Chapter 820: Scattering Wealth and Gathering People
On top of the tower on the north wall of Yingzhou City.
Xia Gongming and Yunyang sat across from each other in front of the desk, silently staring at the imperial edict rolled out on the desk.
‘The Great Dragon Emperor System said.
War is a major event for the country.
Therefore, military management must be strict and orders and prohibitions must be implemented for the sake of elites.
The Sixth General of the New Army and the General of the Thirty Battalion of the New Army did not respect the commander's orders and fled before the battle, thus delaying the opportunity to fight. They should be executed according to military law.
However, God has the virtue of good life, and I hope that all of you who love me will work hard and have meritorious service for the country.
Special exemption from the death penalty, reduction of rank, dismissal from office, return to hometown to provide for old age, reward of ten thousand taels of gold to support the old age.
The 200,000 soldiers of the Six Guards of the New Army will be temporarily led by the six generals of the Northern Xinjiang Guards. Each of them will be in charge of an army. After the war, the court will make proper arrangements.
Him this.’
Yunyang stared at the contents of the imperial edict in silence for a long time, then raised his eyes to look at Xia Gongming opposite.
“Is this from the imperial court?”
Xia Gongming nodded with complicated eyes: "Your Majesty issued the decree, and the Ministry of War approved it. However, it was urgently sent from 800 miles away.
It was in my hands three days ago, but I have been hesitant about how to read this edict.
It is true that General Cheng and others escaped from the battle and should be executed according to military law. Your Majesty pardoned their capital crime. This is nothing short of a better result.
However, under such a situation, if they are dissatisfied after the imperial edict is read, it may cause a military disaster.
When the time comes for their troops to return to the court and garrison outside the city, it may not only be because of the assassination of King Pingjian."
Yunyang picked up the imperial edict and read it over and over again no less than five times. The contents of the edict were still the same, not a single word had changed.
Frowning and putting down the imperial edict, Yunyang stood up and walked towards the outside of the city tower. He stood on the fence and looked at the soldiers of the Sixth Guards Battalion of the New Army outside the city who were still practicing the offensive and defensive formations honestly, with a heavy look in his eyes.
The look of worry.
Cheng Kai and his new army’s Sixth Guards General and Thirty Battalion will ignore the laws and military regulations, and escaping from battle is indeed a capital crime.
If you don't handle things according to the law, it will be difficult to convince the public.
The next step is to unite the troops and go out for battle. If everyone follows his example, the army will not be able to fight, and the army will not be strong.
Your Majesty is indeed merciful in pardoning them from the capital crime of escaping from battle.
But as Xia Gongming said, if they disobey the will, they will inevitably cause a military disaster.
It will be difficult to convince the public if it is not dealt with, and there may be hidden dangers if it is dealt with.
Yunyang, who has always been decisive and capable in his actions, is in a dilemma at this moment.
Deliberately ignoring the sadness in my heart, I thought about how to declare the decree to ensure that it was foolproof.
They are all soldiers of Rongma's life. Seeing that the soldiers who donated their lives ended like this, Yunyang's heart was not a mixed flavor!
More importantly, how to explain to the other battalion soldiers except for the soldiers of the Six Guards of the New Army, fighting for the country, being stained with blood on the battlefield, but ending up like this, you don't need to think carefully to know that there will definitely be a gap in the hearts of some people.
The four words "military orders are like mountains" have always been the tenet pursued by Yunyang.
However, is the word "mountain of military orders" really useful now that an army of 200,000 tigers and wolves may cause a military disaster?
“Commander Yun, this matter must be resolved. It’s not a problem for nearly a million troops to be stationed outside the city doing nothing every day.”
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Yunyang glanced at Xia Gongming who stopped next to him: "I understand what you said, but the key is who should announce the decree at this time?
Who dares to pronounce the will?
It is not the fear that the generals of the Sixth Guards of the New Army will be furious and behead them outside the camp, but who can bear the responsibility for the military disaster caused by this decree.
Failing to deal with it is not enough to uphold the strictness of the law, and dealing with it will be very difficult!”
Yunyang hesitated for a long time, walked to the desk, rolled up the imperial edict, stuffed it into his sleeves, and walked towards the bottom of the tower.
“That’s all, I’ll go and have a look first before we talk!”
"Old boy!"
Yunyang paused, turned his head, looked at Xia Gongming's heavy expression, lowered his head and smiled bitterly.
“Old man, do you have anything else to say?”
“Treasure!”
“I am going here, not for the imperial court, not for Your Majesty, but for the country and country that Dalong has maintained for more than six hundred years. The general may die, but the world must not be in chaos.
I have witnessed with my own eyes that Dalong has grown step by step from post-war poverty to today's prosperity, and I absolutely cannot stand by and watch it fall apart again in the disaster of war.
As long as we can prevent the war from affecting the stability of my Dalong people, it is worth it for me to die outside the city.
Tai Shigong is right when he says that death is inevitable for everyone, and it may be heavier than Mount Tai or lighter than a feather.
I have served in the army for fifty years and guarded the border for forty years. How can I be willing to see the homeland that I have guarded for decades only to end up in dire straits and displaced people due to a military disaster caused by one of my own?
If I don’t die generously today, who will come forward to rebuild the country in the future?
Seventy years old, let me make some insignificant contribution to the people in my dying years.
Old thing, take care of yourself too.
I may have to take the first step."
After Yunyang finished speaking, he adjusted his armor, walked steadily, and rushed towards the bottom of the city tower with a steady momentum.
Under the control of the soldiers, Yunyang rode the gondola to the bottom of the city wall and rushed towards the base camp of the Sixth Guard of the New Army without any delay.
In the Sixth Guards Camp of the New Army, Liu Chengzhi, surrounded by thirty-six generals, was shuttled between each army formation.
Tang Ru, the military commander and quartermaster, followed closely behind with a thick roster in his hand.
Six soldiers pushed a wheelbarrow with two heavy boxes on it. Whenever Liu Chengzhi and the others stopped, everyone would stop and look at the centurions in front of them.
Tang Ru waved his pen on the roster.
“Yang Rong, Zheng Kun, Du Jiabao”
After reading a hundred names in a row, Tang Ru just looked around at the square array in front of him.
“Who is on duty temporarily absent?”
“We are all here!”
Tang Ru put away the roster and nodded to Liu Chengzhi: "Your Majesty, all the soldiers are here."
Liu Chengzhi nodded slightly, walked to the box on the wheelbarrow, opened the box, took out a banknote and handed it to the captain of the centurion.
"General Yang, I can't find any loose silver to pay you military pay. Here are one thousand taels of silver notes, each of whom will receive nine taels of military pay for three months.
The remaining one tael is what I invited you to drink. Don’t be dissatisfied with the lack of silver. You can exchange the silver notes for silver ingots and distribute them to the soldiers."
“I finally got the order, thank you so much, Your Majesty!”
“Thank you, Your Majesty! Thousand years old, thousand thousand years old!”
“Thank you, Your Majesty! Thousand years old, thousand thousand years old!”
“Thank you, Your Majesty! Thousand years old, thousand thousand years old!”
Liu Chengzhi bowed in front of the hundred men and saluted the soldiers, but continued to rush towards the next hundred men who stopped training.
Tang Ru immediately opened the next page of the roster and read it out loud.
“Chen Wei, Yan Goucheng, Zhu Dabao
Who is on duty and temporarily unavailable?”
“We are all here!”
Liu Chengzhi skillfully took out a silver note and handed it to the school captain general Chen Wei, saying the same words as before.
With the shouts of thanks from the soldiers, they continued to rush towards the next phalanx.
Cheng Kai and the others followed silently, looking at the smiles on the faces of the soldiers who had received their pay, they couldn't help but smile.
To serve as a soldier, eat food. To serve as a soldier, eat food.
It should be the happiest thing for brothers to receive sufficient salary on time.
The six people looked at each other and sighed with complicated expressions.
“Gather wealth and scatter people, scatter wealth and gather people, what the prince said is so true.”
"If you don't drink the blood of the soldiers, the soldiers will follow you life and death. Everyone understands the truth. But except for the prince, who really doesn't drink a penny of the blood of the soldiers. Apart from the six guards of our new army, who can truly unite words and deeds?"
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"Stop talking about this, have the military orders been passed on? My battalion generals, generals, and captains have all received orders. Don't make any mistakes."
“Don’t worry, we dare not be careless about military orders.”