Daming: At the start of the showdown, Lao Zhu was stunned

Chapter 345 Only Chinese people have food to eat
Chang Mao's worries are not unreasonable. Up to now, the more than [-] prisoners of the Yuan army have become the biggest problem they urgently need to solve.

Kill, you can't kill, keep it, it's a waste of military rations.Send it back, and I'm afraid that it will add combat power to the Naha Station Department for no reason.

"Is there anyone willing to surrender?" Zhu Su asked Chang Mao.

"There are some who are willing to surrender, but not many. And even if one or two are willing to surrender, we are worried that those people will make a false surrender." Chang Mao shrugged.

Zhu Su nodded. Indeed, now that Naha's main force is undefeated, how could these people surrender sincerely.Even if there are captives who were born in Liaodong Han, their ancestors have been under the rule of foreign races for several generations since the Song Dynasty.In my heart, I no longer have a sense of belonging to a Han dynasty like Daming.

Even if they surrendered due to the situation, when Naha comes out with an army, these people will definitely raise the flag "anyway" without any psychological burden.

But if he directly returned it to Naha, deep down in his heart, Zhu Su felt panicked.I have spent a lot of effort, it was a design, and it was a fraud. I managed to capture so many prisoners. Could it be that I just wanted to transport these Liaodong Yuan troops to Naha out of Shanhaiguan?
Then what have you become?The captain of the troop carrier under Naha?

"Have you arranged for someone to repair the city wall?" After thinking about it, Zhu Su asked.

"Yes, Mr. Ru is already recruiting civilians, and he is going to use the method of giving money for work in Suzhou City in the past to repair the city wall." The dog on the side answered. Zhu Su and his party plan to garrison the county, so the city wall of the county will definitely not work. No renovations.After all, when the Naha Station learned the news, it is very likely that they will send a partial division to try to attack the county where three Ming princes are stationed.

"Since this is the case, Master Ru doesn't have to recruit civilian husbands to build the city." Zhu Su said. "Aren't these captives idle? Let them repair the city wall. When the city wall is repaired, let them go back to Naha."

"Even if it's chicken ribs, we have to find a way to squeeze out some oil. Otherwise, wouldn't we panic at the loss?"

"Let the captives come to build the city?" Everyone present was stunned.Zhu Di thought for a while, and said: "Although this method works, the problem of food and grass is still unsolved."

"Continuing to keep these captives, wouldn't we also have to bear their food and grass problems?"

"Besides, we still need to distribute some food to the victims. Where will this food come from?"

"Hmm..." It's hard for a smart woman to cook without rice. Zhu Su pinched the center of his brows with a headache, thought for a while and said: "Since ancient times, all resource issues have been nothing more than increasing revenue and reducing expenditure. Now we have no idea about increasing revenue. We can only start from reducing expenditure." The above has worked hard."

"Dog, pass on the order. The army lacks food and grass, so the cost of the prisoners in the camp is reduced. Instead of two meals a day, let's change it to one meal a day."

"Old five." Just as Gou'er answered, Zhu Xi came out and asked, "Will the prisoners riot if you say it so bluntly?"

"Even if you want to give them less food, you should come up with a decent excuse. How can you tell them directly that the army is short of food and grass, and you need to cut their expenses? Could it be that, fifth brother, you want to provoke them on purpose?" Their grievances, so they can find some people to come out and kill chickens and monkeys?"

Since ancient times, the management of captives has always deliberately provoked some thorny grievances and then killed them, so that other captives in the camp can be obedient, so Zhu Xi asked this question.But Zhu Su waved his hand and denied, "Oh, second brother, your fifth brother, I have always used virtue to convince others, how could I use such bloody and violent methods?"

"Don't worry, I have my own way to make these captives submissive." As he spoke, he whispered a few more words to the dog.The dog nodded after hearing this, and went to do it himself.

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The next day, a group of captives were escorted by Wu Wangwei and went to the rocky mountain in the south of Changli County to mine bricks and stones.These captives had already been confiscated with their weapons and armor, and they had been frightened by Zhu Su and Zhu Di brothers before, so they had lost their temper at this time.

It was also heard that His Highness the Fifth Highness promised to set them free as soon as the Changli City Wall was repaired. These captives were all overjoyed, and obediently bound their feet, they went back and forth between Yanshan and outside Changli County obediently. Stone repairs the wall.

In the evening, a group of prisoners returned to the prisoner camp panting, and were about to line up to get today's fried rice, but they were told by the Ming army who distributed the rice grains: According to the order of King Wu, from today onwards, the prisoner camp expenses will be reduced from the original The two meals a day were directly changed to one meal a day.

Dinner tonight, no more!
"This...how could it not be! I waited so hard today to excavate the mountain to dig rocks, and then transport them to the city wall. The physical exertion is even more than usual. Why do I have two meals on weekdays, but today there is only one meal left? What is this? Reasonable?" A prisoner said indignantly.

In all fairness, the treatment of being prisoners of the Ming army can be regarded as comfortable. Except for a few generals of the Ming army who like to kill prisoners (such as Chang Yuchun), most of the generals of the Ming army are under the repeated orders of Lao Zhu. adopted a humanitarian policy.

Not only is the supply of food equal to that of the main army, but those who are willing to join the army of the Daming Guards to perform crimes and meritorious deeds, the Ming army also adopts a policy of treating them equally, and does not easily treat surrendered troops as cannon fodder. account identity.This also led to the fact that among the millions of Ming troops, more than half of the Ming troops were surrendered troops, and even many famous Ming generals who are now well-known today are also surrendered generals that Lao Zhu subdued from various forces.

This kind of policy of being gentle with surrendering troops is also one of Lao Zhu's major political tricks.Under such a policy, from the Northern Yuan Dynasty to the generals of the various forces who fought with Lao Zhu for hegemony in the past, they will not fight against Daming with all their strength: anyway, the Zhu family does not kill prisoners, and surrenders to Daming Afterwards, there were so many people who still made marquises and worshiped ministers. It is not shameful for me to surrender when I can't beat them.

Therefore, most of the Yuan Dynasty soldiers who were captured by Ming Dynasty would not actively resist.Anyway, they are soldiers who eat food, where do they eat?Whether this world belongs to the Great Yuan or the Great Ming, to these low-level soldiers, it doesn't really matter.

But now, the prince of Ming Dynasty actually reduced their food and grass expenses, which made these captives a little dissatisfied.A few days ago, there were two handfuls of fried rice a day, but today there is only one handful left. Could it be that the Daming Prince wants to starve us to death?
"Want to eat an extra meal? That's easy." The Ming soldier looked up and down at the prisoner who expressed his dissatisfaction first, and then said: "This brother looks like a Han... Could it be that my ancestors are also my Huaxia Children and grandchildren?"

"Your Highness said that when I became the emperor of the Zhu family of the Ming Dynasty, Fengtian Chengyun, I became the patriarch of all the Chinese people in essence. Since I have become the patriarch of the Chinese people, there is no reason for the descendants of the Chinese people to starve. "

"As long as you can prove for yourself that your ancestors were my Chinese people and not invaders from the Tartars, you will not only get an extra handful of fried rice, but also some wild vegetables."

(End of this chapter)