Chapter 148: Generous Care and Heavy Reward
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Li Jing ordered the execution of the one-eyed Jiao and the pirate leaders, a decision that was unanimously supported by the generals. Only Zhang Hong, a miser, felt a little pity, the income of 200,000 yuan a year was gone. If you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are, now Shamen Town still owes the Han family 100,000 yuan of usury. Although a lot of them were seized this time, the 23,000 stone of rice, 10,000 pieces of cloth, and 3,000 horses of silk, as well as nearly 7,000 pieces of money, 8,000 pieces of silk, and gold and silver, were worth more than 1,000 yuan. Excluding the value of the workshop and the weapons and armor that were captured, the seizure was about 100,000 pieces.
But Zhang Hong also knew that there was a huge expenditure to be spent soon. In this battle, nearly 600 people were killed and seriously wounded, and more than half of them were slightly injured. According to the rules laid down earlier by Shamen Town, the soldiers lightly wounded two silks, seriously injured three, and killed ten silks. The junior officer of the Wu gang commander was lightly wounded three horses, five horses were seriously wounded, and twenty horses were killed in battle. The officers at the head of the team and above were lightly wounded five horses, ten horses were seriously wounded, and fifty horses of silk were killed in battle. Everything has been clearly decided a long time ago, and now there are nearly 600 war dead, and the bereavement of the war dead alone costs nearly 10,000 pieces of silk, and there are too many minor injuries, and at least 3,000 yuan of subsidies are also needed, and a few items of one plus 10,000 are gone.
Moreover, there is a special provision in Shamen Town, and if there are widows, old and young people in the families of soldiers who die in battle, they will also be given another ten horses for bereavement pensions. And Li Jing has just said that this time, the bereavement pension of all soldiers who died in battle will be doubled. Zhang Hong roughly calculated. This pension subsidy is at least 20,000 yuan.
And that's not all there is to spend. After the pension allowance for the war dead and wounded. There is also a large expenditure, that is, the post-war meritorious reward.
This time, 2,000 soldiers in Shamen Town faced more than 1,000 pirates, and they should have won according to their military merits. However, Li Jing has just spoken again, and all the military merits have been changed to awards. Shamen Town stipulates that all officers and soldiers participating in the battle will be rewarded with ten yuan each, five percent per person in the middle and two percent each. This time, the town of Shamen was either killed or survived. Everyone has to be rewarded, ten times for one person, and another for twenty thousand. In addition, in addition to the collective rewards, there are also two rewards according to the team and each person, and these two rewards are based on the number of enemies killed. In this battle, one thousand and one enemies were killed, and seven hundred were taken prisoner. The reward standard issued by Li Jing was that for every enemy killed, the reward was five times, and one person was captured. The reward is equal. There are only 1,800 thieves in total, but the most military exploits can be calculated. The number of various beheadings and prisoners was actually two thousand.
It's not that someone deliberately took the lead to lead the merit, but the battlefield was extremely chaotic, some pirates were killed by several soldiers at the same time, or some were just seriously injured, and the soldiers thought that the killing would mark a first-class merit, but the people behind met it, killed the thief, and recorded another military merit. This kind of thing is also common, and there are many overlapping military exploits when counted. If you check carefully, you can also control this overlapping number to a minimum, but Li Jing did not let Zhang Hong pursue it, but rewarded it all. and this reward is ten thousand.
Pensions and rewards, a rough calculation of these two heads, will cost as much as 50,000 yuan.
"General, the current cash in the town's treasury, including the cash that has just been seized, is only 30,000 yuan and 16,000 pieces of silk. All together, it's only 43,000 yuan, and it's still 7,000 yuan. Are our rewards and bereavements too high? Even the pensions and rewards of the court officials and soldiers are only about 30% of ours. This time, get together, take some cloth and rice and fold it, and you can also get together and distribute it, Guan Jian is the precedent of this generous reward, and every time you fight in the future, you have to do this, and in the long run, I'm afraid that the treasury will be overwhelmed. Don't forget, general, we still owe 100,000 yuan to usury, and the time is only for three years. Zhang Hong looked at the pen number on the account, took a breath of cold air, and persuaded hard.
There are still tens of thousands of dollars left to build the new city, and now they can only repair the city wall first, but the east wall and the south wall have not been repaired, and the west city has been destroyed in the war, so it has to be rebuilt, and the money has to be increased. There is such a big expenditure here, Zhang Hong feels that his account book is full of deficits, and he is worried about it. But Li Jing, the town general, doesn't understand his hardships at all, and he also spends a lot of money, which is really not expensive for firewood and rice. Looking at the deficit on the account, Zhang Hong really wanted to slam the account book on Li Jing's face, anyway, the deficit and double-entry bookkeeping were all taught to him by Li Jing, and he should really let him take a good look at how serious the deficit in the town was.
Familiar with it, Li Jing just said lightly after hearing it, Zhang Hongzheng thought that Li Jing had understood the serious financial situation. Who knows, Li Jing's next sentence almost choked him to death. Li Jing said: "This time we were not able to protect it, which frightened many people, and even burned down the camp outside the city, and many people suffered losses of different sizes. This is our responsibility, it is still a cold day, and we have to do a good job of resettlement. You pull out a sum of money from your account, and ask people to buy a batch of tents from Dengzhou and other places at once, and at least let everyone set up the nests again, so that they can have a place to settle down at night. Secondly, many of your belongings were destroyed in the fire, and you should send it down according to the rescue of one piece of cloth and one bucket of rice per person, and this matter should be dealt with quickly, and it is best to deal with it before it gets dark today. ”
Zhang Hong calculated that at least 3,000 tents had to be bought, and according to this standard, at least 5,000 pieces of cloth and about 200 stone meters were needed. Cloth and rice are okay to say, there are them in the warehouse now, although they are a little distressing, after all, they are ready-made. But the tents had to be bought, and 3,000 tents cost almost 5,000 yuan. With the addition of cloth and rice, this is another small Wanguan money gone. What a heartache!
Looking at Zhang Hong's heartbroken expression, Li Jing comforted: "If the money is not enough, just replace it with silk, and if the silk is not enough, then take the rice and send it down." This time, there are too many dead and wounded in the war, and the morale of the army and the people is fluctuating, so we must come up with a generous reward so that everyone's hearts can calm down. Although money is important, it is all outside the body, and the hearts of the military and the people are the foundation for us to take root in Salmon Island and continue to grow. The money is gone, we can find a way to make it again, as long as we have soldiers and horses in our hands, are you still worried that we won't be able to make money? ”
"It's the Lantern Festival soon, this time we must hold a grand festival, and you can spend more money from the account. Find more people. Try to be as lively as possible. There is a little more festive atmosphere, so that the negative effects of this war will pass as soon as possible, understand? ”
Zhang Hong nodded listlessly, his heart full of a deficit that would be added to the account.
Li Jing patted Zhang Hong's arm and said with a smile: "Don't worry, what we seized this time is worth more than 100,000 yuan, and no matter how much we spend, it will only be 60,000 yuan." We've made a fortune anyway. And I can tell you now that in less than a month I'll be able to get a lot of money back, and you'll be counting all day. ”
"Really, what is the input, how much can it be?"
Li Jing smiled: "Now I can only tell you that this money will not be less, I estimate that it will be at least 100,000 yuan." When Zhang Hong heard this, his spirit was shocked. I no longer ask where I got the money, and I happily went to make an announcement. Announcing the various bereavement subsidies, rewards, and relief notices that Li Jing had just drafted.
The sound of gongs continued to sound, and on the square, Zhang Hong and a team of soldiers were posting the latest announcements in conspicuous places everywhere, and specially called a few literate officials to stand there and read aloud for the people.
When the war death pension, injury allowance, war merit reward, disaster relief and other projects were made public, the onlookers were shocked, and they were almost speechless with excitement and joy. At that time, many family members knelt down to the town general's mansion and shouted in unison Li Jing's benevolence. Everyone was grateful, and everyone who was lamenting and sad for the disaster of the war also laughed with joy at once. The deceased is gone, but the more important thing is the survivor. Now even if they are killed in the war, their families can also receive a large sum of money, ten times the death of the war, ten times the family pension, and this time it is doubled, that is, forty times, and there is also a share of their military merits, five times, and ten times. After the war, the disaster relief money is also a piece of cloth and a bucket of rice per person, and the families of the soldiers who died in the war can get more than 50 yuan, although this money is nothing compared to a life, but for the families of those soldiers, it can ensure their next life.
After handing over the work of distributing bereavement rewards to Zhang Hong, Li Jing led a group of army commanders to the medical team to visit the wounded. The place where the medical team was located was originally a barracks, which was temporarily assigned by Li Jing to be used exclusively for the medical team. More than a dozen doctors, dozens of female nurses and teenagers from the stretcher team have been busy here for half a night and a morning, and they have not rested until now.
Of the 137 seriously wounded, more than 20 have died of their injuries, more than 30 are in a coma, and more than a dozen have been rescued, and there is basically no danger.
In addition to these seriously wounded soldiers who are concentrated in temporary medical rooms, there are also a large number of lightly wounded soldiers in the battalion who are lining up in a long line on the playground in front of the barracks to be bandaged and treated. Most of these injuries are minor, basically some skin trauma, and all that is needed is to clean the wound and stop the bleeding and suture. There are a few problems such as fractures, and there are also special orthopedic doctors to help with bone positioning, dressing and splinting. Originally, there were quite a few lightly injured soldiers who didn't bother to come to the medical team, and planned to follow some local methods, just get some spit, dirt, leaves, or something to cover the wounds, but Li Jing strictly ordered officers at all levels to set an example, pull their subordinates, and all go to the medical team to receive the doctors' formal bandaging.
The medical team was full of people as if they were fighting. The arrival of Li Jing and other generals surprised the doctors and wounded soldiers. Li Jing asked his entourage to carry in several large vats of hot mutton soup, as well as large vats of pork stewed radish, large vats of white rice, and boiled lean porridge. Let the family prepare meals for the busy doctors, nurses, and teenagers on stretchers, as well as wounded soldiers waiting to treat their wounds. For those seriously injured, Li Jing personally took the lead and fed the seriously injured spoonful by spoonful with lean porridge. A logistics spearman who was only eighteen or nineteen years old had a broken arm bone and a cut on his head, and his hands and head were now wrapped in layers of bandages, like a mummy. He was fed porridge by Li Jing with his mouth open, and tears couldn't stop flowing.
Li Jing smiled and said: "What are you crying about, I have asked the doctor about your injury, the broken bone of your arm has been connected, and now you are on the splint, and you can rest in peace for a hundred days." It doesn't matter if you have a wound on your head, it's just a little broken, and in three months, you'll be a young man again. You take good care of your injuries, I heard from your team leader that last night you stabbed three thieves with an eight-foot spear, which is very remarkable. When you are healed, you will report to my family and follow me in the future. ”
The young man named Li Yuan was very excited when he heard the news, and struggled to get up to thank him, but he was comforted by Li Jing for a long time before he calmed down his excitement. (To be continued.) )