In ancient times, the criminal law of labor reform and the punishment of exile were very common, in order to use these criminals to serve the imperial court for free and protect the interests of the empire to a certain extent.

For example, in the border pass of any dynasty, it is a place where ordinary people are unwilling to go, where life is very hard, no one wants to live in a poor place, but in order to maintain the stability of the frontier, the empire urgently needs to maintain a certain number of residents in the frontier, so as to strengthen the power of the frontier and deter the invasion of hostile forces. The ruler thought of the big trick of exile, as long as it was a person who had committed a crime, those who reached the level of exile would be forcibly sent to the frontier, and even, the family would be sent to the frontier, thus enriching the population of the frontier to a certain extent.

The labor criminal law is also extremely common, in order to use these free labor, let these prisoners work well, and provide certain economic benefits for the imperial court, and the labor criminal law does the most work, is mining and quarrying, these two kinds of labor are the hardest, and they are in a relatively fixed area, which is convenient for the jailers to supervise, and will not let the working prisoners have a chance to escape.

In order to improve labor efficiency, the scope of planting trees at one time will not be small, and there are many materials to be prepared, so it is difficult to limit a smaller area, and it is very likely that the area of labor will be expanded by more than 100 times, and the personnel will be more dispersed, which will inevitably bring great trouble to supervision.

Lao Guo is worried about the problem, Li An has naturally thought about it, this is indeed a very tricky problem, these horse thieves have just surrendered, they have a lot of vices, under the noses of the officers and soldiers, they may be able to settle down a little, but if they are out of the sight of the officers and soldiers, what kind of things can be done, it is difficult to say, there will definitely be people who do this, so, is there any way to prevent this from happening? Ang Lee felt that as long as he educated them well, really considered the surrendered horse thieves, and painted a big pie for them, so that they could experience the sweetness of stability, then he would definitely be able to influence these horse thieves and make them willing to do coolies, so that they could live a life of peace and security in the future.

After all, for most horse thieves, the reason why they embarked on such a path is because they have no way out, and when there is no way, they choose to take such a path of no return, as long as they have a little hope, they will not choose to take such a road.

In ancient society, there were many, many such examples, there were many people who wanted to be slaves but couldn't, so they resisted without hesitation, and finally became the emperor, such as Shi Le of the Qi tribe, who always wanted to be a slave in peace, but the turbulent society led to him not being a slave at all, he was forced to have no choice but to fight for the world, and finally sat on the throne of the emperor, which is no one.

The main reason for the fact that after being released from prison, will continue to engage in crime-related activities, the main reason is that after being imprisoned, re-entering society is not recognized by ordinary people, and is always looked down upon, and employers will not appoint such people casually, so these people will be discouraged, and after they cannot find the means to support themselves, they will choose to do their old jobs and continue to engage in illegal activities.

This is the sorrow of Xing Prison, the real role of the prison should not be as simple as punishment, but should be based on education and reform, this is the most correct way, and if only the pursuit of punishment is too undesirable, it will cause the release of prisoners to continue to do evil.

Let the prisoners, after being released from prison, have a way to support themselves and live a good life, so that the prisoners will naturally not continue to engage in illegal old professions after they are released from prison.

During the period of serving a prison sentence, it is necessary to let the inmates work more and let them learn some basic survival skills, which is really good for them, so that these people can really be reformed, especially for people with bad habits, it is necessary to spend great efforts to let them seriously get rid of these bad habits.

Lao Guo and Li An always have different views, however, Lao Guo is not willing to argue with Li An, he proposed a compromise method, thinking that you can first open a mine in Qiwu Mountain, such a big mountain, there must be a mine in it, after a period of mining, people who perform well, can be sent out to plant trees, and it is to go out to plant trees in batches, in addition to these horse thieves, you can also recruit some ordinary people, and also participate in the ranks of planting trees, so that you can supervise each other and avoid horse thieves from making bad and causing unnecessary huge losses.

Li An felt that this method was really better, such a big mountain and river as Qiwu Mountain, there would definitely be mines in it, even if there were no important resource mines, there would always be stone mines! Let these horse thieves work well, and when they get used to working, their bodies will adapt to the rhythm of this work, and they will not be so painful, which is the so-called labor reform.

This time, Li An brought a lot of technical personnel, after purging the horse thieves, let them go to the mountains to explore, and found that there should be no big problem with some ore veins, and there are coal mines in Xiazhou, so it is very possible for Qiwu Mountain to have coal mines, as long as you seriously explore, it is very likely to find these ore veins, and mining is very profitable in any era, using free horse thieves to open mines, not only can make a lot of money, but also can transform these horse thieves very well, through high-intensity mining labor, Let the thief's body gradually adapt to mining, so that he can be transformed into a good person.

And Ang Lee has a good idea, that is, to use the money earned from mining to subsidize the expenditure of afforestation, and of course, the income from fruit trees can also be used to subsidize afforestation.

After discussing some details slightly, Ang Lee and Lao Guo rode their horses to the main lair of the horse thief, mining and afforestation are all later words, the most important thing at the moment is to go to the horse thief's lair, and immediately check the letters that were found, this is the root cause of Lao Guo and Li An to go in person.

The two soon arrived at the main lair of the horse thief, and saw a lot of buildings hidden by the horse thief, the design of these buildings is very interesting, there is no bright color on the top, that is, dead branches, walls and many buildings are also the same color as branches and soil, these building materials are made of local materials, and have not undergone any processing, so the color is naturally relatively close to nature, and it is not easy to be found, with strong concealment.

The gate of the horse thief's den is not tall, it is a little more than a zhang high, and the width is slightly larger, about two zhang, so it is more convenient to enter and exit, after all, for horse thieves on horseback, the door height can be more than one zhang is enough, too high is not interesting, and the wider is to allow more horses to pass through at the same time, not too cramped.

The top of the gate and the wall is naturally a platform, and the horse thief can stand on it to patrol, so as to protect the safety of the nest, and in order to let the patrolling people have a shady place, above the gate in the middle, as well as the left and right corners, have built an awning, which is a very simple kind of awning, and the sunshade effect is still very good, and there are also some camouflage climbing plants hanging on it, so that this nest is not easy to find.

At this moment, under the awning stood the Tang Dynasty soldiers, the horse thieves had already slipped away, and in the inner courtyard of the wall, there were more than a dozen surrendered horse thieves who were sitting listlessly on the ground counting ants, and next to them were several officers and soldiers guarding them.

"Good guy, there's something wrong here! There is such a large space, and the concealment is also very good, from the outside, it is absolutely impossible to imagine that there will be so many houses here, no wonder it can become the most important core lair of horse thieves, it is really wonderful. ”

Ang Lee opened his mouth and sighed.

Take a closer look, these houses should all be built by the horse thieves themselves, and the materials used are all materials found in the mountains, such as branches, leaves, grass, and extremely sticky soil, these materials are matched together, it is possible to build a very strong house, and all the houses here are built using this method, even the core lobby inside, is built in this way, but the trunk used to build the lobby is thicker and longer, and the scale of the building is larger. Nothing else really makes any difference.

"Li Shilang, general."

One of his subordinates walked over.

"How's it going, and where are the letters?"

Lao Guo asked with great concern.

"General, the letters are at the back of the lobby, there are thousands of them, and the last general does not dare to make decisions on his own, and he has not opened any of them."

The general said.

"Very well done, how many people still know about this?"

Lao Guo asked.

"Except for the last general, only the deputy general and the herald know about it, and the last general does not dare to leak it at will."

The general said.

Lao Guo nodded with satisfaction and said: "Great, remember, this matter must not be leaked, not to anyone, the herald has already explained, you warn the deputy general not to say this, as if it never happened." ”

"Yes, the Admiral understands."

The general spoke.

Li An and Lao Guo walked into the horse thief's tent, and the first thing they saw was a huge tiger skin, which was genuine at first glance and placed on a large chair, which was the throne of the horse thief leader.

In ancient times, many mountain kings like to decorate their thrones with tiger skins, which has almost become a conventional rule, if any mountain king does not have a tiger skin, it is estimated that they are embarrassed to say that they are the king of the mountain, even if it is a fake, then there must be talent, just like the emperor of the person, must have a jade seal to be legitimate, if there is no jade seal, the throne is not legal enough.

"This tiger skin is good, but it's all stinky from the leader of the horse thieves, forget it, don't want it."

Ang Lee said with a smile and walked around the chair to the back room.

The lobby is the place where the leader of the horse thieves and the small leaders under his command discuss matters, but the residence of the leader of the horse thieves is also here, so that it is more convenient to deal with many things, and at the same time, for safety, there is no place more strict than the lobby guard.

"Li Shilang don't want it, that's mine, haha!"

Lao Guo seemed very happy, he didn't care that this tiger skin had been sat by the leader of the horse thieves for a long time, he didn't seem to care about this.

After walking to the back compartment, a large box came into view, and this box should contain letters exchanged with the leader of the horse thieves.

Ang Lee and Lao Guo couldn't wait to open the box.

"Sure enough, there are thousands of letters, so many letters, it's really hard to hide!"

Lao Guo said.

If he brought all such a box of letters back to Xiazhou City, it would inevitably be discovered, and those moth-eating methods in Xiazhou City were terrible, and they could do anything.

"Let's tidy up first! Separate the valuable from the worthless, and keep one letter written by the same person that is not of much value. ”

Li An said.

Lao Guo nodded, and together with Ang Lee, he began to sort out the letters.

Because these letters have been read by the leader of the horse thieves, they are all opened, and it is very easy to read the contents, just take them out.

"Why didn't the leader of the horse thieves burn such important correspondence after reading it? How could he have a habit of collecting secret letters. ”

Ang Lee opened a letter and said with a smile.

"Haha! Maybe it's to threaten someone! When you get on the thief ship, it is not so easy to get down, you have to be in the same boat with the horse thief all the time, otherwise, the horse thief will be able to take out these letters to threaten these moths. ”

Lao Guo said very transparently.

Lao Guo, who has lived for most of his life, has a rich life experience, and he is very vicious when he sees people and things, and many things can be understood as long as he thinks about it casually.

"Haha! That's right! This horse thief leader is really a villain, and he actually kept this hand, not only did he not threaten the person he wanted to threaten, but he also cheapened us. ”

Li An said with a smile, suddenly thought of something, and was stunned in place, just like Zhou Yu vomited blood after being blown by the wind.

"What's the matter, Li Shilang."

Lao Guo asked.

Li An eased his emotions and said, "Lao Guo! It's useless for us to keep it secret! These letters were collected by the leader of the horse thieves, and he must have known that they had been captured by us, so if he spread the news, wouldn't those moths in Xia Zhou be prepared? ”

Lao Guo was stunned for a moment, and said, "It shouldn't be!" The leader of the horse thieves is a villain, and he is not so righteous. ”