The victory of Liu Yuanbin's Tangbao and Chen Xinjia's public announcement made the people in the capital extremely excited in the past few days. Immediately afterwards, prisoners of war transported from Hejian Prefecture entered the capital one after another, which made the atmosphere in the capital even more lively.
Compared with the rejoicing people, Zhu Youjian in the palace was a little worried. It would be fine to kill one or two hundred prisoners of war, but it would be very troublesome to take so many prisoners of war and the captured Minzhuang at once.
"Grand Master, what are the opinions of the Cabinet and the Ministry of Rites on the disposal of prisoners of war?"
"After deliberation, the ministers and others decided that the real prisoners should be brought to justice, and the remaining Mongolian and Han prisoners should be sent to the border camps to serve as prisoners."
"Become a prisoner? These prisoners are enemy soldiers. Can we safely use them when they are organized into a border camp? This is not appropriate!" The idea that Zhou Yanru and the others came up with is simply nonsense. They organized these guys into a border camp.
Didn't Li place Lei in the military camp?
"Is this what we usually do? Apart from this method, we can only kill them all! But if there are so many people, it would be against the will of the people to kill them all, so it is better to be cautious."
"Let's do this. Distribute these prisoners of war to various mine supervisors to serve as hard labor. For a period of five years, if they perform well, they will be freed. If their bad deeds persist, they will continue to serve as hard labor."
There is no better way to deal with this group of prisoners of war. They can only be sent to the mines to work as prison workers. The most ideal is to build some roads and cities, centralize management and centralized labor reform. But currently there is no such thing
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"Your Majesty, the mines near the capital are probably overcrowded, and there is no extra food and money to support them." Confucian Zhou Yan also had a negative attitude towards this proposal. Nowadays, there are refugees everywhere. As long as the mines are operating normally, they will not worry.
There is no one to work. If two thousand prisoners are brought here to fight for food, wouldn’t this make the job market more difficult?
Is there no shortage of coolies in the mine? This question that Comrade Lao Zhou said really stumped Zhu Youjian. After thinking for a long time, he thought of a place where these guys could be used. "Give these people to the palace."
Please take care of Wang Chengen! I am planning to open a new stone mud making factory recently, and I will use this group of people to do it."
Zhu Youjian decided to come up with this cement thing this year. Under current production conditions, a lot of work has to be done purely manually. The workload is very large, and the dust generated is also fatal to the health of the workers. Let the prisoners of war go.
You don't have to worry about occupational diseases, and the labor costs are low, so it's very suitable. Two thousand people sounds like a lot, but it's not a lot to run a large-scale industrial and mining industry like a cement factory.
"Your Majesty, there are thousands of civilians in Hejian Prefecture who have been robbed and kidnapped by the captive soldiers. How to deal with these people. Now it is impossible to let them return to their place of origin. At least they have to wait until the captive soldiers return outside the customs. In this way, the court will
But we have to spend money to feed them, which is very troublesome."
"Let's do this. Bring all these civilians to the Imperial Village to farm the land. Now the Imperial Village is preparing for farming. This year, the Imperial Village will plant a lot of land and repair water conservancy. It will require a lot of manpower. Place them first.
In the Imperial Manor, after the war is over, depending on their wishes, they can go back to their place of origin, or they can not go back to their place of origin and bring their family members to live in the Imperial Manor."
It is estimated that not many of the family members of this group of civilian husbands have been harmed by the Qing army. Now they actually have enough to eat for one person and the whole family is not hungry. If such people are returned to their place of origin, they will have no basis for survival. They are likely to become refugees and bandits.
Taking them to Huangzhuang to farm is the way to minimize hidden dangers.
"Your Majesty, the New Army has seized a lot in Hejian Prefecture this time. What should we do with it? Jian Heng on the front line is short of money and food. The veteran thinks it is best not to put these seizures into the inner treasury, but to use them for the war."
The purpose of Zhou Yanru's words was naturally not to let this property go into the inner treasury!
"Transport one hundred thousand taels of silver into the inner treasury. This is the reward I promised to the new soldiers. When they come back, I will distribute it in full. Then transport the captured valuable goods and three hundred thousand taels of silver to the warehouse of the Ministry of Revenue.
Among them, this money must be earmarked exclusively for the resettlement of the people after the war in Northern Zhili and Shandong after the captured soldiers harmed the prefectures and counties. The remaining money, food and materials will be disposed of by Jian Heng and used for the battle to drive the captives out of the customs. There are also
The thousands of mules and horses captured by the New Army this time were all handed over to the Royal Horse Prison for future use by the Imperial Army."
The biggest harvest of the Battle of Hejian was the war horses. Since the battle was a surprise attack in the city, many of the Qing army's war horses in the city were not brought back. According to the Tang News, at least 1,500 useful war horses were captured this time.
Hundreds of horses. With these horses and other mules and horses, there is no need to worry about the lack of horses to expand the new army. The mules and horses captured in this battle are at least enough for the new army of 20,000 to 30,000 people, which is mainly infantry.
Therefore, we still have to win the battle. With this victory, the current situation has improved a lot. The emperor has the war horses to build a new army, and Chen Xinjia on the front line no longer has to worry about the lack of food for the army. The Qing army in Hejian Prefecture
The tens of thousands of stones of food and grass accumulated were just used as supplies for the battle south. With this food and grass, the army would not have to worry about food shortages for a month or two. With food in hand, there was no need to panic. With the food and grass in hand, Chen Shangshu was firm when issuing military orders.
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"This time we go south, we have to fight a tough battle with the Japanese soldiers so that they can retreat. The new army of the Yongwei camp is at the forefront of the army, and other troops and horses follow closely behind. The distance between the army's vanguard and the main camp cannot be exceeded.
For more than thirty miles, the governor's tent will go with the Chinese army. When going south, they will fight hard when encountering the enemy. However, those who escape before the battle or hesitate when encountering the enemy will not be spared." Chen Xinjia said this at the mobilization meeting for going south to fight the Qing army.
The military discipline of this battle requires that it be explained clearly in public. After several months of observation, he also came to a basic judgment. The Qing army entering the pass this time is not the core main force, but should be the partial division of the Qing army. Otherwise, it would not be possible.
It is possible that the New Army, which was established less than half a year ago, can win two battles in a row. In this case, as long as the army is mobilized in place, it is not impossible to drive it out of the customs.
When Chen Xinjia was mobilizing southward, Abatai from Yanzhou City was also reprimanding the generals.
"Tan Tai, I asked you to guard Hejian City with 6,000 troops as a way for the army to retreat! As a result, you abandoned the city and abandoned the troops. Not only did you lose a large amount of military supplies and silver, but you also lost more than 4,000 of my soldiers. You know
What kind of crime is this?" Looking at Tan Tai who was kneeling in front of him, telling the story of his defeat in tears, Abata wished he could just kill this guy.
"Master Beile, this slave is guilty of death! He deserves to die for the crime he committed!"
"Do you still know that it is a capital crime? Someone will take Tan Tai into custody and hand him over to the emperor's brother after the army returns to Shengjing."
The Qing army punished the defeated generals quite severely! After a general like Tan Tai, who lost thousands of men and horses, and lost his city and supplies, returned home, the lightest punishment was to have his home confiscated and dismissed, and the more severe punishment was to be beheaded.
The Qing court, which has not completely gotten rid of the tribal system, has strict hierarchies and cruel military laws. It is precisely because of these systems that they can win repeated battles against the Ming army with lax military discipline. Civilization is a double-edged sword, the more civilized it is
In developed countries, if the order is normal, there will be no problem, but if the order is abnormal, it will be more fragile and prone to collapse than a society that is not civilized enough.