Just as Zhang Jun was leading his army to attack Liu Guangshi, Chen Qing also led his army back to Jingzhao.
Chen Qing immediately rewarded the troops who participated in the war with 500,000 yuan and 200,000 bolts of silk. All soldiers who died in battle were rewarded with double pensions.
A group of meritorious generals were promoted, Liu Cui, Gao Ding, Niu Gao, and Liu Qiong were promoted to deputy commanders, and Yang Zaixing was promoted from deputy commander to commander.
Among them, Li Muqing was promoted to the commander of the army in an unusual manner, and he was the only general to be promoted two levels in a row.
The reason is that he did something that Chen Qing admired very much.
After Li Muqing flooded 20,000 Jurchen soldiers, he did not follow Chen Qing's order to kill all the surviving Jurchen soldiers. Instead, he captured thousands of surviving Jurchen soldiers who were not drowned and then interrogated them.
The above Jurchen soldiers were all executed. These soldiers basically participated in the war of invasion of the Song Dynasty, and their hands were full of blood debts. Death was not a pity.
But the young soldiers and generals stayed behind without killing, and captured more than 2,000 people, including eight captains of thousands and two captains of ten thousand, as well as the general Wanyan Helisa, who was also captured.
Li Muqing's approach was obviously more rational and valuable, which Chen Qing greatly appreciated.
In the prison, Chen Qing saw Wanyan Helisa who was being held in solitary confinement. He was sitting on a pile of straw in the corner with an unkempt face, his hands and feet were shackled, and he seemed to have just cried, and the tears were still wet at the corners of his eyes.
Chen Qing is funny. Although this Wanyan Helisa was very fierce on the battlefield, conquered here and there, and made numerous meritorious deeds, at heart he was very timid and fearful of death. When the Song Army cavalry tried to stab him to death, he was so frightened that he begged for mercy.
He was spared because he told him that he was the master who would drink Lisa away.
Chen Qing smiled lightly and said: "General Heli Sa, I didn't expect that our first meeting would be on this occasion!"
"Are you Chen Xuan, the envoy?"
Wanyan Helisa suddenly ran over, his hands and feet shackled with a clang, he grabbed the thick wooden fence and said urgently: "Xuanfu Envoy, I am valuable, very valuable, the Kingdom of Jin will definitely be willing to redeem me, please Xuanfu Envoy
Negotiate with the Kingdom of Jin."
“Speaks Chinese very well!”
Chen Qing smiled and said: "What is your value? Tell me?"
"My tribe has a population of tens of thousands, and my family has a great influence on the Wanyan tribe. Wanyanchang became the prime minister because of the support of my family."
"Can I exchange you for the Supreme Emperor of the Song Dynasty?"
Wanyan drank from Lisa with a sad look, "I'm afraid not, but we can exchange it with other Song royal families..."
After a pause, Wanyan shouted to Lisa and said, "If Wanyan Qi and I are included, we can replace the old prince Zhao Zhan."
Chen Qing didn't know that there was another prisoner of war named Wan Yanqi. It seemed that the identity of the prisoner of war was concealed!
"Who is Wanyanqi?"
"He is the eldest son of Wanyan Zongwang and is a captain of thousands."
Chen Qing said with a smile: "How about we make an exchange first! If you prove to me who Wan Yanqi is, I will put you under house arrest and arrange for two Jurchen women to serve you. How about that?"
Wanyan drank from Lisa and was stunned for a moment. Chen Qing didn't even know that Wanyan Qi was also captured. Didn't he expose him himself?
Chen Qing added: "If you don't want to, it would be the same if I asked other prisoners of war to testify. I gave you a chance, but you didn't seize it."
"I promise!"
Wanyan drank from Lisa for fear of losing this opportunity, so he quickly said: "The captain with a big black birthmark on the back of his neck is Wanyan Qi. He is about twenty years old. He is the eldest son of Wanyan Zongwang and is joining the army for the first time.
."
"Is there such a person?" Chen Qing turned around and asked.
The jailer hurriedly said: "There is such a person. He is a Khitan captain in the registration list, named Yelu Shousu."
Wanyanhelisha quickly explained: "That's him. His mother is Princess Yelu Yuliyan of Liao Kingdom. His real name is Shousu. His father Wanyan Zongwang gave him the Han name Wanyanqi."
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Chen Qing nodded and said to the jailer: "Put them under house arrest in Confucius Terrace, and then find some Jurchen women from the tailoring courtyard to serve them."
The Song army captured Fengxiang Mansion and captured more than 2,000 Jurchen family members, most of whom were women. They are currently working in various workshops. If the Jin people are willing to exchange the abducted Han people, Chen Qing will not
be opposed to.
In fact, they are not the only ones. When Wanyan Helisa led 30,000 troops to retreat from Guanzhong last year, they were ambushed and intercepted by Chen Qing. They also captured 12,000 Jurchen soldiers. They are currently mining in the mines. Together with the Jurchen soldiers captured this time,
In terms of family members, there are more than 25,000 people.
Next, we must use these prisoners of war to make a fuss.
As soon as Chen Qing returned to the official office, Jiang Yanxian found him. Jiang Yanxian handed Chen Qing a thick account book and said with a smile: "This is the income and expenditure account that the Xuanfu envoy asked for."
These were the various income and expenditures caused by the Jinbing invasion. They were dozens of pages long. Chen Qing was overwhelmed by the densely packed various expenditures. He closed the account book and asked with a smile: "Just tell me!
How much did you lose?"
"The expenditure is 1.25 million guan, not counting the 500,000 guan and 200,000 bolts of silk as rewards. The bulk of it is the pension expenditure. Calculated based on 60 guan per person, the total is 450,000 guan. The other
In other words, all kinds of food materials and manpower expenditures mobilized 150,000 civilians, and each person paid two guan of money, which is 300,000 guan. There was also double military salary for the participants. Although it was less than a month, it was
Three hundred thousand guan was consumed, and there were also grains, supplies, meat, etc., almost 200,000 guan."
Chen Qing sighed secretly, war is about fighting for financial resources, and that is absolutely true.
"What about income?" Chen Qing asked again.
"The income is not much, just armor, war horses and weapons, which works out to about 500,000 guan."
"In other words, we lost more than 700,000 yuan in this war?"
Jiang Yan nodded first. "That's true!"
"Wait a minute!"
Chen Qing smiled and said: "Where are the prisoners of war? The Jin Kingdom used money and wealth to ransom people. There are 25,000 people. We each need a ransom of 30 guan. Can we break even?"
"What if the Jin Kingdom refuses to redeem them? No one has come to negotiate or inquire about last year's prisoners of war."
Chen Qing smiled slightly and said: "That's because they want to destroy us and rescue people directly without having to pay ransom. Now if they fail to steal chickens, they will pay a handful of rice. The Jurchen population is not large in the first place. How could they not cherish these prisoners of war?"
?Don't worry! The messenger will be here soon."
Seeing that Jiang Yanxian still looked helpless, Chen Qing stood up and said with a smile, "Call Zhang Sima and let's go have a drink together."
The three of them came to East Street, which is the most prosperous commercial center in the entire Jingzhao City, including the three-mile-long East Street and the East Street Wazi, which covers an area of nearly 100 acres. East Street is a gathering of various high-end restaurants, teahouses and shops.
It is a place where people from the middle class and above like to visit.
But Wazi, located in the middle of East Street, is loved by the people at the bottom. Everything here is very down-to-earth. There are more than 300 small shops for food, clothing and housing. You can eat enough for just ten pennies, and you can also eat meat.
, for five cents you can find a bunk and have a good sleep.
You can even spend more than a hundred pennies to go to the innermost Xiaohua Alley, which is very popular among the soldiers.
However, in the past few days, the East Street is full of scholars who come to Jingzhao to take the exam. In ten days, the Sichuan-Shaanxi Spring Examination and the Jingzhao Imperial College Entrance Examination will be held. People from all over Bashu, Xihe Road, Shaanxi Road, Hanzhong
More than 10,000 scholars from other places will take part in this examination.
It is said that those who pass the examination will be directly awarded the vacant official position. Because of this rumor, many people traveled thousands of miles to try their luck. The imperial examination of the Lin'an court will be next year, and it will not affect the imperial examination of Jingzhao.
Tianranju Restaurant was almost full, all of them were scholars who came to take the exam. Chen Qing and others came to a small courtyard at the back, and several beautiful maids came forward to take off their coats.
In addition to Jiang Yanxian and Zhang Xiaohou, Zhou Kuan and Zhang Miao also followed.
Chen Qing sat down and said with a smile: "I'm treating you today with the same food and wine as last time! I like it very much."
Zhou Kuan gave the shopkeeper a few words, and the shopkeeper immediately arranged for the food and wine to be served. Zhou Kuan took a sip of tea and saw that Jiang Yanxian was still frowning, so he smiled and said, "If you win the battle, you will definitely make a lot of money. Jiang Changshi, don't worry anymore."
Jiang Yanxian picked up the tea cup and smiled bitterly, "Apart from ruthlessly ripping off the gold man during the redemption, I can't think of any other way to make money?"
Chen Qing also took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "Speaking of winning battles and making money, I remembered something. I have invited the Yellow-headed Uighur chief Cao Changchun and his wife to visit Jingzhao. They may be arriving in the next two days. Please ask Mr. Jiang.
Shi will arrange it and make it as grand as possible."
"No problem, I will arrange for thousands of people to come to the streets to welcome you. But why did the Xuanfu Emperor invite the Yellow-headed Uighur chief to come to Jingzhao? I'm a little curious."
Chen Qing said calmly: "We are discussing a big matter!"