Chapter Ninety-Nine: Contracts and Emotions

The long convoy returned to Qingxiang City from the direction of Loulan, and the ashes jar on Waterfall Square piled up higher. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

With the increase in the number of deceased, the singing, dancing and drinking feasts in the fragrant city have gradually decreased.

The government did not deliberately stop people from drinking and feasting, which was a behavior that they naturally burst out.

It's important to be subtle, and it's much more effective than preaching.

Those who died in the war were all Hami people, their relatives, or neighbors, friends, and playmates......

Now, they are all dead in the same war.

The reeds on the shore of the calamus have sprouted, and the reeds planted last year are growing vigorously this year.

Not only that, but because of the sea of calamus, new branches and buds have emerged from the roots of the dead poplar trees.

Life in the desert is extremely resilient, and as long as there is water and sunlight, life will continue to grow.

Tie Xinyuan had been sitting in the waterfall square for two days, drinking only a little water every day, and after two days, he looked extremely haggard.

With 33,000 people killed in battle, the number of Hami's army was reduced by nearly 30%, which is a very serious problem.

Mu Sin's eyesight is very good, and even through the thick human wall, he can still see the iron heart source through some small gaps.

The appearance is very blurry, he can completely use his brain to make up for the picture that he can't see, and Tie Xinyuan's pain is his greatest joy.

At night, Tie Xinyuan slept among these undead, with only Tie Yi and Tie Er accompanying him.

Drinking on an empty stomach is a very uncomfortable thing, but Tie Xinyuan wants to drink more.

He thought that only those who were not drunk were a truly miserable person.

The 33,000 people in the military newspaper are just a number, although it seems heart-wrenching, but when more than 30,000 urns of ashes are piled up in front of you, this terrifying visual impact can make people collapse.

Compared with the pain of Tie Xinyuan, the people of Hami do not have much meaning of pain, some people may grieve for their dead relatives, and many more people are waiting for the reward that King Hami is about to promulgate.

This time, the reward will cost an astronomical amount of gold.

"Is the pension of fifty gold coins too thin?" Tie Xinyuan wiped the wine stains from the corners of his mouth and asked Tie Yi in a low voice.

Tie Yi and Tie Er glanced at each other, and then wrote on the sand table: "A pension of twenty gold coins is a suitable price. ”

"I have a lot of gold coins...... Can't make the price of my warrior and a camel ...... anyway"

"Twenty gold coins is the price of a white camel, and an ordinary camel is only six gold coins per camel......

There are still many wars we will face in the future, and it is foreseeable that there will be more dead soldiers, and for the first time fifty gold coins have been compensated, and the death allowance in the future can only be more than now, not less than now.

This is a big burden for the Hami government. ”

"How much compensation do the families of the fallen soldiers want?"

"Five gold coins!"

"Ah, do they really just need a cow?"

"In the Western Regions, dead soldiers are worthless, and no one in the Western Regions has ever paid money to soldiers who died in battle, you are the first!"

"Forget it, let's issue it according to the amount of twenty-five gold coins, the pension is less, and I can't pass my conscience by myself."

"Huo Xian said that the reward to the army cannot be cashed out at one time, otherwise a large number of gold coins will pour into the market, which will cause the depreciation of gold coins, and in the end, it will be the people of Hami who will suffer."

"Huo Xian, what did Liu Qi say?"

"Exchange them for supplies and silver coins, and copper coins, or land, and pastures, so that the market can become more prosperous."

The pension of the fallen soldiers is a matter of a bunch of gold coins for Tie Xinyuan, and he is not short of money anyway.

The Golden Valley and the Agate Beach were his personal property, and the general camp was also the young eunuch of the royal family, so it was his prerogative to mint gold coins.

Not only that, but every year the Hami government has to repay a huge amount of his loans, and it can be said that he is now the largest creditor of the Hami country.

With such a huge amount of money, it is impossible for the Hami government not to operate it, and nakedly sending a pile of gold to the families of the fallen soldiers will bring very big trouble to Hami.

Huo Xian, Liu Chu and others had to measure the market capacity of Hami Kingdom, and then determine how many gold coins, how many silver coins, how many copper coins to give them, and then add cloth, grain, tea, and sugar, in short, it was a very cumbersome process.

The fallen soldiers should be compensated, and the soldiers who returned from victory should be rewarded, and they should be rewarded heavily.

The Song and Han soldiers liked the land, so they gave them land and titles, and then assisted some so-called palace flowers, jewelry, silk, and a small amount of gold and silver coins to fool the past.

The warriors of the Western Regions, the Uighurs, the Khitans, and the Khitans liked pastures and cattle and sheep.

The most important thing in Hami is pasture and cattle and sheep, the people in the Western Regions are exchanging various materials with cattle and sheep and Hami country, cattle and sheep are hard currency for the people of the Western Regions, and the Song people and Han people regard grain cloth as hard currency is the same reason.

Whether it is the royal family or the government, it is not a good thing to have too much wealth in your hands.

The country and the emperor are rich, but the people are living hard, sooner or later there will be big problems, and the uneven distribution has been a taboo since ancient times.

"Meng Yuanzhi, Ah Da, Ah Er, Tie San and Huang Yuanshou don't need to be rewarded......" Tie Yi had just written this sentence on the sand table, but was rejected by Tie Xinyuan.

"It is necessary to be rewarded for meritorious service, but not to say that their reward is a reward, but to allow them to enter the royal treasury and choose one thing for each of them.

Honor is more important than reward! ”

"In this case, I think that taking advantage of the return of the army is the right time to implement Hami's military commandership.

Our Hami is now a small country and can't give a fief, but we can arrange the title first, and once we expand our territory, we can immediately be fiefdom. ”

Tie Yi hesitated for a moment but still said what was in his heart, giving the fief to the meritorious hero is the practice of the big cannibals, Seljuks, and Persians.

Tie Xinyuan laughed and said, "This is the reason why you people from the Western Regions are in constant war.

A meritorious man has his own fiefdom that he can be the master of, an army that he can control, and even the power to make laws.

It's a joke, if I were you Persians, just give me a fief, and in ten years I would become richer than the king, and by this time I would have no other way than to rebel?

Therefore, our Hami country can give the fief to the hero, but the jurisdiction of the fief must be handed over to the state, he can only enjoy the taxes paid by the fief, and a part of the output, and the control can only be the state, which cannot be changed. ”

Tie Yi snorted and wrote on the sand table: "This is also the reason why you Song people are self-contained, without pure interests, there is no absolute combat power." ”

Tie Xinyuan laughed and said: "But our race is very large, even if there are many corpse vegetarians, as long as one or two elites refuse to go along with it, we can always get through the difficult moment and win in the end."

I know you've been studying our history for a long time, so would you like me to give you an example? ”

Tie Yi was indifferent to Tie Xinyuan's shameless appearance and words, he knew that Tie Xinyuan would talk about Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Tang Taizong, and finally shamelessly extended to his Tie Xinyuan......

Is there a title Guan Tieyi They are, they have already chosen the identity of the royal enshrinement on themselves, a samurai with no children and no daughters, who will the title pass on to in the future?

Tie Xinyuan, who had drunk a lot of wine on an empty stomach, found that he was very hungry, he was in a bad mood just now and couldn't feel hungry, but now he was pulled out of his sad state by Tie Yi and Tie Er, and his body's functions immediately returned to normal.

Seeing Tie Er take out a roast leg of lamb from the food box, put it on the brazier and eat it with a knife while roasting, his saliva secretion was very vigorous.

Tie Er sent the leg of mutton in front of Tie Xinyuan, who swallowed a mouthful of saliva and looked at the mountain of ashes outside the tent.

Shaking his head, he said, "Endure it for another day, and I won't starve to death without eating for three days." ”

As long as he saw the mountains of ashes in the jar, Tie Xinyuan immediately stopped being hungry, after all, there were more than 30,000 lost lives here.

"Let Huo Xian and Liu Chu start discussing the rank of the title, you must also step up the sorting out of the merit book of the army, and when the army returns, what kind of merit corresponds to what kind of title, and strive to make sure that there is no omission or deviation."

War has always been a farce of killing 10,000 enemies and losing 3,000 themselves.

The Battle of Loulan perfectly illustrates all the meanings of this sentence.

Musin's army of 80,000 men and 7 men disappeared, and no more than 3,000 people were able to escape back to the Qarakhanid.

The army here refers to the samurai who are truly capable of fighting, and the folk men and craftsmen who accompany the army have never been considered human in the eyes of Musin.

He didn't understand Tie Xinyuan's lonely mourning behavior around the mountain of ashes.

The death of a samurai in battle should be a kind of glory, a joyous event from the filthy earth to return to the embrace of the gods, why should he be sad?

After three days, he finally understood something.

The smiles on the faces of those people in Qingxiang City disappeared when they saw the weakened Iron Heart Source, staggering among the group of undead and talking to the dead warriors.

The families of the fallen soldiers, who were only thinking about rewards, began to bow their heads and miss their dead relatives for the first time.

Mu Xin understood that Tie Xinyuan was buying people's hearts, he was using his own pain to buy the hearts of the people of Qingxiang Country, if in the past, there was a naked contract and transaction between the king and the warrior, then, now, a trace of emotion has been added to these contracts.

Mu Xin looked back on the past, and he suddenly found that the reason why he gave up killing Tie Xinyuan again and again was also because of his poison.

Those innocent smiling faces, those delicious meals, and those warm teacher-student answers...... and those flashes of wisdom...... It's all poison that pierces the intestines......