This time, Emperor Chongzhen sat in Juyong Pass, and personally commanded the defensive counterattack operation was a great success, the success was not only to thwart Huang Taiji's attempt, and to eliminate many living forces of the Jin State after Huang Taiji's capture, but also in the process of pursuing all kinds of prisoners, Huang Taiji was brought into the various armies in the pass, and almost all the gold and silver wealth looted from Xuanfu and Datong was left in the pass and taken into his hands.

Although some of these gold and silver wealth are still in Juyong Pass, some are still in Zijing Pass, some are still in Yang Hewei, and some are even far away from killing Hukou, the total amount has been reported in great detail to the hands of Bi Ziyan, the head of the household department who is still in Juyong Pass, and to the hands of Emperor Chongzhen.

Among them, the Red Banner of the Yue Tuo Department and the Yellow Banner Army of the Huangtai Ji Department of the Huangtai Ji Department have plundered the gold and silver wealth in the land of Xuanfu, counting 115,561 taels of gold, 128,600 taels of silver, 11 carts of various scattered copper coins and bronze utensils, and 40 carts of silk and satin cloth, all of which have fallen into the hands of the Wang Tingchen's subordinates, and have been the first to be transferred to Juyong Pass.

At the end of the siege of Baishan Mountain, Zu Dashou and others seized all the wealth of the Huangtaiji Department after they initially broke through the border from Hukou and entered Datong, accumulating 186,366 taels of gold and 1,168,820 taels of silver, which are now stored in Yang and Wei Wufu.

Li Banghua led the army to annihilate the Shuozhou Jianyu army in the Acropolis of Pingyu on Datong West Road, and the gold and silver obtained, totaling 97,456 taels of gold and more than 160,000 taels of silver, were stored in the Fort of Killing.

As for the large amount of gold and silver property discarded by the army of Mang Gurtai Zheng Blue Banner after the battle of Bauhinia Pass, totaling more than 610,000 taels, was controlled by Fang Kongzhao, who led the second town of the Guards Army to stay at Bauhinia Pass.

The gold and silver seized from the baggage of the accompanying army that Jian Yu could not take away were converted into Chongzhen silver yuan and silver yuan bills, totaling 399,380 taels of gold and 4,627,422 taels of silver.

The rest of the copper coins, bronze utensils, satin cloth, and other things that are used as money are also converted into silver taels, which are worth 200,000 taels of silver.

This large sum of money, in terms of its source, is, of course, the money of the wealthy people in the prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of Datong and Xuanfu.

But since this money had fallen into the hands of Jianyu before, it was stolen by Jianyu from the people.

Now it has fallen into the hands of the Ming army, the hands of the imperial court, and the hands of the emperor, and it is impossible to return it to the people.

After all, those people had either fled, had been killed, or were taken out of the customs by Jian, and then became prisoners of the Ming army.

Not only their property, Emperor Chongzhen will never return it to them, it is these young and strong people captured by the Ming army from Jianyu, and now this Emperor Chongzhen does not plan to let them return to the land of Xuanda.

Ten percent of the original population has been removed from the land of Xuanda, which will become a place where Emperor Chongzhen rewarded the soldiers of the Beijing camp and the border army, and resettled the landless people in Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, Shanxi, and even Lianghuai.

And the gold and silver wealth they were robbed of by Jianyu will also become the salary of Emperor Chongzhen to reward the soldiers of the whole army for their meritorious service in this battle.

If there was no huge amount of money obtained through the war, if there was no huge no-man's land caused by the invasion of Jianyu in Xuanda, what would Emperor Chongzhen use to reward meritorious soldiers?

Although it is a bit cruel to say this, it can only be so for the environment of the late Ming Dynasty, for the Ming court at the end of the Ming Dynasty, especially for the still very bad financial situation of Emperor Chongzhen.

This is also the reason why Emperor Chongzhen did not punish Fan Fucui, the governor of Datong, and Zu Dashou, the chief soldier of Datong Town.

As for Li Yangchong, the governor of Xuanfu, and Hou Shilu, the chief soldier of Xuanfu Town, the same is true, there is no way to investigate and dispose of them, and he does not want to investigate and dispose of them.

Because strictly speaking, he could have sent the 5th Army Battalion, the 3,000th Battalion, and the 1st and 2nd Towns of the Guards Army to the direction of Datong in advance.

Even if it is too late to guard Datong, at least it can be sent to Xuanfu.

Instead of blindly ordering all the troops to stick to the line of Juyong Pass and Zijing Pass, they watched the Jianyu army and its northern captive servant army attack the city in Datong and Xuanfu, loot and slaughter.

The reason why Emperor Chongzhen did this, of course, was his own calculations.

And this calculation, naturally, is focused on the post-war period.

But this reason cannot be spoken, and it cannot be announced to the world.

After all, the people of the world are the people of the Son of Heaven, and their lives, land, and property should be protected by the imperial court.

It was also the duty of the Ming army to fight to defend their lives, land, and property, rather than to watch the pigtails and their servants, to kill them, to rob them, to plunder and maim them.

The cruel truth implied in Emperor Chongzhen's arrangement is not difficult for smart people to find after careful consideration, but no one dares to point it out.

When Emperor Chongzhen announced in public that he would take out five million Chongzhen silver yuan and reward all the troops participating in the war with a heavy reward through the mouth of Zhang Weixian, the minister of civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty would not ask where the silver came from except for kneeling on the mountain again and shouting long live.

No one cares whether the bloody silver should be returned to the families of the people who died.

And the envoys from the vassal countries, vassals, and foreign nations who had been following the ceremony had no way of knowing the blood and tears involved.

They were only deeply shocked by the wealth of the Ming Dynasty, the financial resources of the Ming Dynasty, and the extraordinary heroism and generosity of the Ming Emperor.

In their eyes, five million Chongzhen silver yuan is equivalent to five million taels of silver!

The emperor of the Ming Dynasty rewarded the army with five million taels of silver just because the army won a victory!

What kind of Chinese emperor is this?

What kind of army was his army?

What kind of country is this country?!

These questions have not only echoed for a long time in the minds of the Dutchman Bideno, the Portuguese Perez, and the Ryukyu tributary envoys Shang Yi and Cai Tong, who had not yet been received by Emperor Chongzhen, but also in the minds of the Korean envoys Ayahara Maharaja Li and Mo Jingwan, the prince of the Mo clan in Annam, who had already met Emperor Chongzhen at close range.

This holy decree of rewarding the meritorious soldiers of the Ming army made him more intuitively feel the wealth of the Ming Emperor and the extreme importance he attached to the army.

None of these envoys from outside the territory would believe that a country could rely solely on benevolence, righteousness, and morality to maintain its status and earn its dignity.

In their hearts, whether a country is worthy of respect or not, and whether it has enough capacity, depends entirely on its financial resources and army.

And the Ming Dynasty they saw in front of them was obviously even more powerful than the Ming Dynasty they had seen on the way to Beijing before!

After the decree of rewarding the soldiers of the whole army was read out by the Minister of Military Aircraft, the commanders of the three guards of the pro-army and the military attachés of the imperial chamberlain who were on duty in the Imperial Palace all raised their heads with their chests straight, their waists straight, their faces full of pride and pride, and the voices of the mountain shouting long live were particularly loud and high-pitched.

Where does the dignity and status of military personnel come from?

It comes from the attention of the rulers and the support of the common people, but the simplest and most direct source is to give enough money and good treatment.

With a generous salary and good treatment, the status of military personnel will naturally rise, and the sense of honor and responsibility will naturally be enhanced.

What Emperor Chongzhen has to do now is to equip them with the most advanced weapons as much as possible while carefully training the army, and provide them with enough money and treatment as much as possible.

With these things, he didn't worry at all about not being able to win the support of the army, nor was he worried that he couldn't eliminate Jianyu and pacify the thieves.