"Master Hou, the last general can't figure it out, if these thieves don't cut off their heads, just let them go, why do they still give them money?"

The Xiuzhou Prefecture of the temporary marshal, Wang Ziwu was very puzzled and complained.

Hu Zhizhou also nodded, and said worriedly: "Master Hou, these thieves will join the rebel army after taking the money, which is really letting the tiger return to the mountain!" ”

"Although Your Majesty said that the Northwest Forbidden Army was mobilized to quell the chaos, but there were many remnants in the Western Xia, and hundreds of thousands of elite forbidden troops of the Western Army were restrained by it, and the road was far away, it was really difficult to reach Liangzhejiang immediately, and the bandits gathered millions of people, and our army only had more than 50,000 people, and there would be losses in every battle......

Another general of the forbidden army said.

In response to the questions of the crowd, Lotte smiled lightly: "Ben Hou has his own intention to arrange it like this, you might as well go and have a look with Ben Hou!" ”

……

"Brothers, my marquis said that all the bandits and soldiers who laid down their arms and resisted will be killed, and all those who are willing to serve the imperial court will be contained, and those who originally returned to their hometowns will be sent with silver money!" In a place in Xiuzhou City to encircle and disarm the rebels, Tu Si stood on a high place and said loudly to the surrendered rebels.

A disarmed righteous soldier exclaimed: "The imperial court dismissed us and others, is it really not only not guilty but also issued entanglements?" ”

Shakuchi chimed in beside him: "My marquis is a promise, so it's fake?" ”

Although a group of disarmed righteous soldiers have won the letter, their eyes are still full of disbelief, from ancient times to the present, there have been countless killings of prisoners of war, not to mention that this dynasty does not kill prisoners, but also distributes prisoners to entangle, which is really unprecedented.

"My marquis said that the return to the imperial court has always been used as a coil to give money to those who are not injured, and those who are physically injured are given money twice to make road expenses." Tu Si stood on a high place and said loudly, and then ordered: "Come on, bring the money." ”

After Tu Si's order, a group of soldiers came carrying a string of large wooden boxes, and then put the boxes on the ground.

"Brothers, line up, register your name and place of origin, those who are willing to go home come to me to write their names and receive money according to their fingerprints, and those who are willing to join the official army will go over there to register the leader's clothes and armor." As Tu Si spoke, he pointed his hand at the clerk opposite, obviously that there was a place to sign up for the official army.

After hesitating for a moment, someone began to walk towards Tu Si.

As for the official army that participated in the imperial court, there was not a single disarmed rebel army. For many years, because of Huashigang, the credibility of the government in the people of Liangzhejiang has been very low, and who is willing to join this army and turn around and slaughter their fellow villagers.

"Line up, come one by one!" The scribe in charge of registering the records saw the volunteer soldier coming, and then took the pen and asked, "Name, place of origin, where do you live?" ”

The disarming volunteer at the front of the line hurriedly said: "The little one's name is Sun Xiaoer, he is from Sunjia Village, Fuyang County, Hangzhou Prefecture, and his ancestors have lived in Sunjia Village for generations!" ”

"Press your handprint in the face, take the money and you can go home!" After registering his name, Tu Si opened the box and picked up a string of money made of Ma Qiang and said, "Take it, this is your severance money." ”

"Thank you!" Sun Xiaoer took the money and thanked him.

Looking at these righteous soldiers queuing up, Tu Si smiled: "Don't thank me, I want to thank you for our Le Hou Ye, in addition to Le Hou Ye, you also want to thank you for the handsome Fang Qi Buddha, if we hadn't defeated Fang Qi Buddha and taken away the treasure left by Fang Qi Buddha when he escaped, where would I get tens of thousands of dollars for you to do severance pay!" ”

Hearing Tu Si say this, all the rebels were stunned, and they looked at each other in surprise.

"Your handsome Fang Qifo only cared about escaping after losing the battle, and he didn't even care about bringing gold, silver and jewelry, leaving behind gold and silver jewelry worth 300,000 yuan, I don't know how much oil and water you rebel army leaders looted when they captured Hangzhou Mansion and other rich places!" Tu Si said to himself, and then waved his hand: "Next, register to receive money!" ”

Sun Xiaoer, who was supposed to go home after taking the severance money, couldn't be happy anyway, and what Tu Sifang just said was really heartbreaking.

Tu Si's words are not all in the military Seven Buddhas, the peasant uprising has always had its limitations and narrowness, in order to vent the anger of the long-oppressed heart, the uprising will burn the houses of the rich officials and rob their gold and silk children, before Fang Qifo was ordered by Fang La to go out of the northern expedition of Hangzhou, attack the salt official Chongde, take hundreds of thousands of the funds of the rich households in the official treasury, and use them as military salaries to raise grain and grass, of course, it is inevitable that they will be intercepted by the Fang Seven Buddhas, Lotte is just a slight change of numbers, and the propaganda is just to break the hearts of the rebellious army.

Propaganda warfare and public opinion warfare were played by the American emperor in later generations, not only in the war years, but also in the peace years, which moisturized things silently, killed the international world's strongmen, and even caused the former red empire to collapse.

After listening to Tu Si's provocation, the disarmed rebels who received the money couldn't help but be indignant: "We are waiting for the rebellion to fight hard, but I didn't expect that the fat ones were these people." ”

Tu Si smiled coldly: "Thousands of miles of being an official in order to eat and wear, Zhu Mian's dog thief who was dismissed by His Majesty is like this, your Fang Dashuai is also this virtuous, and where is Zhu Mian good." ”

After Tu Si provoked it like this, the rebels became more and more angry.

Seeing the increasing anger of the disarmed rebels, Tu Si said helplessly: "Okay, okay, take the money and leave quickly, go home and live a good life, don't be bewitched and used by thieves again, and become cannon fodder for others." ”

When Tu Si's words fell, the mood of the rebels was even lower, and many people even began to scold.

Shakuchi comforted: "When today's son issued an edict against himself, he stopped the Huashigang from the Ying Feng Bureau, and removed Zhu Mian's official government, reduced taxes, and the days of Liangzhejiang Road will be better in the future." ”

……

This scene fell on the eyes of a group of officials in the distance.

"Master Hou's clever plan, these people will never join the bandits again!"

"It's a good plan to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle, and after the more than 10,000 soldiers are released, it will be rumored to be out, which can beat the 100,000 army of the imperial court!"

"The Jiangnan Rebellion will be peaceful in the near future!"

……

The generals couldn't help but praise, and their hearts admired Lotte more and more.

"Today, we only know the great talent of the Hou Ye, in the past, he broke the Western Xia to capture the king of Xia, and now the rebellion of the thieves is just the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves."

understands Lotte's strategy, that is, Hu Zhizhou, who has always had questions about Lotte, and the guard Wang Ziwu also gave up again and again.

"Your Excellency is overrated!"

Lotte returned the salute and said very modestly.

……

Back to the Shuai's Mansion to rest, Lotte suddenly remembered Shi Goudang and asked, "What is Shi Goudang doing with that eunuch?" ”

Wu Song hurriedly replied: "Master Hou, I heard that Shi Goudang is busy writing and impeaching Master Hou!" ”

"I don't know the times!" Lotte sneered: "Le won two battles and two victories, and captured more than 10,000 enemies, he wrote a note to impeach Le at this time, will the Son of Heaven be the master with him?" ”

Wu Song knew that it was a bit too much to plug Shi Goudang's mouth with Shi Goudang's socks, so he excused himself and said: "Master Hou, his subordinates did what Master Hou told him, but at that time, he treated him out of righteous indignation, and it was the fault of his subordinates, even if Master Hou pushed his subordinates!" ”

didn't answer Wu Song's words, Lotte just said: "Yes, two great victories, you should write a piece of music with Your Majesty." ”

……

Relying on the superiority of equipment, the number of casualties among the officers and soldiers was not large, and the casualties of the officers and soldiers in the two battles before and after were only more than 1,000, while the casualties of the rebel army were shocking, with more than 8,000 soldiers killed in the two battles before and after, and countless wounded, and more than 11,000 casualties......

Lotte knows that if these rebels are on par with the officers and soldiers in terms of equipment, the number of casualties of the officers and soldiers will not be much smaller.

A vivid human life, it only took a day to disappear into the world, and then it became a cold number, no one will remember them anymore, even after the good news was transmitted to Biandu, the historians were just a few lines of words in the history secretary: "In the winter of the second year of Xuanhe, the two Zhejiang Road Manichaean Fang was in chaos, and Pingyu Hou Lotte was ordered to go on the expedition, and two battles and two victories ......"

Except for a few short lines, the history books will not give too many comments to the officers and soldiers and the non-commissioned officers of the righteous army.

And Lotte sighed not only about human life, but also about whether these people are worth it, including the official army and the rebel army, the official army counterinsurgency will define the history book as the executioner who suppressed the rebellion against the people and the accomplice of the feudal ruling class, and the peasants who revolted because they could not bear the oppression in all dynasties have become the wedding clothes of others and become the cannon fodder of another feudal ruling class in the bloodshed and even the lives they paid.

Xiuzhou victory, in addition to symbolically expressing condolences to the deceased, the generals immediately looked like joy, this time the credit to the court, these people have to add a reward for the official knighthood, who will really care about those who died.

Of course, there are people who are different from the joy of these generals, such as Shi Goudang, who is busy writing and impeaching Lotte at the moment.

Different from these officials who only know how to kill and add officials to the knighthood, and Lotte thinks further, not only to think about how to describe themselves in the history books of later generations, but also to think about how to manage the two Zhejiang, according to the original process of history, after the change of Qingjingkang, the two Zhejiang are the center of gravity of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the management of the two Zhejiang is equivalent to managing their own future retreat, Lotte does not want to leave a "Le Yan Wang" name on the ground of the two Zhejiang.

Xiuzhou Dajie played how to write, but some things made Lotte embarrassed, had to hesitate to be in the middle of the wave, before waving out of Beijing, Huizong Zhao Ji and Lotte talked, just told Lotte to act cheaply, and did not issue an edict to blame himself, yesterday in order to recruit the rebels, Lotte lied that the Son of Heaven issued an edict to blame himself, which is obviously a big crime.

For this reason, Lotte had to write Xiuzhou's victory as a recital to ask for guilt.

But Lotte also knows that the current situation is urgent, and the guilty recital is sent to the Son of Heaven, and most of the time he is just blaming himself.

……

"Master Hou, look who's coming!" Just now someone sent Song Shu away, Shakuchi came in with a person and said excitedly.

"I've seen Master Hou!" As Shakuchi spoke, the man behind him immediately bowed down and bowed when he saw Rakuten.

"Huang Kanjian!" Seeing the visitor, Lotte immediately recognized it, and said with his hand: "I haven't seen you for three years, Huang Kanjian has always been good!" ”

The person who came hurriedly said: "Lord Lao is worried, and his humble position is very good!" ”

The person who came was Huang An, the head of the Imperial City Division stationed in Hangzhou, who had already been under Lotte when he was the magistrate of Qiantang County.

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