Chapter 780: That's All
"I say," Zheng Shicheng started, but when he saw Liang Cheng's actions, he immediately changed his words, "It's okay, let's go back and talk about it first."
After he finished speaking, he made a gesture. Liang Cheng understood and took the lead to lead the vanguard troops away.
The rest of the battlefield cleaning will naturally be handled by someone else. Liang Cheng is now anxious to go back and count the number of people. He doesn't know how many people Shengze has captured alive. What if things don't go well?
Coincidentally, when Liang Cheng returned to the military camp, Sheng Ze also returned with a camp of new recruits.
"How will the plan be successful?" Liang Cheng glanced at the new recruits in the camp who were covered in dust and dirt, and felt a little worried.
Sheng Ze curled his lips, "It went very smoothly. The number of foreigners captured alive should be between 120,000 and 150,000."
In fact, there were only about 30,000 people who were actually tied up in the recruit camp, and the others surrendered voluntarily after seeing that they would not kill them.
Although these people surrendered voluntarily, Shengze did not relax its supervision over them. The new recruits camp sent 10,000 troops to escort these people to the place where prisoners were held.
The thing that checks and balances these people is the muscle softening powder that has been prepared in advance. Each team responsible for supervision has enough medicine to control these people.
"That's all" Liang Cheng was stunned.
They did hold back on the battlefield because they didn't want to kill anyone. This time, even the thing called artillery developed by Old Qin was useless. Unexpectedly, tens of thousands of people were still killed.
Sheng Ze looked at him with a mixture of laughter and tears, "It's already quite a lot."
So far, they have only lured more than 20,000 people back from Qishan, but now they have brought in more than 100,000 laborers in one night. This is extremely efficient.
"What a pity, I thought it would be around 170,000." Liang Cheng said regretfully.
He was worried about the huge population gap in Ezhou before, so when Shengze proposed to keep this group of people to build Ezhou, he immediately agreed.
Not to mention anything else, these people don't even need to spend a penny in the early stages except for consuming food. They are simply free labor. Anyone who doesn't want them is a fool.
After listening to Sheng Ze's plan for these people, Liang Cheng was even more excited.
As long as these people can be made to recognize Ezhou and the Ebei Army, then in ten or twenty years, the entire Ebei may be able to sweep across any prefecture in Dajin.
In addition, Sheng Ze also mentioned Shen Qingqian's words, that talented people can be selected from these people to vigorously develop the technology in northern Hubei. Not to mention Liang Cheng, even Zheng Shicheng couldn't recognize him and applauded.
Population and talent have always been the number one issue in the development of a country or region. Now the environment outside is harsh. If Ezhou can take on so many people, anyone who is unwilling to do so would be really stupid.
Regarding the issue of water source, Sheng Ze also reassured the two, but he did not mention the spring. Instead, he revealed that there was a magic weapon left by the ancestor of Xuanji Mountain on Chengjin Mountain. As long as the magic weapon was there, Ezhou would never lack water.
At that time, Zheng Shicheng sighed, "God really helps me in northern Hubei!"
First, there was the high-yield sweet potato, and later the drought was relieved with the help of the masters of Xuanji Mountain. As long as no one was incompetent, whoever took over this game would not lose.
It is obvious that Sheng Ze is not a stupid and incompetent person. On the contrary, he is full of ideas, trusts his subordinates, and is not someone who likes to monopolize power.
Zheng Shicheng was very glad that he had decided to go with Sheng Ze. Even at this point, Sheng Ze did not take back the military power from Liang Cheng. Instead, he tried his best to help the Hubei Northern Army save money and store food.
The next day the number of prisoners was counted, a total of 138,962.
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