Chapter 20: Reforming the Captive

"You must do your work here well. If you can save a little for the army, just save a little for the army. This is also a major event that is beneficial to the overall situation!" When Chai Rong's old boss saw that the two deputy teams were very dissatisfied with sending them here, he enlightened Chai Rong and Hu Yanzhao. However, his eloquence was really average. The above said that he would send another person to do the job, but Chai Rong's old boss had a strong self-esteem. After receiving the order, he took it down: "Zhang Rong, Hu,

Yanzhao, you should know that although the grain in our territory is still sufficiently allocated and will probably last for the next year's harvest, it will cost money when fighting. If we save one point here, we can save two points for Gaochang, five points for Shule and Shazhou, and seven points for Ningyuan and Liangzhou! If we earn more food, we can save a lot of money in the back, so now, try not to spend money without spending money, and accumulate more materials by relying on our idle combat, and accumulate more materials."

To accumulate more supplies, for now, Chai Rong and the others will pick up a few more pieces of cow shit...

"We are a great Tang Dynasty. Do we need to save these cow shit?" Hu Yanzhao felt a little incredible. When he was in the Guzang grassland, the military tried his best to satisfy them and raise some young soldiers - especially the young soldiers who performed well in training and were rewarded, and now they were asked to supervise the prisoners to pick up dung and carry grass. Can Hu Yanzhao not think that he is useless?

"You can also burn the stove with cow and horse manure mixed with mud!" Team Zheng said: "Other firewood and black fire water are all useful. If you can use local materials for eating and heating, try to use local materials. I heard that the rear side is coming to urge you again!" Team Zheng was actually very dissatisfied. He was talking about the matter in Hexi to Chai Rong: "A few days ago, someone passed Luntai Mountain Road in the south and came here, but he was talking about why the rear side was short of money!"

“Lack of money?”

"Yes, I heard that Hexi is short of money, and it seems that it has started to borrow money for us... Damn, did you make a lot of money by opening a trade route on the border? Why is it so useless?" The team said: "They said they are starting to issue debts to support us in the war. We must win the war and finish the war quickly - Damn, how can we win if we say we win? The Uighurs are fighting their lives now, but the people in the rear are still petty..."

As he spoke, he was off topic. Suddenly he remembered that he could not say too negative things in front of the two teenagers, and quickly changed his words: "But we don't care about the civil servants in the rear, at least we should think about the difficulties of the marshal and the governor! Now they must be in a difficult situation, otherwise the governor would not order all battalions and troops to use money and food with caution. A few days ago, when Yang Zhuo was practicing arrows, he threw away some arrows with less feathers. They were scolded by the governor, saying that if everyone was like him, there would be no need to fight this battle, and he would waste himself and punish him for one month's salary."

In fact, Yang Yi was under much greater pressure than what the team said. Although Zheng Wei raised a lot of money to maintain Beiting's military expenses, the civil servant group still had many dissatisfactions. The corrections Taiwan did not dare to publicly oppose it on the front line, but some people indirectly said that the cost of the front line was too high, which squeezed the people's livelihood in the rear. The economy of many places from Hexi to Anxi was indeed affected, especially the Guitang tribe in the Anlong Grassland.

Ce army recruited many flocks from them to Beiting. The promised how much money they would have to be given, but now it has become a return in batches. This made many herders full of intentions to raise funds from merchants to fill this gap. The merchants had to complain and replace them with grain. The grain stocks hoarded by the Cangsi are an important pillar for maintaining the price of Anlong grain and Beiting military rations. They should not be moved lightly. They should collect grain from the farmland area, but are afraid that farmers will have any opinions.

Now the central government is trying to borrow from all over the world. For this war, although the soldiers in the front were fighting to the death, the soldiers, farmers, industrial and commercial behind also tightened their belts and squeezed out a lot of money. Therefore, Zheng Wei sent a public notice to Yang Yi, asking the soldiers on the front line to save some money for war. Zheng Wei sent such an obvious intention to send an open notice, that is, he hoped that Yang Yi could consider his difficulties and express his attitude to cooperate with him so that he could convince all classes of scholars, farmers, industrial and commercial.

At the same time, the writing also had some expectations, and at the end, urging the front to end the war as soon as possible, so as not to drag down the entire Tiance Tang economy. Zheng Wei withstood the pressure, and he did not lose the materials, money and food that Yang Yi wanted. Yang Yi had to take care of Zheng Wei, so he had to take care of Zheng Wei this time.

"So, what you do here is very important, do you understand?"

Chai Rong's team was actually not very clear-cut, and he was actually not very satisfied with the rear pointing fingers at the front line. However, when the orders on the top peak were conveyed, he had to convey them. Hu Yanzhao snorted, not even disagreeing, but Chai Rong seemed to listen and said, "The troops and horses have not moved, and the food and grass have come first. Now we are fighting a war of national prosperity. We must not only work together with the front line, but also with the rear line. The rear and the front line are trying to support us as much as possible. Our front line and the rear line are united.

We try our best to consider that they have difficulties. The people in Anlong have a difficult life. Although the money and grain we use are handled by civil servants, they are eventually paid from them. More than 100,000 people on our side have wasted a hundred dollars, and they have to squeeze hundreds of money from them. One person wastes a liter of rice, and tens of thousands of stones will be added in the back. One person saves a piece of firewood, and the rear can save countless money. In this difficult time, save, save, help, help, help, this is what the team is saying."

The team leader was overjoyed and said, "Yes, yes! That's it!"

Hu Yanzhao couldn't help but nod when he heard Chai Rong say "We must be in line with the front line, and we must be in line with the rear line." He couldn't help but nod and said, "That's true, the people in the rear are not easy."

He was not happy with the criticisms of civil servants before, but when Chai Rong said that the money and food came from the common people, he changed his mind and felt that it was impossible to waste it.

The team commander said again: "In addition, although the prisoners you guarded were our enemies before, the Marshal said that they were young and ignorant, and were all ruined by Satuk and the Tianfang Sect. Seeing that they were not old, if we could treat them well and often explain the truth to them, we might not be able to teach them again."

"I understand the meaning of the brigade." Although the literary teachings on the Guzang grassland have not been completed, the several principles of marching and fighting have been taught very early, including the "treat the prisoners well". Chai Jin said: "Our enemy is Satuk. What we want to fight is the Uighur nobles who use the teachings of the Tianfang Cult to do evil, rather than these Uighur young men who have been deceived by Satuk. They have been bullied by Satuk for a long time and do not know it. What we have to do now is to wake them up and let them wake up as soon as possible, right?"

The Tang army had a set of formed or even written rules about how to treat prisoners and how to transform prisoners. These rules were printed into pamphlets, and there was one more book above the lieutenant. Chai Rong was different from ordinary young soldiers. He could always pay attention to some things that others were not paying attention to. He had read several such pamphlets as soon as the Guzang Grassland, so he responded as soon as the team said it.

The team was even more happy when they heard this and said, "Yes, yes! But these young men are stubborn and it is not easy to teach them to correct themselves."

"I understand," Chai Rong said: "But these things require patience."

The three of them were discussing how to persuade these young Uighur soldiers. Chen Fengxiao broke in outside and said, "The team leader, deputy team leader, it's not good! Those young men rebelled again!"

The team was surprised, and Chai Rong said, "I'll go and have a look!"

After rushing out of the tent, he rode a horse and rushed to the scene of the incident. He saw hundreds of Uighur prisoners kneeling on the ground. Dozens of Tiance young men were riding horses and surveillance with knives. Shi Octopus was holding a whip and beating a fifteen or sixteen-year-old Uighur boy. Chai Rong felt relieved when he saw the scene was already under control, but then shouted: "Stop! Octopus, what are you doing!"

Seeing that Chai Rong was coming, Shi Octopus threw down his whip hatefully, pointed at the corners of his swollen and bloody eyes and said, "This guy actually dared to hit my head! If it weren't for flashing faster, my eyes would be blind!"

The Uighur boy raised his head. He was beaten by the stone octopus and rolled on the ground in a ball. At this time, he stared at the stone octopus fiercely, without any fear, and only hatred!

Chai Rong knew something was wrong when he saw it and asked, "Why did he hit you with a stone?"

Shi Octopus could not say it and said, "Who knows!"

Chai Rong asked Chen Feng to laugh, and Chen Feng smiled and said, "I don't know." When asked Gengxin, Gengxin didn't know, and the other young soldiers refused to "betray" the stone octopus. A Uighur boy who knew some Tang Yan shouted, "He... he hit someone first! He also scolded him!"

Chai Rong asked, "Why did you beat him?"

Shi Octopus was stopped and his face turned red. Chai Rong asked, "What, is it a reason that he can't say it?"

"What can't you say!" Shi Octopus sneered: "I hate these guys, their faces! So I whip him twice!"

"Looking at him, I whip him twice..." Chai Rong's face darkened and he said, "We are on the Guzang grassland, the old team is teaching us how to treat the captives. Do you still remember it!"

Shi Octopus could not speak anymore, and Chai Rong said again: "If you kill the enemy on the battlefield, don't say you're whipping him a few times, it's nothing to kill him with one knife. But if you abuse the prisoners here, what kind of good man are you?"

"Okay, okay!" Shi Octopus said: "This is my fault. Can't I be punished? You just want to kill the chicken to warn the monkey and just do it!"

Chai Rong asked Chen Feng with a calm face and smiled: "What should we do according to the military law?"

"This..." Chen Feng smiled and didn't want to see Shi Octopus being punished for this: "Prime Minister of the Deputy Team, can it..." But looking at the hundreds of pairs of eyes around him, it was difficult to let Chai Rong publicly favor with his personal interests in public, so he secretly scolded Shi Octopus for doing too much and making it so clear that he couldn't do it without impartially enforcing the law.

Chai Rong said: "Your popularity is good. Everyone is unwilling to be an ugly person, so I will do it! You whip him a few times just now? Let him beat you back!"

Shi Octopus shivered all over, and said, "How could you let him hit me...I...I can't bear such insults!" As he said that, he pressed the knife on his waist!

Chai Rong said: "This is not an insult, it is fair!"

He threw the whip in his hand to the Hu Er boy who was beaten by the stone octopus. The boy was very fierce. He was not afraid of taking the whip. His face was full of gloating. It seemed that as long as he beat the stone octopus back, he would not be afraid of death.

He was about to take action, and Chai Rong suddenly said, "Wait!" He jumped off the horse and said, "You are my subordinate. You have made a mistake. I have the crime of lax supervision. I have to share half of your sins!" He said to the young man, "You hit me first! If you want to hit him twenty whips, you will hit me ten whips first. If you want to hit him forty whips, you will hit me twenty whips first." He said, and turned his back.

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and Chen Feng smiled and shouted: "Boss... the deputy team leader! How can this be done!"

Chai Rong said: "We are different from the barbarians. We must acknowledge what we say and follow the rules. This is a punishment according to the law. I don't think it is an insult." He said to the Hu'er: "Battle!"

The young man suddenly had a sneer on his lips, as if he was saying, "I haven't seen such a stupid guy before!" He whipped it over with a whip! The sound of the sound was so loud. The stone octopus screamed, and wanted to snatch it but was pushed away by Chai Rong. Chai Rong said, "Continue!"

The Hu'er whipped seven or eight whips, tearing Chai Rong's clothes to the point of the whip cracked! A deep blood mark was printed on the place where the whip tips were taken!

The young soldiers watching looked as if they were being whipped. Shi Octopus had already let go of the knife on his waist, and was sweating from the side, shouting: "Stop, stop, I will suffer the rest myself!"

Chai Rong said to Hu'er: "You have already hit me a few whips, and when you turn around, you can only hit him a few whips."

The young man glanced at Shi Octopus. He wanted to take revenge. He refused to stop when he heard this. He sneered and whipped it again, and then whipped eight or nine more whips. Shi Octopus was frightened. Several Uighur boys couldn't help but shout, "It's enough! Stop hitting!"

Baye still whipped more than a dozen more whips, which made Chai Rong's clothes cracked, and then said, "Okay, enough!" Then he whipped at Shi Octopus again. Shi Octopus looked at Chai Rong and endured the pain and was beaten by him for twenty or thirty whips. Baye laughed and threw the whip, saying, "Okay, I'm enough, I'm enough! Come and kill me!"

Chai Rong was in great pain. When the cold wind blew the wound, cold sweat fell from his forehead, but he held Shi Octopus and pointed at Baye and said, "Don't harm him because of what happened today." He said to Shi Octopus again, "You promise me too!"

Shi Octopus was also in great pain, but said, "Okay! If I touch a hair of him in the future, I will write the three words Shi Octopus upside down!"

Chai Rong said to the young prisoners again: "Work hard, I come back every day to inspect. If someone bullies you for no reason, you will tell me, I will make the decision for you! But if you slacken off for no reason, I will punish you. If you dare to have a bad intention, the rebels will die! The fugitives will die! The rebels will die! I will protect you according to the military rules, but I will also kill people according to the military rules!"

He pulled Shi Octopus and said, "Let's go, come with me to apply medicine."

He was stunned by the back of Baye, who thought he would die without a doubt, watching them helping each other away.

Chai Rong's whip sore lasted for several days before the scab was formed. Before the pain was completely cured, he went down to the ground. Not only did he watch the young prisoners work, but he asked the young soldiers to follow him.

Chen Fengxiao and others were unhappy: "What? Let's pick up cow dung? We are the soldiers of the palace!"

"We are soldiers in the palace, so we have to pick up cow dung!" Chai Rong said: "You may have forgotten what the Marshal said to us when he entered the Guzang grassland, but I still remember a lot: He told us that war is not just about charging forward, but often we have to endure the country, endure humiliation and do dirty work, and for the final victory, we have to endure eating tree bark and grass roots and drinking camels, let alone just picking up horse manure? If you don't pick it up, then I will pick it up. Not only will I pick it up, but tomorrow, the team will also pick it up with me."

Chen Fengxiao and others were stunned. Chai Rong said, "Do you know why we pick up cow dung? Because in order to support us in the war, the people in the rear tightened their belts and saved food to supply us to the front line. There were many places in Hexi who had already had food. In order to support us in this war, those who could eat were now drinking porridge, and those who could eat were now half hungry. No one here is from a wealthy family, so you should know what it feels like! Picking cow dung as firewood is not very helpful, but if you can help you make up a little, just help you make up a little. Let's help you make up a little more, so that the comrades on the first ring of the front line can be more relaxed to defeat the enemy!"

Some of the boys listened to it, and some didn't. But seeing Chai Rong also took action, Shi Octopus said, "The deputy team leader has taken action, how can we be idle!" So he took the people to follow him.

The young soldiers were divided into two squads, led by Chai Rong and Hu Yanzhao in turn. One squad went to the field to work, pick up manure and transport grass, and the other squad was responsible for the supervision. The young prisoners were originally full of resentment when they did these work, but now seeing Chai Rong taking the lead in working, and these Tang army boys were eating the same as themselves, many people felt at ease. Chai Rong and Hu Yanzhao were in good condition, so no one ran away after half a month.

After finishing the work in this area, Chai Rong had already paid attention to it. He saw that many of the prisoners were obedient, so he promoted them to lead the team and slowly strengthened their control over these prisoners. Soon after, the work was finished, and Shangfeng arranged for them to go to another area to wash horses. Chai Rong asked the young men to divide the work and cooperate. Seeing that Chai Rong was doing things fairly and did not abuse him, they obeyed him and did not want to take the risk of running away.

The commander in charge of this area saw that Chai Rong was in charge of the teenage prisoners in an orderly manner and reported the situation, and the above transferred a group of new teenage prisoners here.
Chapter completed!