"Kill a hundred people." Li Yongji nodded, and then looked at Sun Xiangbing, "So what is the specific?" I mean, how are you going to make an example? ”

"It's very simple, one out of ten, shoot!"

"One out of ten?" Li Yongji frowned, "You mean to say that one out of ten people is drawn and then shot to death?" ”

"Yes, exactly!" Sun Xiangbing said expressionlessly.

"It seems too much." Li Yongji also became serious, "Wouldn't it be too cruel?" What if it backfires? Moreover, I want labor that can work, in other words, these captives are valuable treasures, and it is too wasteful to kill them easily. ”

"Your Majesty!" Sun Xiangbing clenched his fists, "Please forgive Weichen for saying bluntly, this riot seems to be due to rumors and misunderstandings, thinking that we are going to hand them over to the South Americans (the South Americans here are the common name for the southern Americans), so they rebelled, but in the final analysis, it was caused by your overindulgence of them in the past." ”

"Overindulgent? Me? Li Yongji frowned and said, "How can I indulge them?" I've always treated them like captives. ”

"But the treatment you gave them was too good." Sun Xiangbing shook his head, "Your Majesty, the treatment you gave to those North American captives was a bit too much for the captives. Not only do you provide them with food and shelter, but you also give them careful treatment when they are sick, and the most outrageous thing is that they work and pay them for their work!

To tell the truth, it is the first time for Wei Chen to treat a captive like His Majesty, which has exceeded the definition of the so-called teacher of benevolence and righteousness, but the benevolence of some women is too much, and others will not praise you when they hear your treatment, but will only laugh at you. ”

"Laugh at me?" Li Yongji smiled, "I treat the captives preferentially, and you still laugh at me?" Where does this begin? ”

"It's simple." Sun Xiangbing said. "Because normally, only a soldier of the weak would treat a captive like a master. In other words, it is because of the fear of retaliation from the other party, so he treats the captives preferentially. So if you do this, you will only misunderstand others, and we will misunderstand that we have some scruples about them. ”

Speaking of this, Sun Xiangbing thought of something, immediately stopped talking, and looked up at Li Yongji's face. After noticing that the other party was expressionless, his mouth moved, and he finally stopped saying anything.

Sure enough, his appearance of wanting to speak and stopping was soon discovered by Li Yongji, so he nodded to him: "Why don't you say it?" Go on, what to say, I see you still have a lot to say, don't hold it in your heart. Am I the kind of person who can't listen to others? ”

"Yes, then Weichen will continue to fight bravely." Sun Xiangbing clenched his fists again, "Your Majesty, in fact, among the ordinary officers and soldiers of the North American Army (Expeditionary Force) at the beginning. The Northern Union Army is generally referred to as the North American Army, and the Southern Alliance Army is called the Southern American Army, which refers to the Chinese term. When the captives gave those high preferential treatments, Wechen felt that it was too much. But at that time, we had just arrived, and we had just landed in the United States, and we were alone. Therefore, Wechen is not very opposed to you doing this, after all, this method of preaching benevolence and righteousness can reduce our resistance to marching.

However, after we won a series of battles and the soldiers were in all directions, you still treated those captives so favorably, and Wechen did not agree with it, because there were too many people we captured, and it was a big burden to provide supplies for those captives every day.

It's just that because Wechen is not responsible for logistics, you didn't show a struggling attitude in logistics, and we were too deep at that time and were still attacking forward, so Wechen didn't bring it up, because he was afraid of sharing His Majesty's heart.

But Your Majesty, have you ever thought that our expeditionary force has only about 50,000 people in total, and even if you add the private troops that have arrived in China, it is only more than 100,000, relying on such a small number of people, controlling the entire lower reaches of the Mississippi River, and raising more than 500,000 prisoners, don't you think this is too much for us?

Not to mention anything else, just providing food, drink, and food for these 500,000 captives is not a small amount, not to mention that we have to provide them with clothing, medicine, and wages, which is a bit too much!

Captives are captives, to put it bluntly, they are our slaves, we have to do what we want them to do, we should be grateful if we can spare their lives, how can we be so good to them?

If at the beginning, we were not strong enough, then you would have treated a few captives preferentially, but then we were obviously strong, and no one dared to fight us, so why did we continue to treat the captives preferentially? Even if this preferential treatment does not drag down our logistics, it will certainly make these captives taste bad and feel that we owe them.

Now this is the case, why do they dare to riot? It's not that we thought we were too good to them in the past, and that we were easy to bully, so we dared to make trouble, otherwise, as a captive, how dare we do such a thing?

Therefore, I think Your Majesty should be transformed now, you should not be too nice to them, you should kill some of them, and use a lot of blood to tell them who is the master! Only by making them afraid of us can we really master these people! ”

"That's a good point." Li Yongji nodded, "It seems that you have been holding these thoughts in your heart for a long time." ”

"Yes, it's been a long time, Your Majesty." Sun Xiangbing replied without hesitation.

"Actually, I know what you mean." Li Yongji said, "You just think it's too good for those captives, it's not cost-effective, you don't think you need to be too good to them at all, just be a slave to call them, that's more economical, isn't it?" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Sun Xiangbing clenched his fists, "No matter how rich we are, we can't spend it so much, wouldn't it be better to spend it in China with those money that treats North Americans preferentially?" ”

"You can't look at it that way." Li Yongji sighed, "Why do you think I gave them such good treatment?" Is it just to preach the benevolence of the empire? Then you are wrong, I didn't do it for the sake of face from the beginning, if it was for the sake of face, there are too many ways to give them so many tangible benefits. ”

"Weichen is stupid, please make it clear to Your Majesty."

"The reason is not complicated, it is that I want to absorb these people and become the new subjects of the empire on the side of the North American colonies." Li Yongji said, "Why did I give up the affluent life in China, but I had to come here to lead the troops to fight incognito?" Do you think I'm just joking? That's a big mistake!

As I said at the beginning, North America is a godsend, especially the western part of North America, which is the hope for China's future expansion. It must be firmly in our own hands.

Why is North America the hope of China's future expansion? Quite simply, if you look at the map, the western part of North America is the best colony because it is sparsely populated, has a mild climate, fertile land, abundant resources, and no strong nation or state can stop us.

Although North America is separated from us by the Pacific Ocean, it seems to be thousands of miles away. However, thanks to the advancement of technology, we can communicate with China and North America through radio, and there is no problem in terms of information transmission.

As for transportation, our ships are getting faster and faster, not to mention the future, but now, by ship from Shanghai, China, it takes two months for an ordinary steamship ship to reach San Francisco. This speed is already quite slow, coupled with the huge capacity of the ship, the cost performance of this mode of transportation has surpassed that of land transportation.

Let's put it this way. Now taking a boat from Shanghai to San Francisco in North America, in terms of time, it is similar to taking a land route from Shanghai to Lanzhou, but the price is much cheaper. Because it is far cheaper to transport a ton of supplies from Shanghai to San Francisco than to transport a ton of materials from Shanghai to Lanzhou by land.

Before the construction of the railway from Shanghai to Lanzhou, it was obvious. Shipping is the most cost-effective mode of transportation, and even if the north-south railway is built in the future, our shipping technology will be more advanced at that time.

Not to mention, if the ship is equipped with a new type of power such as an internal combustion engine and a propeller, even if the ship type remains the same, the sailing time from Shanghai to San Francisco can be reduced to one and a half months! If it's better, a month is fine!

Building a railway is not something that can be done overnight, in the current situation, if you want to build a railway from Shanghai to Lanzhou, there is not a year and a half is enough, but if you import a batch of marine engines, improve the power of the ship, and let the ocean-going ships speed up, it will not take long, plus the shipping capacity of the ship, it is actually more cost-effective to take the sea route.

Aside from the traffic problem, then look around our country.

If we want to expand on land, we can only go north, west, or south. If we go north, not only will the land not be suitable for farming, but we will also have to fight with the huge Russia, and in the short term, especially before the construction of the east-west railway, I will not use large-scale troops with Russia.

Looking to the west, although there are not too many powerful countries to obstruct the west, but the road facilities along the way are too poor, and a lot of land is not suitable for farming, before the construction of the western railway, I will not consider the problem of westward expansion, because it is not a problem, how to ensure the supply line is the biggest problem, from a certain point of view, in the short term, I would rather fight with Russia than bother to fight westward.

Finally to the south. It is a little more convenient to go south, because the south is a small country and the climate is warm, which is very conducive to cultivation. But although the small countries of the South are not worth mentioning, most of them are high mountains and dense forests, and they have a tropical climate with a hot climate, which our people may not have been able to tolerate in the past.

Besides, on the southern side of Indochina, there are the forces of the French and the British, and in the short term, I do not want to completely break with them, lest I become a loner.

In addition, there are a lot of aborigines over there, and large-scale immigration will only cause a lot of conflicts in the past, so the small countries in the south are still mainly infiltrating and provoking, first let the British and the French be evildoers, kill the local aborigines, and wait for the two sides to make trouble, and then we will clean up the mess, anyway, it is all meat around us, when to eat it is not to eat.

So you see, although our Chinese empire seems to be powerful, it is subject to restrictions everywhere around it, and before the empire is strong enough to reach a certain point, it is not good to expand too much to the periphery, which will only cause unnecessary trouble.

However, we have too many people in our country, but the land is quite limited, and because of the overpopulation, which leads to natural and man-made disasters, we must free up more space for our people, so that they have more land to cultivate and more resources to exploit.

In this way, the most suitable way to develop the sparsely populated North America and migrate to North America is not only to reduce the population pressure in the country, but also to expand the territory.

But here comes the problem, almost all of the undeveloped barren land in the western part of North America, our people must have faced all kinds of problems in the past, and just one failure to adapt to the water and soil can kill people.

In this way, we might as well let the white people who are more accustomed to the local water and soil develop and work as coolies for us. When they're almost done, our guys will come and take over.

In this way, those white captives can only keep developing, developing, and developing, and work like migrant workers, and the fruits of their construction are received by us one by one, is there anything better than this? ”

"If you're going to let white people work as migrant workers, that's a good way to treat them, right?" Sun Xiangbing said, "The treatment you gave to those white captives will be transmitted back to China." There must be a lot of people rushing over to do it. Even if you don't want the people of the empire to suffer, we still have two vassal states, Korea and Japan, which are quite poor as far as I know, and they will definitely be more attentive to this treatment, and it may be cheaper than that. ”

"Japanese and Koreans, of course I want to use them." Li Yongji smiled, "But I want white people too, because I want the empire." But it's not just the yellow race, it's the white race.

To put it bluntly, my treatment of these white captives so favorably is actually buying horse bones. It is to show that we treat whites favorably and are willing to accept whites!

Just by making this gesture, you can attract white people into our country and help us!

Anyway. One thing that must be admitted is that in the current world, white people are generally stronger than us yellow people. And many of them are not weak in scientific literacy, attracting the best immigrants among the white people into our country can speed up the rise of the empire.

If an empire wants to become a superpower that dominates the world, it must not be cautious, but must be open-minded.

Not to mention anything else, if you have studied history, you should know that the most powerful country in our history, the Tang Empire, has accepted many foreigners, and even used foreigners as officials!

I am the same now, if the Chinese Empire wants to dominate the world, it is not enough to rely on fists alone, but also to have the heart of all rivers!

Only when we are broad-minded and good at accepting the best talents from all over the world can the empire flourish, otherwise, we will not be able to achieve a great climate by ourselves behind closed doors. ”

"I see, Your Majesty." Sun Xiangbing nodded, "Do you want to convert those captives so favorably and turn them into subjects of the empire?" ”

"Yes." Li Yongji nodded, "Although I want to use them, use them to expand our territory and cultivate land for us, but I can't be too harsh, I must give them enough remuneration, so that they feel that it is worth working for me, and they must be willing to use it for me."

Only in this way will more and more good whites join our empire and add bricks and tiles to it.

Especially in North America, at the same price, these whites are actually much more efficient than Koreans and Japanese. ”

"I see." Sun Xiangbing took a deep breath, "Then Your Majesty, do you disagree with Wei Chen's strategy and plan to continue to treat them preferentially?" ”

"Not really." Li Yongji smiled, "I give them preferential treatment, there is a premise, that is, they must be obedient, and if they are not obedient, then they must be punished."

No matter what the circumstances, we must reward and punish clearly, we must always maintain a superficial justice, and we must make them feel that we are reasonable, and we must not kill innocents indiscriminately for no reason, do you know what I mean? ”

"Clear rewards and punishments, superficial justice?" Sun Xiangbing frowned and thought for a while, and suddenly clapped his hands, "I understand, what do you think, Your Majesty?" Do we conduct an investigation with great fanfare, and then arrest a group of people, conduct a so-called public trial, and put a batch of charges on these people for crimes of varying severity, and then impose different punishments according to the charges? ”

"That's a good idea." Li Yongji smiled and nodded, "These white Westerners, especially Americans, just admit death, talk about the law, human rights, or something at every turn, and pay attention to the rule of law." Since they like to play this, we will play with them the rule of law and human rights.

You go back and organize a trial, put the troublemakers at the head, well, preferably the officers, by the way, arrest more officers, put the officers ...... Well, let's just take half of the officers, and grab the same number of soldiers as the officers, and conduct a surprise trial together.

After the trial, I killed two-thirds of the officers and one-fifth of the soldiers, and of course, the charges had to be settled, at least so that outsiders felt fair and felt that we were doing things according to the rules.

Didn't most of them participate in the riots? Isn't it about the rule of law? We will judge one by one, judge one by one! Don't give them a way to play, don't blame the public! Everything is in accordance with our laws and handled strictly and quickly!

In a word, it is necessary to make an example of one to kill a hundred, but it must be done beautifully, and to make them understand that we are not killing innocents indiscriminately, but reasoning and law-talking! The trial process must be courteous, dignified, and solemn, and they must feel that we are very just, and even if we kill them, they must be convinced...... Do you know what I mean? ”

"This ...... Yes, yes, but it seems a bit difficult to do. ”

"Even if it's difficult, it's going to be done." Li Yongji said, "Don't worry, white Americans are different from ours, you just need to be superficially fair, set up a set of so-called temporary regulations for the management of prisoners, and act according to the rules and regulations."

For example, if they run away violently, smash and rob, attack the guards, etc., anyway, they will be charged with some crimes, and then punished according to the three standards of serious, not serious, and slight, so that they will feel that we are reasonable and law-oriented in everything we do, and they will not blame us too much. ”

"It's easy to make up charges." Sun Xiangbing nodded, "However, is it really worth the trouble?" ”

"Definitely worth it!" Li Yongji nodded solemnly.

"Wechen understands!" Sun Xiangbing clenched his fists, "Your Majesty, rest assured, Weichen will definitely handle things properly, guarantee that he can make an example of others, and make outsiders unable to say our mistakes!" (To be continued......)