Chapter 42: The Reward: The Iron Stupa of the Han People
Update time:2012-10-08
The efficiency of the imperial court was still very high. On June 14th, the victory was reported to the capital, and on June 16th, the head was delivered to the capital. On June 19th, the decree for the reward came down.
The one who came from the Ministry of War was Jiang Yihe, a doctor from the Military Selection Department. He was an old bureaucrat with a beard longer than his hair. He had obvious age spots on his face, but he walked in high spirits and spoke with great energy. There was no trace of it at all.
The appearance of aging.
The Military Selection Department and the Literary Selection Department, the Examination Department and the Shipping Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs are known as the four major vacancies. As the name suggests, the Military Selection Department is naturally responsible for the promotion of generals across the country. Therefore, although Jiang Yihe is old and decrepit,
None of the officials in Jinzhou City looked down upon him, especially the generals, who rushed to his door with generous gifts. Jiang Yihe was not polite and accepted them all. Instead, he came with him to announce that Chongzhen had allocated 10,000 yuan in internal funds.
The little eunuch who received the imperial edict to reward the army was much more honest. He only accepted Cheng Yi, fifty taels of silver, from Governor Qiu. Other than that, he did not receive any filial piety from any official.
I don’t know if he was warned by his father-in-law before leaving the capital, or if he is really not greedy for money, or if it is his first time out of the capital and he doesn’t know how to make money.[
No one knew the answer, but the officials in Jinzhou were very worried. They didn't dare to make any mistakes in front of the eunuch, lest the young father-in-law go back and make random remarks.
Because the ancestor Dashou was in Dalinghe City, Jiang Yihe and the eunuch announced the imperial edict in Jinzhou and did not go to Dalinghe City. I wonder if the two knew that Dalinghe City was the front line and were afraid of fighting with Shi
The brave Songshan Army also encountered Jiannu head-on.
The person who accepted the order for Zu Dashou was his younger brother, Lieutenant General Zu Dale. It was also when he received the order that Shi Dayong met Zu Dashou's brother-in-law and Wu Sangui's father, Wu Xiang, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, for the first time.
Wu Xiang was more than ten years younger than Zu Dashou, but he was only in his thirties and in his prime. Looking at his appearance alone, he looked like a fierce general.
However, Shi Dayong was not interested in Wu Xiang. What he wanted to see was his son. Unfortunately, Wu Sangui was still young and was in Ningyuan with his mother, not in Jinzhou.
Accompanying Zu Dalue and Wu Xiang were deputy general Liu Zeqing, Zu Dashou's other brother-in-law, deputy general Pei Guozhen, and generals Zu Kuan, Xia Chengde, Lu Pinqi and other Liaodong generals.
In fact, there is also a commander-in-chief in Jinzhou City, and this person is Song Wei, the commander-in-chief of Shanhaiguan.
Song Wei was from Shanxi, and was originally the deputy general of Liaodong. In the second year of Chongzhen, Zhao led the commander of the Shanhaiguan Army to go thousands of miles to aid the capital. As a result, he was killed in Tonghua. Liang Tingdong, the Secretary of the Ministry of War, helped Song Wei take over Zhao's position and became the commander of the Shanhaiguan Army.
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The jurisdiction and defense line of the Shanhaiguan General Army are naturally in Shanhaiguan, but Song Wei brought 3,000 soldiers to Jinzhou last month. Because Zu Dashou exhausted all the Jinzhou defenders to rebuild Daling River City, Sun Chengzong ordered Song Wei to
He and Wu Xiang temporarily took over the defense of Jinzhou to prevent any accidents if Jinzhou was too empty.
Originally, Song Wei was going to come to the Governor's Yamen to greet the imperial envoy, but something happened at Daxing Fort and he, the commander-in-chief, needed to go and deal with it. Military affairs were important, so he did not come to the Governor's Yamen and specially asked someone to speak with Qiu Hejiazhi.
After a brief meeting, he asked the governor to greet the imperial envoy on his behalf.
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The reward was as announced by Chongzhen in the Qianqing Palace that night. Zu Dashou was given the title of Zhenwu General, and he had a son who was a member of the Imperial Guard. He was also given a hundred taels of gold and silver, a mink coat, a carved saddle, and a white horse.
General Zhenwu is a military official. Compared with Zu Dashou's original vanguard general, he is famous and powerful, but he is just a better general.
A hundred taels of gold and silver is not a big reward. The mink fur, carved saddle, and white horse are just to show your noble status. Therefore, the imperial court's reward for Zu Dashou is equivalent to that.
When the decree was announced, Shi Dayong kept secretly watching Zu Dalue and Wu Xiang, and found that they were all shocked after hearing Zu Dashou's reward. Zu Dalue was stunned for more than ten seconds before he came back to his senses and kowtowed three times, shouting long live.
The eunuch took the imperial edict in his hand and turned around, his face clearly a bit calm. Obviously, these generals from the ancestral line had objections to the imperial court's reward for Zu Dashou.
Qiu Hejia, on the other hand, has really benefited a lot. Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there have been many governors with the title of censor, and they have patrolled various places. But if you add the title of censor of the left and right censors or deputy censors of the left and right, you will usually be at the governor level.
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Chongzhen gave Qiu Hejia the title of right deputy censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. In addition, Qiu Hejia was the de facto governor of Liaodong. In addition, Qiu Hejia was the de facto governor of Liaodong. In comparison, he could be on an equal footing with Sun Chengzong's economic strategy.
Regarding the fact that Zu Dashou did not gain any real benefits, but Qiu Hejia received the treatment of a governor, Shi Dayong analyzed that it might be that Chongzhen was not really relieved about what happened two years ago, or that he arranged this arrangement based on the starting point of "using civility to control military affairs."
Otherwise, there is no way to explain the vastly different rewards between the two.
In fact, if you think about it carefully, Zu Dashou is already the number one military general in all the towns of the Ming Dynasty, the Zuo Dudu, the commander-in-chief of the vanguard with the seal of the vanguard general. He has the most elite frontier soldiers in the Ming Dynasty under his command. If he goes up further, what other official promotions can he get?
Is it possible to ennoble the public or create a marquis or something like that? Certainly not, those loose officials are here to solve problems that cannot be solved through conventional means.[
While I was thinking about it, the eunuch's sharp voice sounded in my ears: "Songshan garrison Shi Dayong has accepted the order!"
Here it comes! Shi Dayong was excited, took three steps forward, and knelt down: "Your Majesty, Shi Dayong, accepts the order!"
"Edict: Songshan garrison Shi Dayong was extremely brave and intelligent. He defeated Jiannu's elite cavalry with the strength of an army. He beheaded a huge number. I was very relieved. I promoted him to Jinzhou General, and gave him fifty taels of gold and silver each. In addition, he also gave the emperor
One handle of the sword can hold ten altars of wine, and the relevant generals and commanders of his department will also give him a reward..."
"I accept the order and thank you!"
After receiving the imperial edict from the eunuch, someone beside him presented him with the general's robe, seal, and the imperial sword. Shi Dayong accepted them one by one, and then withdrew with great respect.
The eunuch then announced Chongzhen's imperial edict to allocate ten thousand taels of internal funds to reward the army. After the announcement, everyone naturally shouted "Long live the emperor".
One tael of silver is equivalent to about one hundred yuan in future generations, and ten thousand taels is equivalent to one million yuan. This reward is very generous.
Long live our emperor!
Shi Dayong said sincerely to himself, later generations often said that Chongzhen was stingy, but now it seems that this is not necessarily the case.
However, nominally these ten thousand taels of silver were given by the emperor as a reward to all the soldiers who participated in the war. Although Zu Dashou did not participate in the war at all, they could still get a share of it. That being said, Shi Dayong was not worried about Zu Dashou being so shameful.
I will have the idea of thousand taels of silver.
You must know that Zu Dashou received hundreds of thousands of taels of silver from the imperial court every year, and most of the land in western Liaoning was in his hands. How could he value such a mere ten thousand taels of silver? Besides, the Ministry of War also brought in the reward silver allocated by the Ministry of Household Affairs.
Now that he is here, there is no need for Zu Dashou to reach out for the ten thousand taels of silver and pass it around. His commander-in-chief Zu cannot afford to lose this person.
Therefore, Shi Dayong was not worried at all that the 10,000 taels of silver would be shared by others. He was anxious to have no money, but now that he had 10,000 taels, many things could be solved easily.
Although money is not everything, it can solve people's great needs.
The edict was announced, and the autumn wind that needed to be beaten was almost done. Jiang Yihe smiled and said to the eunuch that he could go back to the capital. It was probably the first time that the eunuch left the capital. He listened to old man Jiang in everything along the way.
Seeing that everything was done, he nodded and agreed.
Jiang Yihe took the eunuch, Qiu Hejia, Wu Xiang, Zu Dale, Liu Zeqing, and Shi Dayong to say goodbye one by one, then stepped on the carriage parked outside the governor's office and left the city. The moment the carriage turned, the little boy
The eunuch suddenly poked his head out of the car and found Shi Dayong in the crowd. After a few glances, he shrank back.
Seeing this, Shi Dayong felt baffled.
Perhaps they knew the truth about the Battle of Dalinghe, or they couldn't let go of their arrogance. Wu Xiang, Zu Dale, and Liu Zeqing resigned from Qiu Hejia after the imperial envoy left. They never said a word to Shi Dayong from the beginning to the end.
They didn't come to congratulate him. Instead, Zu Kuan and another general Lu Pinqi came to congratulate Shi Dayong with a smile. After Shi Dayong was polite with them, they all went back to the camp.
Shi Dayong was about to return to the camp to see how Cao Bianjiao was doing, but Qiu Hejia stopped him.
"General, congratulations to Master Futai on his promotion!"
First he congratulated Qiu Hejia on his promotion, and then Shi Dayong asked: "I wonder what the reason is for Mr. Futai to call the last general?" [
"What's the matter?" Qiu Hejia chuckled, pointed to the dozen silver boxes piled in the governor's office, and joked: "The emperor used his own private money to reward you Shi Dayong, why, you are going to give it to me Futai for nothing.
Already?"
Shi Dayong said solemnly: "If Mr. Futai needs it, Quan Dang will be the one to show his filial piety."
Shi Dayong's answer made Qiu Hejia a little surprised, and he said curiously: "I regard money as dirt. I haven't seen you for a while, and I am even more impressed by you."
Shi Dayong still said solemnly: "Back to Mr. Futai, it's not that I don't like silver. It's just that I know that this silver has important and urgent uses. If Mr. Futai wants to use this money, it will be urgent.
, In this way, how can the general be left alone?"
Qiu Hejia smiled, shook his head and said: "I have sent people to transport the money appropriated by the Ministry of Revenue to the Daling River, and it will be distributed by Master Zu to you. Eunuch Qi has already confessed this money, and the emperor said,
It is to reward your Songshan soldiers, so I will just keep it. You will ask people to carry it back and distribute it to the soldiers later. I am not a profit-seeking person, and I am in urgent need of silver. How can I ask for it from the soldiers?
The silver reward. Please note that the soldiers paid for this silver reward with their lives. If I reach out and take it, wouldn’t I be a wolf-hearted person? Someone will poke me in the back."
Having said this, he changed the topic and said: "But there is something I want to tell you in advance. You must know it."
Shi Dayong crouched slightly: "Master Futai, please speak."
"It is true that the emperor has allocated ten thousand taels, but as usual, he has to deduct the usual amount. Naturally, I will not ask for this money, but Naijingli has already deducted it. There is only six thousand taels here, but it is not true.
Ten thousand taels." After saying that, Qiu Hejia looked helpless.
Ten thousand taels turned into six thousand taels, four thousand taels less at once. How could Shi Dayong not feel distressed? He secretly cursed those bastards in the capital who even dared to deduct the emperor's personal money. They were really money-minded worms. But in his mouth,
He said calmly: "With six thousand taels, I am already grateful for the emperor's great kindness. I dare not expect more. Since it is a routine, I have to follow it. I will agree with you."
After listening to Shi Dayong's words, Qiu Hejia couldn't help but sigh with emotion: This Shi Dayong is really beyond his appearance. When Ma Shilong came to me that day, I only thought he was a warrior, but I didn't expect him to be a capable general. He is able to bend and stretch, and he also knows the importance.
Proper, he has a bright future.
Seeing that Qiu Hejia had nothing to say, Shi Dayong was anxious to go back and said, "If Mr. Futai has no other instructions, I will return to the camp right now."
"Go, go." Qiu Hejia smiled and waved, then suddenly thought of something, and said hurriedly: "Oh, by the way, I heard from Xiao Cao that you want to build the Iron Pagoda for the Han people?"