Compared to Village Leader Li and Old Man Xie, who were under strict supervision, those ordinary young men, old and weak women and children were much better off.
Although the young adults were still under guard, the custody was not strict and they could even move around freely as long as they were not too outrageous. Some young adults who expressed their willingness to contribute to the Tang Dynasty were released on the spot and reunited with their families.
As for the old, weak, women and children, they were gradually arranged to stay in temporary wooden houses early and food was distributed to them.
The Tang Dynasty already had rich experience in handling prisoners. The basic process was to separate the main boss areas from ordinary prisoners, and then separate the young and strong, while the old, weak, women and children were properly arranged.
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Generally speaking, ordinary bandits will not have any objection to joining Huangzhushan, because in their view, they are bandits anyway, and selling their lives to anyone is not selling their lives. Therefore, the treatment of ordinary bandits is quite simple, basically one or two
Heavenly Kung Fu will release most of it.
If there had been a standing army in the past, these young bandits would have joined the standing army on the spot.
As for the leaders, this depends on the specific situation, but in most cases, as long as they are willing to surrender to the Tang Dynasty, they will basically be given better preferential treatment, and they can be officials or generals.
If you don't want to, then I'm sorry, I'll just chop it off with a knife!
Li Xuan did not have the time or mood to deal with the bandit leaders that night. After all, for Li Xuan, the most important thing was the more than 400 people, not one or two generals who could fight.
Bandit leaders such as Fang Dongquan, Huang Xueren and others in the Tang Dynasty are enough to give Li Xuan a headache. Although most of these bandit leaders are outstanding, their personal martial arts are basically relatively strong and can be used as warriors.
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But it has actually become increasingly difficult for such people to find a suitable position in Li Xuan's newly formed professional army.
The core of the new army of the Tang Dynasty is not personal martial arts. The strength of soldiers and even generals' martial arts is not important. What is more important is obeying orders.
Because the core of the combat model of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty was to rely on tight formations to fight, rather than relying on the individual bravery of the soldiers.
Currently, among the kings of the Tang Dynasty, there is only one heavy armored sword and shield team that values personal prowess. The other spearmen, musketeers, and archers do not have high requirements for personal prowess.
This is why the professional army formed by Li Xuan tried to recruit soldiers from young men and outside farmers as much as possible instead of directly recruiting the bandits and veterans.
Li Xuan got up a little late the next day, and still had a headache after he woke up. He drank a little too much at the celebration state banquet last night, and his body didn't seem to be able to drink. He would often commit misdemeanors after just a few drinks.
, you will have a hangover when you wake up the next day.
However, the hangover would not last long. After washing himself and drinking a bowl of stomach-warming porridge, his whole body was back to normal.
When they arrived at the meeting hall outside, Liu Bagou and the others had been waiting here early.
At present, the Tang Dynasty usually has one court meeting every day. The court meeting starts at six quarters of the hour and usually ends in about two quarters of an hour. That is to say, the court meeting starts at about 8:30 in the morning and ends at around nine o'clock.
It will end.
However, when some important matters are encountered, the court meeting will often last the whole morning.
Normally, Liu Bagou, Fang Dongquan and the others would enter the meeting hall in the 'Imperial Palace' at eight o'clock, waiting for Li Xuan's arrival, and Li Xuan would come on time every time.
Li Xuan didn't know if other emperors in ancient times got up early in the morning to go to work, and he didn't intend to go into it, but for a person with the soul of future generations, having to go to work every day is annoying enough, and you still want him to
Going to work before dawn is nonsense.
Being able to go to work on time at 8:30 is a great honor, right?
Li Xuan came late today. He came over at almost 4:00 p.m., two quarters of an hour later than usual. However, at this time, Liu Bagou and the others would not come out and say, "Li Xuan, you are late for work. You will not have full attendance this month."
Wages must be deducted.
After he sat on the wooden dragon chair, Liu Bagou, the first assistant, led the ministers to bow and bow, shouting long live.
At first, Li Xuan was not used to it and even objected to others kneeling down in front of him. However, at the beginning, Li Xuan was just a puppet emperor in the Tang Dynasty. When he met Liu Bagou, who had nothing to do, he was fine.
As for the great loyal ministers who are distinguished by their superiority and inferiority, Li Xuan doesn't even want to be bowed down to.
So he could only pretend that he couldn't see it. Now that so much time has passed, he has gradually gotten used to it.
After sitting down on the dragon chair, Li Xuan covered his mouth with one hand and yawned, raised his other hand slightly, and then said in a lazy tone: "Flat body!"
Li Xuan's demeanor caught the attention of many people, but everyone consciously kept their mouths shut. Even Liu Bagou, who used to care most about superficial etiquette, chose not to see it.
If it was the middle of last year, when Liu Bagou and Fang Dongquan had just proclaimed Li Xuan emperor, if Li Xuan had made this move, Liu Bagou would have immediately come out to advise him about etiquette, the great cause of restoring the country, etc.
nonsense.
But now, although Li Xuan is still the emperor of the valley, the Li Xuan of today is completely different from the Li Xuan of the same period last year.
Before, he was just a puppet who was forced to be the emperor, a sign put up by Liu Bagou and Fang Dongquan. But now, Li Xuan, who single-handedly organized the Guards and established the new professional army, has initially gained control of the power.
With the expansion of the Tang Dynasty and the addition of Huang Xueren, Cai Erhu, Wang Wenhua and others, Fang Dongquan and Liu Bagou could no longer control all affairs of the Tang Dynasty with one hand.
As his power increased, his emperor gradually became worthy of his name, and everyone's attitude towards him naturally changed accordingly.
The beginning of the court meeting was as boring as usual, with trivial matters. Li Xuan had no interest in interjecting in these matters, and allowed Liu Bagou or Fang Dongquan to talk, and then others joined in the discussion, and waited until a few of them reached the conclusion.
Only after consensus is reached, Li Xuan will say the right word.
Throughout the entire process, it would not be an exaggeration to say that words were cherished like gold.
However, they just had a battle in Huangzhushan yesterday, so today's affairs cannot be limited to these trivial matters. What is more important is the aftermath of yesterday, such as the handling of village leader Li and Old Man Xie.
And when the Tang emperors and ministers in the meeting hall began to talk about how to deal with the main leaders of these bandits, Village Leader Li, Old Man Xie and several other bandit leaders were already escorted by a group of soldiers from Huangzhushan.
Outside the meeting hall.
Not long after Old Man Xie and the others arrived outside the meeting hall, they heard a few people walking out quickly. After these few people chatted with the soldiers escorting Old Man Xie and the others, Old Man Xie and the others were escorted into the meeting hall by those soldiers.
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At this time, Old Man Xie saw the pseudo-Tang emperor who caused shock in several surrounding counties: Li Xuan!