Chapter 498 Slaves Who Cut Off Their Fingers, Shaved Their Heads, and Pierced Their Faces (Please vote and subscribe)
Unfortunately, things were not as they thought. Their elephants had come, but they were followed by two little guys from the Han tribe. Their companions had also come, but they all followed behind, tied up in a string with long hemp ropes.
When they saw this scene, the little flame that had just rekindled in their hearts was instantly gone .
Youye and others who had just come from the north were also very surprised. They looked at the scene of "caterpillars" all over the ground in front of them in surprise, and secretly complained in their hearts that they did not expect the leader to be so efficient. They had just captured those dozens of people with a team of cavalry, and nearly two thousand people here had been captured.
When the two sides successfully joined forces, the first to run over were Huishan and Rourou, two little guys, who ran to Luo Chong affectionately and acted like a spoiled child, as if to ask for credit from Luo Chong, "Look, we really brought the two big guys back, come and praise me, come and praise me."
Just as they were making a fuss, two adult mammoths came slowly over from behind, and stretched out their long noses to greet Luo Chong. At this time, Rourou also ran over, and Rourou, who had just grown to the height of their legs, kept circling around the two big guys, and from time to time he would raise his head and shout twice, seeming very happy.
Here I have to say that elephants are very smart animals, and their memory is not much worse than that of humans, and their lifespan is relatively long. More importantly, elephants also have emotions similar to humans.
Seeing this scene, Luo Chong also secretly guessed in his heart that the two big and two small ones came from the same force, and the lifespan of the Deinonychus was so long. Maybe Rourou and Huishan had met these two adults before, and they should have a good relationship. So when they saw Rourou and Huishan flirting with Luo Chong, the two big Deinonychus put down their guard, knowing that Luo Chong did not abuse them, and was very friendly to them, so they came to greet them.
After the two sides officially met, Youye also came to report the situation. The matter was not very complicated. Youye was ordered to lead 100 cavalrymen to pursue the remaining enemies. After being discovered by the enemy, the group of remaining enemies actually hid. They also knew that they had few people left and they would definitely not be able to fight, so they thought of this way to try to get away with it.
However, what they didn't expect was that in this pursuit operation arranged by Luo Chong, capturing this group of remaining enemies was only the second priority goal, and the first task was to capture the two adult Deinonychus.
The remaining enemies who were thought to be hiding well neglected the two big guys beside them. The two-story building-like bodies were too conspicuous. More importantly, the two guys left a scent along the way.
In this way, after the Youye cavalry lost their target, they followed Huishan and Rourou all the way to find the remaining enemies. You should know that the long trunks of elephants are not just used as arms. Their sense of smell is also very developed, and they are more sensitive to the smell of their own kind.
So, under the leadership of Huishan and Rourou, the group followed the smell all the way to find them. When they arrived near their hiding place, Huishan was the first to roar, and immediately received a response from the two big Deinonychus on the opposite side. The two big guys also roared, and then they actually broke away from the enemy's control and ran out by themselves. Nonsense
, compared with a group of useless masters, it is of course more important to meet with the same kind, and the smell feels very familiar.
It was at this time that the appearance of two Deinon elephants completely exposed the position of the remaining enemies. Seeing the two large and two small Deinon elephants reminiscing about the past, You Ye knew that he could not intervene, so he immediately rushed up with the cavalry.
Dozens of barefoot remaining enemies were naturally no match for the fully armed cavalry. They could not run away, nor could they fight. They were surrounded by the cavalry in a circle. After two people were killed, the rest surrendered. As
things have developed to this point, except for the big tree in Liuyang County, no news has been received. Other aspects can be said to have won. In order to speed up the pace of overall victory, You Ye and others who had just returned were sent by Luo Chong to Sitong County to assist the big tree in completing the team's dark forest clearing activities as soon as possible.
The dozens of remaining enemies and two adult Deinon elephants he brought back were directly handed over to Luo Chong, waiting for processing with other captives.
After the matter was over, Luo Chong did not stay at Fu Ma Pass for long. He tied the captives into a long team and took the two newly conquered big guys back to Hanyang City first.
Before leaving, the aftermath of Fumaguan was handed over to Xuetu and Yingrui. Xuetu's main task was to block the ten tunnels under the north wall, while Yingrui was responsible for the implementation and supervision of the policy. He reported the list of soldiers who had made contributions in this operation, and then granted them titles according to their merits and distributed the land they deserved. Two days
later, the team escorting the prisoners returned to the outskirts of Hanyang City. After receiving Luo Chong's order, the magistrate of Hanyang County also built a simple prisoner concentration camp with a fence outside the city. The two thousand prisoners escorted back were locked up and a team of militia was sent to guard them.
During this period, the leaders of the two tribal alliances who had just moved to Hanyang City, as well as the Zhanmao people of the sticky tribe who had just joined, were also shocked by the strength of the Han tribe. After all, Hanyang City was the earliest city of the Han tribe. Although it was not very large, it took Luo Chong a lot of effort. Whether it was science and technology or policy and people's livelihood, it could be said to be the weather vane of the entire Han tribe and the city that best reflected the strength of the Han tribe.
During this period of time, everyone can feel the extraordinary features of the Han tribe in every detail of life.
In February, as the temperature gradually rose, the clothes made of animal skins became more and more difficult to wear. At noon, they were so hot that they wanted to take off their clothes immediately. However, the permanent residents in Hanyang City had already changed into comfortable linen clothes.
In order to enable these new people to adapt to the life of the Han tribe more quickly and make them feel a sense of identity with the Han tribe, Luo Chong certainly would not treat them differently. He asked the Hanyang Order to allocate a batch of linen from the warehouse to them, and then organized the elderly living in the city to teach their women how to make clothes.
In these newly moved families, the men were also pulled by the elderly to do various labors together, go to the surrounding mountains to chop wood, line up at the entrance of the alley to fetch water, and hand over the manure from their homes to the tank trucks collecting manure at the door every morning, and then go out to the fields of each family to cultivate and weed. Seeing the crops in the fields grow taller day by day, they are also happy in their hearts. After all, in this era, nothing is more important than stable food.
However, when these newcomers heard that a large group of enemies had invaded from the north, they were somewhat uneasy. But whenever they returned home and looked at the tall city walls outside, they could not help but feel a very comfortable sense of security. They were worried about the war on the front line, but it was not obvious.
Because the old people living around them, even the children, had never been afraid. They did what they had to do every day, and their mood was always affected by the environment. These new residents were no exception. Seeing the old people like this, they were no longer worried.
After a few days, good news came from the front line, saying that the enemies had all been locked up. However, the new residents obviously did not understand what "locked up" meant. But a few days later, when Luo Chong came back with more than 2,000 prisoners, they were shocked.
Among them, Zhan Mao was the most touched. When he first came into contact with Luo Chong, Luo Chong used a fleet to abduct his people. He was very unwilling to accept it. He felt that his tribe was a large tribe with a population of thousands, and there were two or three hundred adult males who could fight. Why should he be willing to obey Luo Chong's orders?
But after arriving at the Han tribe, he saw the miraculous windmills and waterwheels, metallurgy, oil pressing, textiles, animal husbandry and farming, and other cross-era black technologies of the Han tribe. To be honest, he was convinced in his heart, but he saw that the population of Hanyang City was not exaggerated. He thought that he had at least added thousands of people to the Han tribe, and he should be able to get a relatively ideal high status in the Han tribe.
However, not long after, with Luo Chong's spring population mobilization this year, tens of thousands of people passed through Hanyang City, received daily necessities and various production and living tools, and then moved to various places around. Zhan Mao was completely depressed. From that moment on, he clearly knew that the more than one thousand tribesmen he brought with him might be of some use to the Han tribe, but they could never be the capital for him to negotiate with the leader Luo Chong.
After seeing Luo Chong escorting more than two thousand captives today, Zhan Mao was even more convinced. As the leader of a large tribe, Zhan Mao knew very well what these two thousand captives meant. First of all, these captives were all adult males, and the Nian tribe, which had a population of more than a thousand, had only two or three hundred adult males who could fight. Therefore, the total population of the tribe that could take out this number of troops was at least ten times that of the Nian tribe.
But such an enemy was captured alive by Luo Chong, which was even more difficult than killing all of them directly. Zhan Mao felt that if he was given the same number of people and equipped with metal weapons produced by the Han tribe, he would have the confidence to win this battle, but if he captured them all alive, he could only smile bitterly and sigh in his heart.
"Haha, alas!"
You must know that capturing alive, whether forcing the enemy to surrender or suppressing and forcibly capturing prisoners with pure force, must meet a prerequisite, that is, to form an all-round suppression of the enemy, so that the enemy feels desperate and completely gives up resistance.
He was very confused in his heart. He heard that the number of soldiers on the front line was not as large as that of the enemy. How did Luo Chong manage to annihilate the enemy and capture them all? This was really too mysterious.
However, Luo Chong naturally had no need to explain all this to them. Don't know? Then continue not to know, so that you can improve your image in the minds of the tribesmen, enhance your prestige in the tribe, and make it easier for you to rule the entire tribe.
After all, human beings are like this. They always have awe for unknown things. Some things are not so effective when they are said out loud. The superiors must maintain their dignity and mystery, so that their subordinates cannot easily see through them, so as to maintain their lofty image in their hearts.
After the prisoner concentration camp was stabilized, Luo Chong handed over the task of performing amputation surgery on the prisoners to the original leader of the Snake Tribe. After all, as the provider of herbs in this era, the Snake Tribe has the most say in how to use herbs in this era.
However, when Luo Chong went home and thought about it, he always felt that something seemed to be missing. Recalling the various measures taken to treat prisoners and slaves in history, Luo Chong suddenly realized where the problem was, that is, the number of prisoners.
There are more and more slaves in the Han tribe, and this batch already has more than 3,000 people. In the future, these people will be driven by the Han tribe to participate in engineering construction in various places. This is a considerable force, and they are all prisoners of war, which is the most unstable factor. Therefore, it is necessary to manage the slaves systematically in the future, and these slaves must be distinguished from the "savages" that will appear in the future.
After summarizing the experience of predecessors in history, Luo Chong issued three decrees for treating slaves according to the actual situation of the Han tribe.
The first is to cut off toes, which is nothing to say. The second is to shave the heads. The purpose of doing this is, first, for hygiene. After all, these slaves are laborers. If they die of lice or something, it will be a loss for the Han tribe.
The legal citizens of the Han tribe keep their hair because they have the conditions to maintain a beautiful hair, but the slaves work hard all day long, and their living conditions are not a little bit worse. They have no time and conditions, so it is better to shave them all.
Besides, the Han tribe did not have scissors or sharp steel that can be used as razors before. Now these two things are available, and shaving is no longer a difficult task, so this order can be implemented.
Another reason is naturally to distinguish these slaves from ordinary citizens in terms of hairstyle, that is, appearance.
The last order was to tattoo. All slaves had to have a black word "slave" tattooed on their faces. Even if they put on shoes, covered their severed toes, and grew hair, they could not pretend to be citizens of the Han tribe because of the tattoos on their faces. One could tell that they were slaves.
As for the technical aspects, the Han tribe was not short of such talents. The Wen tribe, which was absorbed by the Han tribe before, was specialized in this. The people in their tribe liked to use some strange pigments to tattoo patterns on their bodies, and tattooing on their faces was commonplace. Luo Chong had seen many such people with his own eyes.
It was most appropriate to let the people of the Wen tribe do this.
Of course, since the Wen tribe joined the Han tribe, this custom had changed a lot under Luo Chong's will. Although they still had the habit of tattooing, they no longer tattooed on their faces. After all, although the leader did not explicitly prohibit it, the leader's attitude was there. He did not like people with tattoos on their faces, but liked those with clean faces.
As the saying goes, "what the superior likes, the subordinates will follow." Just like the King of Chu likes thin waists, many people in the palace starved to death. Of course, Luo Chong is not so perverted. He just doesn't like tattoos on his face.
Moreover, after the Wen tribe joined, under Luo Chong's deliberate guidance and training, their talents and skills have been directed elsewhere, just like the two Wen tribe painters who were assigned by Luo Chong to the cripple to draw ceramic patterns. Since they like painting so much, they can go to other places to paint. Therefore, now, the Wen clan can be seen in almost all places in the Han tribe where art paintings are needed. They have been dragged by Luo Chong on the road of no return for painters, and they are going further and further.
It was March in spring, and the first season of rice had entered its final maturity period. As a pilot county for private property ownership, Hanyang City still needed to make many preparations. The first was a large amount of currency reserves, and the second was the research and development of measuring tools. The Han tribe still did not have a scale, which was a big problem. With the promotion of private ownership, various free transactions among the people increased, and the measuring tool of scale became more important. Luo Chong was also caught in intense research and development work.
(End of this chapter)
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