When Ren Tang and Li Xinghan's back team arrived, the proud Western camp cavalry sent another message saying that Tan Yi was also caught by them. When he heard that Tan Yi was captured, the guards from Tan Wenjun's background were red. Li Xinghan hesitated for a moment and asked Deng Ming: "I dare to ask the admiral to ask Bei Yi to escort the thief back to the capital."

The old subordinates of Tan Wen also wanted to go with Li Xinghan to escort Tan Yi. They did not want to blatantly destroy Deng Ming's reputation of not killing prisoners, so they wanted to use the excuse of escorting Tan Yi back to Chengdu as an excuse to escort Tan Yi back to Chengdu and slaughter him halfway to avenge Tan Wen, and then find an excuse for Tan Yi to try to escape.

According to the moral concept of this era, the requests of Li Xinghan and other Sichuan generals were very legitimate. They had the obligation to avenge the benefactor Tan Wen. Even if they made this request directly, Deng Ming would not flatly refuse. In fact, even if Li Xinghan publicly broke Tan Yi into pieces before the three armies, Deng Ming would not be unable to make trouble for Tan Yi and Li Xinghan, and the army would not think that Deng Ming's shelter was wrong. After all, Tan Yi killed thousands of Ming soldiers under the city of Chongqing and was heavily in debt. The solution proposed by Li Xinghan now was just to find an excuse. Now the guards attach great importance to Deng Ming's promise and reputation.

However, Deng Ming hesitated for a moment and finally shook his head: "Tan Yi murdered the Hou Fu and murdered the lives of thousands of soldiers under the city of Chongqing. You must not be unaware of the punishment of the righteous decree. Instead of letting him die here in a daze, it is better to send it to Fengjie. The supervisor can give Fuhou and the fallen soldiers in Chongqing an explanation on the court to commemorate their spirit in heaven."

Seeing that Li Xinghan and several guards showed disappointment on their faces, Deng Ming knew that they were regretting that they could not avenge Tan Wen with their own hands, so he immediately added: "Carry Tan Yi first, and when we attack Chongqing, you will escort him back and present him to the supervisor. At that time, you can ask the supervisor to execute you."

As the pioneer of the system of fame and honor for fellow scholars, Deng Ming has not yet taken this matter to Wen Anzhi, and he has not returned to Fengjie at all.

"Thank you, Admiral." After hearing Deng Ming's solution, Li Xinghan and others felt a little relieved.

...

Di Sanxi has lived well in Chengdu these days and has become famous among the military and civilians of Chengdu. Seeing that the situation around Chengdu has stabilized, Di Sanxi asked someone to return to Jianchang to report his victory to Feng Shuangli. When the cold winter passes and the mountain road is easier to walk, Di Sanxi will set off to return to Jianchang. In recent days, Di Sanxi has been idle and muttered some bad words about Li Jin in Deng Ming's ear, implying that this person is Yongli's best friend.

Deng Ming did not argue with these sow discord words, but instead talked about some exchanges with Di Sanxi. As soon as he heard that Deng Ming intended to use grain to replace the population from Jianchang, Di Sanxi said that Deng Ming was really dissatisfied. If Chengdu lacks manpower, King Qingyang would be willing to provide help. However, Deng Ming insisted on exchanging grain. If King Qingyang and his people were to use it for free, first, Deng Ming was embarrassed to take a lot, and he hoped to continue to exchange grain for auxiliary food.

He always believed that only equivalent exchanges can keep the business going for a long time; secondly, even if Deng Ming was regarded as the future monarch and father by the soldiers of Jianchang, he still needed to take out the benefits to exchange the things in the military head. If he took them for free, he would owe favors. He didn't know what price to repay such debts in the future. For example, Feng Shuangli gave Deng Ming 10,000 people, and then because of the need for manpower, he kidnapped a group of people in Jiadingzhou. So Deng Ming would care or not?

After hearing that Deng Ming had the plan to continue to exchange populations, and the number was more likely to be as high as 10,000 people, Di Sanxi did not dare to take over the big charges. Instead, he cautiously stated that as long as it did not affect the military camp of the generals of Jianchang, it would be fine for Deng Ming to replace people with food. As Deng Ming guessed, although Jianchang spoke out to the lions of the civilians without background, a male man needed fifty stones of food to redeem himself, and he also asked them to be responsible for transporting the food with a livestock cart. But if the exchange object was Deng Ming, Di Sanxi said that the price could be negotiated. If a person here in Chengdu had a relative in his Di Sanxi's army and Deng Ming wanted to leave for that person, Di Sanxi not only recognized the exchange price of about thirty stones of food, but also accepted other exchange items, such as cloth, weapons, armor or other supplies.

After repeated searches outside the city, the Ming army finally captured 7,000 Qing army prisoners. More than 4,000 Qing soldiers were not found. By the end of the first lunar month, the Ming army estimated that the possibility of their survival was very small, so they stopped further searches.

How to deal with these 7,000 prisoners has become a big problem. Originally, Deng Ming wanted to turn them into people to engage in farmland cultivation, but if they were asked to reclaim the fields, whether they would give them the same as scholars would become a problem. If they were not given, it would be difficult for these people to integrate with the local military and civilians; but if they gave, they were worried that the military and civilians in Chengdu would have complaints, especially the soldiers in the army. They are still like scholars, and these prisoners were more privileged than theirs.

In addition to prisoners, there are many problems that need to be solved in the garrisons of Jiange, Jiangyou and other places. Seeing that Chengdu is booming, the garrisons of Jiangyou and other places do not want to return to their original garrisons. Moreover, the officers in these places are also worried that their auxiliary soldiers will not advance and retreat with them. If they really want to leave Chengdu, most of the auxiliary soldiers will choose to escape from the army and stay near Chengdu to open up wasteland and become fellow scholars.

Deng Ming welcomed these troops to stay and unintentionally let so many people go back to Jiangyou, Jiange and other places that Chengdu is currently unable to control. If the Qing army launches another attack in the future, the garrisons in these places may not be able to block the enemy. Instead, they will provide manpower and guidance to the invading Qing army.

However, after expressing his willingness to stay in Chengdu, Jiangyou's officers began to ask Deng Ming for land for military camps, which gave Deng Ming a headache. Now Liu Yao and Yang Youcai have no military camps. They originally formed an alliance with Liu Jinge, and planned to treat all the people near Chengdu as military camps. After Deng Ming arrived in Chengdu, he took over all the people, and Liu Yao and Yang Youcai had the idea of ​​establishing military camps again.

"The military camp is neither efficient nor occupies a lot of manpower," Deng Ming summoned the guards, including Liu Jinge and Yuan Xiang, to discuss: "Think about it, what can I do not only not give them military camps, but also convince them to hand over all the auxiliary soldiers in their hands?"

The guards looked at each other, and no one could come up with a good idea. Liu Yao and Yang Youcai came to represent the military to seek treatment because they felt that they might not be able to save their auxiliary soldiers. Deng Ming promised them to increase the treatment of soldiers and help them maintain control of the army. Time has not passed long. If the intention of depriving their auxiliary soldiers is revealed, it will definitely make the military generals disappointed.

"Of course we won't take their things for nothing, but we have to buy them. What price do you think will make them willingly give the auxiliary soldiers to us and never have the idea of ​​fighting military camp again?"

There is still no one who can answer Deng Ming's question, so Deng Ming had to ask everyone to go back and think about it carefully, but he must not spread the matter outside the matter, so as not to make the military think that Deng Ming wants to kill the donkey.

As a result, the next day, Liu Jinge came to Deng Ming again and said that he came up with an idea, which was to exchange the prisoners for the auxiliary soldiers in the hands of the generals: "Of all the seven thousand prisoners we captured this time, nearly five thousand were auxiliary soldiers. These people were not dangerous, and even if they were allowed to serve Liu Shuai's men, there was nothing scary about it. Anyway, Liu Shuai would definitely use them as coolies. With these five thousand people, we can exchange for five thousand original auxiliary soldiers. These people are our own people and they will be divided into land for reclamation."

"This method is good. Do you have any other ideas to continue talking about it?" Deng Ming nodded repeatedly when he heard it. If the soldiers from Chengdu were still suffering in the army, the new prisoners could immediately enjoy low taxes and reclaim large areas of wasteland and own their own property. Not only might the military and civilians feel dissatisfied, but Deng Ming himself felt it was a bit unfair and damaged the morale of the army.

After getting Deng Ming's recognition, Liu Jinge couldn't help but feel excited and continued: "We caught these prisoners of war. If we immediately treat them the same as our original soldiers, it would obviously not be good."

"Well, it makes sense." Deng Ming guessed that Liu Jinge might suggest depriving these prisoners of their personal rights and turning them into coolies who are no different from other regions' auxiliary soldiers. This suggestion obviously conflicts with Deng Ming's idea of ​​the future, and is not conducive to transforming these prisoners into their own people. Although they do not have to treat these prisoners as their own people immediately, they do not intend to treat them as enemies forever.

Liu Jinge always thinks about problems straightforwardly, and rarely proposes such a plan with a beginning and end. Deng Ming knew that Liu Jinge had obviously been aware of his brain this time, so he also had to pay attention to his language and attitude, and could not dispel the other party's enthusiasm. While thinking about how to tactfully reject Liu Jinge's suggestion, Deng Ming heard that Liu Jinge had some more words.

"So, Beizhi suggested giving these prisoners of war a fame that is close to the same as scholars," said Deng Ming's surprise. Liu Jinge actually thought it very carefully: "Now they can use limited corporal punishment, and they cannot be allowed to act casually, so as not to find opportunities to escape or inquire about our information. But this fame can be changed to be like scholars in the future, at some time in the future, such as a year later, or to make enough credit, that is, if they have been proven to be reliable people. Once they become scholars, they will be qualified to be replaced by newly captured prisoners and no longer be military households."

"Wait, wait." Deng Ming raised his hand to interrupt Liu Jinge's speech, and asked with a puzzled look: "Did you think of this?"

Liu Jinge's face turned red: "Sir, wisely, Xiong Guerry came to Beizhi as a guest yesterday. Seeing Beizhi frowning, he asked Beizhi what troubles had. These were the ideas Xiong Guerry came up with to help Beizhi."

"This guy." Deng Ming snorted.

"This is all a humble and not a fault of Xiong Guerrilla." Seeing Deng Ming's bad expression, Liu Jinge hurriedly defended Xiong Lan. Although he looked down on Xiong Lan's background before, and even more despised Xiong Lan's character, Xiong Lan's performance in Chengdu this time made Liu Jinge look at him with admiration: "And Xiong Guerrilla said that he would not leak it."

"He? Of course he won't reveal it. He is much more cautious than you." Deng Ming laughed: "He must have seen me summoning you to discuss matters for several days, guessing that we may have any difficult problems. After weighing the trade-offs, I think you have a good relationship with him and the most confident that I can find an excuse to ask you when I hear the news, and then use your mouth to tell me."

Liu Jinge was surprised when he heard this: "No way? Xiong Guerrilla also specifically told Bei Zhi that he must not tell the gentleman that these are his ideas."

"Haha," Deng Ming laughed: "I said I can't disclose it, you can tell him, so how could you keep it a secret for him when he told you?"

After laughing, Deng Ming asked a soldier from the yamen to find Xiong Lan and said to Liu Jinge: "Brother Liu, not everyone in the world tells the truth to you like Ling Zun, especially people like Xiong Guerrilla, who have been struggling to survive in difficult environments for many years, and most of his words have a purpose."

Speaking of this, Deng Ming sighed softly. It has been more than a year since he traveled to this era. Deng Ming feels that his scheming has increased a lot. Fortunately, he has read some psychological analysis books and has been exposed to rich information from film and television media in the past, so he can gradually grow in the complex world in front of him.

Soon, Xiong Lan happily followed the soldiers from the yamen.

Xiong Lan suggested that in addition to exchanging the auxiliary soldiers of Liu Yao's hands with the 5,000 newly captured people, Di Sanxi should also take away the two thousand soldiers of the Ganzhou Green Camp: "These people are all killing people, and they may not be willing to let them stay and work hard to farm, and they are too many. This time, because of lack of clothing and food, the admiral took them without any effort, but they must not be careless. If the Tartars come to attack the capital again in the future, there may be people with ulterior motives among the two thousand people."

Xiong Lan originally thought that killing them was the most convenient way to save money, and once and for all, there was no need to waste food on these people. However, after talking to Liu Jinge, Xiong Lan changed this view. Liu Jinge also passed on Deng Ming's sentence "The most important responsibility of the government is to make money" to Xiong Lan, which greatly touched Xiong Lan.

"If these two thousand people were incorporated into Liu Shuai and his army, it would be even more dangerous. They could connect with each other and have the opportunity to get in touch with weapons. Can the admiral really sleep at night? Therefore, in terms of humbleness, it would be better to just send them to Jianchang. Now Jianchang is bordering with the King of Jin, and even if they want to escape, they have nowhere to run away. Besides, there are many people in Jianchang, and two thousand prisoners are nothing. The Tartars are far away and cannot attack Jianchang, so they have no chance to cause trouble."

"I can use this group of people to exchange for another group of people back from Jianchang." Deng Ming asked.

"Admiral Gao Gui. These prisoners are all war soldiers and strong. Even if they are coolies, they are stronger than ordinary people, so Jianchang is definitely willing to change them. Besides, the admiral can exchange three for two, or four for three. Why not exchange unreliable prisoners for people who are grateful to the admiral? The admiral can also ask each ordinary person for IOU for 5,000 yuan. Even if they can exchange one thousand people, it will be an IOU for 5 million yuan."

Last year, the protection fee near Chengdu was only 38,000 stones, and it was less than 4 million yuan to convert it into an IOU. Xiong Lan said: "After exchanging 5,000 auxiliary soldiers from Liu Shuai, they may also be asked to pay some redemption fees. From a military household identity to a commoner, it is actually not too much to ask for a few thousand IOU, right?"

"No, although the government wants to make money, it is best not to make any money." Deng Ming immediately shook his head and said, "I will help the people redeem people from Jianchang. It is okay to ask for IOUs. But for local auxiliary soldiers, instead of having to redeem their own money, it is better to let them remember our benefits."

"What the admiral said is that he is confused by humility." Xiong Lan quickly apologized.

"There is another military camp problem." Deng Ming continued to ask: "I don't want to continue to run military camps anymore. Do you have any ideas about this?"

If Ren Tang and Liu Yao were here, they might be wondering how Deng Ming regarded the ancestral system as nothing, but Xiong Lan obviously did not take Zhu Yuanzhang's military policy at all: "As long as the admiral changes the military garrison to recruit troops, will it be solved?"

Deng Ming shook his head. He also analyzed this method: "Every soldier needs one stone of ration every month. Even if he is given half, he will still need half a stone. Military pay is at least fifty yuan to give IOUs. Liu Shuai's soldiers are about 10,000, which is 500,000 per month, and IOUs alone are 6 million a year!"

Now IOU has no credit yet. Soldiers will probably feel dissatisfied with the military pay of 50 yuan a month. In addition, there are training funds and weapons costs, which are definitely astronomical. If you issue paper money in this way, it will not take long to produce hyperinflation, making IOU worthless.

"It's not real money anyway." Xiong Lan didn't quite understand Deng Ming's idea: "The admiral can pay the salary."

"What is guaranteed salary?" Deng Ming asked.

"For example, the mining tax, because I don't know how much the mine can produce, so I just set a number and then just collect it after I have paid it." Xiong Lan explained.

"Well, this is tax-covered, I understand."

"After recruiting soldiers, the generals will definitely fail to report the number of people. The admiral can set a number of people to provide for the salary, and then use the hair of this person. For example, set a 6,000 people. Without military garrison, auxiliary soldiers cannot be used to produce food; military pay is also determined to die, and more soldiers will be spent. Raising auxiliary soldiers will not only be useless but also requires more expenses. The generals and officials will take the initiative to let people go out to farm." Xiong Lan felt that the IOU sent to the army could be more, and there was no need to be petty. Anyway, the army also had to exchange this thing for the things in the hands of the people.

"Anyway, don't mention this matter." In this era, it's okay for those who don't know Baochao. Anyone who knows a little about Baochao, in their impression, paper money is something used to cheat money. It will last as long as it can. If you can't hold on, you will glar and turn your back and refuse to admit it. Deng Ming can understand Xiong Lan's idea, but he will definitely not agree.

Before meeting Deng Ming, Xiong Lan always believed that Deng Ming would not refuse to use banknotes to cheat money and would not care about banknote credit issues a few years later. Several of his suggestions were based on this preset premise. Now this assumption is not true, Xiong Lan had to think about it again.
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