In this world, everyone was like a small gear in a precision machine running at full speed. They had their own positions and responsibilities, and none of them could be dispensed with.
The officers were busy from dawn to dusk, and the supervising officers were not having a good time either.
Whether or not the officials made any mistakes or even broke the law was their responsibility. In this war, they could not allow any negligence to exist.
Any negligence could change the situation of the war. The supervising officers who had just arrived at the place had also been put through a strict test.
For example, if a team of civilian workers did not arrive at the destination on time to be dispatched, they had to investigate the reason and find out where the responsibility lay. If there was a shortage or an increase in the quota, they had to find out the reason. With a scale of more than 100,000 people, it was even more difficult to deal with the problem.
The officers and soldiers at the frontline were opening up a new situation with their lives, and the logistics officers in the rear were also doing their best to ensure that there were no problems with the logistics.
The war continued smoothly. The Qin army was like a hot knife cutting through butter. On the fifteenth day of the war, they had already wiped out all the military outposts around the Hai Long Depot, trapping Yang Yinglong on top of the depot. The battle of Bozhou was about to end.
In the following days, the army attacked Hai Long Depot fiercely and broke through several checkpoints. Hai Long Depot was in imminent danger.
The morale of the native soldiers on Hai Long Depot had fallen to the limit, and they had almost lost their will to fight. They were only hanging on by relying on the natural stronghold. Once the Qin Army broke through and got close, they would quickly collapse.
Yang Yinglong woke up when the second checkpoint was broken and the third checkpoint, Wan An Pass, was in imminent danger.
After learning the current situation, he immediately ordered the opening of the warehouse to increase the offensive of gold yuan, so that the soldiers at the frontline could get more rewards and resist with their lives. Then he began to try all kinds of ways to buy time.
For example, during the interval between the two attacks of the Qin Army, he sent people with gold, silver, treasures, and antiques to visit the general and commander-in-chief of the Qin Army, begging for mercy, seeking a peaceful solution to the dispute, and proposing a way to surrender voluntarily but keep the status of Bozhou.
Zheng Ying gave some instructions to the frontline commander. The frontline commander changed his previous rough approach. He left the gifts and chased the envoy back. He told Yang Yinglong that it was impossible to retain his status in Bozhou. If he wanted to live, he could only surrender unconditionally.
Giving Yang Yinglong a glimmer of hope, reducing the intensity and frequency of attacks, making him misjudge the situation, mistakenly thinking that there was a problem with the logistics of the Qin Army, and the army was weak, increasing the hope. So, Yang Yinglong continued to send people to negotiate with more gifts, using this way of wrangling to give him hope.
The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. After squeezing out some of the treasures in his hands, they would fight. On the one hand, it would give him a heavy psychological blow, and on the other hand, it would make the highly nervous Bozhou soldiers relax.
Sometimes, it would not be so easy to take a breath of relief again.
On the other hand, it was to let the Qin Army soldiers rest. Although they attacked in turns, they had to attack once a day, which was a very severe test for the soldiers of the Qin Army. A proper day of rest was also very meaningful.
In any case, Yang Yinglong would definitely bring gifts. There were so many treasures, jade, and antiques, Zheng Ying was dazzled. He could not stop sighing that Yang Yinglong was really rich, and that his 700 years of foundation was really not made of paper.
The generals of the Qin Army really did not know how many treasures they would get after taking down the Sea Dragon Depot, and how happy His Majesty the Emperor would be.
It was estimated that they would be able to recover their capital from this war. After all, part of the expenditure of this war was contributed by the local chieftains.
These chieftains also contributed a lot of silver and food, which were recorded in the accounts of the army. In a certain sense, it saved some expenses for the army.
The wealth accumulated by Yang Yinglong in the past 700 years, the gold, silver, and jewelry, as well as the warehouse full of food and armaments, should be able to make up for the losses of the war to a certain extent.
After the war, those who were captured after the war could be used as coolies for His Majesty the Emperor to mine, and handed over to the Ministry of Works for management. After that, it could also reduce the burden of corvee labor for the common people.
In other words, Yang Yinglong on the Sea Dragon Depot was a big fat piece of meat, a fat piece of meat that would make one's mouth drip with oil. The whole of Bozhou was a bigger fat piece of meat.
After the land reform and return to the stream, the concept of land reform should also be implemented here, so that it would be completely under the control of the central government for the first time in more than 700 years.
Of course, this was a matter for later. After the war, those who followed the army to attack Yang Yinglong must be rewarded.
They must be allowed to live the same lives as before, so as to appease the hearts of the people. It was the same for the whole of Guizhou. They must be allowed to settle down and let them think that the central government was only here to suppress the Yang family and show off their muscles, without any other request.
The Daqin would leave a group of troops to guard here, and the rest of the troops would begin to enter Sichuan and Yunnan. According to Xiao Ruxun's established strategy, a wave of land reform would be set off here.
The slaves under the chieftains would rebel and overthrow the chieftains who had been suppressing them for hundreds of years. Through their hands, this system would be ended, and the central government would be able to control the local areas.
The Ming Dynasty's land reform and return to the stream was in name, but it was not done thoroughly.
The local chieftains were still entrenched, and they still controlled a large amount of resources. The Ming government could control very little, and most of it was taken away by corrupt officials through corruption. There was almost nothing that belonged to the central government.
The Ming government also did not seem to think that these places would be able to collect much from taxation. They had never cared about the wilderness in the southwest.
Thus, the central government maintained a relative stability with the local chieftains. But this stability had now been broken. The power of the central government was too strong, and the chieftains had already realized it.
Since that was the case, they could not be given much time to breathe. They had to be eradicated in one go. Whether it was Guizhou's An Song or Tian Yang, Yunnan's Mu family, or Guangxi's Cen family, they would not be pardoned.
The land reform had to be thorough, very thorough.
These wilderness areas that had been outside the jurisdiction of the central government since ancient times, were used to being far away from the central government, were not used to being managed by the central government, and were selectively ignored by the central government. It was time to end their wilderness history, and enter the era of civilization under the central government's leadership.
Within the borders of China, there should not be any wilderness areas. Within the borders of China, everything should belong to civilization.
These areas were not completely developed, and could even be said to be undeveloped. After the chieftains were overthrown, and the Great Chi Road was repaired, the southwest area would welcome a new wave of development under the central government's leadership.
Xiao Ruxun also planned to slowly migrate millions of Han people from the north, from the northwest to the north, and from Guanzhong and Huabei to these areas, completely assimilating them.
Back then, Qin Shihuang had brought the first glimmer of hope to the civilization of Lingnan. Unfortunately, it was also this glimmer that caused him to migrate millions of people south to Lingnan, planting the blood of China.
But after that, no one knew how to completely assimilate an area into their rule like Qin Shihuang did. Even if they knew, they did not have the courage and mobilization power to mobilize millions of people south like Qin Shihuang did.
From the Han to the Ming, the southwest had always been synonymous with wilderness and backwardness. Because of the chieftains and the small number of people, the dynasties did not pay much attention to this area, allowing it to run its own course. It was only in the modern era, with the development of tourism resources, that the label of wilderness and backwardness was slowly removed.
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