My father Zhu Gaoxu

Chapter 497 Distribution of Prisoners of War

Arutai was defeated and killed, and Tuohuan revived Wala's reputation.

The news quickly spread throughout the grassland, and all major tribes were urgently discussing how to deal with the changes in the grassland situation.
However, although Arutai died, the Tatars did not perish because of this. Arutai was just the Tatar Grand Master. Before that, he supported a great khan named Borjijin Adai, so he was also Called Adai Khan.

This Adai Khan is very young. He was just a puppet in the hands of Arutai before. But now that Arutai is dead, Adai Khan has taken advantage of the situation and gathered the old Tatar troops to fight against Oala's disgrace. Although he is still It is not Tuohuan's opponent, but it is difficult for Tuohuan to eliminate the opponent in a short time.

The fighting on the grassland was very lively. As the instigator, Zhu Di led his troops back to the Ming Dynasty.

However, after returning to the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zhanhe began to get busy, because Zhu Di handed over all the prisoners of war to him, and the reward was to let him select 4 prisoners of war and send them to Tianzhu. Originally, Zhu Di only wanted to give [-], but Later, after defeating Duoyan's three guards, he added another [-].

"Your Majesty, there are too many prisoners of war!"

Li Qi couldn't help frowning as he looked at the prisoner of war camp with no end in sight.

When he was in Laizhou, it was already difficult to manage 10,000 refugees. As a result, there are now [-]+ prisoners of war here, and they are all prairie people. Their customs and personalities are very different from those in the Central Plains, which makes him very embarrassed.

"The more, the better. After all, with one more prisoner of war, there will be one less barbarian on the grassland, and the pressure on our Ming Dynasty will be reduced by one point in the future."

Zhu Zhanhe smiled slightly.

He and Zhu Di discussed the strategic plan for the grassland before. Now it is not difficult for Ming Dynasty to sweep the grassland militarily. What is difficult is to form effective rule over the grassland.

For example, the three guards of Arutai and Duoyan were eliminated this time, leaving a large power vacuum. If the Ming Dynasty garrisoned troops in these places, it would only waste its troops. If it did not garrison troops, it would only benefit others in the future, such as Tuohuan and Adaihan. .

In addition, there are a large number of captives in front of us. With so many people, we cannot kill them all. Even if Zhu Di is the emperor, he will bear a lot of infamy if he dares to do so. If he does not kill them, it will be a waste of food to raise them. If he lets them go, he will not be able to survive for a long time. They will be against the Ming Dynasty again.

Therefore, after Zhu Di and Zhu Zhanhe discussed it, they decided to implement a bloodletting plan on the grassland. For example, this time, except for the 4 prisoners selected by Zhu Zhanhe, the rest were either sent to Japan or Jiaozhi.

The grassland has a sparse population, especially the child mortality rate is extremely high, so the population of the entire grassland has been unable to grow. Even the famous large tribes, which generally grow to more than [-] people, have to separate their herding, and a tribe is divided into several groups. This part is very normal.

Therefore, Zhu Di decided that in the future, it would be a common practice for the grasslands to send all captives to the Ming Dynasty's borders or overseas territories. This would not only effectively reduce the population of the grasslands, but also strengthen the control of the border areas and overseas territories.

"Your Majesty, since we have a quota of [-] people, what are the selection criteria?"

Li Qi asked Zhu Zhanhe again at this time.

He was called over from Laizhou overnight by Zhu Zhanhe in order to help Zhu Zhanhe manage these prisoners and help him select some people to send to Tianzhu.

"Prioritize the selection of some craftsmen, doctors, etc. who are knowledgeable in craftsmanship, and the rest must be healthy women between the ages of 30 and [-]. There are more men than women in Tianzhu. This time the problem has been solved!"

Zhu Zhanhe ordered.

Although women in the Ming Dynasty reached adulthood at fifteen, women on the grassland came of age earlier, and some married and had children at twelve or thirteen, but Zhu Zhanhe knew that women were fully developed at eighteen, and had a greater chance of giving birth to healthy children. children. "My subordinates understand, but what should we do with the remaining prisoners of war?"

Li Qi nodded at first, and then said with some embarrassment that it would not be difficult if he just selected some prisoners of war to take away, but the difficulty was that he had to be responsible for the remaining prisoners of war.

"We also need to send away these prisoners of war, but we only need to send them to Tianjin. The rest will naturally be handled by the court officials. It's just that we have to make arrangements on the way to Tianjin. It's really not a big deal. It’s an easy thing, but I’m afraid you’ll have to worry a lot more.”

Zhu Zhanhe was at a loss in the end. Zhu Di threw this mess to him, so he had to ask Li Qi for help. This was also a test of Li Qi's ability.

"With so many prisoners, I suggest we leave them in batches, otherwise it will be too easy to cause trouble. Since His Majesty wants the prince to pick the prisoners first, why not we pick them out first, and then send them to Laizhou in batches for resettlement. The camps there are all ready-made of."

Li Qi paused for a moment before continuing.

"As for the remaining people, it's best to form a team and use families as a unit, just like they used to migrate with water and grass. This should save a lot of effort."

"It makes sense, I'll do as you say!"

Zhu Zhanhe immediately agreed. In fact, he had no clue about the organization's migration, so he called Li Qi to help him. Therefore, he would agree to whatever the other party said, and there was nothing he could do anyway.

Seeing that Zhu Zhanhe trusted him so much, Li Qi no longer refused. He first inspected the prisoner-of-war camp in person, and then immediately started arranging the prisoners-of-war.

Forty thousand craftsmen and women were quickly selected and sent away in batches. This is Kaiping, which is still some distance from Tianjin, but not too far. The main reason is that it is very laborious to organize these prisoners of war.

Li Qi's ability was indeed outstanding. He came forward to help Zhu Zhanhe and quickly grouped the prisoners into formations, and then escorted them to Tianjin by the army.

These prisoners were also very cooperative. After all, they all knew that if the Ming Dynasty did not execute them on the battlefield, then they would find ways to resettle them, and as nomads, they had long been accustomed to migration.

Coupled with the fact that Ming Dynasty's army is escorting them, even if someone wants to cause trouble, they have to consider whether their head is strong?

These prisoners of war walked all the way to Tianjin via Beijing and were temporarily resettled in Tianjin Port.

Because there were too many prisoners and the amount of food consumed every day was not a small amount, Zhu Di also wanted to send them away quickly, so the distribution of these prisoners of war soon came to an end.

After arriving in Tianjin, the earliest group of prisoners of war only rested for one day before being loaded onto a large ship and then sailed directly to the Japanese Chief of Staff.

This group of prisoners of war was mainly young men, because Zhu Zhanji had reached an agreement with the Ashikaga shogunate, and the other party ceded Ishikawa country. The Ming Dynasty also promised not to attack the shogunate's forces, and Japan's previous war had also temporarily come to an end.

The next step is to mine the Iwami Silver Mine, which will require a large number of miners, and these prisoners of war are obviously the best labor.

(End of this chapter)