Chapter 669: On the Road (Part II)
The incomprehensible governance model of the Han State made it so that as long as those who were willing to work would not starve, those who wanted to have something to eat could only be employed by the Han State. After they were hired, they would be administered, and the Han State would train a group of young men from the occupied territories to maintain law and order in the occupied territories.
Zang Di saw a lot of things along the way, and the relatively impressive ones were about the maintenance of law and order after the war, and of course, the continuous delivery of supplies to the north.
In the long river of history, which piece of land that has endured great wars is not a miserable situation? After the war, not to mention the scenes of wives and wives being separated, some of the land that took advantage of the opportunity to be plundered by gangs, gangsters, and hooligans were even gangs that accompanied the war, and people living in this environment generally had a kind of panic and uncertainty about the future on their faces.
In the area occupied by the Han army, there were also pieces of war-torn ruins, but Zang Di could not see the panic on the face of Qianshou, and some were just a kind of confusion that the people in the occupied areas would definitely have.
On the way, Zang Di also found a very special phenomenon, whenever someone from the Han army went to a certain village, the more virtuous and respected old people among the leaders seemed to be persuading the young and strong people in the village to go to enlist something, so they would always see the adult men of a village being gathered, and then follow the people sent by the Han army to a certain place.
Once he couldn't bear it anymore, Zang Di waited for the Han army to take away the young man in the village, and then went to meet the old man in the village.
"The water conservancy repaired is a local profit-making thing, and if you have a salary, you will eat and drink and be provided by the army, so you will naturally have to go."
"Is it really going to repair water conservancy?"
"Naturally, the construction site is not far from the village."
"Aren't you worried about those young men going to be sent to battle?"
"How so? It is not easy for the Han people themselves to join the army, how can they be so easy to enter. ”
After a short conversation, Zang Di got a lot of information, and the Han Kingdom seemed to have specially sent people to promote the national policy, and the first to start was the three elders who were more respected in the countryside.
Zang Di also found that the clans of the three elders were all the winners of this war, and not the products of the clan were bought. It is that some of them have been recruited into the supernumerary army of the Han State that maintains law and order, and even more so, some of them have become part of the administrative system of the Han State.
Of course, the most realistic thing is that the Han army showed a very good posture during the occupation, although it is impossible that there were no conflicts with the people, but they all achieved a fair result.
And it seems that the Han State has also made a lot of preparations in order to win the trust of the Qianshou in the occupied area, and the monthly wages of those who are employed will be settled immediately at the end of the month.
In a series of gestures, the Han State's keeping of promises was the first thing recognized by the Qianshou of the occupied area, and then some subsequent arrangements pulled some local big clans into a common interest group, with the cooperation of those clans that were already influential. When the Han army does some things, it is naturally that the obstacles become smaller, and when it is really the turn of someone who does not cooperate, it should be the supernumerary army that suppresses it first, and if it can't be solved, it should be the turn of the Han army to go into battle in person.
Zang Tu was no ordinary person, and he was keenly aware of the practicality of the Han occupation policy, which could reduce hatred in a very short period of time, and it was also a wonderful way to bring those clans closer to the same interest group.
"In a few years, the people of this land should be proud of the Han people." One of the Yan pawns who followed Zang Di said this to his companion.
Isn't it? The best way to occupy this world is to benefit the occupied people in all aspects, after all, people are extremely realistic existences. No one will refuse benefits, and it is also an instinct to choose good fortune and avoid evil.
Zang Di naturally heard the conversation of his subordinates, and he could hear that those subordinates were full of envy for the life of the Han Kingdom, and he didn't feel that it was a tragic thing for the Qi people who fell into the hands of the Han army.
In fact, it's pretty much the same. The State of Qi went crazy and had to recruit young people to become soldiers, and they continued to collect and scrape in the people for four or five years, causing many young people to flee into the mountains in order not to be recruited, and the people also broke out in turmoil for the sake of taxation.
Unlike the Qi State that forcibly recruited young people as soldiers and soldiers, there was no such phenomenon in the Han State. In the Han Kingdom, there is no such thing as conscription, and there will always be a corresponding reward for what is done, and the Han army does not enlist indiscriminately at all. There are not so many inexplicable entries in the joint taxation. Some of them are only very clear three types of grain tax, commercial tax, and mining tax.
The difference is too obvious, no matter how you look at it, the Han State is more suitable for the survival of civilians than the Qi State, and the Han army continues to win victories on the battlefield, and no one can come up with any rebuttal to the public opinion about the Han State, and the people's hearts will naturally be inclined to the side of the Han State.
There is a saying called "be prepared for danger in times of peace", and of course there is also "think of peace for a long time". It's been six years since the chaos of the world,
What's even worse is that the Han State is a country with a special situation, the rulers of this country are the Qin people, and among the civil and military officials, there are Qin people, Qi people, Yan people, Zhao people, Wei people, Han people, and Chu people.
By the way, now there are not so many distinctions in the Han Kingdom, they all call themselves Han people, those who call themselves Han people, they seem to have a very strange self-confidence, as if they will not be worried about any unexpected situation?
Why do Zang Tu's gang have such an opinion? When they continued to go north, they encountered a group of Han merchants besieged by bandits, and those besieged Han people were not cautious or worried when they were trapped, and more than 20 people dared to shout at hundreds of bandits, saying that they should let these bandits take it easy, Qi Yan dared to move the Han people, and the Han army went north to retaliate, and if something happened to any of them, all those bandits would die, and even their relatives would be buried.
A group of arrogant Han merchants, they seem to have such a clamor of capital, Qin, Qi, and Yan killed some Han people, and Han Wang Zhe has already started a war against Qi and Yan.
Now the Han army has attacked Jibei County, and after Langxi County was captured by the Han army, Linzi, the capital of Qi State, was also threatened by the Han army, and these things were completed in less than half a year.
In addition, although Qin was not among the countries that had been declared war by Han, the price paid by Qin was the loss of three counties.
Before Zang Di led people closer, the bandits who surrounded the merchants of the Han Kingdom were already hesitant, and as soon as they appeared, those bandits simply scattered and fled.
"Are you Han people like this?" Zang Di asked the person who came over to thank him.
The person who was questioned was a one-legged businessman in his thirties, and he grinned strangely and glanced at the banner displayed by Zang Di's team: "The army of the Yan Kingdom? You ......", he paused at this point, slightly embarrassed: "Actually, it's just to scare people." ”
Scare? It seems that those bandits are really scared, which is very revealing.
Zang Di asked again: "There are a lot of villains who were annihilated by the Han army, and they really didn't even let go of their relatives?" ”
"That group of people should have come out when they had nothing to eat in the deep mountains and old forests, and they were a group of people who were closed to information," said a mouthful among the merchants: "Now it is very simple to find a stutter in this land, and you will never starve to death if you do work, and you will have to be a villain a long time ago." ”
I didn't get the answer, that's the answer, but under the influence of Chinese culture, people are more subtle, and the merchants are grateful to the appearance of Zang Di and his party to scare off the bandits, and it is not good to say in a domineering tone that the Han army did annihilate a lot of bandits, and really didn't even let go of their relatives, but it was part of the chaos of the times, and they were really slaughtered a few times, unless they really didn't open their eyes, otherwise who would be a bandit and attack the Han people.
"You don't wonder why you can run into Yan Jun, and don't worry about us doing murder to you?" This is what Zang Di wants to ask the most.
The group of merchants looked at each other for a moment, and then spoke slowly in a strange tone.
The information that Zang Di and his party went north is not a secret on the Han side, and these merchants don't know much about the military system, but the Chamber of Commerce has made a notice.
"......" Zang Di didn't understand what it meant.
A merchant reminded: "You can take more than 200 people to the north, and you will not be intercepted by our troops along the way, and you can also buy supplies from the merchants." Why should we be afraid of you? ”
Zang Di can be regarded as understanding, their whereabouts have always been in the hands of the Han army, and then Han Wang Zhe has just led the army north, and the place that should be sorted out has been sorted out, and the armed forces that can swagger and move in large groups of people and horses are not threatened, and they obviously belong to this category.
Sighing, Zang Di was going to take people away, but he couldn't help but ask again: "Where is the Han army attacking now?" ”
"That's not something we know, this nobleman." The merchant replied very neatly.
Zang Di thought to herself: "That's right! Although Han Guo is very strange, it is estimated that it is not as strange as this.
Continuing to go north all the way, they saw too many things, they no longer had the heart to explore, so they thought that they could return to Yandi as soon as possible, until they arrived at Pingyang City at the boundary of Xue County, but they were stopped by a Han army.
"General Zang, don't get me wrong." The captain of the Han army said to Zang Di: "Our Zhonglang will be invited!" ”
The person who invited them was Ji Bu, and he was quite polite when he saw Zang Tu, but Zang Tu obviously had a feeling of resistance to being suddenly intercepted.
"Has King Han changed his mind?" Zang Tu is very restrained in his feelings, but in his heart he guesses what changes have happened ahead?
Ji Bu was not in a hurry to say the purpose, he asked the dusty Zang Di very humorously if he wanted to take a bath, and said that a wine banquet had been arranged.
Zang Di could see from Ji Bu's attitude that even if there was a change, it would be a change that was beneficial to the Han Kingdom, and he took a deep look at Ji Bu with a smile on his face, and only spit out the word "okay". (To be continued......)