On the same day, Zhao Yu sent someone to the Black Tiger Village, and ordered the main village to send someone to take over some of the prisoners, and the part of the prisoners that took over was the more than 3,000 pseudo-thieves.

If nothing else, these more than 3,000 pseudo-thieves will become the 'subordinates' of the Black Tiger Village—to put it bluntly, they are slaves, to meet the labor required by the Black Tiger Village to build a narrow passage of cobwebs and plank roads in the mountains.

Some people may ask, on the side of the Black Tiger Village, there are only more than 200 Black Tiger thieves led by Chu Jiao, Guo Da, Chu Yan, Chu Ben and others, and the rest of the more than 1,000 people in the village are just a group of women and children, isn't Zhao Yu afraid of the 3,000 pseudo-thieves rebelling and causing chaos?

To be honest, Zhao Yu is really not afraid.

You must know that in the rebel system, the pseudo-thieves are the weakest existence among these people, and they have long been trained by the green forest thieves to dare not resist.

On the way back to Kunyang, Zhao Yu had heard more than once about the 'cowardice' of the pseudo-thief.

I still remember that on the second day of their pursuit of the rebels, after Guan Shuo left about five or six thousand green forest thieves and pseudo-thieves to break off, objectively speaking, these people delayed the pursuit of the soldiers for more time, and the effect was even better than that of Zhai Shang and Tian Xu.

What's going on?

The rebels under the command of Zhai Shang and Tian Xu were struggling to resist at that time, with a total of about 20,000 people in the two armies, and more than 5,000 people were killed by the pursuers under Zhao Yu and Yang Ding, and then Zhai Shang and Tian Xu took away about 1,000 soldiers when they broke through, and the remaining rebel soldiers were basically divided between Zhao Yu and Yang Ding.

At first glance, I heard that the two sides fought a vicious battle, but in fact, due to the general unwillingness of the rebels at that time, the two large-scale encirclement battles ended quickly, especially after Zhai Shang and Tian Xu broke through and fled, a large number of rebel soldiers put down their weapons and chose to surrender.

However, the 'broken off' between the green forest thief and the pseudo-thief is a completely different scene.

At the first moment of the battle, the Green Forest thieves led by Zhang Tai and Xiang Hu fled, leaving behind thousands of pseudo-thieves - here Zhao Yu couldn't help but praise these people, and he didn't know if it was Guan Shuo or Zhang Tai and Xiang Hu's idea, the group of pseudo-thieves did not fight with the pursuers led by Zhao Yu and Yang Ding at all, but fled in all directions.

In order to capture this group of pseudo-thieves who were fleeing in all directions, it took more time for Kunyang's pursuers to arrest this group of people.

And this is also the reason why Yang Ding was dissatisfied in his heart - at that time, there were countless soldiers from Kunyang, and even chased out several miles to hunt down those pseudo-thieves, so that the time to pursue Guan Shuo was greatly delayed, so that Guan Shuo successfully escaped with the main force.

What is interesting is that these pseudo-thieves who escaped for several miles on the snow and were finally caught, did not dare to resist on the way back to Kunyang.

Zhao Yu had even seen with his own eyes the example of only three or four county soldiers escorting forty or fifty puppet thieves.

It's really too exaggerated, even if the strength of those three or four Kunyang County soldiers is no less than that of the regular army, and they are fully armed, but forty or fifty people, as long as half of them resist, those three or four Kunyang County soldiers will definitely not be able to resist.

Well, maybe the bad weather is a big factor, but anyone who has a brain will know that if he is caught in Kunyang as a prisoner, there is only a way to survive in the ice and snow, but Zhao Yu still doesn't think that the forty or fifty pseudo-thieves will give up resistance after careful consideration.

All in all, Zhao Yu is not worried about the negative impact of bringing 3,000 puppet thieves to the main village, not to mention, there will be many brigade wolves returning to the cottage to recuperate from their injuries one after another, and reuniting with their newlywed wives by the way, which is enough to deter those puppet thieves who only have a numerical advantage.

Some people may say that the puppet thief is also a victim of civilians, and may even be civilians in Runan County and Yingchuan County, Zhao Yu can only say that first, he is generally short of labor in Kunyang County, and second, it is also a sin to help the abuse.

At best, Zhao Yu could only allow those pseudo-thieves to be exempted from slave status if they performed well, and even joined the Black Tiger Village - anyway, the two armies of the Black Tiger Village's 'Mountain Patrol' and 'Village Ban' still exist only on paper, and what is lacking is manpower.

Compared with the more than 3,000 puppet thieves, for a total of more than 11,000 rebel soldiers, Zhao Yu didn't dare to take it lightly, let alone take it to Black Tiger Village casually, after all, compared with the rebel soldiers and puppet thieves, they were two completely different existences.

Zhao Yu would rather risk that all the more than 10,000 rebel prisoners would stay in Kunyang County than dare to take them to the Black Tiger Village in batches, lest this group of rebel prisoners take the opportunity to make trouble and seize the cottage.

After the meeting was over, Zhao Yu left Chen Mo, Wang Qing, Ma Gai, Wu Zhi, Ju Sheng, Cao Wu and others behind, and instructed them: "...... These more than 10,000 rebel prisoners remain in the city, it is really a hidden danger, fortunately, it is winter, they know that they can only freeze and starve to death when they escape, so they easily dare not make trouble, dare not flee, this is a good opportunity, I ask you to wait in this winter, in these three months, you must surrender these prisoners, so that they instinctively obey the county government, so as to prevent these people from fleeing in large numbers after the beginning of spring next year...... Ju Sheng and Cao Wu, you two have to contribute more. ”

"Yes!" Ju Sheng and Cao Wu responded with their fists.

At the behest of Zhao Yu, Kunyang began to appease the more than 10,000 rebel captives, and Ju Sheng and Cao Wu came forward to tell the captured rebel captives about their future situation.

I have to say that Zhao Yu's requirement of 'five years of enslavement' is not only not harsh in the world, but extremely tolerant, at least the Jin State will never agree to the rebellious soldiers to be exempted from the crime just by 'five years of enslavement'.

In all dynasties, after the rebellious soldiers were captured, there was only one result, that is, they were sent to the most difficult places to replenish the army, such as building a city wall at the border fortress, for a period of time until the moment of death, with few exceptions.

Compared with the cruel punishments of previous dynasties, the treatment of 'five years of slavery can be released from slave status' on the Kunyang side is really too forgiving, so that when they learned about this incident, the captured rebel soldiers couldn't believe it: How kind are the Kunyang people?

Faced with the doubts of the captives, Ju Sheng and Cao Wu simply used themselves as an example.

They explained to the captives: "Leader Zhou does not hate the soldiers of the righteous division, but Leader Zhou, as a native of Kunyang and as the lieutenant of Kunyang County, did what he should do, that is, to defend Kunyang." …… Now that the war in Kunyang has ended, not only the righteous teacher, but also the people of Kunyang have suffered heavy losses, both sides are victims of this battle, the leader of Zhou is kind-hearted, not to blame the past, and is willing to give everyone the most lenient treatment, that is, to enslave Kunyang for five years. …… During these five years, you and others are all subordinates of the Kunyang County Ya, and you are only allowed to keep the rations that are the most basic dignity and labor income of human beings, but as long as you perform well, after five years, the Zhou leader will allow you to be discharged as slaves and automatically become Kunyang people...... Of course, you can also choose to leave and return to your hometown when the time comes. ”

Under the repeated assurances and explanations of Ju Sheng and Cao Wu, although the more than 10,000 captives were suspicious of this lenient treatment, their uneasy hearts finally relaxed a little.

Immediately, Ju Sheng and Cao Wu called the generals among the outstanding captives, from Qu General to Bochang, Shi Chang, and Wu Chang, to appease and warn.

And during this period, Zhao Yu also transferred a group of elites from the Black Tiger People, the county army, and the brotherhood militia, and mixed them with the captives, each Kunyang pawn brought four prisoners to carry out the repair of the city, the construction of buildings in the city, etc., after all, in this battle, the southern half of the city of Kunyang was basically reduced to a ruin, and the soldiers and civilians in the city were already very reluctant to crowd the northern half of the city, and now there are more than 10,000 prisoners, so the houses must be repaired as soon as possible, even if the sky is still snowing, we must insist.

Of course, compared with the tolerance of 'five years of enslavement', Zhao Yu will not show the slightest mercy in managing these captives, after all, there are also people in the rebel army who are full of hatred for the Kunyang people, and blind tolerance can only cause negative effects.

Therefore, Zhao Yu used the old practice of 'sitting together' to manage this group of prisoners.

The so-called 'joint sitting' means that 'if one person makes a mistake, the whole army will be punished'.

One army, five people, get rid of one Kunyang pawn, and the remaining four rebel prisoners, as long as one of them makes a mistake, the other three will be punished in the same way.

From light to heavy, it is reflected in several aspects: as long as one person is lazy, the whole Wu Ke will deduct rations; If one person escapes, causes chaos, or harms the soldiers and civilians of Kunyang, the remaining three will all be executed.

Of course, if someone in the same group reports in advance before a person escapes or commits chaos, then the person who reported it can be exempted from punishment.

All in all, the treatment can be relaxed and merciful, but in terms of management, it must be strict, and it must resolutely crack down on any ideas and actions that are unfavorable to Kunyang, which is Zhao Yu's general principle for treating these rebel soldiers.

Under the impetus of Zhao Yu, more than 10,000 rebel prisoners were successively reorganized and became Kunyang's 'subordinate pawns', among which the strong and healthy ones began to work under the leadership of Kunyang's pawns.

When Guan Shuo and Liu De led the rebels to evacuate, in order to prevent the Kunyang people from immediately becoming alarmed, they did not set fire to the camp only five miles away from the city, and the first thing these 'subordinates' had to do was to demolish the two camps in the east and south, and remove all the camp fences and grass huts, and bring the wood and grass back to the city to repair the houses in the southern half of the city.

This is for the people of Kunyang as well as for themselves – unless they are willing to sleep in a ruined ruins in the cold.

Perhaps because they had been treated leniently, or because they wanted a house that could shelter them from the wind and snow for the winter, the more than 10,000 rebel captives worked hard that day to demolish the two military camps outside the city, braving the cold and snow to transport wood and thatch back to the city.

As their commander and watchdog, a Kunyang pawn was very wary of the resistance of his subordinates, but it turned out that nine out of ten rebel captives knew each other and honestly participated in the repair of the city.

And on Kunyang's side, under Zhao Yu's order, the county government also organized a group of people to treat the wounded among the rebel prisoners, although there are still seriously injured and dead rebels who died one after another, but the practice of the Kunyang County government really brushed a wave of goodwill in the hearts of more than 10,000 prisoners.

Kunyang, which has experienced a catastrophe, has finally stabilized.

Two days later, Xun Yi, the governor of the western region, bid farewell to Zhao Yu and braved the snow to return to Xuchang in a carriage, preparing to tell Li Min, the commander of Yingchuan County, the good news from Kunyang.

Xun Yi believed that that Li Junshou would definitely be surprised.