Chapter Fifty-Seven: Face Saint
After repelling the Qin army, Jinghai City did not celebrate with great fanfare, but mourned the whole city.
Although this battle was won, Jinghai City also paid a lot of price, the defenders died 1,300 people, and the families of various families in the city also died more than 1,000 people.
Yue Chen gave them a bereavement pension in time, and the families of the dead soldiers received a bereavement pension of 100 gold for each family.
Even the soldiers who served in the previous sin were no exception, and in this battle, none of the defenders of Jinghai flinched.
Although they made mistakes in their lifetimes, they also sacrificed their lives to defend Jinghai City, and Yue Chen treated them the same and gave them a pension for their families.
And the more than 1,000 family members were also chased by Yue Chen as the Jinghai City Defenders, and they enjoyed the same pension as the Jinghai City Defenders.
After this battle, Yue Chen set up a militia team, and the patriarch of each family naturally became the militia captain.
If there was a war, they would be responsible for transporting army rations and military supplies, and Yue Chen also assigned special veterans to each of their families to be responsible for training.
All families who joined the militia were exempted from half of their taxes.
These families were originally willing to deal with the current City Lord's Mansion, because as long as they helped Yue Chen do things, the people would praise them.
Now they can also reduce or reduce taxes, and everyone is even more keen to participate, and they have also purchased weapons and equipment for their families, and Yue Chen didn't have to pay a penny.
For this, Yue Chen is also very grateful, after all, he spent a lot of money in this battle, and after he paid the pension, he was also very shy in his pocket.
Fortunately, after hearing about the incident in Jinghai City, several Celestial Dynasty Chamber of Commerce sent the money in the account in time.
Several chambers of commerce are now developing rapidly, from daily necessities to weapons and equipment, and from natural treasures, precious medicinal materials to antique porcelain.
These days, excluding daily expenses and the cost of dotting up and down, Yue Chen has earned five million gold coins.
This is not counting the money earned from selling Yue Chen's looted antique porcelain and the congratulatory gifts he received.
If you add it up, that's 12 million gold coins.
This also gave a mouthful of old blood to Yue Chen, who was shy in his pocket.
After getting this money, Yue Chen quickly bought a lot of metal ore from the system store.
These ores are inexpensive and very hard, making them not suitable for crafting equipment at all, but they are the best choice for fortifying walls.
Yue Chen's reinforcement was enough to repair the city wall, and he also installed a crossbow bolt mechanism on the city wall, making up for the defect that the spiritual power cannon could not attack in progress.
The city gates on both sides were built by Yue Chen according to the blueprints purchased in the war shop.
The legendary city gate built by the Casting Grandmaster himself, this can be said to be a scorpion in the entire One Heaven Continent - the only one!
With such a complete set of fortifications, if the Qin army came again, he was confident that he could hold Jinghai City all the time when there was enough food.
After doing this, the second prince also packed up and prepared to return to Beijing.
Yue Chen also took Xin He and all the members of the Sharp Knife Team to Beijing with the second prince.
This time, the enmity of 1,200 Jinghai defenders and 1,000 ordinary people, Yue Chen has not forgotten!
The current Dynasty Sharp Knife Team can be called a real sharp knife, under the supply of a large number of spirit stones from Yue Chen and the baptism of several wars, all the team members have reached the Spirit Creek Realm!
If it weren't for the fact that the spirit stones they could absorb had temporarily reached their limit, Yue Chen would have continued to smash them at them.
But even so, this unit is enough to be called an ace squad in Yizhongtian, whether it is in terms of equipment or cultivation level.
After seeing Yue Chen, the great general Yue Qingzhong was full of praise for him.
Because he himself has been in the army all the year round, he has not been married, let alone a son, and now he is very pleased to see that the descendants of the Yue family can have such an elite.
The original intention of his arrival this time was to give Yue Chen 5,000 stepping BMWs as a wedding gift.
Now that the overall situation on the border of Yan has been decided, Changzhou City is guarded by 100,000 iron cavalry of the Yue family, and the Qin State has just suffered a defeat, and it is impossible to have plans to attack in a short time.
Yue Qingzhong also sent the Buddha to the west, and personally stayed for Yue Chen to train his troops.
He promised Yue Chen that when Yue Chen returned from the capital, he would definitely send him an ace cavalry.
Yue Chen was really moved, since his grandfather's death, he had never experienced the love of his relatives.
If someone is kind to him suddenly, he will have some resistance in his heart, he will feel unreal, and he will feel that he is not worthy of being good to him.
This uncle who suddenly appeared made him not know how to get along all of a sudden.
Yue Qingzhong didn't ink with him, and without waiting for him to leave, he went to Fengming Mountain to train his troops.
Three days later, the capital of Yan Kingdom was on the Jinluan Palace.
After Emperor Yan saw Yue Chen, he was very excited, coughed a few times, and said:
"Ahem...... Yue Aiqing defended Jinghai City with more than 1,000 defenders, defeated 30,000 Qin troops, and defended the country for our Yan country.
With such a meritorious service, I will make you the Marquis of Zhenxi, and the title will be hereditary, and the land of the original mighty marquis will be owned by you, and the command and military power of the three cities will be handed over to you.
You have to take the great general Yue Qingzhong as an example, make an example for me, guard the gate for Yan Kingdom, and I will have a heavy reward in the future!"
Yue Chen knelt down on one knee and thanked him and said:
"Wechen thank Lord Longen, but Wechen implores Your Majesty to make decisions for more than 2,000 lives in Yan Kingdom!"
When the emperor heard this, he frowned and asked:
"Aiqing in detail, what do you want me to do?"
"Your Majesty, this time the Qin State attacked Jinghai City, bringing 30,000 elites, although more than 1,000 soldiers defending the city under Weichen were defeated,
But if it weren't for the internal leakage, which caused Qin to learn of the rescue news, he pretended to be reinforcements and blew up the city gate.
Jinghai City will not be destroyed because of the broken city gates, resulting in the death of more than 1,000 soldiers and more than 1,000 civilians. ”
"Is that so?"
After finishing speaking, the emperor looked at the prime minister Qin Jian on the side and asked:
"Qin Aiqing, you are personally responsible for the rescue of Jinghai, how do you explain this?"
Hearing this, Qin Jian hurriedly knelt down and pleaded guilty:
"Your Majesty, the old minister doesn't know anyone, and he deserves death. The minister has found out that the leak is Qi Guanyan's general Tie Chun.
Zhenxi Hou killed Qi Guanyan in order to protect himself, and this Tie Chun held a grudge, so he colluded with Qin and designed to frame Zhenxi Hou.
After investigating the matter, when Lao Chen sent someone to arrest him, he found that Tie Chun's family had committed suicide in fear of crime, and none of them were alive, and now the body was stopped in the criminal department. ”
When the second prince heard this, he said lightly:
"Qin Xiang, I'm afraid you're killing people, right?"
"His Royal Highness the Second Prince, the old minister's family has been an official in the court for generations, and I dare not say that he has made outstanding achievements, but he has finally made great contributions to the Yan country.
My father followed the first emperor to fight on the battlefield, and died on the battlefield in order to block arrows for the first emperor. You slander the old minister like this, it is better to kill the old minister directly!"