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Chapter 16 Post-War Matters

The next morning, just as the sky was dawn, Lu Xiangsheng appeared in the camp in a neat dress. Although he was injured more than ten times, he was protected by armor in important parts. In addition, he was very skilled in martial arts, so he was covered with skin injuries. Apply some medicine and bandage it, and it will be fine in a few days.

The reason why he got up early was to see how the new recruits of the Tianxiong Army were injured. The situation was more serious than he thought. Some new recruits were injured too seriously. It can be said that being cut off a few holes on their bodies was nothing, and even being stabbed by the enemy was not serious. The most serious one was those who had pierced intestines and had broken stomachs and lacked arms and legs. If they were injured like this, this person would basically be a waste.

After Lu Xiangsheng visited the seriously injured one by one, he came to the battlefield to patrol. Looking at the corpses all over the ground, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "The old saying goes: 'A general succeeds and thousands of bones are drying out'. I'm just starting out, and there are more than ten thousand bones. Alas, maybe by the time I succeed, the corpses all over the ground have already become dry bones in the tomb."

Of course, now is not the time to sigh, and there are still many things waiting for him to deal with. He sighed and headed to the coach's tent.

After returning to the coach's tent and calming down for a moment, he said aloud: "Come."

His personal guards came in upon orders and waited for the dispatch.

He ordered: "Go and notify Cao Wenzhao, Zhang Hongye, Wang Chengyin and Zhang Shujia to come to the general's office to discuss matters."

The personal guard left upon his order, and soon Cao Wenzhao, Zhang Hongye and others came to the commander's tent one after another.

These people were also injured, but they were also injured in some skin injuries, and they were not even as serious as Lu Xiangsheng. They were fierce, but they were not as destined as Lu Xiangsheng. They did not rush into the army and slashed them out, so they were relatively mildly injured.

Lu Xiangsheng asked everyone about the injuries one by one, and then ordered: "General Cao, wait until you go and count the seriously injured people. Those seriously injured and disabled people will be registered. After a few days, they will be given severance payments to them and let them go home."

Cao Wenzhao bowed his hand and said, "I will obey the order."

Lu Xiangsheng then took out two silver notes from his arms and said to Zhang Hongye: "General Zhang, please wait and order a thousand cavalry and a thousand transport troops, detour from the north to Zezhou, find the Rixinglong branch to exchange for 200,000 taels of silver, and then buy more wounded medicines and transport them back together."

Zhang Hongye stepped forward to take the silver note and returned as he ordered.

Lu Xiangsheng said to Wang Chengyin and Zhang Shujia again: "General Wang, General Zhang, you will lead two thousand transport troops to bury the corpses on the battlefield. The bandits dig a large pit on the spot and bury them. Our soldiers must be transported to the Gushan Mountain behind the camp to bury them one by one. You can send someone to inform the Qianzheng of each camp. If you have any subordinates who know the fallen soldiers, go and identify them and try to erect a tombstone for each soldier."

Wang Chengyin and Zhang Shujia bowed and responded, "I will obey the order."

Lu Xiangsheng thought about it again, and felt that there was nothing wrong with it, so he waved his hand and said, "You guys go and do it first."

All the generals retreated one by one, while Lu Xiangsheng picked up his brush and started writing quickly.

He had to write a lot of things, such as the pension for the deceased, the severance of the injured, and the reward for the meritorious person. These must be reported to the Ministry of War first. After the Ministry of War verifies it, it will be reported to the emperor. Only after the emperor approves the Ministry of Revenue will the money be distributed, otherwise there will be no penny.

The injured person's severance, Felu Xiangsheng, can pay the first advance. After all, only a few hundred people were seriously injured and disabled, and more than 100,000 taels of silver was enough. But the pension for the deceased was not enough, and there were more than 5,000 people. He couldn't afford it. Once he put it on, the remaining people would have to drink the northwest wind.

The court is very rich now. I believe that this pension and reward should be paid soon. Only when the rewards and punishments are clearly distinguished will the morale be high. If the soldiers fight to the death and fail to get the best, it will be heartbreaking.

In fact, the quality of military resources in the Ming Dynasty was still very high. Although the Tunwei was basically a peasant, the ancestors would always leave some battlefield experience. The commander of the garrison and Qianhu would also organize young and middle-aged laborers in the military households to practice from time to time, and basically they could form an army with a little training.

But the court was too poor at the Chongzhen period. Not to mention pensions and rewards, there was not even food and salary. It would be good if the army did not mutiny, and the morale was naturally low and terrible.

Now the Chongzheng Dynasty is different. Our little emperor is like a god-like blow, capturing all the Jiangnan scholar-official group in one place, confiscating countless corrupt assets, with hundreds of millions of silver alone, and countless royal industries making money in secret. The Ming Dynasty can be said to be rich, rich and powerful, and only when it becomes rich can it be strong. Now the Ming Dynasty has become rich, and it is only a matter of time before it becomes strong.

For example, Lu Xiangsheng thought of the soldiers' pensions and rewards as soon as he finished the war, and used this to ensure high morale. If it were the Chongzhen Dynasty, he would not dare to think about these things at all. Perhaps he would have thought more about how to make the soldiers fill them.

After writing the report to the Ministry of War, he began to write the Governor's handwriting order again. The first handwriting order was written by the Shanxi Xuancheng Prefectural Department or the issue of the wounded. These seriously injured people could not even stand up, so they naturally could not go home by themselves. They had to collect some labor to carry them back.

Organizing civil servants to transport resources or carry wounded people is a matter of civil affairs, so it is naturally handed over to the Xuancheng Prefectural Office. Although he is not their direct superior, he has the right to deal with everything related to military and political affairs. He is still in command of this small matter.

Next is a handwritten order to the Shanxi Du Commander Commander Office. First, he asked the officials of the Du Commander Commander Office to comfort the families of the fallen soldiers on his behalf and told them that the court's pension would come down soon. Then, they also asked them to notify the families of the seriously injured and make some necessary preparations to not send the seriously injured back, and there were no people to take care of them. Finally, it was the issue of replenishment of the soldiers.

His staff is 100,000, and now he has reduced his staff by more than half a century, so he naturally needs to replenish it quickly. Although the bandit Wang Jiayin also suffered heavy casualties, he has nearly 150,000 troops after all. Even if he loses 20,000 or 30,000 or 120,000, most of the injured will reply in ten days and half a month. Then there will be another big battle, so the sooner the soldiers will replenish, the better.

This time he couldn't wait. He asked the Shanxi Commander Command to recruit 6,000 new recruits to supplement the damage in five days. He didn't specify the garrison. You can go wherever you want, just one word, hurry up. If you wait for another month to recruit, the battle will probably end.

After writing these, he took out three envelopes and put them in their own hands. He wrote an expedition on the envelope for the Ministry of War and the handwritten letter to the Shanxi Xuancheng Prefectural Office, while the handwritten letter to the Shanxi Commander Office said that the handwritten letter to the Shanxi Commander Office said that the eight hundred miles of fast speed was written on the envelope.
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