Chapter 333: Production Camp

"If these fallen soldiers could hear this, they would smile in their graves. Reading"

Chang Wei was a tough guy, but his eyes were red at this moment.

The many policies proposed by the King of Yan were too considerate to the soldiers.

Even if he asked himself, he could not think of these, nor could he do these.

After all, in the imperial army, the generals valued silver more than the lives of the soldiers.

"Compared with the dead soldiers, what can we living people do for them?" Zhao Xu waved his hand.

Chang Wei nodded heavily, remembering that he had not finished talking about the war report, and said: "This time, there are 20,000 soldiers of Zhuanglinglang who surrendered to Yanzhou, and more than 20,000 soldiers of Xiliang who were captured. The rest were all annihilated. How to deal with these soldiers still needs your instructions."

Zhao Xu pondered for a while. Zhuanglinglang was originally a Song people. Now that he has surrendered, he can no longer treat them as enemies.

However, the intentions of these Zhuanglinglang soldiers must be mixed.

If we rashly scatter them in various places in the four northern counties, it may cause chaos.

So we have to centrally manage them, and after they have undergone ideological transformation and adapted to the life in Dasong, we will gradually let them integrate into the four northern counties.

Thinking of a way, he said: "Organize these young men into a separate army, called the production camp, under the jurisdiction of the royal army."

"Production camp?" Chang Wei was stunned, he had never heard of this word.

Zhao Xu explained: "The production camp, as the name suggests, is an army that is only responsible for production, not for fighting. The king will not recognize them as an army to the outside world."

Clearing his throat, he continued: "The main tasks of these production camps are to open up wasteland, engage in farming, and build water conservancy projects."

"Your Highness means to let them cultivate land?" Chang Wei figured it out.

"That's exactly what I mean." Zhao Xu smiled and said, "The terrain of the four northern counties is flat, only the north and west are mountainous, and the south and north are all plains. There are many places that can be reclaimed. These lands can not only provide food and grass for the four northern counties, but also be allocated to these soldiers as private fields in the future."

In fact, in ancient times, there were more people than land, and it was far from being a landless land.

But after the people's land was annexed, they were often unwilling to reclaim wasteland.

The reason is that the places that can be reclaimed by the water have long been reclaimed.

At the same time, even if the wasteland is reclaimed, it will eventually be taken away, and the court will not protect it.

But now that he is in charge of the four northern counties, the situation is naturally different.

The nobles have been wiped out, and no one can arbitrarily seize the people's land.

At the same time, he asked Liu Fu to issue a decree to protect the land reclaimed by the people.

Therefore, among the people who fled from Jinzhou to the four northern counties, many are actively reclaiming wasteland.

Including the people in the four northern counties before, their enthusiasm has also increased greatly.

If there are another 20,000 reclamation troops, the four northern counties can add more land this year.

With more land, the grain produced in the four northern counties can continue to increase.

Although, he now gets a lot of grain from the Xie family by supporting the prince.

These grains are enough to support for a period of time.

But it is better to rely on oneself than on others. It is still the most reassuring for the four northern counties to be self-sufficient in grain and have a surplus.

In addition, he has another consideration.

On the land reclaimed in the production camp, it is convenient for the government to experiment with various agricultural technologies.

After all, the people need to rely on the land for food, and he dare not mess around.

This production camp is affiliated with the army, which is considered a logistics army, and the soldiers are paid.

As for the land, it will not be too late to distribute the land to them when the production camp is no longer needed.

In short, he is equivalent to building an army to do agricultural production for himself.

"Yes, Your Highness, I understand." Chang Wei smiled.

Others also understand that military farming is a good measure for the army.

It takes a lot of food to support the army. If the army solves the food problem by itself, it will save a lot of silver.

The kings in the early stages of the dynasties often engaged in military farming, but then the military farming would collapse.

Because of corruption, these military fields first went to the hands of generals, and then were sold to the wealthy families.

And the ambitious emperors who wanted to pick them up later often failed.

After forming a mature system of corruption and selling stolen goods, these fields that were dug out quickly disappeared.

But the situation in the four northern counties was obviously different.

The King of Yan destroyed all the things of these wealthy families.

Now the four northern counties are like a blank land, and everything can start from scratch.

So he agreed with the King of Yan's idea.

"As for the surrendered Xiliang soldiers, they will be handed over to the merchants, and let the merchants assign them to mine." Zhao Xu said.

This time he forcibly took eight large coal mines from the Jinzhou wealthy families.

It is said that the coal in these coal mines only needs to be dug from the ground, which is obviously an open-air coal mine.

Put these Xiliang soldiers into the coal mines, and the coal supply in the four northern counties will not be a problem in the future.

This is just a problem of coal.

There is another problem at the moment, which is iron.

The artillery orders given by the powerful families made iron ore suddenly tense.

Jinzhou has more coal, while the four northern counties have more iron, especially the current Pingjun East and Yanjun West.

In modern times, the location here is equivalent to Tangshan.

The number of iron ore here is second to none.

However, although there are many iron ore mines in the four northern counties, the mining capacity is still insufficient.

Putting these 20,000 people in, this problem can be greatly alleviated.

Of course, in addition to coal and iron, he needs other minerals if he wants to embark on the road of industrial revolution.

Next, he will also make arrangements in this regard to find all the mines that can be found in the four northern counties.

After talking about the collision with your son and the Xiliang soldiers, Chang Wei reported the amount of spoils collected in Jinzhou, "150,000 taels of gold, 1.8 million taels of silver, 2 million shi of grain and grass, 360,000 pieces of cloth, and other jewelry, porcelain, thousands of paintings and calligraphy."

Zhao Xu nodded.

This time, not long after he entered Jinzhou, the court allocated silver and grain.

Now that he has got these spoils, this war has not made him lose money after all, but also made a lot of money.

"This king always keeps his word. This time, half of the spoils will be given to the soldiers." He remembered his promise in Jinzhou.

Chang Wei wanted to laugh, but he held back, "Your Highness, this is a bit too much, right? If so, each soldier can get 30 taels of silver."

"Don't pretend, laugh if you want to laugh." Zhao Xu rolled his eyes at Chang Wei.

"Hehehe..." After the King of Yan said this, Chang Wei finally couldn't help it.

Seeing Chang Wei like this, Zhao Heng shook his head, "But you have to show me the list of rewards. Even if it is a reward, you can't do it carelessly. Also, even if it is a reward for a fallen soldier, the reward should still be given, and the silver for the pension is another matter."

"I will remember it." Chang Wei clasped his fists heavily.

As the two were talking, Feng'er bowed outside the door and said, "Your Highness, Ma Han wants to see you."

"Ma Han?" Chang Wei frowned, "Your Highness took him to Yancheng?"

Zhao Xu signaled Feng'er to allow Ma Han to come in, and at the same time said to Chang Wei, "The matter of Jinzhou is over, and it's time to face up to the affairs of the Ma family. After all, the Ma family guards the northwest border. If Ma Chong and Ma Jin are allowed to be in charge, I'm afraid there will be big problems in the future."

Chang Wei looked solemn, bowed and said goodbye.

Sometimes he couldn't listen to some words.