Water Margin: The opening game is angry and tears Anzhao!

Chapter 381

Chapter 381: Three Moves to Dingsu Prefecture, Half of Hexi as a County!.

In Suzhou, Chai Hao led a 100,000-strong Zhou army and rested here for a few days. In the past few days, Chai Hao has also made some changes accordingly.

Those tens of thousands of captured prisoners of the Ganzhou Uighurs, Chai Hao sent a team of about 1,000 Great Zhou generals, with 10,000 soldiers of the Suzhou Long family, now renamed the generals of the Wuwei Army, to escort those prisoners of the Ganzhou Uighurs back to the Central Plains.

These prisoners, if Chai Hao takes them to the west, it will be difficult for them to return to their hearts in a short time, but it is a hidden danger that may jump back.

If you stay in Suzhou, and don’t mention whether Suzhou can support these tens of thousands of mouths, it is meaningless for these people to eat and do nothing.

Therefore, Chai Hao asked people to send them back to the Central Plains and hand them over to Prime Minister Li Gang, Li Ruoshui, and send them to the coal mines in Hedong to dig coal.

After all, today’s Dazhou, the main energy source has become coal that is resistant to burning and more labor-saving and environmentally friendly than firewood. In the area of Hedong and Taihang, open-pit coal mines alone have an area of hundreds of thousands of miles.

With the current consumption level of the Great Zhou, it is enough to be mined for a hundred years. And such a large range, the labor required is naturally quite a lot.

Many of those prisoners of the Jin Kingdom and the prisoners of Western Xia were sent to Hedong. However, there will still be gaps.

On the one hand, those alien captives who were punished for servitude became depleted with age.

On the other hand, the population of Dazhou is close to 100 million, and these people need fuel for cooking on weekdays, fuel for bathing, fuel for restaurants, fuel for burning bricks and tiles, fuel for all walks of life, and fuel for stoves for winter.

In the past, people had not discovered the role of coal, and before it became popular, the people of Dazhou did not know that it was enough to cut down millions of trees just for the daily fuel.

In this way, as the population after the Great Zhou will increase, it will definitely not be enough. Therefore, Chai Haocai vigorously promoted coal.

And the population of nearly 100 million people needs a lot of coal every day.

Therefore, Dazhou has always had the problem of sufficient coal mine management, but insufficient labor.

After all, the productive forces of this era have not yet been mechanized, and even open-pit coal mines are somewhat dangerous when digging deep.

The people of the Great Zhou Dynasty themselves were all used to realize the industrialization of the Great Zhou, and they were all used to cultivate grain and manufacture workshops… How can it be used in the place where coal is dug?

What’s more, if Da Zhou’s own people went to dig coal, then the imperial court would also pay the people for their work.

However, these defeated enemy prisoners do not need to, as long as they are given food every day and let them have the strength to work, they can always create value for the Great Zhou.

And the coal dug up by these free laborers was sold by the Great Zhou people who needed fuel at a fair price. This comes and goes, it is a source of wealth that is more profitable than official salt. It directly caused Da Zhou’s revenue to more than double compared to when Zhao Song was in time!

Therefore, Chai Hao will not go far and send people to send these tens of thousands of Ganzhou Uighurs to the Central Plains.

After giving this order, Chai Hao 0.9 appointed a great Song minister who accompanied him as Suzhou Zhizhou, and left a Great Zhou man who commanded 500 men as a stayer.

The Suzhou Long family originally had 30,000 warriors, and they were sent by Chai Hao to the Central Plains for 10,000, and then Chai Hao asked the head of the Long family to select 5,000 warriors to stay in Suzhou to assist in defense.

And the head of the Suzhou Long family, in the identity of Gui Yibo, restrained the Wuwei army adapted by the 15,000 dragon family warriors, and followed Chai Hao to the west….