Chapter 150: Soldiers
The rewards have been received, and naturally a sumptuous banquet is indispensable, but Tang Xizong was the first to leave the table after drinking a few glasses of wine because of the fatigue all the way, and then the remaining ministers gradually let go of the topic and the amount of alcohol without the presence of the emperor, basically except for the officials of Cui Yanzhao's faction, the rest of the officials, whether they were backed by Liu Yonghao or because of their soft-spoken words, all ran to the new King of Han and Shu to toast.
Although I don't have a good impression of these guys who can play tricks in the court, but today is a good day after all, and the two of them will not get along with the palace wine in their hands.
For these two approachable new kings, except for the people from Cui Yanzhao's faction who continued to maintain their original posture, the rest of the people felt that the two, especially the Han King Lin Feng, were not as rude and domineering as they usually said.
However, no matter how polite the two of them were, the wine was not ambiguous at all, the banquet was only halfway through, and the two of them had already poured nearly ten jars of wine into their stomachs! It is also thanks to the role of Tang Xizong that can provide for the two of them, and if they are ordinary people, I am afraid that when they see the two of them drinking like this, their hearts should be broken.
However, in the end, the two of them still insisted on leaving until the end of the banquet, and the rest of Zhou Chen and the others also drank a lot, if it weren't for the escort and support of their own guards, whether a few people could go back to Jiedu Mansion was another matter.
After returning to the Jiedu Mansion, everyone went back to the room to cover their heads and sleep, which caused the celebration banquet at dusk in the afternoon to be postponed for nearly half an hour.
The place where the celebration banquet was held was selected by Tang Yi, in the open space outside the east city, tens of thousands of soldiers of the Feng family army were all crowded here, in fact, it was a celebration banquet, and it was just a dozen people and dozens of people sitting around the bonfires of different sizes, eating roast suckling pig, roast whole sheep, roast wild deer, etc., and Tang Yi spent an afternoon carrying hundreds of thousands of jars of wine, and even the imperial wine in the palace was also moved.
The soldiers not only received substantial rewards from the imperial court, that is, money and silver, but also got the promotion of official positions, and at the same time, the generous benefits of the Feng family army were revealed, and hundreds of thousands of worth of silver tickets were divided into small parts and distributed in the hands of generals at all levels, and then transferred to dozens of smaller denominations and distributed to the soldiers below, and no one was left behind. And everyone also heard about one thing, the king of Han and the king of Shu jointly requested that there would be no curfew in Chengdu Mansion for seven days, which means that the big guy can play in Chengdu Mansion at any time at twelve o'clock in the day. However, the king of Han had a military order, if he dared to cause trouble in the city, he would be severely punished.
After arranging the celebration banquet, Lin Feng led the generals to drink some wine signally, and then hurriedly retreated and went back to the city to rest. At the celebration banquet that night, all the soldiers did live up to Lin Feng's expectations, until the sun came out the next morning, the defenders at the head of the city began to change shifts, and they could see that many bonfires outside the east city were still burning, and they could smell the smell of various barbecued meat in the air for a long time.
In the next few days, the city was even more lively, with streets and alleys, restaurants, teahouses, singing and dancing venues, and soldiers dressed in the costumes of the Feng family army could be seen everywhere enjoying themselves. After this battle, although many people were injured or even killed, these surviving brothers really lived a happy life.
The reward issued by the imperial court alone this time is enough for everyone to go home and buy a few acres of land, and the welfare subsidy of the Feng family army is even more generous, even if it is in this Chengdu Mansion for seven days and seven nights, the remaining money is much more than the imperial court sent to each person. What's more, those who can survive a war, most of them must be veterans, in the Feng family army, the general veterans are not a few families still lack money, generally speaking, a year's salary is enough for them to buy some fertile land for their families, and then take out part of the money to hire some long-term and short-term workers to farm to support their families, and they continue to stay in the army to win fame and wealth.
At the beginning of the good field, the people of Chengdu Mansion were still a little afraid, although the discipline of the Feng family army was strict, and generally speaking, the people were not offended. But after a large number of Feng family sergeants suddenly appeared, it would still cause a brief panic. Especially those vendors who set up stalls on the street to do business and shopkeepers who opened shops were bullied too much by the forbidden army on weekdays, and when they saw that there was suddenly such a large group of "soldiers" in front of them, they naturally shy away from doing business, lest the other party rob their goods and not give money.
However, in the process of slow trading, these traders and shopkeepers found that doing business with those "soldiers" not only do not have to worry about the other party will do "killing people and goods", but most of the other party is still very polite, and the most important thing is that the other party is generous, when the difference is missing one or two copper plates, the other party will not pull the sleeves and shout or something, but wave his hand in the atmosphere, smile and say Excuse me, leave it for you to drink tea! In this case, they have basically received special instructions from their superiors, so don't lose the face of the Feng family army and their own Han King because of one or two copper plates.
Even the people in the city have found the benefits of this group of "soldier uncles" in two or three days of effort, although Chengdu has not experienced any war, but they have also heard that generally speaking, as long as the city is broken, there will definitely be a large number of "soldiers", although most of them are not to burn and loot, but the things of forced buying and selling are not uncommon, and there are even forced to buy and sell good women, some people have also heard that if those "soldiers" are forced to hurry, the other party will kill people with a ruthless heart, Afterwards, it will be fine under the protection of the other party's background. But these "legendary" things only happened in legends, and these "ruffians" in front of them had never seen them do these things, and they had never even heard anyone talk about them.
All this is the result of the daily military discipline of the Feng family's army, plus from the next day Lin Feng convened the civilian officials under his command, instructed them to post notices to appease the people, and at the same time in the garrisons of each army, including the garrisons of the forbidden armies of the various ministries, with the King of Han, Shannan Province Jiedu Envoy and Shu King, Jiannan Province Jiedu Envoy jointly warned all the army, if it is found that anyone is making trouble in the city, once it is found, it will be dealt with strictly, and the people are encouraged to report the perpetrators in the city, and there are rewards for reporting, and a department responsible for receiving reports has also been set up in the east, west, south, and west cities. There is also a dedicated law enforcement team that patrols around the clock.
With these measures, even if someone wants to take the opportunity to make trouble, they have to weigh the "heaven and earth net" set up by King Han, and at the same time, they have to weigh whether they can withstand the strict treatment.