A few days later, after some deliberation, the imperial court sent the holy decree to Laizhou City, and gave praise to Zhu Dadian and Yu Xiaotian and others, giving Yu Xiaotian the hereditary brocade clothes and Wei Qianqian general position, and rewarding a thousand taels of silver, and a set of gilt Ming Guang armor in Xiaotian, which was considered a reward for Yu Xiaotian.

For Xiaotian, this amount of money is like pocket money, which makes him look down on him at all, but it also represents Chongzhen's current attitude towards him, which shows that Chongzhen is still very satisfied with him now.

As for other people, such as Xu Congzhi, who is now dead due to injury, the imperial court also gave him generous care, and in addition, Xie Lian, the governor of Denglai, who guarded Laizhou City, Zhu Wannian, the prefect of Laizhou, and Yang Yufan, the chief soldier of Denglai, naturally also had to give some encouragement.

In addition, arrangements were also made for Zhu Dadian's inquiries about how to deal with the rebels and rebels, and the captured rebels were sent to Beijing for questioning, and for the other rebels, they were treated leniently and sent back to their hometowns for resettlement, and some of them could be conscripted into the army.

This kind of thing originally had nothing to do with Yu Xiaotian, but Yu Xiaotian really got involved, and among the rebels captured this time, a considerable number of them were from Liaodong, and some of them were military households or tunmin from the Dongjiang Army, and they knew the situation in Liaodong very well.

In addition, there are a large number of people who are the local people and old soldiers in Shandong who are coerced by the rebels on the spot, and those who can survive in this troubled world are basically the best young and strong people, these people are quite good laborers, and some people can be brainwashed into the army after selection, these people have seen blood, once the operation is good, a group of soldiers can be compiled and trained in the future, for his use.

So Yu Xiaotian has long been playing the idea of these people, and now the holy decree is down, to Zhu Dadian to properly settle this group of people, for Zhu Dadian, this is a big trouble, to dismiss and settle these prisoners, it will cost money, Shandong local finance itself because of this Denglai Rebellion, exhausted the inventory, now it can be said that whether it is the domain treasury or the government treasury, it has long been cleared and lost, and the rats can cry out when they go in.

How to settle these prisoners, Zhu Dadian can be said to be quite difficult, if he wants to be lazy and save trouble, he can push these things down, and order the prefectures and counties to settle themselves, but there are a large number of Liaodong and Denglai people among the rebels, Liaodong was occupied by Jiannu, and Dongjiang Town is also poorer and is a mess, and now the Dongjiang army is also fighting each other, and it will definitely not be repatriated.

Needless to say, although Laizhou has been relieved of the siege now, but look at these places in Denglai, except for a very few cities are still in the hands of the government, the countryside outside the city has long been destroyed by the rebels, almost a few villages and towns have been spared, and they will be repatriated to their hometowns.

Zhu Dadian had a headache for this, although the imperial court had a decree to allow some of them who were willing to join the army and serve the imperial court to be incorporated into the army.

However, the generals were not enthusiastic, because these people were not credible, and they didn't want to have too many soldiers and horses on hand, too many soldiers and horses to feed, they had to spend money, these prisoners were not from military households, and there was land for them to plant, especially the Zhejiang soldiers and Sichuan soldiers, and they didn't want to accept these soldiers from different places, so all the ministries reacted coldly to this.

Although Yang Yufan, the chief soldier of Denglai, is currently short of soldiers and horses, he does not want these rebels who have been his enemies, so how to settle these more than 10,000 prisoners has become a big problem faced by Zhu Dadian.

Yu Xiaotian pretended to want to solve Zhu Dadian's problems at this time, and said that he could solve this trouble for Zhu Dadian.

How could Zhu Dadian not know that Yu Xiaotian still occupied Taiyuan Island, over the years, he had tried to recruit immigrants to Taiyuan Island, and heard that Yu Xiaotian was willing to accept these prisoners, so he was overjoyed and directly threw these captives to Yu Xiaotian.

Although these people are laborers, at the moment Denglai and other places are destroyed by the rebels, the people's livelihood is withering, and it will definitely take manpower to recover afterwards, but that is all in the future, if this group of people is not handled well, there will still be chaos, Yu Xiaotian is now willing to contribute to get this group of people away, which will play a very good role in the stability of Denglai and Shandong for a long time in the future.

So Zhu Dadian secretly agreed to Yu Xiaotian's mention of yì, and handed over the matter of disposing of these prisoners to Yu Xiaotian, Yu Xiaotian immediately sent someone to take over the prisoner camp, and began to screen the prisoners, first eliminating some of the murderous ruffians and scumbags, and then ordering the baggage battalion to be sent to the Fushan Institute in batches and transported away by boat in batches.

It really took a lot of time to deal with these things, and it was also very important for food consumption, but Yu Xiaotian didn't care about this, now his subordinates would send large ships north every day to transfer the hungry refugees collected here, and when they came, the ships were transferred a large amount of food and various ammunition materials, and when they went back, they were filled with personnel, and these people were sent to Haitan Island for a preliminary quarantine, and then they were distributed.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian is currently on the side of Fushan, including Yangma Island, and has hoarded a lot of food, and there is no pressure to feed so many people.

Regarding Zhu Dadian's disposal of the prisoners and handed it over to Yu Xiaotian to handle this matter, although the others were a little strange, but more things were better than less, and everyone turned a blind eye and was too lazy to ask, and this kind of troublesome matter fell on them.

In this way, just to deal with the affairs of these prisoners, Yu Xiaotian was outside Laizhou City, and it took more than ten days to deal with these prisoners.

Immediately, Zhu Dadian received another batch of transferred military rations, and began to supervise the eastward march of the army again, preparing to recover Dengzhou and completely solve the rebels in Dengzhou.

Xishan Village has invaded since the New Year, and after a few fierce fights with the rebels, it has completely played a prestige, forcing the rebels to bow their heads and submit to softness, and dare not find trouble with Xishan Village again, and even the two sides secretly started human trafficking, and the rebels transported "raw mouths" to Xishan Village all day long.

Xishan Village settled the accounts with grain or silver for the rebels, and there was no conflict between the two sides for a considerable period of time.

However, with the beginning of spring in March, the sea ice gradually began to melt, which made the relationship between the two sides tense again, and the rebels captured Dengzhou City at the same time, but also captured Dengzhou Water City, a large number of naval warships that were frozen in the water city.

Although these warships were burned and scuttled by Zhang Keda, the general soldier of Dengzhou, before the rebels broke through Shuicheng, they still left a lot of usable warships.

In addition, the rebels also lured the officers and soldiers to deceive a group of officers and soldiers by means of fraudulent surrender, and after they landed, they seized their ships, so that the rebels suddenly controlled a large number of warships and had a strong ability in water warfare.

Although the quality and performance of the naval warships in the north cannot be compared with Yu Xiaotian's naval warships, in the Bohai Bay, except for Huanglong, Dongjiang Town, who also controls some of the warships, the rebels' naval forces are already quite strong.

With the thaw of sea ice in Bohai Bay in the beginning of spring, the rebel sailors have regained their ability to go to sea, which is not good news for Xishan Village and Yangma Island.

The reason why the rebels did not dare to trouble them during this period of time was because they were afraid of the combat power they had here, but once the sea ice melted, the rebels could take a warship and attack Yangma Island from the sea.

After all, there is only one Tuweizi on Yangma Island, and the defense capability is not strong, so it is all up to the infantry and sailors of the Yujia Army stationed in the Tuweizi on the island to guard here, supplemented by some temporarily trained villagers, to defend the Tuweizi of Yangma Island.

Once the rebels attack Tuweizi from the sea by boat in large numbers, the defensive pressure will become very great for them, after all, the number of cannons here is extremely limited, and there is still a Xishan village to defend, and there are only two twelve-pounder cannons in Tuweizi, even if the power is great, it will not be able to stand the rebel ships with many people.

Just when Liu Wei and Wu Shengtian were worried about this, several ships flying the sea wolf flag finally appeared in the eastern waters of Yangma Island.

At this time, Liu Wei and Wu Shengtian suddenly put their hearts in their stomachs, it seems that they have not forgotten them, and they have always been paying attention to the situation here, and as soon as the sea ice began to melt and the navigation capacity of the channel was basically restored, they sent the warship over.

In addition to a few warships, there are a large number of cargo ships that follow, the hulls of these ships are quite large, basically seven or eight hundred sand ships or lucky ships, the loading capacity is quite strong, this kind of large ships are difficult to see in the north, the largest warships in the hands of the rebels, only about two hundred materials, basically just some sloops of about one hundred materials, placed in front of these warships and cargo ships of the sea wolf, it is like a toy at all.

At this time, there were nearly 30,000 refugees in the Tuweizi of Yangma Island, and if it weren't for the fact that before the winter, the Seawolf Group had transported and stored a large amount of grain here, I am afraid that there would have been no food here.

Even so, during this time, the food ration in the Tuwei Zi of Yangma Island was cut in half, so as to ensure that there would not be a large number of starvation people here without food before new supplies were received.

Such a small amount of food is only enough for these refugees to maintain the most basic caloric supply, so that they will not be frozen and starved to death, and most of them can only barely survive on this food, lying in the earthen fence all day long, trying not to move and reduce consumption.

So when they saw a large number of ships coming, Liu Wei and Wu Shengtian almost fainted, and hurriedly took people to the dock to meet the ships that came this time.

(Today, I would like to thank the two friends of Good Book 130 and Yiye Zhichun for their tips!) By the way, continue to ask for a commuter pass! If you don't have a monthly pass, you can also get a red ticket! Hehe! I haven't seen my book on the red ticket list yet! ）