"I have asked Wang Wenqian to take Gu Mei away, and then I will send someone to sort out what other officials in the government and the opposition are involved in Chuzhou besides Jing Xiang. Now that Zuo Si has these 3,000 loaves of gold as the foundation, a lot of work will not come to a standstill. Han Qian dragged Feng Yi and Kong Xirong to see the three princes, and first told Gu Mei the truth.

"Since I will reward Gu Mei to you, the gold that my second brother brought to ransom people is your bounty, and I will urge Mr. Shen to dispose of the military funds advanced by Zuo Si." Yang Yuanpu said.

"There are too many things to do and spend money on Your Highness, and to make the generals use their lives, both the iron whip and honey are indispensable. It is enough for Han Qian to get His Royal Highness's favor at this time, and His Royal Highness will not treat Han Qian badly in the future. Han Qian said solemnly.

Han Qian felt a little sorry in his heart, after all, he could do more things if he could master an extra 30 million money, but whether it was Emperor Tianyou's other eyes to keep an eye on every move of the Linjiang money shop, or whether he couldn't summon him for this great achievement, Han Qian knew very well in his heart that he had to be careful to deal with Emperor Tianyou's rather clear warning this time.

Although he could foresee that the contradictions with the Anning Palace and the crown prince would become more and more acute, and the trend of history would become more unpredictable, Han Qian's state of mind was far less impatient than before the war.

In the bloody battle of Xichuan, Han Qian's mood changed a lot.

In addition to the cruelty and tragedy of the bloody battle in Xichuan, Han Qian still can't bear to think about it so far, and at the same time, it is such a cruel and tragic bloody battle that he has supported, and he has become calm and calm about the cruel and grim situation he will face in the future.

As the saying goes, bloody battles come out of fierce battles, and Han Qian has a deeper understanding of this sentence from the changes in his own mood.

Han Qian thought to himself that since Emperor Tianyou didn't like his sword-going character, then there was nothing wrong with cultivating one's self-cultivation for a period of time.

Yang Yuanpu didn't know where Han Qian's mind was going at all, and he regretted that Han Qian saw through Gu Mei's value but didn't detain him, but then he put this idea behind him and said: "I went to see my father yesterday, and my father has agreed to everything in Junzhou, and he will issue the edict as soon as tomorrow." Junzhou will newly set up the four military mansions of Jingzikou, Xichuan, Canglang, and Jingyun, and at that time, the families of the rebels in Sui and Yingzhou, as well as some military households that cannot be accommodated in Taowuji, will be incorporated into Junzhou to fill in the military government, and it is indeed necessary to add a large amount of additional money and food. ”

"Oh, Your Majesty agreed so quickly, that's a good thing." Han Qian responded.

Han Qian's original plan was to reset Junju so that the three princes could take it from afar.

During the Jingxiang War, Shen He brought the edict of Emperor Tianyou to Xichuan and officially agreed to this matter.

However, after the Liang army withdrew to the north of Tongbai Mountain, Han Qian reconsidered the grim situation faced by Jingxiang, and suggested that the three princes should not rush to set up counties under Junzhou for the time being, but set up four new cantonment military palaces to consolidate the border defense with the situation of combining farming and warfare, and at the same time strengthen their control over Junzhou.

Yang Yuanpu talked about the situation of facing the saint yesterday, Junzhou will set up four new cantonment military offices, Li Zhihe is also the commander of the Xichuan Military Mansion, and Zhou Shu is also the commander of the Jingzikou Military Mansion, at this time, Zhou Yi is the commander of the Canglang Military Mansion, and Chen Jingzhou, the representative of another cottage general, is also the commander of the Jingyun Military Mansion.

Some of the families of the rebels in Suiying and Yingzhou will be moved to Junzhou, plus the cottage fugitives and some of the soldiers who moved from Taowuji, the four new cantonment military offices in Junzhou are planned to be able to organize 30,000 soldiers.

On average, one-third of the generals will be rotated, and Junzhou will also have 10,000 standing troops and horses to garrison.

In this way, it can solve the daily defense needs of Junzhou in the face of the Wuguan Liang army.

Not only Junzhou, Du Chongtao wanted to establish an effective defense line in the northern part of the Nanyang Basin to resist the southern attack of the Liang army, and in Dengzhou and even Xiangzhou, it was also necessary to set up more new cantonment camps and military offices for cultivation and warfare, so as to relieve the military pressure on the western flank, and also to avoid the empire's already precarious finances being crushed by the new defense needs of the western flank.

"Your Majesty is wise, and Junzhou has built four new military mansions, there are too many places that need money and food, and His Highness still has to rely on Mr. Shen Yang to strategize." Han Qian said.

Junzhou newly built four cantonment military offices, and the envoy of the degree support department will allocate an additional amount of money and grain for the construction of the city, the reclamation of wasteland, and the supply of daily money and food, but it is unlikely to be particularly sufficient.

In the same way, the military households under the rule of the military government have to undertake extremely heavy military service, and the land tax must be lenient, plus the reward for the casualties, even if they cannot get the money, they must also reward the acres of land and reduce the field tax, and do not expect the new military government to contribute much in the first two years.

At this time, even if there is money and grain in the late Red Mansion and the Marquis of Xinchang that can be squeezed out, it will also be used to strengthen the soldiers and horses under their direct control.

This time, even if there was a part of the surplus of military funds, plus the reward that the three princes would receive, Han Qian also suggested that it be handed over to Shen Yang to control it.

The rewards for the generals, especially the rewards for the junior officers and military attachés, are all decided by the Dragon Bird Army and notified to the military department.

The reward of the generals, in addition to the blank notice given before, also needs to be rewarded, which needs to be approved by the Privy Council, which is relatively complicated, but except for Han Qian, there will be no obstacles for others, but it will take a little time.

The convicts and slave soldiers of the Xuzhou battalion are almost exempted from their sentences or out of slavery based on their merits, and they can almost be rewarded with one or two hundred acres of land, but the fields need to be drawn from the official fields in Xuzhou, and the envoys will only allocate an additional more than five million dollars to give a reward.

This part of the reward was to be given to the generals themselves, and Han Qian was also ready to give as much money as possible to the families of the war dead except for the fields, but there was no way to give it generously to the three princes for other expenses.

After talking about things from the third prince, the night was already dark, and Han Qian did not spend any more time with Feng Yi and Kong Xirong, and returned to the house alone.

At this time, Xi Ying had just come back from placing Yun Niang in a new house, and led the other two girls rewarded by the third prince to come over to see Han Qian.

These two girls are the daughters of Du Rong, a medical officer in Yingzhou, one of the two girls is fifteen years old, and the other is even younger, only thirteen years old.

Yingzhou assassin Shi Xia Shuang dedicated the city, and Du Rong, as a medical officer, had no ability to resist except for his subordinates.

When the Liang army retreated north, Xia Shuang led more than 3,000 troops and clansmen to follow, and fled to the north of Tongbai Mountain.

Du Rong's family was either reduced to official slavery or relegated to a brothel camp as a prostitute, and the Ge sisters were singled out as a beauty to reward the three princes as a beauty because Yun Ying was unmarried and dignified and beautiful, and then rewarded him in his house.

Knowing that these two girls were ranked seventh and ninth among the sisters of the same generation in the family, and their names were Du Qi Niang and Du Jiu Niang, Han Qian thought that he couldn't call the two yellow-haired girls "Niang" all day long, so he said: "You will serve by my side in the future, one is called Qiqi and the other is called Jiujiu," and asked Xi Ying, "Their families have arranged for someone to redeem them?" ”

"Gao Ye and Yang Ye took the name of the son to do it, and the two sisters-in-law of Qi Niang and Jiu Niang have already taken it, but it is too hard, and no one has slowed down, and they will call over to meet the son in two days. In addition, their mother, second brother and younger brother were all relegated to the Fancheng hard labor camp, and Gao Ye crossed the river to work at this time, and he has not come back for the time being. ”

When Han Qian heard Xi Ying say this, he knew that Du Rong's two daughters-in-law must have been relegated to a brothel camp and trampled to a bad place, sighed slightly, looking at the appearance of the two little girls, he must have hugged his two sisters-in-law and suffered a lot just now, and he didn't know what to say.

At this time, Gao Shao and Yang Qin walked back from outside, brought back three people, and saw Du Qiniang and Du Jiuniang's faces suddenly frowning sadly, wanting to cry but not daring to cry, they knew that the old woman was Du Rong's wife, and the two young men who were beaten and bloodied were Du Rong's two sons.

Now that the three princes in Xiangzhou City are hot and prosperous, it is also very convenient for Gao Shao and these people to go out to do things.

Han Qian asked Du Rong's second son to be called Du Yijun and his youngest son to be called Du Yiming, and said: "You have all forgotten all about the previous incidents, and you must not have any resentment in your hearts, at least don't show anyone on your face, otherwise I won't allow you to stay here." And as long as you do things well by my side, I will not treat you badly. ”

The Ge family just knelt down and kowtowed in thanksgiving.

Although they had only been questioned for a month, it was as if they had walked through hell.

Gao Shao stood next to him and said: "Yun Niang's brother and sister-in-law and younger brother have been redeemed, do you want to summon them to see them." ”

These people will all be regarded as slaves and maids of the Han Mansion in the future, and it stands to reason that they will all come over to see the young master.

"It's so late, there's no need to toss them." Han Qian waved his hand, first asked Xi Ying to lead the Ge family to the backyard to settle down, and then asked Gao Shao to call Lin Haizheng and Feng Xuan over to discuss things.

This time, the Zuo Si scouts, the Xuzhou battalion, and the boat gang all suffered extremely heavy casualties.

After the Zuo Si scouts, the Xuzhou battalion and the boat gang incorporated a part of the cottage recruits and the Yingzhou grain transport fleet, there were more than 1,000 people, but in the end only less than 600 people survived, of which more than 100 were seriously disabled.

Among them, the Xi clan was as high as one hundred and fifty people at the most, and there were only more than seventy people left at this time.

"The deal with Wang Wenqian, His Royal Highness is watching, I am not afraid that they will dare to deny it, I will ask for the first batch of gold tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, and I will arrange for the prisoner soldiers and slave soldiers to go back to Xuzhou first - Yang Qin, Feng Xuan, you can leave to Tanzhou to pick up a boat first." Han Qian said.

The ships of the Xuzhou Boat Gang and the four surnamed fleets were destroyed, Ji Xiyao was in Qianyang, Xuzhou, and he could build three or four fast sailing ships a year, and the most convenient thing at present was to buy a ship in Tanzhou and build the shelves of the boat gang as quickly as possible.

After such a tragic war, most of the surviving convict soldiers only wanted to return to their hometowns safely, but there were still some convict soldiers who were born as thieves in the past, but they didn't think they could get a reward of more than 100 acres, so they went home and became a farmer honestly, still hoping to follow Han Qianmou's background.

In addition to the twenty shadow guards led by Zhao Wuji and mainly composed of Xi teenagers, the Zuo Si scouts still maintained fifty elites.

In addition to the Xi clan boys who practiced the art of concealment and acted as shadow guards, there were still fifty-six Xi clan members who survived after the war, and they naturally did not disband, but on the contrary, they had to be closely united.

The twenty-six members of the Xi clan will return to Xuzhou, and build another village near Yangtan Water Village with the fields rewarded by military merits, as the foothold of the Xi clan in Xuzhou, and continue to redeem and gather the Xi clansmen scattered all over the country, and the other thirty people, Han Qian will organize twenty people into the boat gang, and leave the other ten people to Feng Xuan as his descendants, and secretly help Feng Xuan and Gao Bao control the fleet of the four surnames.

The boat gang also absorbed some prisoners and fugitives who were willing to wander the rivers and lakes in the cottage forces, and the armed escort barely maintained about 150 people after the war.

However, the boat gang will be responsible for transporting the products of Xuzhou and Junzhou to Jinling in the future, and Xuzhou and Junzhou are both important places on land and water, and it is no longer enough for the boat gang to have only 150 armed guards.

However, if the Boat Gang wants to carry out a new round of expansion, it will have to wait for Han Qian to breathe a sigh of relief before thinking about it in the long run.

Among these convicts in Xuzhou, more than 20 people fought quite bravely and won a lot of military merits, and in addition to being able to resist criminal service, they could also be awarded military meritorious officers.

In addition to the seventeen people who joined the Zuo Si and the boat gang, the other ten people who returned to Xuzhou with Yang Qin and Feng Xuan could also be recommended to serve as low-level military positions or officials in the state camp or state government.