When the Yi army pursued the Qing army's barracks, they saw the empty Qing army camp. The pursuing Yi army officers and soldiers couldn't help but look at each other in shock.
Immediately, they subconsciously thought whether this was also a trap set by the Qing army. But as they expanded the scope of their search, they still found nothing.
Therefore, they had to believe that the Qing army simply escaped from the military camp.
However, until they reached the border of Shanxian County, they still could not catch up with Hesheli Harleh. Although many lone Eight Banners soldiers were captured during this period, it could only be regarded as a failure for them.
Fortunately, when the pursuing Yi army was about to cross the border to pursue, Liang Daqian ordered to stop the pursuit. This made the Eight Banners soldiers who fled to Caoxian heave a sigh of relief, otherwise they would have to run again.
Although the Yi army has not crossed the border again, Hesheli Harleh is now unable to recapture even a single county.
The defeat at Fengxian County was already so ugly. If Hesheli Harleh could not recapture Shanxian County, it would be a naked slap in Qianlong's face.
Therefore, no matter what, he must find a way to regain Shan County, otherwise even if Qianlong wanted to let him go, he would not be able to do it.
Therefore, Hesheli Harehe, who was looking sad, could only go to Fan Zhongqing to discuss.
Finally, Fan Zhongqing gave a suggestion: "I heard that the rebels have allowed us to pay to rescue the captured Eight Banners since they started. So I was thinking, since people can pay to rescue, can the land also do it?"
Hearing this, Hesheli Harleh couldn't help but marvel.
Indeed, given the traitor's greed for money, this is entirely possible.
Therefore, Hesheli Harlech sent Fan Zhongqing as a lobbyist to discuss the "redemption" of Shan County with the rebels.
During this period, in order to stabilize Aliha Edoba, Hesheli Harekh did not hesitate to break up with him and force him to sign a surrender letter. Otherwise, he said that he would not hesitate to kill him to pretend that he was killed by Yijun.
In the end, Alha Edoba compromised, signed a petition, handed all his handles into the hands of Hesheli Harekh, and said that he would try his best to cooperate with Hesheli Harehe in everything he did.
As Fan Zhongqing returned to Shan County, Liang Daqian also gave him a warm reception and learned that he represented Hesheli Harleh who wanted to "redeeme" Shan County, which had been occupied by the Yi army.
Liang Daqian could only say: If it was just to "redeeme" people, he could still be in charge, but he couldn't be in charge of "redeeming land", but he could ask his superiors for instructions.
The news came all the way to Li Guozhong. Li Guozhong had never experienced such a thing as "land redemption", so he naturally did not dare to make the decision. He could only quickly transmit it to the Guangzhou Palace via radio for Zhang Rui to make the decision.
Zhang Rui doesn't find it strange at all that the Qing Dynasty likes to spend money to buy "peace".
So Zhang Rui replied to Li Guozhong: Yes, as for the price, let the staff estimate a price that is reasonably acceptable to both parties. After all, how could you miss the good thing that the other party gave you money to raise troops?
After waiting for Zhang Rui's permission, Li Guozhong sent someone to contact Hesheli Hareh to discuss the price.
The Yi Dynasty demanded 100,000 taels of silver before it could be returned to Shanxian. Hesheli Harleh said that the price was too high. Even if he squeezed him dry, he would not be able to get 100,000 taels of silver, so he returned the price to Shanxian. Forty thousand taels.
In the end, after back-and-forth negotiations between the two parties, the price was set at 110,000 taels.
Among them, 60,000 taels were the cost of "redeeming" Shanxian, and 20,000 taels were the cost of asking the Yi army to help perform their recapture of Shanxian and rescue the captives of the Eight Banners. The remaining 30,000 taels are used to pay for the county's safe and sound army drills and performances within three years at the price of 10,000 taels per year.
The treaty was finally approved by Zhang Rui and came into effect. In addition, Zhang Rui also privately rewarded Hesheli Harehe with two thousand taels of silver to express his appreciation for his "selfless" behavior.
Therefore, General Hesheli Harlech, who was defeated due to carelessness, successfully occupied Shanxian County after a night attack, rescued the Eight Banners recruits who were captured by the Yi army, and even beat the Yi army to the point where they lost their armor. , even a village was lost for a day.
Originally, Qianlong was so furious after learning about the defeat of Hesheli Harlekh that he even executed dozens of palace maids and eunuchs who were slightly in his favor.
It was not until a few days later that Aliha Edoba's letter came that Qianlong knew that the failure of Hesheli Harleh's first attack on Feng County was all because he was betrayed by a "traitor".
Later, the "traitor" had been executed, and Hersheli Harleh finally used his few remaining manpower to catch the arrogant rebels off guard during the night attack, and finally completed the task assigned by Qianlong perfectly.
Qianlong was very pleased with the fact that Hesheli Hallekh was able to "fight back in the extreme" and finally defeated the Yi army. He gave Hesheli Hallehe a rare and precious reward of one thousand taels of silver, several pieces of silk and satin, and the award of Yin Si. .
As for the traitors, Qianlong unceremoniously gave his family a Lingchi execution.
Hesheli Harehe didn't really care much about Qianlong's reward. At this time, he was busy collecting three taels of "life-saving" money from each of the more than 2,000 remaining Eight Banners recruits from the first batch.
Three taels of silver is not much for these Eight Banners recruits. No matter how poor they are, they can still scrape together their teeth. As for why it is said to be "life-saving" silver.
It's very simple, unless they want to face the Yijun's muskets and artillery, they have to hand it over honestly to ensure that he can go home safely in the future.
Soon they handed over the money. And then they finally no longer need to train. Until the second wave of trained recruits arrives, they can go home and be their own young masters as they wish.
As for whether they will tell others that they have to pay some "life-saving" money, that is just nonsense? Unless it is really life-threatening, who dares to speak out?
When the second wave of trained recruits arrived, Hesheli Hareh suddenly raised the price of "life-saving" silver to five taels per person.
The price of five taels is not too high for most Eight Banners disciples. Unless there is a real emergency at home and you are extremely poor, you can still take it out easily.
Moreover, the officers promised that as long as they paid the "life-saving money", the training in the next three months would be simple and easy, and they would not have to worry about being sent to the battlefield to fight. As for whether they would bring servants with them To take care of daily life, the military camp also said that it would not care at all.
If they don't want to surrender, they will first be subjected to cruel training, and then they can only eat deducted military rations every day, and then they will be dragged to experience the "cruelty" of the battlefield.
Basically, they can't stand severe physical training, not to mention eating those rough old grains and vegetarian vegetables with almost no oil and water floating on them. So there is no need for them to feel the cruelty of the battlefield. Those Eight Banners young men can't stand it, so they obediently pay money to buy it and relax.
After this wave, Hesheli Harleh made fifteen thousand taels, not counting the grain that was withheld. It really made Hesheli Harleh and the veterans who shared the benefits shout, It is really wonderful to be able to make money safely and comfortably.
