After talking about the withdrawal of the Right Army to Hanzhong, everyone discussed the official duties for the past few days.

"You Chang, how is the handling of the Wei army's prisoners going? How many Wei soldiers have been willing to surrender in the past few days?" Zhuge Liang asked Ma Su.

Ma Su frowned and replied, "Prime Minister, these prisoners are quite stubborn, especially Qiu Yan is the most stubborn. These Tiansu used all kinds of means, both threatening and tempting. Only a few hundred people were willing to surrender."

In the Jieting battle, the Han army captured and surrendered Wei general Qiu Yan, about 18,000 people, but in fact, most of them were captured and few were captured. Anyway, only two or three thousand were willing to join the Han army, less than 20% of the total.

That's why Zhuge Liang asked Ma Su to persuade the prisoners and mobilize them to join the Han army. Although these people were defeated by the Han army, they were mostly elite veterans with rich experience and skillful swords and horses. With them to supplement the troops, the combat power of the Han army would also reach a great level.

Besides, with their example, facing the Wei army in the future can reduce the opponent's fighting spirit and attract more Wei soldiers to surrender to the Han Dynasty. Otherwise, if more than 10,000 prisoners are kept in charge, the money and food will be consumed every day.

"Are there only a few hundred people?" Zhuge Liang couldn't believe it.

Ma Su's face turned red and he replied softly, "Yes." After saying that, he lowered his head powerlessly.

"Oh, these prisoners are worried about their families, right?" Zhuge Liang stopped the feather fan in his hand and said with a serious expression.

Ma Su looked up and replied, "That's right. In fact, I have also seen these days that there are many prisoners who are willing to surrender to our Han Dynasty. They are just afraid of the harsh laws of the pseudo-Wei army and are worried that they will involve their parents, wife and children's lives, so they dare not surrender."

"Oh, it's really difficult to surrender the Wei soldiers. I didn't expect that even Youchang would have no good way!"

Zhuge Liang couldn't help but sigh in his heart. He asked Ma Su to deal with this matter intentionally, but he took a fancy to Ma Su's advantage of being good at attacking the heart. Unexpectedly, he would have achieved little success.

"Do you have a clever plan to capture these prisoners?" Zhuge Liang asked Yang Qing and others.

He still decided to brainstorm and use the wisdom of the people to solve this problem. After all, Ji Han has always been based on benevolence and righteousness and cannot do anything to massacre prisoners.

Yang Qing and others were helpless after hearing this for a while. It was not the case that the Wei soldiers were unable to surrender. It was not the case today, but a problem that had troubled the Liu and Sun families for many years.

As for why those present were so, they naturally knew that it was not that the loyalty of the Wei soldiers was higher than that of the Han and Wu countries, but because of the Cao Wei system of wrongful service.

The so-called wrongful service system is also one of the evil policies of Cao Wei. It was established in the Cao Cao era and was a special means to control soldiers and protect their loyalty. The specific method is simply to separate soldiers and family members.

Since Dong Zhuo's rebellion, the Han Dynasty has declined and the world has been turbulent. The soldiers who rely on the heroes to rule over the land often come from local prefectures and counties, so the soldiers and their families are generally in the same place and are not separated. This is also the norm for most soldiers under the command of the princes.

Only the Cao Wei family implemented a system of mishandling in which the households and households were in one place, forcibly separated the soldiers and their families, and concentrated these families in the hinterland of rule as hostages to control them.

Neither Ji Han nor Eastern Wu were like this. Ji Han has always regarded benevolence and righteousness as the basis for establishing a country. Neither Liu Bei nor Zhuge Liang, the two rulers, would use such a bad control method against the soldiers.

At that time, the tens of thousands of Jingzhou soldiers under Guan Yu's command, and Liu Bei, who lived in Yizhou, did not move the families of these soldiers to Chengdu as hostages.

Otherwise, after Lu Meng attacked Jingzhou, how could he rely on the soldiers and families in the city to attack Guan Yu's army? Guan Yu and Guan Ping would not have ended up losing to Maicheng and dead in Sun Wu.

As for the Eastern Wu, it was because the Jiangdong gentry was too powerful, and the rampant army system also made Sun Quan unable to make a wrong system like Cao Wei.

In fact, the princes did not have control methods to ensure their loyalty in order to compete for the world, but these methods were often targeted at the generals. The only one who specialized in a large number of lower-level soldiers was Cao Wei.

In order to better manage these soldiers and their families, Cao Wei established separate household registration for them and called them the Shi Family, such as migrating to the Shi Family in Jizhou where they lived in concentrated areas in Yecheng.

The males in the scholar's family must join the army for generations and cannot transfer to other industries. Others in the family must obey the needs of national warfare and sometimes undertake certain combat tasks.

In order to gain a stable and larger population of the scholar family, Wei Ting also stipulated that men and women in the scholar family should not intermarry with ordinary households, and could only marry within the scholar family.

Later, Cao Wei forced a marriage agreement regardless of etiquette and humanity. If all the men of the scholar family assigned to the woman died, the women in the family would be designated to remarry to another scholar family to ensure that they continue to have a population.

Young men in the scholarship are called Shixi. These people are the main source of the Cao Wei Central Army and are generally summoned to serve in the capital. As for the remaining elderly, weak, sick and disabled, in addition to being responsible for local military tasks, they also have to undertake a series of corvee labor, such as reclamation of wasteland and enfeoffment of the country.

The burden of the Shi family is so heavy that there will naturally be many people who escape. In order to prevent this situation, Cao Wei also formulated a law on the demise of the Shi family, stipulating that if a soldier from a Shi family fled, the whole family would be implicated, and his parents, wives, children and even brothers would be executed.

Of course, Cao Wei has not been so stupid that he has brutal exploited the people of the scholar family, and will still give some sweetness to alleviate the sharp contradictions.

For example, if a scholar's family makes great contributions or has other skills, he can get rid of the name of a scholar, that is, he will change from a scholar's family to an ordinary family. At some point, family members who are implicated in the escape may not be executed, and may be punished as official slaves and save their lives.

However, Cao Wei's system of wronged soldiers was not aimed at all Wei troops, but mainly targeted two types of people.

First, Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Lu Bu and others and then captured the soldiers. Second, some of the central and foreign troops who went out to fight or guard the border areas. For these two types of soldiers, Wei Ting often migrated their families to the hinterland of the north to live.

This time, most of the 50,000 central troops brought to Longyou were from the military families. Cao Wei punished deserters so seriously, let alone surrendering to the enemy country, so it was extremely difficult for Zhuge Liang to surrender most of the prisoners.

Yang Qing had no good idea about this. Cao Wei's system of wrongful service was really powerful. When Guan Yu flooded the seven armies and captured Yu Jin's 30,000 Wei soldiers under Yu Jin's command, and they could not be used by him, so they had to send them back to Jiangling to be imprisoned. Of course, the 30,000 prisoners fell into Sun Quan's hands later.

"I understand, you have always been smart, can you have a way to surrender these prisoners?" Zhuge Liang saw that everyone was silent, so he had to name him.

Yang Qing smiled bitterly and said, "Prime Minister, the pseudo-Wei army is insidious and cruel. The method of wrongful combat is really hard to break, and Qing can't think of any good idea. If he asked how to deal with these prisoners, Qing would have some experience when he was in Nanzhong in the past."

"Forget it, you just want to talk about how to place more than 10,000 Wei soldiers." Seeing that Yang Qing seemed helpless, Zhuge Liang did not force the prisoners to surrender.

Yang Qing said: "Yes. The first thing to do with these prisoners is to distinguish between the military and the military origins of the military. For the military origins of the military origins of the military origins of the military origins of the military origins of the military origins of the military origins, they can be subdued to join the Han army with great righteousness, while for the military origins of the military origins of the military origins of the military origins of the military origins of the military origins, they can be placed in three categories.

Those who are stubborn and obsessed with the thief must disperse the organization and place them in remote places such as Nanzhong and Wenshan to engage in heavy work such as mining and road-breaking to punish the crime of abducting rebellion, which will last for life or twenty or thirty years."

For those who are afraid to surrender because they are afraid of implicating their families, they can be broken up and placed in Yizhou counties such as Hanzhong to carry out military farming, ranging from five to ten years.

The third category is for those prisoners who are the only sons in the family in the second category, and they can pay travel expenses to go home to show that my great man is kind to others.

I wonder what the Prime Minister thinks if he deals with this?”

After thinking for a while, Zhuge Liang smiled and said, "Good. This kind of treatment is almost the most appropriate way. What do you think of Mr. Wei?"

"What the Prime Minister said is that Mingzhi's method is extremely clever, and it can be said that it is both kind and powerful, and it is effective." Yang Yi said.

Hu Ji also agreed: "Although this method cannot conquer surrendered soldiers, we can do our best and use our talents. After all, we cannot always support these Wei soldiers."

Others also agreed, so Zhuge Liang ordered Ma Su to follow Yang.

The Qing Dynasty acted and dealt with tens of thousands of prisoners as soon as possible.
Chapter completed!