Although it was a little tiring to participate in the training, it was only a moment of fatigue, and the people who built the fortress had to work throughout the day.

However, Jin Jue still underestimated the vulnerability of the Shu soldiers. When Jin Jue announced this new regulation, among the recruits and veterans, there were many people who quickly took off their military uniforms, threw down the weapons in their hands, and joined the ranks of the people who built the fortress.

No, in one day, he gathered enough 10,000 people, enough for the number of people who built a fortress in Xicheng at the same time. Most of these Yizhou people who have laid down their arms have not yet started a family. And there are young people with strong labor or few people in the family, they think that although they are a little tired, it is much better than being a soldier and eating food. Their current situation is that one person is fed, and the whole family is not hungry.

On the contrary, in one day, less than 10 of the 30,000 people were willing to join the army.

Afraid that this momentum would eventually be unstoppable, many generals and Fa Zheng jointly asked Jin Jue to immediately withdraw this order, but Jin Jue refused to let go.

Not only that, Jin Jue immediately sent people to the other three battalions the next day, and announced a new decision in front of all the soldiers, when the newly recruited soldiers took the initiative to join the ranks of the people to reach 10,000, the people who were previously recruited from the new capital city would be put back 10,000, and this new decision was immediately implemented.

The people of Beicheng can go home immediately.

However, those Yizhou people who have turned from soldiers to civil husbands cannot leave at will before Chengdu City is breached, and Jin Jue will not let them go like letting go of the people of Xindu City. Anyone who escapes from the camp and is caught by the soldiers patrolling the city will be punished as deserters and will not be killed.

In fact, Jin Jue had long wanted to let the 30,000 Xindu residents leave, and he felt guilty about the 30,000 simple people of Yizhou.

Unlike all the princes of this era, Jin Jue did not agree, and the government levied conscription for free. However, when Jin Jue first came to Yizhou, he had been fighting before, and then he encountered several rare winters of heavy snowfall. There was not much time for him to develop the local economy, and the grain obtained from the county government treasury and the local tyrants and gentry alone could not be enough to pay the employment money of the 30,000 people.

Take advantage of this opportunity to return home and reunite with their families.

But who knows, the situation has changed again.

Xiao Liu Thirty-one, who was in charge of going to the herald, ran back again, and he is now the leader of Jin Jue's personal guards, responsible for protecting Jin Jue's safety, and at the same time, responsible for assigning heralds to convey the orders and instructions issued by Jin Jue to the other battalions.

I saw Liu Thirty-one happily running into Jin Jue's big tent and excitedly reported: "Son, when my subordinates went to give the order in person, all the 10,000 people in Beiying were unwilling to leave? ”

"Oh, why is that?" When Jin Jue heard this, he frowned and asked puzzledly.

"Childe, my subordinates have made it clear, Yizhou is not as good as the legend outside, ordinary people have no extra grain in their homes, and because you suddenly invaded Guanghan County and Shu County last year, you harvested all the grain outside the city, so that the ordinary people outside the city did not get any harvest. Relying on you, in the heavy snow last year, not a single person in Shu County and Guanghan County died of cold and starvation.

However, if you let them go back at this time, the whole family will have to starve to death. ......" Liu Thirty-one eyebrows fluttered and told Jin Jue about the situation he asked.

Jin Jue suddenly realized, it turned out that he had made an empirical mistake, but he ignored an important fact - the people in the city are still down, after all, most of them are relying on their own crafts to make a living, and Jin Jue's military operations in these places are very fast, and they have not had much impact on their lives.

However, the situation was completely different for the peasants and tenants outside the city.

In ancient times, except for landlords and merchants, ordinary people generally did not have grain in their homes, and they worked hard to grow grain for a year, and in the end, in addition to paying various harsh taxes to the government, they also needed to pay more onerous rent to the landlords. The landlords who collect 50 to 60 percent of the rent are considered benevolent, and there are also landlords who collect 70 or 80 percent of the rent.

Especially at this point in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, there were many wealthy families in various places, who wantonly annexed land by forcibly seizing and colluding with local governments, which not only caused the local ordinary people to become his serfs, but also caused the central and local governments to be unable to receive sufficient taxes.

The imperial court protected the northern frontier from the invasion of the Xianbei and other nomads, which required a lot of money and food.

Last year, the reason why Jin Jue led his troops to break into the northern part of Guanghan County and Shu County was to control these areas before the autumn harvest, at least, some cities that could not be attacked for the time being, such as Jinzhu Pass, Fu County or Luo County, besieged them. This makes it impossible for families in or outside the city to harvest autumn grain in time.

Fortunately, Jin Jue's surprise attack made him a great success, and north of Chengdu City, except for the area north of Zitong County, all counties of Guanghan County and Shu County were broken by Jin Jue's army.

All the grain outside the city was also harvested by Jin Jue from the people in various counties, and the landlords who dared to compete with Jin Jue for the autumn grain in the fields were all killed by Jin Jue.

This is also the reason that in these areas controlled by Jin Jue, the people in the countryside were either recruited as soldiers by the guards sent by Jin Jue and Wei Yan, or fled into the mountains with their families, or fled to the county with their families.

As a result, the vast majority of the people who chose the middle option died in the heavy snow last winter, and if Jin Jue hadn't taken the initiative to send relief and support, even many of the apprentices and people accepted by Ren An would have died because of this.

For the people who chose to serve as soldiers or fled into various county towns, Jin Jue sent troops to distribute food and cold to the people in the city. It is no exaggeration to say that this is the first time in the history of Yizhou that there has not been any people who have died of cold and starvation in Yizhou County.

This incident impressed all the scholars who were kidnapped by Jin Jue's people and didn't have much of a good impression of him in their hearts.

Unlike later generations, the scholars of this era believed that it was not necessarily a bad thing to take tough measures against the people when necessary. As long as this kind of tough means can achieve good results in the end, especially for the common people.

(End of chapter)