I am a child of Daqin Xiong, who supervises the country at the age of eight

Chapter 162 Captives count as military exploits?

But Ying Changsheng didn't intend to do that.

Because he saw a problem, that is, the current Great Qin Empire is a country with a very small population.

Indeed, the population of Daqin is not large.

There are only more than 2000 million.

For Ying Changsheng who is used to having 14 billion citizens.

This population is simply not enough.

Among other things, in future generations, the population of a single city in China will be equal to the current population of the Great Qin Empire combined.

Under such circumstances, why does Ying Changsheng feel that there are few people!

Things are rare.

People also regard scarcity as precious.

Therefore, Ying Changsheng intends to find ways to increase the number of citizens.

Of course, his approach was not to recruit northern nomads to go south.

Of course he wouldn't do this kind of way of bringing disaster.

after all.

He is still very clear about the history of Wu Huan Hua.

Included minorities.

Never willingly submit to the idea of ​​the central court.

They will only find ways to cause unrest.

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for Ying Changsheng to do this. His method is very simple, that is, try not to torment the main ethnic group of the Great Qin Dynasty.

There is a reason here.

The population of Daqin is too small, but the key is that the great projects of the Daqin Empire are really too many.

The Qin Dynasty in this matter is somewhat similar to the later generations.

That is to also have the title of an infrastructure madman.

Ying Zheng is an emperor who likes to build various projects.

And the current engineering is a labor-intensive industry.

One strong man after another is needed to carry out the work, and one huge project after another can be achieved.

Under such circumstances, the demand for labor is increasing, and Daqin has only a population of more than 2000 million.

Even fewer of them can serve as labor force.

Under such circumstances, it is definitely necessary to find some other labor force.

But Daqin couldn't do this before.

Because of a workforce.

A person has to eat when he is alive, he has to eat, otherwise he will starve to death.

But here comes the crux of the problem again.

In this era of backward productivity.

Food is an extremely precious thing.

The scarcity of food caused any country to obtain captives, even if they knew that these captives were excellent laborers.

But here's the problem.

They had no food to feed the captives.

So it can only be killed.

but!

Today's Daqian Empire is no longer the Great Qin that it used to be. From Ying Changsheng's point of view, Great Qin can lack everything, but only one thing can't be missing.

This thing is food.

Sweet potatoes and potatoes, these two excellent crops have been popularized in the Great Qin Empire, today's Great Qin Empire.

After having these two high-yielding crops.

The grains are grains.

Perhaps it is relatively scarce, after all, this thing is difficult to grow, and the yield is not very high, but sweet potatoes are such things.

As much as you want, folks have started raising pigs on a large scale, and what pigs eat is sweet potatoes and potatoes.

Under such circumstances, why didn't Ying Changsheng take out a batch of not very valuable potatoes and sweet potatoes.

And then to feed these, these captives.

Let them do what they can.

These people are no better.

You can also go down to the mine and then dig into the mountains to dig coal, right?

So for Ying Changsheng.

Not to mention how important these prisoners were, of course he couldn't kill them.

Seeing Ying Changsheng, he said to Wang Jian who was on the side.

"I thought about it carefully, these captives still have to stay!"

But then Wang Jian, who was standing beside him, opened his mouth to speak.

Ying Changsheng suddenly changed the subject and explained.

"Of course, these captives are also counted as military merit. If you tell the soldiers below not to kill the captives, I will ask the emperor for orders to treat these captives as military merit!"

"The nineteenth son said so, so the old man can feel at ease!"

When Wang Jian heard this, he immediately smiled.

Then he said to the people under him.

"Command everyone to report the number of captured prisoners and who captured them. In addition, tell them not to kill prisoners indiscriminately, and tell them that these prisoners are also counted as military exploits!"

"Yes."

After the people under him received the order, they immediately started to execute it, and then went down to pass the order to the soldiers under them, after they first received the order that they were not allowed to kill prisoners.

Immediately his face changed greatly, he was a little angry, but because of Ying Changsheng's majesty, he didn't dare to say anything, but private murmurs were still indispensable.

But then when it was learned that these captives were also counted as military exploits.

The soldiers were happy again.

Well, soldiers of Daqin.

In fact, they are just ordinary farmers. They still have to go to the fields to be hardworking, simple and self-reliant farmers.

They are relatively simple in nature.

In essence, they are not the murderous monsters and bloodthirsty gods of war described in the history books of the Six Kingdoms.

in contrast.

They are just ordinary people one after another.

Under such circumstances, after learning that he can get credit without killing people or bearing psychological burdens.

All the soldiers breathed a sigh of relief, and Ying Changsheng became grateful again.

Seeing this scene, Wang Jian in the distance not only trembled slightly in his heart.

he murmured.

"This nineteenth son has quite the morale of the army. I'm afraid that in the future he will have to fight for the position of heir..."

Wang Jian was thinking wildly.

At the same time, Ying Changsheng had already written a memorial in his spare time and handed it to Ying Zheng. In the memorial, he explained it to Ying Zheng in detail.

The benefits of not killing the captives and the magical uses of the captives in the future.

Immediately, Ying Changsheng delivered the memorial.

Give it to the people under their hands, let them hurry up and send it to Ying Zheng in Xianyang City at an accelerated speed of [-] miles.

three days later.

Daqin Xianyang City.

Inside Zhangtai Palace.

Ying Zheng was discussing with the courtiers how to handle government affairs.

Today's Great Qin Empire.

There are many affairs.

And Ying Zheng is a workaholic emperor.

Under his governance, the officials of Daqin worked hard and had to deal with a lot of government affairs every day.

So when the memorial was delivered.

Ying Zheng, who was discussing state affairs with his ministers, couldn't help frowning.

"What are you in a hurry to disturb me again?"

Ying Zheng's voice sounded.

The one on the side was in charge of delivering the imperial edict to Yingzheng, and the eunuch in his hand quickly reported to Yingzheng with a smile.

"Your Majesty is the document of victory from Yuyang County. It should be our army's defeat of Donghu. My slave congratulates Your Majesty!"

"Hahahahaha!"

After hearing that Yuyang County had won the battle, a smile suddenly appeared on Ying Zheng's face. He who was still troubled by what happened just now burst into laughter, and stood up from the dragon chair suddenly.

Immediately, Ying Zheng said with a smile.

"My Great Qin has won another battle!"

"Congratulations to Your Majesty!"

And in the Zhangtai Palace in the main hall, the officials were kneeling on the ground.

After hearing the news, Li Si, the prime minister in the hall, was the first to react, and then led the ministers to shout towards Ying Zheng.

(End of this chapter)