Monument Yangmen

Chapter 697 The Value of Captives

Placed in the rear?
The rear is not stable at present, if these people go to the rear, if they make trouble, it will be a trouble.

Send it to the four prefectures in the northwest?
Although the journey is not far, it is not worthwhile to send soldiers and horses to escort them back.

There were not many soldiers under Yang Da's command, and some of them had to be allocated to escort the prisoners, which was too costly for the army.

How to do?
Facing tens of thousands of captives, Yang Da frowned and thought for a long time, only to come up with a solution.

Pit kill!

Subconsciously, Yang Da looked at the captives with more murderous intent.

Anything about humanitarianism has never been considered by Yang Da.

Killing captives has been done since ancient times.

Why did Ren Tu Baiqi kill Zhao Guo's 40 soldiers on the battlefield?
Is it because he likes to kill?
No!

Bai Qi was born as a commoner, so how could he be the kind of person who disregarded other people's lives?

The reason for the murder was that so many people were killed.

There must be a reason.

As far as General Bai Qi is concerned, it must be related to the war.

Definitely needed for war.

This is not to whitewash white, but to explain a fact.

For example, when Zhao Jun's food and grass were exhausted, and Qin Jun's food and grass were also stretched, Bai Qi had to kill.

Although the state of Qin in the Warring States period was very strong, it did not mean that the people of Qin were rich.

Relatively speaking, Qin was actually very poor at the time.

Naturally, being poor can't afford to support so many captives, and they can't let them go back to watch Zhao Guo re-arm its troops and continue to expand, so there is only one way left.

At this moment, Yang Da also felt that there seemed to be only one way left in front of him.

Kindness does not hold soldiers.

These four words are easy to say.

But only when you really feel the true meaning of these four words, you will know how bloody these four words are.

Yang Da took a deep breath, raised his hand, and prepared to make a difficult decision.

"General Yanping..."

At the critical moment, Chen Yao, who followed Yang Da's footsteps, appeared in front of Yang Da.

Yang Da frowned, and looked at Chen Yao displeased, "What's the matter?"

Chen Yao lowered his voice and leaned into Yang Da's ear, "The general wants to kill prisoners..."

Yang Da narrowed his eyes, glanced at Chen Yao, and nodded.

Chen Yao laughed softly and said, "It's a pity to kill..."

Yang Dahu opened his eyes, revealing a sharp light, "What do you mean?"

Chen Yao patiently explained to Yang Da: "General Yanping, although our four northwestern prefectures are prosperous, we have always been short of people, especially labor. The Marquis of Hu has excellent skills. The four northwest prefectures have expanded from the original two prefectures. When it reaches the fourth mansion, it looks like it will be expanded to the fifth mansion, or even the sixth mansion, or even more.

Although the roads, bridges, water conservancy and other infrastructures in Datong and Fuxing are complete, the roads, bridges, water conservancy and other infrastructures in Dongcheng, Xixia and other prefectures in the future are not yet complete.

However, these places are new and relatively sparsely populated.Therefore, a lot of labor is required.

Moreover, Huhou also secretly ordered people to expand the weapon workshop. Iron ore and coal mines are needed to refine weapons.

Under our hands, we need a lot of labor to mine.

There is also the southern country, where the mountains and forests in the southern country are rich in minerals, which also require a lot of labor.

All in all, we are short of manpower, lots and lots of manpower. "

The sharp light in Yang Dahu's eyes faded a lot, but his brows were knitted into a ball, "But it takes a lot of time to send people to escort these prisoners, and we need to free up some troops.

You should be clear that there are not many soldiers and horses in our expedition this time, and every soldier has his use.There was no force to escort them. "

Chen Yao smiled knowingly, and reminded: "Aren't there still [-] civilians available? Although they are civilians, they are no different from soldiers."

Yang Day was taken aback, and smiled, "If you hadn't reminded me, I would have regarded them as ordinary civilian husbands. Forget it, the captives will be handed over to you, and you will deal with them."

After a pause, Yang Da said again: "I have to remind you that these Liao people are not cheap. Once you give them a chance to jump on horseback, they can become brave warriors in an instant. "

"Hey hey hey..."

Chen Yao smiled softly, "Don't worry, I have plenty of means to deal with them."

Chen Yao was an official promoted by Yang Qi from the bottom. Although his previous political achievements were not outstanding, he was very stable and efficient in his work.

Yang Da has made many contacts with Chen Yao, and knows Chen Yao well.

Since Chen Yao said that there is a way to deal with the captives, Yang Da also believed him.

With Yang Da's approval, Chen Yao immediately dispatched a team of [-] civilian husbands to help him escort the prisoners.

captive.

Long before the start of the war, Chen Yao had his eye on it.

In order for Shuozhou and Huanzhou to prosper rapidly in the future, there are many things that need to be built.

As for Shuozhou and Huanzhou, after years of wars and several population plunders by the four prefectures in the northwest, the population was already sparse.

Relying on them to build the two states, I don't know that I have to wait until the year of the monkey.

It's different with prisoners.

Chen Yao can use captives without human rights at will, and he doesn't need to pay them wages. He can spur them to work for a day by giving them a thin meal and a dry meal every day.

run away?

To fight on horseback?

Hey!
Break the hamstrings of each of their feet and see where they can go.

Being pressed and enslaved well, maybe you can even die.

If you are disobedient, you will sell it to Zhejia or the wild beggar tribe.

Zhejia is imitating the construction of the four northwest prefectures intentionally or unintentionally, so Zhejia also needs a lot of labor.

Since the wild beggars were injured in the previous battle, they can't even get the horse herders together.

It is said that the wild beggar tribe has begun to change to the trend of women being the heads of the household.

Men have begun to become their trophies.

Given the fact that there are many monks and little meat in the wild beggar tribe, these laborers are trafficked, not only have to be squeezed dry during the day, but also have to be squeezed dry at night.

There are also those mines hidden in the mountains in the southern country that also need people.

That is a place that eats people without spitting out their bones.

It is said that all the mines in the southern country are Shura fields for captives.

So far, none of the captives who went in came out alive.

All in all, Chen Yao not only wanted to use these captives, but also squeezed out all the value from them.

Its purpose is to build Shuozhou and Huanzhou, which were ruined by them.

Yang Da couldn't figure out Chen Yao's thoughts, and he didn't want to.

His goal and purpose is to fight.

After clearing away the enemies in the city in front of him, the rest of the work of appeasement and reconstruction were all Chen Yao's work.

All trivial matters were handed over to Chen Yao.

Yang Da rode his horse to the gate of the city with unusual ease. Looking at the soldiers under his command who were carrying the captured soldiers with big bags and small bags on their backs, he frowned and asked, "Where is the lord of this city?"

A soldier immediately responded with a smile: "When Chen Ergou snatched the golden knife from someone's waist, he didn't agree, so he killed him with a knife."

(End of this chapter)