Chapter 1931

Of course, Qiao Zhiya's politeness was only verbal. In fact, with the quality of this banquet, even if it was placed in a big city like Sanya to entertain high-ranking people, it would be of sufficient quality. The only thing that was almost uninteresting was that the dining environment here was still relatively good.

It is relatively crude. After all, it is a mining garrison camp in an inland mountainous area. The conditions of the infrastructure facilities cannot be compared with those of specialized reception agencies outside.

Li Pu would not be too picky about these details, and he was not surprised by Qiao Zhiya's arrangements. Since going abroad, the meals arranged by Haihan have basically never let him down, even if he bought such a big house in the deep mountains and old forests.

He also habitually thought that this was Haihan's basic operation to prepare a sumptuous banquet - with Haihan's official ability, there seemed to be nothing he could not do.

Qiao Zhiya also specially called Lu Li, the commander of the local garrison, to accompany him, and asked him to introduce the situation of the local garrison and hard labor camp to Li Bo and others.

The most important task of this force specially stationed in the Shilu Mine is actually to guard the local hard labor camp. In 1631, there was a big disturbance in the hard labor camp. At that time, Haihan dispatched multiple armed forces to attack.

The entire Qiongzhong Mountain Area was cleaned up. In addition to hunting down prisoners who escaped from the hard labor camps, they also cleaned up the settlements of mountain people who did not obey Haihan's rule. After that, the management of the hard labor camps became extremely strict, and

There have been no similar emergencies in recent years.

Lu Li only officially took over the management of the hard labor camp this year. His predecessor, Yuzhen, was a police officer from Yacheng. Now he has been transferred to Manila City to serve as the local police chief. He can be regarded as starting from Shilu.

He has managed to survive in this difficult environment. And Lu Li is now the garrison commander and also in charge of the hard labor camp. He has a lot of people in charge of him. The hard labor camp alone has maintained three people for a long time.

With a detention capacity of more than a thousand people, the number of prisoners exceeds that of any prison in any place under the rule of Haihan Kingdom.

The current sources of prisoners in the Haihan hard labor camp are mainly serious criminals who have been sentenced from various parts of the country, as well as prisoners of war captured in Haihan's foreign wars over the years. For example, after the Battle of Manila at the beginning of this year, a large number of prisoners of war were deported separately.

Going to the hard labor camps in Shilu, Xingdao and other places, the population of Shilu hard labor camp, which had declined last year, has returned to the level of 3,000 people.

These prisoners are generally sentenced to long sentences, and many are sentenced to life imprisonment. Very few prisoners can survive their sentences and regain their freedom. The vast majority of them cannot withstand years of high-intensity physical labor and harsh living conditions. Nowadays, in

Only the lucky ones who have more than three years of experience in the hard labor camp and are not physically disabled can have the opportunity to be promoted as foremen, and can receive relatively easy job benefits.

Li Bo was quite interested in this special institution, and specifically asked how the forced labor camp managed prisoners or prisoners of war from other countries - after the Qing army retreated from Korea this year, the coalition forces captured thousands of prisoners of war

, are now temporarily handed over to North Korea for detention. How to deal with these prisoners of war is also an urgent problem for North Korea. The management experience of the Haihan people in the hard labor camps seems to be a reference for North Korea in dealing with this problem.

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"Usually, we will arrange foreign prisoners in separate groups. For example, each group of prisoners will only have one or two prisoners of war from the same place to prevent them from taking the opportunity to get together." Lu Li has been working here for several years.

I have already accumulated a certain amount of experience in the management of hard labor camps, and my words are clear and succinct: "For those harsh people who do not obey the discipline and do not obey the arrangements after coming in, we must kill them as a warning and deal with them early, and we must not let these prisoners give birth to themselves."

It’s an idea to go against the authorities!”

Lu Li said these words with murderous intent, which made Li Shu feel a little frightened. He thought that since this man has been stationed in this inland mining area all year round, he probably wouldn't have much chance to lead troops to fight, but there was still something like this in his conversation.

If he has a strong murderous intention, he must have executed a lot of prisoners during his term of office.

Li Xi, who was next to him, spoke for him to verify this guess: "Then Mr. Lu must have personally executed many of these rebellious people who did not obey the arrangements in the past. But if he killed too many, it would probably still affect the labor efficiency of the hard labor camp.

Bar?"

Lu Li said something meaningful without comment: "Master Li, in this hard labor camp, the most valuable and least valuable things are human lives. For us, we only need to keep the valuable people."

Li Bo thought about it carefully and felt that although Lu Li's words were cruel, they were indeed true. With Haihan's level of shrewdness, there was no need to spend money to support prisoners who could not be used by themselves. He would naturally regard them as

He was a burden. He bowed to Lu Li immediately to show that he had learned the lesson. Lu Li quickly stood up and returned the courtesy.

After taking a short rest after lunch, Qiao Zhiya took Li Bo and his party to visit another mine mined by hard labor prisoners. This place was obviously different from the mine he saw in the morning. Steam machinery and equipment

The number of steam machinery has been greatly reduced. Except for the winch laid on the slope of the mine for transporting ore and the two crushers at the entrance of the mine, no other steam machinery was seen.

"The main reason is to prevent prisoners from destroying these valuable equipment." Qiao Zhiya took the initiative to explain the reason for this difference: "In the past, some prisoners would use labor tools to destroy steam engines in order to create chaos or block construction, so later we

Adjustments were made based on the actual situation, and only the steam equipment outside the mine was retained, while all mining operations in the mine were completed by manpower."

Li Bo thought that the Haihan people probably suffered some losses from this, so they had to remove the steam engines and adopt more primitive mining methods. However, the labor cost of the hard labor camp was low, and there were no worries about imposing tasks. Of course, these prisoners were treated as

Used like livestock.

In fact, this situation is obvious. At the mining point in the mine, you can see some people beating the prisoners who have slowed down or are exhausted with whips, asking them to cheer up and work hard. These people are very cruel, so that

Li Bo, who was not quite used to this kind of scene, couldn't help but feel a little flustered.

"These guards are so vicious, aren't they afraid that the prisoners around them will suddenly rebel?" Li Bo still couldn't help asking Qiao Zhiya his question.

Qiao Zhiya smiled and shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, are you talking about those people in the mine? They are not guards, these are the people standing at the entrance of the pit."

Li Pu was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then immediately understood what Qiao Zhiya meant - these people who beat the prisoners desperately were actually prisoners, but they should have been given special powers by the official to act as supervisors in the mines. And for some reason

The reason is that they are so enthusiastic about this job that they even risk irritating other prisoners by using whippings and insults to supervise the work.

Qiao Zhiya quickly solved the mystery for Li Bo: "These prisoners with whips are the foremen among the prisoners. Each of them is responsible for a mining site and has corresponding production tasks. Needless to say, after the task is completed,

If they fail to complete the task, in addition to regular punishments such as deprivation of rations, they are also likely to lose their positions. People who can climb to this position have worked hard to get ahead. After climbing up, they will not

They are willing to fall again, so they will supervise the work of other prisoners very hard, without even considering whether they will offend other people."

After hearing this, Li Bo suddenly realized that these prisoners who were officially appointed as foremans probably got the chance to be in charge after surviving a long period of whipping. If they were unable to complete their tasks, they would have no choice but to return to the past.

The position of being whipped by others. In this way, it is not a big deal to offend other prisoners. It is more important to keep your own job first. When other prisoners who have survived become foremans in the future, of course they will have the same idea. Even if there are occasionally some soft-hearted ones

People who appear in the position of foreman will soon be eliminated because of this cruel system. In the end, those who hold these positions must be ruthless characters who are willing to obey the official assignment.

According to Lu Li's previous statement, these whip-wielding supervisors are a relatively valuable group of prisoners. Using them to supervise prisoners' work is far more effective than official personnel. Even if this leads to the death of prisoners

In fact, the official did not suffer much actual losses in the battle, at most it was just a few missing people.

Haihan had indeed accumulated considerable experience in the management of large-scale engineering projects and prisoner groups, but for Li Bo, who had rarely had the opportunity to be exposed to these fields in the past, it was a very novel experience. He mentioned it to Qiao Zhiya

There are thousands of Qing prisoners of war currently imprisoned in our country, and we are asking whether these prisoners can also be used according to Haihan's method.

Qiao Zhiya said: "The situation in your country is different from ours. Almost all the prisoners of war in your country come from the same camp, which makes it difficult to disperse and resettle them. If they are to be used on construction sites, they must be equipped with more

Armed guards and stricter management."

Li Ming said: "Liaodong barbarians are often fierce by nature. Even if they are prisoners of war, there are still many who refuse to be tamed. If they are directly used on construction sites, I am afraid there will be problems."

Qiao Zhiya said: "No matter how hard your neck is, it is not as hard as a steel knife. Your Majesty should still remember what Major Lu Li said earlier, right? Just keep valuable people. Otherwise, if you keep these prisoners of war, they will eat your country thousands of kilograms every day."

Food, that would be a big loss."

Li Bo said with a worried look on his face: "Having said that, I'm afraid that after killing the prisoners, the Qing Dynasty will take revenge..."

"Whether your country kills these prisoners of war, Huang Taiji will not let your country go." Qiao Zhiya decided to wake up Li Ming, who still had some illusions: "It is not a joke for the Qing Dynasty to send troops to invade your country this year.

The purpose of the tens of thousands of troops is to destroy the Li family! If your country had not reacted quickly and mobilized reinforcements, with all due respect, the prince might have been a prisoner of the Qing army at this moment!"

What Qiao Zhiya said was not a joke, but the original random historical facts of Bingzi. After the Qing army crossed the Yalu River, it arrived in the North Korean capital twelve days later. The final result was that the North Korean King Li Zhuo came out of the city to surrender and sue for peace, and the North Korean army Several major officials who were pro-Ming and anti-Qing were handed over to the Qing army. Afterwards, North Korea removed the Ming Dynasty title, handed over the imperial edict given by the Ming Dynasty, accepted the Qing Dynasty as the orthodoxy, and transferred the eldest son Li Fu and the second son Li Hao Sent to Shenyang as a long-term hostage.

Li Pu felt a little unhappy when he heard this statement, but he still kept his temper and did not show it on his face. In his opinion, even if no coalition forces came to Korea to support the battle, they should still be able to slowly fight against the Qing army. He had to deal with the situation so that he would not become a prisoner. He did not even consider the possibility that his country would surrender to the Qing Dynasty and admit defeat. He felt that he might not be able to defeat the Qing army, but that was just to the extent that he could not defeat the Qing army. That's it, the situation cannot develop to the point of annihilation that Qiao Zhiya said.

But in fact, he had heard statements like this mentioned more than once by senior officials from Haihan on his way south. However, this lack of empirical theory seemed to him to be just a kind of self-bragging by the Haihan people to show their merits. Haihan's military strength is indeed Powerful, but without Haihan's help, will North Korea definitely perish? Li Bo doesn't think so.

Qiao Zhiya continued: "The problems between your country and the Qing Dynasty cannot be resolved by treating each other's captives well. The Qing Dynasty needs to annex your country to strengthen its national power, so that it can have enough strength to fight against the Ming Dynasty. The prince might as well think about it carefully, the Qing Dynasty wants to When expanding abroad, which country should we attack first would be the most sensible thing."

In fact, there is no need to think too much about this issue. Even with Li Bo's limited knowledge, he also knows which of the countries adjacent to the Qing Dynasty are strong and weak. The Rakshasa Kingdom in the north, the Mongolia Kingdom in the west, and the Ming Dynasty in the south are all not very It’s easy to talk, but only North Korea, located in the southwest of the Qing Dynasty, is a relatively weak country in this region. North Korea had already been severely beaten once by the then Jin Dynasty ten years ago, and now the two countries The gap in national power is even greater. If the Qing Dynasty wants to find a soft persimmon, it will definitely choose North Korea. Regarding Qiao Zhiya's argument, Li Bo quite agrees with it.

"Whether the Qing country comes back or your country regroups its troops and goes north for revenge, your two countries will fight on the battlefield sooner or later. So regarding how to deal with the prisoners of war from the Qing country, I advise your country that you really don’t have to take any chances. Heart, even if you put all the people back, Huang Taiji will not be grateful to your country." Qiao Zhiya said solemnly: "What your country should consider is how to maximize the value of these prisoners of war. Whether it's asking for ransom or doing hard labor, it's better than raising them for nothing."

"Master Qiao is right, I will remember it." Although Li Pu did not agree with some of Qiao Zhiya's views, the other party's suggestions about prisoners of war did make sense. The most important thing is that his successful experience is right in front of him. It can be said to be quite persuasive.
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