People in Dasong: starting from the sign-in

Chapter 47

Chapter 47

In the following days, Xiao Qi was so busy that his feet never touched the ground.

While improving the treatment of the dozen or so blacksmiths who can already make qualified swords, he personally selects the candidates for the sword battalion and the spear battalion.

These two teams, but Xiao Qi attaches great importance to them. They are the sharp blades and shields among the three teams he wants to focus on building. The Dagger Battalion is his offensive weapon, and the Spear Battalion is his defensive shield.

As for the third one, needless to say, it was the scout battalion. Those were his eyes and ears that he had always attached great importance to.

Because of the large number of seizures this time, the key point is that the baggage of the two defeated golden armies contained a large amount of wealth that they had robbed in some towns they had previously occupied.

Of course Xiao Qi would not monopolize these wealth, although he collected more than half of the gold and silver into his warehouse, it was also for building the military equipment that his future army would need.

He distributed all the large amounts of broken silver seized on the battlefield according to the records of military achievements reported by the battalions, and distributed them according to rewards much higher than those in the Song Dynasty.

When convening these 1000 people to distribute rewards, Xiao Qi told everyone:

"I know that when everyone cleaned the battlefield, they also got a lot of silver taels from the corpses of the Jin army.

Don't worry, those are all yours. We have killed more than 500 brothers in this battle. They are all heroes of Song Dynasty!

Although we can't customize a good coffin for each of them to bury them, I plan to select a battalion of people from among you.

I took out the money from the seizure this time, and bought a pair of thin coffins for each of them, and waited for the reward from His Majesty to be issued today.

It's up to you to escort these heroic spirits and the court's rewards back to their hometowns and hand them over to their relatives! "

The remaining thousand soldiers were shocked. It would be nice if the sergeants who died in the battle could be dug and buried. Many of them were exposed in the wilderness because of defeat and no one to collect their corpses.

This time the officials are willing to spend silver taels to buy coffins and send these heroic souls home, how can this not make them extremely excited.

They all expressed their willingness to pay their own expenses on the road and send these dead comrades back home.

After waving his hands, Xiao Qi went on to say after everyone quieted down:

"I have a way, which can not only send these hundreds of heroic spirits back to their hometowns, but also save this battalion of sergeants from being tired.

You have to pay the cost of this journey out of your own pocket, and everyone can benefit. "

Next, Xiao Qi told these soldiers what he thought, which was actually very simple.

It is these soldiers who did not get the escort mission, and each of them paid a part of the money to make travel expenses for these sergeants who sent the corpses of their comrades back to their hometowns.

Of course, they can't say it in vain. They can seal up the various items they seized and hand them over to their relatives in their hometown.

Of course these soldiers were willing, and now each of them had at least twenty or thirty carts of silver with them, along with the rewards from the officials.

Silver looks pleasing, but it is carried on the body all day, in case one day goes to the battlefield, not to mention the burden, in case of death in battle, it will be gone!

So Xiao Qi's method has been unanimously approved by everyone.

As for worrying about their own money, there is the worry that the transported sergeants are greedy for ink, but they said that it does not exist at all.

We are all comrades who have fought twice on the battlefield together, and they are all people who can hand over their backs to each other. Besides, so many comrades will send them off together.

Even if one or two of them became greedy, no one dared to touch the money, otherwise it might turn everyone's face.

After all, these coins are exchanged by everyone with their lives. If you want more, you just have to risk your life on the battlefield.

So things went smoothly this time, and Xiao Qi's decision also made these soldiers, even the new recruits, have a very strong sense of belonging to this army.

After all, in such an era, it is very rare to be able to restrain oneself and be buried after being killed in battle without being abandoned.

This official is willing to pay for a coffin for each person, and even send someone back to his hometown. This has never happened before!

Just when the more than 500 coffins had just been bought, all these dead soldiers were collected, and they were ready to send them back to their hometowns.

Zhang Qian led a group of people with imperial decree, and also came to Xinghua City.

Looking at the hundreds of coffins parked in the city, Zhang Qian sighed after he figured out what was going on.

Directly in a spacious place in the city, someone called Xiao Qi, and read out in public the emperor's conferment on Xiao Qi, as well as the rewards for the dead soldiers and disabled soldiers.

Because of the emperor's reward, sending these soldiers back to their hometown is even more legitimate.

Although the hometowns of these soldiers are all nearby states and counties, it will always be troublesome for you to cross the border with a battalion of soldiers.

After receiving the imperial edict, Xiao Qi consulted Zhang Qian's opinion, hoping that the soldiers from the first battalion who sent the corpses home would take the imperial edict to show the emperor's favor.

When Zhang Qian heard that this was definitely a good thing for the emperor, he immediately agreed, and personally wrote an official document, handed it to Xiao Qi, and let the sergeants who brought the corpses take it with him. If anyone obstructs him, he can show it.

Now Xiao Qi felt more at ease, with Zhang Qian's autographed letter, if not enough, please issue the imperial decree.

If you still dare to stop it like this, it is equivalent to rebellion, and the soldiers killed in this battalion can kill people freely.

At dawn the next day, Xiao Qi changed into a brand-new official uniform of a fifth-rank doctor, and together with Zhang Qian, sent the battalion and more than 100 carts out of Xinghua City.

These more than 100 carts are all the vehicles in Xinghua City. This is because more than 100 horse-drawn carriages were seized from the opponent in the two wars. Originally, there were only a dozen horse-drawn carriages in Xinghua City.

Watching the carts pulling three or four thin-skinned coffins away, Xiao Qi couldn't help sighing:

"Boss, these people are our Great Song warriors! Each of them killed at least five golden soldiers, and they are our Great Song heroes!"

Zhang Qian was also moved by the scene where these soldiers and civilians saw off the heroic spirit, and his fists were clenched:

"General Xiao, this big victory is going to slap those soft faces in the court!"

After the two of them returned to Xiao Qi's temporary residence, Zhang Qian swung back to the left and right, and revealed to Xiao Qi what happened in the court that day.

When it was said that in order to prevent the officials from rewarding Xiao Qi, someone actually said that he killed a good man and pretended to be meritorious.

Even if Xiao Qi knew that those civil officials in the Southern Song Dynasty were dedicated to suppressing generals, he was still shocked by these people's shamelessness and unscrupulous methods of eliminating dissidents!

After learning that Zhao Shen got angry at the end, he just slapped the table to turn against those civil officials before issuing this edict, Xiao Qi also had a new understanding of how these ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty looked down on Zhao Shen.

But after all, Xiao Qi is a character who watched many historical dramas in his previous life, how can he let go of those who poured dirty water on him.

I saw this guy bowing his hands to Zhang Qian:

"Thank you for the great love of the official family, and thank you for your praise, I hate those old officials who are disrespectful to the new emperor because of the favor of the Supreme Emperor.

Sir, please report back to the Holy Majesty, the soldiers of the Changsheng Camp will surely be devastated by the Holy Majesty, and the Changsheng Camp that the Majesty pointed out will be slaughtered! "

Zhang Qian was overjoyed!

This guy has a clue!

Not long after the new emperor ascended the throne, every decree was always obstructed in various ways. Even the last time the Northern Expedition was promoted, some people secretly manipulated it to make the current situation happen.

Although this Xiao Qi is not very old, he can see the problem accurately!

This sentence hits the nail on the head. It seems that this time the officials had a whim, but they accidentally found a general for themselves!

So Zhang Qian told Xiao Qi the news he had just received.

On his way out of Yangzhou City to Xinghua County to proclaim the decree, he got the news that Zhang Wenshu, a third-rank Hanlin scholar, had asked the decree to go out of Beijing to investigate the matter of killing good men and false merits under the clamor of those ministers.

But what is suspicious is that this document did not come to Yangzhou Mansion to investigate, but went to Jiankang Mansion to find Chang Wei, the Deputy Envoy of the regiment training somewhere.

Xiao Qi was furious when he heard this: So Chang Wei and Zhang Wenshu are on the same line!

But Xiao Qi didn't reveal anything on the surface, but asked politely who was close to that document.

I have never left Jiankang Mansion before, so I should not offend Mr. Zhang Wensheng.

Zhang Qian was puzzled, and wondered how General Xiao could understand and be confused at one time.

Isn't this obvious, because you are the emperor's people, and they will definitely not deal with them in the future, so they targeted you in advance.

But Zhang Qian still told Xiao Qi about everyone in Zhang Wenshu's family, from top to bottom.

(End of this chapter)