivalent to a third-level military merit, and a ten-level military merit.

Li Jing thought about this carefully and felt that it was inappropriate for him to remember five enemies. After all, Wang Xiaowei was an officer and was seriously injured. If he had not restrained the bandits, he would not have been able to kill five enemies. So after thinking about it, Li Jing suggested that he could just remember four enemies to kill them. After all, killing four enemies can be considered the best military merits, and it would not make much sense to remember them too much.

In addition, he also proposed that the thief head, monkey cheeks, was killed by Wang Jiali, and also calculated the Scarface's head skills to Zhang Zuoli. In this way, Li Jing killed four enemies, Wang Jiali killed one enemy, and Zhang Zuoli also killed one enemy, and was the second bandit leader. The other four killed the enemies unchanged.

As for those two sums of money, the two leaders' rewards were naturally obtained by Wang Xiaowei and Zhang Zuoli. In this way, Wang Xiaowei was given a reward of 100 pieces of silk and twenty stakes of coins. Zhang Zuoli got 80 pieces of silk and ten stakes of coins. Li Jing got 40 pieces of silk and twenty stakes of coins. Li Xiaoshan, Xiaoshitou, Li Xigou, and Li Qiusheng each got ten pieces of silk and five stakes of coins.

This proposal surprised Wang Zaiwei and Zhang Zuoli, especially Zhang Zuoli, who had no head-level merits. Now Li Jing not only gave him one, but also gave him a bandit leader with the second leader. This was not only worth eighty pieces of silk and ten stagnant coins. With this head-level merit, he would definitely receive other rewards in addition to offering a reward.

Captain Wang was also surprised. The bandit leader gave him this, which really surprised him. He thought to himself that even he could not give the credit to them so happily. He had indeed envied Li Jing's military achievements in his heart, but he had just thought about it. After all, Li Jing had saved him twice, and he could not speak at all. Unexpectedly, Li Jing could guess what he thought, and he really took out such an important bandit leader to him, which made him happy and moved, and he couldn't help but look up to Li Jing a little.

As the saying goes, the lieutenant Wang really needs this head to be promoted. After pretending to shirk a few times on the surface, he smiled and took it away. Then he immediately suggested: "I gave my brothers such a big gift, so we brothers should not be too stingy. So, Zhang Zuoli and I will write down my great achievements in detail in the merits. When we arrive in Penglai, we will pay our boss a position to report to my boss."

"In addition, these 250 pieces of silk were originally collected by your Wang Li Village, so you and Brother Zhang don't want this one. They all belong to you. It's up to you, and it's up to you, how you and your fellow villagers will be divided."

Even if eleven people share 250 pieces of silk, each person can share more than 20 pieces of silk, not to mention that both of them are the leaders, so they must have to take the big head. Now they say that they don’t share this, which can be considered as giving Li Jing a favor.

Li Jing was not too polite. After all, he had paid a lot. If he was polite, it would make Wang Chong and the others feel that Li Jing was unwilling to make friends with them.

In addition to Wang Liang who died, there were nine people coming out of Wang Li Village. 250 pieces of silk, each of which was quite a few.

Finally, Li Jing discussed with everyone and decided to give 50 of the silk to the dead Wang Liang. Although Wang Liang died, the superiors would give him a pension. Even if there was a pension, there would definitely be some deductions, and not many people could get it. What's more, on the surface, Wang Liang was Li Jing's brother-in-law, and Wang Liang also got engaged to Li Jing's sister. As the first dead companion to come out with the same village, everyone had no objection to this decision.

Especially the four young men of the Wang family, who said that they had some relatives with Wang Liang, could not help but feel sad at this time. Seeing Li Jing's proposal to give 50 silk to the Wang family, they all agreed.

There were 200 pieces of silk left, and nine people divided them. How to divide them? Everyone looked at Li Jing, and they also heard that Li Jing gave his two bandit leaders' military merits to Zhang Zuoli and Wang Xiaowei, so that Wang Xiaowei and others could divide all the silks to them.

"Brother Xiucai made the most efforts. If it weren't for Brother Xiucai, we would have gone underground with Wang Liang this time. I'm asking me to tell you that the 200 silk masters will get 120 pieces each, and the eight of us will get 10 pieces each." Xiao Shitou was the first to speak out. Although his surname was Wang, he was actually closer to Li Jing than Qiu Sheng and others.

Wang Liugen and others nodded. They were already satisfied with getting 10 pieces of silk. This was worth 8,000 yuan, and they were exempt from buying 40 buckets of rice. By taking the silk back, they could solve the food for the family this year.

Only Wang Dong said with some dissatisfaction: "I have no objection to the scholars to give more, but why is there such a big difference? When fighting the bandits, although I did not get the head, I had been desperate. If it weren't for my and Liu Gen protecting Captain Wang's back then, how could he last until the end?"

Li Xiaoshan also shouted: "You have not died now and there are still silk pieces, so you can be content."

Seeing the people coming out of the same village, they were clearly divided into two groups. Li Jing couldn't help but smile bitterly. After leaving Wangli Village, there were only a few partners he could trust and trust. He didn't want them to be divided into two groups and fight non-stop.

After thinking for a while, Li Jing said, "Let's do it, Xiaoshan, Xiaoshitou, Xigouzi and Little Carpenter, you four are ten pieces of silk, after all, you all have one first-level skill. Liu Gen and Xiaodong are four, one person, ten pieces of silk, and I will share ten pieces of you from my share, so that you will have twenty pieces of silk, how about that?"

Seeing that Li Jing took out forty pieces of silk from his own portion to them, but did not give it to Xiao Shitou and the others, Wang Dong felt that Li Jing was quite nice to them, so he nodded and agreed.

At that moment, Li Jing asked someone to take down 250 pieces of silk from the donkey and divide them all according to the agreed numbers. Li Jing got 80 pieces, Wang Dong and the others were 20 pieces, and Xiao Shi Tou and the others were 10 pieces. Li Jing originally planned to take out another 40 pieces to give Wang Chong and Zhang Zuoli 20 pieces, but they insisted on accepting them, so they had to give up.

After the silk was divided, everyone in Wangli Village was happy. This can be said to be the first money they earned. The joy of harvest also drove away the previous fear. Everyone carefully wrapped the silk pieces and put them on the donkey. They just waited to the prefectures and counties, and then found an opportunity to send the silks back to the village.

After making these, the boiled water and porridge were cooked, so everyone gathered to drink the porridge happily. Wang Zuoli had already finished writing the battle report and also wrote a copy for Wang Chong. Li Jing read both reports. Although there were some exaggerated words on it, they were basically reliable. Both of them praised Li Jing's courage and wit, saying that Li Jing had the talent of a general and could be of great use.

After breakfast, everyone's physical fatigue and mood gloom were swept away. Li Jing helped Wang Chong on the horse, and Wang Chong said with a smile: "Brother, help me on the horse now. When I return to the state, my brother will also help me on the journey. This time, no matter what, you can give me a gift to the official and jump to the sky!"

Li Jing smiled slightly, looked into the distance and said, "I hope this is the case if I borrow the words of the King's Master Wang!" Although he said it plainly, his heart was full of expectations. Although he knew that even if he could really give a gift to an official, he could only be a ninth-rank official who had just entered the rank. However, although this seemed like a small step, it was actually a big step for soldiers and officials, and a step that many people could not overcome in their lifetime.

His father never took this step in his life, but he was different.
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