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Chapter 240 Condition of Freedom

Although there was a military supervisor in Shamen Town, it seemed that there was no impact on the town. At the beginning, everyone was very afraid of the new military supervisor. Although Li Guan repeatedly stated that this military supervisor would be different from other military supervisors and asked everyone to respect Zhang Chengye as much as possible. However, there was still some fear in everyone's hearts. In the eyes of the people of the late Tang Dynasty, the eunuchs were an arrogant and domineering existence. In Wang Chong's words, they lined up ten eunuchs and assassinated guns, and only one of them was killed unjustly.

Although these words are full of clues, they can also show the impression of the eunuchs in the late Tang Dynasty in the hearts of ordinary soldiers. However, after Zhang Chengye went to the island, he did not make any follow-up actions except after summoning the military academies the next day and meeting with all the ten generals and ten generals of each battalion.

He did not intervene in as everyone imagined in the military affairs of Shamen Town. These days, he followed Zhang Hong, the island's steward, and the military affairs manager, all day long, busy packing boxes and preparing to prepare the tributes that Shamen Town had presented to the emperor. Everything on the island was the same, and there was no big change because of his existence.

After carefully tempting Zhang Chengye several times, Li Guan finally confirmed that this was Zhang Chengye, the eunuch who was the most loyal to the Tang Dynasty in the history of the late Tang Dynasty. After confirming, Li Guan was no longer so careful and simply threw him to Zhang Hong and accompanied him.

For Li Guan, he has more things to deal with.

Although the garrisons of the first town, two forts and nine garrisons had been arranged properly, the matter to be handled was too big. The first thing was to recruit the Donghai town. Li Guan immediately invited the three heads of Huangbeard. He also invited the white beard who had already washed his hands. Even Megan and Julie called over.

"My idea is to organize the brothers in Zhendonghai into a sailor camp of one thousand people. The camp number is Nutao, with one thousand soldiers under his command, and divided into five capitals."

Huang Huzi and others were very satisfied with Qingzhou's decision to throw them to Li Guan. If they really wanted them to accept the invitation from other people, they would have no idea. Anyway, the current situation is almost the same as Li Guan, and all they lacked is a name. After listening to Li Guan's preliminary adaptation plan, Huang Huzi asked: "I have three thousand brothers in Donghai, and there are two thousand family members. If only one thousand people are retained, what should I do if the remaining people are left?"

"Pick out the most elite one thousand brothers and adapt it into the Nutao Camp. The remaining brothers can go ashore to enter the workshop or give it to the fields. They can even join the Sihai Caravan that is being built in the town. As for the families of the brothers, they can also move all to Shamen Town and arrange them to Dayuanshan Island. The brothers who stayed in the army after the adaptation will naturally have salary, food and salary in the future. Even the brothers who have left the team will have family expenses and arrangements, so that they will not have no place to live. The brothers' wives can go to the workshop to do their work, and their children can enter the school the same as the children on the island."

The three Huangbeards were still a little hesitant, "Can you get a camp of three thousand people and put all your brothers in?"

Whitebeard understood Li Yan's thoughts. The officer was different from a pirate. Everything was bound by many rules. He spoke out: "Since you accept the recruitment, you can't be as unruly as before. What should you do? Everyone listens to Ji Yu. He will make arrangements properly, and he will not lose money to his brothers."

Li Yan chuckled. "We have known each other for a day or two, and we have been fighting over the brothers who have been with blood and fire many times. I will not treat everyone badly. Huang Dangjia will serve as the ten generals of Nutao Camp, Hong Dangjia and Hei Dangjia will serve as the deputy ten generals and the Du Yuhou of the camp. In addition, Bai Dangjia will serve as the chief instructor of the camp, and the other captains will serve as the top positions of the general team. Nutao Camp will currently be composed of brothers from Zhendonghai, and the officers will also be the brothers from Zhendonghai. I will not send other people to Nutao Camp."

Things have to be done step by step, and Li Guan was unwilling to act too quickly, which gave these pirates other mentality. As long as they accepted the amnesty, it won’t take long to go Zhendonghai to become a part of Shamen Town, which cannot be changed.

With Li Yan's promise, the adaptation went very smoothly. The next day, under the witness of the generals, Li Yan specially brought Zhang Chengye to join him and set up a recruitment and surrender ceremony. At Taishan Wharf, Huang Huzi and others led the fleet of Zhendonghai from the sea to surrender, and presented the flag, swords and rosters. Li Yan announced the recruitment on the spot and adapted Zhendonghai into Nutao Camp. On the spot, Huang Huzi and other pirate leaders were appointed as officers of the Nutao Camp, and then specially selected Shuanglu Reef as the base of Nutao Camp.

The most elite of the three thousand pirates were left to join the Nutao Camp, and the remaining 2,000 left the army and went ashore to be ordinary people. They arranged to enter the workshop, enter the construction site, and some arranged to join the caravan, fishing team, etc. Everyone received a large amount of resettlement fees and had a new life. The resettlement fees were a lot, a total of 100 stagnants per person, of which Li Guan gave fifty stagnants, Huang Huzi and others took out the savings of Zhendonghai, and each of them gave fifty stagnants. With this hundred stagnants, they were enough to start their life again.

At first, Huang Huzi and others in Zhendonghai were worried that everyone would not want it, but unexpectedly found that everyone was very satisfied with accepting the adaptation of Li Guan's recruitment, or even washing their hands and going ashore. Although life at sea was free, it was actually licking blood from a knife. No one knew one day that they would suddenly die in the sea, and they didn't know when the nest would be suppressed by the official army. They were always worried. Now that they accepted the recruitment, they still believed in Li Guan's recruitment. They had seen the safety and prosperity of Shamen Island long ago, and they were secretly envious in their hearts. Now that they could join Shamen Town, everyone was very satisfied.

After recruiting Zhendonghai and moving their families to Zishamen Town together, the residents of Shamen Town once again added nearly 20,000 people. Including the previous looting of islands such as Guidao, now under the rule of Li Guan, the entire Shamen Town has a total of 17 islands and reefs, with all the population exceeding 150,000, of which the permanent population has exceeded 120,000, and there are nearly 30,000 people, including migrant workers and other people.

Although Shamen Town has seventeen islands at once, many of them are islands with very small areas, many of which are not suitable for people to live in, and some have become military bases. In the end, the only islands that can truly live in are Daheishan Island, Yuanshan Island and Shamen Island. The total area is estimated to be 30,000 mu, and the arable land area is more than 20,000 mu.

Li Guan resettled the people from other fortresses in Daxie Fort whom he robbed several times to Daxiang Mountain Island. There were about 8,000 households and 40,000 people in this part. Even if so many people were all distributed to them, each household was only two and a half acres of land, which was not enough to settle down.

In response, Li Guan simply implemented the fort hoarding system, with 500 households as a fort, and divided these immigrants into sixteen forts, each with 1,250 acres of land. In addition, a fort was built to build a pig, sheep breeding and punishment chicken and duck farm to raise pig, chicken and duck for the town. In addition, each fort was set up a fishing team and went to sea to catch fish. The fish caught were supplied to the town and the army, and the excess was sold. In addition, some handicraft workshops were also formed in each fort to do some external processing for some large workshops in Shamen Town. In this way, although the land output was insufficient, adding up other income was completely enough to support the life. It was even a little richer than the original.

After dealing with these people, the only remaining were the 10,000 prisoners and slaves exchanged for Qingnipu, as well as the prisoners and surrendered soldiers from Daxie Village.

"All of it will be arranged in the workshop." Li Guan directly replied to the new town director Li Chun. The conditions of Shamen Island are limited, so it is difficult to achieve real land hoarding and raising troops. However, Shamen Town also has a huge advantage that cannot be compared with the mainland, that is, they guard the largest Dengzhou port in the north and the maritime trade route. With such conditions, they do not do business, but have to dig out the food in the ten thousand acres of land, which is too stupid. Li Guan has already made plans for Shamen Town. That is, Dayuanshan Fort is a place to stock up on the fields and maintain people, and other islands and reefs are places to train troops, and Shamen Town will be built into a center that integrates military and commercial.

Shaman Island will focus on developing workshops, from ordnance workshops to bedding workshops, and even liquor workshops, rock sugar workshops, perfume workshops, etc. Li Guan will try his best to expand their scale, take advantage of the prosperity of Dengzhou Port to start a unique business of deep processing, and use commercial output and even profits from maritime trade to exchange for grain and various materials needed.

Standing on the school ground, Li Guan said to the black crow slaves who gathered together: "You are slaves now, but you will not be slaves forever. You have lost your freedom now, but I am willing to give you freedom. But there is only one premise, that is, stay in Shamen Town with peace of mind. Some of you have been selected as soldiers, and give you weapons and armor to fight for me. Some of you will be sent to the workshop and pick up tools to create various commodities. No matter what fate you have, as long as you can stay and do things with peace of mind, I can promise here that you will all be free."

Li Chan's promise is very simple. As long as the slaves selected into the army cut down five enemy heads during wartime, or served for five years, they will be granted the status of a free civilian, and they can choose to stay in the army or leave. The slaves who work in other workshops are similar. They either serve eight years of labor service or perform outstandingly and can get free status in advance. During their service, they can get half of the salary of other workers.

Li Guan was even more direct, either serving for eight years or marrying the officers and soldiers in Shamen Town. Once they marry the officers and soldiers in the town, they can immediately obtain the identity of a free citizen.

The captured Da Xie soldiers will be treated worse, and they will be assigned to prisoners of war camps as free labor for three years. Those who have performed well for three years can be transferred to the labor camps, work half a salary for five years, and can be released after the year, or they can choose to stay. At that time, they can become free permanent residents on the island. Of course, they can also choose to apply to join the town army logistics camp after the prisoner of war camps, and exchange their military achievements for their status as a free citizen.

As for the two thousand people who surrendered, they will be directly organized into a transportation battalion, and will be responsible for logistics and transportation work as logistics soldiers. After serving for three years or obtaining three battlefield enemies, they can obtain the status of a free citizen in Shamen Town or leave.

"Strive for freedom. As long as you work hard, your freedom is not a problem. It is not a dream to get generous rewards, even promote officers, or even get a house in the town, and marry a beautiful woman from Liaodong as a wife. Fight, your freedom is in your own hands." After Li Guan announced all the conditions for them to redeem their own freedom, he incited him with passion.
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