Chapter 1133： postwar affairs

Chapter 1133 Post-war Matters

The Japanese pirates have retreated, and Zhu Ping'an is even busier.

From the morning when the Japanese pirates retreated to the dead of night, Zhu Pingan did not rest for a moment.

During the day, Zhu Pingan non-stop visited the villages affected by the Japanese disaster, counted the losses, visited and comforted the affected people, and directed reconstruction matters; in addition, he also arranged for the deployment of defenses, restarting the six beacon towers along the coast and the five beacon fires on the border. Taiwan to prevent Japanese pirates from raiding Jingnan again. With beacon towers, at least when Japanese pirates raided, they could warn in advance and give coastal villages time to escape.

There are many disaster-stricken villages below Jingnan. Zhu Pingan started to visit non-stop, and didn't have time for lunch and dinner. Liu Dadao bought a few sesame seed cakes to deal with them briefly, and visited, condolences, and defenses while eating.

After the coastal villages experienced the ravages of Japanese pirates, the land of fish and rice and paradise on earth in the past has now turned into a wilderness and a miserable **** on earth: the dark houses that were burned, the blood and corpses in the village, the women and children who were ravaged, and the rice fields that were about to mature but were destroyed ...There is no rooster crowing for ten miles, and there is crying everywhere...

Zhu Ping'an has been feeling sad, heavy and angry all day long, and his heart is burning with anger.

The behavior of Japanese pirates is inhumane! Absolutely miserable! frenzied! Not as good as animals!

kill!

kill!

kill!

Kill all the pirates in the world!

Visiting villages that were ruined by Japanese pirates one after another, seeing innocent people being murdered one after another, and hearing heart-piercing cries one after another, Zhu Ping'an's anger became more and more uncontrollable, and he silently I made a very high-level oath in my heart: I, Zhu Ping'an, will kill all the Japanese pirates in the world, and I will make sure that there will be no more Japanese pirates in the land of China! I want to make the Japanese slaves of the island country pay the price in blood! ! I want to lead an army to flog the island nation! Ask the big and small Japanese chieftains of the island country!

Zhu Pingan suppressed his anger in the bottom of his heart, and used a hundred times more energy to comfort and appease the affected people, direct reconstruction, and arrange defenses. When it was dark, Zhu Pingan returned to the Jingnan County Government Office from the countryside below wearing stars and moons.

After returning to the county government overnight, Zhu Pingan did not rest. He picked up the oil lamp with scissors, laid out pens, ink, paper and inkstones, and began to write and submit official documents.

The first official document was the battle report on the situation of sniping Japanese pirates in Jingnan. Zhu Pingan truthfully described the situation of Japanese pirates, including the number of Japanese pirates, landing locations, burning, killing and looting, and the situation of attacking Jingnan County. The army and the people fought against the Japanese pirates wholeheartedly, without fear of sacrifice, and finally defeated the Japanese pirates. In the battle report, Zhu Pingan listed the outstanding achievements of Liu Dadao, Liu Mu, Liu Daqiang, Liu Dahammer, Liu Dafu, and Liu Dagang. Of course, at the end of the battle report, Zhu Pingan did not hesitate to write and write, and attached the Jingnan classics Li Da who fled the city before the battle, the county magistrate Zhang Changru, and the master Bo Yao Wenyuan retreated before the battle and disappeared, etc., followed by one by one. conduct impeachment.

After the battle, if you free up your hands, they must be liquidated. Listing them after the battle report is to say hello to Shangfeng in advance. After all, the three of them, as imperial officials, had to deal with them, the procedures were relatively cumbersome, and they had to be dealt with by the imperial bureaucracy in the end. As for the six servants of the county government, they are not officials ordered by the court, and Zhu Ping'an can handle it independently.

Actually, before the Japanese pirates came, Zhu Pingan had already started to deal with them. However, after the Japanese pirates came, as officials ordered by the imperial court, they abandoned the city and fled before the battle, and retreated before the battle, involving several serious crimes such as dereliction of duty, neglect of the responsibility of protecting the land and the people, and betraying the trust of the imperial court. This saved Zhu Pingan a lot For big things, there is no need to use the bureaus that have been laid out for the time being.

After writing the battle report, Zhu Pingan began to draft the second official document without stopping. This official document was to request the imperial court to reduce or exempt taxes in Jingnan. This moment is still vivid in my mind, if they are allowed to pay taxes again, it will be tantamount to murdering the survivors a second time, so Zhu Pingan decided to apply to the court for tax relief.

"More than 3,000 Japanese pirates ravaged Jingnan. Although the whole team was dedicated to attacking and repelling the Japanese pirates, the Japanese pirates crossed the border, burned, killed, and looted. The affected villages and villages in the jurisdiction were severely damaged, houses were burned, farmland was destroyed, and there were many mourners... Zhu Ping'an, the magistrate of Jingnan County, implores Reduce or exempt Jingnan’s rent and tax this year to show relief and benefit the people.”

After this official document requesting tax reduction and exemption, Zhu Pingan listed the villages that were poisoned by Japanese pirates and the disaster situation one by one based on the actual situation he learned during his visits. The purpose is, even if it is not possible to obtain tax relief for the entire Jingnan, at least tax relief for these disaster-stricken villages must be obtained.

After checking and polishing, Zhu Pingan officially copied the second official document.

After writing the second official document, Zhu Pingan drank a cup of strong tea to refresh himself, and then began to write the third official document.

This is an official document requesting a silver reward for the first merit.

This time, 795 heads of Japanese pirates were captured. Zhu Pingan wrote an official document requesting the imperial court to issue rewards such as tattoos and silver according to the rewards.

The military merits of the Ming Dynasty are divided into two categories: "first merit" and "war merit". "First merit" is not "first" or "first" merit. Level counting merit, that is, rewarding based on the number of heads. It can be said that this is a method of calculating credit that has continued since the period of the Iron-Blooded Qin Dynasty. It is characterized by simplicity, brutality, and **** effectiveness. Although this has led to the phenomenon of harming the people such as killing good people and pretending to be meritorious, its role is undeniable.

Military achievements in the Ming Dynasty were divided into three categories: "extraordinary achievements", "first achievements", and "secondary achievements". Unlike first meritorious service, military merit is mainly determined according to the performance of soldiers on the battlefield. The performance of the fighters is determined by the chief officer, with a relatively large degree of autonomy and a lot of moisture, and there are many disadvantages in execution, and the phenomenon of false meritorious service is endless. After a war, the officers and soldiers fought bravely, but in the end the commander who led the battle, the **** who was in charge of supervising the battle, and the censor who accompanied Ji Gong, etc., discussed and discussed together. You write the name of your cousin who is farming far away in your hometown. I wrote the name of the house slave who sweeps the floor and feeds the horses in my family, and it is all a matter of one sentence.

Later, the imperial court also noticed this problem, and was more cautious about "military exploits" with more autonomy and more moisture. At present, the most popular and popular is the "first merit" whose standards are easy to review and grasp.

The reward standard for the first meritorious service of the Ming Dynasty is generally divided into the north (Mongolia), the northeast (Jurchen), the Western Miaoman (Tibetan and southern minorities), and the inland rebels (Han civil uprising), etc. There are four levels, and the imperial court gives different rewards for each level. The rewards are mainly money and promotion rewards. At present, the rewards are mainly money rewards, and the promotion rewards are less.

According to the rewards issued by Emperor Jiajing last year, a head in the north (Mongolia) will be rewarded with 50 taels of silver, a head in the northeast (Jurchen) will be rewarded with 30 taels of silver, and a head of Western Miaoman (Tibetan and southern minorities) will be rewarded with 10 taels of silver. Two, the anti-thieves in the mainland (the civil uprising in Han Dynasty) are the cheapest, and a head rewards 5 taels of silver.

However, rewards and silver rewards are not fixed.

Last year during the Gengxu Revolution, Emperor Jiajing issued a special reward, one hundred taels of silver for the head of an enemy. In addition, if more heads are captured, the price of rewards and rewards will also drop. For example, the head of an inland rebel (Han civil uprising) is 5 taels. There was a rebellion the year before last, and more people were killed. A 1 tael rewards silver.

However, the heads of Japanese pirates are still very valuable now.

As a new threat (in fact, it is very old, there have been Japanese pirates since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, but the scale is not large enough to threaten the rule of the empire. Special rewards were set at 30 taels of silver for the heads of Japanese pirates, and it was even stipulated that in extraordinary times, a Japanese pirate head was worth 100 taels of silver rewards.

This time, 795 heads of Japanese pirates were captured. Calculated according to the reward issued by Emperor Jiajing, a head of 30 taels of silver, a total of 23,850 taels of silver, even if it is discounted, there must be at least 20,000 taels of silver. Two silver rewards.

These rewards, Zhu Pingan will not ask for one or two, and will be distributed to the government servants, city guards and young people who participated in the battle.

(end of this chapter)