Qiming 1158

Chapter 1252 I don't give it, you can't grab it
After the soldiers learned that Jiaozi had collapsed, the army was in chaos, morale plummeted, and there were many complaints against the imperial court.

After that, there were many people who passively avoided fighting and refused to fight. The officers could not control it. Facing the attack of the insurgent army, they could only retreat and even suffered a disastrous defeat.

The defeat of Suining Mansion was due to the fact that the soldiers had to retreat because they were passively avoiding the battle. In the face of the insurgent army's flawed attack, the Song army generals could only retreat and could not engage with them.

The defeat of Zizhou was even more severe. The archers protested the battle collectively. After they attacked once, they said that they must be rewarded with iron money, otherwise they would not send the second time. The front-line officers were stunned and did not respond properly, so that the Song army attacked Ziyang. The attack on the city was unsuccessful.

Afterwards, the Qihuo Army from Zizhou took the initiative to attack the Song Army, and the Song Army bowmen protested directly that they would not fight, and only fought because they had to be rewarded with iron money.

Seeing that the soldiers were in a very bad mood, the officer did not dare to forcibly suppress them, so he could only retreat, withdraw from Zizhou, and suspend the offensive, so that the previous results were destroyed.

The resentment of the soldiers is not the resentment of one person or two, but the resentment of the group. Even the soldiers who did not get the Jiaozi feel the same resentment and refuse to fight, so that the officers do not dare to arbitrarily suppress them, but strongly request the court to give them. a statement.

Not to mention the soldiers, some officers have received letters from their families saying that some of the money in the family has become waste paper, and the family's cash flow has suffered heavy losses. I hope he can send some money back to solve the urgent needs and avoid accidents at home.

The officers are still like this, how can the soldiers not panic?

Therefore, this protest of the army is not so much a spontaneous protest by the soldiers. It is better to say that even some officers participated in it, and even turned a blind eye to support the soldiers to make a fuss and put pressure on the court to ask the court to give money.

For this reason, they did not hesitate to give up some of their previous victories and retreated voluntarily, giving the rebellious army a respite.

Wu Lin's reputation accumulated over the years was considered to be ruined by more than half, and his influence on the army was affected. He realized this and came to see Zhao Bunxi decisively. He hoped that Zhao Bunxi could take the overall situation into consideration and immediately give money to appease the army.

Of course Zhao Buxi will give the money.

In order to deal with the urgent need, he gave a sum of money to the army left behind in Chengdu, which calmed the heart of the army in Chengdu and let them do their best work.

The army of Chengdu Prefecture was appeased, and of course the four armies that went out to fight should also be appeased.

However, the threat of going out of the army and the attitude of blackmailing the court made him very dissatisfied.

"Besides fighting for the country, they burned, killed, looted, and asked for much benefit? Are you not satisfied? You have to ask the court to give you money, so you actually threaten to do it with war. I dare to do it now, but I don't know how to do it in the future. At what point, do you want to mutiny collectively and add the yellow robe again?!"

Dude, can you say such a thing?

Wu Lin and Ma Yongkang looked at Zhao Buxi in shock.

Don't you arrange your ancestors like this?
As soon as the words came out, Zhao Buxi also felt that it was inappropriate to say this, so he coughed lightly to ease the embarrassment, and said, "I know about this, the reward for the army is certain, but this trend can't be long, give money At the same time, a group of bastards who take the lead in making trouble must be severely punished."

You can give money.

But I can only take the initiative, not you.

In a word.

I don't give it, you can't take it.

Wu Lin was born in the Western Army and knew how the tradition of threatening generals in battle was going on, but Zhao Buxi didn't understand it, had never seen it, and obviously didn't agree with it. He was very angry and planned to settle accounts in the autumn.

In this regard, Wu Lin tried to persuade.

He told Zhao Buxi some things in the past of the Western Army of the Northern Song Dynasty, and told Zhao Buxi the tragic past hidden behind the tradition of soldiers threatening generals in battle, trying to make Zhao Buxi understand the sad soldiers and be considerate of them.

However, as a high-ranking clan, jinshi, a proper social elite, and growing up outside the masses for a long time, Zhao continued to lack understanding and empathy for the soldiers from the bottom people.

He could not understand the helplessness of soldiers exchanging their lives and dignity for money and the tragedy of not being able to get money to support their families, nor did he know the importance of military salaries and rewards to soldiers. Zhao Buxi, who lacked these empathy, had only a strong influence on the behavior of soldiers. Dissatisfaction and anger.

I don't give it, you take the initiative to grab it, what does this mean?
This is rebellion!

"Anyway, they are all soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty, and following orders to fight is the most basic! They fight with their lives, do I still lack anything for them? Will I not give them food or pay them? They don't at all. Know how to be considerate of the imperial court! What am I doing my best to get money for? Isn't it just to give them money?"

The more he talked, the more angry he became. He even planned to send someone to scold the army, asking the army to self-reflect, re-examine their loyalty to the court and the emperor, and then talk about the reward.

Wu Lin was shocked and quickly persuaded Zhao Buxi not to do such a thing. When employing people, even if he pretended to be patient, after the matter was over, it would not be too late to settle accounts in the autumn.

But if the reckoning starts now, there will be no autumn queen in Da Song.

Wu Lin's words were very sincere. Zhao Bunyi was not a fool. After thinking about it, he could only reluctantly decide to compromise, and sent out [-] pieces of iron money from the treasury to reward the three armies.

"For the time being, let's reward the army to appease the heart of the army. What I want to do is not now... what the emperor has done is too useless!"

Seeing Zhao Buyi's unhappy expression, Wu Lin and Ma Yongkang looked at each other with mixed emotions.

But in any case, Zhao Bunyi still gave money. When a major change occurred in the operation of Sichuan and Shu society, he gave the money to the army, so that the army actually got the money.

After Wu Lin's compulsion, most of the money was actually sent to the soldiers, especially those soldiers who had made meritorious deeds. They were really rewarded with coins, and their resentment and dissatisfaction were soothed and gradually disappeared.

Once the army is stabilized, the Chengdu court will have the last coercive force to rely on to maintain systemic governance.

Then Zhao Buxi issued an edict, pushing all the problems of Jiaozire to Jiang Fu, saying that this was Jiang Fu's decision alone. He deceived the emperor and colleagues for his own personal desires. And did something so dangerous.

Zhao Buxi was deeply resented, shocked, and deeply regretted that he was not strict in his control. He announced that Jiang Fu would be executed, the men were sent to Nanjiang to join the army, the women were sold as slaves, and all the family property was confiscated.

Not only that, one of a series of officials of the Banknote Printing Department of the Ministry of Households who worked for Jiang Fu was counted as one, all of them were convicted, all of them were imprisoned, those who participated heavily were executed, those who participated in the low-level were dismissed, demoted to commoners, distributed to the southern frontier, and all their family property. Copy not confiscated.

It can be said that Zhao Bunyi threw out the entire group of people who personally operated Jiaozire as sinners, and none of them stayed behind. Even the craftsmen who were in charge of printing Jiaozi were sentenced to exile because of their involvement in this matter and failing to inform them.

After that, Zhao Bunxi made some excuses and gave some local officials with a softer position some money to make up for their losses, and won the support and support of these local officials.

So the court gradually calmed down.

(End of this chapter)