It took a day for the chaos in Guangzong to slowly subside.

The sect members and Yan Rou, who led the cavalry outside, also came back in turn, and won a lot, especially the sect members, with the cavalry of Xiliang, Sanhe and other places, chased the Yellow Turban Army that broke through from the West Gate to the sky and the ground, and finally drowned in Zhangshui, and less than thousands of people could escape alive.

In the Ya of Guangzong County, the generals and colonels of all sizes gathered together, talking about the military exploits of their subordinates, and Yan Zhong recorded them on the side.

After a long time, everyone finished speaking, Yan Zhong clenched his fists and said, "General, in this battle, our army broke the thief army, beheaded more than 40,000, the thief army fell into the water and died no less than 50,000, and another 270,000 thieves and thieves were captured. ”

For a while, everyone congratulated, and Huangfu Song stroked his beard and laughed, which was really unpleasant.

Ma Qiang took a sip of wine, he knew that the 50,000 people who fell into the water and died were all Yellow Turban soldiers who were unwilling to surrender, I am afraid that the Zhangshui River has become the Ganges.

"General, don't come for a few days, Guo Taishou will definitely have good news, and Jizhou will be pacified!" Yan Zhong said again: "It's just that now these more than 200,000 thieves and prisoners, how to deal with them?" ”

Huangfu Song looked around and asked, "What do you think?" ”

Wang Yun was the first to say, "General, there are clouds in "Shangshu", the tree of virtue and virtue, and the elimination of evil, Guangzong's thief army is different from other places, many of these thieves are thousands of miles away to defect to the moth thieves, and their hearts are strong, rare in the world!"

What's more, those who have been surrounded since ancient times and surrendered will not be forgiven, and the general should be beheaded! ”

When Ma Qiang heard it, good boy, after doing it for a long time, you killed Dong Zhuo and got rid of the evil, and the evil work started from here.

"General, there are still Wancheng and other places yet, please think twice! Why don't you report to the court and wait for the court to decide? Fu Xie said.

Ma Qiang didn't know much about this person before, he just saw him, and he didn't know who it was, so he asked Duan Ying on the side, "Who is this?" ”

Duan Ying said in a low voice, "This is Fu Xie, the word Nanrong, born in the Fu family of Beidi County, Liangzhou, I heard about the battle of Changshe, it was he who personally led the soldiers and horses out of the city to steal the camp, when Cangting, he marched together with Cao Cao, the cavalry captain, just because he has always been subordinate to General Huangfu and his reputation is not obvious. ”

is another Xiliang person, this Xiliang is really a general.

But when he thought of this person's reputation, Ma Qiang shook his head a little helplessly, because Cao Cao was an independent leader, so the credit was on himself, and Fu Xie was Huang Fu Song's subordinate, and the credit was naturally on Huang Fu Song, which was really good to have a good background.

"Waiting for the judgment of the imperial court, I'm afraid I won't be able to wait for two or three months, and our army's military rations won't be able to support it for so long." Liang Yan said.

"How is that possible? The thieves themselves had to eat, not to mention that now there are almost 100,000 people missing, what about their food? Ma Qiang felt that something was wrong when he heard it, and asked.

"I don't know where the thief army actually burned the warehouse, and there was only a little food left, and it couldn't feed so many people at all!" Xu Rong said angrily on the side, he already knew that Cao Cao's subordinate Cao Hong did it, but Cao Cao's background was not something he could provoke, even if he reported it, Cao Cao had Cao Song as his basis, it would not be good, but he would be unlucky, but when he thought that a great achievement was gone, he could only swallow his anger, and the more Xu Rong thought about it, the more angry he became.

Cao Cao, you wait for me, don't fall into my hands in the future!

Xu Rong was born in a poor family, and his military merits were not available at any time, so he hated Cao Cao from then on.

Cao Cao didn't know how much trouble his good cousin had caused him, he frowned and said, "If you don't have food, you can only kill the prisoners of war." ”

Ma Qiang couldn't help it, he knew that except for himself, no one would have any guilt about killing prisoners here, after all, this was an era 1,800 years ago, and after killing these people, Jizhou would empty a lot of land, and the famine would be gone.

If you don't have enough food, you either have to increase it or reduce the population, and the latter is much easier in terms of difficulty.

But these are people.

Ma Qiang opened his mouth and said, "General, it is ominous to kill prisoners since ancient times, not to mention that many of these prisoners of war are old and weak, women and children, why not release and resettle those who are coerced among these prisoners of war, and let the rest of the elite be recruited into the army, and the rest of the old and weak will be distributed to meritorious soldiers as slaves, or sold to the big clans to supplement military funds?" ”

Ma Qiang has been thinking about the placement of these captives, thinking about it, it is unrealistic to release them all, it is too wasteful to be all official slaves, and it is not good for himself, it is better to divide them, and he can also profit from them.

"Captain Ma is too young, I don't know how powerful." Wang Yun smiled and said, "Most of these elite prisoners of war are the henchmen of the thief army, after the army is replenished, how can it be said that there will be no trouble?" When the time comes, who will be held responsible?

Speaking of selling, it is feasible, but once it is implemented, it will definitely become a bad law for apportioning the localities! The current imperial treasury is very empty. ”

Wang Yun's words immediately reminded everyone.

Yes, it seems that this slave sale can give the nobles a big bargain, but what if those ten permanent servants are apportioned?

And if the scholars want to pick up the cheap, they want to say that the strong are old and weak to lower the price, but what kind of person is your majesty now, that is a person who is more suitable for being a businessman than being your majesty, don't be able to lower the price at that time, but be raised the price, forcing himself to buy the old and weak with the money to buy the strong.

Forget it, it's better to kill it!

When Ma Qiang heard this, he couldn't help frowning, he did have a shallow understanding of this era, and many bizarre things that he thought would not happen were very likely to happen in the eyes of people in this era.

There is no place to settle on the spot, and selling it will harm the interests of all the scholars, so it seems that they can only be killed.

Huangfu Song stroked his beard and said, "In this case, tomorrow will be killed, and it will be built as a Jingguan to set an example!" ”

Liu Bei listened in the back, he couldn't bear it, he wanted to get up and talk, but he was dragged by Liu Zheng on the side.

"Xuande, even Mr. can't persuade you, you must not come forward."

And Cao Hong was also muttering to Cao Cao.

"Ah Pu, this is also ruthless, more than 200,000 people, kill if you say kill?"

Cao Cao stuffed a piece of meat into his mouth, and said as he chewed, "Pedantic!" How can we have the kindness of a woman for the sake of the world? If you don't kill, can you have any good ideas?

It's ridiculous... I originally thought that this Ma Qiang was a character, but I didn't expect that I looked down on him. ”

Ma Qiang frowned and looked around, gritted his teeth and said, "Please slow down, Youzhou has passed through the Yellow Turban and Zhang Ju Rebellion, the population is scarce, and it is necessary to garrison the border, when the mark is out of Youzhou, Liu Zhijun and I hope to attract people to Youzhou, kill more than 200,000 people, it is too hurtful to the heavens, and I am afraid of disasters if I let it go, so it is better to send it to Youzhou Liaodong and other counties, as a border fence!" ”