Chapter 1044: The Placement of Slaves When
the fleet transporting slaves arrived at the dock of Weishan County, the news reached Luo Chong immediately, and Luo Chong quickly issued an order for distribution.
The total number of slaves escorted back this time was more than 31,600, of which more than 12,000 were young and middle-aged men, and the remaining nearly 20,000 people had more than 6,000 women, more than 2,000 old men, and the remaining more than 10,000 were minors, but most of them were over ten years old.
As for those younger, they did not come out to move around, and Qubing certainly had no chance to capture them. Most of these children under ten years old were still in the cannibal villages and had not come out.
According to the plan agreed upon with Lin Fei and Dali before, their demand for slaves must be met first, because half of the heavy industry of the Han tribe had to be allocated to the south, and now the production tasks of various engineering vehicles were too heavy, so the demand for skilled workers was also increasing day by day.
Lin Fei's idea is to add all the miners in Xingang County to those basic factories as workers, such as steel mills, cement plants, etc., and then send all the existing workers in the steel mills and cement plants to more advanced machinery factories for training and learning. As for the vacant miners, they will be temporarily replaced by slaves.
However, this is not a long-term solution. The mining technology of the Han tribe will eventually transform. After training this batch of technicians, the machinery factory of the institute will be able to expand the production scale and manufacture a large number of excavators and loaders. With these large machines, these slaves can be replaced again in the future.
As for how to place the replaced slaves, this is also simple. In the future, let them do other things, such as building railways. Now these people may not be able to do such advanced work as building railways, but after working in the mines for such a long time, they may be able to do it in the future.
Luo Chong directly approved 5,000 of the more than 12,000 young and strong male slaves to Xingang County and let them use them in the mines. As for how to manage and train the slaves, Luo Chong does not need to worry about this at all. Xingang County, especially Dali, has rich experience.
Luo Chong ordered the remaining 7,000 people to be transported directly to the south. 5,000 of them were placed in the capital and led by You Zhi, who was responsible for the construction of the palace and the capital. You Zhi had more than 1,000 Jinwu Guards soldiers under him, all of whom were former intelligence personnel, and thousands of various craftsmen. It was not a problem to manage 5,000 slaves to work.
The palace had been under construction for more than a year, but the actual progress was not great. Moreover, this was Luo Chong's private "home", so he was embarrassed to trouble the people to make a big fuss. But now that he had this batch of slaves, he had to speed up the construction progress.
The remaining 2,000 people were handed over to You Fu, who was asked to use these 2,000 people to build Chengkang County and Qi'an County. Luo Chong also specifically instructed that these slaves could be placed under the jurisdiction of the railway construction team. In the future, when building the railway in the south, tunnels would need to be dug, blasting, and crossing mountains and ridges, which were easy to kill people. All these slaves could be sent to the front. If they died, it would be in vain, and the tribal officials would not have to pay compensation and pensions. Why not do it?
After the distribution of more than 12,000 young and strong male slaves, there were still more than 2,000 old men. Luo Chong thought about it and sent these more than 2,000 old men directly to the construction site of the cross-sea bridge, letting them arrange it by themselves. Any heavy work can be handed over to these old guys. Anyway, the Han tribe does not plan to provide for these people in their old age.
It doesn't matter if they die of exhaustion on the construction site, as long as they don't eat for free. After these slaves were divided, the remaining more than 10,000 people were actually more difficult to deal with. Among them, there were more than 6,800 female slaves and more than 10,000 minors, which was more troublesome.
At the beginning, Luo Chong decided to take these female slaves to be used as cadaver teachers and specimens for medical schools. But even if they were cadaver teachers, they couldn't all be sent in at once. Moreover, Luo Chong had planned to let these women give birth to children so that students in medical schools could practice with them, especially in terms of delivery and child care.
In this case, the first thing to do is to make these women pregnant. If they are pregnant, the children must be born, and how to manage the children of these slaves in the future is another problem, involving all aspects.
Six thousand eight hundred women, this is not a small number! Luo Chong was very worried about this.
Later, he discussed with Xiaodie and chose an island in the middle of the lake in Liuyang County to build a garment factory on it to provide jobs for these female slaves.
In fact, in modern terms, it is a female prison, and the prison has its own labor reform factory. The work content is to make clothes. The Han tribe has a lot of clothes to make, officials' uniforms, employees' uniforms of various official workshops (state-owned factories), military uniforms, quilts, etc. These have to be changed every one or two years, which really requires a lot of manpower.
However, before entering the factory, the medical school must first send people to screen these more than 6,000 women. Young and middle-aged women who are healthy and within childbearing age will all be uniformly cleaned and disinfected.
The hair is shaved and raised again, and the body must be washed with insecticide, such as taking a bath with arsenic to remove all parasites on the body. In addition, the body must be checked to make sure there is no disease in that area.
After the selection, the old women who were over childbearing age and the young girls were all thrown into the factory to make clothes and quilts. The remaining young and strong women would be given as prizes to those male slaves who were law-abiding, hard-working, healthy and good-looking, so that they could form a family.
However, this family was not something that could be returned to whenever they wanted. The so-called family was a small courtyard in the staff dormitory around the garment factory. The male slaves could go back a few days a week and live with the women, but they were not allowed to live together at other times.
If a female slave was pregnant, she would automatically be promoted to a cadaver teacher at the medical school and would be used as a medical research subject. The medical school would be responsible for the child's delivery and early childhood care.
When the child was over one year old, the children born by these slaves would be treated as orphans and sent to the welfare home under the jurisdiction of the Jinwu Guard for upbringing and education. In the future, these children might be selected into the Jinwu Guard when they grow up, or they might not be selected and enter the social system of the Han tribe alone. Some of them would become workers with special skills like the tractor driving class formed this time.
The Han tribe will conceal their origins and let them integrate into the tribe and the country as normal citizens of the Han tribe, and they will not be discriminated against by anyone.
In general, female slaves have the right to give birth to children, but they do not have the right to raise them. Their children have no relationship with them from the moment they are born.
This may seem cruel to those "mothers". The children born after ten months of pregnancy will be separated from their flesh and blood as soon as they come out. But if they are told about the future fate of these children, if they are allowed to make their own choices.
Whether to choose to let the child be born as a little slave and exist as a slave of the Han tribe for the rest of his life, or to give up the right to raise the child and let his child live like a normal person in the Han tribe, then these mothers will probably give up the right to raise without hesitation. Who wants their child to be a slave for life when he is born?
From this perspective, this treatment may not be a bad thing.
There is also a principle issue. Although the Han tribe has a large number of slaves, it has never been considered a slave society. Luo Chong has never thought of making the Han tribe a slave society. This is a principle issue.
It is true that the Han tribe has slaves now, but these slaves are under the official jurisdiction and belong to the public property of the official government of the tribe. They are a kind of means of production. As these slaves grow old and die, there will be no more slaves in the Han tribe.
As long as it has not developed to the point where every household has private slaves, it is not considered a slave society
. Moreover, the industrialization process of the Han tribe is very fast now. With the popularization of various mechanical powers, people will no longer have the need for slaves. Of course, servants can still be there, but they are not private slaves, but hired servants, just like the nanny in modern society. It is an employment relationship between master and servant, the relationship between boss and employee, not a slavery relationship. This is a matter of nature in principle, and the difference is still very big.
After the arrangement of the female slaves, there are still 10,000 and several hundred underage slaves left. These 10,000 half-grown boys are all boys and teenagers. As the saying goes, half-grown boys are eating their fathers to death. They are all good at eating and difficult to discipline. What they will do in the future is also a big problem.
But the first problem is that the Han tribe will never support them for nothing, and it is even more impossible for them to eat the food of the Han tribe for nothing. Apart from other things, they must first be able to live self-sufficiently.
The Han tribe is very short of people, especially skilled workers, who are the most rare talents. These underage slaves are at the best age to learn knowledge, so Luo Chong immediately came up with an idea to organize these 10,000 teenagers into an engineering corps. It doesn't matter if it's called an engineering corps or a railway corps. Anyway, that's the idea. Ten thousand people
is not a small number. According to the modern military organization, it's half a division.
Luo Chong thought about it and decided to transfer the Yingyang Guard stationed in Chaoyang County of Qiongzhou Island back. Chaoyang County is the southeast corner of Qiongzhou Island, the territory of the fishermen of the Yu clan.
The Yu clan had taken the initiative to join the Han clan before attacking the Xin clan. In addition, the Han clan now has strong policy support for coastal fishermen, and the Yu clan is also very loyal to the Han clan. It is impossible for them to rebel. Therefore, there is no need to keep an army there. It is better to transfer these people back to do something else.
The scale of Yingyang Guard is not large. There are only 2,000 officers and soldiers on record. It is the smallest garrison in Qiongzhou Island. It is not very useful in strategy. Transferring Yingyang Guard back will not affect the defense of Qiongzhou.
It is not a big problem to use the two thousand professional warriors of Yingyang Guard to discipline 10,000 slave boys. It is equivalent to one professional warrior with five soldiers. Everyone becomes a deputy squad leader or a deputy flag officer. It is relatively easy to manage.
They don't have to teach these slave boys how to build railways now, but to carry out militarized management first. Generally speaking, there is only one goal in a short time, farming and education.
Purely military management, all slave boys were assigned according to the ten-five system, and simple military training was carried out every day, mainly practicing queues and cultivating discipline, and then language, so that they could learn Chinese as soon as possible. The
rest was to open up wasteland and cultivate land, raise livestock, and let them solve their own food, clothing and clothing problems. They were trained like this for one or two years, and after they all learned Chinese and obeyed the dispatch and discipline, they were reorganized into engineering troops, responsible for building bridges and paving roads, and were specifically used for the railway construction of the Han tribe.
As for the location of the military farm, Luo Chong had also thought about it. At present, there were only two places where the Han tribe needed to reclaim a large amount of farmland, one was the capital, and the other was Chengkang County and Qi'an County. These were newly established cities, and the population would definitely be relocated in the future. The relocated population would of course need a large amount of farmland. If there was no land, the relocated people would have to reclaim the wasteland themselves, but now these slave soldiers could be used to reclaim the land in advance, so after two years, the reclaimed land would have long been turned into mature fields. Wouldn't this be better?
So Luo Chong immediately issued an order to send the 10,000 young slaves to three places: Chengkang County, Qi'an County, and the capital.
The capital had the largest area, and the population living there would definitely be more in the future, so 6,000 people were assigned to the capital, and 1,200 professional warriors of the Eagle Guard were responsible for their discipline.
Because the people of the Baiwu tribe helped to reclaim land and plant crops in Qi'an County, the demand for manpower was not great, so Luo Chong transferred the remaining 4,000 people to Chengkang County, responsible for reclaiming wasteland and planting crops there. On the one hand, these young slaves could be self-sufficient, and on the other hand, they could produce some side dishes, plant some vegetables and fruits, and raise some meat livestock to provide for the engineering team there, just like the work of the Baiwu tribe in Qi'an County.
The 4,000 slave soldiers transferred to Qi'an County were disciplined by 800 warriors of the Eagle Guard. In addition, there were a large number of workers stationed there for a long time, so even if these 4,000 young slaves wanted to make trouble, they would have no chance.
Moreover, it is easy to subdue them with military management. They are required to do drills and labor uniformly every day, and then they are evaluated in the evening. The top 100 who work actively and obediently are rewarded with a meat meal, and the bottom 100 are directly beaten with military sticks without dinner. Those
who dare to act as troublemakers are directly killed as a warning to the rest.
Just treat them in this way, and you will see that in less than half a month, they will all be as obedient as grandsons. If you tell them to go east, no one will go west. In fact, since ancient times, there are only a few ways to train soldiers, but it really works, especially in this era where corporal punishment is not prohibited.
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