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The slaves transported from the north did not stay in Weishan Commandery for long before being shipped onward to various destinations. The five thousand slaves bound for Xingang Commandery had it simplest: they disembarked directly at the docks, transferred to trains, and were sent straight to the mines in Xingang Commandery.
The more than six thousand women were sent by ship directly to an unoccupied island in the middle of the lake. Large quantities of daily necessities would be transported there afterward, followed by screening by the Medical College and the Garment Factory Xiao Die was preparing.
The other able-bodied male slaves, more than two thousand old men, and the ten thousand or so underage boys were all transferred onto Flying Fish Boats and transported south. Some were sent directly to various construction sites, while others were organized into engineering units and dispatched first to open wasteland and establish farmland.
The ships that had come south from the north, meanwhile, needed to stop at Weishan Commandery for supplies. Several tens of thousands of people had been eating, drinking, and relieving themselves aboard the ships for more than a month straight, and the stench was enough to make anyone's eyes roll back. The ships therefore needed a thorough cleaning.
Furthermore, there would not be another mass southward shipment of slaves in the future. Now that the slaves had been sent south, there was no need to transport so much grain from the north either—only enough to feed their own people. Thus, the ships making this southward journey did not all need to return.
It was precisely this period of rest and resupply that finally allowed the militiamen escorting the captives south to witness the might of the Han Tribe.
These northern Remnant Tribe civilians had