Five Hundred and Eleven: Attacking Fengyi County (19)

Wei Ci pondered, "This is a good idea, but the Qingyi Army is said to have 200,000 personnel, and there will definitely be more captives in the future. Does the lord want to throw all those captives to mine? Even if the iron ore is rich, it won't be mined for long."

Once the number of captives exceeds a certain critical value, it will become a huge hidden danger.

Mining corvée must be hard. If they mine for a lifetime, there is no guarantee that these captives will not find a way to unite and cause trouble.

There must be a lot of captives, and many coolies need captives to do it, but there can't be too many, because too many people will shoot themselves in the foot. If you want a good reputation and become a truly benevolent monarch, you even have to find a way to properly arrange their future.

Wei Ci hopes that his lord can not only do good things, but also have a good reputation, and don't suffer as before.

He won't make decisions for her in a self-righteous way. First, he doesn't have this intention, and second, His Majesty is not subject to the character of others.

She could accept a good intention once or twice with a smile and not argue with others, but she couldn't tolerate that person's self-willedness.

Therefore, Wei Ci only raised this point, and it was up to her to decide how to make it.

Even if he didn't say it, she would realize it when the number of prisoners in the prisoner camp increased in the future.

Jiang Pengji thought for a while and said, "Zixiao's worry is unreasonable. We can't let all the defeated soldiers in the world be prisoners in the future..."

If you think about it carefully, Jiang Pengji's words are quite arrogant.

She has just taken Xiangyang County and Cheng'an County, and she has determined that she is the common ruler of the world. Isn't this too arrogant?

"... Let's do this. These prisoners will be sent to mine first for half a year. If they perform well and have no other bad deeds,

they can be given the opportunity to 'redeem themselves'." Prisoners are considered slaves. Even if they have not been officially registered, they are still her personal property.

Do these prisoners want to regain their freedom?

Yes, just find a way to redeem themselves.

Wei Ci frowned and asked, "Redeem? How do I redeem them?"

Jiang Pengji said, "These Qingyi Army captives are different from the group captured half a year ago. Their style and behavior are very bad. If they are not tempered well, they can only be regarded as scum and are not useful at all. It is better to let them dig for half a year and calm down."

Of course, during this period, these captives are still "slaves".

"They have not caused trouble in half a year and have performed very well, so give them a chance-temporarily as civilian soldiers, receive simple training, and spend most of their time on weekdays to reclaim wasteland and farm. During the slack season, they can participate in other labor construction and be given food or money according to the amount of labor. If they can make achievements for our army, we will remove their slavery and return them to freedom..."

Jiang Pengji naturally didn't want to raise a group of useless captives.

If they just exploit their labor, it will also become a hidden danger. It is better to tighten and loosen them, give them some sweetness and hope.

This is not the final decision, but it also gives everyone a general direction for dealing with captives.

There are too many abandoned fields in the north. Last year, there was such a big earthquake. Many fields were not cultivated. Cheng'an County missed last year's autumn harvest and this year's spring plowing because of the Qingyi Army, which means that there was almost no harvest in two years.

There are many fields and little food. I don't know how many people are still starving.

Jiang Pengji now has a lot of popularity points, which can completely turn out a lot of food, but she does not rely on this channel.

A normal and healthy force should be self-sufficient, and even have abundant food, not only to feed the people, but also to have enough money and food to fight. It is simple to exchange food in the mall, but without a complete grain production system, you will starve to death without the system!

Don't forget that she only imprisoned the "subsystem", and the main body is still hidden in the corners of this world.

Not only that, according to her several attempts to the system, these popularity points should have other uses.

For these considerations, Jiang Pengji thinks that these captives should work hard to shine and never be idle.

Xu Ke pondered for a while, and was quite moved by Jiang Pengji's suggestion.

She gave slaves the opportunity to "redeem themselves", but did not block all the retreat routes.

If these captives have the heart to improve themselves and repent, and behave well for half a year, they can be used as civilian soldiers to cultivate land for the army, and the grain harvested in autumn will be distributed between the government and the people. As for the ratio between the two, Jiang Pengji will not be too harsh.

If the farm tools, good seeds, and oxen are provided by the government, the government will collect 40% and the people will share 60%.

If the farm tools, good seeds, and oxen are provided by each household, the government will collect 30% and the people will share 70%.

The fields are all owned by the government, and soldiers are sent as instructors during the slack season to teach them how to fight and kill the enemy.

They also have the opportunity to go to the battlefield. If they can make achievements, they can get out of slavery according to the size of their merits.

If these people have no intention in this regard and just want to be ordinary people, they can participate in other paid work during the slack season.

If they work hard for a few years, they can even buy their own land, with the government taking 10% and the people sharing 90%.

Jiang Pengji told her two advisers about her ideas, and the more she talked, the more ideas she had and the more active her thinking became.

Her soldiers also had the habit of working in the fields during the autumn harvest and spring plowing, because there were too many wastelands reclaimed in Xiangyang County last year, and each household was allocated too many plots of land, so they couldn't handle it at all. The spring plowing was so short, and it would be a pity to miss it.

If God is kind this year, the grain harvested in autumn can not only feed her army, but also the entire Xiangyang County, and there will still be a surplus.

However, her soldiers are mainly trained, supplemented by farming and other labor.

The civilian soldiers are mainly engaged in farming, supplemented by training. Even if their combat quality is not high, they are better than ordinary people.

However...

Xu Ke frowned and asked, "This distribution ratio seems to be too much."

The government has provided agricultural tools, good seeds and oxen, so the profit should be 50% instead of 40%. After all, the land is not owned by the people, and they are not required to rent the land. According to the lord, the grain collected by the government also includes grain tax...

Calculated in this way, this ratio is even lower than the current grain tax.

"You can't calculate it this way. It's not much if you really calculate it..." Wei Ci saw the doorway inside, "I guess the lord doesn't plan to pay the civilian soldiers? Even if he pays, it will be much lower than our soldiers."

The grain distributed to these civilian soldiers is indeed theirs, for their own consumption.

The government does not give them money, and if war comes and the enemy attacks, they have to take up arms to resist.

It is equivalent to them farming, supporting themselves, paying themselves money, and going to the battlefield to fight...

For the prosperous times in Wei Ci's memory, the current tax rate is a bit harsh.

However, the most attractive thing about it is that these poor captives have the opportunity to buy their own land after some efforts, and the grain tax is one tenth, which is what Jiang Pengji just said that the government collects 10% and the people share 90%.

For today's world, this tax rate is something that ordinary people dare not think about.

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