"I said......" Zheng Shicheng spoke, and when he saw Liang Cheng's movements, he immediately changed his words, "It's okay, let's go back first." ”

After speaking, he made a gesture, Liang Cheng understood, and took the lead in taking the vanguard away.

The rest of the cleaning of the battlefield will naturally be dealt with, Liang Cheng is now in a hurry to go back and count the number of people, I don't know how many jobs Sheng Ze has caught, what if it doesn't go well?

Coincidentally, when Liang Cheng returned to the barracks, Sheng Ze also returned with the new barracks.

"How? Can the plan still be successful? Liang Cheng glanced at the gray-faced, dust-covered recruit battalion soldiers, and his heart was a little drumming.

Sheng Ze hooked his lips, "It's going well, the foreigners captured alive should be between twelve and one hundred and fifty thousand." ”

In fact, only about 30,000 people were actually tied up by the recruit camp, and the rest surrendered voluntarily after seeing that they were not killers.

But although these people surrendered voluntarily, Sheng Ze did not relax his supervision of them, and the new barracks sent 10,000 troops to escort these people to the place where the prisoners were held.

And the things that check and balance these people are soft tendons that have been prepared before, and each team responsible for supervision has enough medicine in their hands to control these people.

"That's it?" Liang Cheng was stunned.

Because they didn't want to kill people on the battlefield, they did release water, and this time they didn't even use the thing called artillery developed by Qin Lao, but they didn't expect to kill tens of thousands of people.

Sheng Ze looked at him with a smile, "It's already a lot." ”

The number of people they have returned from Qishan has only reached more than 20,000 now, and now they have brought in more than 100,000 laborers overnight, which is simply not too efficient.

"It's a pity, I thought there would be about 170,000." Liang Cheng said regretfully.

The population gap in Ezhou is so big, he was worried before, so when Sheng Ze proposed to leave this group of people to build Ezhou, he immediately agreed.

Not to mention anything else, these people don't even need to spend a penny of silver in the early stage, except for the consumption of rations, it is simply free labor, and whoever doesn't want it is a big fool.

After listening to Sheng Ze talk about his plans for these people, Liang Chengcheng was even more moved.

As long as these people can recognize Ezhou and the Northern Hubei Army, then ten or twenty years later, the entire Northern Hubei may be able to sweep any state capital in the Great Jin Dynasty.

In addition, Sheng Ze also said Shen Qingqian's words, you can select capable people from these people, and vigorously develop the technology of northern Hubei Province, not to mention Liang Cheng, Zheng Shicheng can't recognize the applause.

Population and talent have always been the number one priority in the development of a country or region, and now the environment outside is harsh, but if Ezhou can bear so many people, if anyone is unwilling, it is really stupid.

Regarding the issue of water sources, Sheng Ze also reassured the two, but he did not refresh the spring, but revealed that there is a magic weapon left by the ancestor of Xuanji Mountain on Chengjin Mountain, as long as the magic weapon is there, Ezhou will never be short of water.

At that time, Zheng Shicheng was still emotional, "God really helped me in northern Hubei!" ”

First, there were high-yield sweet potatoes, and later the drought had the help of the masters of Xuanji Mountain, as long as they were not mediocre and incompetent, whoever took over this game of chess would not lose.

Obviously, Sheng Ze is not a mediocre and incompetent person, on the contrary, he is very thoughtful, and he is not suspicious of employing people, and he is not a person who loves to monopolize power.

Zheng Shicheng was very glad that he decided to go with Sheng Ze at the beginning, it had come to this point, Sheng Ze did not take back the military power from Liang Cheng, but tried his best to help the Northern Hubei Army save money and stock up on grain.

The next day the number of prisoners was counted, and there were 138,962 in all.