Chapter 506

Weici mused, "this is a good way, but the Qingyi military horn said that there would be more prisoners in the future. Lord, do you want to throw all those prisoners to dig? Even if the iron ore is rich, it won't take long."

Once the number of prisoners exceeds a certain threshold, it will become a huge hidden danger.

Mining corvee must be hard. If they dig for a lifetime, it's hard to ensure that these prisoners won't try to unite to do things.

Prisoners cannot be few. Many coolies need prisoners to do, but not too many, because too many people will lift stones and hit themselves in the foot. If you want a good reputation and become a real benevolent king, you even have to find ways to properly arrange their future path.

Wei CI hoped that his Lord would not only do good deeds, but also gain a good reputation. Don't suffer losses like before.

He wouldn't make a smart decision for her. First, he didn't have this mind, and second, his Majesty was not controlled by others.

She can accept the kindness once or twice with a smile and doesn't care about others, but she has too many good ideas to accommodate that person.

Therefore, Weici just put forward this point. How to make a decision depends entirely on her personal meaning.

Even if he didn't say, she would realize this when the number of prisoners in the camp increased in the future.

Jiang Pengji thought for a moment and said, "Zixiao's worry is unreasonable. In the future, we can't let all the defeated troops in the world be prisoners..."

If you think carefully, Jiang Pengji's remarks are quite unruly.

Now she took Xiangyang County and Cheng'an county. She decided that she was the Lord of the world. Isn't that great?

"... well, these prisoners are sent to mine for half a year. If they perform well and have no other bad deeds, they can be given the opportunity to 'redeem themselves'." A prisoner is a slave, even if she has not registered residence, but it is her personal property.

These prisoners want to be free?

Yes, just find a way to redeem yourself.

Weici frowned and asked, "redeem yourself? I don't know how to redeem?"

Jiang Pengji said, "these prisoners of the green army are different from those who were captured six months ago. Their style and behavior are very bad. If they don't exercise well, they can only be regarded as scum and can't be used at all. It's better to let them dig a mine for six months and keep quiet."

Of course, during this period, these prisoners were still "slaves".

"If they haven't caused trouble for half a year and have performed very well, then they will be given a chance - temporarily stationed as civilian soldiers, receive simple training, and spend most of their daily time reclaiming wasteland and farming. They can participate in other labor construction at their leisure, and give food or money according to the amount of labor. If they can make contributions to our army, they can withdraw their slave nationality and return their freedom as appropriate Body...... "

Jiang Pengji naturally didn't want to raise a group of useless prisoners.

If they squeeze their labor force, it will also become a hidden danger. It is better to tighten it and loosen it, and give some sweets and hope.

This is not the final decision, but it also gives the general direction for the disposal of prisoners.

There are too many abandoned fields in the north. Last year, there was such a big earthquake. Many fields were not cultivated. Cheng'an County missed last year's autumn harvest and this year's spring tillage because of the Qingyi army, which means that there was almost no harvest in two years.

With more fields and less food, I don't know how many people are still hungry.

Jiang Pengji has a lot of popularity points now, and can change a lot of food, but she does not rely on this channel.

A normal and healthy force should be self-sufficient and even have rich food. It can not only feed the people, but also have enough money and food to fight. The exchange of grain in the mall is simple, but there is no complete grain production system. If you leave the system, you will starve to death!

Don't forget, what she imprisons is only a "subsystem", and the ontology is hidden in every corner of the world.

Not only that, according to her several attempts at the system, these popularity points should have other functions.

Out of these considerations, Jiang Pengji felt that these prisoners still tried to shine and heat. Don't be idle.

Xu Ke pondered for a while and was quite moved by Jiang Pengji's suggestion.

She gave slaves the opportunity to "redeem themselves" and did not block all their retreat.

If these captives are motivated and repentant and show good performance for half a year, they can be used as soldiers for the people, land cultivation for the army, and food distribution for the autumn harvest. As for the ratio between the two, Jiang Pengji will not be too cruel.

If farm tools, improved seeds and cattle are produced by the government, the official will receive 40% and the people will be divided into 60%.

If farm tools, improved seeds and cattle are produced by each household, the official will receive 30% and the people will be divided into 70%.

The land is owned by the government. During the slack season, soldiers are sent as instructors to teach the way to fight and kill the enemy.

They also have the opportunity to go to war. If they can make contributions, they can get rid of slavery according to the size of their contributions.

If these people don't have this meaning, they just want to be ordinary people and take part in other paid jobs during the slack season.

If they work for several years, they can even buy their own land, with 10% for the officials and 90% for the people.

Jiang Pengji told her ideas to the two counselors. The more she said, the more she had ideas, and her thinking became more active.

Her soldiers also had the habit of working in the fields during the autumn harvest and spring ploughing, because there were too many wasteland reclaimed in Xiangyang County last year, and there were too many fields assigned to each family. They couldn't get busy at all. Spring ploughing was so short that it was a pity to miss it.

If God gives her a face this year, the grain harvested in autumn can not only support her army, but also the whole Xiangyang County. There is still a surplus.

However, her soldiers were mainly trained, supplemented by farming and other labor.

Civilian troops are mainly cultivated labor, supplemented by training. Even if the combat quality is not high, it is better than ordinary people.

But

Xu Ke frowned and asked, "this distribution ratio seems to make too much."

The government has provided farm tools, improved seeds and cattle, and the profits should account for 50% rather than 40%. After all, the land is not owned by the people, let alone the cost of renting the land. According to the Lord, the grain received by the government also includes grain tax

In this way, this proportion is even much lower than today's grain tax.

"The accounts can't be calculated like this, and it's not much..." Wei CI saw the doorway clearly. "For the people's garrison, it's estimated that the Lord doesn't intend to pay the money? Even if the money is paid, it's much lower than our soldiers."

The grain distributed to these people and soldiers is indeed theirs and is used for their own food.

The government doesn't pay money. If the war comes and the enemy attacks, they have to take up arms to resist.

According to the conversion, it's equivalent to planting their own land, raising themselves, paying their own wages and silver, and going to war

For the prosperous times in Weici's memory, the proportion of this tax is a little cruel now.

However, the most attractive thing about it is that these poor prisoners, after some efforts, have the opportunity to buy their own fields. One out of ten grain tax is one out of ten, which is what Jiang Pengji just said. The official income is 10% and the people are 90%.

For today's world, this tax collection ratio is beyond people's imagination.