After the soldiers learned that Jiaozi had collapsed, their morale was in chaos, their morale was greatly reduced, and they had many complaints against the court.
After that, many people passively avoided fighting and refused to fight. The officers could not control them. They could only retreat when facing the attacks of the rebels, and even suffered a disastrous defeat.
The defeat of Suining Prefecture was because the soldiers passively avoided fighting and had to retreat. Facing the uprising army's flawed attack, the Song generals could only retreat and could not engage in battle.
The defeat in Zizhou was even more serious. The crossbowmen collectively protested against the battle. After firing once, they said they must be rewarded with iron money, otherwise they would not fire a second time. The frontline officers were stunned and responded inappropriately, so that the Song army attacked Ziyang. The attack on the city failed.
Later, the Zizhou beggar army took the initiative to attack the Song army. The Song army's crossbowmen directly protested and refused to fight. They had to be rewarded with iron money before they went to fight. Some soldiers burned the Jiaozi that they had not had time to send away in protest.
Seeing that the soldiers were in extremely bad mood, the officers did not dare to forcefully suppress them. They could only retreat, withdraw from Zizhou, and suspend the offensive, thus destroying the previous results.
The resentment of the soldiers was not the resentment of one or two people, but the resentment of the group. Even the soldiers who did not get the handover still felt deeply resentful and refused to go to war, so that the officers did not dare to suppress them wantonly, but instead strongly demanded that the court give them some relief. An argument.
Not to mention soldiers, some officers have received letters from home saying that some friends at home have become useless, and the family's cash flow has suffered heavy losses. They hope that they can get some money and send it back to solve their urgent needs and avoid trouble at home.
If the officer is like this, how can the soldiers not panic?
Therefore, this military protest is not so much a spontaneous protest by soldiers, but rather that even some officers participated in it, even turned a blind eye, and supported the soldiers to make trouble, put pressure on the court, and asked the court to provide money.
For this reason, they did not hesitate to give up some of their previous results and retreat, giving the suppressed rebels a chance to breathe.
Wu Lin's reputation accumulated over the years was mostly destroyed, and his influence on the army was affected. He realized this and decisively came to see Zhao Buxi, hoping that Zhao Buxi could consider the overall situation and immediately give money to appease the army.
Of course Zhao Buxi would give him money.
In order to deal with the urgent need, he gave a sum of money to the troops staying in Chengdu, which calmed the morale of the Chengdu troops and asked them to work hard.
The troops in Chengdu Prefecture have been pacified, and of course the four armies going out to fight must also be pacified.
However, the threat and blackmail attitude of the outgoing troops made him very dissatisfied.
"After fighting for the country, they burned, killed, looted, and got many benefits before leaving? Aren't you satisfied? They had to give money from the court, and they actually threatened war for this. They dare to do it now, but they don't know what to do in the future. At what point, is it going to lead to a collective mutiny and wear the yellow robe again?!"
Good guy, can you even say this?
Wu Lin and Ma Yongkang looked at Zhao Buxi in shock.
Your ancestors didn’t arrange it like this, right?
As soon as the words came out, Zhao Buji himself felt that it was not appropriate to say this, so he coughed slightly to relieve the embarrassment and said: "I know about this. The reward for the army is certain, but this trend cannot last forever. Give the money At the same time, we must severely punish a group of bastards who took the lead in causing trouble."
It's okay to give a reward.
But I can only take the initiative, not you.
In a word.
If I don’t give it to you, you can’t take it away.
Wu Lin came from the Western Army and knew the tradition of threatening generals in battle, but Zhao Buxi didn't understand, had never seen it, and obviously didn't agree with it. He was also very angry and planned to settle the score later.
In this regard, Wu Lin tried to persuade.
He informed Zhao Buxi of some of the past affairs within the Western Army of the Northern Song Dynasty, and told Zhao Buxi the tragic past hidden behind the tradition of soldiers threatening generals in battle, trying to make Zhao Buxi understand the miserable soldiers and sympathize with them.
However, as a high-ranking clan member, Jinshi, and a proper social elite, Zhao Buji lacked understanding and empathy for the soldiers from the lower classes due to his long-term growth environment that was separated from the masses.
He could not understand the helplessness of soldiers exchanging their lives and dignity for money and the tragedy of not being able to get money to support their families. He also did not know the importance of military pay and rewards to soldiers. Zhao Buji, who lacked these empathy, only had strong feelings for the soldiers' behavior. Dissatisfaction and anger.
I won't give it to you, but you take the initiative to rob it. What does this mean?
This is rebellion!
"After all, they are all soldiers of the Song Dynasty, and obeying orders to fight is the most basic thing! They fight with their lives, am I going to lack anything for them? Will I not give them food or military pay? They don't do it at all. You know how to be considerate of the court! Why am I working so hard to get money? Isn't it just to give them money?"
The more Zhao Buxi talked, the angrier he became. At one point, he even planned to send someone to rebuke the army, asking the army to reflect on itself and reexamine its loyalty to the court and the emperor before talking about rewards.
Wu Lin was shocked and turned pale, and quickly persuaded Zhao Buxi not to do such a thing. When employing people, he must be patient even if he is pretending. After the incident is over, it will not be too late to settle the scores.
But if we start settling accounts now, there will be no Queen in the Song Dynasty.
Wu Lin said this sincerely, and Zhao Buxi was not a fool. After much deliberation, he had no choice but to decide to compromise, and distributed 70,000 guan of iron money from the treasury to reward the three armies.
"For the time being, let's reward the troops to appease their morale. What I want to do is not now... What I, the emperor, have done is really cowardly!"
Seeing the unhappy expression on Zhao Buxi's face, Wu Lin and Ma Yongkang looked at each other with very complicated emotions in their hearts.
But no matter what, Zhao Buxi still gave the money. When major changes occurred in the social operation of Sichuan and Shu, he gave the money to the army, so that the army actually got the money.
After Wu Lin's compulsion, most of the money was actually distributed to the soldiers, especially those who had performed meritorious services. They were really rewarded with coins, and the resentment and dissatisfaction in their hearts were soothed and gradually disappeared.
Once the army is stabilized, the Chengdu court will still have the final coercive power to maintain governance.
Later, Zhao Buxi issued an edict, pushing all the issues related to Jiaozi fever to Jiang Fu, saying that this was Jiang Fu's decision alone. He deceived superiors and subordinates, deceived the emperor and colleagues, and acted for his own selfish desires. And did such a dangerous thing.
Zhao Buxi felt deeply resentful and shocked, and deeply regretted his lax control. He announced that Jiang Fu would be executed, the men would be sent to the army in southern Xinjiang, the women would be sold into slavery, and all the family property would be confiscated.
Not only that, one by one, a series of officials from the Banknote Printing Department of the Ministry of Household Affairs who worked for Chiang Fu were all convicted, all imprisoned, executed for a high degree of involvement, dismissed for a low degree of involvement, demoted to common people, and distributed to the southern border, with all their property Not confiscated.
It can be said that Zhao Buji threw out the entire group of people who personally operated Jiaozi Re as criminals, leaving no one behind. Even the craftsmen in charge of printing Jiaozi were sentenced to exile because they participated in this matter without informing the public.
Afterwards, Zhao Buxi found some excuses to give some rewards to some local officials with a softer stance to make up for their losses, and gained the support and support of these local officials.
As a result, the court gradually stabilized.
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