After coming out of the palace, after reading the battle report sent by Wu Sizang, it was extremely speechless, and Yingzong sent the ammunition taken by the royal reward. Along the way, the officials of Shu did not dare to block it, except for a few groups of Timurid imperial cavalry attacking the supply line of the Ming army on the road, there were no major twists and turns, but there was enough to have a battalion of escort force, and after those groups of cavalry dropped a hundred or so corpses, they also took the initiative to withdraw, and the ammunition was handed over to Hu Shan very smoothly.

However, the fighting stalled. Because of the abundance of ammunition, Hu Shan organized a battalion-sized mortar salvo, which caused an avalanche, and the roads on the south side of the mountain were all swallowed up by heavy snow, and it is said that tens of thousands of lame wolves and knights were buried in it. The first division of the Ming Dynasty was far away, and only seventy or eighty people were lost.

Hu Shan himself attached a report, admitting that he had made a serious mistake in formulating the battle plan and did not take into account the terrain factors. This time there were no major casualties, it was all luck, if it wasn't for the first round of mortars that had not yet landed, he had a sense of foreboding, and immediately asked the herald to wave the flag, ordered to stop shooting, and fired signal flares to let the front-line soldiers retreat regardless of the cost, just afraid that a brigade that went out of the battle would be buried there. In fact, according to the reports of the soldiers who participated in the battle: "At least seven or eight hundred cavalrymen, who watched us withdraw, thought that they had an advantage to take advantage of, and were buried when they charged at us!" ”

"Haven't tried a mortar salvo before?" Ding Yi called those jade-like female soldiers over and asked.

These female soldiers are Ding Ruyu's personal guards, but they can answer: "Mr. Hui's words, the ammunition in Zongzhen's hand." When entering Shu, it was not sufficient, so it was on the Shannan front. Salvos are rarely implemented, usually three rapid fires on the squad scale. Then the other side retreated. As for avalanches, there were a few small ones, and I was buried, and then my comrades dug me out. ”

This is one of the problems that Hu Shan and the others are extremely criticized for, her use of mortars is scattered, and each section of the battle line is put in a squad, and it has to be reported layer by layer before firing. Hu Shan and the students who came out of the academy. It is more inclined to concentrate large-scale artillery fire and deliver annihilating strikes against the enemy's living forces.

However, for the terrain like the Great Snow Mountain, Ding Ruyu's method avoided the wrath of nature.

Ding nodded, asked a few more details, and waved his hand to teach the female soldier to retreat.

When something happens, it's not a question of who to punish, but how to deal with the aftermath.

After thinking about it, Ding Yi called Liu Ji over: "The seventy-six martyrs of this battle, their direct superiors." It should have set off when the battle report was issued, and with the schedule calculated, he would come to Beijing immediately. You draft a eulogy for these martyrs, and then I will sign it. Their biographies are also attached to the war report. You take a closer look. ”

"Yes." Liu Ji happily agreed, but took the thick battle report paperwork. But I didn't do it right away.

As soon as Ding saw that he had something to say, he said to him, "Just say it." What to hesitate about? ”

"The disciple is stupid, Mr.'s original intention is naturally excellent, but the soldiers are all from the countryside, and most of their parents have not read, but I am afraid that they will have to pay someone to read it, but I am afraid that they will not understand it well." Liu Ji, who was born as a Jinshi, understands that the eulogy is naturally to be exquisite, and it must be literary.

So he came up with an idea: "It's better to give them some pension money, which is more affordable." ”

"The pension silver was originally issued by the governor of the four seas, and the imperial court also has the pension silver, our army, Shangfeng will not be greedy for this money. But what you said is also true, these soldiers fought with me many times in Guangxi, followed Ruyu last time, survived altitude sickness, and were buried in the snow, alas, in this way, you go to your fourth master and mother to bring up another sum of silver, which can be regarded as the silk gold I gave. ”

"Then this eulogy ......"

Ding Yi shook his head: "You still have to write, write well, the soldiers who fell down because of altitude sickness last time were handled by Du Zhanzhi, and they did a good job." You're from a jinshi, so you can't let Zhanzhi go down, right? ”

Liu Ji had no choice but to respond, so he went to the next room, called a few clerks, and began to handle the eulogy.

He just didn't want to do it.

Because the status of the soldiers is really too low in Daming, he is a dignified jinshi to write a eulogy for these soldiers?

That's when I really feel like I can't get past that level in my heart.

As soon as Dante mentioned Du Ziteng, Liu Ji had a comparative mentality,

So he soon came back and asked Ding Yi a question: "Sir, the disciple thinks that it is not possible to accompany the immediate superiors of the fallen soldiers to visit the 100 households of the guards, and the plan drawn up by Du Zhanzhi cannot establish the image of the new army among the people. ”

Liu Ji, who was born in Jinshi, is extremely quick to accept new things, whether it is "direct superior" or "image", this kind of Ding Yi has a strong modern vocabulary, he understands it as soon as he hears it, and he can use it very fluently in daily life. The traitor has the talent of a traitor, at least talking to him, Ding Yi will have a feeling of closeness.

And once he cares about it, Liu Ji can really do things, such as the problem he analyzed at this time: "The military households in the guard house are rotten roots, and the hundred households are among the people, although the people at the bottom are not good at provoking them, but they are just like the role of a small landlord, and there is no sense of authority, and even the talents who have some prestige in general can use the topic to play and directly reprimand." ”

Ding nodded and said: "Well said, you have to have such a more serious energy to do things, in your opinion, what should I do about this matter?" ”

"Civil officials, you must let the civil officials accompany you, even if it is the main Bo and the county Chengcheng, and the guard station has to be accompanied by more than a thousand households, so that the people can be taught to feel that they can join the first division of the Ming Dynasty, but they are not the same as the military households in the guard." Liu Ji said it in a clear manner, not only that, but he also proposed another plan, "And it can't be just like this, if you want to go through the past like this, use your own children to fight for this scenery, and the people are afraid that they also have their own accounts." ”

"Well, go on." As soon as Ding heard this, he became interested, which is very much the taste of condolences to military families in later generations.

Liu Ji cleared his throat, glanced at the abridgements in the notebook in his hand, looked up and said to Ding Yi: "During the New Year's holidays, civil officials and military attachés of more than 1,000 households have to go to the homes of the martyrs who died in battle; If a martyr has an orphan, he should be raised by the government to study; If you have parents, you should reduce taxes, go out into service, etc.; If the martyr has no heirs, it should be presided over by the government, and the stepmen should go to renew the incense. "Huaxia is a very scholarly incense inheritance, so Liu Ji has such a saying.

And not only that, he also proposed: "However, Mr. should implement the integration of the officials and gentry to pay for the service, if the martyrs can be exempted from service, only then someone will go to join them." If you are not as good as your parents, the government will subsidize a sum of money during the New Year's holidays; If the martyr is single, the government will be instructed to raise his parents and send them to their deaths until the martyr's heirs or successors reach adulthood. ”

Ding Yi couldn't help but nod when he heard this, isn't this a military family pension similar to that of later generations? It is even more generous than the bereavement of the Hereafter.

However, Ding Yi immediately raised a question: "If it is Guangxi, it is okay to go down, but the first division of the Ming Dynasty, at that time, it was the people of Liangguang, Huguang and other places, as well as the soldiers and horses from the border towns, including Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Huguang, Shandong, and other soldiers from various places, this section is really difficult to implement, and if you can't implement it, it will make a mess, and it will not help!" ”

Guangxi is Ding Yi's backyard, and the government has transformed Ding into a separation of powers, with representatives elected by the people serving as legislative arguments; There are county departments under the jurisdiction of the Eight Divisions, which are responsible for the government in real power, and the militia units in various places actually perform the functions of the public security police in addition to serving as reserves; The magistrates sent by the county government and the imperial court officials only have judicial power, and the three shifts of errand officers are basically similar to the modern judicial police rather than the public security police.

Therefore, even if the magistrate appointed by the imperial court wants to manage things, he can't manage it, and there are eight departments stationed in the local area to deal with all stalls, such as Du Mu, the magistrate of Cangwu County, he looked at this road to be repaired, but he couldn't repair it, because at this time, there were no rich gentry in Guangxi to donate to him, and the land was divided into land reforms, and the landlords either invested their money in industry, and the land was sold, or they all let "Hou Dagou" kill them.

Cangwu Zhixian Du Mu wants to catch the handle of the rich who invest in industry? I'm sorry, people want to sell technology to find a scientific research department, tax collection is the financial department, find a military order to go to the equipment department, unless the county magistrate Du Mu is hard to plant some crime, otherwise, you can't control people.

There is no such thing as tax consumption now, and the tax is also collected by the financial department, what can the county do?

If the magistrate wants to build roads, he has to find the Eight Divisions of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion of the Four Seas, the Garrison Office of the Political Envoy Department of Guangxi Chengxuan, the Garrison Office of the Wuzhou Prefecture, and the Finance Department and Transportation Department of Cangwu County to discuss it.

On the face, the magistrate is still the head of the government department, but in fact it is completely hollow.

In this case, Ding Yi's writing is basically the supreme instruction, and there is nothing that cannot be done.

However, Guangdong is not going to do it, Guangdong has not yet reached this point, and even the implementation of the integrated payment of grain by the officials and gentry to the army still has to be discussed. Of course, if Ding Yixing goes down, with Wan'an's skill, and the garrison of the Fourth Division of the Ming Dynasty is there to control it, it will be no problem to get things done, but it will not be as happy as Guangxi.

As for Huguang, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong, Zhili and other places, people know that the county yamen will handle this note? Leave him to die, call the dignified county or the lord, go to the home of a dead soldier to condole, why do you want to go on New Year's holidays? Liu Ji said that Xiucai, who is not too bad, can use the topic to scold in person after meeting hundreds of households.

"Sir, the student has a charter, I don't know if I should talk about it or not?" Liu Ji is obviously confident about this. (To be continued......)