The crowd drove the cattle and sheep, and walked in the knee-deep snow. There were horses, but no one rode on them. A warrior with a scimitar and a bow on his back led his horse and walked on the outermost perimeter. The reason for not riding horses is to ensure that the horses have physical strength, and even the horses are extremely laborious to travel on such snow, and these samurai are willing to walk in order to have enough physical strength for the horses in case of emergency.

Seeing the sudden appearance of a large group of cavalry in the distance, the pace of these marching crowds suddenly accelerated. The front one stopped, and the one behind quickly moved closer to the front. By the time Li Ze saw them completely, they had already stopped, and tens of thousands of people were huddled together, and they didn't occupy much of a place.

In the middle were a dozen wagons, and next to them were children, and on the outside of the children were women, and often, there were young men from the tribe, and these young men had no horses. They all took off their riding bows. Two fingers clasped on the feather arrow, on the string. And on the periphery of these young people, there are all old men and women.

The outermost part is the real samurai, and at this moment they have stepped on the war horse.

When he saw the Li Zi banner, one of them turned around, waved his hand and shouted a few words loudly, Li Ze could feel that the other party's guard seemed to relax all of a sudden. The man at the head rode in the direction of Li Ze. When he was still a dozen feet away, he rolled his saddle and dismounted, took a few hurried steps forward, and actually knelt straight and straight, and swallowed his head so heavily that his head was almost buried in the snow, and he could barely see it.

"Sivandan Yeluqi, I've seen Childe." The visitor looked up, and the fur hat, eyebrows, and messy beard were all stained with snowflakes, and it looked very funny.

Li Ze turned over and dismounted, took a few steps forward, and said, "Get up, Yeluqi, now you know that I am not the one who made empty promises, right?" ”

"Gongzi made a promise of a thousand gold, and he was willing to exchange for Yeluqi and these clansmen, Yeluqi and the 30,000 people of the Siwandan Ministry, from now on, they are the most loyal subordinates of Gongzi, and they swear to follow." Jerichy said loudly.

Li Ze laughed, "Get up, don't kneel there, you are the head of a clan, and in front of the clan, you must have your own majesty."

Only then did Jerichy get up.

"Why are there so few livestock?" Glancing at the Siwandan tribe in the distance, Li Ze frowned slightly and said.

Yeluqi smiled bitterly: "Originally, there were a lot, but they were detained by Zhang Zhongwu's subordinates, they said, Gongzi only said that there were no fewer people, but not livestock. Almost all the adult war horses were snatched by them. The remaining point is also left behind in order to give Childe a face, and they are afraid that Childe will be angry. When I saw them on the border of Yingzhou, there was nothing to say except anger. I have sold my life to Zhang Zhongwu for so many years, and at the end of the day, not to mention that it is good to get together and disperse, even if it is to pity us, it should not be done! When I see my people like this, Zhang Zhongwu and I can only be enemies in the future."

Li Ze nodded: "Zhang Zhongwu may not have such a small weapon, but his subordinates can't be sure."

"No matter what, I can only put this account on Zhang Zhongwu's head, if it weren't for this, my people would have died less."

"How many people died?" Li Ze asked.

Yeluqi smiled bitterly and said, "Three thousand and six hundred and eighty-one."

"So many dead?"

"It's alright! In fact, every year during the winter, there are many more deaths than this. And most of the people who died were old, weak, sick and disabled." Yeluqi said: "I thought that there would be fewer deaths this year, because Gongzi gave us hope, as long as they came under Gongzi's rule, they didn't need to die, but it's a pity that they didn't survive to the ground."

"Now that they are on my land, there will be no more deaths." Li Ze said lightly.

"Thank you, Childe." Jerichie bent down deeply.

"Jerodus, you are not short of fur, why are so many of your tribe unclothed? In this great winter, how can anyone not freeze to death? Min Rou on the side couldn't help but ask.

Yeluqi laughed miserably: "General Min, you are from the Tang Dynasty, you are from a wealthy background, how do you know the suffering of our people?" We do have a lot of skins and a lot of livestock, but do you know how much we have to pay? How many war horses and how much meat do you want to provide Zhang Zhongwu with every year? Even if there is some surplus, we have to use these surpluses to buy food, buy daily necessities, do you know how many skins we need to buy an iron pot? Five cowhides. One tea brick, ten cowhides."

Min Rou opened her mouth and stammered, he really didn't know about these.

"Food, you have to buy it. Because if there is no food, people will starve to death. And what is unclothed? One year, that is, the winter is a little harder. It's so cold that we can sleep with the sheep and the cow and we can always get through it. But if there is no food to eat, it will kill a man."

"If you don't have food, you can kill livestock!" Min Rou Ne Tunnel.

"Livestock, that's our life. If you don't have livestock, how will you pay taxes in the coming year? How do we exchange the things we have to do in the coming year? Yeluqi smiled bitterly: "In winter, we would rather freeze some people to death than starve to death livestock!" ”

Min Rou closed her mouth completely.

Although the Khitans have always been the border troubles of the Tang Dynasty a long time ago, he still can't bear to see the miserable appearance of these people in front of him.

"When you passed through Yingzhou City, Liu Chenglin didn't allocate some cotton clothes for you?" Li Ze asked.

"General Liu gave some food." Jeluch said: "They don't have any extra cotton clothes, so they can give me some food, and I am very grateful. Otherwise, more people will die."

Li Ze stretched out his hand and took off the cloak on his body, and casually threw it to an old Khitan man who was very close to him, the man took the cloak, his eyes were full of surprise, and he bent down deeply towards Li Ze, but did not wrap the cloak around his naked body, but passed the cloak to the back.

Li Ze watched as his cloak was passed to the center of the line, and a woman in the prime of life wrapped the cloak tightly around the three and a half old children.

Children are the future of the tribe.

Whether it is the Tang people or the Khitan people, at this point, they are exactly the same.

Li Ze turned around, looked at his subordinates, and waved his hand.

Min Rou understood, turned around and said loudly: "Everyone, take off your cloak."

The three thousand cavalrymen untied their cloaks in unison, and passed them to the front in a stack, and placed them in front of Yeluqi.

With tears in his eyes, Yeluqi knelt down to Li Ze again.

As soon as he knelt, all the Sivandan tribes behind him also knelt down.

"Don't just take care of the children, the elderly are also valuable treasures, there is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure!" Li Ze picked up Yeluqi and said, "I will pass the order down and let Shenzhou and Jingzhou do their best to raise a batch of cotton clothes and send them over. No cotton clothes, quilts or anything. Boxing County, Texas is the place I assigned to you, there, some of the most basic things have been prepared, after this bucket, let's do it! ”

"The Siwandan Department will never live up to the expectations of the son, and will raise countless war horses, countless lambs, and countless healthy cattle for the son!" Jerichy said loudly.

"Not for me, but for yourselves." Li Ze smiled: "I won't let you do it in vain. In addition to the taxes that should be paid, the rest, we are fair trade. Leader, good days are all struggled, under my Li Ze's rule, as long as you are willing to endure hardships and work hard, the days will become more and more prosperous."

"Obey the teachings of the child!" Jerichie bowed.

Li Ze looked up at the center of the team, looked at the dozen or so well-covered carriages there, and said, "What is there there, such a treasure?" ”

"Ewe!" Yeluqi's answer made Li Ze's eyes almost fall out.

"Put the ewes in the wagon, and the people are freezing outside?" He asked in shock.

"These ewes are pregnant with lambs, and as long as they are well, the tribe will soon have more lambs!" Yeluqi smiled: "And Childe, here, there are also the kinds of wool that I specially went to find, didn't Childe say that wool is very valuable?" After that, we will rely on them! ”

"Let's go, let's take a look!" Li Ze is also interested, in this era, because of the problem of craftsmanship, there are still very few people who use wool to make clothes, and although Li Ze's Zhuangzi has this technology, it is also secret. Therefore, sheep like this, which is specially used for wool gathering, are not popular at all in this era.

Yeluqi led Li Ze to the center of the procession, and wherever he went, the Sivandan tribe moved like a tide to both sides, making way for them.

Next to the carriage, several children were wrapped in a large cloak, only one head was exposed, looking at the dolls with crimson faces and frostbite on their ears looking up at themselves curiously, Li Ze smiled and touched the head of one of the tiger-headed guys.

Jerichie stretched out his hand and pulled away the felt of the carriage, and the heads of the sheep immediately poked out. Sure enough, it was the kind of long-haired sheep in Li Ze's head. The wool of this sheep is much better than the wool quality of those sheep on Li Ze Zhuangzi.

Stretching out his hand to stroke these sheep who were obviously better taken care of than people, Li Ze smiled: "Good things, are they in these dozen or two carriages?" ”

Yeluqi shook his head embarrassedly: "No, just this carriage, this sheep, all the hair, not meat, the original tribe raised very little, that's all, we still want to come with some other tribes."

"It's good to have a kind." Li Ze said: "Children will give birth to grandchildren, grandchildren will give birth to children, children and grandchildren will be infinite, with your breeding technology, I believe that soon, they will appear in patches on the land of Boxing."