"Chapter 117: Heavy Reward and Commendation"
Books, the ordinary process we take for granted, are actually the process of combining people's hearts with the great wisdom of all peoples, ancient and modern.
- Gorky (proletarian writer of the former Soviet Union, founder of socialist realist literature)
The battle report of Anto Ietada's capture of more than 14,000 Uesugi soldiers and more than 15,000 Mogami soldiers in the First Battle of Hasedo Castle, and the battle report of more than 35,000 Uesugi Army soldiers and more than 26,000 Mogami soldiers captured by Fuweishin in Yuzawa Castle First Battle were sent to Hakumine by the ninjas of the Yanhuang Ninja Army almost at the same time.
It has always been Bai Feng's usual way to use the fast channels of the intelligence organization to deliver front-line battle reports to his family, and in fact, whether it is Yubu Weixin's deployment in Yuzawa Castle or Andong Ietada's deployment in Hasedo Castle, their every move is watched by Bai Feng.
Looking at these two battles from the perspective of the family governor, Bai Feng undoubtedly admired Andong Ietada's performance in Hasedo Castle more, but the surrender of the Mogami family city lord and the Rokuta family itself had a lot of luck in it, so Yubu Weixin's performance did not disappoint Bai Feng.
There is nothing wrong with obtaining the maximum result at the minimum cost, and it is naturally better if it can be done, but this is definitely not something that every general must pursue, because in this world, the vast majority of battles are bloody and cruel, bloodshed and sacrifice are inevitable, benevolence and kindness are the excellent qualities that a good person should have, and they are also superfluous qualities that a general should not have.
The cost of nearly 7,000 soldiers killed and more than 4,000 soldiers wounded to capture Yuzawa Castle was obviously acceptable; in other words, although Yubu Weixin's performance was not as good as the rumors of Andong Jiazhong, it was also among the high achievements of hard work, and it was worthy of Bai Feng's praise and reward.
For the two loud battles obtained on the front line, Bai Feng's rewards for the soldiers who fought bloodily have threefold: first, the pensions of all fallen soldiers have been tripled on the original basis, and the soldiers who cannot return to the battlefield due to injuries will be arranged by the family after retirement.
Originally, the normal bereavement pension of the Yanhuang family was that for every soldier killed in battle, his family could receive a one-time pension of 30 yuan, or a pension of 10 years, and receive a pension of five yuan a year; such a generous pension was actually more than 10 times the death pension of other families.
You must know that in other families other than the Yanhuang family, the amount of pension for each fallen soldier cannot exceed two times at most, and the pension is only for the officers and soldiers of the standing army, and those militiamen who are temporarily conscripted are not included in the scope of the pension.
This time, Bai Feng tripled the death pensions of the soldiers who made great contributions, which means that the families of the fallen soldiers can get at least 90 yuan of pensions, and the most can get 150 yuan of pensions, which is enough for most ordinary families to live for a lifetime.
As for those soldiers who were disabled due to injuries or lost the ability to return to the barracks, the work that the Yanhuang family arranged for them was generally to serve as the officials of each city, so that they could also become the beneficiaries of the fruits of the Yanhuang family's victory, so as to inspire other soldiers.
Second, all the soldiers who participated in the battle could get a chance to exchange their military exploits for land, for example, a spear that killed one enemy could be exchanged for his family's five acres of fertile land in Ueno Province, and so on.
In order to avoid the embarrassing situation of creating countless large landlords overnight, each ashigaru can only exchange for a maximum of 20 acres of fertile land, the head of the ashigaru group is 30 mu, the ashigaru general is 40 mu, and so on.
Considering that a large number of soldiers had not yet had time to kill the enemy, and the war was over, Bai Feng reissued an order in his own name to reward the whole army, that is, every soldier who participated in the battle, no matter how much military merit, could receive a special bonus of three times of money from the family governor!
With these two rewards alone, the Yanhuang family needs to pay nearly two million yuan for this, and no family in the Yamato Empire can take such a huge amount of money, including the Oda family and the Maori family, whose territory is far larger than that of the Yanhuang family.
But all the problems that can be solved with gold coins are not a problem for Bai Feng, who is relied on by the Roman City system, and Bai Feng, who can exchange the treasury funds for real money anytime and anywhere, can grit his teeth and get it even if it is a bonus of 20 billion yuan!
In fact, the number of gold coins in Bai Feng's Bai Ling Ring was not less than 10 million, and a gold coin with a gold content of tens of grams was equal to one or two gold coins of the Yamato Empire;
How could Bai Feng be taken into account by Bai Feng with just two million gold coins? Bai Feng, who was rich and wealthy, did not know that just his two commendation orders today had made the Yanhuang family the most prestigious and extremely rich family in the Yamato Empire; as the object of the reward, the standing army of the Yanhuang family had become an army that countless wandering warriors desperately wanted to join, and joining the army had even become the hottest thing for the Yanhuang family.
Third, all the generals of the Yanhuang family participating in the war, under the premise that their positions remain unchanged temporarily, each of the generals below the rank of general will be promoted to one level, that is, the head of the ashigaru group will be promoted to the general of the ashigaru, and the general of the ashigaru will be promoted to the general of the sashi, but there is another premise that their strength is sufficient.
According to the practice of the Yanhuang family, the head of the ashigaru group is generally held by a veteran ashigaru or low-level samurai who has been in the military for more than five years, and the ashigaru general also needs to have the strength of an intermediate samurai at the very least, and the minimum strength level of the shogun is a high-level samurai.
With the issuance of Hakumine's commendation order, the head of the Ashigaru group who has reached the level of an intermediate samurai will be promoted to the rank of Ashigaru general, and the head of the ashigaru group who has reached the realm of a senior samurai will be promoted to the rank of shogun, which in turn means that a large number of mid-level generals will be promoted in the army.
The middle-level generals at the level of the general are only one step away from the senior generals at the level of the generals, and more importantly, there are not a few generals in the army of the Yanhuang family who have the strength of the super-level warriors; in order to avoid the situation of too many high-level generals in the army, Bai Feng has another reward for the generals at the level of the generals, that is, each general can get a spacious house in the three-household city and a bonus of 500 guan.
Those who are interested can find that all the three commendation orders issued by the family governor are aimed at ordinary officers and middle- and low-level generals; none of the high-ranking generals and chief generals of various armies have specific commendation arrangements, and this is clearly to wait until the end of the war to focus on rewarding!
Just as unannounced punishments are frightening, unannounced rewards are highly anticipated, and even Yubu and Yasuto Ietada, who were shogunate-turned-generals, are unlikely to be exempt from vulgarity in this regard, because they are also competitive and humane.