Wanli 1592

Chapter 1361

After the meeting, Xiao Ruxun took Xiao Zhenbang back to the study, while the officials left in twos and threes, continuing to do the unfinished heavy work.

For the ministers, this is indeed a rather heavy job that they don't even think about, and they don't know when they will be able to relax a little bit. As far as the current job is concerned, they feel that they will never think about it in their entire life.

In other dynasties, one round of political struggle is higher than one round, but in this dynasty, apart from the rectification movement launched by His Majesty, there are really few courtiers who have the leisure to dare to engage in political struggle, unless they don’t want to die, or they get it. The emperor's permission.

And do you have time?

The northern prairie, the Western Regions, Uzang, Liaodong Nurgan, Japan, Burma, one by one, if the Dachi Road was not repaired and the sea transportation was unimpeded, I really don’t know how many officials would want to pick them up. up.

Officials in other dynasties come to enjoy honor, but Daqin is different. Daqin really has to do things when he is an official. Daqin doesn't need officials who don't do things at all, and you can't live without doing things.

The strength of the Great Qin Emperor was unprecedented, the size of the Great Qin Kingdom was unprecedented, and the Great Qin was the only dynasty in thousands of years that wiped out the northern border troubles and completely eliminated the disaster of the northern captives going south. This alone is enough to make the Great Qin Emperor Xiao Ruxun an upright " The posthumous title of "Wu".

Whenever the later courtiers mentioned the soul-stirring Battle of Sweeping North, they would always show extremely emotional expressions.

Since the pre-Qin period, there has never been an emperor in China who personally led his troops to wipe out the northern barbarians, and even led his troops to Beihai, a place in the extreme north that only Su Wu had ever been to. The rule of Daqin.

While commemorating Su Wu, the emperor did not forget to show off his unprecedented martial arts. He traveled far away from the Han and Tang Dynasties and left behind this "Monument of Emperor Qin Lima" with pride.

Compared with Fenglang Juxu and Le Shiyanran, these two are equally stirring, but not as loud as the Northern Expedition led by the Great Qin Emperor himself.

The Great Qin Emperor personally led the army to pursue the remnants of Khalkha to such a far place, and forcibly cut off the head of Khalkha Khan in Beihai as a proof of his monument.

Prove that for the first time since Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty, he wiped out the northern captives, completely conquered the northern prairie, brought it under the rule of China, and became the eternal pasture for the children of China, provided meat, milk and sweaters for the Central Plains, and ended the Central Plains grassland Thousands of years of grievances and resentments.

To this end, Daqin spent three years and paid all the warehouse inventory accumulated in the entire Guanzhong region, Gansu region and Liaodong region since the second year of Longwu.

A total of 6801 million taels of military expenditure was paid, and the lives of 50 Japanese and [-] Han civilian husbands were paid.

There are still 670 three Daqin soldiers who have passed away forever, tens of thousands of families have lost their loved ones, and 370 people have been disabled for life and had to leave the army in tears.

Nineteen officers above the regiment were killed in action, 180 officers under the seven regiment were killed in action, and 530 nine graduates of the military academy were killed in action.

In the army with the most casualties, only 3 of the 1 troops survived to return to the original station, and only one or two people were left alive in many grassroots squads and platoons. They cried after meeting each other.

A large number of mules and horses were killed and injured, with a total loss of more than [-].

The casualties were so great that the emperor Xiao Ruxun also issued a second edict to the people of the world after the war to comfort the heroic spirits, and set up a national-level Loyalty Temple just north of the capital, and introduced the tablets of the heroic spirits who died in battle into it.

September 27, the day when the emperor personally beheaded Khalkha Khan, is the Heroes’ Memorial Day. A grand commemorative ceremony is held every year, so that the dead heroes will be incensed forever.

Military families of soldiers who died in battle enjoy a preferential policy of tax exemption for three years and five and a half years for a total of eight years regardless of their military achievements. Various benefits and rewards for the family.

All kinds of things, for this war, the treasury spent 9105 million taels of silver.

In the [-]th year of Longwu’s tenth year, the Kalkha Khan was appointed as the head. After the northern grassland war ended, the treasury took out [-]% of the inventory, which was almost the entire budget that could be used for war operations.

Minister of the Ministry of Finance looked at the treasury with a lot of money, and felt a great sense of loss in his heart.

Healing the wounds of the war is not an easy task, but Xiao Ruxun, who invested one-third of the materials obtained by the entire country's years of construction into this war, feels that this war is very worthwhile.

The loss was indeed huge, so huge that even a family with such a solid wealth as Daqin could hardly cover it.

It also exhausted Wang Xijue's tired oil, and Longwu died of illness at work in 11 years.

Li Tingji was so tired that he couldn't afford it. Longwu returned home in 14 years, and died of illness a month after returning home.

Ye Xianggao expressed tremblingly that his virtue was not enough to serve as the first assistant, so in the 15th year of Longwu, Xu Guangqi came from behind and served as the first assistant of the empire, presided over the logistics of the next few wars, and almost died on the spot from exhaustion, and ordered Xiao Ruxun to go home After recuperating for a month, various precious medicinal materials were supplemented with a large amount of tonic, and then he recovered.

From this point of view, Ye Xianggao is somewhat self-aware, knowing that he will die of exhaustion if he becomes the chief assistant.

However, the Daqin cabinet added cabinet members later, and the number of cabinet ministers increased to eight. Xu Guangqi's work pressure was greatly reduced, and with the assistance of Ye Xianggao and Chen Longzheng, he did not follow in the footsteps of Wang Xijue and Li Tingji.

Despite this, the job is still extremely stressful. Xu Guangqi's black hair is already half white, and he dares not wear a hat when he sees others, for fear of revealing his sparse head and making people laugh.

Not only the cabinet, but the big battle against Khalkha from the seventh year of Longwu to the tenth year of Longwu not only made the cabinet very tired, but also more than a dozen officials below were tired and fell to their jobs without waking up. , There are still more than 50 people who are exhausted and want to resign and recuperate at home, and dare not continue to risk their lives.

Many local grassroots officials, the president of the village peasant association and the head of the township, died in the line of duty for the logistics work of the war. The total number is about 200 people.

After paying such a high price, what did Daqin get?

After Longwu wiped out all four tribes of Oirat Mongolia in 14 years, the Qin army made a statistics.

In the seven-year extermination war, the Qin army obtained a total of 120 nine heads, directly and indirectly eliminated more than 130 million northern captives, captured 110 million men and women who could serve as coolies to death, and more than [-] million cattle, sheep and horses And there are all kinds of bone products, leather products, grassland style specialties and other war materials that are piled up in the sky.

As well as the entire vast prairie that can be used for grazing, as well as the northern frontier residents who will never be harmed in the future.

(End of this chapter)