Daming Military Empire

Chapter 93 Post-War Matters
Early the next morning, just after dawn, Lu Xiangsheng appeared in the camp fully dressed.Although he was wounded in more than a dozen places, the important parts were protected by armor, and his martial arts were strong, so they were all skin traumas. Apply a little medicine and bandage them, and they will be fine in a few days.

The reason why he got up early was to see how the recruits of the Tianxiong Army were doing. The situation was more serious than he imagined. Some recruits were seriously injured. It can be said that a few cuts on their bodies are not counted. What, even being stabbed a few holes by the enemy is not serious. The most serious ones are those who have guts, rotten stomachs and missing arms and legs. If they are injured like this, this person is basically useless.

After Lu Xiangsheng visited the seriously wounded one by one, he came to the battlefield to inspect again. Looking at the corpses all over the ground, he couldn't help but sighed in his heart: "There is an old saying: 'One general is successful, ten thousand bones are dead', I just now At the beginning, there were more than ten thousand bones, alas, maybe by the time I succeed, the bones all over the ground will have already become dry bones in the tomb."

Of course, now is not the time to be emotional, there are still many things waiting for him to deal with, he sighed, and rode away to the handsome tent.

After returning to the handsome tent, he calmed down and said loudly, "Come here."

His own personal guards came in at his command, waiting to be dispatched.

He ordered: "Go and inform Cao Wenzhao, Zhang Hongye, Wang Chengyin and Zhang Shujia to come to the commander's tent to discuss matters."

The personal guards left as ordered, and after a while Cao Wenzhao, Zhang Hongye and others came to the commander's tent one after another.

These few also suffered some injuries, but they were also skin traumas, not even as serious as Lu Xiangsheng.They were fierce, but they were not as desperate as Lu Xiangsheng. They didn't rush into the Wanjun and hack them, so their injuries were relatively minor.

Lu Xiangsheng inquired about everyone's injuries one by one, and then ordered: "General Cao, later you go to count the seriously injured people, register those who are seriously injured and disabled, and send them out after a few days when their injuries stabilize. Fei, let them go home."

Cao Wenzhao bowed his hands in response and said, "The general will obey."

Lu Xiangsheng then took out two banknotes from his pocket, and said to Zhang Hongye: "General Zhang, you can order a thousand cavalry and a thousand transport soldiers later, and take a detour to Zezhou from the north, and exchange them for 20 yuan at the Rixinglong branch." Two silver, and then buy more wound medicine, and bring them back together."

Zhang Hongye stepped forward to take the bank note and returned it as ordered.

Lu Xiangsheng said to Wang Chengyin and Zhang Shujia again: "General Wang, General Zhang, you each lead two thousand transport troops to bury the bones on the battlefield. The bandits just dig a big pit and bury them on the spot. Our soldiers must Transport them to the isolated mountain behind the camp and bury them one by one. Send someone to inform the commander-in-chief and commander-in-chief of each battalion. If any of your subordinates know the fallen soldiers, go and identify them, and try to erect a tombstone for each soldier.”

Wang Chengyin and Zhang Shujia bowed their hands together and said: "The general will obey."

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

All the generals retired one by one, while Lu Xiangsheng picked up a brush and began to write quickly.

He has to write a lot of things, such as pensions for the dead, severance pay for the wounded, and rewards for those who have done meritorious service. These must first be reported to the Ministry of War, and after verification by the Ministry of War, they will be reported to the emperor. Not a penny.

Lu Xiangsheng can pay the severance fee for the injured in advance. After all, there are only a few hundred people seriously injured and disabled, and 10 taels of silver is more than enough.But the pension for the deceased is no good. There are more than [-] people, and he can't afford it.

Now that the imperial court is very rich, I believe that this kind of pension and rewards should be issued soon. Only when the rewards and punishments are clear will the morale be high. If the soldiers work hard and fail to get a fart, it will be chilling.

In fact, the quality of soldiers in the Ming Dynasty was still very high. Although the guards were basically farmers, their ancestors always left some battlefield experience. The commanders of the guards and thousands of households would organize the young and middle-aged military households to practice hard work from time to time. , basically a little training can become an army.

But at the time of the Chongzhen Dynasty, the court was too poor, not to mention pensions and rewards, there was no food and salary, and it was considered good if the army did not mutiny, but the morale was naturally terribly low.

Now the Chongzheng Dynasty is different. Our little emperor wiped out the Jiangnan scholar-bureaucrat group with a blow like a god, and confiscated countless corrupt assets. There are hundreds of millions of silver and silver, and there are countless royal industries secretly making money. Daming can be said to be rich, rich and strong, rich and strong, only when it gets rich can it become strong. Now that Daming has become rich, it is only a matter of time before it becomes strong.

Just like Lu Xiangsheng just finished the battle, he thought about the pensions and rewards of the soldiers, and used them to ensure high morale. If it was the Chongzhen Dynasty, he would not dare to think about these things at all. Perhaps he should have thought more about it at that time. How to feed the soldiers.

After writing the report to the Ministry of War, he began to write the governor's hand letter again. The first hand letter was written to the Chief Secretary of Shanxi Xuancheng, and it was about the wounded.These seriously wounded people couldn't even walk, let alone stand up. Naturally, they couldn't go home by themselves, and some labor had to be recruited to carry them back.

Organizing civil servants to transport resources or carry the wounded are all civil affairs, so naturally they have to be handed over to Xuancheng Chief Secretary. Although he, the governor, is not their direct superior, he has the right to handle all matters related to military affairs. For such a trivial matter, he can still direct the action.

The next step is to write a letter to the Commander of Shanxi. First of all, he asked the officials of the Commander of Shanxi to visit the families of the fallen soldiers on his behalf, and told them that the court's compensation will come down soon.Then, they were asked to notify the family members of the seriously injured and make necessary preparations so that the seriously wounded were not sent back, and there was no one to take care of them.Finally, there is the issue of recruiting troops.

The staff under him is 15, and now there are more than [-]% of the staff reduction. Naturally, he has to replenish quickly. Although the thief Wang Jiayin also suffered heavy casualties, he has nearly [-] horses after all. Even if he loses [-] to [-], he still has twelve or three Ten thousand, most of the wounded will recover in ten days and half a month, and then there will be another big battle. Naturally, the sooner the soldiers can be replenished, the better.

This time he couldn't wait any longer. He asked the commander of the Shanxi capital to recruit [-] recruits to make up for the battle damage within five days anyway. He didn't designate the guards either. You can recruit wherever you want. , just one word, be fast.If they had to wait another month to recruit them, the battle would probably be over.

After writing these, he took out three envelopes and packed them separately. He wrote an expedited note on the envelopes for the report to the Ministry of War and the hand letter to Shanxi Xuancheng Chief Secretary, and the hand letter to Shanxi Metropolitan Commander He wrote on the envelope that it was expedited at eight hundred miles.

These are all official documents, so there is no need for him to send a special person to deliver them, just hand them over to the post station for delivery. Urgent means that if it is required to deliver at least three hundred miles a day, let alone eight hundred miles, it will be as fast as it can be delivered. No matter how fast it is passed, it is right to pass it as fast as possible.

(End of this chapter)