Chapter 297: The Question of Captives

Outside the county seat, the original camp of Moro still exists. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info and the original dense shacks outside, have long been swept away, countless farmers are busy in this blood-soaked land for replanting, although the solar term has passed, but always to reduce the loss, and these green seedlings, most of them are from Fengxian and Taiping City.

This has to be said that at that time, Wang Hou and Ge Qingsheng both had extremely shrewd minds, they were sure that the Taiping army would win, and after the victory, those areas that were poisoned by the Shuntian army would naturally have to be restored, and the green seedlings would become rare at that time.

Sure enough, after recovering Shayang County and driving Mo Luo away, the seedlings of Feng County and Taiping City became a sought-after commodity, and the seedlings were transported out from these two grounds every day, and they rushed to various places day and night, of course, this is not free, and the price is naturally much more expensive, but it is still in short supply.

The people of Feng County and Taiping City naturally made a small profit, and Feng County and Taiping City also received an additional tax because of this business.

Selling seedlings is also a business, and of course there are taxes on it. Commercial taxes, in Feng County and Taiping City, can be much higher than in other places in Shayang County, which is also one of Qin Feng's pilots. He wants to start with these two places and gradually promote standardized taxation.

And right next to these green green fields, Moro's camp was filled with a large number of Suncheon prisoners captured in this great battle.

In this camp alone, there are nearly 20,000 prisoners, and in Shayang County, there are several such prisoner camps, close to 100,000 prisoners, how to deal with them, has become the biggest problem in Shayang County now.

Among the 100,000 people, less than 10% of the people of Shayang County have been entrapped, and these people have already been screened out and released home, and the remaining 80,000 or so are all from Changyang County.

Put? No one wants to let the tiger go back to the mountain, let alone release them back like this, how can these people who have nothing go back? I am afraid that as soon as they are released, countless bandits will be created in the territory of Shayang County, and even if they return to Changyang County, they will only become the basis for Mo Luo's gathering of strength again.

A row of twenty captives, tied to their left feet with a rope, had to act collectively no matter what they did, and every day, only at noon, they could get a bowl of gruel, plus a steamed bun, which could only ensure that they would not starve to death.

This prisoner camp borrowed the outer fence of the original Moro camp, and the tents inside had long been demolished, replaced by simple wooden houses, the wooden planks were nailed extremely rough, and standing outside the house, you could clearly see the situation inside through the cracks.

The camp was divided into two parts, one for men and one for women.

In contrast, the men's prisoner camp was extremely strictly guarded, in addition to the tethered feet, the soldiers were also three steps and one post, five steps and one sentry, and from time to time there would be patrols carrying bright knives through the camp. And outside this prisoner camp was the military camp of the Taiping army. If there is any abnormal movement, the Taiping army can pounce on it at any time to suppress it.

Rows of Shuntian prisoners are weak or sitting on the ground, or lying there, their eyes are dull, their faces are yellow and thin, no matter how strong you are, you will be starved for more than ten days, and you will not have the strength to think about anything else.

Despair, drifting in the captive camp.

numbness makes them like walking corpses.

For them, the expectation of every day is that when the sun rises in the sky, the bowl of gruel and a steamed bun that can almost illuminate the shadow of a person.

The heavy door that had been tightly closed was suddenly opened today, and even the captives, who had long been numb and had no hope for life, involuntarily turned their heads to look at the gate that was the entrance to hell to them.

Two rows of black-armored guards were the first to enter, and in the middle of the armor, a young man in civilian clothes, accompanied by two red-robed officials, entered the prisoner camp.

For the county officials who saw the green robe, it was already a great experience, and they thought that for these lowest-level people who saw the big officials, the probability of seeing the red robe county officials was even lower than that they might not have a chance in their lives. But this time, they saw two at once, and more importantly, the two red-robed officials were still cautiously behind the young man in the white robe in the middle, looking at the appearance of the two, there was no doubt that the young man was a more noble place.

Or, the one who can change their fate.

In the romance and the storytelling, it is all said like this.

The eyes of an old man in the front row lit up, he stood up, let go of his throat, and shouted: "Wronged, wronged!" ”

While shouting, he tried to run forward, but he forgot that he still had ropes tied around his feet and necks, and when he saw him running, some of the people who were tied to him stood up and tried to follow him forward, while others, still sitting on the ground, only took two steps forward, and the old man fell to the ground, and after that, the people who were tied together fell into a pile.

The guards pounced, and the whips in their hands struck them in the face, angrily reprimanding them as they did.

Today, the boss of Shayang County came to inspect the prisoner camp with the deputy guard of the county guard and others, in order not to make trouble today, there was no food yesterday, I thought that these guys were so hungry that they didn't even have the strength to speak, but I never thought that there were still people jumping up.

"Forget it!" Qin Feng said lightly.

The guards who were reckless immediately stopped and retreated to the side tremblingly, but Qin Feng did not stop to stage the routine of questioning in the old man's expectant eyes, but only glanced at him faintly, and continued to walk forward.

In Qin Feng's opinion, no one is wronged. You only know that you are miserable now, but you forget that there are many more people who have been ruined by you along the way.

"Why does the camp stink so much?" Frowning, Qin Feng turned his head to look at the head of the camp guards who were following behind him with a worried face.

"My lord, there are too many captives, and we don't have enough guards, so we can only tie up dozens of them in a bunch, so that it is inconvenient for them to act, but some other things are naturally inconvenient, for example, the thatched house, in fact, dozens of people together, just find a vacant place to solve it." The guard whispered.

Wang Hou glanced around and said with a smile: "You cleaned up this large area today, otherwise how could you not see those yellow and white things?" Other places, I'm afraid it's miserable, right? ”

The head of the guard lowered his head, and the big people came to inspect, most of them were just some routines, everyone knew it, but most of them didn't know it, but they didn't expect this adult to say it directly.

"That's not going to work." Qin Feng glanced at the guard, and the guard's body couldn't help but shake.

"I'm not saying it's wrong for you to tie them up like this. We're seriously understaffed right now, and there are only a few hundred guards in this camp, right? Including the garrison outside, there were only 2,000 people, and the prisoners in this large camp were more than 20,000 and close to 30,000, and it was necessary to take some measures. "Qin Feng said.

The guard immediately breathed a sigh of relief and glanced gratefully at the adult who could understand the situation.

"I can't say it, it's too dirty in the camp." Qin Feng continued: "What season is it now?" This weather is the most prone to the spread of plague. The camp was so densely populated, and so close to the county town, that if there was a plague, there would be a big mess. ”

"Adults, villains, villains don't think so much." The guard whispered.

"It's not your problem." Qin Feng turned his head to look at the county guard Quan Yun: "Quan county guard, go back and transfer a group of doctors over, I'm worried that there are already some signs now, even if there are none, you have to take precautions in advance." In addition, bring some more quicklime, and this camp will be thoroughly purified. ”

"Yes, Commander, I'll do it right away." Kwon Yundao.

"You go back and dig a row of ditches and let the captives go where they go when they solve the problem, and then cover them with quicklime that you have prepared, making sure that there is no possibility of a plague."

"Yes, sir."

"Now only give them one meal a day?"

"Yes, my lord, we're going to make sure these guys don't have the strength to make trouble."

"Don't go too far, you have to get the balance right, if they think they're going to starve to death, maybe it's going to be the opposite." Qin Feng reminded.

"The villain is awake."

The group didn't say much, and after a turn in the camp, Qin Feng walked out with Quan Yun and Wang Hou.

"Two adults, I specially brought you over to take a look today, what do you think?"

"A big trouble!" Quan Yun shook his head and said, "You can't keep them like this, right?" After a long time, I am afraid that these prisoners will not live long, and this prisoner camp is like this, but I am afraid that the situation of the other battalions will be even worse than here. ”

"If you can't kill it, if you can't put it down, it's really a big trouble." Wang Hou also shook his head speechlessly.

"Have you counted it, how many of these captives are dragging their families with their families?" Qin Feng suddenly asked.

Quan Yun was stunned, now the entire Shayang County is in ruins, who has the leisure to count these problems. "No, Commander, what are you doing with this?"

"Let's count it and bring this group of people out first." Qin Feng thought for a moment, "This time to clean up the acres, there will inevitably be a lot of ownerless fields, these fields will be collected as official fields, and when the time comes, through replacement and other methods, these official fields will be gathered together, and then set up tuntian points, so that these people who drag their families and families will go to farming." ”

"That's a good idea!" Quan Yun's eyes lit up, "If you drag your family and lead your mouth, your mind to resist will inevitably be small, give them a way to live, and they will be honest." ”

"Of course, in addition to a way to live, we also have to give them hope." Qin Feng said: "You county guards will discuss it yourself, and see that it is limited to a few years, if these people behave well, they can be freed." I mean two to three years. ”

"Yes."

"Young and strong people who are not easy to manage are also picked out and sent these people to the deep mountains of Taiping City, where a large number of people are needed to open mines." Qin Feng snorted, "Yesterday, Ge Qingsheng in Taiping City sent a letter and discovered a large iron mine, and now it is in urgent need of strong labor!" ”

"For the rest, you can find a way to digest it slowly, and if this point is done, the other points can follow suit and solve this big trouble as quickly as possible." (To be continued.) )