Not to mention the battlefields of Indochina, in addition to devoting himself to cutting down trees, Gao Ding's greatest pleasure is to capture the local natives. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Info At first, he captured the local natives in order to use them as laborers to clear wasteland and cut down trees for himself.

Later, after listening to the practices of the other two battlefields, I patted my head and secretly scolded myself for being stupid, I didn't expect such a good practice. As a result, he also began to follow the example of the other two battlefields to form an army of servants composed of local natives.

From then on, the Han army in his direction had very few soldiers due to the battle, but all kinds of tropical diseases tortured them to death.

On the whole, these three wars did not consume many young and middle-aged laborers, on the contrary, they brought back a large number of prisoners. These captives were filled with mines, road construction teams, water conservancy construction teams, construction corps, etc., all doing the most tiring and hard work, but they only had enough food to eat, and there was no salary and no welfare.

These captives greatly improved the situation of labor shortage in the country. Usually, the life of a Han soldier can be exchanged for dozens or hundreds of captives, and the work done by these captives is equivalent to several Han laborers, and the living materials consumed are only a fraction of the Han labor, such an exchange ratio is the best for the evil capitalists.

Of course, if you start from the emotional point of view, it is naturally impossible to calculate it like this, no matter who wants to exchange their relatives for benefits, even if this benefit is huge, the benefits are countless times greater than paying. However, from the perspective of the state, it must be rational, and the calculation of the interests of these red fruits is put in the first place.

For Liu Hou's explanation, those Confucian ministers still couldn't accept it, saying that the emperor was clever and sophistry, of course, they didn't say these few unkind words, but that's what it meant.

Liu Hou also told them that without investigation, they would have no right to speak, and let them go to the private sector to investigate and see what the actual situation was. As a result, these Confucian ministers went out of the palace to the people, to the army, and to some relevant official offices to inspect the people's livelihood, economy and other aspects.

Soon, these Confucian ministers came back one after another to report back, and one of the Confucian ministers said that the market was prosperous, and sure enough, they saw a lot of goods from the north, the west, and the south were being sold, and these goods were very popular with the people, and the people rushed to buy them.

In addition, he went to the homes of ordinary people, and found that the quality of life of the people who used these products was greatly improved. For example, a large amount of beef and mutton imported into the Central Plains has caused the price of meat on the market to plummet.

Dairy products improved the nutrition of the Han people, and wool products made the Han people have better warm clothes and bedding in winter. Unfortunately, dairy and wool products were still too expensive, and only those above the average level could afford to eat and use them, so he even suggested that the emperor should increase the intensity of sending troops to the grasslands, so that more people could use dairy products and woolen fabrics.

This Confucian minister turned from a staunch anti-war man into a fanatical fascist. Another Confucian visited the countryside and reported two changes: First, there was no longer a shortage of ploughing cattle in the countryside, and a large number of grassland cattle were imported, which alleviated this problem that had plagued the Central Plains Dynasty for a long time.

Of course, grassland cattle are far less useful for plowing fields than buffaloes and cattle, and they need to be slowly adjusted ~ teaching, but this is not important, it is better to have cattle than no cattle, even grassland cows are much more efficient than using manpower to pull the plow.

The second change he reported was that there was now very little conscription in various localities. Even if there were some places where conscription was occasionally levied, it was not as extensive as before, and the conscripted conscripts did not have to do the hard, tiring, and highly fatal work.

The reason is very simple, now those hard labors such as building bridges and paving roads, building water conservancy, mining, digging mausoleums, etc., are almost all arranged by the barbarian captives captured on the three battlefields, and now there is basically nothing to do with the Han people.

Liu Hou had long known this, because he had ordered them. In addition to being conscripted into the army or rushing into the baggage brigade, many of the soldiers captured from Wei and Wu in the early stage were incorporated into the construction corps to engage in hard labor such as planting, mining, and road repair. Later, as the number of foreign captives gradually increased, Liu Hou successively ordered the disbandment of various construction corps and the repatriation of these Han captives to their hometowns.

In particular, the three kingdoms have finally been unified, and the soil for turmoil in the world basically no longer exists. The snake can't be headless, except for the little emperor of Dongwu who ran away, the rest of the royal families have been killed, imprisoned, and no one is leading, even if the soldiers of the two countries are put back, there is no need to be afraid of them rebelling again.

As a result, the construction corps composed of Han captives in various places were gradually disbanded, and the work they originally undertook was transferred to the barbarian captives, which greatly reduced the burden on the domestic people.

Of course, from a humanitarian point of view, the fate of these barbarian captives was tragic. However, whether it is Liu Hou or the ministers of the court, and even those Confucian ministers who are full of benevolence and morality, they almost turn a blind eye to this, and it seems that the phrase "equality of all beings" does not apply here.

There was also a Confucian minister who investigated the army and the quartermaster department, and learned that due to the large amount of grassland leather imported, the army now has a sufficient supply of leather armor, and no one in the current Han army wears paper armor or even does not wear armor to go into battle, it is all a water leather armor, which greatly enhances the protection of the soldiers, which is equivalent to increasing their chances of survival on the battlefield.

In addition, he found that due to the large import of materials such as tendons and lacquer, there were also sufficient raw materials for making bows and arrows. He praised the emperor's move to send troops to the steppe as a move to strengthen the army. However, his words were greatly despised by Liu Hou in his heart, and now almost all the Han army uses hot weapons, and the reason why the military factory is still producing bows and arrows is basically for those servant armies.

However, this Confucian minister cannot be blamed, the level of secrecy of the firearms production factory is very high, and this Confucian minister cannot investigate in depth at all, but can only investigate the cold weapons processing industry.

Another Confucian went to Dasi Nong (equivalent to the Ministry of Finance and the General Administration of Taxation) to investigate the treasury, and found that the treasury was full and had not been wasted by the three wars.

At this point, those anti-war Confucian ministers had nothing to say, and the facts were in front of them, and they couldn't help but believe it, and they changed their attitudes one after another, no longer opposing foreign wars, and some even became active in the main war, such as the Confucian minister mentioned above who investigated the people's livelihood.

Liu Hou finally calmed down and began to govern the country with peace of mind, but he soon found that governing the country was really not an easy task. There are endless criticisms every day, and there are endless ministers every day, which makes him annoyed.