Two days after the end of the Battle of Quzhou, the army still stayed in Quzhou. Lu Zhi's identity is the Han army, after subduing Quzhou, he naturally can't ignore it, the two sides have accumulated three million troops in the city of Quzhou, the people of the original Quzhou City are considered to have fallen blood mold, and the survivors after the war are not one in ten, and there is a serious shortage of food.

Fortunately, the Yellow Turban Army harvested a lot of grain and grass in this battle, but there was no worry about running out of food to help the victims.

But now there is still a big problem that Lu Zhi needs to solve - how to deal with the millions of captured Yellow Turban Army!

If it was Huangfu Song who was in charge of the war in the north, then he would definitely not say anything, and he would have pulled it out and cut it down to make an example! However, Lu Zhi is not Huangfu Song, he can't do such a thing.

However, how to deal with the millions of captives is sad for Lu Zhi, and it is definitely impossible to release them. Just participated in the rebellion, and let people go, so where is the majesty of the court?

The best way is to temporarily detain it, and when the Yellow Turban Rebellion is completely quelled, then ask the court to discuss the crime, but Lu Zhi can't afford it! Lu Zhi was fighting abroad, and the food supplied by the imperial court was fixed, and it was barely feasible to squeeze out 100,200,000 people, but there were more than 1 million people at once, and Lu Zhi couldn't support them if he was exhausted.

In this way, although a big victory was achieved, Lu Zhi was not happy, and this huge number of captives became a hot potato.

It should be noted that among the more than one million Yellow Turban prisoners of war, there are many people with good strength, although most of them are first- and second-order miscellaneous soldiers, but they also made up 200,000 third-order troops by piecing together.

Liu Bei is greedy for this group of captives, with his superb political attributes and personal charm, it is not a big problem to quickly recruit this group of captives in a short period of time, however, Liu Bei also can't afford to raise so many people!

He does not have a stable logistics base, and the current strength of more than 100,000 troops still relies on the imperial court to provide support, and the number of people has suddenly increased by a million, and he can't afford to sell Sanying even a piece of bones and meat.

Seeing that Lu Zhi was at a loss in the face of many captures, Shang Ji looked for him in time.

"I heard that Lu Gong is worried about the capture of the moth thief, and there will be a plan in the end, I am willing to share my worries for Lu Gong!" Shang Ji was not polite, and said straight to the point.

Lu Zhi, who was frowning with a sad face, was immediately shocked, and hurriedly asked, "I don't know what Yue Wu's strategy is?" ”

Shang Ji smiled slightly, and continued: "Lu Gong is only worried about two points, one is that the killing of prisoners is unknown, and it hurts the benevolence of the Son of Heaven; The second was a million captives, and the daily demand for food and money was astronomical, and the army could not afford to provide for it. ”

Lu Zhi nodded and admitted calmly: "What Yue Wu said is good, this prisoner can't be killed, and he can't afford to raise it, so what can the old man do?" Could it be that they were just released? ”

"Duke Lu laughed, the moth thieves participated in the rebellion, although they are not the head of the thieves, but they should not be spared, if they are let go like this, where is the law of the court?"

Shang Ji smiled and rejected Lu Zhi's complaining proposal, and then smiled mysteriously: "Since you can't kill it, you can't let it go, and you can't afford to raise it, why don't we exile it?" ”

Lu Zhi was stunned when he heard this, and couldn't help repeating: "Exile? ”

"Yes, exile!"

Shang Ji nodded fiercely, and then continued: "They participate in the rebellion, and they can't go unpunished, but they will all be beheaded, the impact is too wide, and it is against the will of heaven, it is better to exile them, which can have the effect of punishment and save food!" ”

Shang Ji has come to this point, Lu Zhina still doesn't understand what he is thinking? A smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and Lu Zhi said, "For example, exile in Liaodong? ”

"Lu Gong is wise! Liaodong is remote and rarely affected by the Taiping Demon Dao, so exile to Liaodong can ensure that he will not be bewitched again. In addition, Liaodong is vast and sparsely populated, surrounded by alien races, and it is necessary to immigrate to the real border in case of thieves. Wouldn't it be more than enough to exile this prisoner of war to Liaodong?"

Shang Ji's cheekiness was also exercised, as if he didn't see the slightly teasing smile on Lu Zhi's face, and he analyzed it seriously.

Lu Zhi stood up, paced slowly, and circled around Shang Ji twice, with a gleam in his eyes from time to time, and he didn't know what he was thinking. Shang Ji always looked at Lu Zhi without any fear.

After a while, Lu Zhi slowly spoke: "Yue Wu, your request can be agreed to by the old man, but you need to bear all the money and food needed for exile!" In addition, a 'ransom fee' of one stone of grain will be paid for each person."

"No problem, there is a slight surplus of grain and grass in the Ji Department, and I am willing to give Mr. Lu Gong two million stone grain and grass for military needs!"

Shang Ji was overjoyed in his heart, and he directly doubled the redemption fee very generously.

"Don't be in a hurry to be happy, the old man still has a condition, if you can agree, all prisoners of war captured by our army in the future will be dealt with in this way, except for some important targets!" Lu Zhi waved his hand, interrupting Shang Ji's words.

"Lu Gong, please speak!"

"Loyal to the Great Han, loyal to Your Majesty!"

Shang Ji's heart was Ling, he looked at Lu Zhi's slightly old face, and sighed in his heart, although he was a little unbearable, but Shang Ji still spoke up against his will: "Lu Gong rest assured, Ji will naturally be loyal to the Han and Your Majesty!" ”

"I want you to swear!"

Shang Ji's face changed slightly, and then he stretched out his hand and said: "I, Shang Ji, swear here, Han will not live up to me, and I will not live up to Han!" ”

Hearing what Shang Ji said, Lu Zhi was obviously stunned for a moment, and opened his mouth to speak, but as if he was deflated, he took out a command arrow with a lonely expression and said: "Take my order arrow, all the moth thief captives are handed over to you, remember what you said today!" ”

After speaking, Lu Zhi seemed to be drained of strength, sat down on the seat, and closed his eyes tiredly.

Business opportunity took the arrow, hesitated for a moment, and finally spoke: "Duke Lu take care of your body, the big man still needs Duke Lu!" ”

This sentence seemed to make Lu Zhi lift his spirits a little, opened his eyes and glanced at Shang Ji, barely showed a smile, waved his hand to Shang Ji, and motioned for him to go down.

"The last general will retire, and Lu Gong will rest for a good life!"

After a salute, Shang Ji bowed and retired.

Out of the big tent, Shang Ji glanced at the arrow in his hand and sighed.

There is no doubt that Lu Zhi is a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty, and even in the face of the current situation that is on the verge of shattering, Lu Zhi is still trying his best to save it, hoping to bring the Han back to life.

However, even Lu Zhi himself knew that this was almost impossible, the national fortunes of the Han Dynasty had really come to an end, and the corruption of officials, the weakness of the army, and the chaos of the court all showed that the dynasty was about to fall. Taiping Dao is just an introduction, which detonates the latent crisis in advance, even if there is no Zhang Jiao, there is Li Jiao.

His attempt to save the Han is no different from a mayfly shaking a tree. But this is his perseverance, even if there is no hope, he will never give up.

There is no doubt that Shang Ji's "loyalty to the Han and loyalty to His Majesty" is farting, as a half-political figure, Shang Ji has learned the ability to tell nonsense with his eyes open.

Lu Zhi saw Shang Ji's perfunctory attitude at a glance, so he forced Shang Ji to swear, and Shang Ji's oath also contained a lot of water!

What does it mean to live up to me? What do you mean by me? What is a negative? There's so much room to maneuver around!

Of course, Lu Zhi also saw this, but he couldn't ask Shang Ji to make more promises, "Han lives up to me, I live up to Han" is almost the best result.

Shang Ji paid tribute to Lu Zhi's personal discipline, but respect is respect, Shang Ji is impossible to really be loyal to the Han, looking back at Lu Zhi's big tent, Shang Ji turned around and left.

The transfer of millions of prisoners of war across states is no small matter, and there is still a lot of work to be done by the merchants, and there is no room for delay.