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Chapter 65: Sinners guard the border and take stock of their wealth
After hearing Zhao Yun's request, Qin Wen pondered for a moment and immediately agreed: "Zi Long is so kind-hearted, as the lord, there is no reason why he should not allow it. Qin Hu and Xu Huang are about to lead three thousand cavalry into Yanmen Pass to rescue, Zi Long Dragon, please come with us!"
"Thank you, Lord!" Zhao Yun said happily. 【.aiquxs.com】
Qin Wen nodded when he saw this. Zhao Yun's words just reminded him of another important thing, so he turned to Xi Zhicai and said:
"Military advisor, Zilong is right. Most of the Yellow Turban Army are just ordinary people who can't survive. They were only coaxed by the Taiping Religion to join the rebels. In my opinion, the strategy for dealing with the Yellow Turban Army should be changed. Is it better to surrender if you can?" It’s better not to kill too much.”
Upon hearing this, Xi Zhicai thought he knew that his lord's soft-heartedness had relapsed, so he smiled bitterly and persuaded: "My lord, if you do this, the court may not be able to explain it to you!"
Naturally, Xi Zhicai was not opposed to recruiting the Yellow Turbans to surrender. Yanmen was vast and sparsely populated, and Xi Zhicai also hoped to use Yellow Turban captives to fill Yanmen's population. However, the imperial court explicitly ordered that those who joined the Yellow Turbans should die, and the food and grass needed to recruit the Yellow Turbans to surrender would be very important to the current Yanmen population. It’s a small burden for those who are poor!
"It's okay, I believe the imperial court will understand the difficulties of our Yanmen Army!" Qin Wen said with amusement as a strange color flashed in his eyes.
"My lord is benevolent and righteous!"
The reason why Qin Wen wants to recruit the Yellow Turbans is not because he is really soft-hearted. When he forced his third brother Qin Gong to death four years ago, Qin Wen's heart was already frozen. Only when facing his closest relatives would he show such tenderness. Everything he did had only one purpose, and that was to restore Qin.
The reason why they wanted to recruit and surrender these Yellow Turbans was just to implement a strategy that they had discussed with Qin Hao a long time ago. The name of this strategy was: sin the people and defend the border.
Among the nine strategies for restoring the country proposed by Qin Hao to Qin Wen four years ago, one strategy was to use Bingzhou as a base. When the world was in chaos, whether to attack Hebei to the east or take Guanzhong to the west would depend on the specific situation.
At first glance, there was nothing wrong with this strategy. After all, for the Qin family at that time, merging the state was the easiest and only possible territory to acquire.
No matter how poor Bingzhou is, it still has a population of one million. It is indeed enough to raise 100,000 soldiers as the initial starting capital.
But Qin Hao ignored one thing, that is, the four sides of Bingzhou, whether it is Yongzhou, Sizhou, Jizhou, Yanzhou or Youzhou, both in terms of wealth and population, are much more than Bingzhou, and the war potential is far from comparable to Bingzhou.
The Qin family can indeed train 100,000 elites, but if other states and counties mobilize, it will not be difficult to recruit more than 100,000 troops to defend the city.
The field battle was okay, after all, the Yanmen Army was elite, but what if the enemy couldn't defend it?
Do you want the Yanmen Army to waste its limited forces on attacking the city?
In the final analysis, Bingzhou's current war potential is too poor. Although its geographical location is excellent and easy to defend and difficult to attack, it has insufficient population, resulting in an embarrassing situation of more than enough self-preservation and not enough progress.
Bingzhou at this time is not Bingzhou in the late Sui Dynasty. It is too difficult to follow Li Yuan's route and use Bingzhou as the foundation to conquer the world. There is only one way to achieve this, and that is to win every battle in the future.
Qin Hao cannot hope that he will win every battle in the future, and in order to increase the war potential of Bingzhou, there is only one way, and that is to increase the population.
However, the speed of absorbing refugees to expand the population was too slow, so later Qin Hao came up with a faster method, which was the strategy of "criminalizing the people and guarding the border".
Why defend the border by sinners?
It's very simple. All the guilty people are exiled to Bingzhou for labor. Although the criminals are nominally working and guarding, it is actually a way to euphemistically increase the population of Bingzhou!
This plan had not been implemented before because Qin Wen had been waiting for an opportunity to rapidly increase the population, which was the Yellow Turban Rebellion.
Although the imperial court explicitly ordered the rebels to die, the current Yellow Turbans involve nearly tens of millions of people. Tens of millions of people, it is impossible to kill them all, right? Therefore, if the Yellow Turbans are finally pacified, they will definitely massacre a small number of people and pardon a large number of them.
No matter how small this small group is, there are probably two to three million people. If all these people can be absorbed by Bingzhou, Bingzhou's war potential will definitely be doubled, and Bingzhou will no longer have to worry about population!
But how to get these people?
The best reason is to defend the border by offending the people!
Who made Bingzhou poor?
Who makes Bingzhou have a small population?
Who allowed the Xiongnu to run rampant in Bingzhou?
There are so many Yellow Turban rebels that there is no place to place them!
This is also the biggest reason why Qin Wen has continued to express his loyalty to the Han Dynasty and please Liu Hong over the years, because if Qin Wen was not loyal and reliable enough, how could the Han Dynasty willingly hand over Bingzhou to the Qin family? How could they help the Qin family to consolidate the state?
The 100,000 yellow scarf troops who now represent the army are no longer an army, but 100,000 strong men, who will be the common people of Bingzhou in the future.
Although the imperial court still canceled the killing order, Yanmen's geographical location was special, and there were people in the imperial court to help him, so Qin Wen was confident that even if he kept the Yellow Turban prisoners, he would not be punished by the imperial court.
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After three days of waiting, the 11,000 defenders who went south to ambush Dongfang Sheng finally returned, but they brought back some good news.
Dongfang Sheng used three thousand people as bait and successfully escaped the ambush set by Qin Hao, but the ambush failed to achieve its full effect.
However, the three thousand people who were used as bait did not escape. This ambush still killed one thousand enemies and captured two thousand prisoners. Dongfang Sheng led the remaining three thousand troops and escaped safely back to Changshan.
"Ding dong, the battle of vaginal tubes is over and the inventory is being taken..."
"In the battle of the vagina, 1521 enemies were killed and 12124 were captured (most of the 2000 who escaped have been captured!). The reward was 22645 war points and the loss was 980 Five, 985 war points are deducted, so the reward is 21660 war points."
"There are 3,340 war points. Currently, there are 25,000 war points in total. Can I exchange them for summoning points?"
Qin Hao didn't even think about it, nodded directly and said: "Exchange!"
"The host successfully redeemed 250 summoning points. He already has 200 summoning points and currently has a total of 450 summoning points."
After exchanging all the war points for summoning points, Qin Hao suddenly thought that there are three ways to redeem them for summoning points: war points, achievement points and reputation points, but he currently only uses war points for redemption.
War points are obtained through war. One point is obtained by killing an enemy soldier, one point is obtained by capturing a soldier, one point is obtained for each soldier recruited, and one point is obtained for training the soldiers into elite soldiers.
Performance points are obtained by managing internal affairs, and are summarized every six months. For each percentage point increase in the tax revenue of the host territory compared to the previous six months, 100 points will be awarded. Each time the grain is harvested, 100 points will be awarded for each percentage point increase compared to the past.
Reputation points are obtained by completing reputation tasks based on the influence of what you do.
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