Chapter 166: After the War
Sitting back in that position, there was a lot of work to be done. I picked up a book casually, and it was written, "Fan Cheng, a grain merchant at the south gate of Chengdu, took advantage of Zhao Wei's rebellion, hoarded grain, and the amount amounted to more than 5,000 stones. Xun Yu gave instructions to approve Cheng Yu's verdict, and because it involved rebellion, he submitted it to Liu Zhang and asked him to make a final decision.
It is no wonder that the ancients did not have a good impression of merchants, these people bought low and sold high, like leeches sucking the blood of the people, and every time there was a war, they made a fortune in the country...... Liu Zhang angrily picked up the pen and wrote down the word "chop", threw it aside, and took another one casually.
"Wuyang County Lieutenant Zhang Jie, the Chen clan in the west of the city participated in the rebellion, the patriarch Chen Chun and seven strong men in the clan were imprisoned, lynched in prison, tortured into a trick, the patriarch Chen Chun was tortured but died in prison. Zhang Jie claimed that the Chen family participated in the rebellion, and Chen Chun committed suicide in prison, and then embezzled more than 3,000 pieces of Chen property and 380 acres of land. All the crimes have been ascertained, and Zhang Jie also pleaded guilty, beheaded according to the law, and confiscated his family property......"
When Liu Zhang saw half of it, he couldn't help but scold, Wu Ming, who was guarding his side, couldn't help but be a little surprised, he had been following Liu Zhang for a long time, but he had never seen Liu Zhang so angry. Liu Zhang has been in a high position for a long time, in order to maintain his image, he has always forced himself to control his emotions and make his mood invisible, but seeing such a bold Zhang Jie, he can no longer control it, and greatly carries forward the national scolding of later generations. The first time he heard such a rich and "interesting" swear word, Wu Ming on the side was "shocked" and opened his mouth wide......
After scolding, Liu Zhang put up a pen and approved "Knowing the law and breaking the law, the crime is heinous, the sentence is changed to Ling Chi, and the example is emulated", and at the same time he wrote a line of small characters "Zhang Jietian's property is confiscated, the female dependents are enslaved, and the male is punished to serve hard labor in the army."
Here to explain, Ling Chi is a widely circulated folk thousand knives (I believe everyone understands how to inflict punishment, and there is no waste of pen and ink), this kind of punishment began in the Qin and Han dynasties, but has always existed as lynching, and there was no such punishment when the state sentenced five generations ago. Liu Zhang didn't know this, because he hated Zhang Jie and wanted to execute him with the most cruel punishment, so he wrote such a betrayal, which also made Ling Chi's punishment appear in the national criminal code hundreds of years in advance. Later, because of this incident, Liu Zhang was once criticized, and was even called a tyrant for a time.
The third part is not good news, Gangwon County ordered Zongzi to commit murder, forcibly captured the girl, filthy innocence, and the victim's family went to the county lieutenant to complain, but not only failed to uphold justice, but the county lieutenant even colluded with the county magistrate and beat the victim's family to death. Needless to say, the county commander and the county lieutenant were removed from their posts and investigated, and as a result, a problem was found out from the two of them, and Gangwon County was almost in a state of flux, and actually arrested 37 officials, large and small, of which the circumstances were particularly serious as 14 people, counting all the sons of the county commander and the murderous servants, Xun Yu approved the execution of 18 people in one go, and the others were also fined 30 to 5 years of hard labor depending on the severity of the crime. At the same time, Xun Yu believed that the problem in Jiangyuan County was serious, and a large number of officials were questioned for their crimes, which was more likely to cause chaos, and that a cadre should be sent there immediately.
Chen Zhenzi filial piety, Jingzhou Nanyang people, since Liu Zhang raised troops to attack Jing, he knows the details of Jingzhou knows that Wang Rui is by no means Liu Zhang's enemy, in order to avoid being affected in the war, so he went to move his family to Yizhou, and to Liu Zhang's talent hall to register as a scholar. Xun Yu once talked to him and thought that he was a talent that could be created, and just when the Jiangyuan incident happened, he decided to let him go to Jiangyuan to show his talent.
Of course, Liu Zhang knew that Chen Zhen was the commander of the northern part of Shu County, Qianwei, and the captain of the guard, and he was knighted as the Marquis of Chengyang Pavilion. Liu Zhang knew that such a person was absolutely comfortable as a county magistrate, and agreed with Xun Yu's opinion.
The fourth is about armaments, according to the sketches provided by Liu Zhang, Ma Jun finally created a full set of armor that imitates the European heavy infantry after many months of forcination, but the cost of this kind of armor that wraps the soldiers tightly is not cheap, and it has reached more than 50 times without weapons......
Liu Zhang knew that he did not have the ability to promote this expensive armor in the whole army for the time being, so he painfully and happily gave instructions to build 20,000 sets in advance......
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For the whole morning, Liu Zhang was dealing with things like that. Although it seems that the affairs are huge and complicated, Xun Yu has already reviewed and approved the handling opinions, which greatly reduces Liu Zhang's workload.
I don't know if it's intentional, the last one is about Chen Chao and Jia Long, who were captured in this rebellion, these two directly participated in the rebellion, and the crime was extremely heinous, and Xun Yu was sentenced to severe punishment! After thinking about it for a long time, Liu Zhang finally decided to kill Chen Chao and stay Jialong. At that time, Liu Yan was named Yizhou pastor, but because of the rebellion of the horse, he was stranded in Jingzhou and could not advance, it was Jia Long who led hundreds of troops to fight for the horse minister, and then Jia Long welcomed Liu Yan into Yizhou, which can be said to be indispensable. Thinking of this, Liu Zhang decided to spare his life, demoted him to a commoner, and ordered Liu Yan to guard the tomb for the rest of his life.
All other persons involved in the rebellion were to be beheaded, all the women and children in the family were to be confiscated to the government except for some of the property, and all men in the prime of life were to be put into the army, and those who were held hostage were punished with hard labor or fines.
After dealing with the mountain of official documents, Liu Zhang returned to the back house to have lunch with his family, and then ordered someone to invite Xun Yu and others.
Although the First Battle of Jing has ended, there are still many things left, such as the statistics of the results, battle losses, resource consumption, troop reorganization, resumption of production, revitalization of commerce, and so on......
The results and losses of the battle had been counted as early as when they were in Jingzhou, mainly to ventilate Xun Yu and others who stayed in Yizhou!
In this battle, Yizhou dispatched a total of more than 100,000 troops from the two routes, and in 37 battles, a total of more than 15,400 soldiers were killed (including more than 7,000 sailors), 3,174 were seriously injured and could not continue to serve (including 686 sailors), more than 14,000 were lightly injured (including 3,500 sailors), and 1,700 missing (mainly those who fell into the water in the public security water war), amounting to as much as 20% of the total number of troops, which can be described as heavy casualties.
Of course, the heavy casualties also brought great results. In this battle, the Yizhou army defeated Wang Rui, Huang Zu, Hua Xin, Cao Yin and others 230,000 troops (the main battle strength was 150,000, and the remaining 80,000 were Wang Rui, Cao Yin and other temporary conscription of strong private soldiers and farmers), killed 43,000 enemies, captured nearly 190,000 people, of which more than 13,000 were seriously injured and disabled, and more than 13,000 people with bad conduct were left back to their hometowns, and the rest were all reorganized.
Counting the more than 27,000 rebels captured in Zhao Wei's rebellion, Liu Zhang's army increased by nearly 220,000, you must know that he only had 170,000 troops in his hands when he made the crusade against Jingzhou (there were 37,000 new recruits trained in the recruit training camp, and the training had already been completed during Zhao Wei's rebellion), Liu Zhang's total strength exceeded 400,000 in just three months, about 410,000, and the strength was enough to be proud of the others. This number is quite scary, but when it comes to combat effectiveness, the water is larger. The reduction of more than half of the troops will greatly reduce the morale, military discipline, and cohesion of the troops, and this will have a great negative impact on the combat effectiveness of the troops. If there is a big war to face now, and there are two choices for your own troops, one is the 170,000 elite soldiers in Yizhou three months ago, and the other is the 410,000 army at the moment, Liu Zhang will not hesitate to choose the former......
Of course, headaches are temporary. Because Liu Zhang implements the voluntary military service system, it is expressly forbidden to force strong men, in order to encourage young and strong people to voluntarily join the army, Liu Zhang has made a lot of efforts, but in the ancient times when "good men are not soldiers", the effect was not satisfactory to him, and there was an unspoken rule that the middle-aged people in the family of the offender should be used as soldiers. It's a pity that the days in Yizhou are getting clearer day by day, and there are fewer and fewer people who dare to commit crimes against the wind, which makes Liu Zhang lose a big supply base for soldiers. But now, everything is not a problem, with these 220,000 captives, given him a year or so, he will be able to hold 400,000 elite tiger ben in his hands!
In addition to 200,000 prisoners, Liu Zhang also seized a large number of property, grain, grass, and equipment. Money, grain and grass Liu Zhang left half of Kuailiang to relieve the people of Jingzhou and rebuild their homes for the people who lost their homes in the war, and let Gao Shun take some of them back to Hanzhong, Huang Zhong and Lu Su had another point, and there was not much, Liu Zhang ordered all of them to be hoarded in Jiangling in case of emergency. After weapons and armor were replenished for battle damage, they were also hoarded for future army expansion.
In order to win this war, in addition to paying the huge sacrifices of the soldiers, Yizhou consumed 100,000 stone of grain (mainly consumed in the first month of the war, and later pursued the policy of raising the war by war, and levying the grain stored in Jingzhou Prefecture for food), military salaries, especially the pensions of the fallen soldiers is a huge expense, roughly estimated to be nearly one million, fortunately, the sales of Yizhou goods have been hot in recent years, and this money is not difficult for Liu Zhang.