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Chapter 1595 The war begins (2)

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    In addition to materials, the most important resource for war in the cold weapon era is manpower!  Especially the civilian men who transport supplies and maintain the war!  The Han army¡¯s victories in the Battle of Mayi, the Battle of Gaoque and the Battle of Yanji were all based on hundreds of thousands of civilians.  Especially the Battle of Gaoque, most of China was mobilized for the war.  The Yanzhao area even mobilized every natural village.  Millions of civilians carried stones of food, bundles of arrows, and bows and crossbows on their shoulders and carried them to the front line for their soldiers.  It ensured that the Han army on the front line would always have sufficient food and ammunition no matter what.  But the time for launching the Hexi Campaign was so tight that it almost overlapped with the traditional spring plowing date in northern China.  If farmers are mobilized on a large scale to join the war, it will inevitably affect agriculture for the entire year.  People in several counties will face the danger of famine!  No one dares to bear this price.  But the war is imminent and must be launched.  If the Han army cannot complete war preparations before the third month of spring, it will probably miss the best opportunity to seize the Hexi Corridor!  Therefore, Liu Che ordered to suspend the reconstruction of the Weihe River, Honggou and Dahe Rivers, and mobilize all slave workers involved in these projects to transport materials, supplies, and participate in the war.  The total number of these slave workers is still close to 200,000!  Mainly from the prisoners of war from previous wars and the trade between the Han Dynasty and the Northern and Western Huns.  These people have been tamed with whips and sticks in China, and have strong obedience and good physical condition.  Most importantly, they don¡¯t require many resources to maintain.  As a slave worker, you don¡¯t need to worry too much about food, clothing, or even life and death.  From an economic cost perspective, they are the best tools.  Of course, their work efficiency requires whips, sticks and even swords to maintain their efficiency.  But it didn¡¯t matter. Liu Che immediately issued an edict, promising that all slave workers who participated in this material transfer operation would pardon one-tenth of them and grant them free status when the war is over.  And the remaining people also made a promise.  As long as they work diligently, respect the law, and do not slack off or resist in the next five years, they will all be pardoned after five years.  This is undoubtedly a picture.  ¡°Whether it is the order to forgive one-tenth or the five-year period, they are all pie-in-the-sky.  The reason is simple.  ¡°All slave workers are prisoners of war or slaves from thousands or even thousands of miles away.  They have nothing and no relatives in China.  Even if you gain freedom, where can you go?  I¡¯m afraid that as soon as the front leg is pardoned and freed, the back leg has to sell itself to those big merchants and workshop owners in order to survive.  From slave labor to bonded labor.  Although the status has changed, the situation has not changed at all.  It could even be worse!  Because slave labor is at least a tool and a means of production, but bonded labor is just a consumable!  Unless they can learn a skill that can make those vicious businessmen realize their value, they might as well work as free labor for the country.  That way at least you can have some breathing space. At least the officials of the Shaofu still care about the free labor in their hands and will not let them die of hunger or illness easily.  But when the slave workers heard the news, they were very excited.  "Ahura, is this true?" Countless people tossed and turned, unable to sleep all night.  In the past two years, a few lucky ones have appeared among these slave labor groups.  Because of their hard work, outstanding performance, or special skills, they were favored by the aristocratic officials of the Eastern Empire. They were granted Han household registration, and even accepted them as retainers.  These lucky people immediately lived a life that everyone would envy.  They took off their shackles, took off their shackles, wore silk, and ate rice and noodles.  There are even people who have become overseers, who can influence the fortunes of thousands of people.  ¡°Everyone wants to be that lucky person and get a household registration in this great empire, so as to get rid of his own tragic fate.  As a result, the mood of the slave workers suddenly stabilized. Without any effort, the Shaofu officials pulled this huge team of slave workers out of various construction sites, and then organized them into transportation teams.  However, there are only 200,000 slave laborers, and it is difficult to bear the upcoming war.?The important transportation task!  However, soon, the campaign to track down Yu Zi yielded results.  Under the slogan of Jingzhao Yin Boshi, "To hide the remaining son is to fight against the emperor", officials in various counties and townships in Guanzhong gave full play to their subjective initiative and enthusiasm.  For the sake of Wu Sha Mao, they went into villages and households, took household registration books, and counted the population from house to house.  In just one month, they identified more than 10,000 Yuzi in sixty-eight counties in Guanzhong (including Xin'an and other new counties).  This Yuzi is the name given to those non-eldest sons who have reached adulthood but have not separated from their parents in the King Shang's laws.  "Yuzi, Yuzi, extra son."  No matter according to Qin law or Han law, these people must set up independent households!  However, whether it is the Qin Dynasty or the Han Dynasty, Yu Zi is a common social problem.  ¡°And they are a group that Liu Che hates even more than the son-in-law and the knight-errant.  The husband-in-law and the rangers at least tried to find a way out on their own.  But these scumbags are the old people who are dependent on their parents and elder brothers.  Of course, this may be a bit too harsh. In fact, many Yuzi are actually the main labor force of the family.  They farm together with their father and brothers, but because of family poverty or other reasons, they are unable to set up an independent household. Once a poor child becomes independent, it almost means absolute poverty.  But as a ruler, Liu Che doesn't care about this.  He organized all these people into transportation teams.  Let them transport supplies to the front line, and at the same time, also send themselves to the Heli Mountain area to participate in reclamation on the spot.  ??And over 10,000 pieces were found in Guanzhong, how many should there be in other places?  Liu Che feels excited just thinking about it.  No matter what, you can also find out five or six hundred thousand, right?  If five to six million men are obtained, then the immigrants of the reclamation groups in Heli Mountain and even the Hexi area will be settled.  However, problems also arise.  With so many remaining sons, if they are all sent to farming, then their wives have to help them find them, right?  "We can't let all these hundreds of thousands of Han subjects be singles in a foreign land, right?"  If this is the case, something will happen sooner or later!  If this problem cannot be solved, the resettlement and immigration policy will definitely fail!  In order to prevent the immigration policy from failing, the emperor Liu Che had no choice but to turn into a matchmaker and find the right prince for his hundreds of thousands of subjects.  "I, the emperor, have worked hard" Liu Che also had to sigh: "Other kings are all arrogant and arrogant, drinking and meat, but I have to be responsible for finding girls" But there is no way, just to open up to the outside world.  so.  If you want to succeed, you have to do whatever it takes!
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