"I said..." Zheng Shicheng started, but when he saw Liang Cheng's actions, he immediately changed his words, "It's okay, let's go back first."
After speaking, he made a gesture. Liang Cheng understood and took the lead to leave with the vanguard.
Of course, someone will take care of the rest of the cleaning of the battlefield. Liang Cheng is now anxious to go back and count the number of people. He doesn't know how many people were caught alive by Shengze. What if things don't go well?
Coincidentally, when Liang Cheng returned to the military camp, Shengze also returned with the new military camp.
"How's it going? Is the plan still successful?" Liang Cheng glanced at the dusty-faced and dust-covered soldiers of the new military camp, feeling a little nervous.
Shengze curled his lips and said, "It went very well. The number of foreigners captured alive should be between 120,000 and 150,000."
In fact, only about 30,000 people were actually tied up in the recruit camp. The others surrendered voluntarily after seeing that they did not kill.
But even though these people surrendered voluntarily, Shengze did not relax his supervision of them. The new barracks sent 10,000 troops to escort these people to the place where the prisoners were held.
The thing to check and balance these people is the Ruanjin Powder that has been prepared before. Each team responsible for supervision has enough medicine on hand to control these people.
"That's it?" Liang Cheng was stunned.
Because they didn't want to kill anyone on the battlefield, they did use water. This time they didn't even use the artillery developed by Mr. Qin. Unexpectedly, they still killed tens of thousands of people.
Shengze looked at him dumbfounded, "It's already a lot."
The number of people they deceived back from Qishan is only over 20,000, but now they have brought in hundreds of thousands of laborers in one night, which is not very efficient.
"It's a pity, I thought there were about 170,000." Liang Cheng said regretfully.
He had been worried about the huge population gap in Ezhou before, so when Shengze proposed to keep this group of people to build Ezhou, he immediately agreed.
Not to mention anything else, apart from consuming rations, these people don't even need to spend a penny in the early stage. They are simply free labor. Anyone who doesn't want it is a fool.
After hearing Shengze talk about his plans for these people, Liang Chengcheng was even more moved.
As long as these people can recognize Ezhou and the Northern Hubei Army, in ten or twenty years, the entire Northern Hubei may be able to sweep through any state capital in the Jin Dynasty.
In addition, Shengze also said what Shen Qingqian said, that he could select talented people from these people to vigorously develop the technology in northern Hubei. Not to mention Liang Cheng, Zheng Shicheng couldn't recognize it and applauded him.
Population and talent have always been the top priority for the development of a country or region. Nowadays, the external environment is harsh. As long as Ezhou can support so many people, anyone who does not want to do so is really stupid.
Regarding the issue of water sources, Shengze also reassured the two of them, but instead of refreshing the spring, he revealed that there was a magic weapon left by the ancestor of Xuanji Mountain on Chengjin Mountain. As long as the magic weapon was there, Ezhou would never be short of water.
At that time, Zheng Shicheng still lamented, "God is really helping me in Hubei!"
First, there were high-yielding sweet potatoes, and then the experts from Xuanji Mountain came to help during the drought. As long as they were not stupid and incompetent, whoever took over this game would not lose.
It is obvious that Shengze is not an incompetent person. On the contrary, he is very thoughtful and trustworthy in employing people. He is not someone who likes to monopolize power.
Zheng Shicheng was very glad that he had decided to go with Sheng Ze. Now that it had come to this point, Sheng Ze actually did not take back the military power from Liang Cheng. Instead, he tried his best to help the Northern Hubei Army save money and stockpile food.
The number of prisoners was counted the next day, totaling 138,962.
