Chapter 634 Population Annexation
Once these deserters are caught, their treatment will definitely not be comparable to that of normal population immigrants. They will all be forced to do hard labor, and their sentences will be longer than those of the population previously incorporated from the tribe.
The people recruited from the primitive tribes had sentences as short as one and a half years and as long as two to three years. Basically, they were released after serving their sentences and officially became regular soldiers.
This is because the living conditions of the primitive tribes and their Great Zhou are very different.
To put it bluntly, their days of hard labor in the Great Zhou were better than those of the people in the primitive tribes, and this alone was enough to make them loyal and submit.
But it’s different for enemy soldiers from other countries. The hard labor will take at least three to five years, and it depends on their performance.
After sending the first three waves of a total of 900 people to the Great Zhou, while the various departments within the Great Zhou were expanding in size, the original staff were also promoted one after another.
Some things are done by the new immigrant population, and the elderly who are more loyal to you will be freed up to do other things for you.
The most important thing at the moment is undoubtedly the current population transfer work.
Before, due to limited manpower, he was afraid that they would cause trouble if they were transferred too much, so each batch only had 300 people. But now it is different. He has more manpower, and in order to evacuate the population of Huangsha City as soon as possible, Zhou Xu decided to increase the number of people sent away to 500 starting from the fourth batch.
Don’t think that Huangsha City has a lot of people. It is just a border city located on the border with a poor environment. To put it bluntly, this place is not suitable for development at all.
The city was originally built here purely for the purpose of establishing border defenses; as for the discovery of mineral veins, that was a later event.
In this way, excluding the city defense forces and the labor force in the external mines, the total population of the city is actually only about four or five thousand.
After increasing the number of immigrants in each batch, all the population in the city can be moved out in two or three months at most.
Under this premise, judging from the human population alone, the new population that has been annexed has indeed completely exceeded their original population.
In essence, this is a very dangerous thing.
But Zhou Xu was not that worried.
Because most of these people will be sent to tropical regions next.
The original human population of their Great Zhou was indeed small, but there were a lot of lizardmen! Over the past two years, the total population of lizardmen has reached tens of thousands.
At the same time, with the continuous advancement of the large army of lizardmen led by Li Ce, the territory of the ratmen was also occupied by them.
It can be said that there are large tracts of territories over there that are all vacant. Now is the time when manpower is needed for construction, so it is just right to arrange these people over there.
In addition, according to the information obtained from the interrogation, many countries had developed on this land. Later, Yan Sheng provoked a war, annexed the surrounding countries, and proclaimed himself the first emperor.
As mentioned before, this country is different from a tribe. The fact that they can establish a country means that they have already developed to a certain level and have their own civilization.
And it is precisely because of this that the population from other countries is not as easy to digest as that from underdeveloped tribes.
Under this premise, it is not difficult to see from the intelligence obtained so far that Yan Sheng is more like a warmongering maniac who constantly provokes wars and annexes other countries to strengthen himself.
In the process of launching a war, he did not care about the other side's original development.
To use Zhou Xu's previous words, many of these are "unjust wars".
Even if the population acquired in this way is very submissive due to the pressure of survival, they will not truly surrender. Once war breaks out, these people will become unstable factors.
In other words, even if we leave out the Wei people who had just been annexed, the remaining people on the opposite side are not completely united, because they essentially come from multiple different countries.
This is a bad thing for Yan Sheng, but a very good thing for Zhou Xu.
Because of this situation, it will be easier for him to annex and assimilate.
Zhou Xu was aware of this and felt little psychological pressure when transferring the population.
With this mentality, after freeing up manpower, Zhou Xu increased the immigrant population to 600 people in the fifth batch of immigrants, and directly increased it to 800 people in the sixth batch.
So far, most of the population in Huangsha City has been transferred away by them.
While making the city more spacious, it also greatly reduced the food pressure within the city.
During this period, along with the transfer of the sixth batch of population, Li Ce's report was officially delivered to Zhou Xu.
From the moment the ratmen army was destroyed in the border war, the demise of the Claw Clan was a foregone conclusion.
But even so, after receiving the exact news from Li Ce's report, Zhou Xu still couldn't help but show joy.
The complete destruction of the Claw Clan can be said to have eliminated a major worry for him.
There will be a large army of Lizardmen stationed at the border, so there is no need to worry too much about security issues. After transferring the labor force over there, you can develop with peace of mind.
After reading the report, Zhou Xu spread out a piece of animal skin paper and began to write rewards for Li Ce and others.
Destroying the Claw Clan was indeed a great achievement just from the name alone, but in fact it was far less difficult than the border war.
Therefore, Zhou Xu already had an idea about the reward this time.
Those who originally had low military ranks would have their ranks promoted, while those with high ranks would be rewarded mainly with money and other items.
After simply writing about the reward, Zhou Xu did not stop writing and started writing some subsequent arrangements.
After all, in the current situation, he still didn't know what methods Yan Sheng would use next.
Under such circumstances, Zhou Xu had no intention of going back just like that.
We must first find out the other side's methods and strategies, and only after the situation on the front line is completely stabilized, consider returning to the rear to lead developments.
Zhou Xu was just thinking about this when the sound of a horn coming from the outer city wall defense line indicated an enemy attack.
Hearing the sound, Zhou Xu, who was already dressed in military uniform, walked out of the city lord's mansion without saying a word, rode a fast horse and rushed towards the city wall where the horn sound came from.
By the time he arrived, a team of 100 cavalrymen from the opposite side had already rushed to the periphery, and then kept a safe distance and ran around the city.
Zhou Xu knew that the other side was sending cavalry to explore the way and confirm the situation around Huangsha City.
"My king, do you want to send out cavalry to intercept?"
"Well, let Drogo and the others go out and force them back. If they try to escape, don't chase them too far."
"yes!"
At the command, Drogo and his men, who had been waiting behind the city gate, rushed out immediately the moment the city gate opened.
(End of this chapter)
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