Volume IV Chapter 16 Post-War Matters
Early the next morning, as soon as the sky was bright, Lu Xiangsheng appeared in the camp dressed neatly. Although he was injured in more than ten places, the important parts were protected by armor, and his martial arts were strong, so they were all skin injuries.
The reason why he got up early was to see how the recruits of the Tianxiong Army were injured, the situation was more serious than he imagined, some of the recruits were too seriously injured, it can be said that it was nothing if they were cut a few times on their bodies, and even a few holes stabbed by the enemy were not serious, the most serious ones were those who were sick and lacked arms and legs.
After Lu Xiangsheng visited the seriously wounded one by one, he came to the battlefield to inspect again, looking at the bones all over the ground, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "There is an old saying: 'One will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither', I have just started, there are more than 10,000 corpses, alas, maybe by the time I am successful, the bones all over the ground have already become dry bones in the grave." ”
Of course, now is not the time to sigh, there are still many things waiting for him to deal with, he sighed, and beat his horse to the tent.
After returning to the handsome tent and calming down, he said aloud: "Someone is coming." ”
His own guards were ordered to enter and wait to be dispatched.
He ordered: "Go and inform Cao Wenzhao, Zhang Hongye, Wang Chengyin and Zhang Shujia to come to the Shuai Account to discuss the matter." ”
The guards went as ordered, and after a while, Cao Wenzhao, Zhang Hongye and others came to the tent one after another.
These few were also a little injured, but they were also some skin injuries, and they were not even as serious as Lu Xiangsheng. They were fierce, but they were not as desperate as Lu Xiangsheng, and they did not rush into the army and slash from it, so the injuries were relatively light.
Lu Xiangsheng inquired about everyone's injuries one by one, and then ordered: "General Cao, wait a minute, you go and count the seriously injured people, register those who are seriously injured and disabled, and when the injuries are stable, they will be given severance pay and let them go home." ”
Cao Wenzhao gave up his hand and said: "The last general will obey the order." ”
Lu Xiangsheng then took out two silver tickets from his arms and said to Zhang Hongye: "General Zhang, you wait for a thousand cavalry and a thousand transporters, make a detour from the north to Zezhou, find a day Xinglong branch to exchange 200,000 taels of silver, and then buy more wound medicine and transport it back." ”
Zhang Hongye stepped forward to take the silver ticket and retreated as ordered.
Lu Xiangsheng said to Wang Chengyin and Zhang Shujia again: "General Wang, General Zhang, you will each lead 2,000 transport soldiers to bury the bones on the battlefield, and the thieves will dig a big pit on the spot and bury them, and the soldiers of our army must be transported to the lonely mountain behind the camp to be buried one by one." You should send someone to inform the commanders and generals of each battalion, and if there are any soldiers under your command who know the fallen soldiers, go and identify them, and try to erect a tombstone for each soldier. ”
Wang Chengyin and Zhang Shujia bowed their hands together and said, "The last general will obey the order." ”
Lu Xiangsheng thought about it again, and felt that there was nothing wrong, so he waved his hand and said, "You guys go get busy first." ”
The generals retired one by one, and Lu Xiangsheng picked up the brush and started writing.
He has a lot of things to write, such as the pension of the deceased, the severance pay of the wounded, and the reward of the meritorious service, which must be reported to the military department first, and then reported to the emperor after the military department verifies it, and the emperor will only issue silver after the emperor approves the household department, otherwise there will be no penny.
The dismissal of the injured person can be paid in advance, after all, there are only a few hundred people who are seriously injured and disabled, and 100,000 taels of silver is more than enough. But the pension of the deceased is not good, it is more than 5,000 people, he can't afford this, and the rest of the people will drink the northwest wind as soon as they go up.
Now that the court is very rich, I believe that this bit of pension and reward should be issued soon, and the morale will be high if the soldiers work hard and don't get a fart in the end, it will be chilling.
In fact, the quality of the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty is still very high, although the guards are basically peasants, but the ancestors will always leave some battlefield experience, the commander of the guard and the thousand households will also organize the young and middle-aged laborers in the military households from time to time to practice, basically a little training can become an army.
But the court was too poor at that time in the Chongzhen Dynasty, not to mention pensions and rewards, not even food and salary, and the army was not bad if it did not mutiny, and the morale was naturally low and terrible.
Now the Chongzheng Dynasty is different, our little emperor is like a god-like blow, the Jiangnan Shidafu Group is wiped out, and there are countless corrupt assets, there are hundreds of millions of silver alone, and there are countless royal industries in the dark to make money like crazy, Daming can be said to be rich and strong, rich and strong, rich and strong, only rich can be strong, now Daming has become rich, strong is only a matter of time.
Like now, Lu Xiangsheng thought of the soldiers' pensions and rewards as soon as he finished the battle, using this to ensure high morale, if it was the Chongzhen Dynasty, he didn't dare to think about these things at all, maybe he was thinking more about how to feed the soldiers at that time.
After writing the report to the Ministry of War, he began to write the governor's edict again, and the first edict was written about the Shanxi Xuancheng Buzheng Division, or about the wounded. These seriously wounded people could not even stand up on their feet, let alone walking, so naturally they could not go home on their own, and some labor had to be recruited to carry them back.
Although he, the governor, is not their direct superior, he has the right to deal with everything related to military and political affairs, and he still commands this little matter.
First of all, he asked the officials of the Command Department to go to the families of the fallen soldiers on his behalf, and tell them that the imperial court's pension would come down soon. Then, they were asked to inform the families of the seriously injured and make some necessary preparations so that the seriously injured would not be sent back, and there would be no one to take care of them. Finally, there is the issue of replenishment.
His establishment is 100,000, and now the number of people has been reduced by half a percent, so it is natural to quickly replenish, although the thief King Jiayin also suffered heavy casualties, but after all, he has nearly 150,000 horses, even if he loses 20,000 or 30,000 or 1230,000, most of the wounded will recover in ten days and half a month, and then it will be another big war, and the sooner the soldiers are replenished, the better.
This time he couldn't wait, he asked the Shanxi Metropolitan Command to recruit 6,000 recruits within five days to replenish the battle losses anyway, and he didn't specify the guard, you can recruit wherever you want, just one word, be fast. If you wait another month to recruit them, the battle will probably be over.
After writing these, he took out three envelopes, packed them separately, and wrote an urgent letter to the Ministry of War and an edict to the Shanxi Xuancheng Political Division, and an encyclical to the Shanxi Metropolitan Command and Envoy Division, on which he wrote an expedited eight-hundred-li urgency.
These are official documents, he doesn't have to send someone to send, just hand it over to the post station to pass it, if the meaning of urgency is required to pass at least 300 miles a day, not to mention 800 miles of urgency, as fast as you can transmit, just pass it at the fastest speed.