Last time, when Guo Youzhi came up with the idea of retaining the Eastern Wu soldiers in the Fourth Division, Liu Hou asked him what his plans were, so Guo Youzhi explained:

"This fourth division is a cold weapon unit, as long as you guard against them and don't give them a surprise sneak attack, what kind of chaos can they make? Didn't Zhu Bao ask for war three or four times? His Majesty might as well meet his request and let him take the Fourth Division to the front line to fight the Wei army. When the time comes, let these Eastern Wu soldiers rush to the front. ”

Now Liu Hou completely understood that Guo Youzhi had the idea of letting the Eastern Wu soldiers be cannon fodder, which could not only reduce the casualties of the Shu army, but also consume these lurking Eastern Wu soldiers, which was really an idea to kill two birds with one stone. However, the premise of this idea is that these Eastern Wu soldiers will not fight back on the battlefield.

Without further ado, Liu Hou immediately called someone to call Zhu Bao and instructed him to do something. As soon as Zhu Bao came to Liu Hou's imperial study, he heard that the little emperor intended to let him lead the troops to the battle, or to run in front of all the teams as a striker.

"It's okay for you to be this striker, but you have to agree to my terms. Otherwise, I'll let the vultures do it. ”

"Don't, don't, Your Majesty, you say, no matter what the conditions are, the end will promise you." Zhu Bao was still happy, and when he heard that the little emperor had conditions, he didn't ask what the conditions were, so he agreed without saying a word.

"Okay, okay, let Mr. Guo tell you about the conditions." Liu Hou is still his shopkeeper, of course, these specific arrangements are still explained by Guo Youzhi, wouldn't it be a waste to hire him back as a counselor with a low salary?

So, Guo Youzhi first told Zhu Bao about the conspiracy of the Dongwu people, only to hear Zhu Bao's righteous indignation, and shouted that he wanted to go to the Dongwu people and Sun Quan to settle accounts. Guo Youzhi finally appeased Zhu Bao's almost violent feelings, and then began to lay out a specific plan of action.

What Guo Youzhi asked Zhu Bao to do was actually very simple, but it was also very difficult to say: he needed to go back and immediately pick out the Eastern Wu soldiers who were mixed in the various battalions and let them form a separate force.

This army only gave each of them a spear or a saber as a weapon, and they were only given these weapons before the battle, and they would not be given weapons in camping, marching, or even training in peacetime, and it would be difficult for them to rebel without weapons.

In addition to sabers and spears, the original veterans were also equipped with bows and arrows, thunderbolts, etc., and they needed to guard these Eastern Wu soldiers in shifts day and night, and kill them with thunder as soon as there was any abnormal movement.

Due to the medium and long-range weapons such as bows and thunderbolts, and the fact that they all know the Mandarin Duck Butterfly Formation, it is not difficult to defeat those Eastern Wu soldiers who only have simple weapons and are inferior in numbers.

The difficulty is that they must always be on guard against the backlash and sneak attacks of these Dongwu people. Therefore, Zhu Bao needed to separate the camp of these Dongwu people from the camp of the veterans at a certain distance, and at the same time surround the camp of the Dongwu people in the middle, so as to restrain them and make them dare not move.

Of course, the most important thing is to dispatch a large number of sentinels, always on guard, and not give them the opportunity to sneak attack at night. However, these are not the most difficult, the most difficult thing is how to drive these Eastern Wu soldiers to fight with the Wei army when it comes to officially engaging the Wei army, instead of dealing with the Shu army in turn.

This point even Guo Youzhi felt a headache, and the way he could think of at present was to supervise the battle with a super luxurious supervision team behind, and if there were people who rushed to the side of the Shu army, whether it was the Wei army or the Eastern Wu soldiers, they would all be killed.

Zhu Bao listened to Guo Youzhi's arrangement, and couldn't help but feel that his head was big, his strength was not low, but his intelligence was very mediocre, and this matter involved some exquisite arrangements, which was still a bit difficult for him.

For example, how to use the limited veteran troops to arrange the camp, in order to effectively besiege the Eastern Wu soldiers in the middle, so that they can not break through the siege and escape;

Another example is how to drive the Eastern Wu soldiers to the front line and maintain a moderate degree of tightness for them, not only to maintain a certain amount of pressure, so that these Eastern Wu soldiers can charge hard, but not too tight, so that they lose hope of life, and simply turn around and attack the Shu army. The grasp of these things is already called art, and it is not something that can be done by a big man like him.

"Majesty, majesty, this, this, this is a bit ......" Zhu Bao's face was flushed, and he couldn't speak at Liu Hou, he wanted to say that this thing was too difficult to do, and he couldn't do it himself, but just now he patted his chest and said that he would agree to whatever the conditions, and he would definitely be able to complete the task.

Liu Hou saw what he was thinking, ignored him, and turned his eyes to Guo Youzhi. Guo Youzhi understood what Liu Hou meant, and said, "Your Majesty, why don't you let Weichen go over to help General Zhu deal with these things for the time being?" ”

Liu Hou pondered for a while and said: "No, in addition to the thousands of Dongwu soldiers in the Fourth Division, there are more than 40,000 Dongwu soldiers in the baggage team and the construction corps, these people are the big heads, they are more difficult to deal with, these need to be dealt with by you, let's let others help General Zhu." ”

In the end, they discussed it and decided to let Deng Zhi temporarily serve as the marching staff officer of the Fourth Army to help Zhu Bao deal with this matter, while Guo Youzhi continued to deal with the Eastern Wu soldiers in the baggage brigade and the construction corps.

After Zhu Bao received the order and left, Guo Youzhi continued to introduce to Liu Hou his opinions on the handling of the baggage team and the Wu soldiers in the Middle East of the Construction Corps.

Guo Youzhi built yì, and some of the remaining Eastern Wu soldiers were assigned to various mines to mine. There are all kinds of mines in Shu now, such as coal mines, iron mines, copper mines, sulfur mines, saltpeter mines, lime mines, etc., before Liu Hou drove a large number of captives to mine, in order to supervise the work and prevent these captives from escaping and making trouble, these mining areas have stationed some troops stationed in these mining areas, and formed a set of management system.

Practice has proved that these management systems and garrisons can effectively ensure that these captives obediently mine without causing trouble. Some time ago, the previous captives had been successfully reformed one after another, and they had made enough labor contributions, and according to those management systems, they could already redeem their self-#self-reliance.

Of course, these freedoms are also relative, they will be placed in some no-man's land, given them some fields, and their identities will be transformed into farmers, and they will continue to contribute taxes to the Shu State. Due to the war, large areas of abandoned land were everywhere, and it was almost effortless for the Shu court to resettle these people.

The reason why their freedom # is relative is because these people will be subject to a strict household registration system, and they can only stay in their hometowns and cultivate honestly.

Of course, they could write a letter to someone to send them back to Soochow and ask their families, relatives, and friends to come and join them, and if they did, Shu would even send a local "CIA" to assist their relatives and friends in smuggling them to Shu. After these people come, Shu will also give them land, houses, farm tools, seeds and other means of living and production, and even give preferential policies in terms of taxation.

The Shu State used this method to gradually transform the captives into the good people of the country and the labor force of the country. Now, Guo Youzhi also wants to use the same method to deal with these Eastern Wu soldiers who have mixed in.

In other words, Sun Quan sent these elite soldiers in the Eastern Wu army over, and he directly became a prisoner of Shu, and if he knew this result, he would definitely vomit three liters of blood.

However, there are too many Eastern Wu soldiers who came over this time, and although Shu has opened a lot of mines in recent years, it is estimated that it will not be able to accommodate so many Eastern Wu soldiers. Or some people will say that it is not enough to expand the production capacity of the mine. However, the key is not the problem of production capacity, but the management of these prisoners, who are mining, and a certain number of troops must be stationed in the mines to control them.

Otherwise, once these people start a mess, the consequences will be very severe. And now that Shu and Wei are fighting each other, it is really difficult to free up many troops to manage these captives, so they have to find another way. However, at least these mines have solved more than half of the Eastern Wu soldiers.

The remaining half of the Eastern Wu soldiers Guo Youzhi built two places, and some of them could be sent to Lingnan to engage in the large-scale development of Lingnan. Lingnan here does not refer to the Guangdong region of later generations, but to the places further south than Guangdong, that is, Vietnam, Laos and other regions in later generations. Some of these areas have already been occupied by Fei Yi's army, and some are still under attack.

The climate in these places is hot and the sun is abundant, and the rice can be harvested three times a year, and if it is developed, it will be the big granary of the future, and Liu Hou will definitely not give up. However, it is precisely because of the hot climate that there are so many epidemics and miasma here that it is easy to be poisoned or infected by living here, and the mortality rate is also very alarming.

The local natives are better, after all, they have lived here for generations and have a certain ability to adapt to the environment here, and the people who immigrated from other places are miserable, they have no resistance to tropical diseases, and often they will be infected with all kinds of tropical diseases not long after they go there, and many tropical diseases mean incurable diseases in this era.

Although artemisinin has been tinkered with by Liu Hou in advance, there is already a way to deal with malaria, which can save many people's lives, but there is more than one tropical disease, just one dengue fever makes Liu Hou's scalp tingle when he thinks about it, not to mention that there are all kinds of parasitic diseases, and some miasma that even Liu Hou does not know the principle.

But even though the death rate of immigrants was high in the past, Liu Hou had to move more Han Chinese over. Because it is very difficult to just capture those natives and transform them into Han Chinese, it will take a long time. And if the Han people become a local minority, sooner or later this land will be controlled by these natives.