Chapter 357: Spoils of War
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Of course, the spoils should be evenly divided.
As a result, all the officials and generals in Taozhou are busy with this matter, and all the government soldiers are also looking forward to it.
In the end, the loot was distributed in a unique auction format. The auction is divided into two sessions, one is an internal auction that can only be attended by the soldiers of Taozhou Prefecture at first, and after the end is an auction for everyone, and finally there will be a trade fair.
More than 20,000 slaves, tens of thousands of cattle and horses, hundreds of thousands of sheep, as well as countless skins, salt, tents and many other booty, so that this auction attracted the attention of countless people as soon as the news came out. Many businessmen came to smell the fish and wanted a piece of the pie.
The soldiers are also calculating how many credits they can get, and how many of the points they can get for what they want.
In order to revitalize Jiangxin City, Zhang Chao specially set the auction venue on Jiangxin Island.
In that day's battle, the Yeli people did not have time to cause much damage to Jiangxin City, and after repair, it has quickly recovered to its original state.
Five days have passed since the battle in Jiangxin City, July 20, and it is also a big city.
Originally, there was such a big war, and the situation on the Taozhou border became a little delicate, and many businessmen were a little worried. But now Taozhou has made such a big auction and trade fair, which undoubtedly makes businessmen very excited.
Not only did the Ministry of Metallurgy become part of this transaction, but there were even a large number of new goods from the Central Plains, such as tea, silk, cloth, wine, Buddhist scriptures, porcelain, etc., which was quite rare.
Especially the large quantity, it is even more staggering to the Hu businessmen.
Similarly, after the destruction of the Yeli Ministry, these countless slaves, cattle and horses, and furs also made the merchants of the Central Plains as excited as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.
After more than ten years of chaotic war in the Central Plains, it was reunified, and the demand for cattle and horses was huge, that is, the demand for sheep was also large, whether it was mutton or sheepskin wool, it was not worrying about selling it back.
The history of the governor of Taozhou and the marching commander of the Taozhou Governor's Mansion Shi Xu Jingzong, as well as the text of Sima Cen of Taozhou, recorded the army Sun Fujia, the judge of the Governor's Mansion Xu Jingzong and a group of people were busy for a few days, and finally calculated and divided all the military merits.
"In just a few days, I have to check my merits and calculate my points, which is really tiring!"
Ma Zhou, a master of accounting, couldn't help but complain to Zhang Chao.
In the past few days, they only sleep for two hours a day, and they light up the lights every day and fight at night.
The imperial court has its own set of military merit evaluation system, but Zhang Chao has made some changes. As a result, the calculation of new military merits is very complicated, and each soldier has dozens of items, large and small, and then the officers have to score these dozens of items, and they must also have the performance of the soldiers on the battlefield, not only the battlefield records of the military judges and clerks, but also the evaluation of the soldiers' superiors and the evaluation of the soldiers in the same team.
Finally, according to the performance of the fighters in all aspects, the scores of those dozens of items are added up to get a comprehensive score. And all the loot conversion is also quite complicated, all kinds of things, you have to give a reasonable price, and after the total price is finally obtained, it is divided into several large pieces.
In the end, half of it was distributed to the soldiers, and the value of this half of the loot was divided into the total points of the soldiers, and the value of each point could be obtained by dividing it.
Converting data one by one is quite painstaking.
What's more, in the past few days, this auction and trade fair have to be organized.
"Don't complain, after this meeting, you can also make a lot of money!" Zhang Chao smiled and said to Ma Zhou, as the governor of Taozhou, although Ma Zhou is not a general with troops, but this battle was fought in Taozhou, and they are also responsible for logistics and mobilization, and the credit is not small.
It's always a joy to divide the spoils.
And Taozhou has completely achieved openness, fairness and fairness this time, and every data and every soldier's project score are clearly written.
It also allows other soldiers to report untruths, and allows soldiers to complain about untruths.
"One sheep folds three sheepskins, four sheep and an ox, five sheep and a horse, and ten sheep and a camel.
A calf, half a sheep. ”
"A young slave is worth fifteen sheep, a young woman is worth ten sheep, and old men and children are worth one to eight sheep, depending on the circumstances!"
For the trophies, it is basically a basic reference value of sheep.
For each big sheep, the discount is five hundred.
For every penny, get one point credit.
The soldiers who participated in the battle this time were at least five or six thousand points, and some had more points, even twenty or thirty thousand points.
The officials and generals had more points, such as Zhang Chao, and finally awarded more than 300,000 points. This is still Zhang Chao's secret interference, otherwise, Ma Zhou's group of people is ready to give Zhang Chao a score of three to five million.
In their words, Zhang Chao's command decision was the guarantee of this victory, and he was also the commander of the whole army, and it was normal for him to uproot more than 20,000 people with less than 100 casualties.
In the end, Zhang Chao slapped the board directly, and his points could not exceed ten times the maximum points of ordinary soldiers.
The tallest soldier was a Mo swordsman, who beheaded five Yeli people in a row, and finally scored more than 30,000 points, and Zhang Chao took ten times the upper limit of him, so he only took more than 300,000.
More than 300,000 points, worth more than 300 yuan.
Zhang Chao felt a lot, but the Taozhou soldiers felt very few.
You must know that all the loot this time was folded into sheep, there were nearly 700,000 sheep, and one sheep was folded into 500 yuan, which was also a huge amount of 350,000 yuan.
Zhang Chao, the commander of the whole army, even if he takes one percent, it will be 3,500 percent.
However, Zhang Chao didn't agree, if he really took one percent, it was only three thousand five hundred, and he didn't lack that money, and there were ways to make money, let alone take so much.
Three hundred or so runs, which is already a lot.
However, this time it was really a big deal to uproot the Black Yeli Department.
As the commander-in-chief, Zhang Chao only took less than one thousandth, and he had more than 300 times. The tens of thousands of soldiers in Taozhou want to divide up the 350,000 worth of loot, even if they want to take out 20% to build the military forts and repair the roads, etc., they must take out 20% as a pension accumulation fund for the pensions of the dead and disabled soldiers in Taozhou this time and in the future, and 10% to buy reserve grain.
But there are still trophies worth 1780,000 yuan, and on average, each government soldier has no less than 20 yuan.
Every government soldier sent a sum this time.
July 20.
Jiangxin City was crowded with people, and countless government soldiers and businessmen rushed here.
"After the strategy, the Ministry of Yeli has sent someone!"
On a day of celebration, the Ministry of Yeli still came.
As one of the seven ministries of Yeli, the Black Yeli Department has always shared honor and disgrace. Back then, it was originally a tribe, but now Heiyeli was uprooted by the Tang people in the blink of an eye, and the six departments of Shangye and Xiaye were both shocked and angry, and also had some fear.
There are more than 20,000 people in the Black Yeli Division, and there are 3,000 strong soldiers. But it was uprooted like this!
And the most terrifying thing is that the Tang army swallowed more than 20,000 people in Heiyeli, and their casualties were less than 100!
I can't believe it!
"We, the leaders of the six Yeli Tribes, sent a letter to the Taozhou Assassin Clan, please immediately release our Black Yeli Department and return their property!"
Zhang Chao shook his head, "Do you know, after I first conquered and destroyed Ye Ligang, Ye Lixiong also sent someone to tell me this. I didn't pay attention to them, and now that you're coming to me to say things like this, it's really not the slightest point. ”
Ma Zhou scolded the messenger on the side, "You came just in time, we sent a messenger to find you from the province." Last time, Tuyuhun and my Tang Dynasty had made peace, and Tuyuhun Khan personally promised not to invade the border again. But this time, the Heiyeli people came to invade the territory of our Tang Dynasty, and our Taozhou army and civilians, under the leadership of Jing Liu, fought back and achieved such a victory. But you are the first to break the contract, and I, Taozhou, have already reported this matter to Chang'an. ”
"Datang needs you to give us an explanation, if there is no satisfactory answer, I, Datang, will mobilize an army to conquer Tuyuhun, don't say whether your six departments of Yeli and Hei Yeli planned this offense together, we still have to investigate. We may even send a large army to Qinghai Fuyi City to ask Murong Fuyun, does he want to fight a decisive battle with my Tang Dynasty? ”
As soon as these words came out, the messenger was stunned on the spot.
I didn't dare to say anything cruel.
Datang really launched a threat, and he suddenly realized that their neighbor was not just Taozhou, but the entire Datang. The Tang Dynasty has just repelled the Turks, and now the Jianghuai rebellion seems to have been put down.
If they really angered Datang and made Datang send an army to conquest, would they be able to stop it?
Back then, the Sui Dynasty marched westward, but they took away their 2,000 miles of land.
Zhang Chao looked at the messenger speechless and snorted coldly.
"Go back and tell the remaining six departments of Yeli, and when I dispose of the black Yeli here, I will ask the six departments of Yeli to give me an explanation when I turn back."
"I still put a sentence here, the Black Metallurgical Ministry has been removed, and the original territory of the Black Metallurgical Ministry will be my Datang from now on. If anyone dares to step into Heiyeli's original territory, then I will regard it as an invasion of my Tang territory, and at that time, I will lead the army of Taozhou tigers and wolves to personally conquer! ”
The messenger retreated in disarray.
"Jinglu, do we really want to occupy Heiyeli's territory?"
Heiyeli's territory, in the southwest of Taozhou, is located in the north of the Yellow River, and is the upstream part of the two major tributaries of the Yellow River, Tao River and Lihe River.
It is 300 miles north and south and about 200 miles wide from east to west, and this vast territory is still very fertile, and it belongs to the border zone of agricultural and pastoral areas, and it can develop agriculture and animal husbandry.
What is especially important is that although there are many mountains in this area, there are many river valleys, and the conditions are not worse than those in Taozhou.
Another point is that the original territory of Heiyeli is actually a salient part, with three sides, east, west and north, and semi-protruding into the boundaries of the Tang Dynasty.
Originally, it was Kuozhou and Hezhou in the northwest, and Taozhou and Fangzhou in the northeast.
Because of the Black Yeli Department, the Tang Dynasty's original boundary line here was concave. If Zhang Chao swallowed the hundreds of miles of land in the Heiyeli Department, it would be tantamount to making the boundary of the Tang Dynasty in this section from the original concave to a protruding piece.
Although there is still some distance from the Yellow River in the south and the Yellow River in the northwest, the Tang army was able to control the source of the Tao River and the Lihe River in the hands of the Tang army.
Seizing Heiyeli's territory is not as simple as Tuolian for hundreds of miles.
Advance a few hundred miles to the south, then the southwest can enter the Ruoergai steppe, which is an important passage to Shudi, and at the same time advance to the northwest, you can reach the Yellow River, along the Yellow River valley, you can quickly go around the back of Tuyuhun, to their base camp in Qinghai.
Zhang Chao didn't think as far as he thought now, and he wanted to attack Tuyuhun Khan City after going around.
But if you advance for hundreds of miles, eat the salient, and control the source of the Tao River and the source of the river, then Taozhou will be much safer.
Of course, Zhang Chao can also get countless river valleys, and can recruit more people to come over to reclaim and graze. (To be continued.) )