Chapter 723: Han Tribe Blames the Blame (Subscription Request)
The letter of victory and the list of sacrificed soldiers were quickly delivered to Hanyang City by flying eagles. The flying eagles arrived at midnight the next day, but Luo Chong had explained in advance that if it was a letter delivered by flying eagles, it must be read to him first no matter when, after all, the places where flying eagles are needed are basically too far away from the Han Tribe.
In the middle of the night, the messenger came to Luo Chong's house with a calcium carbide lamp. The guards at the door informed the maid, and the maid went to wake Luo Chong up.
Hearing that it was a battle report from Kaiyuan County, Luo Chong ran out in his undershirt and quickly browsed the content in front of the light. Luo Chong was so happy that he slapped the table and shouted to the clerk outside the door.
"Immediately copy the victory report and post it in all counties and towns in the Han Tribe."
"Yes." The clerk immediately smiled and took the victory report to the side to copy it.
"Come here, reward the cannon foundry and give each cannon foundry worker an extra month's salary as a reward, so that they can keep up the good work and strive to make better weapons in the future."
"Yes, don't worry, chief."
Another guard took the order and left.
Luo Chong was still too excited to sit down. He walked back and forth in the room for two circles until Zhan Ying came behind him and put on his coat. He gradually calmed down and took the letter to the study to review it carefully.
The huge results made Luo Chong happy, but he was not blinded by the temporary victory. The most important enemy Maodun escaped, tens of thousands of prisoners of war were waiting to be resettled, the sacrificed soldiers were waiting for pensions, and a large amount of captured spoils were waiting for him to distribute. After
careful consideration, Luo Chong immediately picked up a pen and wrote a reply letter.
The Han tribe has established several new counties this year. Laborers are needed everywhere to participate in construction, and the population needs to be mobilized to go to the border. Since the war on the grassland has already started, it cannot be stopped in a whimper, otherwise there will be constant trouble in the future.
After thinking about it, Luo Chong simply wrote a prisoner reform charter. It was not in the interests of the Han tribe to directly count all the more than 20,000 prisoners as slaves. Luo Chong wanted population, not a group of slaves, so he finally decided to directly reorganize the prisoners into a temporary army and use the more than 20,000 prisoners to continue fighting Maodun. In this way, even if they died in battle, they would not have to provide pensions. It was a good way to have the best of both worlds. The tribe
paid funeral expenses for all the soldiers who died in this battle, and provided pensions to the military families according to the standards set before. The Han tribe paid to raise the children of the martyrs to adulthood, and the children had the right to inherit their father's title. If the father did not have a title during his lifetime, two levels of titles would be given to the orphans (the title could not be inherited).
In addition, a batch of medicinal materials and doctors were mobilized to the front line to treat the injured soldiers.
As for the seriously injured and disabled, they all retired and went home. The tribe would reward them with titles and assign them jobs according to their merits, and those who were willing to farm could continue to farm.
The orphans of the sacrificed herdsmen were also granted titles. The Han tribe paid for the funeral expenses, but there was no long-term pension. However, they could be compensated with a few cattle and sheep at one time. Anyway, they were all captured, and no one would raise them if they were not given.
At the same time, the families of the sacrificed herdsmen could also obtain a piece of grassland officially designated by the Han tribe, which could be used by their orphans for life.
However, after the children passed away, the Han tribe also had the right to reclaim the right to use it. As for their children who did not want to graze, they could also choose to migrate to the inland area, and the Han tribe would provide pensions in accordance with the treatment of other farming tribesmen.
And that guy Suritu, he was not a member of the Han tribe, so it would be good to give him some spoils.
In this regard, Luo Chong also specifically explained that all the hundreds of captured carriages could be given to him, and none of the captured copper weapons could be given. However, the Han tribe could exchange some iron pots and kitchen knives for them. The Han tribe would not give him livestock and horses, but the Han tribe could also agree to exchange them with white salt.
If Su Ritu put forward other conditions, he would not agree.
As for the 28,972 prisoners of war, they should be directly reorganized and the facts should be explained to them. The consequences today were completely caused by Maodun's deception. It was Maodun who brought them to die. In short, all the black pots should be put on Maodun, and no rebuttals would be accepted.
Those who are willing to accept the transformation can temporarily become warriors of the Han tribe. The Han tribe promised that they would send troops with the best weapons to lead them to Maodun to seek justice, snatch back their own wives, children and livestock, and then join the Han tribe and become good herdsmen under the rule of the Han tribe, or they would like to migrate to other counties of the Han tribe to farm, and the Han tribe would agree.
Those who were unwilling to accept the reform were sent to build walls, repair roads, move bricks, dig rivers, and dig coal. Some of them were heavy work for them to do. They were first
sent to labor reform for a few years. In this way, some of the coal miners in Dongxin County could be replaced. Some of the people who had worked for more than a year wanted to go to other counties to farm in peace. The newly established counties also needed population to fill the border, so the replaced population could be directly migrated there.
In addition to replacing the lost war horses, the tens of thousands of captured war horses were also used to equip the reorganized surrendered soldiers. To seek justice from Maodun, it would definitely take a long-distance raid. Each of the 20,000 troops had at least two horses, which meant 40,000 war horses. It seemed that there were a lot of captured horses, but in fact there were not many.
The remaining war horses will be selected as excellent breeds and continue to be bred in Kaiyuan County, and the rest will be transported to various counties of the Han tribe to support tribal construction. For example, the newly built Tuohai County is sparsely populated and is full of vast plains. Whether it is transportation or farming, it requires a lot of animal power to drive development. This batch of captured war horses will also focus on supporting those newly established counties.
After the prisoners of war are reorganized, the Huben Guards will carry ten cannons and lead the herdsmen and surrendered soldiers to continue to hunt down Maodun. They will also send someone to inform Maodun that as long as he surrenders in person to the Han tribe, the Han tribe can spare his life, otherwise he will be beaten by the Han tribe.
After writing the reply, Luo Chong asked someone to send the letter back with a flying eagle, and then went back to his room to flip through a calendar to calculate the day when the Fubo battleship sailed. If he calculated correctly, they should have arrived at their destination. I don’t know how Shu Da is doing now.
On the other side, thousands of miles away from Hanyang City, the huge battleship Fubo braved the wind and waves, rapidly cutting through the sparkling water surface, with all four main masts fully sailing, heading day and night for the destination given by the leader.
It was another morning, and nearly a thousand crew members woke up in the cabin and began a new round of daily training. On the three gun decks above and below, countless gunners were practicing loading ammunition and resetting artillery.
Shu Da took a pancake with bean sprouts and ate while patrolling the deck. At this time, the lookout on the top of the main mast suddenly reported.
"Report to the commander, I see the destination."
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