300,000 to 400,000 captives at a time, which gave Zhang Qiang an opportunity to re-enrich his captive camp.

There are not many people in the prisoner camp now, and compared with the original seven or eight million prisoner camp, the prisoner camp of two million people is a bit less, which has some reasons for Zhang Qiang's adjustment of the function of the punishment camp.

As the core area of the Huaxia Kingdom became farther and farther away from the war, people's lives tended to be stable, and the transition from war to economic development shifted to the criminal department for some crimes in the core area, and the criminals directly under the criminal department in various places were no longer put in the punishment camp.

They were held in separate prisons by local criminal ministries and sent to the nearest prison for rehabilitation.

Now there is nothing left in the core area for the captives to do, and what to do with these people is a headache.

But why is there a need for such a headache?

Because after Sishan Prefecture was plagued by the peasant army and the Qing Dynasty, where there is a need to add a lot of people, two million is not enough.

These people can't be honest people-type people, they must be able to adapt to the poor mountains and bad waters, and this group of people is suitable for where to go to open up wasteland.

Just like the small countries in Southeast Asia and Qiongzhou Island and Baodao Prefecture, this first batch of people must have suffered many casualties, and ordinary people have been happy for more than ten years, where you let him go, it is to send him to a dead end, which is very inappropriate for the stability of the Huaxia Kingdom, and it will make the people disgusted, some young people who have no jobs need to be sent to some more stable places, they have experienced the first time to open up the wasteland, but there will still be some hard places to exercise, not let them die.

In addition to Sishan Prefecture, the mines in Qiongzhou have entered a stage of rapid development, and with the current mining conditions, it is not enough for those young people to go, only where the captives go.

Most of the two million captives are good captives who have undergone more than ten years of transformation, Sishanzhou is more suitable for them, and their naturalization heart is also very strong, this person is not satisfied with Sishanzhou, how can they be thrown into the mine, but the Japanese do not have that consideration, between their relationship with China for thousands of years, Zhang Qiang thinks it is very suitable to go to the Qiongzhou mine.

Of course, not all the captives were sent to Sishanzhou, and the 300,000 Japanese needed to be watched, and some Han Chinese needed to be mixed in them, otherwise it would be very bad to let them hold together.

These 300,000 Japanese were also divided into prisoners and slaves, and they went to the mines together with the nearly one million slaves and prisoners who had been delivered before, and integrated them into them so that they could control where to go.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, a month later, these adjustments are quickly in place.

According to the information fed back by He Jin, where nearly three million captives and slaves played a great role, the trees were pushed, the mine was divided into nearly dozens of miles of upper and lower working faces, the slaves were at the bottom, the prisoners and the Japanese were in the middle layer, and the top level was the common people who volunteered to find work to do, and they were responsible for transporting and sorting minerals.

The militia was in charge of guarding, the prisoner-promoted overseers of the punishment battalion controlled all parts of the mine, and monitored the mining of those people every day, and the merchants licensed by the Chinese Kingdom brought all kinds of vegetables, grain, and tools they made, and then transported the sorted minerals to the primary smelter.

Here, the reconstructed captives refined the ore, and then sent it to the port smelter for further purification, and then sent to various iron factories in the core area of the Huaxia Kingdom for refining and purification, and the products were sold to various merchants after leaving the factory.

The lowest ones were sent to the blacksmith's shop, and the workshop made some farm tools and daily necessities, and the price was not high, but it was very popular.

The medium ones are sent to craft ordinary weapons, armor, or iron rings on the gates, or sold to the shipyard to make money outside.

The high-grade products were purchased by the Ministry of Industry and sent back to the advanced refinery for re-refining to make high-grade armor and weapons, musket parts, cannon parts, and produce weapons needed by the Huaxia Army.

The higher the output, the higher the casualties, the mine can produce 1,000 tons of primary iron and stone per day, 30,000 tons a month, and 360,000 tons a year.

This output is just in line with the current production level of Daming.

This is still rudimentary, and when Zhang Qiang developed Qiongzhou Island before, it was only 100,000 tons per year, but now it has increased by 3.5 times.

This low level of production is inevitably caused by deaths and injuries.

Thirty to fifty people were killed and wounded every day, and more than 300 to nearly 1,000 people a month.

Of course, it is not just that there are dead and wounded and no rewards are given, in that case, even if there are 100,000 militia and 100,000 field brigades, these millions of people will have to rebel.

The reward is that you can persist at the bottom for a month without dying, then the level in the hard labor camp will be raised, go to the upper level to mine, and by the way, engage in transportation, and transport the lowest ore to the top, for the hard labor to be able to do such work, proving that their efforts have been rewarded.

At the bottom, there is not enough food, no warm clothing, leather whipping, failure to complete the task and death standards, one a day, the last one is dragged outside and killed, and the corpse is pulled outside by the prisoners who carry the corpse to be buried.

In order for the Huaxia Kingdom to have a good environment and good development, Zhang Qiang is very ruthless.

Those bad guys, traitors, and the enemy army that killed the Huaxia army will have to pay the price.

At least a few more bites of food can be eaten on the upper floor, and the work is not too dangerous, and the dangerous ones are immediately brought to the bottom to do it.

Of course, the people above are also like this, layer by layer.

The middle level is also mining, and they use the worst of the captives, or the natives who have been taken from Southeast Asia, and now there are Japanese people doing this kind of work, and the Japanese are much more industrious than the natives of Southeast Asia.

Soon these 300,000 people were qualified as supervisors at the bottom, not all of them, about 1,000 people were more prominent, so they didn't have to work anymore and went to be overseers, and the militia captain of the mine management pulled the prisoners of the lower supervisors to the upper level to work as transporters.

Over time, the Japanese contracted almost the entire bottom and middle level of overseeing and ore mining, and the efficiency was much higher than before.

However, the Japanese were not good people, and soon the lower class of slavery was almost exhausted, and they had to bring in more slave labor from other places to manage them, and at the same time bring in more Southeast Asian natives to be sent to the mines.

Zhang Qiang only sees the output and results, and he doesn't care how the mine runs.

With such efficiency, the output is getting higher day by day, reaching an increase of several thousand tons per day.

As the days passed, the battle in Sishan Prefecture began, Feng Wuyu's corps advanced rapidly, used prisoners to fight the vanguard, fought with those bandits, and those who survived went to the rear to rest, and the dead were buried on the spot, and soon occupied Chongqing Mansion.

Nearly 800,000 meritorious captives were promoted to residential surveillance, where they were able to clear land, farm, build new water conservancy facilities, roads, and develop villages and settlements.

Correctional battalion troops from all over the country were transferred here, and the overseers of the correctional battalions were made up of outstanding prisoners and naturalized prisoners, who were sent to their homes and villages to monitor these prisoners, and became the leaders and militia of the new militia self-defense forces, with two well-behaved prisoners in the middle as members.

The village chiefs and lieutenant chiefs appointed personnel of the regular militia units of the Huaxia Army, and the civilian clerks appointed those in-service clerks who had graduated from the local examinations were all new officials who had passed the examinations at the township and town levels, and they had to go to these difficult places to experience and add a glorious past to their resumes before they could be promoted in the future.

After the three-month adaptation period, the three-month performance period, and after the performance period, the cultural office of Yunguizhou County will give a score, and then the advisory bureau will discuss their promotion and performance, give suggestions, submit them to the county government for assessment, and then promote them to the acting officials of the wasteland, set up a shelf here, and establish the county government, and they will become the members of the county government, which is equivalent to changing from clerks to section members.

Section members are official government civil servants.

However, the level is not high.

But they are acting, which is equivalent to the nature of the work of temporary workers compared to their original clerks, and there is no certain reason why they cannot be vacant.

They form the official yamen of the entire occupied area, and they can select qualified prisoners as their own officials, which is equivalent to temporary workers among temporary workers, why is it said to be temporary workers among temporary workers?

Because their wages are not paid, they are not ordinary people, they are criminals who are being monitored, only the people, and their net worth is innocent, and they can only come to the government to be officials, temporary workers, and pay wages after being confirmed by the government, but not much, and no longer show in the account books of the clerks of the local government that they have certain skills and diplomas, that is, they have studied books, but they have not become talents, but they have experienced the civil service examination in the county, so that such people can be formal clerks, referred to as temporary workers, and such civilian temporary workers are clerks, and there is the possibility of progress. The higher-level government will also put them on file for future inspection.

It's a very complicated relationship, which means that these people can work temporarily, but they don't have an identity, they are not recognized, and they are temporarily called officials.

Real temporary workers are equivalent to temporary employment by the government, doing odd jobs, employment relations, but they have no diploma and no possibility of advancement, but they are innocent and can be hired for a long time, but they are not the talents needed by the government, they cannot continue to be motivated, and they are also officials.

The third type is the real government temporary workers, but they are clerks, they can enter the team, after the examination of the government for the record, pay a higher salary than the above two, to become regular, can continue the examination, and then be assigned here, good performance, they become formal civil servants, but there is no grade, the things they do are things that are done by people of the grade.

These clerks can develop here into high-ranking officials, such as the county office's clerk's office, clerk's office, and account office, or higher positions, from the official officials of the ninth grade.

From the ninth grade, it needs to be filed in the Ministry of Officials.

In the future, they will be deployed by the state government, and the county government will not be able to open them casually, which is equivalent to the iron rice bowl of future generations.

These are too long for the captives, and they now need to work hard to gain the status of a civilian.

(End of chapter)