One of the advantages of the season when it is impossible to work outside the home is that everyone is confined to their homes, and it is quite appropriate to conduct a census.

Wei Rui, who was in charge of the registration of the population, including some of his subordinates, was naturally more bitter, braving the wind and snow to visit one place after another.

Waiting for the spring season to arrive, Lu Wu saw Wei Rui again, and couldn't believe that such a dark-skinned and rough person, who still looked extremely haggard, would be the man who was a little personable before.

Wei Rui, who doesn't look very good, is extremely energetic.

He had come to report to Lu Wu on the progress of the population registration.

"At this time, the number of men to be levied under the reign is three thousand four hundred and twenty-six; For school-age women, it is counted as five thousand and seven. Wei Rui talked about the most important data first, took a cup of hot water handed by Lu Wu with peace of mind, took a sip, put down the pottery cup, sat upright, and continued: "The minister only visits seven or eight out of ten, and the rest can be done before spring ploughing." ”

Lu Wu was looking through the bamboo slips.

He had roughly calculated it himself, and the population of the territory, including samurai, subjects, and slaves, was about twenty-five thousand.

And that's really a rough data, and it's certainly not absolutely reliable.

When Wei Rui said that men can be recruited, he refers to the young and strong among the people, that is, the number of people who can be arranged to become "envy (reserves)".

Let's talk about military matters first, which is indeed the most important thing in this era.

Normally, only the samurai class and the necessary auxiliaries will be assembled, but it is not always normal.

At the most critical moment, who cares so much, if they can kill the enemy, they will definitely pull it out.

The recorded age of women generally refers to women who are able to conceive.

It may be a little bit like that, but the number of women who can conceive is not only important to a nation, but also to a family.

Wei Rui only completed about 80 percent of the progress, but the number of people recorded exceeded Lu Wu's thought of 25,000 and reached 34,000.

This number is naturally even counted in the slaves, including the capture after coming to the "yin" land, as well as the captives brought back by Lu Wu last time when he went to the Huren territory to fight the autumn wind.

On that occasion, Lü Wu was given 800 horses, 1,400 cattle, and more than 13,000 sheep.

In terms of the captured population, the old Lu family was divided into a whole number of five thousand.

There will be so many, it is nothing more than that Han Wuji and Wei Jiang know very well what is going on with them, and they will take out their share more or less and give it to Lu Wu in order to reach that amount.

When Lu Wu should be low-key, he will weaken his sense of existence, and he will not be polite when he should fight.

Of the five thousand captives allocated, four thousand were women, most of whom were of appropriate age for childbearing; The remaining 1,000 males are basically in the prime of life.

With these 4,000 women, the old Lu family has changed from more men and fewer women to more women and fewer men.

And Lu Wu has always wanted to get a batch of white-skinned systems, and he got more than three hundred as he wished, and he also picked women as much as he could.

Speaking of the white skin lineage, he seems to remember that the Zhao family has Caucasian blood?

The retainers couldn't understand why Lu Wu wanted so many Caucasians, especially some Caucasian women.

As for why Lu Wu wants a Caucasian woman?

Every era has its own aesthetics, and most of the time, the Central Plains people look at the white race when they look at the ugly eight monsters.

Lu Wu is different.

So, exotic, you know?

Of course, he couldn't have been formally accepted, just treated like a toy.

The key word "play" needs to be emphasized.

It doesn't have to be about color!

Educating a group of maids who look completely different from the Chinese people, and watching them work in Chinese clothes is a pleasure for Lu Wu.

The rest of the people didn't understand Lu Wu's fun, and only thought it was a quirk.

On the whole, the captured Hu people were very docile, much more docile than the ones that the old Lu family had purchased before.

Lü Wu thinks that there is a difference between capturing and buying.

Later, he understood the situation.

It turned out that it was only because the leader of the Hu people and their families were in the hands of Lu Wu that they would be so docile.

He pondered for a moment to figure out what was going on.

This is an era of bloodline, and the Chinese cultural circle is like this, and the Hu people are actually more particular.

The Chinese nobles can still pass on, and the retainers will obey the same as the subjects.

On the Hu people's side, they can't enjoy the advantage of bloodline, so they recognize that bloodline inheritance.

Therefore, if Lu Wu controls the life and death of those leaders' families, the rest of the Hu people will be very obedient.

Knowing this, Lu Wu increased the treatment of the group of captives with "noble blood", and found that the rest of the Hu people were a little grateful.

In this way, he felt that he had found a new law.

Until the ice and snow melted, before everything really recovered, the old Lu family "lived" again.

And when Lu Wu was inspecting the territory, a retainer came to tell him, saying that Wei Xiang was coming.

After all, Lu Wu hadn't seen Wei Xiang for seven or eight months?

He returned to his residence and met Wei Xiang in the lobby where he had come to meet guests.

"Wu." Wei Xiang has been raising him for a winter, and he looks like he has gained some weight? He asked, "Is it okay to allow my armor?" ”

That is, at about this time last year, Lu Wu left the national capital Xintian and promised to help Wei Xiang build a bronze armor.

Of course, he didn't forget this, but he didn't do it himself.

Wei Xiang seemed to be joking, waited for Lu Wu to kneel down and sat opposite, and said, "The king intends to ally with the Qin army, and the envoy has left Xintian." ”

This monarch is no longer Jin Jinggong, but has become Ji Shouman (Jin Li Gong).

Lu Wu didn't know about those things, and when he was about to speak, he saw a team of maids coming over with supplies for hospitality.

Wei Xiang had already seen these maids before and said, "Wu often has unexpected actions, and this is also true. ”

Isn't it just a bunch of Caucasian women?

Even this has to be taken out and ridiculed!

That is, the relationship is good, otherwise they are both nobles, and they will not get along so casually.

"Xiang, this is ......" Lu Wu waited for the maids to retreat before continuing: "Not for armor?" ”

Wei Xiang restrained his smile, made a somewhat gloomy face, and said, "How cunning the Qin people are. ”

This was the result of Qin's successive dishonesty, which led to credit bankruptcy.

In fact, the Jin Kingdom is not a ritual, but it is very good at finding reasons, it is still the overlord of the Central Plains, and the countries dare not beep more.

The new monarch, who wanted to do something, decided that improving relations with Qin would be a good start.

It's just that a few Qing Qing think it's whimsical.

What they decided was that the Qin people who had no credit could not believe anything.

Again, Qin's eastward exit is a national policy, how can it be so simple to give up?

If he didn't hurt the Qin State, even if Qin Jun signed any covenant, he would definitely not take his oath seriously.

Ji Shouman, the new monarch, didn't like the attitude of the secretaries, and was paranoid that he thought that his power was not enough, and he wanted to get things done.

Listening to it, Lu Wu could imagine it.

The new monarch wants to subdue the nobles.

As a courtier, it is not good to directly harden the monarch.

A new storm is brewing in Xintian, the national capital, what is everyone thinking about, and what major events are very likely to break out?

Then, Wei Xiang came to the "yin" land, not to distract himself at all, but must have a very clear purpose.