"Killing prisoners is ominous"

The next morning, Liu Jun completed the screening work, and as usual, he pulled the bandit leaders, leaders, backbones and those cruel bandits with blood-debt debt out of the camp, and then he wanted to execute them publicly.

After hearing this, Li Shuchu rushed to dissuade him. Li Shuchu was not completely pedantic, but he also admired Liu Jun very much, remembering that Liu Jun had saved his daughter and was worried about Liu Jun's reputation. After all, he was a bloodthirsty name, and I was afraid that it would not be good to spread it. Moreover, the censors in the court might impeach him and kill prisoners at that time. If they were good at it, they would become a stain.

"I am not killing innocent people indiscriminately, but I just executed those brutal people. Their hands were covered with blood, not only the officers and soldiers, but also the innocent people. These people are still alive." Liu Jun said calmly to Li Shuchu, "We will not give up on those who can be saved. We will treat them differently. Otherwise, if we just let them go blindly, it would be too cheap for them. These people will rebel at any time after they go back."

Liu Jun doesn't like to kill people, but there is no need to keep some people. If they don't even kill these people, then there will only be more and more people who rebel in the future. Appropriate killing can still have a certain deterrent effect.

Originally, someone suggested that Liu Jun cut off the big toes of these people, and farming and walking in such a way would not be a problem, but he could not bear the weight or run, and of course he could not rebel from the thief, but Liu Jun refused to be so cheap.

"Some people are better off killing." Mei Zhihuan and others were already used to Liu Jun's tricks, and at this time they also stood up to support Liu Jun. "Don't worry, they are only a few thieves and bandits who have been killed."

There were more than 60,000 people, more than 40,000 thieves, more than 10,000 families, and more than 10,000 civilians in the camp. Liu Jun killed only about 3,000. In the battle of Lannigou, Zhang Xianzhong was captured, and more than 3,000 old thieves under his command were almost killed in battle. Cao Cao fled. More than 3,000 more were taken away, and Zhang Kewang and others also took away hundreds. Therefore, in fact, there were not many old thieves left among the prisoners, and many of them joined the bandits this year.

Liu Jun executed all the more than 3,000 thieves who had enough blood and debt. They were still publicly executed, and tens of thousands of prisoners watched the execution and beheaded directly. Each unit took turns to act as executioners. The heads cut were preserved, and Liu Jun directly included them in the beheading level of the formation, and specially designated detailed standards for the heads such as the leaders and leaders.

As for the other bandits, it turned out that the court usually took them back to the local area for resettlement, or local place for resettlement. However, Liu Jun and Mei Zhihuan were not relieved, and it was irresponsible to settle them casually. After discussing with Mei Zhihuan and others, they took all these people back to Huguang.

To be precise, all these people were taken over by Liu Jun.

Liu Jun's plan for these people was the arrested husbands. If there were still families who were willing to go back, they could go back. Those who were homeless could go to Huguang with him. He would organize these people to farm in the mountainous area on the western foot of the Dabie Mountains of Qihuang, and collectively farming with a few people. Liu Jun provided them with seeds, oxen and farming tools, etc., and they kept some of the harvests from farming in the fields and gave them some of them to Liu Jun.

For those prisoners, they are also distinguished by the age of the thief and the severity of the crimes they committed among the bandits. Of course, most of those who have killed people or even killed people and women were executed. The remaining ones who have not been executed, but have also been killed or robbed, will be sent to the mine to work. Liu Jun will also give them salary, but their personal physical limitations are restricted. These people are equivalent to labor reform. Determine the labor reform time based on their performance.

For those bandits who may have been joining for a long time but have no bad record, they will be arranged to go to the workshop to do things, and these people will be monitored and managed. They cannot leave at will. The last one, those who have been joining the bandits for a short time and are relatively clean, will be arranged to go to the farm.

In short, the resettlement plan proposed by Liu Jun still touched Mei Zhihuan and the others. After all, Liu Jun will be able to place and manage these people when he accepts them. He will not throw them aside at will. As long as these prisoners are in charge, they can still live, and there is very little possibility of a second rebellion.

As for whether Liu Jun got a lot of cheap laborers all at once, Mei Zhihuan and others didn't care. What's the matter? All they wanted was to successfully resettle these people and stop making trouble in the future. Moreover, it was not so easy to resettle these people, and they still had to invest a lot in the early stage. Whether it was mining, working, or even going to farm, it would have to be spent.

On the other hand, Liu Jun used the money to recruit miners, craftsmen, and refugees to farm. Could it be that he could not recruit

In short, the plan proposed by Liu Jun was a win-win plan. Mei Zhihuan and his team settled tens of thousands of prisoners, and Liu Jun received a batch of cheaper labor.

Most of the families of the captives were asked to return to their families. Those who had already died in battle or had already escaped, Liu Jun would betroth them to single prisoners who had no wives and let them re-establish family life. By the way, the elderly and children in the old camp were also accepted by them.

"We must immediately start sending these people back to Huguang for resettlement in batches."

Liu Jun looked at the prisoners in the camp and said slowly. He got tens of thousands of prisoners at once. Although it was also a military achievement, it was a heavy burden to Liu Jun and the others.

Now, nearly 100,000 people have gathered in the Tangjiawan camp. There are more than 60,000 prisoners, and there are nearly 20,000 Huguang soldiers and Baigan soldiers. After the defeat of Dachang City, although Yang Sichang ran to Daning City in one breath to meet with Zuo Liangyu and ordered various troops to join Daning, many defeated soldiers still ran to Tangjiawan. In addition, thousands of Beijing troops led by the two generals of the Beijing camp, led by the tiger and tiger Dawei, also arrived in Tangjiawan, which made Tangjiawan now more than 100,000 prisoners.

For hundreds of thousands of people and horses, there are a lot of food and grass needed to support them. There are still several soldiers and horses that do not have many war horses, otherwise there will be more demand.

Now tens of thousands of prisoners only have one meal a day. The officers and soldiers did not deliberately hungry them, but actually wanted to reduce supply pressure. While not allowing them to eat enough, they could indeed avoid these prisoners from having enough energy to cause trouble.

Liu Jun had already begun to organize a fleet to transport these prisoners back to Huguang for resettlement. On the other hand, there were also a large amount of spoils that were in a hurry to transport them back. Before the Battle of Tangjiawan, Liu Jun had seized a large amount of spoils, swords, guns, armor, war horses and mule carts, gold and silver jewelry, food and grass, etc. After arriving in Tangjiawan, Cao Cao sent 200,000 taels of money worth, and Liu Jun distributed 100,000. Afterwards, Cao Cao escaped and only took away a small portion of gold and silver. The remaining large amount of money and food and grass were thrown in Tangjiawan, and then became the spoils for Liu Jun and others.

It was a very generous spoil. Zhang Xianzhong and Cao Cao and others fought for more than ten years and had accumulated a large amount of money. Although they surrendered to the court last year and took out a lot of money to bribe officials, their money was still preserved. This time, they rebelled again and captured several cities along the way, accumulating no less than one million worth of money and materials.

Another big division, still the same as before. In the end, Liu Jun's Nine-Headed Bird was the main force in the battle, and Mei Zhihuan, Qin Liangyu, Li Changgeng, Yuan Jixian and other battalions divided the remaining half. As for Li Shuchu, the tiger's great power and as fierce as a tiger, they had no share at all.

After Liu Jun entered Sichuan, the money he seized was worth at least hundreds of thousands of dollars, which was still profitable compared to the cost of his troops sent by just over 10,000 people.

What Liu Jun cares about the most is the war horses. After negotiation and exchange with other battalions, Liu Jun has now obtained more than 3,000 horses. Together with the hundreds of his original horses, Liu Jun has almost more than 4,000 horses. With so many war horses, Liu Jun plans to expand his cavalry into a cavalry battalion alone.

Even if it is just a horse-riding infantry battalion, it can improve the nine-headed birds' combat power and have the ability to pursue. Otherwise, if Cao Cao and his friends throw away their baggage and escape, they will have to stare at each other again.

Yang Sichang fled to Daning City in a panic, gathered the troops of Zuo Liangyu, and then recalled Chen Hongfan's Henan soldiers, chasing Cao Cao and others all the way into Hanzhong, Shaanxi. Yang Sichang originally issued an edict to summon Meng Ruhu and Hu Dawei to lead the Beijing troops to join, but unfortunately they both ignored it. Now they are following Mei Zhihuan and Liu Jun and others all day long.

Mei Zhihuan also received an edict from Yang Sichang, but Mei Zhihuan refused to go on orders on the grounds that her troops had recently fought continuously, the army was exhausted, and the lack of food and supplies.

Yang Sichang was so anxious that he was dying, but he knew that Mei Zhihuan could not be moved at all, so he had to take Zuo Liangyu, Chen Hongfan and other troops to chase Cao Cao, bent on annihilation of these fish that had escaped the net to save some face. However, Cao Cao and other light cavalry advanced forward, which was not what they wanted to chase. The more they pursued the two sides, the further they were, the further they were.

Mei Zhihuan, Liu Jun, Qin Liangyu and others have long been united in their hearts. As the war has reached this point, no one can erase their achievements, so there is no need for them to pursue or raise them now. There is no need for them to catch up with them, and there is no need for them to catch up.

Anyway, the messenger of Zuojie had already gone to the capital, and Yang Sichang suffered a big fall this time. He had previously judged that the direction of the bandits fleeing was wrong, but Mei Zhihuan made the right judgment. As a result, he had to write a memorial for the emperor to sue Mei Zhihuan, and finally proved that he was the stupid person. If it were just like this, nothing was wrong.

But Mei Zhihuan was in the south, relying on the tens of thousands of troops from Liu Jun and other battalions, they won consecutive battles and captured Zhang Xianzhong alive. Yang Sichang was so slow that he could not catch up. At the end, he had already surrounded the bandits, but the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses he commanded had mutiny and escaped. And that was not counting. In the end, not only did he miss the great opportunity to encircle and annihilate the enemy, but also let thousands of defeated bandits break the city guarded by his more than 20,000 people and left. However, Yang Sichang's troops failed to fire a single arrow and the entire army was defeated and dispersed. In any case, Yang Sichang performed poorly this time, especially compared with Prime Minister Mei Zhihuan, which was a world of difference.

Whether Yang Sichang can still sit down is a big question. To be continued. ~Search the basket colors and you can read the following chapters in the full text
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