On the third day......

"It smells so good!" Wang Tiezhu held a bowl of hot rice porridge and said with heartfelt emotion.

In Wang Tiezhu's meal, there are two steamed buns, a side dish, and even two pieces of meat in it!

Wang Tiezhu was so hungry that he couldn't stand it the day after his heroic words, so he found the Tianwu Army who was guarding them, and reported three leaders in one go, one of whom was still a general among the thieves.

Xu Sheng was very happy to catch a big fish, and as a reward, he put two pieces of meat in Wang Tiezhu's bowl in front of all the captives, and encouraged Wang Tiezhu to taste it well, don't worry about someone grabbing it, there will be it next time!

Wang Tiezhu gulped and drank, and from time to time he praised two sentences about the food of the officers and soldiers, which was really good!

Seeing that he ate so deliciously, the other captives who had been hungry for three days were salivating, and they no longer cared about any morality, and raised their hands to report it, and for a while they were scrambling again.

One of the captives set a record, holding eight ringleaders in one go, and when I inquired later, it turned out that he was a leader himself, and he actually jumped out to report others........

The leaders who were reported knew that they were afraid that they would be more auspicious and less lucky, and they couldn't cheapen others, so they adhered to the purpose of the righteous brothers in trouble, and found out the other leaders who had not yet been reported.

After four days of reporting, more than 700 big and small leaders were reported among the 40,000 captives.

Xu Sheng ordered that all the more than 700 big and small leaders be beheaded in front of all the captives.

More than 700 human heads fell to the ground, bringing an incomparably strong deterrent to all the captives, and many people who usually scolded and disobeyed discipline began to become honest.

Immediately afterward, Xu Sheng announced the three major disciplines of the captives:

1. Absolutely obey the order, no one is allowed to disobey, and those who resist die! 2. Honest reform, don't run away, the fugitive will die! 3. It is forbidden for the captives to fight each other, and the fighters die!

Xu Sheng also announced the implementation of a point system during the renovation period, and those who performed well would be rewarded with points, and those who had 4,000 points or more would be released and distributed to 40 acres of land to support their families.

The so-called point system means that all captives must participate in the coolie labor arranged by the government, mainly in Nanzhili to reclaim barren land, dig canals for irrigation, build bridges and pave roads, and other constructive work.

The points system stipulates that ten points will be awarded for participating in one day of labor, and ten points will be deducted for one day of absence, Xu Sheng will not let them eat and drink for nothing, one point will be deducted for a meal, and points are also needed for clothes and quilts, and without points, they can only starve to death and freeze to death.

If you are passive and sabotage, you will have to deduct points and warnings, and those who perform well will also be rewarded with points, such as having a good attitude towards reform, or reporting some people who have formed gangs, plotted wrong, and tried to escape.

Craving meat? Yes, you can exchange points for it! Want to change into a thicker layer of clothing to keep you warm? Yes, you can exchange points for it!

In a word, in the prisoner of war management center, if you want to eat well and live well, you need points, and points cannot be transferred, you can only get them for your own use.

It was calculated that it would normally take three years for a captive to accumulate four thousand points, be released and receive forty acres of land.

Save money every day, and it will take two years for the fastest to accumulate points.

After two years of hard work, it is completely possible for a prodigal son to turn back and become a person who keeps to himself again.

After seeing more than 700 leaders beheaded in public, most of the captives felt fear in their hearts, and when they heard that they could be released through points and get forty acres of land, many of the captives saw hope and hope in their hearts.

After announcing the management system, Xu Sheng reorganized all the captives, divided the 40,000 captives into 500 teams, and each team elected a captain, and in the future, the captives with the most points in the team served as the captain, responsible for assisting the government in managing the whole team, and the captain was rewarded with an additional 100 points per month.

The captain has no authority such as punishment, so he can only call people to gather every day to help arrange tasks.

Each captive had a number and had his own file, recording his name, age, place of origin, as well as his daily work, rewards and punishments.

Xu Sheng ordered all the captives to shave their heads bald and change into prison uniforms, so that it was not easy to run away if they wanted to.

Originally, everyone was affected by the words of their parents, and many people were reluctant to shave their hair, but Xu Sheng said: Your rebellion is a capital crime, and now it is a great kindness of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to cut off your hair, which also shows your determination to be a new person, don't make mistakes!

After hearing this, the captives felt the same, they were not talented or familiar with the books of sages, this kind of consciousness was not strong, the most important thing was that everyone was like this, no one would gossip about anyone, maybe when they completed the transformation and were released, their hair would have grown.

With this mentality, the captives were quite cooperative, and some who did not cooperate were taken out and locked aside, without food.

For the sake of safety, Xu Sheng asked Yang Qili to transfer a batch of newly trained Ye Bushu from Long Xiang Yebu, disguised himself as a captive and blended into the captives to understand the situation, and grasped the prisoners' thoughts from the inside.

Despite this, there are still a lot of thorns in the captives, many of whom are used to being dissolute all year round, and are very unsuitable for the current life of reform.

Some even formed gangs in the ranks, calling themselves big brothers, and bullying other honest captives.

After getting the night uncollected report mixed in the captives, Xu Sheng smiled and pulled all the people out, not to mention a beating from the government, for some serious things, he directly cut off his heads in public, and picked these heads on a long pole to stand in a conspicuous place to set an example.

Under this iron-fisted pressure, the atmosphere among the captives soon improved, and everyone became honest and worked hard to reform and strive for early release.

During this period, Zhu Cihong inspected the prisoner management center, and when he saw a group of bald heads with shiny oily skin, and the prisoners in gray linen prison uniforms were working hard, his eyes were a little straight.

This is fucking amazing, especially the trick of shaving the head, it feels like it will be in the movies and television of later generations, and I have to take it!

Zhu Cihong suddenly felt that Xu Sheng was also a talent, and he had underestimated him before.

Zhu Cihong felt that this method was really good, and after praising Xu Sheng in public, Zhu Cihong ordered the prisoners in the Nanzhili Institute to operate in this way, and the head did not need to be shaved, mainly to assign work.

Of course, the punishment of prisoners in the Ming Dynasty was not just to throw them in prisons, and many prisoners were exiled to places with harsh conditions after their sentences to serve hard labor, which was equivalent to labor reform.

In this way, everywhere in Nanzhili, the people often saw some alternative laborers, repairing the city walls, roads, and carrying water for irrigation to the fields outside the city, these measures quickly won the praise of the people, and they praised the benevolence of the crown prince.