Jiangning City.

Luo Cheng is out, and the rebels are exhausted.

The seven counties were recovered, and 150,000 rebels were captured, and there were no less than 300,000 rebel families.

As an ambassador of Jiangdong and Jiangxi, Luo Cheng not only had to quell the chaos, but also to pacify the local area and restore the post-war order.

The first thing in front of us now is what to do with the rebels and their families who have surrendered prisoners.

"Kill them all!"

Wang Shichong of Jiangdu County, who came to the meeting, said three words directly.

Luo Cheng gave him a blank look.

"Wang Juncheng, do you know how many lives you have in these three words? It's 500,000 or 600,000 lives, 200,000 lives per word, which is more generous than those rich people spending a lot of money. ”

Wang Shichong twisted his fat body, and smiled at Luo Cheng flatteringly, "Luo Shuai, since these people dare to obey the thief, then naturally they should be killed as an example, otherwise Jiangnan will have no peace from now on." ”

"That can't kill innocents indiscriminately, 500,000 people, thanks to what you said. Do you know how difficult it is to have a person and how difficult it is to grow a child into adulthood? Ten people may not be able to feed five, and among the five who survive, there may be one or two disabled freaks, either fools or blind, deaf and lame or something. ”

"If you are not lame, crutches, blind or deaf, you may drown when you were a child playing in the water, or fall to your death while walking. They may die of famine and starvation, or they may die of illness or illness, flooding, or fire······ It can be said that if you can grow into a man, it will be a life of nine deaths, this is a creation given by God, how difficult is it, you can kill 500,000 casually? ”

"What do you think should be done with that big handsome? These are rebellions, the sins of the ten heinous, sins that are unforgivable. Wang Shichong was told by Luo Cheng that he couldn't do it.

He has always been sharp-mouthed, but he is not afraid that Luo Cheng can say it, the key is that Luo Cheng is a handsome, he is a subordinate official, but he doesn't dare to play tricks in front of Luo Cheng, even if he says Luo Cheng, it is a bad thing.

"Otherwise, for those backbones of the rebellious thieves, you can screen them, punish them severely, and send them to Liaodong to garrison the border army as Tuntian slaves. As for the others, they can be exiled to Liaodong to Shibian Tuntian. And their family members can stay and forgive, or they can choose to go to Tuntian in Liaodong with their families. Go there, give them fields, and let them start anew. ”

"It's too cheap for them, isn't it?"

"Uprooted, far away, the bitter cold land of eastern Liaodong, starting over, and having to face war and plunder at any time, how can it be said that it is cheap?"

Nearly 500,000 people in the seven counties of Jiangnan were involved in rebellion and rebellion, and this number is still very large, and if they all move to Liaodong, it is estimated that it will be too amazing. Even if only those rebels were moved, it would be 150,000 or 60,000 people.

But compared to Wang Shichong's killing of them all, there is no doubt that this method is more benevolent and more practical, and it just so happens that after the imperial court seized the four counties of Liao, it is still empty.

And for Luo Cheng, it is naturally more beneficial.

Now Cunxiao is the Taishou of Lushun, he is the Taishou of Liaodong, and he is very willing to develop Liaodong and regard it as a foundation place.

Liaodong is not a good place, and now it is still intertwined with Goguryeo, it is a powder keg, and there may be a big war at any time. But the world is so big, it is not easy to find another place to develop.

After all, in the Central Plains, the imperial court will not give you a chance easily.

If Luo Cheng is willing to stay in Liaodong to guard, the imperial court is also very willing, and with Luo Yi to help promote, Luo Cheng can do many things.

He has soldiers now, but he can't just have soldiers.

The four counties in Liaodong have nothing now, even if the garrison is outside, they have to completely rely on the supply of grain, grass and ordnance in the Guannei, which is okay for a short time, and the imperial court can't bear it for a long time.

At that time, the only result can only be to reduce the number of troops garrisoned, or simply set up a military government there, send government soldiers, and work for farmers in leisure time and war time, so as to reduce military spending.

To raise a soldier, at least twenty peasants must be cultivated and paid rent.

And one cavalryman gets a rent of a hundred peasants for farming.

This is just the usual algorithm, approximate number.

If you really want to maintain an elite army, you need to train more in peacetime, better equipment, and cost more. If Goguryeo cannot be destroyed in Liaodong for one day, there will be war at any time, and this expenditure will have to increase even more.

Hundreds of thousands of rebels and their families, Luo Cheng has long been targeted.

If you can really get to Liaodong, it will be terrible.

Not to mention the four counties, just Liaodong County has the most fertile Liaohe Plain, and it is really no problem to settle four or five hundred thousand people. And if there are four or five hundred thousand people, then they can have the potential to supply twenty or thirty thousand troops. This is still the ability of ordinary people to supply the army, if it is a criminal who is exiled to the border pass, the rent will definitely be higher, then theoretically it is possible to supply 50,000 or 60,000 or even 100,000 soldiers.

This is the war potential, and this is the foundation of hegemony.

"Wang Juncheng, since the war here has been decided, I won't stay for long. In a few days, I will return to the Eastern Capital, and then go to Liaodong, and the aftermath here must be dealt with as soon as possible. ”

At the end of the meeting, Luo Cheng immediately sent a letter to Luo Yi.

He explained his opinions on the handling of those rebels and their families, and hoped that Luo Yi would help and promote this matter.

In the end, he hesitated, but still wrote at the end of the letter, hoping that Luo Yi would help and let Du Fuwei be the commander of Danyang County and Fu Gongqi be the commander of Xuancheng County.

Originally, he wanted to arrange for Cheng Yanjin and Pei Xingyan, who were still recuperating from their injuries, to stay in Jiangnan, and even wanted to recommend the two to serve as Taishou, but these two guys had a tendon, and even Taishou actually said that he was unwilling to be a man, and he was more willing to follow Luo Cheng to Liaodong, and said that he was willing to go there to fight the Goguryeo people, and he was unwilling to be in Jiangnan.

Helpless.

Luo Cheng asked the others, but they were not very willing to stay, and they even wondered why Luo Cheng wanted to keep his two brothers here.

The purpose of this matter is relatively obscure.

Of course, the apparent reason is that the rebellion here has just been decided, and the people's hearts are not stable, so leaving two generals here to watch, in fact, Luo Cheng wants to lay two chess pieces here, he knows better than anyone that even if the Jiangnan rebellion is peaceful in two months, this will not solve any fundamental problems.

Yang Guang has gone farther and farther on the road of being alone, he is unwilling to compromise, then there will only be more and more people who oppose him, especially those nobles and powerful people who have been suppressed before, they did not dare to move when the world was stable before, and if there is chaos today, they will naturally rise up one after another.

No one else was willing to stay, but Duvowe finally said that he was willing to stay.

In the past few years, Du Da and Fusan have been loyal to Luo Cheng, and they have made countless meritorious contributions with him. But in the Luo family's army, the two of them have always been the commanders of the infantry, and now that Qin Qiong and Shan Xiongxin Pei Xingyan have come to the Luo family's army, Du Fuwei also knows that he still has some gap with them, and he is not willing to fall below them at that time.

Now that I have the opportunity to be independent, I am still willing to give it a try, after all, Heiye, Cunxiao, etc. have also gone out alone.

However, the qualifications of the two are relatively poor, and it is still too difficult to promote them as Taishou, so they can only retreat to the next best thing and ask Luo Yi to help protect them as county officials.

Put down the pen.

Luo Cheng sighed in his heart, and he didn't know whether his move was right or wrong.

Leaving Du Fuwei, the king of Jianghuai in history, in Jiangnan, can't he get up again? If it really rises, will it still be controlled by itself in the future?