On the eve of departure, Xu Huang said to Zhou Fei: "Junhou, Huang suggests that some infantry be selected among these alien slaves, otherwise Huang is worried that if they are bought by the family and used as dead soldiers to deal with us, you know, these people will definitely hate us when they learn the truth that they were sold as slaves by us, and they will be desperate at that time, and it will be very difficult to deal with." ”

Song Xian said: "Junhou, what Xu Taishou said is right, Xian suggested, either we use ourselves as slaves, or kill them, and we must not leave future troubles." ”

Zhou Fei was puzzled: "There are nearly 40,000 people who will be sold into slavery, if they are sold, according to 10,000 yuan per person, it will be 400 million yuan, wouldn't it be a pity to kill them all?" If you use it for yourself, you won't need so many people. ”

Xu Huang thought carefully for a while and then suggested: "Junhou, when Huang was in Xiayang County, he did household registration statistics, most of them were young and strong, and there were very few women, so we can marry these women to the locals as wives and concubines to increase the local population; Some women may be campwives; Men can be slaves of the government, undertaking work such as city defense renovation, road maintenance, canal construction, land reclamation, and engineering construction. Some men can be slaves with the army, and can undertake the work of baggage transportation, barracks construction, etc.; As for those children, they can form a battalion of dead soldiers, cultivate them from an early age, and eliminate them from an early age; Those girls can be specially cultivated, and when they grow up, they can be rewarded to meritorious soldiers as wives and concubines. ”

Guan Yu was the most calm, silently listening to Xu Huang and others, he was also thinking quickly in his heart, and after a while, he suggested: "Junhou, Yu's hometown is Hedong County, the Shi family occupies a large number of fields, the peasants have lost their land, have no way to make a living, and are miserable, either renting land for a living, or selling themselves as slaves, how many people in Hedong County who are dependent on the big family are more than 40,000?" Yu suggested that by using foreign men to cultivate wasteland, either they would grow it themselves, or sell it cheaply to landless people, or lease it to landless people. ”

Song Xian said with a smile: "Haha, what the chief of the customs officer said is good, just the wasteland in Xiayang, Linjin and other counties of Sili is enough for these slaves to reclaim for a few years, it is close to the Yellow River and Luoshui, it is convenient for irrigation, the terrain is flat, the land is fertile, if it is reclaimed, it is definitely good land." ”

As soon as the train of thought was opened, everyone's attention increased, and Guan Yu said: "Yes, when Yu went north, he found that the northern area of Hedong County was originally a Xiongnu pasture, and now it is abandoned, it is a pity, just on both sides of the Fenshui River, a large amount of farmland can be reclaimed, and we will no longer worry about military rations." ”

Even Zhou Cang came up with a suggestion: "Prince, those cattle, sheep and horses we have captured can be grazing by slaves, so that we will have a steady stream of beef and mutton to eat in the future, and there will be no shortage of war horses." ”

Zhou Fei felt that everyone's opinions were good, so he said, "Let's take it back to Xia Yang first." "Zhou Fei didn't want to leave it to Guan Yu's alien women, because he was worried about the food problem, and if there was a shortage of labor in the local area, he could let the Wuhuan cavalry or Qiang cavalry do it for him, and if there was a lack of a large number of slaves, they could plunder a few alien tribes.

Subsequently, Zhou Fei invited several military officials and told them that all slaves would be used for their own use and would not be sold to the outside world, and told them their opinions just now, asking them to come up with a more reasonable and detailed treatment plan.

The scribes received the order, and when they returned, they began to discuss in groups.

In fact, Zhou Fei was very tempted by these suggestions, in this way, the wealth created by these slaves would be far greater than the money obtained by selling them, but there must be a large amount of investment in the early stage, and I believe that with the support of the wealthy lord, these are not problems.

After ten days of arduous trekking, the large army finally rushed back to Xiayang City.

During this time, the scribes finally came up with a set of reasonable management methods, and refined them to form written materials and handed them over to Zhou Fei.

Zhou Fei attached great importance to it, and immediately began to read carefully, and sighed that the level of these scribes was indeed not low while reading, so he immediately summoned the scribes, Xu Huang and others to discuss. Zhou Fei hoped to settle these people as soon as possible after formulating a strategy, otherwise, tens of thousands of people would gather outside Xiayang City, which would be a very unstable factor.

Xu Huang and Song Xian felt that the method was very clever, which not only fulfilled the promise of resettlement in other places, but also facilitated management, and if the government needed it, they could also transfer personnel from them at any time; In this way, they are much more motivated to work than if they were to be treated as slaves.

All people of different races, whose family members are not disturbed, every ten households are a settlement, fifty households are a tribe, each tribe is concentrated in residence, it is a village, and every ten tribes are used as a farm, and ten villages are comprehensively managed; Divide the wasteland for them, let them build their own houses, distribute cattle, sheep and horses, let them shepherd, distribute agricultural tools, let them cultivate the wasteland.

A certain amount of grain, cattle, sheep and horses must be handed over every year; It is also necessary to undertake a certain amount of conscription and military service.

Strengthen their management, and if one of each tribe rebels, the entire tribe will be slaughtered.

Hedong County is well-organized, and one farm can be set up in each county; In newly recovered counties, or where the Han population is sparsely populated, the initial plan is to set up four farms in each county.

Each farm has a junior civil servant in charge of its management.

As for the method of forcing women of different races to marry Han Chinese, Zhou Fei canceled it, he was worried that forcibly breaking up their families would make their rebellion worse, and if there was no restriction on intermarriage, as long as they relied on economic means, their daughters would naturally choose to marry Han Chinese, and they would give priority to marrying Han officers and soldiers, and there was no need to use coercive means.

As the old and infirm had been conspired to dispose of, or had died on the march, and a large number of young girls and young women had been chosen by Han Chinese officers as maidservants and concubines, the number of members of each family was now greatly reduced, averaging four or five, and about two thousand two hundred per tribe.

According to the current resettlement plan, the number of aliens is not too large, but smaller, and it is far from meeting the needs.

Zhou Fei decided to set up alien villages on both sides of the Fenshui River, the north bank of Luoshui and the west bank of the Yellow River, which were sparsely populated and a large amount of land was barren, suitable for this kind of large-scale development.

Xu Huang suggested that when relocating these aliens, the distance between them should be widened, and in the future, it would be convenient to settle Han people at intervals, forming a situation where Hu and Han people lived together, which would facilitate the monitoring of different races, and intermarry with each other.

Zhou Fei accepted the suggestion and ordered the scribe to record it and add it to the plan.

The way out for these aliens is first to join the army, as long as there are family members in the army, they can enjoy good treatment; The second is that if they have a daughter married to a Han soldier, their lives will also change radically.

The set goal made them see hope, the probability of rebellion was much lower, and the young men in the tribe had been selected, even if they wanted to rebel, not to mention weapons, armor and other equipment, the combat effectiveness alone was not the opponent of the Han army.

Moreover, the marshals of the Yiluo and the patriarchs of the tribes have vested interests, and they will also strengthen the management of these foreign races, so as to save the cost of managing them.

Since everyone approved this method, Zhou Fei immediately ordered it to be executed.

The slaves in Hedong County were uniformly managed by a middle-ranking civil official; Xiayang counties have a special middle-level civil official to administer.

The aliens were reorganized, cattle, sheep, and horses were distributed, and food and farming tools were promised upon arrival at the resettlement sites.

Zhou Fei was overjoyed at the current situation, and ordered Xu Huang to capture more foreign captives when he set out on the expedition in the coming year, and if there was no land to resettle, he could place a few more counties in the area west of the Yellow River and north of Luoshui, where the soil was fertile and irrigation was convenient, and it must not be wasted.

Subsequently, Zhou Fei asked the scribe to record this plan in detail, sent people to Taoyuan Fort on horseback, and applied to Gao Shun for food and farm tool support; Although Gao Shun ordered him to trade money in the future, but this time to increase so much territory, the lord will definitely be happy, it is impossible to embarrass him, besides, these grains are huge for Zhou Fei, but for Gao Shun, they are not worth mentioning.