It is said that Gaoding killed all the way from Lingnan to the southernmost point of the Han territory - Rinan County, and after arriving in Rinan County, Gaoding's army was also unable to continue the southern expedition due to heavy casualties, plus other reasons, had to be temporarily stationed here for rest.

During the southern expedition, he captured more than 200,000 prisoners. At first, Gao Ding, in accordance with the practice of the Hong Army, organized some of them into the baggage brigade, allowing them to transport military rations and military supplies, and the other part formed the production and construction corps.

However, no mineral deposits were found in this vicinity, and he did not have many prospecting experts like Liu Hou in his hands, so he could not find mineral deposits nearby for these captives to mine. If you want to develop the planting industry, you also need to have officials who understand agriculture to preside over this work, but Gaoding is an army, and the most lacking is civil affairs officials.

Therefore, Gao Ding didn't know how to arrange these 200,000 prisoners, but fortunately, he got a reminder from his staff later, and Pan Ran woke up to the fact that there is not much in this southern barbarian land of Jiaozhou, but there are many mountains and forests. What are the mountains and forests? Lots of flowers and trees!

Among these undeveloped primeval forests, there are many tall trees, which are good materials for building palaces and mansions. In particular, there are some valuable tree species such as huanghuali, golden silk nan, and sour branches.

These precious tree species are very popular in the Central Plains, and the price is also high. He immediately organized the captives to cut down all kinds of valuable trees, and then found a way to transport them back to the Central Plains to sell.

It's a pity that he still responded to that sentence: the good times didn't last long, and later Xu Jing vigorously developed plantations to grow grain when he arrived in Rinan County, and due to the lack of manpower, Fei Yi transferred these prisoners, that is, the Production and Construction Corps, to the plantations established by Xu Jing.

With so many captives, Xu Jing was able to establish a large number of plantations in more than a year, planting rice three crops a year on a large scale, and supplying the country with a huge amount of grain.

In this regard, Gao Ding, who tasted the sweetness, was very unwilling, after all, the wealth that 200,000 captives could create was amazing, although most of these wealth still had to be handed over to the public, but after passing through his hands, a little bit could leak down, even a little soup and water, he could make a lot of money.

But now that everyone is going to Xu Jing, he can't get anything, so he really wants to get people back to continue logging. So, he wrote to Fei Yi and told him the benefits of logging, hoping that he would return some of the captives to him to continue the logging business.

However, Fei Yi was a sensible person, of course he knew which was more important between grain and timber, and besides, Liu Hou asked him to guard Lingnan, and one of the important tasks assigned to him was to ask him to raise food for the Hong army.

Liu Hou took a fancy to the hot climate and high grain yield in Lingnan and Jiaozhou, so he took great pains to capture this place, and left his right-hand man Fei Yi to pass here. Otherwise, the Shu army has been using troops for many years, and there is so much military food available?

Although Gao Ding is not stupid, he lacks this kind of strategic vision, and he cannot see that this seemingly simple problem of prisoner placement involves such a high-level thing.

It doesn't matter if Gao Ding can't see clearly, Fei Yi, the "talker" in Lingnan and Jiaozhou, can see it clearly, Fei Yi rejected Gao Ding's request in one bite, and strictly ordered him not to interfere with Xu Jing's tuntian work, otherwise he will be severely punished.

Of course, Fei Yi can sit in this position, of course, he is also a thoughtful person, he knows Gao Ding's mind very clearly, he knows that this matter involves a conflict of interests, and it cannot be suppressed by power alone, otherwise it is easy to have problems after a long time.

So, as soon as he gave Gao Ding a big stick, he immediately gave another sweet date, and he told Gao Ding that the existing more than 200,000 captives could only be used in Tuntian, and he was not allowed to move his mind, but he could be allowed to continue to send troops to attack the surrounding barbarian tribes.

Fei Yi promised that in the future, half of the Yi people he captured would only need to be handed over for use in the tuntian fields in various places, and the rest would be left to him to dispose of. This is equivalent to giving him a license to catch and trade slaves.

Catching slaves and selling slaves is a crime in later generations, and people in civilized society feel full of blood and barbarism when they hear it, but in the Three Kingdoms era, this is simply a sunrise industry, a profitable business, and the high-tech industry in later generations, it is an industry where money comes easily and quickly.

Of course, this is not an industry that everyone can do, otherwise, everyone will become a millionaire. If you want to engage in this industry, you must meet two basic conditions, one is that you must have your hands and eyes to the sky, and you must have the permission of the government, otherwise, you will soon be banned.

Especially in a society dominated by Confucianism, this kind of thing that obviously violates social justice will definitely be criticized by the world and attacked by the children of Confucianism. If this matter is no longer supported by the government, then the person who did it will not be far from death.

And like Gao Ding, it is different to get official permission to do this, at least there is no need to worry about being caught by the government. It's not that with official support, this matter becomes a just thing, but with official support, it is easy to find high-sounding excuses when doing this.

For example, Gao Ding, who received Fei Yi's permission, continued to conquer the surrounding tribes under the pretext of "crusading against the unsubordinate". His theoretical basis was that the state of Linyi was originally a subject state of the Han Dynasty, and it should have been respectful to the Han Dynasty.

However, this subject country now openly encroached on the land of the suzerain, killed the people of the suzerain, and even more, after the arrival of the heavenly army, instead of welcoming the heavenly army, they dared to confront the heavenly army, which are all crimes that cannot be forgiven.

With these charges, Gao Ding stood on the moral high ground when he launched the war, and he was able to attack the various barbarian tribes, kill the rebels, and capture the rest. In this case, the identity of the captive is no longer that of a slave, but of a captive.

As for how to deal with captured prisoners, it is all a military need, and it has nothing to do with morality, let alone a crime.

Captives have always had no human rights, and the worst outcome is to be killed, which is also okay, the generals who have always killed prisoners do not know how many, as long as they don't kill hundreds of thousands of people like Bai Qi, they won't be criticized too much.

As for letting the captives go farming, this can be regarded as a merciful act, after all, giving those captives a way to live. Therefore, with Fei Yi's support, it has become legal, reasonable and reasonable for Haute Couture to do this.

The second condition is that you must be backed by strong force, otherwise, you don't know whether you will catch slaves or be captured. Especially the barbarians in this place, generally fierce and aggressive, there are many unruly people, they will fight you to the death if they are offended, and if you want to conquer them, you must show super force to be able to deter them.

And Gao Ding's heavy army is precisely this condition, so after Gao Ding got Fei Yi's permission, he shouted happily, because he now has both conditions, and he can do a big job and make a big profit.