Jerich's gaze looked through a large hole in the wall to the far north. Where, once their pasture, but now, almost to become their grave. He couldn't learn from the big tribes who went further north to avoid the Tang people's butcher's knives, because his tribe was only twenty or thirty thousand. And as far as he knew, the big tribes that moved their tribes did succeed in crossing the Hanhai Sea to the north, but the whole tribe was six or seven out of ten, and suffered heavy casualties.

He can't afford such a loss. Nor did he want his people to starve to death in vain, to die of thirst in the sea. Stay outside the mouth and be a dog for Zhang Zhongwu, although he is aggrieved, but the big guy can finally survive. Even if you are a little poor and a little bitter, as long as you survive, there will always be hope.

In the past, he had no choice but to succumb to Zhang Zhongwu's obscenity. But now suddenly a choice appeared and he wanted to try it.

Even if it's just a little bit better than before, it's okay!

As long as there are no more snow-covered days in winter, the old people of the clan will walk naked into the vast snow, peel off all their clothes and leave them for their children, saving a mouthful of food so that the children can eat more.

As long as he does not let him watch those who are tormented by injuries and diseases die in wailing, as long as he does not let him see the children who were born abandoned because of weakness, he is willing to try.

Thinking of this, he looked at Li Ze's gaze and couldn't help but become eager.

"Childe, our Khitan tribe lives on grazing outside the mouth, and grazing requires a lot of pasture, I want to know, how can you let us survive by moving us to Texas? We, except for grazing, will not do anything! Jerichy said.

"Who says you're only going to graze?" Li Ze looked at him with a smile: "You will go too much, but you will not turn these into your wealth."

"We're going to have a lot?" Yeluqi looked at Li Ze in confusion.

"Of course. You can herd, and when you get to Texas, of course you can still herd, but the way you herd is changed. In the past, you were free-range, but in the future, we will keep them in captivity! We can't raise that much, so we can raise a little less." Li Ze said with a smile: "In the past, we raised sheep, just to eat meat and drink milk, we can change a breed, for example, in my Wuyi, there is a workshop that specializes in using wool to make clothes, in the past, because the raw materials are not enough, we can only make a small fuss, if there is enough wool supply, we can expand this workshop."

"Wool can also be turned into money?"

"Absolutely." Li Ze looked at him and said, "Sheep, not only eating meat and drinking milk, but also wool, is also a good thing."

"Clothes made of wool, hard poked, how to wear?" Jerichy expressed disbelief.

Li Ze stretched out his hand to untie his outer coat, pulled out a piece of clothing from the inside, and showed it to Yeluqi: "Come, take a look, touch it."

Yeluch looked at the white clothes, they looked really fluffy, and when he reached out and touched them, they were soft and extremely comfortable.

"It's made of wool?" His mouth opened wide.

"Exactly!" Li Ze looked at him with a smile, "Do you know how much such a cashmere underwear costs?" ”

Jerichy shook his head violently.

"Ten taels of silver. That's still the cost price." Li Ze held up a finger. I made it in my own workshop, and if I sold it, I had to at least double it and roll it."

"The wool that we threw away can be sold for thirty taels of silver in your hands?" Jerichie felt like his world was being shattered by the young man in front of him with a sledgehammer. How is this done? ”

"Some special potions, some special crafts." LI Zedao.

"Can you teach it to us?" Jerich's eyes were full of scorching light.

"This is my secret recipe." Li Ze met Yeluqi's suddenly dim gaze, and said: "But I can let you buy shares, you provide raw materials, and then dividends every year, Yelutou, it's not that I underestimate you, even if you make such clothes, it will be difficult for you to sell them, because people who can afford such clothes must not be ordinary people."

"Shares, I'll shares!" Jerichy nodded repeatedly.

Seeing the fish take the bait, Li Ze smiled even more happily." Some of my subordinates have calculated that if there are enough raw materials, my family's workshop, relying on this thing alone, can earn him 780,000 to 100,000 taels of silver a year, and I will give you 10% of the shares, which is 10,000 taels, remember, this is a dividend, and as for your wool, we will still pay for it."

"Why?"

"Because of this dividend, I think you are worth the price!" Li Ze said with a smile.

Yeluch took a deep breath, this is the first time that someone has used this way of clearly marking the price to measure his value, ten thousand taels a year, not low.

"Of course, just relying on this little money, you can't make your people live a good life, you can only say that you don't starve to death, you don't freeze to death, right?" LI Zedao.

Yeluqi thought about the family's expenses for a year and nodded in agreement.

"So, I've thought of a lot of other ways for you, for example, you can make mare's milk wine, which can make money, and you can make cheese, which can make money. Don't be afraid that you won't be able to sell it, there is an economic model under my rule, called unified purchase and unified sales, well, I will say to be simple, that is, how many such things you produce, my next chamber of commerce will buy them all, as for the price, you can discuss it yourself when the time comes, but how much you sell in the future, it doesn't matter to you."

Yeluqi nodded again and again, in doing so, he may earn less, but in the same way, there is less risk, and there are risks in doing business, he is still very clear.

"Captive livestock, will allow you to save a lot of labor, these labor, naturally can not be wasted, in Texas, I will also send people to teach you how to cultivate the land, how to grow food, not to mention a bumper harvest or something, the grain harvested in a year, enough for you to eat." Li Ze continued.

Yeluqi nodded and said, "What Gongzi Li said is indeed very thoughtful for us, but I want to know, what do we need to pay?" You gave us so much, of course, not just to win Yingzhou, right? ”

Li Ze smiled: "I told you before that your tribe is under my rule, that is my people, I will naturally treat them equally, of course, the obligations that my original people need to bear, your tribe must also bear. Let's say taxes, let's say conscription. For example, when I go on a campaign, I need to recruit troops from you."

"That's it?" Jerichy asked.

Li Ze thought for a while and shook his head: "No, anyway, in a word, what my earlier people can do, you can do, what they can't do, you can't do, there are no exceptions, and there is no special. If any of your people break my law, I will cut off their heads. Jerodul, do you understand when I say this? ”

Yeluqi lowered his head and closed his eyes slightly, no one knew that at this time, his eyes were a little hot and his nose was a little sour, because what Li Ze said was something he desperately wanted to get under Zhang Zhongwu but had never been able to get.

"Jerodon?" Li Ze asked again.

Yeluqi raised his head suddenly, this time Li Ze could see clearly, there was a splash in the eyes of this weathered man.

He, actually crying?

"I promised." Yeluqi was almost roaring, and the sound was so loud that Li Ze had to lean back.

"I agreed, and while I don't know if you'll be able to deliver on what you're saying, I'm willing to gamble." Yeluqi was almost hoarse: "Li Gongzi, from now on, I, Yeluqi, will be a dog for you. If you can really live up to what you say, everyone in Sivan Dan is willing to be your most loyal lackey and never betray you."

Yeluqi fell to his knees with a thud and threw himself to the ground.

Min Rou behind Li Ze finally had a smile on her face.

dragged Yeluqi up from the ground, and Li Zelang said: "Tiele should have told you that you will follow me in the future to be a man, and I don't need a dog. In the future, you will be the same as Min Rou and them, and you will be my Li Ze's subordinate."

Jerichie couldn't seem to wait any longer. After standing up from the ground, he said: "Childe, I will return to the station, take all the soldiers and horses, and deceive the Yingzhou City Gate on the grounds that Shi Yi's department is surrounded and our department is ordered to enter Yingzhou City to assist in the defense. Childe will wait for Yeluqi to hand over a complete Yingzhou City to you."

Li Ze laughed: "Okay, I'll wait and see. Yelutou, the day after tomorrow, let's see you in Yingzhou City."

Jeruqi slammed to the ground, turned and strode away.

Li Ze stepped out of the hut, watched more than a dozen cavalry beat their horses away, and let out a long breath, Yingzhou, take .

"I can't imagine that Yeluch has such a side? Under Zhang Zhongwu, this person can be regarded as a Khitan general who can fight well." Min Rou sighed.

"Everyone has their own weaknesses, and Jerichie is no exception." Li Zedao: "If you find the weakness, you will naturally hit it with one blow. So Min Rou, not every enemy needs to be killed, if we can turn some enemies into our own people, then, there will be more and more of us, and there will be fewer and fewer enemies. This is the so-called "more help for the righteous, and less help for the unjust."

"Be taught!" Min Rou said: "Childe, the last general guesses, your kindness to Yeluqi is not just for the moment, right?" ”

"Of course." Li Ze nodded and said, "In the future, Yeluqi can become a bridge between us and the Khitans outside the mouth, and it is also an excellent thing to create some trouble for Zhang Zhongwu outside the mouth."

"Childe isn't worried about helping the Khitans, will they bite us back in the future?"

Li Ze laughed: "There are thousands of ways to check and balance them, you can look at it, after some years, I dare to guarantee that Yeluqi and his tribe, except for their appearance, do not look like a Khitan at all."