After completing the adjustment of the army expansion, Zhu Cihong is having a headache for another matter, how to deal with the rogues captured this time?

Before going to war, Zhu Cihong had considered many results, and also considered that there would be prisoners, but he didn't expect that there were so many prisoners, there were 40,000 people!

Liukou's will to fight is really much worse than that of the Tartars, who know that they are invincible in the unfavorable situation of the war, and they will grit their teeth and fight hard, until they die in battle, most of the people who took the initiative to surrender were the Eight Banners Han Army and Mongolian soldiers, and the Manchurian soldiers rarely surrendered, in fact, they knew that even if they were surrendered, they would not escape death.

The thieves have always relied on the strength of the crowd, just like a group fight, roaring with the wind, running against the wind, once they are defeated, they will immediately run away, and even the old battalion of the overseer does not dare to stop them, for fear of being killed in the chaos.

Some of the thieves who could not run away without their legs and feet knelt down on the spot, threw their weapons and kowtowed to the officers and soldiers in surrender, making people reluctant to kill.

Such a group of rabble, it is okay to fight a dozen worse officers and soldiers, once they encounter real elite people, they have no power to fight back, unless there is the eloquence of MLM kings Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng to inspire people's hearts and improve some combat effectiveness.

Now the question is, what to do with the 40,000 rogues and prisoners of war who were captured? Zhu Cihong's current grain and grass are sufficient, but it is not enough to squander it for such a long time.

In the past, when the Qing soldiers were caught, they directly cut off their heads to give rewards to the soldiers, but now most of these rogues are from poor people, and Zhu Cihong really can't cut them all.

However, Zhu Cihong also knew in his heart that although most of the captives were from poor people, even if they were to divide the land to them now, and then send seeds to let them cultivate and become ordinary people again, it would be unrealistic, not that there was no land division, but that the thinking of these rogues had undergone tremendous changes.

These rogues used to belong to a group of people who were struggling at the bottom of society, but anyone with a little status, even the head of a village, could kick them a few times and bully them wantonly.

Ever since they joined the army of thieves, they have started to rebel and have no capital, and their hearts have become bigger, and every time the army of thieves takes down a place, the local officials, wealthy merchants, landlords and other bigwigs who are usually high in the sky will kneel at their feet and weep bitterly, begging for mercy.

Originally, these big people who never looked at the people squarely, life and death are in their hands, what is this feeling? Who does who knows!

Not only that, the thieves can also enjoy the wine and food that they never dared to hope for before, rob the property of the officials, landlords and old wealthy, and sleep with their women and daughters, such a happy life is brought by the thieves' rebellion, after tasting the sweetness of the rebellion, even if it is exchanged for life, there are still there

Great attraction.

If you want these thieves to go back to farming and live that kind of ordinary life of looking forward to the heavens and the earth, I'm afraid it's already very difficult.

Zhu Cihong now finally understands Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting, when the two of them were quelling the rebellion, they killed the prisoners when they caught them, and even if they surrendered, they were cut down batch after batch, to be honest, the cost of killing them all is the lowest, and it does not take a lot of time and financial resources.

After all, Zhu Cihong has a good education, whether it is the nine-year compulsory education and higher education that he spent money on in his previous life, or the education of the prince he received since he was a child in this life, he pays attention to people-oriented, and deeply understands the truth that water can carry a boat and can also overturn a boat, especially for the Han people, naturally they will not make such an extreme as killing all prisoners of war

means.

If he dealt with the prisoners of war of the Manchu army, Zhu Cihong might still be able to kill them to the end, not only because of the Han factors, but also because most of the rogues embarked on the road of rebellion because they could not survive, and the imperial court took a lot of responsibility.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty is different, they are not because of survival, but the attack on the Ming Dynasty as a conquest, from the birth of Nurhachi, it can be seen that he is from the Weisuo family, the hereditary Jianzhou Wei commander, and was also named the dragon and tiger general, eight times into Beijing to pay tribute and eat the imperial banquet, to put it bluntly, he is just a white-eyed wolf rebel.

In response to the 40,000 prisoners of the rogues, Zhu Cihong did not intend to select some people from among them to join the army, although this practice was common in history, but Zhu Cihong did not need it.

Now there are enough Tuntian soldiers in Zhu Cihong's hands, and if Huguang starts Tuntian next year, at least more than 100,000 Tuntian soldiers can be recruited, and the newly recruited Tuntian soldiers only need to practice seriously, and the combat effectiveness formed is much stronger than these old fritters.

After thinking about it, Zhu Cihong decided to forcibly reform these 40,000 captives, let them work and contribute to the people.

If you want to force reform, the means must be hard, and it will have a great deterrent effect on the prisoners, otherwise it will be difficult to reform some ** born and local ruffians.

All of these captives were enclosed next to the large camps of the Tuntian soldiers, and they were guarded by the Tuntian soldiers day and night to prevent them from doing things.

Zhu Cihong first ordered that all the officers in the captives be found out, even if they were small leaders, these people can be the leaders of the rogues, basically they are the most thorough group of people who rebelled, the most important thing is that they have a certain appeal among the captives, and these people must be clear.

Killing all the rogue officers can not only eliminate the destabilizing factors, but also serve as an example.

Zhu Cihong handed over the task of transforming the rogues to Xu Sheng, and let him also experience it.

Xu Sheng has followed Zhu Cihong for many years and has learned a lot, and he also took on the errand with confidence at this time.

In order to find out the leaders of the thieves at all levels hidden in the captives, Xu Sheng first cut off all the prisoners' food for a day, only provided them with water to drink, and then asked the captives to report to each other who was the leader, one report to reward one steamed bun and one or two pickles, and two to reward four taels of rice and two taels of delicious side dishes.

Wo Li Dou has been a human tradition since ancient times, and after the implementation of the reporting system, the prisoner camp immediately exploded, and dozens of big and small leaders were exposed by the thieves who had been hungry for a day on the same day.

When someone sees someone else reporting, they are afraid that they are backward and have not eaten, so they have pointed out the leaders they know, and there are often dozens of people pointing at a leader at the same time, Xu Sheng doesn't mind this, as long as he moves his fingers to recognize, he will be rewarded with food.

With the results of the first day's report, and the fact that the prisoners who had not eaten on the second day were a little unbearable from hunger, they also stood up to report some of the leaders they knew, and the reporting activity suddenly became lively.

"Even if I, Wang Tiezhu, starve to death, I will never betray my leader!" A young man snapped his chest and said.

Wang Tiezhu's words greatly amazed several bandit leaders hiding among the captives, and also caused many thieves around him to applaud loudly, praising him for his righteousness and being a model for the rebels! A good brother to all the rebels!