As soon as Li Yan's words fell, several border soldiers ran out with bags in their hands, and when they arrived in the field, they began to pick up the burned locusts and put them in the bags. With just a cup of tea, he came back with a bag of locust corpses. Then he went to the field with a new empty bag and continued to collect the locusts that had been burned to death.

Li Yan grabbed Zhao Datong, who had just put down a bag of locusts, and asked, "What are you doing?" ”

"Pick up locusts." Zhao Datong replied.

Li Yan asked curiously, "I mean, what are you doing when you pick up these locusts?" ”

"Eat, it's delicious." Zhao Datong happily replied.

"Can this be eaten?" Li Zhong said beside him: "It's almost the same for chickens and ducks to eat, if people eat it, won't they get sick?" ”

Zhao Datong patted his chest, "pop" and "pop", and said: "We have all eaten, there was a locust plague in the past, and the whole village caught locusts and ate them. Boiled and eaten, roasted and eaten, but fragrant. But it's not bad to feed pigs, pigs eat this thing and grow meat quickly. ”

Li Mu said with a smile: "I have long heard them say that locusts are delicious. Hurry up and pick it up, and call me when you come back to eat, and we'll taste what it tastes like. ”

Li Yan waved his hand and asked Zhao Datong to continue his great business of collecting locusts. He warned Li Mou: "It's best to cook or roast before eating." If you are sick, put you in a dark room, so that you may not be contaminated by others. ”

"Don't worry," Li Mu said indifferently: "Those guys in Shaanxi have basically eaten, and there is no problem." ”

Although the other displaced people in Henan heard the words of the border soldiers, they still stood still and had no intention of collecting locusts. They felt that the locusts were too dirty to eat, and they would not eat them even if they were a little hungry themselves.

At noon, Li Yan gave each of the homeless people who came in to take refuge with a bowl of gruel, and then let them leave. But most of them don't want to leave, if they still think that they have their own land, then after this locust plague, the grain production will inevitably decrease, the price of food will rise, and they may not be able to buy seeds.

"Do you really want to stay?" Li Yan asked loudly, "Aren't you here to eat a bite of food?" When there is food in the future, will you still leave here and live on your own like last time? ”

Someone in the crowd began to kneel down and shouted: "Childe, we know that we are wrong, we were blinded by lard before, and we have failed Childe's kindness." We will definitely obey the son in the future, please take the son in. ”

"Please take it in."

"We must listen to Childe's orders."

……

The people who knelt down kept crying, they had no way to go back now. The gold and silver in their hands could not support them until the autumn harvest, so they had to stay in the stockade to survive.

Li Yan nodded and said loudly: "If you want to stay, you can also give a penny and give ten acres of land." ”

"Gongzi Xie, Gongzi Xie takes it in." People responded happily.

"But!" Li Yan was not carried away by people's gratitude, and he continued to say loudly: "You must hand over all your gold and silver. I will give you bread in the future; Cloth, you don't have to worry about it. ”

The crowd began to complain in low voices.

"That's our money!"

"Childe, okay, our little money can't get into your sight."

"Why should we hand over our money? I think you're robbing with fire! ”

……

All sorts of voices shouted in a mess, in short, it probably meant that they were unwilling to hand over the money in their hands.

Li Yan pressed his hand, quieted the crowd, and said, "The people who were left behind, they have already handed over all the gold and silver. You can choose for yourself, and if you want to stay, you have to hand over all your money, and you choose. ”

Some people got up and left after a moment of hesitation, and only a small number remained.

"You are not a good person, the money is ours, we will not give it to you!" A strong man named Lin Chenghai shouted loudly. As he walked with his family, he said: "We can live on our own, and we don't have to pay money or rent to anyone." ”

There was also a middle-aged man with a somewhat rickety back who shouted to Li Yan: "You are a villain!" You're in danger! We are going to Kaifeng, we can live anywhere, not only you have food here. ”

"Yes, we are going to Kaifeng, if it doesn't work, we will go to the capital, there are always well-wishers, and there is always an official government that will release grain for relief!" The crowd of people who left shouted loudly, hoping that more people would leave here with them, and the chances of surviving might be greater.

Li Yan ignored the people who left, and instructed Wang Dejiang: "You take them in, register their household registration, and divide the fields for them another day." ”

"Okay, Mr. Li." Wang Dejiang agreed. After that, he brought these people who were willing to stay into the stockade and allocated houses. Fortunately, there were not many people in the village, and these people could still live.

When these people were brought in, Li Zhong asked, "Fourth brother, what do you want money for?" ”

"Let them have nothing to do with them, so that they can stay here with peace of mind." Li Yan replied casually.

Li Mu said in a thick voice: "Just take it back by force." In the past, in our ranks, we would collect all the soldiers' money, and not a single copper plate would be left for them, otherwise someone would run away. ”

Li Yan smiled and said: "This is not the most important thing, I don't have much food, and if I add these new people, I have to buy grain, otherwise I won't be able to survive the autumn harvest." ”

"Fourth brother, didn't you say before that we were going to rob other bandits?" Li Mu asked.

Li Yan sighed, pointed to the black locusts flying in the south sky, and said, "After this locust plague, there will be chaos outside. The bandits with a large number of people will also come out to grab food, and the first thing for us to keep the village is the first thing. ”

"Is that going to be the case?" Li Zhong asked Li Mou, "Brother Mu, what do you say?" Could it be that serious? ”

Li Mu nodded with a solemn face and said, "What the fourth brother said is right, everyone is short of food, and there is nothing to say when they come out to grab it." Those with great strength may go to touch the county seat, and those with small strength will also go to villages and towns to get food. ”

"It's time to step up training," Li Yan instructed, "Especially the recruits who just arrived today, we must let them obey orders as soon as possible, and one more soldier will give them more strength." ”

Li Mu nodded and sighed: "I hope there will be time to train, so that they can become elite soldiers, but three or two days will not work." ”

"Do your best." Li Yan reminded: "Our brothers also have to be ready. ”