of Nanzhili and heads straight for Beizhili, they'll be entering the Jingji region. With chaos reigning throughout the land, if Zhao Xuanji plays his cards right and Your Highness makes a mistake in y...Chapter 1529: Military Hearts, Also Human Hearts

As soon as Li Chen finished speaking, two sets of Jinyiwei guards, each carrying a wooden chest, walked up to the side of the platform.

Look at how the Jinyiwei tread carefully, you can tell those chests are very heavy.

A full twelve groups of people came up, and with them came twelve groups of boxes.

Boom boom boom.

A heavy chest landed on the platform, and then these guards in embroidered robes tacitly opened it at the same time.

Suddenly, silver light flashed everywhere.

Under the light of the lamp, a pile of shiny silver coins were neatly arranged in the box.

This scene is enough to make everyone's breathing quicken.

They had never seen so much silver in their lives.

Even Li Chen himself, not to mention the others, had never seen so much silver with their own eyes before.

Li Chen's gaze only swept over the twelve chests, then he turned to the thousand soldiers below and said: "Everyone going out tonight can receive twenty taels of silver from here. Give this money to your families, and when you return, this palace will give you another twenty taels."

Li Chen said aloud, “This palace absolutely will not allow the soldiers who fight for this palace to be mocked because of poverty!”

Get twenty taels just by setting out!

This is the pay of a common soldier for three years.

This is still because the military pay at Yueya Pass was exceptionally high, and the generals at Yueya Pass absolutely could not drink blood from soldiers, so they were able to have such income.

If a soldier were in the Central Plains, getting three ounces of silver a year would be considered good.

That's nearly a decade's worth of military pay.

All the soldiers were in an uproar.

"Your Highness, long live!"

"Your Highness, long live!"

"Your Highness, long live!"

Cheers rose like invisible waves, stirring up a tempest in the stillness of the night. They swept aside the cool breeze and engulfed the entire Yueya Pass.

This scene, from afar, was witnessed by a group of people.

These people, each of them tall and imposing.

They are high-ranking officers of Yueya Pass, and it was this group of people who supported the entire war effort of Yueya Pass.

Wu Qingscang and Wu Banshan stood in the middle.

Looking at the thousand soldiers cheering excitedly in the distance, every general's face was complex.

These thousand men were naturally drawn from the elite of their respective units. They knew best the temperament of the soldiers under their command.

...Perhaps the situation tonight...

They've been officers over these soldiers for so many years, to be honest, they've never seen anything like it.

At this time, Wu Ban Shan spoke: "Fellow generals, you all have served in the army for many years. Allow me to ask, who among you has ever been so beloved by ordinary soldiers"

No one spoke.

Everyone's face turned a bit awkward.

Wu Ban Shan paused for a moment, then said: "Now, any one of us here who goes down and issues an order that conflicts with the Lord's decree, who among you has the confidence to take these soldiers away"

Now, even more silent.

It's even more awkward.

"The heart of the army, is also the heart of the people."

Wu Ban Shan sighed and said, "My friends, when it comes to human nature, we can't even compare to the prince."

"This evening, within the span of a cup of tea, Your Majesty has gained such loyalty from the army. While Your Majesty's status and wealth certainly play a role, imagine any one of you in Your Majesty's position. Who can say they could have done better, with greater courage"

"Just those twelve chests on stage alone could make your bones ache with sympathy!"

"Therefore, you must stop questioning His commands with old ideas and outdated notions. His decisions always have a reason behind them, and our duty is simply to execute them."aminations (the *xiang* test).Only those who ranked in the top ten on the Huìshì examination could be called "jinshi," and only these ten jinshi were eligible to take the Dìngshì, where the emperor hi...