Compared to Nareixuan, Houyang Cheng's situation was even worse.
Not only did they have to face the threat of the Qin Army's search, but they also had to face the threat of hunger and the harsh environment. Before this, although Houyang Cheng and the empress had gone through some difficult days, they had never been in such danger.
The feudal vassals in the country all knew that they had to protect the emperor and occupy the capital to show their legitimacy. But now, this was a foreign invasion, and they didn't care about legitimacy at all. They just wanted to capture them and bring them back to claim merit and receive rewards. Who knew what would happen to them after they were captured.
In any case, they definitely wouldn't have a good ending.
So hiding was necessary.
Under the protection and response of the retainers, the Qin Army's search efficiency was not high. This made Li Rusong very angry. He repeatedly reprimanded the general in charge of the search and never accepted the possibility that those people had already escaped Jingdou. He thought they must still be here.
But what could he do if he couldn't find them?
While Li Rusong was worrying about this, his chief of staff, Xu Yangchuan, gave him a suggestion.
"Instigate informants?"
Xu Yangchuan gave him such a suggestion that was unclear whether it was good or bad. In view of the current situation, Xu Yangchuan realized that Li Rusong was short of people, so he decided to use this method to find all the suspicious places and investigate them one by one.
"Yes."
Xu Yangchuan nodded and said, "There is no one in the Imperial Palace, and we have sent people to search all the major mansions. There is no place to hide people. So, if they still haven't left the city, the only place they can go is the private houses in the city.
We can use the Japanese in the city to tempt them with food and money, and get them to provide us with some useful information. Although most of it might be useless, as long as there is one useful piece of information, we can use it to catch the person. "
Li Rusong thought about it and felt that there was no other way, so he nodded and agreed.
As a result, a notice about providing clues in exchange for food and money was posted. In order to take care of more illiterate people, the secret agents of Black Water organized a group of Nihonese who were willing to cooperate with the Daqin army to publicize the strategy of the Daqin army throughout the city.
Later, Xu Yangchuan also suggested that Li Rusong select some of the Nihonese who were willing to cooperate with him to form the Nihonese Self-Defense Force. He specifically selected those who looked shifty-eyed and were not good people to cooperate with the Daqin, giving them weapons and the right to kill, so that they would go against their compatriots.
This would only be good for Great Qin and not bad.
Li Rusong felt that this idea was very novel. After thinking about it, he felt that it was quite effective. However, after considering the specific safety issues, he decided to only give them wooden sticks and not iron weapons. Then, he gave the order to form the Japanese Self-Defense Force.
After several military orders were issued, Jingdu, which had been in extreme panic, immediately showed some changes. Many Nihonese came out of their houses to provide some information they knew to the army.
Whether it was useful or not, he asked people to record it and then organized people to investigate it one by one. Food should be given, and those who were willing to join the Japanese Self-Defense Force should be given money after selection. This showed that the Daqin army was benevolent and righteous, so that they could see clearly what an excellent army the Daqin army was.
As a result, a Japanese Self-Defense Force of 1,000 people was organized.
Their task was to be responsible for public security and to find suspicious people and hand them over to the Daqin army. Li Rusong and Xu Yangchuan divided Jingdu into five areas. Each area was garrisoned with 200 Japanese Self-Defense Force and 50 Daqin soldiers, who were responsible for maintaining the security of Jingdu.
Jingdu was still under strict military control. Every day, only 3,000 people were allowed to go out of the city to harvest. Under the strict supervision of the army, no one was allowed to slip through.
The establishment of the Japanese Self-Defense Force greatly eased the pressure on the Qin Army, so that the Qin Army could allocate more people to loot everywhere and obtain military supplies. In addition, the search for information had also made great progress.
Several areas were designated as key areas by Xu Yangchuan. The Black Water Secret Agents brought their own people to investigate and find suspicious traces.
While Li Rusong was making progress, Chai Guozhu's troops had basically swept through the entire Kyushu Island and controlled the entire Kyushu Island. Just when Chai Guozhu felt that he couldn't spare too many people to march into Honzhou Island, on the 24th of April, someone came.
The population screening team and occupation troops who had been ordered by the emperor to cross the sea had arrived. Most of these occupation troops were new soldiers. There were about 10,000 of them, and it was said that tens of thousands more would be sent over. They were responsible for guarding the local areas and freeing the hands and feet of the combat troops so that they could continue to march. At the same time, they were also responsible for maintaining public security and managing the Japanese captives so that they wouldn't cause trouble.
Once they caused trouble, they could test the results of their training. They would kill them, crush them, and let them know the dignity of the Daqin army.
The work of the population screening team was much more important. Of course, it was not easy.
The most difficult step was the first one. In the occupied areas, they had to find all kinds of craftsmen and people who had mastered all kinds of skills, mainly blacksmiths, carpenters, locksmiths, and other handicrafts.
This part of the screening was not a small amount of work, but it must be completed first. After completing the first step, they could move on to the second step.
The second step was to divide the Japanese population according to the young and strong, the old, the weak, the sick, and the disabled.
This division was relatively simple and crude. It was much less difficult than the first step, because Xiao Ruxun stipulated that the young and strong were men and women above the age of 14 and below the age of 40. The old, the weak, the sick, and the disabled were everyone else.
The young and strong were divided into one group, and the old, the weak, the sick, and the disabled were divided into another group.
The young and strong were first selected and sent back to the country in turn. They were sent to the construction sites of the Liaodong Dashi Road and the Northwest Dashi Road to work. They were provided with food, medical care, and the minimum guarantee to ensure that they could be used continuously.
The old, the weak, the sick, and the disabled were selected and sent to the construction sites of the Southeast Dashi Road and the Southwest Dashi Road. They were only given one meal a day until they died of exhaustion, sickness, and starvation. The last bit of value was squeezed out of them, and then they were gradually consumed.
The old, the weak, the sick, and the disabled were consumed as quickly as possible, and attention was paid to extending the use of the young and strong. This was to maximize the power of the Japanese population to serve the major infrastructure construction of the Daqin, and it could also strengthen the Daqin's control over the Japanese islands.
Of course, Xiao Ruxun also set an important requirement.
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