279 Yulin Salt Mine
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Yulin City, this remote, desolate small county town, has now changed greatly, the city wall is high, the flow of people is weaving, more importantly, after Shi Lei led people to pacify the surrounding grassland, more caravans, also with a variety of materials, gradually towards the vast grassland, in addition, the Shaanxi court in Shi Lei's promotion, all kinds of large business groups, also booming rapidly, as these merchants transit station Yulin and other places, also become rich and strong.
And with the improvement of Shi Lei's status, Shaanxi's power is growing day by day, as his earliest base in Yulin, which has become the second place in the whole Shaanxi after Xi'an City, and even in some places, it is more than Xi'an City, after all, the first batch of people who followed Shi Lei, most of them are from Yulin, although these people for various reasons, there are not many people who hold high positions, but they can't stand the base is too large, you walk on the road, meet a person who buys vegetables on the street, maybe this person's family is a high-ranking official in the Ming army.
It is precisely because of this that there are more garrisons in Yulin City than elsewhere, and they are all elite troops, on the one hand, to maintain local law and order, and on the other hand, to guard the prisoners.
Over the years, with the rapid development of Shi Lei and the Shaanxi Group, the battle has not been less, and, several big battles, Shaanxi has also won the victory, with their victory, there is inevitably a problem, that is, the problem of prisoners, from the earliest after killing Pan Wuxing and Wei Changqing, capturing his subordinates, to the recent war in Henan, unconsciously. The Ming army in Shaanxi captured many soldiers.
At this time, the strong man who can be a soldier is a very scarce resource, but it is not like the later generations, if you want to be a soldier, you have to treat and give gifts or something, at this time. The soldiers are very valuable, especially now that it is still a period of war, and the soldiers are comparable to gold, so most of the time, in order to recruit soldiers, all forces are trying their best, and even pulling strong men everywhere. And among them, after defeating the enemy, those prisoners of the enemy are the objects of the eyes of many forces, because for these forces, whether it is conscription or pulling strong ding.
These soldiers are all civilians who don't know anything, and they have to be trained for a period of time and eliminated several times. to be able to get the rest of the elite, and those captives are different. In many cases, the defeat of the army is not the reason of the soldiers, but more of the reason of the generals, otherwise there would not be a saying that the generals will not succeed and exhaust thousands of troops.
So, many times. Some generals will try their best to collect these captives, so as to quickly increase their strength, and those captives will also be very aware of the current affairs to switch sides, after all, compared to their own lives, these soldiers can't even eat enough. doesn't talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality, of course, if you meet a butcher like Xiang Yu and Bai Qi, it can only be regarded as unlucky for these captives, fortunately, like that kind of butcher, it is rare in history.
And for Shi Lei and the Shaanxi Group, dealing with the prisoners is basically like this, but unlike others, Shi Lei did not turn most of the prisoners into the Ming army, because in this way, although the strength of the Ming army can be quickly increased, it adds a lot of uncertainty, after all, Shi Lei does not want to be like Li Zicheng, he has millions of soldiers in a short period of time, but when he encounters danger, a million soldiers will fall apart, and they will not be useful at all.
Therefore, he only absorbed some of those captives into his command, and most of the remaining people, Shi Lei did not let them leave, after all, these people were all soldiers, and if they were allowed to leave so easily, I am afraid that if they go back and live, they will either rejoin the command of others, or go up to the mountains to become bandits, because of this, Shi Lei gathered all these people together and started to be laborers.
The land of Shaanxi, since ancient times can be regarded as a place rich in minerals, although after more than a thousand years of development, many precious minerals have been exhausted, but in fact, the ancients really understood some of the minerals, these are only a few, just like the huge rock salt mine outside Yulin City, this is the first rock salt mine in China in later generations, if it is really excavated, it is enough for the whole Chinese people to eat tens of thousands of years, so it can be imagined how great the development value is here, especially now, this salt can be regarded as a precious item, that's a golden mountain!
Therefore, after Shi Lei went through the difficult period at the beginning, he organized people to develop the salt mine in Yulin, at the beginning, because of the strength, it was only a small-scale development, and later, with the improvement of Shi Lei's strength, the development of the salt mine here is also increasing, and the salt produced is not only sold in Shaanxi, but even the surrounding provinces are also sold, because the salt in Yulin is not only good, but also cheap, and the love of the people around the country, and all this is inseparable from those captives.
Xiaogushan Salt Farm, here is the largest salt field in Yulin City, only the prisoners who work every day, there are as many as 5,000 people, of course, unlike other salt farms, the prisoners who work here are not Han people, they are all in the battle of Tongguan, captured by the Ming army The elite of the Manchu Eight Banners, 20,000 Eight Banners elite, failed in the next battle in Tongguan City, except for those who died in battle, and those who were injured and died later, all the rest were imprisoned here as miners of the Xiaogushan Salt Field, working hard every day.
"Hurry up, hurry up for me, you dogs, if you can't complete this month's task because of your laziness, you don't want to eat, and you should know what will happen to you when the time comes." On the salt field, among the teams of hard-working Manchurian miners, a man wearing a Ming Dynasty official uniform with braids on his head, holding a leather whip in his hand, shouted at the laborers below, and from time to time, he would use the leather whip in his hand to whip some slow-moving laborers. Of course, he didn't fail to see the grim look that flashed in the eyes of those laborers, but not only was he not afraid, but he looked very proud, and the voice of scolding would be even louder.
It can be seen from the hairstyle that this person is definitely not a Han person, but a Manchu person, and there is only one Manchu who can be so powerful here, that is, in the Battle of Tongguan, because of drinking and making a mistake, the Manchu Qing suffered heavy losses, and finally took Liu Roll to blow up the Manchu cannon of the Manchu Zakudu.
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