Thirty-four thousand mouths of food eaten a day is definitely not a small number, even if they are not fed.

100,000 stone of grain is enough for them to eat for a while, but it will definitely not last until the autumn harvest. Because this food could not only be supplied to these prisoners of war, Dong Shouye's army still needed it.

Dong Shouye's military rations were not abundant, and the grain and grass when he sent out the troops were still scraped together. If Dong Shouye wants to control the army well and prevent the army from looting everywhere and killing innocents indiscriminately, it is necessary to ensure that the army has sufficient rations.

And military rations are also a big problem for the current Xiliang Army, Dong Shouye must minimize Dong Zhuo's pressure on military rations, so that Dong Zhuo will not let his subordinates loot everywhere.

In other words, a part of the 100,000 stone grain must be given to Dong Zhuo to relieve Dong Zhuo's pressure.

On how to deal with this batch of prisoners, Jia Xu also talked to Dong Shouye, he said: "It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, although the son is kind-hearted, but the food problem is the weakness of our army after all, at present, the preparation of the son near Chang'an has not yet been completed, if you want to achieve results, I am afraid it will take a few years, if you accept these people now, our army is bound to go through a difficult hurdle, and it will inevitably give birth to what is wrong when the time comes, I hope the son will think twice." ”

Jia Xu's meaning, Dong Shouye also understands that although his vision is long-term and his strategy is unparalleled, after all, it has the limitations of its times, and many later things are difficult for him to predict, but Dong Shouye has an unparalleled advantage over Jia Xu in this regard, after all, he sees more long-term than Jia Xu's vision, and according to memory, he can vaguely grasp the direction of the development of the times.

From Jia Xu's words, Dong Shouye could also hear the hints, this Xiliang poisoner was hinting at Dong Shouye, killing these captives or giving up these captives.

If Dong Shouye handles this matter according to Jia Xu's wishes, then the lives of these prisoners of war will be worried.

With the current situation in Dong Shouye's army, even if he didn't kill these prisoners, he could only be dismissed on the spot.

If Sun Jian makes a comeback, or other princes do something, they only need to take out a little food to successfully subdue these captives, and the threat to Dong Shouye will be greater at that time, so Jia Xu's meaning implies that Dong Shouye killed the prisoners.

However, with the tactics of this Xiliang poisoner, Dong Shouye will definitely not be infamous for slaughtering prisoners, most of them are using some means such as borrowing a knife to kill people or finding someone else to top the tank, after all, there are too many such methods, and for many people, it is just a fig leaf.

Dong Shouye asked Xu Rong again, but Xu Rong couldn't say why.

Xu Rong is a master tactician, but not a master of strategy. Commanding battles on the battlefield Xu Rong is a good hand, experienced, vertical and horizontal, and is a very difficult opponent. But if he encounters this kind of pure logistics and pure strategy situation, Xu Rong will have no choice.

Xu Rong is a perfect subordinate, a perfect executor, and any kind of leader will like someone like Xu Rong who can meticulously carry out orders. Dong Shouye's meaning is Xu Rong's meaning, as long as Dong Shouye explains, no matter how big the difficulties are, Xu Rong will overcome the difficulties to carry out the task well.

Dong Shouye saw that Xu Rong couldn't give any pertinent opinions, so he was no longer reluctant, but from the conversation between Dong Shouye and Xu Rong, Dong Shouye vaguely found that Xu Rong's words had the meaning of not letting Dong Shouye slaughter the prisoners, but it was very unobvious.

In Dong Shouye's view, Xu Rong cares for the soldiers under his command, and can mingle with the soldiers and share weal and woe. Although he led his troops to participate in countless battles and killed countless enemies, he was still a person who loved life in his heart, and he would not have cared so much for his soldiers.

In the end, after repeated discussions with Jia Xu, Xu Rong and several core generals under his command, Dong Shouye still decided to accept these prisoners of war and prepare to place them under the command of the general Xu Rong, and in the future, Xu Rong will lead them to garrison Tuntian near Chenggao County on the east side of Luoyang.

Dong Shouye also transferred a large part of the money seized from Sun Jian from this war to Xu Rong, asking him to buy grain and grass, and wanted those mercenary families to buy grain, and buy grain from other princes. In short, as long as someone is willing to sell grain, Xu Rong can buy it, even if it is at a high price. Whether it is one's own friend or one's own enemy, as long as they are willing to sell food to their own side, then they can accept it, and many problems can be resolved through negotiation.

At the same time, Dong Shouye handed over some war horses captured from Sun Jian to Xu Rong and asked him to use the war horses for food, of course, these war horses were also very limited, and after giving priority to replenishing the losses of the Xiliang army, there were less than two thousand left.

The two warhorses that died in the battle reached more than 2,000 batches, and even more were injured, but most of these wounded horses could still return to the battlefield after treatment.

Generally, the heavily rewarded war horses are difficult to cure, and in order to reduce their suffering, they are directly killed.

If this were not the case, the loss of the horses of both warring sides would be unbearable for both sides after every battle.

Now there are a lot of people who want to buy war horses among the Kwantung princes, but there are very few channels to buy, mainly Youzhou and Xiliang, as well as Bingzhou.

Youzhou is now Gongsun Chan is also actively recruiting troops and buying horses, with its strong force, it is basically a monopoly on the sale of horses in Youzhou, if you want to buy it, you have to look at Gongsun Chan's face, and the Hu people such as Wuhuan and Xianbei are now enemies of the Han people, and it is very difficult to buy war horses from them.

The horses in Bingzhou are also obtained from Xianbei and the Xiongnu, Xianbei is now powerful, always thinking about going south and plundering the Central Plains, and the Xiongnu are also taking advantage of the civil strife in the Han Dynasty to fish in troubled waters, and no one is fuel-efficient, etc., and Xiliang is directly controlled by Dong Zhuo, and it is basically impossible to buy horses by Dong Zhuo.

Therefore, war horses are definitely a scarce resource among scarce resources in times of war.

Dong Shouye saw this and let Xu Rong smuggle war horses, of course, with Xu Rong's sincere temper to start a business, it will definitely suffer, Dong Shouye is very cunning to teach Xu Rong some experience in doing business, such as hanging the opponent's appetite, selling fifty or one hundred horses at a time, and then slightly increasing the price, and then selling another fifty or one hundred.

Xu Rong finally opened his eyes now, and only then did he understand that the original business could do this, and there were so many doors and doors in it, and he admired Dong Shouye even more.

There is certainly no way to solve the food problem in the short term, but only slowly.

As for how to effectively control these captives, the general way is to keep them fed and leave them without the strength to resist.

Dong Shouye also gave Xu Rong a method, that is, the armor protection law, specifically, to imitate the establishment of the army, these prisoners are organized into a Tuntian army, in this Tuntian army, according to the establishment, and then the implementation of joint sitting, one person makes a mistake, everyone suffers, everyone has the responsibility to supervise others, report the mistakes of others. Moreover, for those who actively express their merits, actively cooperate or have meritorious service, they can be incorporated into the regular army.