Chapter 700 Brain Teasers
Zhao Yulin was confused.
I felt like this woman was thinking very fast and suddenly thought of that thing.
At night, he tried his best to make Hulan happy, but she fell asleep exhausted. The sun poured into the room, and the woman lay on the bed with her head on his chest, not getting up.
He said: If you don’t want to leave, stay in Chengdu, there are a lot of things to do here.
The woman immediately perked up, jumped out of bed and said firmly, "No." She packed up and went out in a hurry. Her mother had already put the child on the carriage and said with a loving face that she was waiting for her.
Zhao Yulin and Shunzhidi sent them to Nanmen Wharf together. Hulan was still waving to them even after the boat had sailed far away.
Zhidi said: Hulan was reluctant to leave, and her brothers didn't stop her.
He said: Hulan is still very ambitious and wants to unify the grassland, so let her work for a few more years.
Zhidi told him: This time the pacification envoys gave concentrated instructions, and the Ministry of Personnel specially equipped several distant routes such as Liaoyang, Lingbei, Tubo, and Anxi with trainee deputy envoys, and they were all released.
Zhao Yulin nodded, very satisfied with Zhidi 's arrangement.
It takes too much time to go back and forth on these border roads, so it is a good idea to let the new deputy envoys bring the court's strategy. He told Zhidi that border governance is a challenge, and these deputy envoys can be the focus of training for the court.
After returning, Yang Xingyun came to him and asked him what to do with the Japanese pirates captured in Busan?
Feng Guiqi wrote to report: In the war to liberate Goryeo, 20,000 Japanese pirates were captured, but many of them refused to obey the rules. They even argued with the local supervisors that the accommodation was too simple, leaking when it rained heavily and leaking when it rained lightly, the food was too coarse, there was no meat to eat, and the food was not good. When the prisoners were ordered to reform, they often made trouble, and locking them in a dark room was useless. Two of them had to be beheaded to calm them down.
This goes against our policy of treating prisoners well.
Zhao Yulin knew this characteristic of the Japanese pirates, and it was difficult to reform them, and they could not be treated as ordinary people. The brothers certainly did not have the patience of the Eighth Route Army grandfathers in later generations. They would take action when they could not stand it, and it was inevitable that they would violate discipline.
He thought for a while and said: The Goryeo army also made contributions by capturing the Japanese pirates. We will not care about them anymore and hand them over to Goryeo for custody. We will only send people to supervise them and we have only one request, which is not to let any of them go.
He gnashed his teeth and said that the captives must die on the Korean Peninsula. The Japanese pirates were too cunning, and they were thinking about occupying the Korean Peninsula and invading the fertile land of China. We must cut off their roots.
Yang Xingyun didn't want these prisoners either.
In order to keep them, they had to break the Shenwei Army's rule of preferential treatment for prisoners. Moreover, these devils were unwilling to be prisoners and were particularly good at slacking off. The amount of food they consumed and the amount of tools they damaged were not proportional to the work they did.
It would be different if it was handed over to Goryeo.
The Koreans hated the Japanese pirates so much that they had ten thousand ways to discipline them. They didn't care about the prisoner policy. If they didn't obey, they would be poked in the butt with spears. If they dared to resist, they would be punished by the collective responsibility system and would be shot to death with bows and arrows from a distance.
It's even worse if you don't do your job well, then you won't have any food to eat.
In this way, these prisoners will definitely become much more docile.
As soon as Feng Guiqi instructed Liu Zheng to hand over the prisoners, people from the Kingdom of Goryeo could not wait to enter the camp and take action.
Liu Zheng instructed General Zheng, who had taken over the prisoners, on how to discipline the Japanese pirates. The New Song Kingdom did not care, but was not allowed to let any of them go.
General Zheng smiled and asked him not to worry, saying that he would never let anyone go.
Geng immediately saw the Goryeo soldiers surrounding the prisoner camp and shouting at the prisoners to line up and move to another area.
When the Japanese pirates saw the Goryeo soldiers, they were full of disdain and looked down upon these former defeated enemies. They gathered in groups of three or five and did their own thing, and some even went into the houses where they were staying.
They don't look like prisoners at all, but more like a group of men.
General Zheng waved his hand, and immediately teams of Goryeo soldiers with spears in hand rushed forward, shouting slogans and stabbing directly. The soldiers on the surrounding watchtowers with crossbows set up shouted: Put your hands up, or you will be killed without mercy.
Damn, in an instant, the Korean soldiers knocked down more than a dozen Japanese pirates.
This is the whole camp going crazy.
A large number of Japanese pirates came out of the houses, holding brooms and shovels and rushing towards the surrounding Korean soldiers, spitting out: "Die with honor, die with honor."
My goodness, they are willing to die in loyalty to Emperor Amaterasu of Japan.
General Zheng, holding a tin trumpet in his hand, immediately shouted: Rebellion! Shoot, shoot at me.
After all, these were unarmed captives, how could they fight against the fully armed Goryeo soldiers? Soon a large number of them lay down.
The captives saw blood, corpses, and wounded people twitching everywhere. They felt like they were being slaughtered like pigs and dogs. Their legs trembled and terror spread rapidly. The captives at the back finally realized that the pots of Goryeo were made of iron. It was useless to resist and cause trouble. The best way was to stay alive.
Those who were not dead soon fell down and lay motionless on the ground.
The Korean soldiers went over with ropes and tied up the hands of the living, uninjured prisoners one by one, then tied them up in groups of ten with a rope and drove them away, and then went to the next concentration camp.
The guards of the Shenwei Army were unwilling to do so, and they raised their opinions to Liu Zheng one by one, asking why we couldn't deal with the Japanese pirates like we did with Goryeo. The Japanese pirates transformed themselves into pirates and killed many of our compatriots along our coast, and also killed many of our comrades on the battlefield. We must take revenge and kill the Japanese pirates.
Liu Zheng was also annoyed, but military rules were ironclad. Anyone who dared to violate them would lose their job or their life. He kicked them one by one, yelling, "Go away, go away, don't bother me anymore," and drove them all away.
This matter was soon known to the spies of Japan.
It was also the Koreans' fault for not avoiding suspicion in their actions. When they received the prisoners, they would have killed some of them in the camp of the Shenwei Army, but they felt that it was not enough. On the way back, they would just kill ten of the prisoners they didn't like, under the pretext that some of the prisoners had escaped, and they would execute them according to the collective responsibility system. If they were not satisfied, they could try to rebel.
Seeing how fierce the Koreans were, the Japanese pirates regretted that they should not have run wild in the Shenwei Army's camp. They secretly cursed the Koreans for being too barbaric and slaughtering even the captives at will. However, these guys dared not show their anger on their faces, otherwise they would be dragged out by the Korean soldiers, their hands tied and hung up to be exposed to the wind and rain.
This was no fun. Two Japanese pirates had been suspended for a long time. After they were let down, their hands could not move. They had to rely on their fellow sufferers in the room to feed and give them water. Even their defecation and urination had to be helped by them.
The Goryeo soldiers had an even more powerful method. After the Japanese pirates entered the Goryeo concentration camp, they changed to only eating two meals a day. The reason was that the Japanese pirates came to the island to burn Goryeo's granary, Goryeo was short of food, and the people were still starving.
Moreover, the only meal we had after work in the afternoon was porridge.
However, the work cannot be sloppy. Goryeo took these prisoners out to build roads and stipulated that the task must be completed, regardless of whether it was sunny or rainy.
Of course, the Korean soldiers were still very tolerant and carried out an assessment every three days, which would be postponed if there was continuous heavy rain. However, anyone who dared to cut corners or slack off in work would be beheaded immediately.
Thanks to Goryeo's careful operation, the number of more than 20,000 prisoners was quickly reduced to 15,000.
The Japanese spies in Goryeo collected materials on Goryeo's indiscriminate killing of prisoners and immediately sent them back to Japan. When Fujiwara saw it, he was so angry that he screamed and kept saying "Bage Yalu".
Emperor Amaterasu had long wanted to contact the New Song Kingdom, and now he had found a reason. He wanted to send an envoy to the New Song Kingdom to tell the Emperor of China about his grievances of being sidelined, and ask the kingdom to help him take down the shogun and return power.
Fujiwara had spies around Emperor Amaterasu, so he naturally would not let him succeed. However, he followed Emperor Amaterasu's wishes and sent a questioning note to the New Song Kingdom.
In Chengdu, Zhao Yulin was reviewing memorials when his maid informed him that the Minister of Rites Li Liang and the Minister of War Yang Xingyun had arrived.
He immediately asked everyone to come in. Why do brothers have to go through so many formalities?
Yang Xingyun looked at Li Liang and said: Mr. Li has something he wants to ask for instructions from you, young master.
He looked at Li Liang in confusion.
Li Liang reported to him: Goryeo slaughtered the Japanese pirates we handed over, and the Japanese envoys from the island came to him to seek justice and asked us to take the captives back from Goryeo. The Japanese were willing to be captives of the New Song.
Zhao Yulin looked at Li Liang with curiosity, thinking that the Japanese on the island were really smart. The prisoners were captured by the Shenwei Army, and they should be guarded by the Shenwei Army of the New Song Kingdom. The New Song Kingdom should be responsible to the end.
Damn it, you still owe me this.
Yang Xingyun said: "Korea was going too far. They even put up a ten-point order for prisoners in the concentration camp. If they were not careful, their legs would be chopped off or their arms removed. They slaughtered the prisoners without hesitation. The brothers were jealous. They thought our military rules were too strict and we were too kind to the Japanese pirates, not giving them a chance to avenge themselves."
The island country of Japan also demanded silver as ransom to redeem all the soldiers and generals in the prisoner camp.
Li Liang was a Confucian scholar who was well-read in poetry and books. He certainly did not want to see the army engaging in indiscriminate killing.
He blamed Goryeo for doing something inappropriate. Since the enemy had surrendered, they should be given appropriate living conditions. How could they be killed at will like animals?
Zhao Yulin nodded, but he felt unhappy. He thought that someone had to come to him for advice on such a trivial matter. What was wrong?
He said to Li Liang: "The Japanese pirates are not like ordinary captives. They are too cunning. It is understandable that the Koreans used some means to deal with them. Otherwise, we would not have handed over these captives in the first place."
Moreover, why did the Japanese island country come to us to argue? They obviously came to the wrong place. They were at war with Goryeo, and we sent troops to help Goryeo. Goryeo was the master. Goryeo left the captives on the peninsula to be disciplined. The Goryeo people must have the right to deal with the captives. Let them go to Goryeo to argue.
Li Liang understood that Zhao Yulin's words clearly supported the army's actions, regardless of the lives of the Japanese pirates, let alone redeeming them with money. He was a little surprised. In the past, Zhao Yulin always talked about treating prisoners well, but why did he change his mind when he met the Japanese pirates?
Seeing that the two of them were still not leaving, Zhao Yulin took a sip of tea and said: The Ministry of Rites can also send a document to inquire about Goryeo, requiring them to strictly manage the prisoners while giving them corresponding survival opportunities.
