Population Assimilation

Once these deserters were captured, there was no way their treatment could compare with that of ordinary immigrant populations. All of them would be assigned to hard labor, and their sentences would be even longer than those of the people previously incorporated from the tribes.

The people incorporated from the primitive tribes served sentences of anywhere from a year or half a year at the shortest to two or three years at the longest. Basically, once their sentences ended, they were formally released and granted full civilian status.

This was because the living conditions of the primitive tribes and those of Great Zhou were worlds apart.

To put it bluntly, even the days spent performing hard labor in Great Zhou were better than the lives of those people from the primitive tribes. That alone was enough to make them submit loyally.

Enemy soldiers from other countries were different, however. Their hard-labor sentences would start at no less than three to five years, and the specifics would depend on their performance.

After sending the first three waves, totaling nine hundred people, into Great Zhou, the various departments within Great Zhou expanded their operations, while the original staff members were promoted one after another.

Now that the newly joined immigrant population could handle some tasks, those who had been loyal to him for longer could be freed up to do other things for him.

At present, the most important matter was undoubtedly the population transfer right before them.

Previously, manpower had been limited. If too many people were transferred at once, Zhou Xu feared they might cause trouble, so each batch had contained only three hundred people. Things were different now. His manpower was gradually becoming more plentiful, and in order to empty Yellow Sand City as quickly as possible, Zhou Xu