The first thousand five hundred and ninety-five chapters start the battle (2)
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 Battle of Mayi, the Battle of Gaoque and the Battle of Yanji, the victory of the Han army were all based on hundreds of thousands of civilians.
Especially the Battle of Gaoque, most of China was mobilized for the war.
In the Yanzhao area, they even mobilized to 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.
This 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 this time was too tight, and 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 is likely to miss the best opportunity to seize the Hexi Corridor!
Therefore, Liu Che ordered to suspend the reconstruction of the Wei River, Honggou and Dahe Rivers, and mobilized all slave workers involved in these projects to transport materials, supplies, and participate in the war.
The total number of these slave workers is now 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.
Best of all, they don't require many resources to maintain.
Slave workers 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 had nothing and no relatives in China.
Even if we gain freedom, where can we 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 acquire a skill that can make those ruthless merchants realize their value, they might as well work as free labor for the country.
That way, you can at least have some respite. At least the officials in 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 all 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 given Han household registration, and they even accepted them as retainers.
These lucky people immediately lived a life that everyone would envy.
They took off their shackles, removed their shackles, wore silk, and ate rice and noodles.
There are even people who suddenly become overseers and can influence the fortunes of thousands of people.
Everyone wants to be that lucky person and get a household registration in this great empire, thereby escaping his own tragic fate.
As a result, the mood of the slave workers suddenly stabilized. Without any effort, the officials of the Shaofu government 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 workers, and it is difficult to bear the heavy transportation burden for the upcoming war!
However, soon, the campaign to track down Yu Zi yielded results.
Under the slogan of Jingzhao Yin Boshi's "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 the village to check in each household, took the household registration book, and counted the population from house to house.
In just one month, they traced more than 10,000 Yuzi in 68 counties in Guanzhong (including Xin'an and other new counties).
This remaining son is the name given to those non-eldest sons who have reached adulthood but have not separated from their parents in the laws of the Shang Dynasty.
Yu Zi Yu Zi, extra son.
Regardless of whether 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, Yuzi is a common social problem.
Moreover, they are a group that Liu Che hates even more than the son-in-law and the knight-errant.
The son-in-law and the rangers at least tried to find a way out on their own.
But these scum 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 due to family poverty or other reasons, they are unable to set up a household independently. Once a poor child becomes independent, it almost means absolute poverty.
But as a ruler, Liu Che didn'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.
In Guanzhong, a surplus of 10,000 pieces was found. How many should there be in other places?
Liu Che felt excited just thinking about it.
No matter what, you can also find out five or six hundred thousand, right?
If 500,000 to 600,000 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 were all sent to farming, then their wives would 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 so, something will happen sooner or later!
If this problem cannot be solved, the settlement 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 done a hard job..." Liu Che also had to sigh: "Other kings are all arrogant and arrogant, drinking and meat, but I have to be responsible for nurturing girls..."
But there is no other way, this is how we open up to the outside world.
If you want to succeed, you have to do whatever it takes!
