Chapter 66: Crime people and guard the border to take stock of their own


    Chapter 65: Inventing your wealth by slandering the border


    After hearing Zhao Yun''s request, Qin Wen pondered for a moment and immediately agreed: "Zilong is so kind-hearted, so how can he not agree as a lord? Qin Hu and Xu Huang are about to lead three thousand cavalry into Yanmen Pass to rescue him. Zilong, please accompany you together!"


    "Thank you!" Zhao Yunxi said.


    Qin Wen nodded when he saw this. Zhao Yun''s words just now reminded him of another important thing, so he turned to Xi Zhicai and said:


    "Military advisor, Zilong is right. Most of the Yellow Turban Army are just people who cannot survive. They are deceived by the Taiping Cult to join the rebels. In my opinion, the strategy of treating the Yellow Turban Army should be changed. If you can surrender, it is better not to kill too much."


    When Xi Zhicai heard this, he thought he knew that his lord''s heart was ill again, so he smiled bitterly and advised, "Lord, if you do this, the court may not be able to explain the situation!"


    Xi Zhicai naturally did not oppose the surrender of the Yellow Turbans. Yanmen was vast and sparsely populated. Xi Zhicai also hoped to use Yellow Turban prisoners to fill the Yanmen population. However, the court clearly ordered those who entered the Yellow Turbans to die, and the food and grass needed to surrender the Yellow Turbans was a small burden for the current Yanmen Trapped!


    "No problem, I believe the court will understand the difficulties of our Yanmen Army!" Qin Wen''s eyes flashed with a strange look and said with some playfulness.


    “Lord is benevolent and righteous!”


    The reason why Qin Wen wanted to surrender the Yellow Turban was not that he was really soft-hearted. When he forced his third brother Qin Gong to death four years ago, Qin Wen''s heart was frozen. Only when facing his close relatives could he show such a hint of tenderness. Everything he did had only one purpose, that is, to restore Qin.


    The reason why these Yellow Turbans were to surrender was just to implement a strategy that had been discussed with Qin Hao. The name of this strategy was: Sin People''s Frontier Defense.


    Among the nine strategies proposed by Qin Hao to Qin Wen four years ago, one of the plans was to use Bingzhou as the base. When the world was in chaos, whether to attack Hebei east or take Guanzhong west, it depends on the specific situation.


    At first glance, this strategy was fine. After all, Bingzhou was the easiest and only possible territory for the Qin family at that time.


    No matter how poor Bingzhou is, it has a population of one million. It is indeed enough to raise 100,000 soldiers as the initial capital.


    But Qin Hao ignored one thing, that is, the four sides of Bingzhou. Whether it is Yongzhou Sizhou, Jizhou, Yanzhou or Youzhou, whether it is wealth or population, it is much more than Bingzhou, and its war potential is far beyond that of Bingzhou.


    The Qin family can indeed train 100,000 elite troops, but if other prefectures and counties start to mobilize, it will be no difficulty to recruit more than 100,000 troops to defend the city.


    It’s okay to be in the field. After all, the Yanmen Army is elite, but what if the enemy cannot defend it?


    Do you want the Yanmen Army to waste its limited troops on siege?


    After all, Bingzhou''s current war potential is too poor. Although it has a very good geographical location and is easy to defend but difficult to attack, it has a insufficient population, which has resulted in an embarrassing situation of insufficient self-restraint.


    At this time, Bingzhou was not Bingzhou at the end of the Sui Dynasty. It was too difficult to take Li Yuan’s route and take Bingzhou as the foundation to capture the world. The only way to achieve it is, that is, you must win every battle in the future.


    Qin Hao cannot hope that he will win every battle in the future. In order to increase the war potential of Bingzhou, there is only one way, that is, increase the population.


    However, the speed of absorbing refugees to expand the population was too slow, so Qin Hao later came up with a faster method, which was the strategy of "sinning the people to defend the border".


    What is the crime of the people guarding the border?


    It is very simple, it is to exil all the guilty people to Bingzhou for labor. Although the people who are nominally guilty and work hard, it is actually a way to increase the population of Bingzhou in a tactful way!


    This plan has not been implemented before because Qin Wen has been waiting for an opportunity to rapidly increase the population, that is, the Yellow Turban Rebellion.


    Although the court clearly ordered the rebels to die, the Yellow Turbans now involve nearly tens of millions of people, and tens of millions of people are impossible to kill them all, right? So if the Yellow Turbans are finally pacified, they will definitely massacre a small part and pardon a large part. No matter how small this small part is, there are probably two or three million people. If so many people can be absorbed by Bingzhou, then the potential for war in Bingzhou will definitely double, and Bingzhou will no longer have to worry about the population!


    But how do you get these people?


    The best reason is to guard the border with the people of sin!


    Who made Bingzhou poor?


    Who made Bingzhou have a small population?


    Who made the Xiongnu in Bingzhou rampant?


    Who made the Yellow Turban rebels too many and there was no place to settle them!


    This is also the biggest reason why Qin Wen has been constantly expressing his loyalty to the Han Dynasty over the years and has been pleased with Liu Hong, because if Qin Wen was not loyal and reliable enough, how could the Han Dynasty willingly hand over Bingzhou to the Qin family? How could he help the Qin family come to Bingzhou?


    The 100,000 Yellow Turban Army of Dai Army is no longer an army, but a hundred thousand strong men, and the people of Bingzhou in the future.


    Although the court also canceled the killing order, Yanmen had a special geographical location and there were helpers in the court, so Qin Wen was sure that even if the Yellow Turban prisoners were left behind, they would not be punished by the court.


    ………


    After three days of waiting, the 11,000 defenders who went south to ambush Dongfang Sheng finally returned, but they brought back a piece of good or bad news.


    Dongfang Sheng was baited by three thousand people and successfully avoided the ambush set up by Qin Hao, but the ambush failed to do its best.


    However, the three thousand people who were bait did not escape. This ambush still killed one thousand enemies and captured two thousand prisoners. Dongfang Sheng led the three thousand remaining troops to escape back to Changshan safely.


    "Dingdong, the battle of the Yin Tube has ended and is under inventory..."


    "The battle of Yinguan killed 1521 enemies, captured 12124 people (the majority of the escaped 2000 have been captured!), and the war point was rewarded 22645, the loss was 985, and the war point was deducted 985, so the war point was rewarded 21660."


    "There are already 3340 war points, and currently there are 25,000 war points. Will it be exchanged for summoning points?"


    Qin Hao nodded without thinking and said, "Redeem!"


    "The host successfully redeems the summoning point 250, and there are already 180 summoning points, and currently has a total of 430 summoning points."


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