The attack began at midnight, and before it was over, Qinjiabao was captured. It took less than three hours.

"Ahh It's really unpleasant! I didn't sweat all the sweat on my body! I didn't drink enough blood from my snake spear, so I surrendered? It's really spineless! Spineless! Brother, next time let's find a bigger village to play with! ”

"Okay, you've finally gone into battle and killed someone. I haven't seen Guowei sulking next to him. ”

"Oh, yes, hahahaha, Guowei, I'm sorry. Brother, I accidentally used too much force, and I broke the stockade directly. I didn't give you the opportunity to lead the Wudang Flying Army to climb the back mountain and copy the enemy's back road. Hahahaha~~~"

"What's your business, it's not that the brave man commands it properly."

"Hey, hey, don't make trouble, I didn't see my brother, I'm going to be a trophy, and my head is going to explode."

The battle is over. The losses and gains of the side should be carefully calculated.

Although the attack on the village was smooth, it was basically a wave. But there were still casualties on our side.

Two were killed by the stones thrown down by the wall, and five were killed in the street battle behind the wall. In addition, there were more than two dozen wounded. That's the whole loss.

As for the harvest, it's still considerable.

Qinjiabao has 1,327 mouths. In the battle, more than a hundred able-bodied men were killed. The rest were taken prisoner. That's more than 1,200 slaves!

In addition, there are more than 100 stones of various bacon in the fort, more than 3,000 stones of rice noodles, more than 3,800 stones of fern root powder, and more than 20,000 pieces of scattered five baht coins. In short, the harvest is a big profit compared to the input.

For the disposal of more than 1,200 prisoners, Guan Yi discussed with Guan Suo, Yang Zong, Huang Chong, Liao Yong and others for a long time.

First of all, the parties quickly reached an agreement on the disposition of the large and small leaders among the captives: all of them were cut down. And it is a knife that is used by ordinary and strong people in the captives, by the way, as a traverser, Guan Yi also let the low-level people in the captives hold a criticism meeting - ideological education and propaganda for the people, which is something that almost every Red Dynasty traverser has to do.

Next, the disposal of more than 1,120 captives made it difficult for Guan Yi.

Yang Zong: Oh, give it to me? No, no, no. The mountains and forests like my Patong County are barren, and the existing arable land is not enough for the Han people, and I will pull these prisoners back, and the general will eat me later.

Liao Yong: Taishou, now our tung oil workshop does need a lot of labor, but no matter how much it can't absorb so many people. These people were all brought back, not to mention the question of how many more people should be sent to guard them. It's okay to run down, if you don't leave, so many people will eat us down Fuling County.

Guan Suo: Don't look at me. Chinuer, third uncle, I'm tired of staying in Nanzhong. I want to stay here and play around, and I don't plan to go back to Nanzhong for the time being. Even if you go back to Nanzhong, how much food will it cost so many people to bring back so far?

(Guan Yi: You came to me to hide from your love debts, right?) ）

Huang Chong: What? Why are you all looking at me? Well, it's not impossible to bring back all the CDs, but it's a long way, and you have to ask Taishou to send an elite escort - this is a high cost. First of all, Shang Shutai didn't prepare this budget for me.

Hey! In such an era when population is a scarce resource, there is no one to take prisoners?

If this problem happened in Soochow, it would indeed be a bigger problem: everyone rushed to ask for it. I want it all. And then there will be a fight.

Speaking of which, Eastern Wu has fallen into a strange circle since Sun Quan officially declared himself emperor and founded the country: Cao Wei invaded, and it must have been fought well. took the initiative to attack Cao Wei, and he was generally weak. All the Jiangdong family members think about all day long is how to keep their one-third of an acre of land, or how to compete for more right to speak in the Dongwu court - Cao Wei, such a strong enemy, it's good if others don't come to fight, why do you have nothing to provoke others.

But the Jiangdong family also has times when they take the initiative to attack passionately. That is the conquest of Shanyue - because, after conquering Shanyue and breaking through Shanyue's stockade, you can take a lot of people captive, and you can turn these people into serfs to enrich your estate. Therefore, after the founding of the Eastern Wu Dynasty, the second and third generations of generals, such as Lu Kang, Shi Ji, Liuping or something, all grew up in the process of conquering Shanyue.

This is the sorrow of Shu Han.

The population of Dongwu is also small, but people are located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and there is land suitable for cultivation everywhere, and what is lacking is people. As long as there are people, no matter how many people there are, they can take it. Therefore, the Jiangdong Shi clan likes to conquer Shanyue the most - arrest people. It's not fun to catch people in the mainland, and the farthest one even went to Taiwan to arrest people. In fact, since the founding of the Soochow state, the thirst for population of its ruling class has never waned.

And Shu Han is different, there are too many mountains.

Relatively speaking, the situation in Yunnan is a little better, although there are many mountains, the mountains are relatively gentle, the soil layer is thick enough, and there are many mountain basins and lakes in the Hengduan Mountains. Terraces can be built along the mountain to grow rice. And the tragedy on the side of Ba County, whether it is Fuling County or Badong County, or Qiqi County in the south and Wuling County in Eastern Wu. The mountain is extremely steep and almost vertical, the soil is barren, and the bottom is all limestone, which cannot hold water. There is simply no way to open up terraces.

(Now these places are tourist attractions, such as Zhangjiajie.) ）

Compared with Shanyue, the most fundamental reason why the Han and Wu countries rarely took the initiative to attack and plunder the population of Wuxi in the Wuling Mountains: there was too little arable land, and they didn't know how to settle people when they were captured.

The only exception to Shu Han was in Hanzhong.

In that year, Cao Cao conquered Hanzhong, and the Wudoumi sect advocated that Lu surrender after being guaranteed free mission. The 200,000 people in Hanzhong County were moved to the Guanzhong area by Cao Cao. Later, after Liu Bei took Hanzhong from Cao Cao, all he got was a vacant land.

The Hanzhong Basin is a rare piece of land suitable for cultivation in the Qinling Mountains. Therefore, whether it was Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition or Jiang Wei's Northern Expedition, as long as there were conditions, when retreating, the people in the Yongliang area of Cao Wei would be forcibly relocated to the Hanzhong Basin, where there was a large amount of arable land waiting to be developed by the population.

So someone asked, why didn't Shu Han move the Wuxi barbarians to Hanzhong? On the one hand, it is because of the cost: it is easy to break a village, but it is too expensive to break a village to get a thousand people, and to transport these thousands of people to such a distant place, the cost is too great. Moreover, once Shu Han adopted the policy of Eastern Wu and continued to plunder the population in the Wuxi Barbarian region for a long time, wouldn't they unite to resist? In the deep mountains and old forests, the guerrillas who beat you everywhere cry and cry to death! At that time, the Shu Han government will have to garrison troops in the Wuling Mountains for a long time. The cost of this is high - and the strength of Shu Han itself is stretched, the troops defending Hanzhong are cut again and again, and a large number of troops have to be stationed in the Wuling Mountains for a long time? It's no wonder that the general Jiang Wei didn't jump up and cut you.

The reason for this is that the political structure of Shu Han is different from that of Eastern Wu. The army of Shu Han belonged entirely to the state. In addition to the national army, there are many private soldiers of various families in Soochow. The general Shanyue people intruded, and the private soldiers of the family of Eastern Wu were pacified.

On the other hand, ethnic minorities in the southwest are generally not very aggressive. It did not pose a fatal threat to the Shu Han regime. The only one who could threaten the survival of the Shu Han regime was always Cao Wei. Therefore, there is no need to make ethnic relations within the territory too stiff. Be mild, even hypocritical, and appease them not to make trouble.

Therefore, Guan Yi also knew very well that the Qinjiabao expedition was just an exception: this was a tribe that specialized in looting and aroused the public anger of various local barbarian villages. If it's extinguished, it's extinguished, and everyone will just applaud. But if you don't know how to restrain after this time, and you still want to continue to attack the Wuxi barbarians by force, don't wait for the Wuxi barbarians to unite against you. The CD court will take you in!

All of the above is the reality of an agrarian society: population and arable land are the totality of society. If arable land is insufficient, the population is a burden rather than a wealth.

"That's it, since you don't want it, then I want all of them from the Fuxing Society."

"Taishou, no! We can't afford to feed so many people! ”

"Zifeng, what is this Fuxing Society? Why do you want so many people? ”

Crowded? I just think there are fewer people!