Lu Bu doesn't know Jia Xu's thoughts yet.

On the day he returned to the city, he comforted Yan Qing first, and released some pressure himself, and then began to deal with the follow-up of the previous battle the next day.

Although he returned to this battle, he killed the enemy chiefs and companies, killed countless enemies, captured countless prisoners, and seized countless war horses, cattle and sheep, but for a war, the end of the battle does not mean that everything is over. On the contrary, after the battle is over, many things have just begun.

The first is the issue of rewarding merits after the war.

The rewards on merit and conduct here do not only mean that he wants to reward his soldiers, but more importantly, he wants to ask for rewards from the superiors.

Helian invaded Bingzhou in a large-scale invasion. If he had not led his army to defeat Helian, even if Ding Yuan finally defended Bingzhou, according to his practice of giving up border counties and defending the hinterland, several border counties would have suffered.

Now Lu Bu directly stopped Helian in Shuofang County, and made every effort in one battle. It is not an exaggeration to say that he has turned the tide and to support the generals.

In this case, both emotion and reason are great achievements.

Of course, although Lu Bu and his men fought this battle from beginning to end, and Ding Yuan guarded several counties near the heart of the Central Plains and did not even see the shadow of Hu Qi, but the credit should be divided, and it is impossible to give all the credit to Lu Bu.

There is no way, this is the officialdom.

Even though Ding Yuan did nothing, he was Lu Bu's immediate boss. If Lu Bu won, he won under Ding Yuan's leadership. This is a matter of principle and cannot be neglected.

However, to be fair, Ding Yuan has been pretty good to him since Lu Bu joined the officialdom. Although Ding Yuan has become more cautious about him in the past two years as Lu Bu's reputation in the Bingzhou army has attracted Ding Yuan to be more cautious, and after Lu Bu rejected Ding Yuan's idea of ​​accepting him as his adopted son, the relationship between the two has been very good on the surface, and it is far from the point of breaking apart.

Therefore, the main contribution of this battle must be Lu Bu's, and Ding Yuan can only benefit at most.

Of course, since it is rewarded by merit, the sharing of merit here is definitely not the focus, the focus is still on bribery.

That's right, it's bribery.

If it is common sense, it is natural for a general to win a battle in the frontier and receive various rewards, but this does not work now.

It is now the fourth year of Guanghe (181), and Emperor Liu Hong of Han began to clearly mark prices in Xiyuan, selling official positions and titles was the first year of Guanghe (178).

Perhaps at the beginning, Emperor Liu Hong of Han really planned to sell official positions and titles, but as time went by, perhaps Liu Hong felt that making money was too slow, or perhaps the Ten Generals were deceived and concealed the subordinates and fed their own pockets. In short, I don’t know when it started. Not only did it cost money to be an official, but even if you want to get the reward after making contributions, you had to stuff some money into Luoyang first.

In other words, although Lu Bu made great contributions this time, he had to bribe first if he wanted to exchange the credit for rewards.

Lu Bu did not have much resistance to this point, because he knew very well that the man would be over in a few years. Under this situation, the worse the man is, the more he has the chance to gain more benefits from it before the man is completely rotten.

What Lu Bu cares about now is who should pay the money.

Under normal circumstances, of course, Lu Bu should pay the money himself.

After all, he was the one who made the meritorious service, and he was the one who wanted to be rewarded, but this time the situation was a little different. Ding Yuan, the governor of Bingzhou, did nothing and shared some of the contributions from it.

In this way, Lu Bu felt that it was not too much to let Ding pay the money.

Of course, this is just Lu Bu’s current idea. How to do it depends on the communication with Ding Yuan.

In addition to rewarding merits and practices, the second issue is the issue of pensions.

Although the previous battle was very smooth, it was impossible to fight against 300,000 Bingzhou elite cavalry against 300,000 Hulu even if it was a big battle, it would be impossible without casualties.

Although on the surface, the process of this battle was that Lu Bu stood in front and more than 10,000 Bingzhou Jingqi rushed behind and Hu Qi was defeated, but in fact, after this battle, the casualties of Bingzhou Jingqi still reached more than 1,000 people.

There is no way, there are too many Hu people.

It can be said without hesitation that most of the reason why this battle can be won is that not long after the spiritual energy has been revived, ordinary soldiers have not been used to the existence of super-special combat power like Lu Bu. In addition, the first time these Hu cavalry met Lu Bu, so they were stunned.

If after a while, when super first-class generals like Zhao Yun, Dian Wei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei emerged one after another, soldiers from all sides gradually got used to the existence of this super-specified combat power. Even Lu Bu would probably be difficult to replicate such a record.

The spiritual energy is revived. Although the strength of the top military generals will increase substantially, the physical fitness of ordinary people will become subtly stronger under the influence of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

In other words, the combat effectiveness of the army will become stronger and stronger over time.

These changes may not be obvious now, but there is no reason to believe that in the near future, the army will find ways to restrain these top-notch generals.

No matter what, after the war, pension work must be done well.

In this battle, more than a thousand casualties of the Bingzhou Jingqi cavalry, of which 814 were killed, 321 were slightly injured and 39 were seriously injured. In the battle of large-scale cavalry group hedging, in most cases, injured and dropped into the horse would be equivalent to death, so the casualties ratio can be said to be extremely exaggerated.

Among these people, those who died in battle would have to send pensions to their families, those who were seriously injured would have to support the situation in the future, and those who were seriously injured would have to be sent home. Those who were left with little impact would have to be rewarded.

In addition to rewarding and pensions for the soldiers in terms of merit, there is another most important thing, that is, the issue of spoils.

In this battle of Lu Bu intercepting Helian in Shuofang County, he directly defeated the Helian army head-on, so that the Hu cavalry all fled and lost countless spoils.

Among these spoils, not only were the Hu people driving south, but also countless cattle and sheep used as military rations, but also the countless money and money that the Hu people plundered south this time.

In addition, Lu Bu also captured many Hu cavalry and seized a large number of war horses. How to distribute these spoils next is also a big problem.

Like military achievements, although these spoils were seized by Lu Bu, he could not take them all by himself. It was inevitable to give them some to his immediate superior Ding Yuan. However, like military achievements, Lu Bu must still occupy the majority.

However, no matter how you divide it, it is undoubtedly a big project.

So during the next period of time, Lu Bu worked hard on these problems every day.

Although some people do these things and he doesn't need to do them by himself, most of them must have to make the final decision after the people below do them, so Lu Bu was also busy for a long time.

When these things finally came to an end, Ding Yuan also replied to the news.

Previously, when Lu Bu returned to Jiuyuan, he sent someone to send a war report to Ding Yuan, and now Ding Yuan has also sent someone to send a reply.

As an old man who has been in the officialdom for many years, Ding Yuan's awareness is obviously very high.

Although Lu Bu didn't say much when sending people to deliver the war report, Ding Yuan had already considered all aspects when sending people to reply - he gave the money in Luoyang, and Lu Bu just had to wait and accept the reward.

Lu Bu made his decision on the seized spoils, and he had no objection to the distribution of them.

Obviously, Ding Yuan is not the kind of person who is good at taking advantage of the situation.

All of this battle was Lu Bu, and he was just a free reward, so Ding Yuan's posture was very low.

As Lu Bu's immediate boss, Ding Yuan has put on this attitude, so Lu Bu has to give Ding Yuan a face.

With a wave of his hand, he immediately said that the matter in Luoyang was all based on Ding Yuan. As for the spoils, he distributed two thousand war horses and fifty thousand cattle and sheep to Ding Yuan's envoy for him to take them back.

Overall, both sides were satisfied with this result.

For Ding Yuan, he not only gained the credit for his in vain, but also gained a lot of spoils, which was a big profit.

For Lu Bu, the remaining power of the great man is still there and order is still there. With an old official like Ding Yuan, who is in front of him, helping him exchange his merits for actual benefits, and it is worthwhile to share some benefits.

As the saying goes, you are good, I am good, everyone is good.

However, after solving this issue of interest distribution, Lu Bu also had to consider his future path.

After this battle, there was probably no war on the frontier in the next few years.

The main forces of the Hu people were basically left in Shuofang County, and Helian was killed by Lu Bu with one arrow. Even if some Hu cavalry could escape back to the grassland, they lost the support of the robbery, and I don’t know how much they could be left after this winter.

The most important thing is that even if the Hu people in the north can still retain some vitality, as long as Lu Bu is still in Bingzhou for one day, these Hu people will probably not come to Bingzhou even if they detour to Youzhou and Liangzhou.

However, perhaps Bingzhou will be stable in the next few years, but if history has not changed much, the Yellow Turban Rebellion will begin in a few years.

Although the current great man is old, the lean camel is bigger than a horse.

The Yellow Turban Rebellion undoubtedly pushed the old man into the grave again.

For Lu Bu, how to gain enough benefits in the yellow wave that swept most of the world will be the focus he will prepare for in the next few years.

After all, the heroes at the end of the Han Dynasty almost all obtained their first pot of gold during the Yellow Turban Uprising.
Chapter completed!