"Your Highness!"

"Your Highness, didn't you say that you won? Why hasn't my baby come back yet? ”

"Your Highness, is my family Goro, Zhang Wulang still alive?"

"Your Highness......"

In Jilin City, when Zhu Gaoxu returned to Jilin City alone on a red horse with several arrow wounds, the streets were full of anticipation, waiting for her husband, father, and son to come home.

The people who were worried about their families asked Zhu Gaochu about it, and their faces were worried, but Zhu Gaochu stopped when he heard the name Zhang Wulang.

Zhang Wulang...... If this person is not mistaken, he should be on Hada Ridge.

"I ......"

For a while, Zhu Gaoxu didn't know what to say.

He took out so many soldiers, and they didn't come back, but he came back.

At this moment, Zhu Gaoxu only felt like a fish in his throat, and it was difficult to swallow.

"Ladies and gentlemen......"

Zhu Gaoxu turned over and dismounted, and hundreds of people surrounded him, and everyone's hearts were hanging.

They stared at Zhu Gaoxu, trying to hear that their family was still alive.

But Zhu Gaoxu did not respond to this, but bowed down to them first.

Seeing his actions, many people weakened their legs at that time.

Thinking that dozens of people were killed in the last expedition to Xiyang Ha, his Royal Highness had never done so, so now ......

With an indescribable mood, Zhu Gaoxu shook his way for a while, and then got up and said with difficulty:

"In this battle, more than 30,000 Hu soldiers were killed, and more than 800 brothers did not ...... in order to defend their homeland."

As a result, the people around them fell to their knees, although they didn't know how their families were, but the numbers were enough to grieve them.

"Your Highness! Your Highness, my family Goro is still alive! Zhang Wulang! The one who always followed you, not very tall, twenty-three years old, he ......"

"Auntie, don't get excited."

"Yes, auntie, Your Highness must remember."

"Yes, yes, Gorou must be fine......"

A fifty-year-old lady rushed forward, and the people around grabbed her and comforted her, but in the face of her, Zhu Gaoxu could only be silent.

Sometimes, silence is the best answer.

The eldest lady saw that he was silent and did not speak, and the whole person instantly collapsed to the ground, wailing and crying.

Grief is contagious, and at the moment so many people died in Jilin City, no one knew whether their family was lying or standing when they came back, and many people began to sobble for a while.

In this regard, Zhu Gaoxu did not remain silent, but said:

"Before the start of this war, I told my brothers that if they unfortunately died on the battlefield, each family would be given 40 acres of bereavement field and 20 stone of grain, and the reward field for each battle would still be ......."

"In addition, if there is a doll in the family, an additional five acres of pension land will be issued."

Zhu Gaoxu calmly said to the soldiers that he was not reluctant because of the large number of people who died in this battle, but was open and fair:

"You all know that I don't have so much land in Jilin City, but the wasteland reclaimed this year will be handed over to you in accordance with the pension policy."

"For the rest, I'm sure you also know who these brothers died to protect, not just for their families, but for you."

"Therefore, please rest assured, whether it is the bereavement pension or the policy of Juntian, as long as I am still in charge of Jilin City for one day, I will not change it for one day, let alone do that kind of reluctance!"

Zhu Gaoxu said what he wanted to say, turned around and got on his horse, and left under the support of the people, returning to his shabby palace that could not even be compared to the Thousand Households.

When he returned to the mansion, he was not lazy, but said to the two soldiers at the door: "Gather the twenty-four leaders who have taken refuge in Jilin City this time, and say that the enemy has retreated, and I have something important to discuss with them." ”

"Yes!" The two soldiers responded, and then one of them went to inform the news.

The other was still loyal, while Zhu Gaoxu rode to the back door.

When he reached the back door, the two soldiers on duty opened the back door for him, and after he turned over and dismounted, he took the reins of the horse and led the red horse to the stable.

Zhu Gaoxu walked into the backyard, and when he saw the middle and back doors separated by the stable and the firewood room, there were two Jingjun on duty here.

"Your Highness!"

The two pure soldiers made a move, and Zhu Gaoxu bowed his head: "It's hard work." ”

Without further ado, Zhu Gaoxu walked into the real backyard, and then went to the main house, which is called the Cunxin Palace, but in fact it is not even a courtyard.

He walked into the main house and saw Guo Yan embroidering, and the maidservant who was embroidering beside her.

"Your Royal Highness......" Seeing that Zhu Gaoxu had returned, Guo Yan immediately stood up and instructed the maidservants on the left and right: "Go and bathe Your Highness with boiling water." ”

The two maidservants retreated, and Zhu Gaoxu sat next to Guo Yan.

Guo Yan already knew the news of Hu Bing's retirement, and even knew that her father-in-law was encircling and suppressing Hu Bing not far from Jilin City, she stepped forward and was about to change Zhu Gaoxu's clothes, but her hands stopped in mid-air, and asked carefully: "Has Your Highness ever been injured?" ”

"I've been wounded by some blunt soldiers, so it's out of the way." Despite saying this, Zhu Gaoxu still said to Guo Yan:

"If my father comes to the palace, you will bring someone to entertain him, and I have summoned the heads of the twenty-four departments to come, and I may want to talk about things for a long time."

"Your Highness, rest assured, the concubine knows what to do." Guo Yan slowly returned the salute, and then got started, carefully helping Zhu Gaoxu take off the layers of clothes.

After all the clothes were taken off, she looked at the bruises and blunt wounds on Zhu Gaoxu's body, and she was worried and scared.

Rao was taught by the grandmothers of the Marquis of Wuding, but after all, she was only a thirteen-year-old girl.

In the face of that terrifying injury, she tried to reach out and touch it carefully, but seeing that Zhu Gaoxu didn't snort, she nervously turned around and walked to the bedroom.

In front of the wardrobe, she chose for a long time, and after a while, she chose a cyan round-necked robe.

Seeing that she brought a cyan round-necked robe, Zhu Gaoxu frowned slightly and said, "On such a day, isn't it good to wear cyan?" ”

"The concubine feels that the blue color is just right." Guo Yan brought clothes for Zhu Gaoxu, and at the same time explained: "This green robe is similar in color to the plain robe, and the plain robe is a memorial to the dead. ”

What Guo Yan said, Zhu Gaoxu did not have a detailed memory, after all, in the early Ming Dynasty, a hundred wastes were waiting to be revived, and many rituals also needed to be continuously excavated from ancient books.

Similar to the situation of the whole system of rituals in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, it was extremely difficult in the early Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Gaoxu also heard this green robe for the first time, when he and Zhu Di sacrificed earlier, they often wore black clothes, thinking that black clothes were the clothes for sacrificing the dead, but he didn't want the green robe to have this kind of saying.

While he was thinking this, the two maidservants who had left before also walked back to the door of the house.

"Your Highness, it's time to bathe."

The two maidservants made a move, and Zhu Gaoxu also got up and took the green robe when he heard this, and walked out shirtless.

The two maidservants blushed and were even more frightened.

The blush was because of the tendons and flesh on Zhu Gaoxu's body, and the shock was because of the shocking wound on his body.

Not long after, Zhu Gaoxu went to the bathing room.

Due to the injuries on his body, Zhu Gaoxu did not dare to enter the bathtub to take a bath, but wiped his body with a coarse cloth dipped in water.

In this process, it is inevitable that the medicinal wine will be wiped clean, but fortunately, Zhu Gaoxu brought a bottle with him when he left, and he could ask the two maidservants to help him a little.

After wiping his upper body, Zhu Gaoxu washed his hair by the way and wiped it clean.

With his half-damp hair scattered, he returned to the house with his green robe, and took out the medicinal wine from his previous clothes.

"Wipe it for me."

Zhu Gaoxu said this, but it made Guo Yan and the others blush.

Guo Yan stepped forward to take the medicinal wine, but he didn't let the maid help, so he wiped the medicinal wine for Zhu Gaoxu independently, and washed his hands while turning around to put the medicinal wine.

Seeing this, the two maidservants also dressed Zhu Gaoxu and combed his hair after wiping the medicine and wine.

Time passed little by little, and about two and a half hours, Zhu Gaoxu's hair bun was also tied up and inserted into the wooden hairpin he often used.

After finishing everything, Zhu Gaoxu didn't stay in the backyard for a long time, but got up and went to the front yard.

The speed was too fast, Guo Yan just wanted to say something to him, but he didn't have time.

When he came to the front yard carrying hall, the hall was already full of twenty-four heads.

They all learned that Hu was defeated and retreated, and at the same time, it was not difficult to think about the fate of their walled fort.

As for Zhu Gaoxu's summons, many of them can probably guess his purpose.

But even if they knew, they still came, and they didn't think about sneaking away.

There are three reasons, one is that it is really difficult to escape from Jilin Bay.

The second is that the fate of their fort may not be very good, and it will be difficult to provide enough food for the whole tribe to survive the cold winter for half a year during the autumn harvest.

Third, after this battle, there were many male casualties among the tribes, and if there were not enough men, I am afraid that they would be annexed by some tribes after returning.

The rules outside the gate are like this, if Jilin City has not suffered heavy damage before, then Jilin City can still send troops to protect them.

But at present, Jilin City has suffered no fewer casualties than them, and it is very debatable whether Jilin City intends to send troops to protect them.

For all these reasons, the leaders of the twenty-four departments gradually divided into two factions.

One faction wanted to simply join Jilin City, after all, in the past few days in Jilin City, they had also seen how the lives of those tribes who fled the famine and joined Jilin City in the cold winter last year were doing.

They thought that if they sacrificed their cattle, sheep, horses, and tribes, there was no reason why they would be worse off than those tribes.

Anyway, even if you return to the walled fort, it will be difficult to survive, so it is better to take refuge in Jilin City directly.

This was the idea of one of the factions, and the idea of the other faction was that as long as they sold some of their cattle and sheep to Jilin City, and then returned to the walled fort after obtaining some of the grain, they could still grow a new batch of grain before the cold winter.

The number of supporters for both factions is more than the other, and the latter is small.

But no matter which faction they were on, they only dared to quarrel with their own people, and when Zhu Gaoxu appeared, they all shut up.

Zhu Gaoxu sat on his royal platform, and facing the silent twenty-four heads, he looked at a servant who had been waiting next to him for a long time.

At the beginning, Zhu Gaoxu asked the city officials to learn Jurchen language, not only to teach Jurchen children, but also to act as a translator.

After glancing at the officer, Zhu Gaoxu glanced at the twenty-four leaders before he spoke:

"In this battle, more than 800 men from your 24th Division were killed and wounded, although they fought hard for your safety, but they did protect the people in the lonely Jilin City."

"At present, although the Hu soldiers were repulsed and their strength was greatly reduced, it is rumored that your walled forts were also destroyed, all the millet seedlings were eaten by cattle and sheep, and the fields were trampled and tamped by cattle and sheep."

"Although there are not many rations in Jilin City now, if any of you are willing to stay in Jilin City, I will also grant the position of the head of the fang, and you can receive six buckets of rations and one stone of food per month, as well as three horses of coarse cloth distributed every year."

"The cattle, sheep and horses in your tribe will also be purchased at the price of the land, and the fields will be distributed to you in Jilin City, so that you can continue to be rich."

"The specific price is one cow or two horses, five sheep for one acre of land, if you want, then you can get up and stand aside."

After Zhu Gaoxu finished saying this, the officials also translated it in unison.

Among the twenty-four leaders, there were eight leaders who did not hesitate to get up, with only a few hundred people and more than a thousand cattle, sheep and horses.

Their tribe was already small, and now a lot of men have died, and the conditions given by Zhu Gaoxu are rich, so they have no reason not to accept it.

They have all seen the land in Jilin City, it is very fertile, and it can still grow rice.

If the cattle, sheep and horses that add up to more than 1,000 are exchanged for fields, at least three or four hundred acres can be exchanged, and two or three hundred stone of grain can be harvested every year.

Although this grain is less than one-fifth of the output in the walled fort, they can't afford not to feed their subordinates, and these two or three hundred stone of grain can be spent on themselves and their families.

The team led by the eight small-headed people got up and opened the twenty-four Jurchen dramas.

As they looked at each other, three more leaders got up, followed by one after another.

When a word passed like this, until the last six people were still standing in place, Zhu Gaoxu did not use violent means, but bowed his head and said: "Gu respects your choice, and in three days you can leave Jilin City with your subordinates, return to your walled fort, and continue to hang Lone's banner." ”

"Your Royal Highness Xie......" The six leaders expressed their gratitude, but Zhu Gaoxu didn't care about it.

He knew very well that with the fragile economic environment of the Jurchens, these six leaders would last until winter at most, and in the end they would have to bring their subordinates to take refuge in themselves.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu said to the officials beside him: "Distribute the waist cards of the head of the workshop to the eighteen leaders who are willing to stay, and prepare to open twenty-four new squares." ”

"Twenty-four?" The officials thought that their highness was wrong, after all, only eighteen tribes were willing to stay, and their number could be blocked by five cities at most.

Twenty-four Xinfang cities are enough to complete the urban part of Jilin City.

Although I don't know why His Royal Highness said this number, the official still chose to write it down first, and then report it to his superiors, and finally confirm it again by His Royal Highness.

Thinking like this, Zhu Gaoxu also raised his hand and said, "Okay, you all disperse." ”

"Your Highness Qianfu ......" the twenty-four heads said this sentence in a broken official dialect, and then left in a swarm.

Looking at their departing backs, Zhu Gaoxu didn't say anything, but sat in his place stunned.

After a while, he looked up at the officer: "You can go down too, I think it will be quiet alone." ”

"Yes......" The official retreated, and Zhu Gaoxu continued to sit in place in a daze.

He may have been thinking about the scene and picture when he entered the city just now, and then thought of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers fighting in the Battle of Jingjing a few years later, and hundreds of thousands of families wearing linen and filial piety.

"Soldiers, nobles, and ...... quickly," Zhu Gaoxu muttered these four words.

After this battle, even if he had annexed eighteen small and medium-sized tribes just now, he could still pull out less than five thousand soldiers and horses.

With this little bit of soldiers and horses, even if you add the military households that have not yet arrived in the south, it is only more than 4,000 people.

If this amount of troops is all armored, it can naturally dominate the Jurchen tribes, but the Jurchen tribes of this era are savage armies at best, and hunters of fishing and hunting tribes at worst.

Dominating hundreds of thousands of hunters, what is there to be proud of for him Zhu Gaoxu?

"Harawu......" These three words flashed in Zhu Gaoxu's mind, and then gritted his teeth.

Although this battle did not disintegrate all of Zhu Gaoxu's layout, it destroyed many things.

Zhu Gaoxu's character of retribution not only exists in his predecessor, but also has a lot in him in later generations.

He was unable to exert this nature in his previous life because he did not have the opportunity to exert his nature under his conditions.

But in this life, he will definitely not pay attention to what 'ten lives can be revenged', not to mention attacking Uliangha and obtaining a large number of horses is in his plan.

"One year...... I'll just endure it for a year! ”

Zhu Gaoxu clenched the handrail on the side, and at the same time, a servant also walked at the main gate of the palace.

He held a book in his hand, and after seeing Zhu Gaoxu, he presented it with both hands, and walked into the hall until he walked in front of Zhu Gaochu before he spoke:

"Your Highness, this is the seizure that has just been calculated by the palm print."

In an instant, Zhu Gaoxu snatched the book and quickly flipped through it to the final summary.

[1,976 sets of armor, 4,967 sets of leather armor, more than 7,000 weapons, 3,416 horses, 726 stones of millet of all kinds, and arrows are not counted......]

Just by adding up the armor, the soldiers of Jilin City killed no less than 6,900 Hu soldiers, reaching a battle loss of 1 to 3.

This battle damage is not good, but it is not bad either, after all, the biggest casualties in the Ming army of Jilin City in this defense of the city came from the Jurchen subordinates.

"The leather armor let Yizha watch the operation, as for the armor and weapons and arrows, if the craftsmanship is too poor, it will be directly smelted into iron and re-forged."

"Of the horses seized, two hundred medium-sized horses were chosen to be safe, and another three hundred were chosen to be kept for my father."

Sending horses to Ping An was promised by Zhu Gaoxu, and as for leaving 300 horses for Zhu Di, it was because of Zhu Gaoxu's understanding of his father.

Even in Lao Zhu's words, Zhu Di is also a poor man crying with gold, this time Lin Su touched so many horses, it is strange that Zhu Di is not red-eyed.

Choose 300 usable military horses for Zhu Di, and treat him as filial piety for his predecessor.

"It's a pity that I couldn't capture cattle, sheep and horses......"

Zhu Gaoxu sighed, if he could capture the more than 100,000 cattle and sheep in Harawu, then Jilin City's economic strength would really go one step further.

He thought so, but at the same time, he was already starting to have a headache about how to pay for the huge pension expenses.

"You let people calculate the amount of food and bounty according to the number of fallen soldiers and the amount of armor captured this time."

Zhu Gaoxu explained to the official, and the official also responded when he heard it, but in the end he also asked: "Your Highness, how to calculate the pension of those Jurchen servants and Liaodong soldiers?" ”

The officials thought that Zhu Gaochu would say that there was no need to count, but he didn't want Zhu Gaochu to reply after a moment of silence: "After all, it is the hero of my Jilin people who fought and lost, and the Liaodong Army counted according to the twenty percent of those who were lost, and if their families were willing to move to Jilin City, they could also send another forty acres of land." ”

"As for the Jurchens who were in the battle, they were given 20 stone of grain, and those who were willing to stay in Jilin City were given 40 acres of land, and among them, there were Xiyang Habu laborers who participated in the war and were lost, and their parents and wives were exempted from punishment and became Jilin citizens, and they enjoyed the same policy of enrolling their children in school and equalizing fields as ordinary people."

"In addition, those who cut off their hands and feet, or injured their internal organs and need to retire from the army, will also be given forty acres of land and twenty stones of grain."

"This ...... Wouldn't it be too lucrative? "Although the officials also felt that they should be compensated, they didn't expect that their Royal Highness would give so many bereavements.

But in this regard, Zhu Gaoxu sighed and said: "If I can't pour out my wealth to those who defend the country, then how can the people believe in me?" ”

"Your Highness......" The official had mixed feelings, and at the end he could only bow deeply, and then turned around and left the palace.

After about half an hour had passed, the official returned again and brought a new book.

In the past half an hour, Zhu Gaoxu did not move a step, perhaps because of the exhaustion after the battlefield battle, at this moment he didn't want to toss anymore, just wanted to sit quietly.

When the official handed the book to him, he took it and flipped through it.

According to the calculations of the officials, the Bohai Royal Mansion had to spend at least 63,000 mu of cultivated land as a pension field, more than 32,000 stone of grain as a pension ration, and more than 12,000 yuan of pension money for Shenyang Zhongwei in Liaodong.

In addition, there are more than 17,800 rewards for killing enemies.

After all, the average person who participated in the war can get about three times, which is also a lot of reward.

Moreover, this is only the reward money given to them by Jilin City, after returning to Liaodong, as long as Zhu Gaoxu writes a letter to show their merits and assigns some captured heads to them, then they can also get additional rewards and promotions.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but think of Zhou Ding, the thousand-household official who had escaped.

In any case, the sum of these pension money and reward money can basically take away one-fifth of Jilin City's finances this year.

But in this regard, Zhu Gaoxu was willing.

The only thing that gave him a headache was the more than 60,000 acres of pension fields, but fortunately, Lin Su captured more than 3,000 horses, and even if the middle and top horses were selected, there were still more than 1,000 inferior horses left to serve as horses to cultivate and open up the wasteland, which was the only commendable capture in this battle.

"Huh......" exhaled a breath of turbidity, and Zhu Gaoxu also got up and went back to the backyard to rest.

He hadn't slept much last night, but he had slept for an hour or two this morning, and he was really sleepy at the moment.

Shaking his tired body, he returned to the backyard, but instead of going to the temple of storage to rest, he chose an inverted room, and fell asleep without even a futon after lying down......

(End of chapter)