"My lord, the last general also feels that it may be inappropriate to directly treat these thieves as slaves."

……

In fact, the thoughts of the two of them are also very obvious. They just feel that these Shanyue have touched the lowest standard of being a human being.So even though they knew Zhang Yan planned to use these people as slaves to build Lujiang from the beginning, they still felt that such behavior was too unfair to those victims.

Especially Xu Huang, who had faced those murdered girls, felt that if all of these Shanyue were killed with sticks, there might not be innocent ones, but every other shot with a stick would definitely slip through the net.

It was just because of the different personalities of the two that Xu Huang was not in a hurry to express his opinion to Zhang Yan, and planned to take a look at the other party's arrangement first. On the contrary, Pei Yuanshao, who was more direct, couldn't help but go first as if he was afraid that Zhang Yan would let those thieves go. Open your mouth to persuade.

……

"Well... what did you just say?"

……

On the other hand, Zhang Yan was still in a state of ecstasy, not agreeing or rejecting himself as Pei Yuanshao and the other two expected. Zhang Yan was still in a state of ecstasy, constantly thinking about what he should do in order to be able to solve the current situation. maximize profit.

When he finally made up his mind and figured out the joints, he saw Pei Yuanshao and Xu Huang clasping their hands one after the other and looking at him who was at the top of the room, so a look of embarrassment suddenly appeared on his face.

Seeing him like this, Xu Huang and Pei Yuanshao also looked at each other, and after shaking their heads speechlessly, Pei Yuanshao took the lead and said what he said just now.

……

"My lord, although all the Shanyue thieves have surrendered this time, there are many vicious and vicious people among them. If you directly enslave them, it would be inappropriate, right?"

……

There was a hint of worry in his face. Although Pei Yuanshao was impatient, an impatient person did not necessarily have no brains, let alone an idiot.

Therefore, although he came from a poor background, he also knew that if Zhang Yan directly took all these people for his own use this time, it would inevitably cause dissatisfaction among many people in Lujiang. The folly of one's own fame.

Just at the side, Zhang Yan chuckled after hearing the words, waved his hands at the two of them and said:

"Pfft——I thought what you guys said just now was referring to this matter."

"When did I say that I would turn all these people into slaves? Although there is a shortage of people in Lujiang, I will not do such a short-sighted thing."

"Wait with peace of mind, *************************, you will know how I will arrange this matter."

"Old Pei, I know you're doing it for my own good, but we've known each other for so long, so you can rest assured of me after all."

Smiling and waving to the two, Zhang Yan saw the other party's hesitation, so he just got up and poured a glass of water for the two and himself, and then sat down on the table not far away near the wall.

For those things that the two were worried about before, Zhang Yan naturally already had thoughts.

This time, the treatment of these Shanyue thieves and bandits is nothing more than the simple word "balance".

Undoubtedly, since everyone wasted so much effort to bring those Shanyue prisoners back this time, if Zhang Yan chopped them all off on a whim, then this battle would not be much better if it were not for nothing.

Even if the people of Lujiang will have a good impression of Zhang Yan because of this, but the good impression is the least valuable thing...

Without these mountainous efforts to vigorously build the Lujiang River and improve the infrastructure construction of the Lujiang River such as roads, bridges, and groundwater, the people's goodwill towards Zhang Yan will soon be exhausted because their quality of life has not been substantially improved.

For these common people, even if Zhang Yan maintains the image of a good official by doing so, it will also leave behind the characteristics of an incompetent person.

And if Zhang Yan chooses to count these thieves one by one in order to build the Lujiang River, and make them all slaves...

Leaving aside how much Zhang Yan needed to detain and control more than [-] villains, just the eyes of those victims in Lujiang is not something Zhang Yan can easily bear.

The key to handling this matter lies in a balanced way.

Chapter 3 Jungle of Flesh

Soon, it didn't take too long, when Pei Yuanshao was still a little uncertain about Zhang Yan's thoughts and kept eye contact with Xu Huang, Ye'er finally returned to the house with a few officials in official uniforms.

"Master, everyone is here."

Slightly bowing, Ye'er walked quietly behind Zhang Yan and sat down.

As for the officials of different ages, they bowed to Zhang Yan and others in the room one after another, and then knelt down on the ground not far away.

"Meet Mr. Zhang."

Smiling and nodding to the people who greeted him, Zhang Yan saw that everyone had arrived, so he began to arrange the affairs for the next period of time.

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"First of all, I called everyone here today to announce some things. All of you here have worked in the Lujiang government office for a long time, and they are the backbone of our Lujiang. I think the situation in Lujiang has changed a lot for a while ago. I understand deeply."

"It has been half a year since I came to Lujiang to take up the post of prefect. During this six months, no matter whether it is the aristocratic family in Lujiang or the ordinary people, big or small, they have repeatedly mentioned the Lujiang area to me. The local black and evil forces, that is, those mountain bandits."

"To be honest, before I came to Lujiang, even my in-laws, our rich local Qiao family in Lujiang, were deeply influenced by those Shanyue, and they were not spared because of their superior status."

"Regarding such a situation, as the prefect of Lujiang, I have always been quite distressed."

"The main purpose of calling everyone here today is to disclose to everyone the current situation of Shanyue, and my arrangements and requirements for your work as the prefect of Lujiang for the next period of time."

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It was a simple opening speech. Zhang Yan saw that everyone had already sat down below, so he roughly explained what he wanted to say today.

Then, when mentioning the Qiao family, Zhang Yan did not forget to nod along the way to a young man not far away who was dressed in simple and simple style, but was very particular about materials and workmanship.If he remembered correctly, that young man was a scholar from the Qiao family, and he was currently working in the Propaganda Department of the Lujiang Government Office.

After seeing everyone nodding their heads, expressing that he already understood, Zhang Yan continued to speak.

"Then let me explain to everyone here. You may not be very clear before. The two present here are the two generals Xu Huang and Pei Yuanshao who serve in our Lujiang army."

"In the past half a month, our Lujiang army, led by the two present here and the other two generals, launched a four-pronged attack on Shanyue to the south, and successfully broke through the Shanyue area around Qianshan. power."

"I think you must have noticed that not long ago today, General Xu Huang escorted the first batch of Shanyue surrenders back to the boundary of our Wancheng City. Currently, those Shanyue are suppressed inside the barracks."

Looking around the faces of everyone present, Zhang Yan could clearly find that after hearing what he said, the officials of the Lujiang Propaganda Department reacted faster than the officials of the Department of Civil Affairs and the Department of Industry. a cut.

Seeing the thoughtful look of the other party, it is obvious that he has entered a certain working state and is thinking about what kind of impact such news will have on Lujiang.

Afterwards, Zhang Yan didn't hold back, but assigned the responsibilities of each department one by one.

"Well, first of all, the Department of Civil Affairs, I ask you to sort out the crimes of those Shanyue as soon as possible, and according to the victim's confession and other information, divide those Shanyue into three grades, A, B, and C, even those who have passed away. Shanyue also needs to find out their names and identities, and nothing should be missed."

"At this point, I suggest that you can ask the former captives in the Lujiang area brought back by General Xu Huang today, or conduct some investigations in Lujiang to see which people have been oppressed by Shanyue."

"If you need help, you can go to those guys from the Department of Justice for help."

First, he set his sights on the person in charge of the Department of Civil Affairs, and Zhang Yan quickly set a set of rating standards for those prisoners, and had a certain discussion with everyone present.

Since there is no corresponding judiciary in Lujiang, Zhang Yan simply handed over the acquisition of criminal evidence and related work to the heads of the Department of Civil Affairs and the Department of Public Security, and asked them to first be responsible for the investigation of the thousands of war criminals. Trial work.

As for the treatment of prisoners of different levels, he quickly made a final decision.

"For all Class C war criminals, that is, those who have no human life on their hands and have not committed too violent crimes, this time all of them will be given a certain degree of corporal punishment, and then they will be sentenced to ten to twenty years according to their crimes. reform through labor."

"During the labor reform period, we will guarantee their food and personal safety to a certain extent, but the other party must contribute to the construction of the Lujiang River, which is counted as atonement."

"As for the Class B personnel who have committed even worse crimes, the Department of Civil Affairs will come forward this time to degrade them all to slave status and no longer be regarded as Lujiang citizens. At the same time, their freedom will be deprived during their lifetime. Contribute to the construction of Lujiang until they die of old age or exhaustion.”

"As for those Class A war criminals, that is, those who cannot be punished..."

A chill flashed in his eyes, and after knowing what Shanyue had done, Zhang Yan had a plan in his heart.

"For these criminals who cannot be punished, after the Civil Affairs Department confirms the crimes of the other party, they will be uniformly escorted to the South Gate Square in Wancheng, where they will be interrogated and beheaded!"

"Not only that, for these people, we have to cut off all their heads, hang them with vines and bamboo nets near the gate of the south gate of Wancheng, and make them public."

"In the end, those corpses without heads were all pierced with spears over four meters long, and I found a piece of wasteland near the official road at the south gate to stand there, and directly turned that place into a forest of corpses, so that those As long as those who do evil see that pile of corpses, they will never dare to harbor ill intentions in Lujiang again!"

A pair of eyes narrowed slightly, Zhang Yan's face was already full of chills at the moment.

"I want these Shanyue to know that the laws of the big man are definitely not so easy to trample on, and the people of the big man are definitely not easy to be oppressed by anyone."

"Deterrence is good, and deterrence is good."

"All in all, I want to use this incident to make no one in Lujiang dare to mention Shanyue again, and make Shanyue's influence completely disappear in Lujiang!"

I copied the practice of the grand duke of Wallachia. Although Zhang Yan's environment is completely different from that of Vlad Tepesh, this does not prevent him from learning some useful things from the other party in terms of deterrence. thing.

Chapter 4 Placement Method

Shen Sheng said to the people present, Zhang Yan's idea this time is actually very simple, that is to cut the weeds and eradicate the roots, not only to completely clear the original Shanyue in Lujiang River, but also to erase the soil of Shanyue's survival from the area around Lujiang River.

You know, Shanyue was originally a bandit alliance-like organization formed by a group of Han people gathered under Zu Lang's command, so that the people of the entire Lujiang River would know the fate of doing evil, and naturally no one would want to do anything with Shanyue.

In this way, there will naturally be a lot less [-]-year-olds like the original Zu Mo.

As for whether this method is too bloody... In fact, Zhang Yan really doesn't care much.

In the Qin and Han Dynasties, the laws were actually quite strict. In terms of the death penalty alone, it was divided into many execution methods such as beheading, Ling Chi, and car cracking.

As for Zhang Yan's behavior, in fact, the execution itself is not much different from the original beheading, but the attitude towards the corpse is not the same as that of people in the Qin and Han Dynasties.

But this is also good, Zhang Yan just hoped that through such behavior, he would show his dislike to Shanyue and other anarchists to the people under his command, and at the same time prove his determination to stand on the same front as the people of Lujiang.

"All in all, don't worry that our actions are too extreme. If we want to deter those thieves from coming to Lujiang to do evil again, we need to be extreme to be effective."

"As for the people, as long as we take preventive measures in advance and publish all the evil deeds of those thieves, the people will understand our approach."

Finally, he gave instructions to the person in charge of the Department of Civil Affairs, and Zhang Yan shifted his gaze slightly to Pei Yuanshao who was kneeling beside him.

"How about it, my Great General Pei, so you can rest assured?"

Smiling and teasing the other party, Zhang Yan knew that the other party was also doing it for his own good, so he didn't want to vent his anger on the other party. Instead, he was quite satisfied with Pei Yuanshao's behavior of daring to reveal his true thoughts.

As for Pei Yuanshao, he naturally nodded a little embarrassedly at this moment, and just hummed like that, and said no more.

"My lord Mingjian, the general is a little anxious."

Hehe smiled and touched his head. Seeing Zhang Yan give orders, Pei Yuanshao obviously had already made plans in his heart, and he naturally understood that his behavior just now was a bit meddling.

After Zhang Yan let out a sigh of relief, he turned his attention to another matter besides the treatment of those war criminals, that is, the young women that Xu Huang brought back today.

To be honest, the resettlement method of these women is probably more complicated than that of the previous prisoners.

At the very beginning, Zhang Yan subconsciously planned to send all these women back to their original families according to their ancestral origins and origins.

For those women whose families have been destroyed, the Lujiang government will provide a relief fund to help them purchase a set of real estate in Wancheng, which can be regarded as giving these victims a place to stay.

It just didn't take a while before he gave up his original plan.

You must know that there is a big difference between the Qin and Han Dynasties and the modern age Zhang Yan lived in, and Zhang Yan himself quickly realized that his behavior just now was due to some methods of dealing with refugees in later generations. Not necessarily applicable to women.

For example, in the whereabouts of these women, although sending them home seems beautiful, but considering the status of women in this era and the rather harsh concept of chastity, this behavior will not really help these victims. Or, on the contrary, it may hurt the other party again from other aspects.

In this day and age, it is a very, very serious matter for a woman to lose her virginity when she is unmarried, or to have an affair within marriage. It is so serious that under the influence of the women's commandment, such behavior can make a woman die of shame and anger.

Although these young girls brought back by Xu Huang from all over the Qianshan Mountain were ravaged by the injustice of fate, this cannot conceal the fact that these people "lost their virginity".

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