Wu Guohou's previous letter to disband his troops and return to his fields was actually not all nonsense.
After fighting at the border all year round, there is not a single piece of good meat in his body.
Not to mention that he suffers from paralysis. When he gets sick, his knees become as swollen as balls and he can't walk at all.
But, is it difficult to say this to the emperor?
Now that the emperor had made his decision, Marquis Wu naturally had no choice but to take the Tiger Talisman and lead 30,000 soldiers to southern Shu.
In the emperor's view, Prince An's Mansion has been in southern Shu for so many years. Even if Prince An is pretending, there is no doubt that there are soldiers and horses secretly raised by Prince An's Mansion in Shunan City.
If you raise so many soldiers and horses, the first thing you need is food, grass and silver.
The income of Prince An's Mansion over the years has basically depended on Princess An's dowry.
The men originally led by King An were dismissed long ago when they were in the capital.
Even if they were secretly found again later, where would the food, grass and money come from to support them?
Therefore, asking Wu Guohou to bring 30,000 soldiers and horses was considered to be a sign of respect for King An.
The closest place to Shunan is Yizhou. Compared with Shunan, Yizhou is much better in every aspect.
However, the disaster occurred in southern Sichuan, and Yizhou was also affected to varying degrees.
Therefore, when the disaster victims came, the prefect of Yizhou directly turned away those victims from the city and did not allow them to enter the city to avoid causing turmoil.
After all, in the beginning, after the story of Governor Liu being killed by the refugees in the government office in southern Shu reached the ears of the Governor of Yizhou, he became even more vigilant and disgusted with the victims.
It was also because of Yizhou's measures that the victims were so willing to follow Fang Lei's people and take them back to Shunan for resettlement.
At this time, Marquis Wu Guo was leading his troops to Yizhou.
The prefect of Yizhou was so frightened that his eyes widened when he learned that Marquis Wu of the state had led troops to arrest everyone in Prince An's house.
You know, in southern Shu, since Magistrate Liu was killed by the refugees, everyone now obeys the orders of Prince An.
That's why the mob gathered by the victims was quelled so quickly.
Adding sugar to the sticks, we managed to get rid of the victims.
Now that the imperial court actually sent people to arrest everyone in Prince An's palace, will the victims who were finally pacified turn into mobs again?
This Marquis of Wu State was very gentle, he grabbed everyone from Prince An's house, patted his butt and left.
It's a pity that he stays in Yizhou City to deal with the victims who become mobs anytime and anywhere.
Of course, he would not say, the most important thing is, if Marquis Wu captures everyone from Prince An's Mansion, what will happen to the business he did with Shunan before?
He had invested a lot of money into it. If everyone in Prince An's mansion was arrested, all his money would be wasted.
On the one hand, the prefect of Yizhou flattered Marquis Wu, but on the other hand, he sent people to quickly inform the eldest son of Prince An.
Zhou Tianci also didn't expect that God would favor him like this.
He quickly sent a message back to the Yizhou magistrate, and at the same time sent someone to sneak into the Yizhou government office secretly.
During the reception banquet given to Marquis Wu by the prefect of Yizhou, he was drugged and captured all the leaders brought by Marquis Wu without even using a single soldier.
Everyone above was arrested, and by the time the soldiers below reacted, they were all in shackles.
When Wu Guohou woke up, his men were already in the cell in Shunan City.
However, Zhou Tianci treated Wu Guohou very politely, arranged a clean cell, and did not treat him harshly.
On the other hand, the soldiers, because they were afraid that they would cause trouble, were all locked up in iron shackles and sent to a mine that Shi Jiangxin discovered.
Shi Jiang had no intention of raising more than 30,000 people in vain. He could eat a lot just by eating grain.
But she couldn't do it if she was asked to abuse these soldiers.
Naturally, the best way is to work in exchange for food. She doesn't want freeloaders.
The mine in the deep mountains is a silver mine. Silver mines are rare, so it was an unexpected surprise to find them this time.
Originally, Shi Jiang sent people to search for iron ore and copper ore. The silver ore resources contained in silver mines like this are often divided into several branches.
If you want to mine all these silver mines, you need to divide into many small teams to dig horizontally.
This requires a lot of manpower. In addition, for smelting, the ores also need to be piled together and crushed into powder. This is another process that requires a lot of labor.
Coupled with the processes of washing, firing, smelting and dust blowing, the number of people Shijiang brought before was simply not enough.
With these 30,000 free laborers, it can be said that the imperial court just stuffed money into their pockets!
If there was no shortage of food in southern Sichuan before, it was short of money.
After all, if they really break up with the imperial court, I believe that the business of their caravans going to Jiangnan will definitely be severely affected and will be difficult to move forward.
Now if you do this, there will be no shortage of money.
Now, they just need people.
The soldiers who were originally brought to the mine to mine felt very cold at that time.
You know, in this kind of mining, you work a lot, eat less, get up earlier than a chicken, and go to bed later than a dog.
If a person in charge becomes unhappy, he will whip a spiked iron whip at you.
If you are lucky, you can get through it. If you are unlucky, infection and fever will kill you in minutes!
But everyone's feet were shackled, so they couldn't run away even if they wanted to, and they were all ready to die.
However, after arriving at the mine, I found that the people mining here actually had smiling expressions on their faces and were quite energetic.
Then, they discovered that they were divided into four groups of people, and each group worked on one process.
Every three hours, the steward will let the group of people who are working go to rest, and then replace the next group of people to work.
Moreover, three meals a day are provided, and the lunch meal actually contains meat.
It's real meat. Everyone can get a piece of meat about the size of a child's fist, and the rest is full of rice.
Even those who work in the mines will be given a white-flour meat bun that is bigger than a man's hand when they go to the mine.
It is said that this is a subsidy given to people who work in the mines because they think it is hard work.
After half a month of work, the originally skinny man actually had flesh growing on his face and arms.
This group of already desperate soldiers could not even remember at this moment that they had come to fight in southern Shu.
Even if we let them go back now, I'm afraid they will come over and beg the management here to take them in.
Some people even have the idea of bringing their family members here to live here.
What fight?
Isn’t it good to live a peaceful life with enough food and drink?
These soldiers at the bottom are also ordinary people, and the ordinary people only have such a small request!
Compared with these soldiers, it can be said that Wu Guohou has made no progress.
No matter how Zhou Tianci tried to persuade Wu Guohou, Wu Guohou would always close his eyes and remain silent.