Zhang Xuan had no intention of returning these fugitive slaves, so he sent someone to directly refuse the unreasonable request of Daha, the reason was: "Wuliangha belongs to the Ming Dynasty, and the population of Wuliangha is also the people of the Ming Dynasty, not anyone's slaves, the Ming Dynasty has no slaves, and the Ming Dynasty also banned the road guidance system, and the people have the freedom to move within the country, so these fugitive slaves are not illegal, and there is no return." ”

Of course, Zhang Xuan asked others to give Daha a reply, that is, if Daha could let the fugitive slaves go back by himself, he, the governor of the Hetao, would not force him to stay, but Daha had to pay liquidated damages for these fugitive slaves who had been employed in Wuhai City, after all, the Ming merchant group and officials and businessmen who hired these fugitive slaves would be compensated.

Naturally, he couldn't let the fugitive slaves go back voluntarily, and he wouldn't pay liquidated damages to the merchants of the Ming Dynasty for his slaves, but he was a little unwilling to leave like this, and he decided to block the official road of Wuhai City, prevent merchants and pedestrians from entering Wuhai City, and even loot these merchants to force the Ming to make compromises and concessions.

Zhang Xuan naturally would not let these Mongolian nobles cut off the connection with their Wuhai City, after all, once the trade of Wuhai City was cut off, it would be difficult to survive.

The Hu fugitive slaves who moved to Wuhai City have been mobilized by Wang Xi, the prefect of Wuhai in the Ming Dynasty, and nearly 40,000 people have gathered at once.

The Mongols rode horses from an early age, and these Hu fugitive slaves were no exception, as long as they were given weapons and war horses, they could become qualified cavalrymen.

When the officials of the Ming Dynasty told these Hu fugitives that the nobles of Wuliangha would slaughter them or even escort them back to continue to make them slaves and even occupy their wives and children, and issued weapons, these Hu fugitive slaves in the outer city of Ukraine suddenly turned into tens of thousands of iron horsemen with high morale.

Gui Yong, deputy chief of the Wuhai Daming Border Army in Hetao, also took a thousand Ming troops to the outer city, among them, 500 musketeers were already in place with firing muskets, and the grenades were also unboxed and placed on the side of the city wall, and the city gate artillery was also removed from the dust cloth, the flowering shells were also opened, and the barrels were also cleaned up.

But the Ming army has not yet attacked.

According to past experience, as long as these Hu fugitive slaves can defeat their masters, the Ming army naturally does not have to do it themselves.

The reason why the Ming army also made an emergency state of combat readiness was naturally not only to prevent the Hu fugitive slaves from being defeated by the beating, but also to prevent these Hu fugitive slaves from rebelling.

However, these Hu fugitives did not rebel, although the Ming army had to be wary of these aliens, but in fact, these Hu fugitives did not have the consciousness to help their masters take the Ming Wuhai City, because the Mengyuan nobles did not cultivate their consciousness, not to mention that they themselves had already regarded this place as their home, and they also settled their wives and children here.

The Mongol tribes were also divided into many classes, and nobles and commoners naturally benefited from looting, but slaves did not have this right.

Under the deliberate propaganda of the Ming government, the Hu people who escaped from slaves knew more that they would be miserable if they continued to go back to be slaves, so they all rode their horses one by one and killed the cavalry who fought Ha.

Zhang Xuan also personally beat the drum and shouted: "Sons who don't want to be slaves, kill the officials, repel the robbers, defend your homeland, and defend your family!" ”

As soon as Zhang Xuan shouted this, the morale of these Hu fugitive slaves who rushed out of the barbed wire gate one after another also increased.

"Bastard! Darn! These damn fugitives! Kill me the warriors of my Uliangha! ”

Daha watched tens of thousands of fugitives wearing cheap Han cloth shorts and shorts, riding horses like the wind and killing towards him, and he personally brought his iron horses to kill them.

The two iron streams collided violently, these Hu fugitives who had been brainwashed by the Ming Dynasty only had hatred for the Mengyuan cavalry at this time, so they killed very bravely, plus the Ming Dynasty government would give them pensions and even insurance, they were not afraid of death, and even if they were single-horse, they dared to break into the camp of the Wuliangha cavalry.

"What's going on, what kind of ecstasy soup did these Han people pour into them, how can these cheap slaves who usually don't even dare to fart be so fierce and not afraid of death!"

Daha watched his hundred battle elite horses fall to the ground one by one by several Hu people fugitive slaves in the same way, and he didn't understand for a while, if he had known that these cheap slaves had such strong combat effectiveness, how dare he enslave them.

Although the tens of thousands of iron cavalry composed of these Hu fugitive slaves were not very proficient in the operation of the Ming Dynasty's conventional cavalry weapons, namely short crossbows, and did not form a dense lethality, they simply defeated the cavalry with a spirit of not fearing death, and they also killed red-eyed, and directly gritted their teeth and chased, and almost wiped out these cavalry.

And the Uliangha cavalry, who couldn't stand this kind of fatal fighting, was still killed by these Hu fugitives after dismounting and surrendering, and they were killed by revenge, basically every Uliangha Mongolian cavalry was hacked to death with a knife.

It wasn't until there was no Wuliangha cavalry outside the barbed wire fence in Wuhai City that there was a river of blood flowing outside Wuhai City, and these Hu people escaped from the city and came back one by one, numbly handed over the weapons to the Ming government, and then went to receive silver, and those who died in battle would receive an extra piece of pension silver, and the war wounded would also receive an extra piece of silver, and some recently emerging insurance companies would handle compensation matters on the spot.

It seems that these Hu fugitive slaves are just doing a job for the government.

But Zhang Xuan was not happy about this, and said very dissatisfied: "Go and call the prefect of the king, who asked them to kill all the cavalry captives of Wuliangha, Wuhai City is now very short of prisoners to serve, he doesn't know, when the time comes, the civil officials behind the major commercial houses will have to impeach him Wang prefect instigated the public to kill the prisoners indiscriminately, and the official has to intercede with him!" Orders to go down, and those who sacrifice prisoners in the future, depending on the value of their captives, will offer a reward of 20 taels to 50 taels of silver! ”

Zhang Xuan didn't expect that at this time, a method that he just thought of casually to increase the number of labor force would cause a wave of human trafficking in the era of primitive accumulation of capital in the Ming Dynasty.

Some Mongols who were not captives or other non-Han Chinese, such as the Jurchens and Evenks in Liaodong, and even Koreans, would also be captured by some thieves and sacrificed to the government as prisoners.

The government can only distinguish by basic characteristics such as clothing and language, and it is naturally unclear whether it is a captive or not, and because the expansion of production scale requires labor, especially the free labor force that can be enslaved for a period of time, it is not too strict, and basically accepts as many captives as they give.

There are even some relatively poor ethnic minorities who are willing to be bought at low prices by some merchant groups specializing in human trafficking, and then brought to Daming to be sold to Daming as prisoners.

Sometimes a piece of cloth can buy a sturdy alien, and then get thirty or fifty taels of silver from the government, which is naturally a huge profit, after all, with the realization of mechanized production in the Ming weaving industry, the current price of cloth has been so low that it is not worth a penny of silver.

And some nobles also began to become professional human traffickers, to rob the population of weak foreign races, and then sell them to the Ming in the form of captives.

In short, these people sacrificed prisoners to the Ming Dynasty in various ways, which caused the number of Ming prisoners of war to surge.

Even because of this, in a certain year, the number of new prisoners of war in the Ming Dynasty reported to Zhu Houzhao by the Ministry of War was as high as more than 3 million!

This made Zhu Houzhao himself unbelievable, because Daming had not fought a large-scale war in this year, and he was able to capture more than 3 million people? !