More than an hour later, the coroner at the government office finally finished examining the more than 800 Japanese pirates' heads, and determined that there were 363 real Japanese heads and 461 fake Japanese heads, with no suspicion of counterfeiting.
After confirming that there was no problem with the head, Taizhou prefect Tan Lun returned to his study with a relaxed look on his face, wrote an official document on the Japanese invasion in Taizhou, and reported it to the court.
After Liu Dadao received the document from the government office stating the number of heads and the inspection results, he urged the government office to pay the silver reward for the first meritorious service.
Liu Dadao knew how much the young master needed the first merit reward silver. On the day of the Jingnan defense battle, the young master issued a reward order to boost morale and defend Jingnan. No matter whether it was the military or civilians who were brave enough to defend the city, they would be rewarded with 10 taels of silver, the wounded would be rewarded with an additional 10 taels of silver, and the dead would be compensated with an additional 50 taels of silver. In this way, a total of 70,000 to 80,000 taels of silver would be issued for reward and compensation. This was a huge amount of money.
The Jingnan County government had a total of more than 3,000 taels of silver in its treasury, and the young master cashed all of it in as rewards; the more than 10,000 dan of grain in the county government's granary was also converted into silver to pay for rewards; the young master even took out the 1,500 taels of silver he brought with him from the capital to pay for rewards, and for this, Miss Hua'er cried for a long time. However, even so, there was still a gap of more than 50,000 silver.
The emperor is not anxious, but the eunuch is. It is useless for the eunuch to be anxious.
Liu Dadao finally returned empty-handed. The government office ordered Liu Dadao to return to Jingnan to wait for good news, saying that the reward for the first merit needed to go through the process. After the process was completed, the reward for the first merit would be sent from the government office to the Jingnan County Office. As for the time, it could take three to five days at the fastest, ten days at the slowest, more than a month, or even longer.
Administrative efficiency has greatly improved in the 21st century, but the administrative efficiency of ancient bureaucrats is not optimistic.
When Liu Dadao left Taizhou City and returned to Jingnan, the official document on the Japanese invasion of Taizhou City from Taizhou Prefect Tan Lun had already been drafted, stamped with the prefect's official seal, and ordered the courier to deliver it to the capital at full speed.
At dusk, the postman of Taizhou Prefecture set off from the north gate of Taizhou Prefecture on a fast horse.
There was a teahouse next to the post station more than 500 miles ahead of the Taizhou Prefecture Post Station. Liu Mu ate the dry food he brought with him with hot tea, got on his horse, touched the handwritten letter from the young master he carried with him, and continued to ride at full speed to the capital.
Liu Mu rode a horse, and there was another horse behind him, with the reins tied to the saddle of the horse he was riding. This was the horse for him to change. One person and two horses were configured in order to reach the capital as quickly as possible.
As a county magistrate, Zhu Ping'an had no right to submit official documents directly to the Forbidden City, so he wrote a personal letter with the war report on the Japanese invasion in Jingnan and submitted it to his teacher Xu Jie. Because submitting a personal letter was not an official business, he could not use the post station to change fast horses, so Zhu Ping'an provided Liu Mu with two fast horses for exchange.
The post stations in the Ming Dynasty had their own rules. In fact, the post stations in all dynasties had this rule: the post stations must not be used or abused unless they are performing official duties, and violators will be severely punished. Because my country has a vast territory and complex landforms, and there was no network communication means like today in ancient times, so messages could only be transmitted through post stations. However, the number of post stations was limited, with one post station every dozens of kilometers, and the scale and number of fast horses of each post station were limited. If the post stations were abused, the transmission of emergency military information and official duties would be affected, and national affairs would be affected. Therefore, there were rules in all dynasties that post stations must not be used or abused unless they were performing official duties.
A horse gallops in red dust and the concubine smiles, no one knows it is the lychees coming.
Only Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, the king of a country, had the right to be so romantic as to use the post station to deliver lychees.
During the reign of Emperor Hongwu, the founding general Tang Shengzong abused his power to use the post station privately, and the next day he was stripped of his title by Emperor Hongwu. Although the rules of the post station are not as strict as they were at the beginning of the founding of the country, and are becoming more and more relaxed, if the illegal use of the post station is exposed and reported, it is a violation of the law.
Nowadays, he doesn’t know how many eyes are staring at him, and Zhu Pingan will not leave any handle for others.
As for why Zhu Ping'an sent a personal letter to his teacher Xu Jie presenting the war report on the Japanese invasion, it was naturally because he had connections in the court to help him get promoted. As his teacher Xu Jie was the second assistant of the imperial cabinet, why not use this kind of powerful relationship
Zhu Ping'an doesn't want to repeat the mistake of Yu Dayou.
After the Japanese pirates retreated from Taizhou Prefecture, the situation of the Japanese pirates in Taizhou Prefecture was passed to Zhu Ping'an through various channels. Zhu Ping'an also learned that Yu Dayou, a famous anti-Japanese general in history, was now serving as the Ningtai Lieutenant General. Zhu Ping'an also knows a lot about Yu Dayou, a famous anti-Japanese general in modern times. Compared with Qi Jiguang, an equally famous anti-Japanese general, Yu Dayou had a rough life and was not very successful.
If we look into the reasons, apart from personality, emotional intelligence, etc., the most important reason is the strict party's crushing.
For example, there is a very famous example, which is widely spread in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian, and Zhu Pingan knows it very well. Three years ago, Yu Dayou served as the commander-in-chief of Fujian's defense against the Japanese. This year, Annan invaded, which was the predecessor of a little brother in the south of our country. Before that, the king of Annan, Mo Fuhai, died, and his son Mo Hong was still young. Minister Ruan Jing intended to support his son-in-law Mo Jingdian, and another minister Fan Ziyi intended to support his party member Mo Zhengzhong, and the two sides killed each other. Mo Zhengzhong was defeated and took more than a hundred people to surrender to the Ming Dynasty. Fan Ziyi led the remnants of the defeated soldiers to flee to Haidong. That year, Fan Ziyi panicked and claimed that Mo Hong was dead, and came to welcome Mo Zhengzhong back to Annan to ascend the throne as king, taking the opportunity to invade Qinzhou and Lianzhou, disrupting the border of the Ming Dynasty. Yu Dayou was ordered to lead troops to attack. When Yu Dayou led the vanguard to Lianzhou quickly, Fan Ziyi was rushing to attack Lianzhou City, and Yu Dayou's main force of the navy had not yet arrived. However, Yu Dayou was not in a hurry. He sent people to Fan Ziyi with great fanfare, claiming that the court had sent a large army to persuade Fan Ziyi to surrender. Fan Ziyi was frightened by Yu Dayou and thought that the court army was really coming, so he hurriedly led his army to withdraw. But not long after, Yu Dayou's navy arrived. Later, Fan Ziyi learned the truth and was so angry that he almost vomited blood, missing the opportunity to kill Yu Dayou. Yu Dayou, who had gathered his forces, ambushed Fan Ziyi's army at Guantouling. Fan Ziyi was defeated and turned to invade Qinzhou. Yu Dayou, who was more powerful on water than on land, led the navy to intercept Fan Ziyi's warships, beat Fan Ziyi to a pulp, captured Fan Ziyi's brother Fan Ziliu alive, and beheaded 1,200 people. Fan Ziyi fled to Dongyuntun, and Yu Dayou chased him with a large army and approached the border. He ordered Mo Hong to kill Fan Ziyi. Mo Hong obeyed the order and killed Fan Ziyi and presented his head to Yu Dayou.
If a great achievement of suppressing a rebellion and resisting Annan's invasion was reported to the capital, but was suppressed by Yan Song and not reported to the court, Yu Daqiu was only rewarded with fifty taels of silver...
In the eyes of the Yan Party, he was much more glaring than Yu Dayou. Having finally made great contributions, Zhu Ping'an did not want to repeat Yu Dayou's mistakes.
So Zhu Pingan wrote a personal letter of the battle report and submitted it to his teacher Xu Jie, so that he could know it in advance. As the second assistant of the cabinet, when Xu Jie got the news, the Yan Party could no longer suppress it.