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 hard labor, and their sentences will be longer than those of the previous people who were recruited from the tribe. .
For the people recruited from primitive tribes, their sentences range from one and a half years to two to three years. They are basically released after serving their sentences and officially become regular prisoners.
This is because the living conditions of primitive tribes and their Zhou Dynasty are very different.
To put it bluntly, their days of hard labor in the Great Zhou Dynasty were better than those of the primitive tribes. This was enough to make them loyal and loyal.
But the enemy soldiers of other countries are different. This hard labor will take at least three to five years to start, and the specific performance will depend on their performance.
After sending a total of 900 people in the first three waves to Dazhou, while the various departments within Dazhou expanded their scale, the original staff were also promoted one after another.
With the newly added immigrant population doing some things, the old people who are more loyal to themselves will be free to do other things for themselves.
The most important thing right now is undoubtedly the population transfer work at hand.
In the past, due to limited manpower, there were too many transfers, and he was afraid that they would cause trouble, so there were only 300 people in each batch, but now it is different. He has gradually become more manpower, in order to clear out the yellow sand as soon as possible To reduce the city's population, Zhou Xu decided to increase the number of people sent away to 500 starting from the fourth batch.
Don't think that there are many people in Huangsha City. This is just a border city located on the border with a barren environment. To put it bluntly, this place is not suitable for development at all.
In the beginning, the city was built here just to set up border defenses. As for the discovery of the mineral veins, that was a later matter.
In this way, excluding the city defense troops and the labor force from external mines, the total population of the city is actually only four to five thousand.
After increasing the number of immigrants in each batch, it will take at most two or three months to move all the population in the city.
Under this premise, judging from the human population alone, the new annexed population 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 areas.
The original human population of their Great Zhou was indeed small, but there were many lizard people!
In the past two years, the total population of lizard people has reached tens of thousands.
At the same time, with the continuous advancement of the lizardmen led by Li Ce, the territory of the ratmen was also captured by them.
It can be said that large tracts of territory over there are all empty. Now is the time when manpower is needed for construction. It can be said that it is just right to arrange these people there.
In addition, judging from the information obtained from the interrogation office, many countries have 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 the tribe. Being able to 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 compared to tribes with backward development, populations from other countries are not so easy to digest.
Under this premise, it is not difficult to see from the intelligence obtained so far that this Yan Sheng is more like a war 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 party's original development.
To use Zhou Xu’s previous words, many of them are ‘unjust battles’.
Even if the population obtained through this method is very submissive under the pressure of survival, they will not sincerely submit. Once war breaks out, these people will be unstable factors.
In other words, even if we exclude the newly annexed Weiguo people, the remaining people on the opposite side are not completely united, because they are essentially from many different countries.
This is a bad thing for Yan Sheng, but for Zhou Xu, it is a good thing. Because of this situation, it will be more convenient for him to annex and assimilate.
Zhou Xu, who knew this, basically did not have much psychological pressure when transferring the population.
With this mentality, after freeing up manpower, Zhou Xu increased the number of immigrants to 600 in the fifth batch, and to 800 in the sixth batch.
So far, most of the population in Huangsha City has been transferred away by them.
While making the city emptier, it also greatly reduced the food pressure in the city.
During this period, with the transfer of the sixth batch of people, Li Ce's report was also officially delivered to Zhou Xu.
From the moment the Skaven army was destroyed in the Border War, the destruction of the Talon Clan has become a certainty.
But even so, after receiving the exact news from Li Ce's report, Zhou Xu still couldn't help but look happy.
The complete destruction of the Talon Clan can be said to have eliminated a major concern of his.
Later, there will be a large army of lizardmen stationed at the border, so there is no need to worry too much about safety issues. After transferring the labor force, we can develop with peace of mind.
After reading the report, Zhou Xu spread out a piece of animal skin paper and began to write a reward for Li Ce and the others.
Destroying the Talon Clan, judging from the name alone, is indeed a great achievement, but in fact the difficulty is far less than that of the original border war.
So Zhou Xu had already known about this reward.
Originally, those with low military ranks were given a military rank, while those with high military ranks were mainly rewarded with money and objects.
After simply writing the reward, Zhou Xu didn't stop writing and took advantage of the situation to write down some follow-up arrangements.
After all, in the current situation, he still didn't know what Yan Sheng would do in the future.
In this case, Zhou Xu had no intention of going back just like that.
We must first explore the opponent's methods and options, and then consider returning to the rear to lead development after the situation on the frontline is completely stabilized.
As Zhou Xuzheng was thinking this, the sound of the horn symbolizing enemy attack came from the defense line of the city wall outside.
Upon hearing this sound, Zhou Xu, who was already dressed in military uniform, quickly walked out of the city lord's mansion without saying a word, mounted a fast horse and rushed towards the city wall where the horn sound came from.
When he arrived, a team of hundreds of cavalry on the opposite side had already rushed to the outside, then kept a safe distance and started running around the city.
Zhou Xu knew that the other side was sending cavalry to explore the road first to confirm the situation on all sides of Huangsha City.
"Your Majesty, do you want to send out cavalry troops to intercept?"
"Well, let Drogo and the others go out and force them back. If the other side wants to escape, don't pursue them deeply."
"Yes!"
With an order from here, Drogo and the others, who had been waiting behind the city gate, immediately ran out as soon as the city gate opened.
(End of this chapter)