Chapter seven hundred and forty-fifth pension issues
"Liu Mingzhi, you are so bold. Without His Majesty's decree, you imprisoned our officials and other officials in the border areas without any trial by the Three Justices. When I file a complaint with you at the Jinluan Palace, you will be dismissed from your post to vent our anger!"
In a dark corner of a side camp of Longwuwei Camp, there were four or five fenced-in prison vans parked. Several people wearing crimson official hats were sitting in the prison vans with their hands shackled and cursing angrily.
The soldier on the side patted the wheel with the horizontal sword in his hand: "If you dare to make a noise again, don't blame grandpa because his sword doesn't recognize people!"
The five officials immediately huddled in the corner of the prison car in silence, looking fearfully at the soldiers holding knives.
"You are so brave. We are the imperial court officials. You, a little criminal supervisor, dare to be so rude to me. Aren't you afraid that I will interfere with you and take your head?"
The prison supervisor looked disdainfully at the stern official who was in his forties and said: "Sir, you seem to be the governor of Shaozhou. You don't know the rules of the camp. If you dare to make any noise again, what will happen to this captain?"
I don’t know if you lost your head, you will never see the sun tomorrow!”
The governor of Shaozhou immediately lowered his head. He felt that these Qiu Ba were too presumptuous and unreasonable at all.
The captain patted Bai Ling on his waist: "If you don't dare to make any noise without the commander's interrogation, the captain will ask you to bury your brothers with him! If you don't believe me, you can give it a try!"
The lights were flickering in the tent. Liu Mingzhi wore a white silk ribbon tied around his waist and meticulously copied the names on the body tags. These were the body tags of soldiers who died in battle, as well as those who were seriously injured and could no longer charge to kill the enemy.
"Commander, Xiaoguowei's results statistics are back. This is a letter from General Zhou!"
Liu Mingzhi flicked the pen in his hand and put away the brush after writing the last name: "Bring it over!"
"yes!"
Zhou Baoyu put the document in front of Liu Mingzhi with a bad expression.
Liu Mingzhi picked up the document and looked through it. He was speechless for a long time when he saw that the number of battle losses on it was more than double that of Long Wuwei.
Hundreds of young heroes of Wei Erlang were buried in a foreign land, so they could only go back with their loyal souls.
Song Qing, Cheng Kai and others stood aside with gloomy expressions and watched Liu Mingzhi re-copy the list sent by Zhou Baoyu.
Every list is solemnly stamped with the seal of command, which is the pride of Long Wuwei.
In about a stick of incense, Liu Mingzhi dried the ink marks on the document, put it on the table aside and rubbed his forehead. Now his thoughts were confused.
Song Qing poured a cup of tea and brought it over.
"Commander, the dead cannot be resurrected. I express my condolences. These brothers all died on the road of serving the country and the people. They are worthy of the title of Longwuwei and the reputation of loyal souls who protect the country. This is the honor of the military and also
It is the fate of soldiers, they deserve to die!"
"Yes, Marshal, please have my condolences. Brothers will be sad if they know that such a good Marshal feels sorry for them. If you continue to be depressed like this, Marshal, where will the rest of the brothers go?"
Liu Mingzhi took a deep breath and straightened his face: "The list of brothers who died in the war will be reported directly to the Ministry of War for review and review by the Ministry of Household Affairs. The pensions will be personally supervised by the captains at all levels and sent to the brothers' wives, children and children without going through local officials.
After all, if I know of anyone who dares to drink the blood of soldiers, I will rip off the skin and cramps for 180 days to correct the military regulations!"
"Commander, this is against the law. The pensions should be distributed to the brothers' families by local officials. We have no right to interfere with this matter!"
Liu Mingzhi's face darkened and he wandered around in the big tent. This was Dalong's law and he couldn't violate it too much.
"How much is the pension?"
"One hundred and twenty taels, three years of tax exemption, and five acres of land!"
"A human life is worth only one hundred and twenty taels of silver. It's really worth nothing!"
"Commander, for the 300,000 brothers in Northern Xinjiang, one hundred taels is already a lot. If more treasury were to distribute the salary of the six guards, they would not be able to support it. Many officials would complain about the one hundred and twenty taels!
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Liu Mingzhi's face turned red as he slapped the table: "If it's too much, let them go into battle and kill the enemy. They won't think it's too much even if you don't have ten thousand taels in your belt."
Song Qing replaced the cold tea with hot water: "Commander, calm down and don't say any more angry words. One hundred and twenty taels of silver can be enough to support a family of three for five years as long as local officials don't drink soldiers' blood.
Five acres of land is quite a lot!”
Liu Mingzhi took a sip of tea and calmed down, realizing that he was indeed a little emotional.
"Distribute 20 taels of the pension to local officials, and the captains at all levels will personally deliver the rest to the brothers' families. That's all right, right?"
"That's no problem. I'm just afraid that the local government will scold our Longwuwei generals for being useless!"
"Go ahead and scold us. As long as our brothers' families can understand us, the people will know who is truly good for them!"
"Commander, the general has an idea!"
Cheng Kai pondered for a while and spoke softly.
"Talk about it!"
"Take the ashes of the brothers with you. After the bandit suppression is over, the commander-in-chief can ask for an imperial edict to order the captains to supervise the local officials to personally distribute the pensions. If the imperial edict cannot be obtained, I will use your method, the commander-in-chief."
Liu Mingzhi pondered for a while and nodded: "Okay, let's follow your method and let the brothers have a good rest."
"Yes, I will retire at the end!"
After Cheng Kai left, Liu Mingzhi held a candle and looked at the map: "Brother, a bigger storm is still waiting for us ahead. We must guard against arrogance and impetuosity, and we cannot let our brothers be injured or killed!"
"Why don't you borrow some Willow Leaf disciples from your uncle? There are many masters in the White Lotus Sect. There is only one senior Li Xiang. I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to defeat him with two fists!"
Liu Mingzhi put down the candlestick and wiped the ink marks on his hands: "You are right, too many ants can kill an elephant. Even if Senior Li Xiang is a half-step innate master, a tiger cannot control a pack of wolves, but the old man cannot interfere with the court.
Even though he has good intentions to help us suppress bandits, what if His Majesty doesn’t think so?"
"Your Majesty must have overestimated our abilities. The land south of the Yangtze River is mostly covered with high mountains and dense forests. The traitors of the White Lotus Sect often like to use the high mountains and dense forests to entangle themselves with the army. It is impossible to annihilate them in one fell swoop!"
Liu Mingzhi held the handsome seal and rubbed it gently: "Brother, do you think His Majesty has any back-up plan? A back-up plan that we don't know about? His Majesty's character shouldn't let us be in danger alone!"
Song Qing sighed deeply: "Not necessarily, His Majesty probably underestimated the ability of the White Lotus Sect, thinking that suppressing bandits is the same as two armies confronting each other. If this is the case, we would really be happy to not be afraid of this group of rabble, but the White Lotus Sect's rebellion
Thieves do not act according to common sense."
"Now it's too late to ask His Majesty for an order to mobilize a group of experts. The suppression of the bandits is imminent. Even though I know it's irrational, I can only bite the bullet and charge forward!"
Song Qing picked up his arms and wandered around in the tent.
"It would be great if we could gather a group of experts in the world. We have seized so much money in Penglai Pavilion. As long as we are willing to spend money, there will definitely be people willing to help!"
Liu Mingzhi's eyes lit up: "I have a solution, aren't I a master? As long as you have money, you can be a master!"