Wanli 1592

Chapter 1239 Take a breath, take a break

Starting from the second village, the Japanese Self-Defense Force is in charge.

There are more than 100 young and strong men and more than 200 young and strong women, and there are more than 400 combinations of the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled. It is not troublesome to deal with, and the number of people is not large.

But now it's the Japanese Self-Defense Force. Ishikawa Hideichi led 500 members of the Japanese Self-Defense Force to carry out this task. Anyway, he is very nervous. He can hold a knife. He has the right to hold a knife, but whether he can use it is really a question. question.

He completed the registration and selection in this village according to the requirements of the Qin army, and then ordered that men, women, young adults, and the old, weak, sick and disabled be divided into three groups to stand on the left, middle and right, and let the male groups return to their houses. Then ordered the women and the old, weak, sick and disabled to be taken away.

Same as last time, when they saw that their children, wives and parents were about to be taken away, the men rushed out in panic and demanded an explanation.

"This is a routine registration check, don't rush over, calm down! Calm down!"

He tried desperately to calm down the rushing men, and also to calm himself down, but unfortunately, he failed, he couldn't do it.

"If they don't die, they will kill you."

Chai Guozhu's cold words echoed in his ears.

The noise was getting louder and the movements were getting louder, and one man even tried to snatch his knife.

He pulled out his knife in an instant, and chopped off the head of the man who snatched his knife.

There was a moment of silence on the scene, and then the volcano erupted.

"What are you doing in a daze? If you don't want to die, hit me!"

In a brief panic, the members of the Self-Defense Forces raised their sticks and beat them hard. The men who were trying to rush over and the old, weak, sick, and women who were trying to escape rolled on the ground with their heads in their arms. .

The scene is quite lively and quite beautiful.

Chai Guozhu and Liu Tai watched from the side, with satisfied expressions on their faces.

"It's really convenient to do this. Weiwei is a little worried. If too many people are killed, will His Majesty's plan to build a grand road be hindered? These are all strong labor."

"It doesn't matter, our country has a population of tens of millions, and there are millions of strong laborers. It is nothing to kill tens of thousands of them. It is necessary to make them feel fear, so that they will be obedient and not make trouble. The number of these people is not large. Little, if there is trouble, it will be somewhat troublesome."

Chai Guozhu nodded.

"That's true, so let's do this, expand the number of Japanese Self-Defense Forces, let them screen and arrest, and we will organize people to take back the people His Majesty wants, hahahaha..."

As he spoke, Chai Guozhu suddenly laughed.

"What's the matter, General Chai, is there anything funny?"

Liu Tai looked at Chai Guozhu.

"It's not funny, it's just interesting."

Chai Guozhu said with a smile: "Your Majesty is still thinking about those bachelors who can't marry a wife. They get women from Japan to be their wives. They don't need to spend money to get a wife to go home and sleep. I don't know how happy they are." gone."

Having said that, Liu Tai couldn't help laughing.

"Hahahaha, Your Majesty is a great shelter for the world's bachelors and happy faces. This is indeed very popular, and it can also solve the problem of the excess population of the Wa Kingdom for Daqin, and increase the population of Daqin. This is not the first time that Your Majesty has met before the imperial court. It is said that the population of Daqin is too small."

"[-] million people is more or less?"

Chai Guozhu found it difficult to understand Xiao Ruxun's thoughts: "There are so many people, eating is a big problem. Although it is said that many children are blessed, they still have to eat."

"Your Majesty said that with the amount of land in Daqin and the newly introduced high-yield food crops such as potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes, it can feed about twice the population. Your Majesty said that he hopes to see Daqin's population grow faster in his lifetime. growth of.

And among other things, the larger the population, the more soldiers can be recruited. Your Majesty intends to fight to the death with the Beilu to completely solve the Beilu issue. I don't know what price to pay for that battle. Now His Majesty is already saving money. Save military expenses, the civilian population will have more children, so that there will be successors. "

Liu Tai said slowly: "Your Majesty has far-reaching wisdom and far-reaching ideas, and his thoughts and thoughts are far ahead of us. Right now, the country is really using people and money, and it is repairing and building everywhere. First, sending these Japanese people to Daqin will allow Daqin to take a good breath and rest."

Chai Guozhu nodded.

"That makes sense."

What Liu Tai understood was also Xiao Ruxun's meaning. Xiao Ruxun clearly wrote his own meaning in the edict to the world. It was to get rid of the northern captives, to eliminate the northern captives for the Northern Expedition, and to solve the cruelty that could not be solved for thousands of years. The problem is to completely remove the danger hanging over Huaxia's head.

Daqin has this energy, this military power and national power.

However, Xiao Ruxun must also be alert to the reasons for the collapse of the pre-Qin Dynasty. Too strong control and mobilization brought about the excessive use of people's power. The people made troubles, which caused the chaos after Qin Shihuang's death.

The emperor's strong control over the place also has worries in this regard.

The lesson of the pre-Qin collapse is something Xiao Ruxun needs to think about and learn from.

For this reason, Xiao Ruxun chose the path of going out to pass on the crisis, transferring the pressure of the people of Daqin to foreign countries, taking prisoners of war from abroad and returning them to work in the country. When a country is defeated, they will take their people captive to work. In short, to give the people a chance to recuperate.

People who have just been liberated from the shackles of landlords and gentry to own their own land need to take a good rest and take a breath.

The battles against Liaodong and Bozhou at the beginning of the year have already exhausted the people once, and they also need to rest. If they are continuously used for work, they will also feel dissatisfied. At that time, no preferential policies will be used. So easy to use.

This time robbing the Japanese to work is to give the people a chance to recuperate, use Japanese labor to do big projects, so that the people of Daqin can rest, produce more food and have more children in a variety of lands, and after the repair of Dachi Road is completed, I believe Daqin will have another chance There will be a new look.

Xiao Ruxun was also quite busy in the palace during the days when the army was away on conquests. It was also his unshirkable responsibility to deal with the logistics and supplies of the army expedition. The army was fighting ahead, and he couldn't let the army be deprived of food.

Only after he started to handle the logistics of the army himself did he clearly understand how important and serious the military conquest is, how expensive and energy-intensive it is and how easy it is to disturb the people.

Fortunately, under his strict control, the military discipline of the army is very good, and the marching and fighting never disturb the people. He also ordered that all localities must follow the regulations to build marching barracks in the designated areas for the army to use when staying at night, and try not to disturb the people in the cities and villages. common people.

The food problem is also very serious. In many cases, food delivery has to be carried out by recruiting local people to work as peasants, and it is easy to delay the farming time.

Although with the full assistance of the Ministry of War and the cabinet, Xiao Ruxun still felt a lot of pressure and a heavy workload, and the Qianqing Palace was still far away from being restored to a simple emperor's bedroom.

Fortunately, the good news is one after another, the army is progressing smoothly, and the momentum is like a broken bamboo, which makes Xiao Ruxun feel that no matter how hard and tired he is, it is worth it.

The best news came on the fourth day of May in the second year of Longwu.

Hou Yangcheng and his queen were captured alive by Li Rusong.

(End of this chapter)