The Japanese pirates retreated, and Zhu Pingan became even busier.
From the morning when he discovered that the Japanese pirates had retreated until the dead of night, Zhu Pingan did not rest for a moment.
During the day, Zhu Ping'an visited various villages that suffered from the Japanese disaster non-stop, counting losses, visiting, comforting the victims, and directing reconstruction matters; in addition, he also arranged for defense arrangements and restarted six beacon towers along the coast and five beacon towers on the border.
The beacon tower can prevent Japanese pirates from raiding Jingnan again. With the beacon tower, at least when Japanese pirates raid, a warning can be given in advance, giving coastal villages time to escape.
There were many villages affected by the disaster below Jingnan. Zhu Ping'an visited them non-stop and did not have time for lunch or dinner. Liu Dadao bought a few sesame seed cakes to deal with them briefly, and visited, expressed condolences and set up defenses while eating.
After the coastal villages experienced the ravages of Japanese pirates, the former land of plenty and paradise on earth has now turned into a wilderness, as miserable as a hell on earth: burned-out dark houses, blood and corpses all over the village, women and children who were harmed, and rice fields that were about to mature but were destroyed.
...There is no rooster crow for ten miles, and there are cries everywhere...
Throughout the whole day, Zhu Ping'an's mood was full of grief, heavy and angry, and there was a fire burning in his heart.
The Japanese pirates' behavior is inhumane! It's cruel! It's heart-breaking! It's worse than animals!
kill!
kill!
kill!
Kill all the Japanese pirates in the world!!
After visiting villages that were devastated by Japanese pirates and turning them into hells one after another, seeing the innocent people who were killed one after another, and listening to the heart-wrenching cries one after another, the anger in Zhu Ping'an's heart became increasingly difficult to control, and he silently
I made a very serious oath in my heart: I, Zhu Pingan, will kill all the Japanese pirates in the world, and I will make sure that there will be no more Japanese pirates in the land of China!!! I will make the Japanese slaves of the island country pay the price of blood!!!!
!I will lead the army to whip the island country! Question the Japanese chiefs, big and small, in the island country!
Zhu Pingan suppressed the anger in his heart and used a hundred times more energy to express condolences and comfort to the victims, direct reconstruction, and arrange defense arrangements. When the sky was dark, Zhu Pingan returned to Jingnan County Yamen from the countryside below, covered with stars and moonlight.
After returning to the county government all night, Zhu Ping'an did not rest. He used scissors to light an oil lamp, laid out pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and began to write official documents for submission.
The first official document was a battle report on Jingnan’s sniper attack on Japanese pirates. Zhu Ping’an truthfully described the situation of the Japanese invaders, including the number of Japanese pirates, their landing locations, burning, killing and looting, and the attack on Jingnan County. He focused on the report on Jingnan’s fight against Japanese pirates.
The army and the people fought wholeheartedly against the Japanese pirates, without fear of sacrifice, and finally repelled the Japanese pirates. In the battle report, Zhu Pingan listed the outstanding achievements of Liu Dadao, Liu Mu, Liu Daqiang, Liu Dachui, Liu Daxe and Liu Dagang.
Of course, at the end of the battle report, Zhu Ping'an did not hesitate to write. He listed the Jingnan classics Li Da who abandoned the city without fighting, the county magistrate Zhang Changru, and the chief Bo Yaowen who retreated from the battle and disappeared.
Later, impeachment was carried out.
After the war is free, they must be liquidated. Listing them after the battle report is a way to say hello to the top in advance. After all, the three of them are officials of the imperial court, and the procedure to deal with them is relatively cumbersome. In the end, it is up to the imperial court to deal with them.
The officialdom was declining. As for the six subordinate officials in the county government, they were not officials appointed by the imperial court, and Zhu Ping'an could handle it on his own.
In fact, before the Japanese pirates came, Zhu Pingan had already started preparing to deal with them. The trap had been laid out and he would close the net in a few days. However, after the Japanese pirates came, as an official of the imperial court, they did not fight.
He abandoned the city and fled, retreating in the face of battle, involving several major crimes such as dereliction of duty, failure to protect the local people, and betrayal of the trust of the court. This saved Zhu Ping'an a lot of trouble, and he did not need to use the plan he had set up for the time being.
After writing the battle report, Zhu Pingan worked hard and began to draft a second official document. This official document was to request the court to reduce taxes in Jingnan. Today, he went to visit the villages below that were poisoned by Japanese pirates. The tragic situation of the lives of the affected villages was devastated.
At this moment, he still vividly remembered that asking them to pay taxes would be tantamount to the second murder of the survivors. Zhu Pingan decided to apply to the court for tax exemptions.
"More than 3,000 Japanese pirates ravaged Jingnan. Although everyone worked together to snipe and repel the Japanese pirates, the Japanese pirates crossed the border and burned, killed and looted. The affected villages in the jurisdiction were seriously damaged. Houses were burned, farmland was damaged, and mourning was everywhere... Jingnan Magistrate Zhu Ping'an
We sincerely request to reduce or reduce the rent and taxes in Jingnan this year to show relief and improve the livelihood of the people."
After Zhu Pingan's official document requesting tax reductions and exemptions, he listed the villages that suffered from Japanese pirates and the disaster situations one by one based on the actual conditions he learned during his visits. The purpose was to obtain tax reductions and exemptions for the entire Jingnan even if he could not
, at least we must seek tax reductions and exemptions for these disaster-stricken villages.
After checking and polishing, Zhu Pingan formally copied the second official document.
After writing the second official document, Zhu Pingan drank a cup of strong tea to refresh himself, and then started writing the third official document.
This is an official document requesting a silver reward for first achievement.
This time, 795 Japanese pirate heads were captured. Zhu Pingan wrote an official document requesting the court to issue rewards such as silver patterns according to the reward.
The military merits of the Ming Dynasty are divided into two categories: "first merit" and "war merit". "First merit" is not "first", "first" merit. First merit refers to the literal meaning of first-level merit. Simply put, it is based on the first level.
Calculating merit means rewarding based on the number of heads. It can be said that this is a method of calculating merit that has been continued since the Iron-Blooded Qin Dynasty. It is characterized by being simple, crude, bloody and effective. Although this has led to the practice of killing good people and taking credit for their merits.
It is a phenomenon that harms the people, but its effect is undeniable.
The "war merits" of the Ming Dynasty were divided into three categories: "extraordinary merits", "first merits" and "secondary merits". Different from the first merits, merits were mainly determined based on the performance of the soldiers on the battlefield. The performance of the soldiers was determined by the chief officer.
, with greater autonomy and water content, there are many drawbacks in execution, and there are endless phenomena of cheating on meritorious service. After a war, the officers and soldiers fought bravely, but in the end the commander who led the battle and the eunuch who was responsible for supervising the battle and the censor who accompanied the battle
Let's discuss it together. You can write in the name of your cousin who is farming far away in your hometown, and I can write in the name of the slave who sweeps the floor and feeds the horses in my family. It's all a matter of one sentence.
Later, the imperial court also noticed this problem and was more cautious about "war achievements" with greater autonomy and water content. Currently, the most popular and popular ones are "first achievements" whose standards are easy to verify and grasp.
The reward standards for the first meritorious service in the Ming Dynasty are generally divided into the north (Mongolia), the northeast (Jurchens), the Miaoman (Tibetans and southern minorities) in the west, and the rebels in the interior (Han civil uprising), etc.
There are four levels, and the court will give different rewards for each level. The rewards are mainly money and promotion rewards. At present, the rewards are mainly financial rewards, and promotion rewards are less.
According to the rewards awarded by Emperor Jiajing last year, a first-level head in the north (Mongolia) would be rewarded with 50 taels of silver, a first-level head in the northeast (Jurchen) would be rewarded with 30 taels of silver, and a first-level head of Miaoman (Tibetans and southern minorities) in the west would be rewarded with 10 taels of silver.
Two, rebel thieves from the mainland (Civil Rebellion in the Han region) are the cheapest, with a head reward of 5 taels of silver.
However, the reward and silver reward are not fixed.
During the Gengxu Incident last year, Emperor Jiajing issued a special reward, one hundred taels of silver for an enemy's head. In addition, if more heads are captured, the price of the reward and silver will also decrease, for example, if there are rebels in the mainland (Han Civil Rebellion)
) A head is worth 5 taels. There was a rebellion the year before last and a lot of people were killed, so the head level dropped to 1 tael per head.
However, the heads of Japanese pirates are still very valuable nowadays.
As an emerging threat (actually very old, there have been Japanese pirates since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, but they were not large enough to threaten the empire's rule. During the Jiajing period, Japanese pirates rose sharply and threatened the empire's rule). This year, Emperor Jiajing issued a
The special reward was to set the head of a Japanese pirate at 30 taels of silver. It was even stipulated that in extraordinary times, a Japanese pirate's head would be worth 100 taels of silver.
This time, 795 Japanese pirate heads were captured. According to the reward issued by Emperor Jiajing, one head was rewarded 30 taels of silver, a total of 23,850 taels of silver. Even if discounted, it would still be at least 20,000 taels.
Two silver rewards.
Zhu Ping'an would not take even a tael of these rewards, but would distribute them to the government officials, city guards and young common people who participated in the battle.