People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 364 Thirty thousand Japanese slave prisoners successfully arrived in Peiping! More than two thousand people died along the way! All thrown into the sea!

After Mu Ying finished speaking, the committee members below began preparations.

The reason why they were worried at this time was how to arrange for some of the captives who passed over from the Japanese slaves.
It's because in the past six months, not to mention that all these Japanese slave captives have some ideas.

At first, these prisoners were of course afraid of the weapons and equipment shipped by the Ming Dynasty.

Even the Ming Dynasty's fighting method.

That's because they haven't seen it before, that's what they, old haters, don't know.

After all, the Japanese at this time were more closed than the Ming Dynasty.

They have been engaged in a cold weapon war for decades, and they have long been in disarray among themselves.

Even fighting for the title of lord of a guard was a mess.

So suddenly facing such an organized and orderly attack from the Ming Dynasty, they were stunned.

So with this foundation, they naturally refused to admit defeat.

At this time, when the Japanese Nu Colonial Committee assigned a task to their Jiuzhou State Committee, the chairman of the state committee immediately began to organize, gathering a large number of captives, and then transported them to Tangli for gathering.

After occupying this place, the committee vigorously developed trade with North Korea and the Ryukyu Kingdom in the south.

So even after they were captured, they were still very unconvinced.

So they were unconvinced.

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Of course, there is no place called Tianjin yet.

If you really fight with us, you may not be able to defeat us.

The place Tianjin Wei only existed after Zhu Di's battle of Jingnan.

At the same time, they also traded with merchant ships coming from the Ming Dynasty.

I think you who came from the Ming Dynasty are just like this.

Why do you say people in this place are dishonest?
They started out as rebels themselves.

But the customs and customs here are very bad.

A large number of merchants from the Ming Dynasty settled here and brought in a large amount of Ming Dynasty goods, which also achieved quite good results.

In addition, Muying was transferred to Yunnan in the later period to fight against the chieftains and ethnic minorities in Yunnan.

It turned out that the people sent by the Ming Dynasty were too few. Many of them captured their own people and then acted as puppet soldiers to fight for them in the front line.

How could these individuals have any chance of winning in front of Mu Ying, the founding general of the country?

Although they were conquered, they were used as slaves.

At this time, the place is already developing well.

They are located in a remote area and have little cultural knowledge, so they like to fight bravely and are relatively brave.

Then it was transported from Tsushima Island to Busan Port in North Korea for a stop. After replenishing food, it went directly to Weihai, Shandong Province.

However, after two or three years of adaptation, they finally understood.

I am used to fighting in the jungle in the mountains.

Because of what?
The battles Mu Ying fought with Zhu Yuanzhang in the early stage were all large-scale battles, and she had the ability to command large-scale armies.

But, in fact, what they don't know at all is the individual's bravery and ruthlessness.

Kyushu Colonization Commission.

You Tang people are just a little more powerful with the weapons in your hands.

Secondly, they are close to the sea all year round, so there are a lot of Japanese pirates here.

Replenish there again and then directly to Tianjin.

They have been fighting for decades. Although they are all village wars, their individual ability to fight bravely and fiercely is still quite impressive.

Not to mention that many of those little devils are elite warriors.

But this kind of person just refuses to admit defeat.

But all he wants is to restore the country.

At this time, the Japanese slaves' side was rich in mountains and dense forests, which was more suitable for a conductor like Mu Ying to fight.

Many famous people were killed like this.

So during this process, they didn't know how to react.

Although a large number of them were sent to work as laborers in silver and gold mines.

The people of the Japanese slaves in Kyushu are a little different from the Japanese slaves in the east.

This is a true professional counterpart.

That's why Chen Han recommended Mu Ying to go.

As well as the village wars they fought, it was impossible to win a real organized and large-scale war like the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, this place was called the place where the emperor crossed over to Tianjin, so it was called Tianjin for short.

But without this place name, there is still a port.

After landing there, they were directly received by King Zhu Di of Yan who was stationed in Beiping Mansion, and they could be used as laborers.

When the letter arrived, the state committee made arrangements.

However, just as the members and ministers of the Japanese slave colonial committee were worried, these prisoners really started to rebel.

Especially the Kyushu State Committee, when they gathered three thousand prisoners together to prepare to board the ship.

More than 300 prisoners suddenly emerged among the prisoners, robbed the weapons from the puppet soldiers, and killed more than 40 puppet soldiers.

Then they launched a counterattack towards the city where the state committee was located.

The slogan they shouted was to counterattack the entire Kyushu and take back Kyushu.

Then he went from Kyushu to the current Shijian country and regained the territory of the Japanese slaves.

Because these three hundred people came out very suddenly, dozens of Japanese slaves and puppet soldiers were killed at once, which aroused the ambition of these three thousand captives.

These three thousand prisoners themselves were thorns released from various prisoner camps in Kyushu, and each of them wanted to have seven or eight thoughts of rebellion in their heads.

If you seize such a good opportunity, of course you will attack in groups.

Fortunately, they were concentrated at the beach and not in the city. Otherwise, more accidents would have happened.

It is estimated that killing those Japanese slaves and puppet troops gave the prisoners great confidence this time, so they rushed towards Jiuzhou City with roars.

But what these prisoners didn't expect was that red cannons were already placed on the towers of Jiuzhou City, although there were only two.

There are more than a thousand muskets that can be equipped at the same time.

That was the city guarded by the Ming Navy itself.

When they heard the noise coming from the prison camp on the seaside in the distance, Jiuzhou City had already started to be on guard.

When the prisoners were holding the stolen weapons one by one, they wanted to attack the city of Kyushu.

Before they could get closer, they suddenly heard two bangs, like thunder.

Then a huge pit exploded among the prisoners, with blood flying and broken limbs jumping around.

Two red-coated cannons were fired and killed three to four hundred people.

Before they could react, there was the sound of firecracker-like gunfire from the city wall.

The prisoners who rushed in front fell to death one after another.

But the firecracker-like gunfire did not stop, and hit them two or three rounds at once, which instantly destroyed the confidence of all the prisoners. They did not have any equipment to defend themselves against muskets, and they were shot at from such a close range from a high place. There was an open field outside the city, and they had no place to hide, so they became living targets.

At dawn the next day, these prisoners who were squatting on the ground and put down their weapons looked at the dead bodies lying around them.
Only then did he realize that it was simply impossible for his people to resist.

No matter how brave your personal force is, if you can't even touch the hem of the Ming Dynasty's navy, what's the use?

Only now did they realize that the force they and others believed in was simply childish and pitiful when it came to high-tech weapons like this.

And after the remaining one thousand prisoners were surrounded by the Ming Navy in Jiuzhou City, they wanted to resist again. They wanted to kneel down and beg for mercy. They wanted to live.

They want to shout out that we are willing to go to Liaodong or your Peiping to build railways, but they have no chance.

The Kyushu Colonial Commission directly issued a kill order.

The remaining one thousand prisoners were shot at close range.

The prisoners who slowly gathered from other places were so frightened that they no longer dared to resist at all after seeing the consequences of resistance.

Originally, the prisoners were talking to each other everywhere, but the Ming Dynasty sent very few people, and most of them were puppet troops who had surrendered.
Those puppet troops are very sparse in combat effectiveness and can be disposed of at will.

But what I didn't expect was that although those puppet soldiers had poor martial arts skills, it was because they did not obtain the Ming Dynasty's firearms.

The weapons equipped by the Ming Navy can knock them down directly from a distance of one to two hundred meters.

Those gunmen who have been professionally trained and fed bullets are very powerful.

So after this resistance incident, there was no more resistance.

The Kyushu Committee successfully raised five thousand prisoners, and then transported them to Tangli Base in two large ships.

The prisoners drawn from Izumo Kingdom, Ishigami Kingdom and the original Japanese slaves from the Southern Dynasty also arrived quickly, and they collected 20,000 to 30,000 prisoners at once.

The Japanese slave colonial committee was worried again.

The original plan might have been 10,000 to 20,000, but now as many as 30,000 have been sent.

Mu Ying thought for a moment and waved her hand: Send them all away, even if they transport less gold and silver back to the Ming Dynasty this time. The prisoners must be transported away first.

When more than 30,000 prisoners boarded the fleet bound for the Ming Dynasty, the fate waiting for them became very obvious.

These 30,000 prisoners crossed the ocean, and about 2,000 more died at sea due to crowding.

The Ming Dynasty's navy treated these dead prisoners very roughly, throwing them directly into the sea.

Then a horrifying scene occurred.

Behind this fleet were countless sharks.

And the corpses thrown from the ship are their best food.

After more than two months of transportation, we finally arrived in Tianjin.

King Zhu Di of Yan had already received the news. When he heard that 30,000 prisoners had been transported to him from the Japanese slaves, he was so happy that snot bubbles came out of his nose.

Because what does he lack most now?
What is lacking is stable labor.

But the weather in Beiping Mansion is terrible right now. It’s bone-chilling cold in winter.

This not only greatly increased the price of his labor.

At the same time, it is not conducive to use various coercive means to force those people to build railways.

But as a person with an iron fist, this contradiction makes him very painful.

So he asked the court for help.

Originally, he thought that if he could recruit a group of workers from Nanyang and pay them at public prices, he would do his part.

But he also thought that the workers coming from Nanyang would definitely not be used to the severe cold weather in the north, so he was hesitant to solve this problem.

So much so that when he heard Chen Han and the others saying that they could send him prisoners directly from the Japanese slaves and make them without any labor, he felt really happy.

Because he knew that the people who came from the Japanese slaves could indeed be killed casually. So what if a large number of them died?
If one batch dies, another batch will be sent.

So when King Yan Zhu Di led an army of 5,000 to receive these 30,000 prisoners, he immediately escorted them over.

After these prisoners arrived at Beiping Mansion, it was almost October.

Even in later generations, Beiping began to get colder in October, not to mention that it slowly entered the Little Ice Age, which was even colder.

Even though the latitude of the Wonu side is similar to that of Northeast China, it is different on the Kyushu side.

Kyushu is a little closer to the south, so as soon as the people from the Japanese slaves arrived, some fell ill immediately.

Then before it was too late, more than a dozen people died when they arrived at the construction site.

I really agree with that sentence. There is no need to sympathize with such a person at all.

So they fell ill and were buried on the spot when they died, without any human rights at all.

To deal with these people, Chen Han wrote a letter to King Zhu Di of Yan, saying that no sympathy was needed, they could do whatever they wanted, and they could die as many as they wanted.

So after giving some vaccinations, King Zhu Di of Yan faced these dead prisoners and immediately buried them on the spot without any sympathy at all.

After driving them to the construction site, they were given some cotton-padded clothes and several hearty meals, but they had to start work the next day.

What is the hardest part about building railways?
The most painful thing is to break the stones quarried from various places into small pieces and spread them under the sleepers.

Because this is what consumes the most manpower and material resources, and is also the most likely to cause death from fatigue.

Of course, these prisoners have not yet tried to go to the south to build the railway.

To build railways in the south, tunnels have to be built, and many people have died while digging tunnels.

The railways built in the north are flat all the way, and there are still few places where tunnels need to be built, unless roads are built over mountains and bridges are built over water.

A lot of people will die when building a bridge because a lot of bridge piers have to be built.

Of course, even in modern times, people will say that there are many innocent souls buried under the bridge piers, because many people will die.

That's why King Yan Zhu Di didn't want to use the people of the Ming Dynasty.

No matter how much money is given to the people of the Ming Dynasty, it is not worth human life.

Half a month later, King Yan Zhu Di was pleasantly surprised to find out.

Under high-pressure coercion, these 30,000 prisoners made progress quite quickly.

The road from Shanhaiguan to the inland is quite difficult to walk.

But after these prisoners took five or six hundred lives and left, the railway from Shanhaiguan to the most difficult fifteen miles inland was built.

Although five or six hundred lives were filled in, it was nothing to Zhu Di.

And it will be much more convenient next time.

King Yan Zhu Di also adhered to Chen Han's request and did not give these prisoners any good looks.

It is estimated that these prisoners never dreamed that after arriving in the Ming Dynasty, their lives would at least be better, but they actually came to build roads.

But they dare not run even more.

So many prisoners died in Jiuzhou, and even in the Japanese slaves' homeland, there was no way to fight against the Ming navy guarding Jiuzhou City, let alone the vast north of the Ming Dynasty.

How many troops did the Ming Dynasty guard here?

You run, where are you going?
Even to prevent them from escaping, every two of them had anklets tied to their feet.

Want to run?

It was so hard to move.

Every time King Zhu Di of Yan rode a tall horse and stood on the hillside looking at the prisoners building the railway through binoculars, he would sneer slightly and say, "Okay, that's great. You don't need to pay pensions or wages even if you die.

Just need to keep it full, it’s so useful! ! "

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(End of this chapter)