In the battle of Hanqiang, more than 200,000 enemy troops were captured, and more than 1.3 million people from 11 tribes, including Yaodang, Wuwu, Zhongcun, Gongtang, Geleng, Fu Nan, Le Jie, Dangpan, Dang Khotan, Gang Jie and Beipu.

In the context of the current era, people are the most precious resource.

The Han Dynasty needs slaves, and the first zero and prison sisters need their people.

So in the following time, the ownership of the prisoners in this battle became a matter of contention between the Han and Qiang.

At the post-war meeting, the Qiang king Kejia Xiangluan Yi proposed that more than 1.5 million prisoners be handed over to him, and then he would be assigned to the eight tribes of Xianling, Qianren, Beipu, Lejie, Dangfang, Quanwu, Shen Di, and Prison Sister, and obey the orders of the leaders of the eight tribes and continue to stay in Qiangdao.

For such a suggestion, Luan Yi naturally would not agree. If all the Qiang people are returned to the Qiang people, and one day in the future, the Qiang people will come out to confront the Han people, and the more than 200,000 soldiers who have finally captured 1.5 million of them will put on their armor and be a strong army. It will bring a lot of trouble to the big man.

Not afraid of 10,000, just in case, Luan Yi had to be on guard.

And the principle of vigilance is to weaken the strength of the Qiang people in advance, and the fundamental way to consume the strength of the Qiang people is to reduce their population base, and at the same time increase the sinicization of the Qiang people.

Therefore, Luan Yi rejected Ke Ke's request on the spot. He made it clear that he had paid a lot to defeat the Beigong Boyu Holy Sect army and deserved most of the loot. Prisoners were an important part of the spoils of war, and more than half of them should go to the Holy Church.

Of course, Luan Yi also knew that he couldn't swallow so many captives alone, and he had to leave some benefits for the Eight Great Qiang Tribes, otherwise Ke Jia would turn against him now. Moreover, it was not easy to move 1.5 million people, and even if he wanted to, he could not swallow it alone.

So, he proposed to divide the 1.5 million captives into eight, each of 100,000. Each of the eight Qiang tribes received 100,000 yuan, and the Han Dynasty was the victorious country, and the largest part of this campaign was seven, that is, 700,000 people.

Luan Yi's arrangement, everyone has benefits, and the benefits of contributing more will naturally be more, which is reasonable according to the current cognition. There is no point in the heads of the tribes.

It's just that Bitter Winter stood up and asked Luan Yi how to arrange the 700,000 prisoners.

Luan Yi saw the sparkle in Bitter Winter's eyes, and knew that the old man had something to say, so he asked: "According to the will of the leader of Bitter Winter, how to deal with it." ”

Bitter Winter Le said in a hurry: "His Royal Highness King Qi." The Han region was a long way away, and the food on the way to move so many captives inward, not to mention the consumption of a large number of escorts along the way, was an astronomical amount of food on the way for these captives. Instead of adding to the consumption like this, it is better to let them stay and help the king of Qi build Yangcheng. In this way, it saved food for the king of Qi and did something for the king of Qi, so why not? ”

Luan Yi laughed and said in his heart: Jiang is still old and spicy! Where is Yangcheng built? Longxi! On the turf of his old bitter winter. 700,000 people spent years building a city on his territory, and they always had to eat, drink, and Lazar during that time, right? If you want to eat and drink, you can only buy it from his old and bitter winter prison sister Qiang, which is directly related to the future income of prison sister Qiang. In addition, the slaves who built the city must always get married and have children, and the children born will all be their prison sisters Qiang people in the future, which is equivalent to expanding the population for him. Ku Dong's words sounded like they were all for the Han people...... In fact, the ultimate beneficiary is their prison sister Qiang.

Luan Yi laughed a few times, and while laughing, he stared at Mingli's eyes in the bitter winter, staring at this little old man until his heart trembled. He said with a weak heart: "His Royal Highness the King of Qi? Is there anything wrong with the following proposals? ”

"There's nothing wrong with that." Luan Yi smiled and waved his hand, "It's indeed a good idea." I'm not going to do that, though. ”

"Why?" Bitter Winter refused to give up and asked.

"How many of the Qiang people have seen real bazaars and cities?" Luan Yi asked and answered, "There are not few." How can I arrange for those 700,000 captives to build a city because they don't know how to make craftsmen, and they haven't even seen a decent city? Therefore, I cannot take the proposal of the Bitter Winter Chief. ”

Ku Dongfu asked: "Then how is His Highness going to deal with the 700,000 captives?" ”

"It stands to reason that this matter is a state affair of the Han Dynasty, and I don't need to tell the two leaders Ke Ji and Bitter Winter. But since we're friends, I might as well talk about it. Luan Yi glanced around Ke Ji and Bitter Winter, and said slowly: "Right now, the canal built by my Han in Hebei and Erzhou is in the stage of attacking, and I am ready to take out 200,000 of the 700,000 prisoners to invest in the canal project. In addition, some of the Great Wall in Youzhou and Prefecture are in disrepair, and we will send 200,000 prisoners to participate in the repair. The remaining 300,000 captives will be taken to Runan, Yuzhou. There I would auction them up for public auction and sell them to merchants from all over the Han Dynasty as slaves, and work and work for their masters in the factories of the Han land. ”

"What? You're going to sell them? Ke Ke looked angry, after all, these people were also his compatriots. When I thought of my compatriots being bullied like dogs by the Han people, I couldn't help but feel angry.

"King Qiang, don't worry. I can tell you unceremoniously that those captives are definitely better off as slaves in our Han than staying in Qiangdao as grass people. In Dahan, although slaves were not paid, they were guaranteed three meals a day, and they had to eat half a catty of meat every week. In addition, as long as his master is a member of the Holy Religion, he must make him a set of clothes every year, one year for winter, one year for summer, and two years for a quilt...... And so on and so forth, these are the dogmas that are explicitly prescribed by the Holy Church. If the owner of the slave does not carry it out, he will be given a verbal warning for one violation, the church will be named and criticized for the second violation, and the slave will be reprimanded for three violations, and the slave will be confiscated, and then excommunicated, and he will not be allowed to re-enter the church for ten years. If he still does not repent after that, it is equivalent to the crime of homicide, and he will be beheaded in accordance with the laws of the Han Dynasty. Thankfully, until now I haven't found anyone who dares to commit a crime against the wind, which means that all the slaves are living well in Dahan. Let me ask the leader of Kejia, can an ordinary herdsman in Lingqiang live such a good life without worrying about being fed and warm? ”

Ke Ke choked, "Not yet! ”

"That's it. So I sold these captives to the Han Chinese, and instead of harming them, I saved them. Of course, there is another thing that Luan Yi did not say that with the help of such a large-scale slave trade, the church can still make a lot of money. Taking into account the high prices of labor in the states of the diocese at present, it is fair and reasonable to price each slave at twenty silver, and the money required to buy a slave is far less than that of hired labor, which is sure to attract a large number of buyers. In this way, 300,000 slaves can earn 6 million silver, which can alleviate the financial expenses that are spent every year, and can also use the labor force to stabilize the sick and crazy labor wages for many years. Kill two birds with one stone.

Seeing that Ke Jia and Ku Dong no longer had too many objections to their trafficking of Qiang people as slaves, Luan Yi said to Ku Dong again: "Leader of Ku Dong, this time my Holy Sect army came to fight far away and did not carry too much grain and grass with the army. The regulations of escorting 700,000 captives with food and grass supplies had to be troubled by the leaders of the bitter winter. ”

"What?" That's the bread and grass for 700,000 people! Bitter Winter has a bitter face.

Luan Yi explained with a smile, "Don't worry, Bitter Winter Leader, I will not ask for it in vain. The leader of the bitter winter can convert the daily necessities such as grain and grass into the market price, and then deduct it from the 10 million taels of silver that your ministry needs to pay to the Holy Sect this year. In this way, the Bitter Winter Leader is equivalent to making a lot of money. ”

"This ......" is right to think about it, selling grain for 700,000 people to eat and drink is indeed a big business, and it can make a lot of money. But after thinking about it again, I felt that it was wrong, and I couldn't think of what was wrong for him for a while, and I always felt that I had lost a lot this time. Where is the loss? When did you start losing? racked his brains and still didn't see a glimpse or two, so he had to nod in the face of Luan Yi's sharp questioning.

"Good!"

After discussing the distribution of the captives, it was time to divide the territory.

In this regard, Luan Yi bluntly said that the land of the Qiang people should be distributed by the Qiang people. He was too involved in opinions. Now Qiang Dao is already a Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, and as the head of the autonomous prefecture, Qiang Wang Kejia has an absolute say in land distribution.

Hearing this, Ke Ke was proud, and he looked like he was in power.

But he didn't know why Luan Yi put the responsibility for allocating land onto him. On the one hand, in this round of land distribution, the Holy Religion was unable to obtain real benefits. As the saying goes, it's not about himself, he doesn't bother to worry about this kind of thing. On the other hand, whenever it comes to the distribution of benefits, it will inevitably offend people. In particular, it is difficult to level the distribution of land, and once there is a bias, it will inevitably cause resentment among others.

Luan Yi naturally wouldn't do this kind of hateful thing, not only would he not do it, but he also deliberately pushed him to Ke Ke, the so-called King of Qiang. With the help of this time, the relationship between the eight existing Qiang tribes was divided. As long as the Qiang people are not monolithic, it will be easier to rule and assimilate.

After arranging all the matters in the Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, after raising grain and grass for half a year for 700,000 captives in the bitter winter, Luan Yi decided to return to China after a year and four months.

On the day of the army's departure, Luan Yi walked up to Zhao Yun, who came to see him off, personally brushed off the soil on Zhao Yun's shoulder armor, and said, "How many years has Zilong followed me?" ”

"The last general has been following the sect leader for sixteen years."

Luan Yi said with a guilty face: "Yes! Sixteen years. How many sixteen years are there in life? In the past 16 years, you have accompanied me on my expeditions to the east and west, crossing snow-capped mountains, walking through meadows, and crossing swamps, and I have not lived in peace for a few days. Now I've transferred you to this wild land again. Speaking of which, I feel sorry for you! ”

Zhao Yun hurriedly bowed and said, "Sect Master, don't say that, it's an honor for the last general to be able to serve the sect leader." If there was no sect leader, how could Zhao Yun have made so many meritorious achievements? The sect leader said that a good man has ambitions in all directions, and Yun Shen thinks so. For the sake of the Virgin, for the sake of the sect leader, even if the sword is a mountain and a sea of fire, the clouds will also go to it. ”