Chapter 21: Death Row Camps

And on the day after Pang De left, Juyongguan also ushered in a caravan, and the dozens of people who came with the caravan made Ma Heng overjoyed. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

These dozens of people are all old officials sent by Ma Heng to ask Ma Ben to send them, and the leader is a clan elder who has lived in seclusion for many years and has been cultivated by a great martial artist.

Don't look at Juyongguan, which is nominally under the jurisdiction of Ma Heng, but in fact it is very chaotic.

There are more than 60,000 soldiers, and there are only more than 10,000 people who can completely obey Ma Heng's orders, of which most of the 10,000 cavalry headquarters are the original Dong Zhuojun soldiers, but nearly half of them are awakened veterans. The combat power is the highest, and the treatment is also the best. As long as Ma Heng can guarantee the supply of military salaries, there is still a certain guarantee of loyalty, at least until Dong Zhuojun fights back.

As for the remaining 50,000 auxiliary soldiers, they have their own factions, Xiliang Haoqiang, the leader is Song Fei, who is the younger brother of Song Yang, who recuperated in Juyongguan due to injury, and did not want to go to the battlefield to the front line after the injury, so he commanded 10,000 auxiliary troops, and the Qiang people formed their own faction, the leader was Zhamu, led the auxiliary army of 20,000, and the other 20,000 people did not have a faction, and the composition was also the most mixed.

Of course, the army is accustomed to grouping, and naturally obeys Ma Heng's orders on weekdays, but every time military supplies are transported to the front line, various factions will fight for the mission of this transportation. There is a quota for the loss on the road, and at least half of it can be left into your own pocket.

Ma Heng didn't care, anyway, whoever won the battle sent whom, but only let his headquarters firmly guard the materials in the barracks. The original officials who had no time to escape from Juyong Pass continued to stay in office, plus the army was stationed, and the black-clothed guards also sent people to station, under the mutual supervision of the three parties, Ma Heng must also personally check once a month, and the materials in the barracks will not be less, and they are firmly in Ma Heng's hands. Gao Shun was sent by Ma Heng to lead the trap camp and 3,000 pounds to hunt in the wilderness.

The affairs of the army are left alone, and everything is premised on stability.

There were tens of thousands of residents in Juyongguan, plus tens of thousands of old and weak people left behind by the rebel army, and then there were tens of thousands of families in each rebel army. It also includes the relatives of the leaders and generals of the alliances.

In particular, the high-level relatives of the rebel army enclosed the land and occupied the mansion under the leadership of Han Dian.

Let's put it this way, although Juyong Pass is large, the military camp accounts for half of it, and the treasury Yamen Assassin Mansion occupies a small half, and the remaining land is already tight, and there are large areas of ruins. It's just been cleaned up. Most of the remaining intact mansions have been occupied by the rebels' relatives. Especially those high-ranking generals of Dong Zhuojun, those mansions covering a vast area were even more distributed, Bian Zhang, Han Sui, Ma Teng, Beigong Boyu, etc., everyone had a share, of course, they were all living in their own relatives, and the remaining more than 100,000 civilians who had left home could only live in a small refugee camp.

Ma Heng has been watching from the sidelines. One is that the doppelganger lacks skills, and the other is that there are not enough people, so they also have the intention to observe silently first.

"At present, Juyongguan has at least 300,000 people, including more than 100,000 homeless people in the refugee camps. Concrete statistics simply cannot be carried out..."

After a black-clothed guard who looked like a scribe finished introducing him, Ma Heng pointed to the map of Juyong Pass that was spread out, "I am going to divide a piece from the military camp and use it as a refugee camp." Let the people have a place to live first, and then post recruitment, and give me all the skills to do things, and give me all the work relief, and the army of hundreds of thousands of people can't be kept all the time. I can't afford to raise it, and then you can plan a trade shop for me. You take over all the work of the Blackguard. Each performs its own duties, and after that, the black guards are not in charge of specific administrative work....."

Talking to everyone.

In the end, there was only one person left in the house, the caravan shopkeeper, Ma Xiaoer, the son of Ma Da.

"For trade with the Qin Dynasty, you have to be responsible for reopening it for me. Ma Heng waved his hand and motioned for Ma Xiaoer to listen to himself first, "Don't worry, Dong Zhuo's subordinates who have been arrested happen to have people who have participated in the caravan, and all these people can be transferred to you, this is not difficult, but the difficult thing is later." You can't make such a small fuss anymore, if you can do it in the future, you will be responsible, and if you can't do it, I will change people!"

The Qin Dynasty and the Han Dynasty officially strictly forbade trade, of course, the official ban will always be the official ban, and the matter of secretly smuggling in private will naturally always exist, and of course they dare not be too blatant. And when it came to the rebel army, the Han Dynasty naturally couldn't control it.

Juyong Pass, even if you count the entire Dunhuang County, you can't rely on your own self-sufficiency, let alone raise hundreds of thousands of troops, even if you only feed tens of thousands of troops in Juyong Pass, you can't survive, you can only rely on trade. The horses and ores in Xiliang and even all kinds of materials in the Central Plains were all needed by the Qin Dynasty. And the grain, cloth, salt, and even all kinds of the Qin Dynasty are necessary for Xiliang.

Early in the morning of the second day, Ma Heng came to the death row camp with dozens of guards and Ma Xiaoer and others, after the riot in the death row camp, only more than 1,000 people survived in the end, and most of these 1,000 people took the initiative to return to the death row camp. Of the 3,000 condemned prisoners, most of whom were strong in battle, were killed in battle, and those who did not die were recruited into the army by the rebels. There are more than 1,000 old and weak people left who no one cares about, and hundreds of captured Dong Zhuojun are also imprisoned here.

As soon as he entered the death camp, a stench mixed with rotting corpse feces and all kinds of stench hit, and Ma Heng hurriedly held his breath. There was nothing unusual on the face, and under the urging of the guards, more than a thousand unkempt and lifeless death row prisoners came from the barracks to the center of the camp.

"General, all the movable ones have been brought out. Then the sergeant commander who nodded hurriedly handed a camp book to Ma Heng.

The sergeant commander was Dong Zhuojun's non-commissioned officer in charge of guarding the death row camp before, and he was lucky not to die in the riot, he was still clever and lucky, and his position was definitely not high, and he didn't offend the death row prisoner very much. Otherwise, he would have been found and killed by the rioting death row inmates.

The camp register was reorganized by Ma Heng on the basis of the original roster, after all, most of the people on the original roster had died.

After flipping through the camp book for a while, Ma Heng named a few people, that is, people who Dong Zhuojun had been in contact with smuggling matters, and the sergeant commander hurriedly asked people to drag these people out.

looked at the death row inmates who were silent and numb, and the people who were dragged out were even more dead.

Ma Heng frowned slightly, "These people are used as Ben General's recruitment, because they are useful to Ben General, among you, if you want to live, you might as well tell Ben General, what is your use, Ben Jiang can guarantee that as long as you are useful to me, at least you will not die earlier than your comrades who were recruited to the front line." Even rich for a lifetime!"

The death row camp was still silent, except for a few people who were slightly intended, and among the people captured by Dong Zhuojun, many people hurriedly shouted, they are useful, they can....

Ma Heng waved his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, and under the sticks of the guards, the camp was silent.

"After three days, Ben will come again, and in these three days each of you will write what you can write, and if you can't write, you will dictate it for someone else to write on your behalf, as long as what you write will be useful, Ben will keep you out alive, and you will have a lot to take every month. ”

"General, I am useful, and I also know about the smuggling of the Qin Dynasty. Suddenly, a voice came from among the death row inmates.

Ma Heng paused, looking at the shouting person with interest in his eyes.

Let the soldier take him to the stage, a middle-aged man who is as thin as wood. The face is filthy, and the specific face cannot be seen clearly.

"How do you know that I am interested in smuggling the Qin Dynasty. ”

The middle-aged man arched his hand and said, "You can see from the people taken away by the general." ”

"What's your name?"

"The roster is written in Huangshi, but generally everyone calls me Huang Fat, the general should not be ashamed of the small one, the small one was a big fat man of one or three hundred pounds before he came in. Speaking of this, a glimmer of light flashed in the middle-aged man's eyes.

Ma Heng quickly recalled the camp book he had read before, Huangshi, who was sent to Juyong Pass ten years ago for the crime of injustice, that is, killing innocents.

"The sin committed by the little one was only imposed by offending a nobleman, and the little one was originally from the Runan clan, and the family had been in business since childhood, and was framed for lending to the noble usury, and the noble could not repay it..... The little one doesn't know anything about smuggling to the Qin State, but the little one is proficient in the way of businessmen, and he will definitely be useful to the general!"

It is not a small courage to lend to the noble usury, but the power of the usury merchants in the Han Dynasty is not small, and the crime of injustice must be punished by beheading, rather than being distributed to Juyongguan, which may not be as simple as he said.

Ma Heng smiled slightly, but he was not angry that Huang Shi deceived him, but asked people to bring him with him. He left the death row. And three days later, Ma Heng also arrived as promised, don't underestimate the death row camp, it is really a place where dragons and tigers are hidden. Two or three hundred people were requisitioned by Ma Heng. Most of them joined the Blackguard, temporarily becoming supernumeraries of the Blackguard. And the rest of the people, who really committed the most heinous crimes, were simply put to death, and they were miserable to live, and those who were not guilty of great crimes were given a month's rations. Crimes can be big or small, such as adultery and incest, of course, it is Ma Heng who thinks that it can be big or small, in the Han Dynasty this is a serious crime, and most of the people captured by Dong Zhuojun are some slaves of Dong Zhuojun's generals and the like and are imprisoned in the Yamen cell, all of them are forced to work for five years, and they can be released after the sentence. As for the death row camp, it was simply canceled by Ma Heng.