Chapter 606: Prisoner Camp
Three days later, Ren Baqian took people out of the city to the prisoner camp to take a look, but the situation at the scene made him frown.
Dirty, chaotic, and dead.
Nearly 100,000 people were held in three camps, each with more than 30,000 people, sleeping directly on the ground. I don't know where the arrangements made by Tong Zhenye in the previous paragraph have been arranged, and the three prisoner camps have nothing else except for a fence around them.
Everyone in the camp was dirty, they couldn't see their faces clearly, as if they were rolling out of the mud, and they didn't know how long it had been since they had taken a bath.
I guess they probably haven't washed since they were captured.
On the occasional raised face, you can still see that the eyes are full of fear.
"That's how you arranged these people?" Ren Baqian frowned, he saw everyone curled up in a pile, completely disorganized, and the most excessive thing was that he actually saw two women in a pile of people.
Two women and a bunch of men huddled together, you can imagine how bad it will be.
And drowning everywhere, and from the time he entered the camp he could smell the lingering stench, which was so entangled with the rancid smell of the captives that one could almost faint.
A large number of flies flew around the camp, annoying people.
But many of those captives didn't bother to drive them away, even if they were hit by worms.
"My lord, what's the problem?" Accompanying Ren Baqian was a lieutenant with several lieutenants, all of whom were transferred from the Central Metropolitan Protectorate as the backbone of this auxiliary army. They were surprised when they heard Ren Baqian's words, and looked at these people, they were very honest, and all the troublemakers were killed.
"Do you know what these people are going to do with it?" Ren Baqian asked rhetorically.
"I don't know, sir. The lieutenant replied very sincerely.
"We need them to build roads, bridges, cities, mines, there's a lot of things we need them to do. If you want them to do these things, you must first let them live, and live well, and only living people can do things.
You have worked hard to escort them here from the Cloud Country, not so that they can bury their bodies in the soil and turn them into fertilizer when they die. ”
"Oh, I really thought it was going to be buried! Anyway, the crops in the field where the corpses were buried grew exceptionally well!"
"They're dead, I'll take you to the mines and build roads?" Ren Baqian really wanted someone to dig a pit and bury him.
"My lord, what should I do then?" the lieutenant scratched his head and looked at the profits, although it was a little dirty, but it was still quite stable, and these people couldn't die if they stuttered.
"Let's keep looking!" Ren Baqian said with a straight face, and continued to walk around the prisoner camp, and then found more problems.
There are many people with wounds on their bodies, lying there moaning, but there is no one to take care of, and there is no doctor to treat them, many people's wounds are rotten and smelly, and those who are still alive are already considered fateful, and it is estimated that there are many such wounded among those who died along the way.
And many of the injuries on these people were caused along the way.
How it was caused, I don't know.
During this period, I saw them eating once, and the food was unexpectedly good, it was broth, which was full of fragrant fatty meat and goods. When the meal was served, it was another chaos, with pushing, trampling, and even brawls to be seen.
The militiamen didn't seem to be surprised, but when the trouble was at its worst, they went in with sticks and smashed the heads of a dozen people, and broke the hands and feet of two people, so that the captives were honest, and the others didn't pay attention to it at all.
After a cursory tour of the three prisoner camps, Ren Baqian first gave an order for everyone to take a bath and build some public toilets. Then he frowned and returned to the palace, and began to write hard.
The situation in the camps had to be improved, these people could not be left to lie on the ground, and simple shelters had to be built to improve their living conditions.
Otherwise, not to mention the dew every morning and evening, as long as it rains heavily, you will fall ill a lot, and if you are weak and cannot be treated in time, then you have to depend on your life.
Then equip some general physicians and apprentices, at least so that they will not die from minor ailments that can be cured by a few herbs.
The most important thing is the system, and the system of these prisoner camps must be established first.
There are no rules, there is no circle, and when there are rules, there is order. With order, these captives can survive under order.
The first one, Ren Baqian wrote the formation, and organized these prisoners into ten brigades, each with 10,000 people.
Each brigade was divided into ten squadrons of 1,000 men each. Further down are the squads, 100 people each. Further down are the groups, each with 10 people.
At the same time, a person was selected as a team leader among the captives to manage the group, with the ancient militia as the team leader, and the person with high prestige among the captives as the deputy leader to assist in the management.
All subsequent actions of these captives were carried out on a small group basis, whether it was work or residence.
At the same time, there must be no mixing of men and women in the group, even if it is the same family, it must be separated.
The most important thing is to implement the joint sitting system.
If one person in the group runs away, the whole group sits together, if one group runs, the whole group sits together, and so on.
At the same time, if someone in the group causes trouble, everyone in the group is punished. If any group fails to do its work, the whole group will be punished as well.
Next, Ren Baqian wrote dozens of rules in a free way, writing everything he saw and could think of in it.
It covers all aspects from going to work in the morning, eating, finishing work, going to bed, hygiene, daily rules of conduct, and all aspects. With these systems in place, the captive camp should be able to look something good.
As for what problems are found in the future, you can add them to it.
However, there is another very important one that he noted on another piece of paper, that is, as a modern person, he is not very accustomed to using some people as slaves forever, and he also understands that people need a certain amount of hope to live. Learn more about what a little bit of hope means for these captives.
They will struggle to grasp the light the size of a firefly in the darkness.
They need to give them hope, and they will move towards that bit of hope and hold on to it.
And this hope for them is simple, to give them freedom after a certain number of years. As long as they can live to that time, they will be able to live in this world like normal people and reunite with their families.
For this goal, these people will try to survive, and at the same time, there will be a lot of instability.
Otherwise, if there is no hope, these people will either be full of thoughts about how to escape, or they will be like walking corpses, and such work efficiency can be imagined.
There is a complete difference between doing something with hope and living day by day to do things.
Because although road construction is not a very detailed project, it is not easy to do. In particular, in many places, you have to cross mountains and rivers.
If there is any problem during this period, if there is not the slightest hope, these people will definitely not say it, because it has nothing to do with them.
However, if they can have a little bit of subjective initiative, and then have a certain reward and punishment system, they will take the initiative to point out the problems that arise.
The efficiency of these two can be imagined with your toes.