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After sending Wang Yongji away, Yu Xiaotian once again ordered the sails to be raised and the anchor to be sailed down the river out of the Minjiang estuary. He joined the fleet he had left at the Minjiang estuary and began to return to Weitou Bay.

After returning to Weitou Bay, Yu Xiaotian ordered a collective holiday of twenty days for the soldiers who went out to fight this time to return home and reunite with their families. In addition, the ashes of the soldiers who died in the northward expedition were also sent back to their homes.

Or they can be sent directly to Yu Jiajun's cemetery for placement.

This all depends on the opinions of each family. Those who want to bury them in their ancestral graves can do so by themselves. Yu Xiaotian specially allocates 10 taels of burial expenses to each fallen soldier. This is not included in the pension, but most of the Yu family

The soldiers and generals were all people who had left their hometowns and could not return to their ancestral graves, so they were buried collectively in the cemetery selected by the Yu family army for enshrinement.

In fact, the overall casualties of the Yu Jiajun's march north this time were not very large. They were definitely not as many as he reported to the court and the government. The total number of casualties was less than 1,000, and many of the slightly injured were treated by military medical officers.

Those who have recovered and rejoined the team. There are less than a hundred seriously injured and disabled people. Ships have been dispatched in advance to escort them back to Taiwan Island. They will be properly resettled in various places and will continue to be treated. After recovery, they will be properly treated according to their disability conditions.

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Overall, the number of soldiers killed in the battle was actually less than 400, which was mainly caused during the siege battle against Dengzhou City. The siege battle was no better than an ordinary field battle. Even though the attacker had strong firepower, after all, there was no

Due to the geographical advantage, if you attack from the bottom up, the casualties will definitely not be too small.

For these fallen soldiers, the court stipulated that each person should be given thirty taels of silver as a pension, but the families of most of the fallen soldiers would never see this money at all. Even if it was allocated by the government, it would have been passed on by someone else along the way.

If your card is lost and you get a few taels of silver, that's good. Many people can't even see a fortune.

However, Yu Xiaotian distributed fifty taels of silver to each fallen soldier. This was a real deal and was sent directly to their families. If they were buried by themselves, they would also give another ten taels. No one would dare to ask for it.

If he is caught by Yu Xiaotian, he will be chopped off as lightly as possible. He will definitely be thrown directly into the hard labor camp and work until death. He may even be sentenced to lingchi. The highest standard, some people enjoy a little life.

Lamp treatment.

In addition to these cash pensions, if the fallen soldiers have children, the children will receive special preferential treatment and be enrolled in schools. All the food and clothing expenses will be borne by Xiaotian. If there are parents and elderly people in the family, during their lifetime

, Yu Xiaotian will also give a subsidy of two stones of rice every year, and more subsidies will be given to the elderly who have lost their labor force.

Therefore, in terms of the treatment enjoyed by the soldiers of the Yu Jiajun, although on paper it is not the highest in the Ming Dynasty, in fact, as long as the rules are set, they can basically be implemented without any special requirements.

There are no worries about the future, so when the soldiers of the Yu family go into battle, they will be brave and not afraid of death.

According to their words, the Lord has thought of all the things that should be thought of for them. They have nothing to worry about. Even if they are dead and disabled, someone will take care of their family. Therefore, on the battlefield, the Yu family

There were almost no deserters in the army, and morale was quite high.

In the past, Yu Xiaotian had to personally deal with these trivial matters, but now that the system has been formed, people will handle it according to the system. Yu Xiaotian does not need to worry about anything anymore. He just sends people to make secret visits afterwards.

Just check the implementation status of various pensions.

So after he returned to Weitou Bay, he stayed with his family for a few days, and then dealt with some accumulated matters that needed his personal approval. He lived a good life during this period.

But Zou Weilian's life was really unsatisfactory during this period. After breaking up with Yu Xiaotian that day, Zou Weilian fell into infinite fear, fearing that Yu Xiaotian would dare to lead his troops to rebel in a rage.

, in that case, he would be in big trouble.

Yu Xiaotian had just made great achievements in Denglai. He had just returned to Fujian and immediately rebelled. Those officials in the court, as well as the emperor, would definitely wonder why Yu Xiaotian, a fierce general, was still doing his best in Denglai.

Why did he rebel as soon as he arrived in Fujian when he was working for the imperial court?

Then when I found out that he had cut off people's food and salary, refused to provide them with pensions, and even asked people to arrest Yu Xiaotian, even though he argued that Yu Xiaotian was yelling in court and disrespecting his superiors, he ordered his arrest.

Yu Xiaotian, but there was a reason for this after all, because this man forced a fierce general to rebel against the Ming Dynasty, so the court would definitely not let him off lightly.

Nowadays, the Ming Dynasty is using troops everywhere. Looking at these generals, they have begun to assume the posture of being invincible. As a high-ranking official, Zou Weilian can certainly see that the imperial court will not dare to attack many important generals who hold military power.

Touch them, but kill civil servants without mercy.

So this time he and Yu Xiaotian fell out. If Yu Xiaotian was forced to rebel, then his head would probably say goodbye to his neck soon. The capital would definitely send Tiqi and Fuzhou generals immediately.

He arrested him and sent him to Beijing for questioning, and then it was time for his head to fall to the ground.

Therefore, Zou Weilian has been living on tenterhooks these days. Wang Yongji caught up with Yu Xiaotian and brought back Yu Xiaotian's words, which also made Zou Weilian quite nervous, because this should be the ultimatum given by Yu Xiaotian to him.

If he doesn't solve the shortage of military pay and get the pension in place within a month, then the next step is probably to make the payment the least serious matter.

Nowadays, the Ming Dynasty is full of troubles. The government's finances are tight, and officers and soldiers in various places are often short of pay. In addition, generals and officials are greedy and deduct military pay. The life of a soldier is very difficult, and even people may starve to death.

Things happen from time to time.

Therefore, due to the unauthorized actions of some well-intentioned people, pay disputes often occurred in various places. Generals held military power, and the court did not dare to touch them easily. After suppressing them, they would often catch a few unlucky ones and take the blame and kill them. This kind of thing is also

The matter will be left alone, but the civil servants who caused the quarrel will be dismissed from office at the least, and may even be arrested and sent to Beijing in the most serious case, and the lightest case may be exiled thousands of miles away, and the most serious case may be beheaded and abandoned.

Even if Yu Xiaotian did not rebel this time and just secretly encouraged his officers and soldiers stationed in various places to fight for pay, he would still be unable to eat and walk around. So Zou Weilian was scared now and quickly asked people to raise money everywhere. Anyway, first of all,

To plug the gap in salary, we should provide some compensation to Yu Xiaotian, and then we can deal with it first.

In the past month, Zou Weilian has been busy on all fours. As soon as he wakes up every day, he sends people to inquire about the payment situation in various places and the amount of silver in the treasury.

After a month, Zou Weilian almost went crazy, struggling everywhere, and finally he was able to make up for part of the shortfall in salary. He also raised another 50,000 taels of pension money and distributed it to Yu Xiaotian.

Although the number required by Yu Xiaotian was still somewhat short, Zou Weilian tried his best and squeezed out all the money he could. If he wanted more, it was basically impossible.

After Yu Xiaotian got the money, he pretended to give Zou Weilian a self-reported apology, which was a small apology for his disrespect to Zou Weilian at the Fuzhou Governor's Yamen that day.

The matter was brushed aside by the saltiness.

But this incident also caused a huge rift between Zou Weilian and Yu Xiaotian. The relationship between the two parties was basically in an irreparable state. Yu Xiaotian was too lazy to see Zou Weilian, and Zou Weilian also avoided Xiaotian.

Unfortunately, both sides tried their best not to look for the other, which made Yu Xiaotian feel very comfortable and had a good rest in Weitou Bay for the Spring Festival.

But he couldn't calm down. After coming back, he took the time to go to Kaohsiung for inspection, and then to Haitan Island to see the situation in the refugee quarantine camp on Haitan Island.

Over the past year or so, immigrants collected from the north have basically had to undergo a period of quarantine at the newly built quarantine camp on Haitan Island before being assigned to various parts of Taiwan Island.

This can prevent some immigrants with infectious diseases from bringing infectious diseases to Taiwan Island and causing large-scale epidemics. Although it has become the norm for Taiwan Island to accept immigrants, the problem of accommodation has been solved by those in charge of this matter.

Complaints are endless.

With the arrival of large numbers of immigrants, these people must at least have a place to live. Even if they are resettled in collective farms, they must at least have dormitories.

At first they built small single-family houses for vacation, but such houses could only accommodate a small number of people and could not cope with the migration of a large number of immigrants.

Later, Yu Xiaotian ordered the construction of a large pass house with a structure similar to a barracks, which could save a lot of manpower and material resources and also accommodate a large number of immigrants.

These dormitories are similar in structure to military barracks. Each room is built into a square and rectangular building. There are ten rooms in a row. Each dormitory can accommodate five bunk beds and accommodate ten people. A row of rooms can accommodate 100 people.

At the end of each row of houses, there is a public toilet, which is managed by dedicated personnel, and there is also a washroom for these people to wash up.

Although this has affected the normal life of some families, in order to arrange a large number of immigrants, this method can only be used temporarily.

However, the immigrants don't have a big objection to this. Nowadays, having enough food is a big deal for them. Although accommodation seems a bit tight, there is a bed for them to sleep on, and there are straw mats and straw mats on the bed.

, each person was also given a piece of cotton cloth to use as a quilt. Fortunately, most winters in Taiwan are not very cold. Although it is not very comfortable to sleep, it is not freezing to death.

After all, cotton is too tight now and can only be used by the army first. If ordinary immigrants want to cover themselves with quilts, they have to rely on their own efforts.

These new immigrants basically signed a deed of sale, so they had no personal freedom and were subject to unified management. Each dormitory was assigned a dormitory leader to manage the dormitory personnel and health disciplines.

These immigrants usually adopt semi-military management and have established a very strict work and rest system and hygiene system. When these new immigrants were at home, few people had any awareness of hygiene. Many of them did not take a shower for a long time and pooped and peed.

He doesn't know where to go and defecates everywhere.

But fortunately, before they came to the collective farm on Taiwan Island, they had been corrected from these bad habits at the reception station in Shandong and the quarantine camp on Haitan Island. After arriving here, no one dared to defecate anywhere, and everyone knew how to do it.

Run to the public restroom to deal with the problem.

This also provides good raw materials for fertilizer accumulation. The farmyard manure produced by these immigrants alone in the collective farms is considerable every year.

In order to reduce the occurrence of infectious diseases, although these houses cannot be luxurious enough to install glass, Seawolf still purchased a lot of roving in large quantities on land and nailed it to the windows, and hung bamboo curtains on the dormitory doors.

Although the effect of preventing mosquitoes from entering the room is average, after the immigrants return to their houses, some mugwort or wormwood will be burned in the houses to repel mosquitoes. In addition, the sanitation management of the collective farms is relatively good. In recent years,

However, there was no large-scale malaria infection.

(Today I would like to express my special thanks to brothers Xiaoxi Feng in the Desert and Ying Zhiwu for their rewards! Thank you very much!)