When Su Haisheng arrived in Chengdu, Chen Qixian had already made some arrangements for Chengdu.
For example, all the original Song troops were sent outside Chengdu, a camp was built to accommodate them, and they were asked to hand over all their weapons and equipment to become official surrendered pawns, and troops were sent to supervise them.
Another example is to separate the supervision of officers and soldiers. The officers live on one side and the soldiers live on the other side. There is no contact between the two parties.
All the local civil and military officials of the Chengdu court who were originally captured by Ma Yongkang and others in a mutiny were placed in a large courtyard in the southeast corner of Chengdu. The male master and the rest of his family lived separately and were not allowed to see each other.
Ma Yongkang and others were also effectively placed under house arrest, but as surrenderers, they could receive preferential treatment.
They can live in their original residences, live with their families, and have three meals a day, but they are not allowed to go out without any reason, and Ming army soldiers need to be arranged to guard their homes.
At the same time, Chen Qixian opened up the city of Chengdu, allowing ordinary people in the city to resume daily activities such as wood cutting and gathering wood. He also sent troops to clean up restless gangs inside and outside Chengdu, so that the city of Chengdu was slowly returning to normal.
Accompanied by guards, Su Haisheng went to meet with Ma Yongkang, Wu Ting and other key decision-makers in the surrender. He expressed his gratitude to them and recognized that their actions were correct and brought great success to the Ming Dynasty. They were With merit.
As for their merits, future living arrangements, etc., Su Haisheng cannot decide on his own, but they can go to Zhongdu to meet Su Yonglin, who will comprehensively consider what they have done and give them a reasonable post-war disposal plan.
"Of course, you can rest assured. Your surrender this time is of great significance to Ming Dynasty, so Zhongdu will also fully consider your arrangements. You will be properly accommodated, and there is no need to worry about any other problems. "
Su Haisheng expressed euphemistically that the Ming Dynasty would not cross the river and burn the bridge to kill them all.
This statement made Ma Yongkang and others very happy.
But some of Su Haisheng's next questions put them in a bit of a dilemma.
"You have indeed made a lot of achievements this time, but I heard that you were the main promoters of supporting Zhao Buji as emperor to fight against the Ming Dynasty. What were you thinking about the supporters at that time and the surrender now? What?"
Su Haisheng sat on a chair, drinking tea and watching them with interest.
As the head of the group of ministers, Ma Yongkang of course had to bite the bullet and stand up to answer Su Haisheng's questions on behalf of everyone.
"The commander doesn't know. The reason why we supported the new king before was actually because we had many misunderstandings about the Ming Dynasty. Coupled with the real panic and the requests of some locals in Sichuan and Sichuan, every time there is a big chaos, people always want to To protect ourselves, we support the new king at that time, which is completely in line with the sentiments of the people of Sichuan and Shu."
Su Haisheng took a sip of tea and smiled.
"The hearts of the people of Sichuan and Sichuan. In other words, the landlords and wealthy people in Sichuan and Sichuan hope that you will support a new king to protect their interests?"
Landlord old money?
Protect their interests?
This is...a bit direct.
Ma Yongkang's euphemistic words were very direct in Su Haisheng's mouth, and Su Haisheng really had no intention of beating around the bush with him.
His voice became serious.
"I know what you are worried about. It is nothing more than worry that Ming Dynasty will liquidate you, including those landlords and old wealth. Presumably they are not willing to lose their land wealth. Ming Dynasty is very clear about this, including your surrender this time. Ming Dynasty It’s also very clear why.
That's why I want to tell you that not just anyone will be liquidated in the Ming Dynasty. Those who have made great contributions and those who are pure reactionaries have different policies in the Ming Dynasty. It is also incorrect to liquidate all landlords. , it is also wrong to behead all officials.
Ming will not ignore the contributions you have made, nor will Ming ignore the mistakes you have made. Both of these are things that Ming needs to consider when facing its former enemies. Don’t worry, Ming will definitely give you justice. Even if you never want justice. "
Su Haisheng's statement made the hearts of a group of surrendered ministers beat faster and they felt uneasy.
But in the end, Su Haisheng regained his harmonious tone and smiled.
"Having said that, you surrendered to the Ming Dynasty purely for your own considerations. But this time, you did the right thing. The army under my command reduced casualties by nearly 90%, and also reduced a lot of money expenditure. , which saved Ming Dynasty a huge amount of military expenditure. This contribution was so great that Ming Dynasty would never ignore it.
Originally, the Ming Dynasty was prepared to spend billions of money and suffer more than 10,000 casualties for this war. However, because of your surrender, the Ming Dynasty army has suffered less than 800 casualties so far, and its military expenditures are also very small. The Ming Emperor in Zhongdu was very happy about this. "
When the last words were spoken, the rocks in the hearts of this group of people finally fell to the ground.
It seemed that they had made great contributions to the Ming Dynasty this time. The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was very happy about this and was very willing to treat them kindly because of this incident.
The actual reduction in losses is equivalent to Ming Dynasty's blood profit. And for this blood profit, it shouldn't be too much to give them a relatively good pension treatment, right?
Among the officials present, the youngest is thirty-year-old Wu Ting. The oldest is almost seventy years old and is just waiting to take care of his old age. He is still working hard like this, just to enjoy his old age and to return to his roots. Be safe and sound.
This request cannot be considered excessive no matter what.
Compared to the happiness of Ma Yongkang and others, the relatively young Wu Ting thought more.
He was very surprised.
Because even without the obstruction of the Shu Road, the Ming army still encountered some enemies and some resistance along the way. However, under such resistance, the Ming army actually had less than 800 people in more than two months of military operations. of casualties.
This is a military operation with a total strength of 70,000 troops.
Wu Ting was not even sure whether the Ming army was too strong or the Song army was too expensive.
When Su Haisheng was born, he brought Wu Gong with him, who had been with him all the time. Wu Gong was able to meet his cousins. The two of them were also "major contributors" to this military operation. This meeting was full of emotions.
Wu Gong was allowed to pay homage to Wu Lin's tomb, and together with Wu Ting made a request to Su Haisheng, requesting that the deceased members of the Wu family, including Wu Jie and Wu Lin, be removed from Sichuan and Shu. Instead, they were buried in their ancestral graves in their hometown, allowing them to return to their roots.
Su Haisheng nodded directly to this request.
He specially arranged a team of people to assist the Wu family members in moving the graves of the deceased Wu Jie, Wu Lin and others to their hometown in Guanzhong, so that they could return to their roots.
After finishing a series of things, Su Haisheng went to see Zhao Buxi.
