Chapter 977
"Mr. Bojie, it was Mr. Bojie who was in front of him. He was out for a long time and was homesick. He didn't pay attention to Mr. Bojie for a while. It's really rude and rude. Please don't blame Mr. Bojie!"
After Deng Yan spoke, Shang Ji acted like he had suddenly realized, and said to Cai Yong enthusiastically.
It's a good thing that Cai Yong is still a famous Confucian who is famous all over the world. If he is too rude, he will have a bad reputation for Shang Ji. It will be fine after a little cold treatment and a clear attitude.
Cai Yong's face shook, he didn't want to comment on Shang Ji's flamboyant acting skills, but since Shang Ji has been stepped down, Cai Yong naturally couldn't be stubborn, and immediately smiled and said: "General Zhengbei is punishing thieves for the country, He is a well-deserved hero of our dynasty who spread his prestige outside the territory, so how could he be rude?"
"Hahaha, Mr. Bo Jie is absurd!"
The two chatted for a while, and then entered the city of Dajin under the reminder of Deng Yan.
"General Zhengbei, this time the general will go on an expedition to a foreign land, expand the territory for our great man, and greatly increase the prestige of His Majesty. I am here to congratulate the general on his return from victory!"
"Where there is, it all depends on the soldiers' lives!"
Cai Yong's face sank when he heard this. According to the standard procedure, Shang Ji should say that his Majesty is the one who relies on his majesty's blessings, and that his subordinates rely on the soldiers' lives. Now he directly kicks the emperor aside. This kind of mistake is not polite at all. To put it too big is to despise the Holy One.
But the Han Dynasty has reached this point, not to mention the number one warlord like Shang Ji, or the third-rate warlord, as long as he doesn't leave people with a real excuse, let alone despise the emperor, it's okay to swear.
Cai Yong skipped these polite steps that might bring shame on himself, and directly began to read the imperial decree. The content of the imperial decree is actually very simple. The entire Fengping County is classified as the food town of Shangji.
If it is a normal period, this is naturally a great reward, directly using a county as a town, this is the standard for being a king.
However, it is a troubled time now, and the title of the Han Dynasty is only left to listen to the prestige. Moreover, Fengping County was originally Shang Ji's territory, which is equivalent to Dong Zhuo rewarding Shang Ji with his own things. In this way, let alone a county, even a state is useless!
In addition to the promotion of titles and official positions, there are also a lot of rewards that look gaudy but have little actual use value, such as the titles given to the Liu family and Haoyue, a bunch of costumes and jewelry bestowed by the emperor, and so on. To put it simply, the reputation is very good, but the benefits are basically not there.
In addition, the senior generals who performed well in this war are also canonized. Now Shang Ji has a large number of miscellaneous generals and miscellaneous lieutenants under his command, and almost everyone of the main core generals has one.
Although Shang Ji conferred a lot of titles and lieutenants before, they were actually overstepped. The titles of those generals and lieutenants were also useful within the territory of Pingzhou, and no one would recognize them when they left Pingzhou. In official terms, even if these people are out of the jurisdiction of Shang Ji, they are serious senior military officers.
In addition to official positions, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, Dian Wei, Liu Yi and many other outstanding senior generals were also conferred titles. Although most of them were Guan Neihou, only Liu Yi got a Tinghou, which was the same as Shangji. The county's oversized knighthood is far from the same, but it still surprises everyone.
After all, for hundreds of years, the idea that conferring marquis and worshiping generals is the highest level of military merit has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and no one can be indifferent to this kind of reward.
Dong Zhuo's move did not fail to instigate the ambitions of Shang Ji's generals and deliberately create conflicts.
For Shang Ji personally, the only useful one is General Zuo. General Zuo, as the heavy-ranked general second only to the generals, generals of hussars, and generals of chariots, can be said to be at the pinnacle of the Han army. According to the plan in the imperial decree, Shang Ji, the left general, was fully in charge of the military affairs of Pingchenyou and the four states. In theory, most of the northern defense line of the Han Empire was under the management of Shang Ji.
It's a pity that in the current season, even Bingzhou Mu Luzhi, who maintains a semi-ally relationship with Pingzhou, will not really obey the management of Shang Ji, the left general, let alone Gongsun Zan, a prince with obvious hostility.
It is good to have righteousness, but what is more important is strength. Without strength, righteousness is nothing but just trying to make people laugh.
Generally speaking, the rewards issued by the imperial court are basically perfunctory, and even a few of them are sugar pills stuffed with poison.
After procedurally reading the imperial decree, and after Shang Ji confirmed acceptance of the decree, Cai Yong heaved a sigh of relief. Because of the two months of waiting and Shang Ji's attitude just now, Cai Yong was afraid that Shang Ji would do something out of the ordinary in a flash of his head, but fortunately, Shang Ji was calm and did not embarrass him.
Regardless of whether Dong Zhuo had more sinister intentions in granting so many official positions, Shang Ji could not prevent the imperial court from conferring military commanders on his opponents. The seals and rewards are combined into one and distributed together.
Although the imperial court did not produce anything substantive except for the official hat, Shang Ji could not compare with the imperial court. The Korean peninsula was destroyed, the area under control expanded by nearly half, and the population more than doubled. With a huge city and two royal cities in his pocket, he naturally couldn't be stingy with the rewards for his soldiers in the face of such a magnificent record.
I won’t go into details about the basic property reward levels. After the war, the total amount of funds used for rewards was as high as 700 million gold (including the payment of Pingzhou’s meritorious service). Let Pingzhou go bankrupt directly.
In addition to the rewards of property, for a whole month, all the armies on the expedition, including the auxiliary army group and the representatives of the strong men who performed relatively well, held celebrations in batches. There was no limit to the supply of wine and meat, and various martial arts competitions were in full swing. The winners also had generous rewards , The soldiers were very interested, and the various armies competed to excel. In the later stage, even top generals like Huang Zhong and Zhao Yun were dragged out.
Of course, they are ashamed to compete with ordinary soldiers for rewards, and they are just performing appearances. However, the superb skills of the top generals are still amazing.
For example, Huang Zhong performed in front of tens of thousands of people the stunt of shooting twenty arrows in a row in a flash, and the arrows hit flying mosquitoes and flies thousands of meters away; Twenty horses in the army wrestled and won, which made the audience gasp. The wonderful performance greatly boosted morale, and the problem of morale drop caused by continuous fighting for more than half a year was instantly resolved.
During this period, Shang Ji forced Cai Yong to go to various parts of the country to express his condolences. Everywhere he went, he asked Cai Yong to give a speech on behalf of the court, thanking the soldiers for their bloody battles to open up the country.
Cai Yong doesn't have any airs of Confucianism, and he doesn't think it's insulting to the gentleman. On the contrary, he is very interested in this kind of activity and has a high enthusiasm for work. He spends all day in the military camp with Shang Ji, and occasionally gives pointers when he is free. The literary cultivation of the generals has a feeling of being reluctant to leave.