Standalone Northern and Southern Dynasties

Chapter 366: Post-War Events (Lottery)

The battle was over, but Suze's shogunate was even busier than during the war.

Mo Zhe Tiansheng and Hu Chen surrendered, but that did not mean that Qinzhou and Jingzhou were conquered.

Some rebels who were unwilling to surrender hid in the mountains, relying on the complex terrain of Qinzhou and Jingzhou to occupy the mountains and rule the country. It took a lot of effort to wipe them out.

What should be done with the surrendered soldiers and how should the people of the two states be resettled?

The most important issue facing the shogunate was to reward the soldiers according to their merits.

In this expedition, the army with the greatest military merit was the Liangzhou Army led by Yang Kan who captured Tianshui City.

The military judge in Yang Kan’s army first reported a number of military achievements, among which the greatest achievement was the two thousand people who entered Tianshui City first.

Because Hou Gang was classified as "pretending to surrender", the ordinary military merit of these two thousand men was transformed into the merit of seeing through the enemy's ambush and being the first to capture the city.

Being the first to capture a city has always been a great achievement, and being the first group to enter the city is indeed risky, so Su Ze made the final decision and gave these two thousand people the biggest reward.

The first batch of officers and soldiers who entered Tianshui City were all promoted to the first level of honor. Officers were given five pieces of silk, while soldiers were given two pieces of silk.

Although honorary officers are not actual official positions, they can be granted more land than ordinary soldiers and are also eligible to exempt their family members from military service and taxes.

Moreover, the rewards for honorary officials were actually a kind of "futures". The land needed to be re-granted when the accounts were filed every year, and the privileges of tax exemption and exemption from military service were just an indicator for local officials so that they would not go to the homes of honorary officials to collect labor and taxes. These costs were evenly distributed and did not need to be spent all at once like rewards such as silk, grain, etc.

This is the benefit of the system. In a system with a promising future, talented people will pursue long-term interests. Otherwise, among the rebels, the rewards of official titles are like farts. It would be better to reward them with some food and weapons, or even an attractive woman.

The advantage of "futures" is that you don't have to take out all the rewards at once.

You know, war is a very expensive thing.

In Sun Tzu's Art of War, the cost of fighting a war is described as "a thousand pieces of gold a day."

These are just the money spent during the war. The rewards and pensions after the war are much more than what was spent during the war.

If all rewards were given in kind, even Su Ze's family would not be able to support it.

Two thousand men was not an excessive reward. Su Ze's statistics of military merit were stricter than those of the Northern Wei Dynasty. However, if a battle was won smoothly, two or three victories would be enough to accumulate the first-level honors.

Among the two thousand people who attacked Tianshui City this time, some had already accumulated the lowest rank of "Wuqiwei" before entering the city. Just by fighting in Guanzhong, some had been promoted to the third rank of "Flyingqiwei".

Su Ze finally understood why the Northern Wei and Northern Zhou dynasties, which implemented the honorary official system, ended up with "there were too many pillars of the country and generals walking around everywhere".

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties when the intensity of war was so high, it was possible for veteran soldiers with many years of service to earn honors such as "General".

The honorary official system naturally has many drawbacks, but it is still useful for the time being. As for future matters, that is not something Su Ze needs to worry about. "There is no perfect way in the world." Each generation has its own historical mission. Su Ze only needs to do his own thing.

The Gaoping Army led by Yu Jin also achieved great military success.

Because the Battle of Jieting was a beautiful annihilation war, many soldiers were "killed" and "captured". Among them was Di Gan, who killed the enemy general Su Qinmingda in the Battle of Jieting. This merit alone was enough to directly upgrade Di Gan's rank by one level. Combined with his other accumulated merits, Di Gan's rank has been promoted to the third-class "Flying Cavalry Captain".

Among the three armies, the only one who did not gain any military merit was Hou Jing.

Along the way, Hou Jing had some records of killing enemies in the Queyue Formation which was protecting the grain route. However, he did not have any military achievements during the siege of Gangu City which lasted for more than half a month.

In the end, Gangu City surrendered on its own, so it certainly couldn't be counted as the first to capture the city.

Then there are the rewards for several generals who went on the expedition.

Yang Kan was originally the governor of Liangzhou. Su Ze submitted a petition to the court and requested the position of General Anxi for him. He directly bypassed the generals of miscellaneous titles and became the first person after Su Ze, the General Pingxi.

Yu Jin was originally the General of Cavalry and the Prefect of Gaoping County. Su Ze petitioned the court to appoint him as the Governor of Huazhou and the General of Wuwei, which was considered a small promotion.

Hou Jing was originally the General of Light Cavalry, the lowest rank of general. He did not make any military achievements this time, so there was no way for him to be promoted.

However, Su Ze still recommended Hou Jing to be the governor of Qinzhou.

For a territory that has just been pacified, severe punishments are needed in troubled times. A military man like Hou Jing, who has no deep ties with local groups and is eager to make progress, is just right for this job.

If a governor with a weaker character came, I'm afraid he would not be able to control the situation in Qinzhou.

Murong Shaozong was promoted from Lieutenant General of the Shogunate to Inspector of Cavalry, a military position second only to General of Miscellaneous Titles. At the same time, Su Ze also recommended him as Governor of Jingzhou.

Then there are several mid-level generals who emerged in this battle.

The one with the most outstanding performance was Di Gan. Yu Jin believed that he was a rare and powerful general and had appointed him as his cavalry captain. Su Ze also granted him the position of a military officer in the shogunate.

If Su Ze were in another army, doing this would cause strong dissatisfaction among his subordinates.

The system of "host-guest old friends" was prevalent in the Northern Wei Dynasty, where the so-called "my lord's lord is not my lord, and my general's general is not my general."

The concept of private troops in the army is more deeply rooted in people's minds, and "old subordinates" is a very important word. For example, people like Wanqi Chounu who betrayed their old master are looked down upon in the army.

The Northern Zhou and Northern Qi dynasties after the Northern Wei Dynasty developed this system to its peak. The so-called Eight Pillars State System was actually not much different from the "Eight Banners" system. It just recognized the influence of the Eight Pillars State on its own army and tacitly acknowledged their status as elders. But Su Ze didn't have to worry about these.

This also stems from Su Ze's great prestige in the army. More importantly, the armies under the generals' command are almost all built by Su Ze himself.

This is also one of the advantages of the Fubing system. When there is no war, the soldiers are scattered in the countryside. When there is a war, they are assigned to the army according to the allocation of soldiers by the shogunate.

Whether it is Yu Jin or Yang Kan, their own private troops only have a scale of a thousand people, and the rest of the troops are allocated to them by Su Ze during the war.

Even generals such as Di Gan, Hulu Jin, and Wanqi Chounu were actually temporarily handed over to Yu Jin for command by Su Ze.

The two trump cards that Hou Jing brought to the expedition, the [Xiaoqi Battalion] and the [Guards Battalion], were troops systematically organized by Su Ze and were absolutely loyal to Su Ze.

In addition, the system of the Shogun's Office ensured that "rewards and punishments were made by the Shogun's Office", which further ensured Su Ze's dominance over the entire army.

Hulu Jin and Wanqi Chounu, who performed outstandingly in this battle, were each given military positions in the shogunate. Even Wanqi Chounu's military secretary Chen Chong was given a position as a secretary in the shogunate.

Hulu Jin got what he wanted and sent his younger brother Hulu Ahu to Chongwen Pavilion. Su Ze also personally changed the Hulu tribe's name to "Hu" in Chinese and gave Hulu Ahu a Chinese name Hu Guihan.

After the war, Su Ze was finally able to move back to Baizhang Tower, but he unexpectedly met his sister Su Yuyao, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, in the house.

Su Yuyao was originally having a private conversation with her sister-in-law, Princess Chenliu, but when she saw Su Ze, she stood up in panic, quickly said goodbye to Su Ze, and ran back to her boudoir.

Seeing his sister like this, Su Ze couldn't help but sigh. The sister who used to cling to him has grown up and there is a gap between them.

Lu Zhu brought her son over, and Su Ze held him carefully. The little guy opened his mouth and spit a bubble of milk at Su Ze, which made the maids and the wet nurse laugh.

Su Ze held his son in his arms and felt that a day of military meetings was not so tiring.

After she had played enough with her son, she handed the crying son to Lu Zhu to be fed by the wet nurse. After everyone in the room had left, Princess Chen Liu said:
"You don't care about sister Yuyao's marriage either."

"Why don't you care? Didn't I leave Dugu Xin in Yongle City?"

Dugu Xin refused the promising position of Jianxiu Lang and insisted on joining the army. Su Ze originally wanted him to serve under Hou Jing to see what he was capable of.

But ever since that day in Yongle Temple when Su Yuyao fell in love with Dugu Xin, Princess Chenliu whispered in Su Ze's ear to keep Dugu Xin in Yongle City and not send him to fight with Hou Jing.

Su Ze did not ask about what happened next, but he vaguely heard that Su Yuyao had contact with Dugu Xin in private.

The people of the Northern Wei Dynasty were open-minded, and Su Ze started to become prominent because of him. The Su family did not have the airs and rules of the so-called Han Chinese aristocratic families. Su Yuyao also lacked the supervision of male elders while growing up. Her father died early, and Su Ze was always fighting in wars, so he became more independent in character.

Princess Chenliu smiled and said:

"To be honest, Dugu Lang is a wonderful man, but now Sister Yuyao is complaining to me, saying that you, as her brother, didn't allow Dugu Xin to go to the war, and that this delayed his future?"

Su Ze also smiled. Dugu Xin was a very proud man and he had high expectations for himself, otherwise he would not have given up his purely civil service job and insisted on becoming a military general.

Because in troubled times, the status of military generals is higher than that of civil officials.

Especially during the founding period of the country, it was easier for military officers to transfer to the special profession of "noble" than civil officials. This was a super profession that meant "living and dying with the country."

Dugu Xin must have been aware of Su Yuyao's identity and influenced her, implicitly indicating that he wanted to earn military merit on his own.

"The war is over. There won't be any more wars in the next few years. Where is Dugu Xin going to fight?"

Princess Chenliu smiled and said:

"Su Lang forgot that the north is still in chaos. And there are also the countries in the Western Regions. Would you be satisfied with just stabilizing Guanzhong?"

north?

In recent years, there have been constant disasters on the grassland. Princess Shouyang is actually unable to control the entire Rouran tribe, and the Rouran is constantly splitting and weakening.

The Gaoche people, vice king of the grassland, were defeated in Dunhuang and lost their influence.

The Turks, Tiele and Uighurs were all rising.

That's right. Dugu Xin came from the Six Towns and was familiar with the situation on the grassland. Su Ze asked:

"Dugu Xin wants to go to the north?"

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