Since the report of the war, Xiao Ruxun had been staying in the Ming Army camp in Ishijian to deal with the future stationing of the Ming Army.
According to the plan, Xiao Ruxun wanted to leave 10,000 people to be stationed in Ishijian, Yinqi Island, and Sado Island. Ishijian was the main garrison, and the other two islands were secondary. Yinqi Island only had a purely military function as a buffer, so Xiao Ruxun could only arrange 500 to 1,000 people to be stationed on the island. Because there was a gold mine on Sado Island, a large number of captives were needed to open up the mine, so about 2,000 troops were needed to maintain stability.
The Ishijian area not only needed to open up the mine, but also needed to be guarded in case of accidents, so a maximum of about 7,000 troops were needed to guard, manage the captives, and manage the mine.
However, even so, Xiao Ruxun felt that these troops were not enough. His original idea was 20,000 people, but considering the soldiers' homesickness and the high cost of supplies and transportation, Xiao Ruxun still chose the minimum of 10,000 people. After all, food could be obtained by farming in Country R. However, gunpowder, muskets, guns, and cannons had to be transported from the Daming. If there were too many people, the burden on the imperial court would be great, and there would be a lot of resistance.
These days, Xiao Ruxun walked through the entire vein of Ishijian Ginseng Mountain and saw hundreds of large and small mines. He knew that a lot of this mountain of silver had been dug by the Japanese before, and he didn't know if the output of the remaining mineral deposits was enough to dig for 50 years. Anyway, Xiao Ruxun didn't intend to stop. He dug to his death, and he didn't intend to cherish manpower and material resources. Anyway, he used things from Country R.
After the war, there were about 40,000 young and strong people in Ishijian, and 120,000 old, weak, women, and children. This was the approximate figure that the Ming Army's scribes had calculated after walking all over Ishijian. Xiao Ruxun waved his hand, and all 40,000 young and strong people were escorted to various mines to start mining. The women were gathered to wash, cook, and sew clothes for the Ming Army. The old and weak people were all gathered to the fields to start farming again, providing an appropriate amount of food and vegetables for the Ming Army.
Of course, squeezing these people's labor like this, coupled with the fact that the Ming Army used violence to force them to do things, these people would inevitably rebel. Xiao Ruxun didn't intend to set off a revolutionary movement for the Japanese in Ishijian, so he made an ingenious plan to use the Japanese against the Japanese.
The Ming Army only arranged a few soldiers and horses to monitor the various construction sites and fields. The people who were mainly responsible for driving the Japanese to do things were also Japanese, and they were the Japanese traitors carefully selected by Xiao Ruxun. This group of Japanese traitors had a total of more than 300 people, and the leader was a Japanese who didn't have a surname called Wulang.
This person's ancestors were honest farmers. When it was his turn, Japan started a war with Korea. He was drafted into the army and went to Korea. However, he didn't land in Korea and stayed in Tsushima Island. He was captured by the Ming Army on Tsushima Island and then surrendered to the Ming Army. Because he was familiar with the road in Ishijian, he became an honorable guide.
After the war in Ishijian subsided, when Xiao Ruxun was selecting the person in charge of the puppet army, Wulang entered his sight. So he summoned Wulang and the other 16 hardcore Japanese traitors and personally praised them. In order to show that the Celestial Empire valued them, Xiao Ruxun gave them the Ming Army's military cap and trousers.
So they gloriously became the "people on the same side" as the Ming Army. From then on, this group of people's energy increased greatly, and their work efficiency was extremely high. When they drove their compatriots, they were even more ruthless than the Ming Army!
With a leather whip in their hands and a Ming Army saber on their waists, these 300 people were divided into 10 groups and wandered around various construction sites. In addition to the Ming Army soldiers who were responsible for guarding, they were the main force to maintain order. Moreover, Xiao Ruxun also told the Ming Army soldiers who were guarding not to beat up those Japanese and not to scold them. They only needed to monitor. As for the rest of the things, these Japanese traitors would help them do well.
In the beginning, the generals of the Ming Army did not quite understand Xiao Ruxun's intention. Until one day, when Li Rusong was on a break, he had a sudden impulse to go to the mine cave to inspect. He originally planned to show off his power and pretentiousness. As a result, when he arrived at the entrance of the mine cave, a nondescript dwarf wearing a Ming Army military cap and a Ming Army trousers rushed out of the mine cave. He ran to the front of Li Rusong and kowtowed. Then, he nodded and bowed to welcome Li Rusong in with a flattering face.
Before entering the mine, Li Rusong heard the sound of ghosts wailing and wolves howling and the sound of whips being lashed. Li Rusong was still very puzzled. He didn't know what was going on. When he walked in to take a look, he saw a group of Japanese wearing Ming army trousers waving whips and beating a group of Japanese.
Li Rusong was dumbfounded. He pointed at the Japanese who were tied up in a row and hung up to be whipped and asked the Ming Army sergeant in charge of the mine cave. The sergeant said with an embarrassed face that this was Admiral Xiao's arrangement. He let the Japanese manage the Japanese themselves. They did not intervene, beat or scold, but only monitored from the side. Then, everything was really done by this group of Japanese, and they did it more thoroughly than the Ming Army.
Li Rusong looked at the flattering smile of Wulang and those who were cursing and waving whips. Seeing their compatriots' skin and flesh torn, but with an abnormal smile on their faces, Li Rusong seemed to understand something. After he went back, he told the army about this matter.
After that, there were constantly generals of the Ming Army leading them to these mines to "inspect". After witnessing these scenes with their own eyes, there was no need to say anything about their admiration for Xiao Ruxun — these Japanese were really ruthless. When dealing with their own people, they were even more ruthless than the Ming Army. Sometimes, they were so ruthless that even the Ming Army could not stand it. The officers of the Ming Army who were responsible for monitoring the mine cave often stopped those people's excessive behavior.
It had come to this point.
"Once they have lost their way of retreat and sold their souls and dignity, they have no other choice. In order not to be abandoned by their masters, sometimes they can even kill their own family members. When dealing with their own people, they are more ruthless than their enemies. This is the basic characteristic of a traitor.
This is not the thinking of a landlord who is tyrannical, but a completely sick thinking. They know that only by doing this will they not be abandoned. In order not to be abandoned, they can only be more and more ruthless because they know that once they are abandoned by their masters, they will die without a burial place. "
"But by doing this, will it hurt the harmony of heaven?"
Yuan Huang also went to see the hellish scene and escaped with a look of discomfort on his face. "If we continue to oppress those Japanese like this, I don't think they will work obediently. We …"
After all, Yuan Huang was old and kind, but Xiao Ruxun's heart was as hard as iron and he did not care at all.
"We weren't the ones who did it, it was the traitors of the Wokou people. We are the arbiters, not the perpetrators. Soon, the Wokou people will understand this. I have more ways to divert the hatred of the Wokou people. They will never think of attacking the Great Ming Dynasty, definitely!"
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