Chapter 345 Only the Chinese people have food to eat
Chapter 345 Only the Chinese people have food to eat
Author: fire pine cone
Chapter 345 Only the Chinese people have food to eat
Chang Mao's worries are not unreasonable. Up to now, the more than 20,000 Yuan army prisoners have become their biggest problem that needs to be solved urgently.
Kill, don't kill, keep it, it will be a waste of military rations. Send it back, but you are afraid of adding combat effectiveness to Pinghong, the subordinate of Naha Station.
"Is there anyone willing to surrender?" Zhu Su asked Chang Mao.
"There are not many who are willing to surrender, but there are not many. And even if there are one or two who are willing to surrender, we are worried that those people will fake the surrender." Chang Mao shrugged.
Zhu Su nodded. Indeed, if the main force of Ming Naha was not defeated, how could those people sincerely surrender? Even if there were prisoners of Han origin in Liaodong among them, their ancestors had been under the rule of foreign races since the pre-Song Dynasty.
After several generations, my heart was wronged by the Han Dynasty like the Ming Dynasty, and I no longer had a sense of belonging.
Even if they were forced to surrender due to the situation, when Naha sent out his army, I think those people would have raised the flag "anyway" without any psychological burden.
But if Naha was to expose it directly, Zhu Su felt that he was at a loss deep in his heart. He had spent a lot of effort to design and deceive, and finally captured so many prisoners. Could it be that he was just a loser?
Should he transport those Liaodong Yuan troops out of Shanhaiguan to Naha?
Then what has become of me? The captain of the troop transport brigade of Naha's legion?
"Have you arranged for someone to repair the city wall?" After thinking about it, Zhu Su asked.
"No, Mr. Ru is already recruiting civilians to repair the city wall using the work-for-relief method used in Suzhou City in the past." The dog next to him answered no. Zhu Su and his party planned to garrison the county seat, so the county wall must be
It had to be repaired. After all, after the Naha branch learned the news, it was very likely that they would send a partial force to try to attack the county where the three Ming princes were stationed.
"In this case, Mr. Ru doesn't have to recruit civilians to build the city." Zhu Su said. "Those prisoners are idle. Let them build the city wall. When the city wall is repaired, let them go back to find Naha."
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"Even if the fire is worthless, we still have to find a way to squeeze out a few ounces of oil. Otherwise, wouldn't they be at a loss?"
"Let the prisoners come to build the city?" Everyone present was stunned. Zhu Di thought for a while and said: "Although that method worked, the food and grass problem is still unresolved."
"If we continue to keep those prisoners, won't we also be responsible for their food and grass problems?"
"In addition, they still ask for part of the food to be given to the victims. Where do they ask for that food to come from?"
"Well..." A clever woman can't make a meal without rice. Zhu Su pinched his brows with a headache, thought for a while and said: "In ancient times, all resource issues were nothing more than increasing revenue and reducing expenditure. Now that we have no idea about increasing revenue, we can start from reducing expenditure."
It’s all about facing the East.”
"O dog, I have sent an order to the east. The army is short of food and grass, so the cost of prisoners in the camp has been reduced. The original two meals a month will be changed to one meal a month."
"Lao Wu." Just when Gou'er responded, Zhu Xi stepped out and asked, "Will speaking so bluntly cause the prisoners to riot?"
"If Sui Ran wants to give them less food, he should think of a decent excuse. How can he directly tell them that the army is short of food and grass and needs to reduce their expenses? Could it be that, fifth brother, I want to deliberately provoke
Arouse their grievances so that you can find some people to come out and kill the chickens to scare the monkeys?"
Since ancient times, when managing prisoners, they have deliberately stirred up some thorny resentments and then killed them, so that other prisoners in the camp would be obedient. That's why Zhu Xi asked this question. Zhu Su, however, waved his legs and denied it: "Oh, second brother
, my fifth brother has never convinced others with his virtue, how could he use such bloody violence to bully others with his legs?"
"Don't worry, he has his own way to make the captives obedient." As he said this, he whispered a few more words to the dog. After hearing this, the dog nodded, and Li Yang went to do it on his own.
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The next month, a group of prisoners were escorted by King Wu's guards and went to the rock mountains in the south of Changli County to mine bricks and stones. Those prisoners had already had their weapons and armor confiscated, and they had been beaten to fear by brothers Zhu Su and Zhu Di.
I had lost much of my temper by then.
I also heard that the East of the Fifth Palace promised to set them free as soon as the Changli city wall was repaired. The captives were even more excited. They obediently tied their feet and went back and forth between Yanshan and the outside of Changli County.
, pick stones to build walls.
In the evening, a group of prisoners returned to the prison camp out of breath. They were waiting in line to receive the fried rice for the bright month. However, they were told by the Ming army who distributed rice grains: According to the order of the King of Wu, starting from the bright moon, the prison camp expenses will be reduced from the original.
Two meals a month has been directly changed to one meal a month.
Tomorrow night's dinner is gone!
"Then...why not? He waited for Ming Yue to work hard to cut the rocks and transport them to the city wall. The physical exertion was even greater than that of Ping Yue. Why did Ping Yue still have two meals, but Ming Yue only had one meal left? That
What's the point?" One of the prisoners said angrily.
To be fair, the treatment given to the Ming army as prisoners was quite comfortable. Except for a small number of Ming army generals who liked to kill prisoners (such as Chang Yuchun), most of the Ming army generals were in the east of Lao Zhu's three orders and five orders.
adopted a humanitarian policy.
Not only did the supply of food equal to that of the regular army, but those who were willing to join the Ming Guards and perform meritorious service were adopted by the Ming army. The Ming army adopted a policy of equal treatment and did not easily regard the surrendered troops as cannon fodder. They were even willing to allocate land to those who surrendered and give them troops.
This also led to the fact that even more than half of the millions of Ming troops were unable to surrender, and even many famous Ming generals such as Ming were defeated by Lao Zhu from various forces.
Surrender.
That kind of policy of wrongly surrendering troops and being gentle is also one of Lao Zhu's political tricks. To the east of such a policy, as far east as the Northern Yuan Dynasty and as far east as the past month, all parties competed with Lao Zhu for hegemony over Tiandong.
The generals would not fight to the death with the Ming Dynasty: the Zhu family would not kill prisoners anyway, and there were so many people who were awarded the title of marquis and prime minister after surrendering to the Ming Dynasty. It would not be a shame for him to surrender after the battle.
Therefore, most of the soldiers of the Yuan Dynasty who were captured by the Ming Dynasty would not actively resist. Anyway, they could not serve as soldiers and eat food. Where could they eat it? On that day, the east of the Yuan Dynasty was not the east of the Ming Dynasty. Wrong ones
For the lower-level soldiers, there is actually nothing to complain about.
But in the Ming Dynasty, the prince of the Ming Dynasty actually reduced their food and grass expenses, which made the captives a little dissatisfied. In the past few days, there were two handfuls of fried rice in January, and only one handful was left in the bright moon. Could it be that this is not the case?
Did the Prince of Ming Dynasty want to starve them to death?
"Want to ask for an extra meal? That's easy." The Ming soldier looked at the prisoner who first expressed his dissatisfaction in the east, and then said: "That brother looks like a Han... Could it be that the ancestors are here?"
Or are they descendants of China?"
"The master of the palace said that when he became the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he became the patriarch of all the Chinese people. Since he became the patriarch of the Chinese people, he did not let the descendants of the Chinese people suffer from hunger.
reason."
"Just ask us to prove that our ancestors are Chinese people and not invaders of the Tartars. Not only can we get an extra handful of fried rice, but also some more wild vegetables."