The ordinary people and soldiers in Jiangzhou City naturally didn't know about the despicable deeds done by Cai Taishou and Yuan Tuiguan behind their backs, because their attention was focused on this great victory, and everyone was too busy celebrating to take care of anything else.

For the people, this time to successfully exterminate the gang of water bandits is the best result, from now on everyone can rest assured and bold to take a boat in and out of the Xunyang River, no longer have to worry about being robbed by thieves on the river, and even their lives can not be saved. For those ordinary sergeants, they are more concerned about when the pensions and rewards promised by the government will be allocated, and how much they can share from them. After all, with the reality that greed is rampant in the Great Song Dynasty army today, I am afraid that after tens of thousands of rewards fall into their hands after layers of deductions, there will be less than one or twenty big money left.

Compared with the anxiety of the Xiang army, the township soldiers are much more confident in Sun Tu. Whether it was helping them repay the arrears before, or getting back the land that was bought at a low price, Sun Tuanlian behaved selflessly, so this time he will definitely not treat everyone badly.

Sun Tu really did not disappoint his subordinates, and after a few days of rest, when the state government really took out 30,000 yuan worth of silver cloth and thousands of catties of grain from the treasury as a reward, he summoned the relevant subordinates and distributed the property to everyone according to merit in public. Most of these soldiers can get 30 yuan of money and 100 catties of food, and some of them have more than 10 yuan of income, which naturally greatly exceeds everyone's expectations, and suddenly the voice of gratitude and thanks came from the barracks again, and it has not subsided for a long time.

It wasn't until he was busy for a long time and sent all these rewards that Sun Tu put away his previous smiling face and said with a solemn expression: "Our official army did win today's battle, but this official also saw our many shortcomings. You must know that the water bandits are only three percent of our army, but they can fight us all night and finally rely on sneak attacks to win, which is really invincible. From this, we can see how weak the combat strength of our Jiangzhou official army is, and we are far from being able to protect the safety of our city. ”

After a pause, he glanced at the three hundred or so soldiers in front of him who had experienced life and death, and Sun Tu expressed his plan: "Therefore, this official has decided to increase your training intensity from now on, and it is necessary to make you and others become a real elite division within a year or two, so that even if this official is transferred out of Jiangzhou, you can defend your homeland alone, and you don't have to worry about the appearance of mountain bandits and water bandits like fierce Jiao!" ”

If there were still those among these township soldiers who could not understand Sun Tuan's painstaking training, felt that the weekday drills were too hard, and complained in private, then after experiencing this war of suppressing bandits, these thoughts have completely disappeared. Everyone has seen with their own eyes how vulnerable the Xiang army is in the face of those water bandits, and when they give full play to the good habits they have developed from daily drills, those seemingly powerful water bandits have become vulnerable.

Therefore, at this time, the township soldiers were convinced that Sun Tu practiced more sweat on weekdays and shed less blood on the battlefield, and no one was dissatisfied when they heard that he wanted to increase the intensity of the drill, but after a while, they responded violently: "I will obey the orders of the regiment and train with all my strength, and I will do my best to practice to protect my Jiangzhou!" ”

"Okay, starting tomorrow, this officer will come up with a new method of military training, I hope you can overcome the next difficulties." Only then did Sun Tu show a satisfied smile on his face, and with a wave of his hand, he let these subordinates disband on the spot.

However, he did not go home to rest like the others, but brought some money, food, cloth and silk that he had deliberately left before, and together with Ruda and a few other close people, he personally delivered these bereavement property to the families of the more than 30 subordinate soldiers who died on the battlefield according to the previously registered address.

In the past, whether the officials and soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty were at war with foreign tribes or fighting bandits and Pingkou and died on the battlefield, the corpses could be properly brought home for burial, and the government symbolically gave some compensation and bereavement to make their families grateful to Dade, and there was almost never a chief general in the army, and the court officials specially visited the door to send money.

So when Sun Tu sent money and food door-to-door this time to every old man who was crying because of the death of his heirs, they were not only surprised, but also deeply moved, and even the last bit of resentment was completely dissipated, and even took Sun Tu's hand to thank and thank him again and again.

Seeing all this, Sun Tu didn't feel good in his heart, so what he could do was to say a few dry and comforting words, and to make a guarantee as a Jiangzhou regimental training: "The old man also asks for condolences, your son died on the battlefield to ensure the stability of my Jiangzhou, and they are all heroes of my Jiangzhou." If you have any difficulties in the future, just go to the barracks to find this officer, as long as my Sun Tu is still in the Jiangzhou regiment training, as long as it is within my ability, this officer will definitely try his best to help you. In addition, if there are any children and nephews in your family who are willing to join the battalion of our township soldiers, as long as the age and health meet the requirements, the official can let them take the place of the brothers, and all the money and salary will remain the same. ”

As soon as he said the responsible words this time, he naturally received a lot of thanks from these family members. As a result, Sun Tu's reputation in the Jiangzhou army became higher and higher, and even faintly overshadowed Yuan Wang and the capital eunuch Lin Henian. Because with the passage of time, some details on the battlefield have also been spread, and everyone knows that this time can sweep away the gang of fierce Jiao in one fell swoop, and the township soldiers led by Sun Tuanlian have played a mainstay role. In a few battles, if they hadn't rushed to the front, I am afraid that this time the bandits would have fallen to the same fate as the previous expeditions.

For this statement, the Xiang army naturally has some opinions, but it is powerless to refute it, after all, the facts are there. Even Lin Dujian, whose official position was much higher than Sun Tu's, did not say much about this statement, because he already knew that his backer Yuan Wang had compromised with Cai Taishou, and even the management of the prison camp under the name of the Xiang Army had to be handed over to Sun Tu, a seven-rank regiment to practice.

In fact, when he first learned about this, Lin Henian was still a little unbelievable, he had been in the army for many years, but he knew too well what the governance of this prison camp meant to the generals of the Xiang Army and Yuan Tuiguan, this was not a matter of authority, but a major event related to tens of thousands of yuan of income a year.

For the Great Song Xiang Army, which has been rotten to the roots, the only purpose of officials and generals is to obtain sufficient benefits. And their frenzied means of grabbing money naturally include eating empty quotas, drinking the blood of soldiers, embezzling the land that should belong to the sergeants, and driving the soldiers under their command as miscellaneous servants, especially if they deliberately recruit ordinary people with skills into the army, and then let them work outside, so as to extract the income of their hard work...... It's really a matter of doing everything, and I just want to make money.

But in the final analysis, these tricks are all violations of the law and cannot withstand the investigation of the imperial court, and the benefits they can obtain are limited after all, they can't completely ignore the life and death of the soldiers, so that they can't survive, so that they don't need to be investigated by the imperial court, and a mutiny can make these corrupt officials die without a place to be buried.

Therefore, some people put their ideas on the prison camp, because most of the prisoners in the prison camp were prisoners who had committed major crimes and were sent from other states and counties, so naturally they did not need to be as polite as ordinary soldiers. At first, he made a fuss about the expenses in the prison camps, and then he openly asked for bribes, because after these prisoners were assigned to the local area, they were not just imprisoned in the cells, but still had to do hard labor on weekdays, such as dredging rivers and repairing city walls......

But in addition to these hard work, in fact, there are other easier tasks in the prison camp, such as bookkeeping and managing warehouses...... These tasks were not given to the old and infirm prisoners, but were determined according to the amount of filial piety the prisoners gave to the officials. This alone can allow the relevant officials of the prison camp to obtain a lot of benefits.

In addition, there are many harsh rules in the prison camp, and they will be punished severely if they are to blame at every turn. And only those who bribe the officials among them can be exempted from these sufferings, and if they really pay enough money to bribe and set up and down the camp, then the prisoner can freely enter and leave the prison camp except that he cannot leave the boundaries of the city, and there is no difference between ordinary people.

Jiangzhou is not at the border, so the prisoners who are generally assigned here are either those who do not commit serious crimes, or they are those who have a lot of money and can reduce their serious crimes.

But now, Yuan Tuiguan actually gave up such a fat difference to Sun Tu and the township soldiers, in Lin Henian's opinion, there is no difference from taking the initiative to cut meat. He also saw from it how much concession Yuan Tuiguan made this time, although he didn't know the reason, but he also knew that the secret dispute between Taishou Tuiguan that had lasted for nearly a year finally ended with Yuan Tuiguan's defeat.

Since even his own backer took the initiative to back down and let go, Lin Henian, a military general whose status was far inferior to that of the capital supervisor, naturally did not dare to show his dissatisfaction, so he could only let Sun Tu's edge overshadow him, and became a great hero praised by everyone in the city, a real hero.

However, Sun Tu himself didn't pay much attention to the benefit that Cai Jiu took from Yuan Wang and gave him, after all, he was not short of money now, and he had no intention of squeezing oil and water out of those prisoners with a clear conscience. However, since Taishou handed over the errand, he could only do his best as a subordinate and not make mistakes.