While everyone was talking, Peng Yingyu walked up to the hall with a large group of women and children.

Zhang Wuji couldn't help but look at them when he heard the frightened cries of these women.

After Peng Yingyu escorted them all to the palace, she said, "Minister Peng Yingyu sees Your Majesty." ”

Zhang Wuji looked at these women and guessed their identities.

However, at the moment, Zhang Wuji didn't care about them at all, he was more concerned about his capture and casualties this time, so he could estimate the combat effectiveness of his Ming army in the Western Regions.

Zhang Wuji asked, "Monk Peng, can our casualties be calculated?" ”

Peng Yingyu replied: "Back to Your Majesty, the main book of the minister's subordinates has completed the counting of casualties and captures, and I also ask Your Majesty to read it." ”

As she spoke, Peng Yingyu took out a fold from her arms, and then turned her head and handed it to Dai Qisi.

Dai Qisi was about to pick it up, Zhang Wuji said: "Forget it, if you have anything to say, you can just say it." ”

Peng Yingyu replied, "Yes!" A total of 381 people were killed and 1,800 were wounded to varying degrees. Most of them were casualties during the siege. A total of 8,736 enemy troops were captured and more than 3,400 were beheaded. 300,000 stones of grain and grass were seized, and more than 100,000 yuan of various weapons and ordnance were seized. The amount of gold and silver seized from the treasury is incalculable. It can only be weighed by a scale after classification. ”

Zhang Wuji asked, "How much is that?" ”

Peng Yingyu happily replied: "A total of more than 84,000 catties of gold and more than 330,000 catties of silver." The rest of the jewelry cannot be evaluated. ”

Hearing this Yucui, the woman in the yellow shirt and the others were shocked and dropped their jaws. But Zhang Wuji and Zhao Min were very calm.

This may sound like a lot of money, but it's actually not much.

They conquered the capital of a country, although they did not plunder the common people and the rich.

But to raid the treasury and get such a small amount of money, it is really a bit sorry for the status of the capital of a country.

After all, 330,000 catties of silver is converted into a market price of more than 5 million taels. The Qianlong of later generations will have more than this money next time in Jiangnan.

In the capital of a country, the treasury of each yamen only got such a little bit of silver after it was raided, which is really a bit less.

However, this money is enough to expand his armament, Zhang Wuji ordered: "Very good! After everything is settled, the meritorious soldiers will be rewarded according to their merits. ”

Peng Yingyu replied, "Yes! Obey the Emperor's orders. ”

Zhang Wuji asked at this time: "By the way, where did the ruling lord go?" ”

Peng Yingyu replied, "Back to Your Majesty, the ruling lord is now consolidating the various ministries and yamen in the city and allowing them to resume their functions. And many local Semu officials have already announced that they have taken refuge in my Daming. ”

Zhang Wuji nodded silently after listening.

Peng Yingyu looked back at the ladies and dependents, and then asked, "Your Majesty!" The women behind the ministers were the concubines and princesses and princes of the Chagatai Khan. I don't know what to do with them? ”

Zhang Wuji glanced at the women and children.

Looking at his eyes, many children were tightly snuggled in their mother's arms, and they were very scared of Zhang Wuji.

Zhang Wuji said: "Let them all go." Those who have a place to go give them some money to make entanglements, so that they can go to their relatives. If there is nowhere else to go, take them to the territory under our control and find a place to house them. ”

Hearing Zhang Wuji's answer, everyone looked at him with wide eyes.

Even Zhao Min and the woman in the yellow shirt looked at Zhang Wuji with a look of surprise.

Zhang Wuji asked, "What's wrong?" Isn't the order given by the deity wrong? ”

Peng Yingyu hurriedly replied, "No! No! No! Commanded! ”

Just as Peng Yingyu was about to escort them all down, Zhao Min hurriedly said, "Slow! ”

Hearing Zhao Min's voice, Peng Yingyu waved her hand to let the sergeants wait.

Zhao Min stepped forward and asked, "Brother Wuji, did you just let them go?" ”

Zhang Wuji asked strangely, "Otherwise?" Are you going to kill them all? When you Mongols conquered the whole world, you did not kill women and children who were not as tall as wheels. If I had killed them, wouldn't I have been even more brutal than Genghis Khan? ”

Zhao Min said: "But! They are not ordinary ordinary people, they are the princes and princesses of the Chagatai Khan, and the concubines! Moreover, we Mongols do not kill women, but only want to reward them to meritorious soldiers, firstly, to boost morale, and secondly, to increase our population. As for not killing children who are not as tall as wheels, it is nothing more than bad luck. Right now, they're all trophies of victory, so you're just letting them go? ”

The woman in the yellow shirt also said: "I also think it's a little inappropriate to let them go so easily. Among them are the noble heirs of the Mongol Khan, and if they are used by people with ulterior motives, then they will become a banner against you. Although I do not approve of the indiscriminate killing of innocents, they are not innocent, on the contrary, if they fall into the hands of people with ulterior motives, it will cause even greater disasters and more human suffering. Mowgli wants to be Renjun, I understand this. But for a monarch, too much kindness is not a good thing. ”

After listening to the words of the woman in the yellow shirt, although Zhang Wuji felt a little reasonable, he didn't expect his sister Yang to make such a ruthless suggestion.

But this is what the woman in the yellow shirt knows, as she herself said, although she does not approve of the indiscriminate killing of innocents, she is definitely not a good person with the heart of the Virgin.

What's more, in the eyes of the woman in the yellow shirt, these eunuchs enjoy all the conveniences brought by their status, so they are no longer innocent.

The innocence in the eyes of the woman in the yellow shirt is just those ordinary people who are honest and live honestly.

For the other women, the woman in the yellow shirt didn't have much concern. Her worries were about the little princes in the arms of the concubines.

These people were the sons of the Chagatai Khan, and if they escaped and then became supported when they grew up, it would be another disaster.

The woman in the yellow shirt has already seen the cruelty of war with her own eyes in this siege battle. This time, the Ming army and the defenders of the city combined with nearly 10,000 casualties.

Which of these people was not raised by their parents? It's a pity that they fight for the sake of those in power, in order to defend the interests of those in power and their families. Eventually, he died in a foreign land.

So who will pity the families of these soldiers? What should they say about the ordinary people who are innocently involved and suffered?

If these princes grow up and are not grateful to Zhang Wuji for letting them go and sparing their lives, but instead have usurped and then caused wars, then I don't know how many innocent people will die and how many families will be broken.

Therefore, in the eyes of the woman in the yellow shirt, properly dealing with these people in front of her can eliminate a possible disaster invisibly, and exchange the lives of these dozens of people in the field for the lives of tens of thousands, which is too worthwhile.

That's why the woman in the yellow shirt will stand up and let Zhao Min persuade Zhang Wuji not to have unnecessary mercy.

(End of chapter)