Chapter 65: Criminals guarding the border and taking stock of wealth
Chapter 65: Sinners guard the border and take stock of their wealth
After hearing Zhao Yun's request, Qin Wen pondered for a moment and immediately agreed: "Zi Long is so kind-hearted, as the lord, there is no reason why he should not allow it. Qin Hu and Xu Huang are about to lead three thousand cavalry into Yanmen Pass to rescue Zi Long.
Dragon, please come with us!"
"Thank you, Lord!" Zhao Yun said happily.
Qin Wen nodded when he saw this. Zhao Yun's words just reminded him of another important thing, so he turned to Xi Zhicai and said:
"Military advisor, Zilong is right. Most of the Yellow Turban Army are just ordinary people who cannot survive. They were only coaxed into joining the rebels by the Taiping Religion. In my opinion, the strategy for dealing with the Yellow Turban Army should be changed. Is it better to surrender if you can?"
It’s better not to kill too much.”
When Xi Zhicai heard this, he thought he knew that his lord's soft-heartedness had relapsed, so he smiled bitterly and persuaded: "My lord, if you do this, the court may not be able to explain it to you!"
Naturally, Xi Zhicai was not opposed to recruiting the Yellow Turbans to surrender. Yanmen was vast and sparsely populated, and Xi Zhicai also hoped to use Yellow Turban captives to fill Yanmen's population. However, the imperial court explicitly ordered that those who joined the Yellow Turbans should die, and the food and grass needed to recruit the Yellow Turbans to surrender would be of great use to the current Yanmen.
It’s a small burden for those who are poor!
"No problem, I believe the imperial court will understand the difficulties of our Yanmen Army!" Qin Wen said with a hint of fun in his eyes.
"My lord is benevolent and righteous!"
The reason why Qin Wen wanted to recruit the Yellow Turbans was not because he was really soft-hearted. When he forced his third brother Qin Gong to death four years ago, Qin Wen's heart was already frozen. Only when facing his closest relatives would he show such tenderness.
Everything he did had only one purpose, and that was to restore Qin.
The reason why these Yellow Turbans were recruited and surrendered was just to implement a strategy that had been discussed with Qin Hao a long time ago. The name of this strategy is: sin the people and defend the border.
Among the nine strategies for restoring the country that Qin Hao proposed to Qin Wen four years ago, one strategy was to use Bingzhou as a base. When the world was in chaos, whether to attack Hebei to the east or take Guanzhong to the west would depend on the specific situation. p>
At first glance, this strategy seems to have no problem. After all, for the Qin family at that time, merging the state was the easiest and only possible territory to acquire.
No matter how poor Bingzhou is, it still has a population of one million. It is indeed enough to raise 100,000 soldiers as initial starting capital.
But Qin Hao ignored one thing, that is, the four sides of Bingzhou, whether it is Yongzhou, Sizhou, Jizhou, Yanzhou or Youzhou, both in terms of wealth and population, are much greater than Bingzhou, and the war potential is far from comparable to Bingzhou.<
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The Qin family can indeed train 100,000 elites, but if other states and counties mobilize, it will not be difficult to recruit more than 100,000 troops to defend the city.
The field battle is okay, after all, the Yanmen Army is elite, but what if the enemy can't defend it?
Do you want the Yanmen Army to waste its limited forces on attacking the city?
In the final analysis, Bingzhou's current war potential is too poor. Although its geographical location is excellent and easy to defend and difficult to attack, it has insufficient population, resulting in an embarrassing situation of more than enough self-preservation and not enough progress.
Bingzhou at this time is not Bingzhou in the late Sui Dynasty. It is too difficult to follow Li Yuan's route and use Bingzhou as the foundation to conquer the world. There is only one way to achieve this, and that is to win every battle in the future.<
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Qin Hao cannot hope that he will win every battle in the future, and in order to increase the war potential of Bingzhou, there is only one way, and that is to increase the population.
However, the speed of absorbing refugees to expand the population was too slow, so Qin Hao later came up with a faster method, which was the strategy of "criminalizing the people and guarding the border".
What does it mean to guard the border with criminals?
It's very simple. All the guilty people are exiled to Bingzhou for labor. Although the criminals are nominally working and guarding, it is actually a way to euphemistically increase the population of Bingzhou!
This plan had not been implemented before because Qin Wen had been waiting for an opportunity to rapidly increase the population, which was the Yellow Turban Rebellion.
Although the imperial court ordered the rebels to die, the current Yellow Turbans involve nearly tens of millions of people, tens of millions of people, it is impossible to kill them all, right? Therefore, if the Yellow Turbans are finally pacified, a small part will definitely be slaughtered and a large part will be pardoned. p>
No matter how small this small group is, there are probably two to three million people. If all these people can be absorbed by Bingzhou, Bingzhou's war potential will definitely double, and Bingzhou will no longer have to worry about population!
But how to get these people?
To offend the people and guard the border is the best reason!
Who made Bingzhou poor?
Who made Bingzhou have a small population?
Who allowed the Xiongnu to flourish in Bingzhou?
Who told the Yellow Turban rebels that there were too many thieves and there was no place to place them!
This is also the biggest reason why Qin Wen has continued to express his loyalty to the Han Dynasty and please Liu Hong over the years, because if Qin Wen was not loyal and reliable enough, how could the Han Dynasty willingly hand over Bingzhou to the Qin family? How could they help?
What about the Qin family coming to join the state?
The 100,000 yellow scarf troops who are now representing the army are no longer an army, but 100,000 strong men, who will be the common people of Bingzhou in the future.
Although the imperial court has canceled the killing order, Yanmen's geographical location is special, and there are people in the imperial court to help him, so Qin Wen is confident that even if he keeps the Yellow Turban prisoners, he will not be punished by the imperial court.
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After three days of waiting, the 11,000 garrison soldiers who went south to ambush Dongfang Sheng finally returned, but they brought back some bad news.
Dongfang Sheng used three thousand people as bait and successfully escaped the ambush set by Qin Hao, but the ambush failed to achieve its full effect.
However, the three thousand people who were used as bait did not escape. This ambush still killed one thousand enemies and captured two thousand prisoners. Dongfang Sheng led the remaining three thousand troops and escaped safely back to Changshan.
"Ding dong, the battle of vaginal tubes is over and the inventory is being taken..."
"In the battle of the vagina, 1521 enemies were killed and 12124 were captured (most of the 2000 who escaped have been captured!), with a reward of 22645 war points and a loss of 980
Five, 985 war points are deducted, so the reward is 21660 war points."
"There are 3,340 war points. Currently, there are 25,000 war points in total. Can I exchange them for summoning points?"
Qin Hao didn't even think about it and nodded directly: "Exchange!"
"The host successfully redeemed 250 summoning points, and has 180 summoning points. Currently, it has a total of 430 summoning points."