Go back to the Ming Dynasty to be a thousand households

Chapter 157
Putting all these captives to death did not make Huang Laifu feel uncomfortable. Perhaps a person of later generations who came to ancient times, without the constraints of later generations, would be more temperamental and act more happily.

Huang Laifu considered himself a very gentle and tactful person in later generations, but he did not expect that he could order the killing of thousands of captives without blinking an eye. Thinking about it afterwards, he was also surprised.

The great victory of Wuzhai Fort spread quickly to all directions, not to mention that the people in the entire Shanxi Town were overjoyed after hearing about it, and everyone took out firecrackers to celebrate, and the hearts of the people quickly stabilized.During these times, due to the invasion of the Mongols, the people in the military forts in various states and counties were panicked, fearing that one day the Mongols would appear outside their homes.This is all right, all the Mongols who invaded were killed, and everyone was safe.

Regarding Huang Laifu's order to kill thousands of Mongolian captives, the people's reaction was to relieve their hatred.Shanxi Town lives in a border town, and the people have long been harassed by these Tartars.As for the general soldier Liu Ming'an and others, on the one hand, they felt sore and bitter about Huang Laifu's victory, and secretly regretted why they didn't lead the troops to attack earlier; on the other hand, they were secretly shocked by Huang Laifu's ruthless actions.

When the news of victory reached the imperial court, Emperor Wanli was overjoyed. The news of the Mongol invasion had just reached Beijing a few days ago, and Emperor Wanli was feeling angry and having a headache. Unexpectedly, a few days later, the news of the great victory of Wuzhai Fort came.Overjoyed, Emperor Wanli led a group of officials to pay homage to the suburban temple, and went to the Yuhuangji Gate to announce the victory.

In the end, Emperor Wanli ordered the news of Wuzhaibao's victory to be published in the mansion newspaper. Huang Laifu won more with less and won a brilliant victory.

After a series of activities, Emperor Wanli rewarded them for their merits.Huang Laifu beheaded many people, and beheaded his chief. According to his meritorious service, he should be promoted to the chief soldier. However, Wang Jiaping, the chief assistant of the cabinet, believed that Huang Laifu was promoted from the defense to the chief soldier in one year.Emperor Wanli thought it was very reasonable. Huang Laifu was not yet 20 years old. If he was promoted to the chief soldier, it would be too fast.Li Rusong, the best military general in Wanli at that time, was only promoted to the general army at the age of 34. It has been said that being in a high position at a young age is not a blessing to the country.

In the end, Huang Laifu was promoted to the deputy general. From the second rank, he usually garrisoned Wuzhaiwei, moved to the old battalion in winter, and took care of the safety of the remote pass.The rest of the cadres will be rewarded.In addition, Bajiaobao guarded Xu Xueshi, beheaded level 500, and was promoted to guerrilla.Shenchi Baotian Dafu, beheaded level 500, plus the number of horse thieves who had been beheaded before, the two merits were tied, and he was promoted to a general.

After meritorious service is rewarded, it is punished.Liu Ming'an, the general soldier of Ningwu, and the generals of Pianguan, feared the enemy like a tiger, and sat and watched the enemy plunder. With the joint impeachment of Huang Laifu, Tian Dafu, Ma Jiuying and others, Emperor Wanli was furious and raised these people to be honored. What is the use of feeding without working?

Soon, the Ningwu General Soldier and Pianguan Generals were fined, and Liu Mingan was demoted several ranks to serve as generals in a certain place in Guangdong.General Pianguan was relegated to a certain place in Shaanxi to serve as a garrison, and Gao Qi, a military officer of Kelan Dao, was relegated to Jiangxi. In addition, some generals who were afraid of war were also demoted and fined.

For Huang Laifu, this battle at Wuzhai Fort was a great harvest, but there were still some aftermaths.Some censor officials heard that Huang Laifu had killed prisoners, so they wrote a letter to impeach Huang Laifu for indiscriminate killing.

However, after seeing these impeachment memorials, Emperor Wanli did not respond.

For Emperor Wanli, he was not a pedantic person. In the original history, after the end of the war to aid Korea, Emperor Wanli ordered all the Japanese prisoners to be beheaded, and several Japanese generals captured were sent to Beijing Lingchi .

So this time Huang Laifu beheaded the Mongolian captives, Emperor Wanli not only didn't think it was strange, but felt that Huang Laifu's temper was very suitable for him.However, he is a person who distinguishes between public and private. In the secret decree issued to Eunuch Ma Jiuying, the supervisor of Wuzhaibao, Emperor Wanli asked Ma Eunuch to urge Huang Laifu to distribute the money as soon as possible.It's almost Chinese New Year, and it's time for Huang Laifu to hand over the dividends he promised this year.

Huang Laifu responded quickly. Although the bandits invaded after autumn and Wuzhaibao suffered heavy losses, there are many places that need compensation, and the local finances are somewhat difficult, but he promised that the money distributed to Emperor Wanli this year will not be less than one tael of silver. .

This moved Emperor Wanli quite a bit, and he privately sighed to Concubine Zheng: "This Huang Laifu is really a loyal minister!"

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March 1591, 12 AD.

The weather is even colder, dripping into ice.The corpses of the Mongolian captives on the densely packed crosses beside the road had been frozen dry.Let passers-by see, all fear.However, before spring came, Huang Laifu didn't plan to bury them yet, he wanted to use the greatest effect to scare chickens and monkeys.

The imperial court's response and award have not yet reached Wuzhai Fort.Huang Laifu has already led the soldiers and civilians of Wuzhaibao to start cleaning up the site and rebuilding their homes.

The houses of many residents outside the city were destroyed in this war.Although none of these people were military households of Wuzhaibao, the military households of Wuzhaibao either lived in the city of Wuzhaibao or lived in various farms, and they did not suffer any losses.Most of them are workers from various workshops outside the city, and some refugees who fled to Wuzhaibao.

Huang Laifu gave porridge on the street, and arranged for the villagers and soldiers of Wuzhaibao to build nests for these people so that they could survive the cold winter. Of course, the merchants in those workshops also had to pay part of the money.Seeing that all the farms in Wuzhaibao were safe and sound in this war, many merchants have decided to build their workshops as strong as the farms in Wuzhaibao.

Of course, this requires a lot of money, so many merchants, several or more than a dozen, worked together to build a large wall, enclosing some of their own workshops and the residences of hired workers. protected.

"The flames of war are ruthless."

Huang Laifu led a group of officers to patrol outside the city, looking at the busy workers. Wherever they went, everyone saluted Huang Laifu.Huang Laifu thought to himself, no matter how strong the castle is, it will still be breached, and even if the city is in the interior, it will also be damaged by waves.Therefore, the most important thing in the future is not to overhaul the city wall, but to take the initiative to eliminate the danger in the border town and expand the buffer zone.

The damaged homes are being built. In addition, the compensation and rewards for the soldiers and civilians of Wuzhai Fort have also begun.

According to the Wuzhaibao army’s regulations on pensions for injuries and deaths in battle, when a sergeant died in battle, his family will be given 30 taels of compensation at one time, and the widows of the soldiers will also be given one stone of rice every month to ensure that their families live in peace. .This is the death benefit, in addition to the disability benefit.A one-time disability compensation fee of 20 taels of silver was given, and five buckets of rice were also subsidized for disability fees every month.

This Wuzhaibao sergeant, 71 people were killed, and each family paid a pension.There were also 52 injured. Except for 30 who could be cured, the remaining 22 needed to be retired.Huang Laifu also arranged for them properly.There were also 82 Tun Ding who died in battle, and each family was paid 20 taels of silver as compensation.Injured and disabled people, in addition to the disability fee, also have a monthly subsidy of several buckets of rice.

When Huang Laifu led the officers of Wuzhaibao to distribute pensions and disability payments to those family members one by one, those women and old people cried and knelt down to thank Mr. Huang for his kindness.The people around were also moved, thinking that it was worth it to work for Mr. Huang.

(End of this chapter)