"Your Majesty, do we really want to marry Yu Ying so far away in western Sichuan? Or do we want to marry Yu Ying as a concubine to that bandit marshal?" A Manchu woman in her fifties said with red eyes. She was exactly that.
Prince Aixinjueluo of Dingjun, Pu Xu’s Fujin Ma Jia clan. When she thought of her youngest daughter having to marry so far away, she, as a mother, was very reluctant to part with her.
"Lafayette has already spoken, how can we still resist? Besides, Western Sichuan is very powerful now, and Yuying may not suffer a loss if she marries there. Maybe one day Western Sichuan will conquer the world, and we will become royal relatives.
The country is mourning!" Puxu, the king of Dingjun, said.
"Ah! My lord, you are a member of the Qing clan, how can you say such a thing?" Fujin's Ma Jia clan looked at Pu Xu in astonishment. They love the Xinjueluo clan in the Qing Dynasty! How can they not have their own family?
People look forward to outsiders taking over their own world.
"Hey, shouldn't I just talk about it at home? Everyone knows that I, Pu Xu, am a useless person. The world of the Aixinjueluo family has nothing to do with me, Pu Xu. But if Yu Ying marries me,
If Western Sichuan succeeds, then our Dingjun Palace will be the first-class family in the world, and we will no longer have to look at other people's faces!" Pu Xu said. He didn't like to be an errand, firstly because he didn't have much in this field.
On the other hand, because of his talent, he was relatively junior in the Qing Dynasty clan. When he met those boys whose hair had not yet fully grown, they had to call this one uncle and that one grandpa, and were often subjected to
Bullying from these people. Therefore, he simply stopped going to work to avoid being angry. Who would have thought that at this age, there would be such a good thing. With the powerful foreign aid of Sichuan West, in the future in these four-nine cities,
He could really feel proud after he settled in the prince's palace. And he, Puxu, could also hold his head high and conduct himself in front of many clans.
"But, sir, isn't Yu Ying engaged to the youngest son of the Duolong family? What should we do?" Fujin Ma Jiashi said with some worry. Marrying one woman twice is not a good reputation!
"Hmph! What a woman sees! This is the decree of the old Buddha who is so frightened. Does the Duolong family dare to say anything more? I am sure that within two days, the Duolong family will definitely send someone to cancel the engagement."
Pu Xu said with great certainty.
Sure enough, two days later, the Duolong family took the initiative to cancel the engagement, and they didn't even want the betrothal gifts given when they got engaged. They also tried their best to fawn over Pu Xu, the king of Dingjun, which made Pu Xu very happy.
Happy. Such a change has already occurred before his daughter is married. This change makes Pu Xu very satisfied. Although he has not yet seen what his future son-in-law looks like, he is already very satisfied with this son-in-law.
Already.
On August 17, all the war reparations from the Manchu and Qing government were transferred to the Bank of Western Sichuan. After receiving the money, the Western Sichuan army naturally had no reason to stay in the capital. On the same day, Wang Yuze led his army back to Chengdu. Liang Xingrong, who came to participate in the negotiations, also accompanied him.
Wang Yuze returned to Western Sichuan together, while Song Zhengping stayed in the capital temporarily to deal with follow-up affairs. For example, hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war were captured in Western Sichuan, and whether these prisoners of war should be redeemed by the Qing Dynasty and at what price, etc.
.In addition, there is the marriage between Wang Yuze and Yu Ying Gege, how to arrange it, etc. Song Zhengping will be responsible for staying in the capital and handling it with full authority. In order to protect his safety, Wang Yuze specially left a company of soldiers behind.
"Young Marshal, are you going back to Chengdu if you don't want to see your fiancée?" On the way back, Liang Xingrong made a joke about Wang Yuze. In this war, Western Sichuan gained a lot, and all the people in Western Sichuan
All very happy.
"What's there to see? It will be the same when the time comes anyway!" Wang Yuze said indifferently. The reason why he agreed to marry this Princess was just in the name of intervening in Manchu affairs. No matter what the married Princess is like, even if
It doesn't matter if he is ugly. However, the Manchus would not deliberately marry an ugly Gege to deliberately disgust him!
This time, when he returned to Chengdu from the capital, Wang Yuze no longer walked through the Gobi. The reason for his previous raid on the capital was to keep it secret. He had to walk through the Gobi and grasslands. Now, he has won the battle, and there is no need to suffer the consequences again.
Bitter.
The army in western Sichuan set out from the capital, passed through Baoding, went to Taiyuan and Linfen in Shanxi, and arrived in Xi'an at the end of August. Along the way, the neat military appearance and high morale in western Sichuan inspired the people under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
.Before, the Manchus and Qing Dynasties promoted Western Sichuan as bandits who only knew how to kill. However, as the goods from Western Sichuan continued to flow into thousands of households, this time the Manchus and Qing Dynasties were defeated by Western Sichuan. Immediately, Western Sichuan's reputation among the people was improved.
The status in their hearts. Many people can't help but have such an idea in their minds. "It seems that the change of dynasties is about to begin again. The Tatar world is no longer stable, and it is time for the Han people to come to power!" Although, after
After more than two hundred years of enslavement education, most Han people have identified with the rule of the Qing Dynasty. However, there are also many people with lofty ideals who have not stopped resisting, and the victory of Western Sichuan has undoubtedly pointed out a way for these people.
.In the following time, many elites from all over China rushed to western Sichuan to join this great era.
After arriving in Xi'an, Wang Yuze left the army behind and let the army rest in Xi'an. He took a small number of guards and returned to Chengdu with Liang Xingrong and Cai Yun. The war has now come to an end, and the focus of western Sichuan will once again turn to construction.
Come. Especially those provinces that have just been occupied will require a lot of investment. These areas cannot become a burden to Western Sichuan, but should contribute to the strength of Western Sichuan, otherwise the battle in Western Sichuan will be in vain.
At the same time, Song Zhengping, who stayed in the capital, started to quarrel with the Manchu and Qing Dynasties again. The Manchu and Qing Dynasty wanted to reorganize their armaments. They could order weapons from the great powers, but what about soldiers? They couldn’t also ask for them from the great powers! Even if the great powers agreed, the Manchus
Can the Qing rulers agree? They don’t want to be puppets!
In this war, the Manchu Qing invested millions of troops, but now only about 200,000 remain. Except for more than 200,000 who were killed or injured on the battlefield, a small part of the remaining ones collapsed.
The remaining 500,000 people entered the prisoner-of-war camps in western Sichuan. Among them were more than 30,000 Mongolian cavalry from the Horqin tribe and more than 50,000 new imperial guards. The rest were the Manchu and Qing new armies.
The Green Camp was established, but these were all Han people. The Manchus and the Qing Dynasty did not pay that much attention to them.
"Director Song, now that we have signed an armistice treaty, your army should be able to release the captured soldiers of the Qing Dynasty, right?" Prince Gong Yixin found Song Zhengping and wanted to release the captured 500,000 soldiers.
The army needs to go back. In this case, after being retrained and equipped with weapons imported from abroad, it can quickly form an army. It will be much faster than re-recruitment and training.
"Of course. However, we in Western Sichuan have been raising these prisoners for two months, and the expenses are not small. Since you want to take them back, you have to pay for them!" Song Zhengping said.
The corner of Prince Gong Yixin's mouth twitched. As expected, the people in Western Sichuan have all fallen into the eyes of money. They are so polite! In addition, Western Sichuan's appetite is too big. They just extorted 120 million taels from the Qing Dynasty.
Silver, asking for money now is simply shameless!
"Then I wonder how much money the court needs to spend to redeem these prisoners of war?" Prince Gong Yixin asked. Western Sichuan was so powerful that he had to bow his head!
"Let me do the math! Food expenses, accommodation expenses, nutritional expenses, medical expenses, lost work expenses... Let's do it this way, each prisoner of war is worth one hundred taels of silver, and we will package up 500,000 prisoners of war and sell them all to you!" Song Zhengping said
.
Prince Gong Yixin almost fainted when he heard this price. One hundred taels for a prisoner of war, and half a million prisoners of war, it still cost 50 million taels of silver! How could the Qing Dynasty afford such a huge sum?
You can get it!
"Director Song, this price is too expensive, can you make it cheaper? You know, the Qing Dynasty's treasury is already empty, and it still owes a lot of foreign debts. How can there be so much money to redeem prisoners of war!" Gong
Prince Yixin said.
"Okay then, ninety taels of silver per prisoner of war, this is the biggest concession I can make. Originally, when the young marshal left, he requested that each prisoner of war be sold for two hundred taels of silver. I also considered the Qing Dynasty
The price was reduced by half because of the difficulties!" Song Zhengping looked like he was considering the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
Yi Xin was almost pissed to death by Song Zhengping. How could this middle-aged man who looked elegant be so shameless?
"Director Song, with so many prisoners of war, keeping them in Western Sichuan will be a huge burden for you! Why not sell them to us at a low price, which can also reduce the burden on Western Sichuan!" Prince Gong Yixin said.
"It's okay! The young marshal said. If the Qing Dynasty doesn't pay for ransom, we will send all these prisoners of war to build roads and mines in a month. Now that the territory of western Sichuan has expanded a lot, how many railways and roads will be built?
!These require a lot of manpower!" Song Zhengping said indifferently.
"That's too cruel! He was actually sent to work as a coolie. How about he die of exhaustion on the construction site?" Yi Xin was speechless. Western Sichuan was almost certain to be defeated by the Qing Dynasty.
"Director Song. Then we will only redeem the Mongolian cavalry and the new imperial guards." Yi Xin said. Since the asking price in Western Sichuan is too high, they can only redeem the Mongols and bannermen. These are big
The foundation of Qing rule. As for Han soldiers, they can just recruit them when the time comes. There are so many Han people anyway.
"Okay. A Mongolian cavalry is worth three hundred taels of silver. A new imperial guard army is also worth three hundred taels of silver. The total of the Mongolian cavalry and the new imperial guard army is more than 90,000 people. If you erase the fraction, we will count you as 90,000 people. I will give you two in total.
Seventeen million taels of silver will suffice." Song Zhengping said.
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