There were more than 100 people on the mountain at once, and Li * suddenly felt that he was quite a bit of a "king of the mountain". It's a pity that Zhou Zhengyu didn't think so at all, he was stunned for a moment when Li * pulled these people up the mountain, and after Li * quietly described what had happened to him, he was almost so frightened that he fainted on the spot. In the eyes of this veteran who has been a soldier for more than 20 years, it is not a big sin to disobey orders and rob the homeless people and hold his colleagues hostage, but Li *, a small lieutenant of the guard, dares to openly confront the dignified Yannei Command Office, which is too bold. You must know that it doesn't matter who is the emperor in the Central Plains, this Yanzhou is the world of the Gao family. Zhou Zhengyu immediately came to the conclusion that Li * was dead.

But Li * himself didn't think so at all, his indifferent look made Zhou Zhengyu stunned, whether this guy was stupid or smart. Didn't he know that he had already run into a catastrophe? What Zhou Zhengyu was worried about was that if Li * was immediately beheaded for public display, whether he and the officers and soldiers of Team C would be considered rebellious. Judging by past experience, the personal life and death of ordinary officers cannot affect the survival of the troops, after all, these years are too chaotic, and if there are soldiers, they are the kings of grass, and no one will have a hard time with those who are soldiers. But the problem is that Team C is too small, if Li * has a battalion in his hands, Zhou Zhengyu dares to conclude that the Yanzhou Yannei Command Office will not take the soldiers who occupy one-fifth of the total strength of the Zhangwu Army, and the final result must be Li * to kill him, everyone has everyone's life, and there is no hindrance. But at present, there are only more than 20 people in Team C, and this bit of soldiers is not in the eyes of the big men in Yanzhou......

While he was thinking about this, Li* was planning to settle a place for these homeless people who had gone up the mountain.

There were as many as 30 repaired barracks, enough to accommodate 300 soldiers, and only five of them were occupied by Team C, so Li* temporarily placed these displaced people in the rest of the barracks. It stands to reason that the barracks are not allowed to be lived by ordinary people, but on this mountain, Li * official is the biggest, he has the final say, and the room is not not enough to live, so the soldiers have no opinion. The vast majority were even quite excited—after all, nearly thirty women were among the people who had gone up the mountain.

This is the only time in these soldiers that they have slept so close to a woman in their lives, and it is no wonder that these bachelors are drooling one by one.

Aware of this situation, Li * called Shen Chen, who was more at ease, and ordered him to lead a team to patrol the night guard, and immediately retrieve those who found that there was a voyeur woman living in the room.

In the absence of a formidable military discipline requirement, Li * does not want to give these soldiers any punishment for the time being, he can also understand the feelings of these soldiers, even for the new army of the 21st century, the temptation of women is quite irresistible, this is not a simple order can solve the problem, it requires a set of reasonable systems and systems.

Li * has been thinking about the process of leading these displaced people up the mountain, these homeless refugees who have been stripped of their savings and travel expenses will definitely not be able to continue to go south, and if they continue to walk like this, there will definitely be an additional batch of corpses dying of freezing and starvation on the side of the official road this winter. Lee* himself had tasted the taste of starvation, so he directly rejected the idea of letting these people go unchecked. Moreover, there were more than forty young men in this group, and although they were generally still physically weak, Lee* already regarded them as potential future soldiers.

Before going up the mountain, Li forced the men to take a bath by the river at the bottom of the mountain, not wanting the refugees to bring the epidemic to his troops. In this era of lack of medical treatment, it is very troublesome to get infected with diseases.

The refugees had their first hot meal in many days on the mountain, and although it was only a coarse cake and pickles, it brought tears to the eyes of the long-displaced people. After sweeping away the food brought by the villagers, when Li* told them that they would spend the night in a house with firewood, all men, women, and children knelt down, crying and shouting kowtows to Li*. This scene made Li * a little overwhelmed, helped this and that and knelt down, and in the end, Li * simply stopped helping. While smiling wryly, he shouted loudly that everyone didn't have to be like this.

Zhou Zhengyu scoffed at Li*'s suggestion that these people would come to Tuntian, and he told Li* that there may be many people in this group who can work, but the vast majority of them can only eat but cannot work. Even if these people were able to plant the land, they were afraid that the final harvest would not be enough for them to eat, let alone use it to supplement the army. Zhou Zhengyu's views coincide with Gao Shaoji's thoughts, and they both believe that the elderly and children are useless burdens.

Li* knew that such an argument could not be had with him at this time, but he still asked Zhou Zhengyu to help screen these people. See how many of these people have farming experience.

Li * is worried about another problem at the moment, the last time the grain brought up the mountain was only enough for all the officers and men of the C team to eat for two months, and now there are so many people on the mountain all of a sudden, and this amount of food is not enough for 10 days, and this month has already received military rations, and if they go to the baggage camp again, they will definitely not give it, and the government office will never approve it, although it is feasible to go to the city to buy food, but it is not cost-effective to spend too much, and today the refugees have eaten the soldiers' rations for five days in one meal, and although the soldiers do not say anything, they will inevitably have no opinions in their hearts.

After arranging for these people to sleep one by one, Li* himself felt sore, so he simply stopped thinking about these annoying problems and went back to his room to sleep.

Early the next morning, Li Hu'er beat the assembly drum as usual, and the sound of the drum woke up the refugees who were sleeping in the barracks, and they stretched out their heads one by one to look at the situation outside, curiously looking at the soldiers' morning drill training.

Li * urged the soldiers to finish the morning training, and after the breakfast was brought up, he took a cake and a pickle back to the house, and just after eating two bites of hot water, he heard the door ring, and Zhou Zhengyu pushed the door and walked in.

Old Zhou yawned as he came in, it seemed that he hadn't slept well last night.

Zhou Zhengyu reported to Li * what he had learned yesterday, that most of these refugees were from Linzhou, north of the Dingyan Army, and that the reason why they left their homes was because of the surrender of their families to Zhou and the Yang family, and the change in political positions between the two sides led to certain disputes on the border. This dispute does not necessarily represent the will of the two high-level leaders, but it has a direct impact on the autumn harvest of farmers in the border areas. The peasants who did not have a harvest had to flee for refuge, and the Northern Han Dynasty's policy of sealing the territory meant that these peasants had to cross the border of the Dingyan Army to Yanzhou at the risk of being looted by the party. Originally, in the imagination of these people, Yanzhou should be a relatively stable area, but they did not expect to almost die on the banks of the Yanhe River under the temporary policy of Gao Shaoji and others.

Zhou Zhengyu told Li * that there were indeed many farmers among these people, and that some of the old people, although they were old, were experienced in serving the crops, and should be of some use. However, he was frustrated and told Lee* that these people were homesteaders with land and that they could not be willing to stay and become tenants.

As a person who is familiar with history, he knows that Zhou Zhengyu is not wrong at all, and for the peasants of ancient times, there is nothing more precious than land. And as a poor bastard who has just begun to have a little foundation, he definitely can't come up with anything more attractive at this point. Perhaps these peasants can help themselves for a while, but not for long, and they still want to go home and tend to their land, but more likely, these peasants will eat with him for a few months, and then leave for their own homes as soon as the winter is over.

In other words, such a vote was brought in, and he did not get any benefits except for losing at least tens of thousands of catties of grain.

Just when Li *Qiang was cheering up and began to pretend to think about how to live in the next few months, Li Hu'er came in with excitement on his face to report that Li Bin was here.

As if in the observation house, Li * was about to salute as soon as he saw Li Bin, and Li Bin hurriedly supported him with his hand: "I have already said that if you get rid of your slavery, you will no longer be my servant, since you are a military officer in the army, you can see me salute!" ”

After that, Li Bin looked at Li * in a daze for a long time, and actually shook the sleeves of his robe and bowed to him.

Li * hurriedly avoided it, puzzled in his heart, but saw Li Bin raise his head and said sincerely: "Everyone in Yanzhou City knows that I never worship anyone except for the high servants. Breaking this example today is not for you to quell the chaos, but only for you to save these innocent Li people......"

Only then did Li * react, and said with a wry smile: "The lowly position is also unbearable for a while, and the living people, like animals, drive and kill, it is really unbearable to see, so I made a rash move, just afraid that I would cause trouble for observation......"

"If you have this idea for a general, you can be among the famous generals......"

This voice was quite pleasant, and Li * noticed that there was a handsome scholar in a moon-white cloth next to Li Bin, but he didn't know who it was, and when he was wondering, Li Bin had already introduced: "This is Qin Gu, the commander of Fushi County, and the word is strong." ”

Li * was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly saluted: "See Qin Ming Mansion for your humble position!" ”

Qin Gu turned sideways to avoid it and smiled: "I can't be worthy of Brother Li's courtesy, although it is said that there is a different path of literature and martial arts, but the extreme of the avenue is all in the same benevolent character." Relying solely on Brother Li's virtue of living in this hundred or equal li, Qin did not dare to accept Brother Li's courtesy. ”

Seeing that this county magistrate was young and spoke elegantly, but he did not have the arrogant and pedantic atmosphere of ordinary scholars, Li * couldn't help but feel good, and said with a smile: "Qin Mingfu praised ...... falsely."

Qin Gu frowned: "Brother Li does he have a table?" ”

Li * smiled bitterly: "People who are floating in troubled times, there is a name that is already the mark of the ancestors, where is there any other word......"

Qin Gu looked at Li Bin: "If Wen Qiangong doesn't think it's arrogant, Qin is willing to give Brother Li an alias......"

Li Bin laughed and said: "Zijian's literary style, the old man thinks that he can't compare, if you have an intention, you might as well talk about it?" ”

Qin Gu looked at Li *, and said with a solemn expression: "Brother Li is benevolent and brave, it is better to call it 'Huairen'......"

Li Bin immediately stroked his palms and laughed: "Good, good, worthy of his conduct-"

Li * was stunned when he heard this, and secretly slandered himself in his heart, thinking that Lao Tzu's house would not be called "Huairentang" in the future, but he said: "Thank you Qin Ming Mansion for the number."

Qin Gu shook his head: "Brother Li is too outside, if you don't dislike it, you can call the junior brother 'Zijian'." Although the younger brother has a higher official position, he does not dare to be Brother Li and be commensurate with the Ming Mansion. ”

Li * was stunned again, and looked at Qin Gu silently for a long time, but saw that this young scholar's face was full of sincerity, and there was no hypocrisy, knowing that he really wanted to make friends with himself, he hugged his fists at the moment: "So it is arrogant, Zijian is magnificent, elegant and elegant, it is really a dragon and phoenix among people, although he is in the position of a hundred miles today, he must be the pillar stone of the temple in the future, and in the phoenix pool, there should be a place for Zijian......"

His words of compliment were quite chic, especially with his background, saying such a thing made Qin Gu quite surprised, and he looked Li * up and down again in surprise, and he was speechless for a while.

Li Bin smiled indifferently and asked Qin Gu softly, "How?" ”

Qin Gu nodded, and said calmly: "Brother Huairen is really extraordinary, no wonder the gentleman and wise eyes pull out the brother under the corridor, it is Qin, who met for the first time recently, but he was also impressed by his brother——"

Li * was secretly proud in his heart, thinking that this should be the legendary "king overlord spirit", although Lao Tzu writes badly and has average learning, if you talk about the world you have seen, how can you have more than those who read more than a thousand years ago, right?

Qin Gu didn't know what he was thinking, and sighed to himself: "I didn't expect that in the army, there are also characters like Brother Huairen, Qin Mou is proud of his talent, but he underestimates the heroes of the world......"

Li Bin glanced at him with a smile and said: "Zijian doesn't have to be surprised, there is a way to be a hero regardless of his background, otherwise the ancestors of the Han Dynasty and Liu Jinu, wouldn't they all be lies?" ”

Li * suddenly shuddered in his heart, but when he saw that Li Bin's face was not different, he knew that he was just talking casually. But he heard Qin Gu say: "I don't know how Brother Huairen is going to deal with these suffering refugees?" ”

Hearing this, Li * immediately smiled bitterly, and honestly recounted his original plan and the news from Zhou Zhengyu, and finally said: "These people originally had land in their homes, and they would never stay as tenant farmers. I don't have any land in my hands, so I can't use the method of granting land with military merits to entrap these people, and I don't have real benefits, how can people work hard for me? The question now is not what they can do for me, but how can I get them through this winter. I have calculated that in order to keep these people well fed and clothed, at least two hundred and fifty stone of grain will be needed, and this gap will not be easy to fill......"

As soon as these words came out, Qin Gu didn't say anything, and even Li Bin was stunned.

Li * thought that he had said something wrong, and said with some humility: "...... I don't know much about the way of economics, but I just said in passing, what's wrong, don't be surprised by observing He Zijian......"

"You, you, you, you......" Li Bin pointed at him again and again with his hand, but he couldn't say a complete sentence.

Qin Gu looked Li * up and down with a lightning-like gaze, and the look on his face could almost be described as "horrified".

Li * didn't know what he said wrong, but he made the two of them look like they had seen a ghost, and they didn't know what to say at the moment, so they stood and looked at the two of them blankly, looking at how innocent and innocent their eyes were.

After a while, Qin Gu muttered to himself: "It's okay to pay back the tuntian, and you can think of the method of awarding military merits to the field......"

"Why not?" Li Bin gasped and asked Qin Gu loudly.

Qin Gu smiled bitterly: "Yes, why can't you, since I disposed of the copywriting in the study of the senior servant, I have been planning to cultivate the land to raise the soldiers and the people, and to reclaim the famine to enrich the people." So far, it is still just a water moon in the mirror, which can neither solve the worries of the party nor relieve the thirst of the people. Everywhere is subject to the powerful, everywhere is constrained by the military beetle......"

Li Bin sneered: "It can't be done because our hearts are insincere, it's not because we don't have enough strength, but because we don't have enough courage——"

Qin Gu's eyes were scattered, and he said incoherently: "...... Not bad...... The soil quality of Yanzhou can also be called fertile, and when the Tang Dynasty was in its heyday, there was not a lot of land in Yanzhou, but it was too much occupied by the wealthy families, which led to the increasing decline of people's livelihood. At present, there are less than 20,000 households in Yanzhou and less than 5,000 households in the prefecture city, but there are more than 100,000 acres of land in Fushi County alone...... It's just that most of them are deserted and ownerless...... We usually only think about giving these lands to the homeless people for cultivation, but we never think of awarding military merits to soldiers...... This...... This ......"

Li* was a little confused, and he asked hesitantly, "Is this idea very new?" ”

"Fresh – of course fresh! It's not just fresh! Qin Gu's heart was agitated, and he said a few "fresh" incoherently.

He said excitedly: "The crux of Yanzhou is that the population is withering, and if the population withers, there will be no soldiers to recruit, and there will be no surplus food to feed the soldiers." Most of the soldiers recruited are unemployed, and they are just soldiers to eat, so naturally such soldiers cannot fight. If the soldiers cannot fight, then the Zhangwu army is completely powerless to stop the attacks and plundering of the party, and if the party's worries cannot be solved, the people will not be able to cultivate and cultivate with peace of mind, and the displaced people will not be able to settle down and become aborigines...... This was originally a dead knot, a dead knot that could not be untied. Now...... Now it'......"

The young county magistrate stuttered when he said this, and he was so emotional that he couldn't continue.

"Now you have broken the crux of the problem, military merits and fields, this is the only feasible way for Yanzhou to prosper......" Li Bin said with a laugh.

Li * still doesn't quite understand, he just casually said a sentence of military merit and granting land, these two people are happy to be like this, is it because he is too clever or these two are too idiots, isn't the war for the change of dynasty in ancient times to re-divide the ownership of land, such a simple truth, these two intelligent people in Yanzhou will not understand?

Qin Gu smiled bitterly: "For so many years, it turns out that we have been planning for one family ...... another."

Li Bin sighed: "Pathetic! Lamentable! ”

Qin Gu smiled and said, "Brother Huairen is very human, and with a light word, he broke through the door in his chest. ”

Li * couldn't help but scratch his head: "I still don't quite understand, is the reason for awarding military merits very complicated?" Without interests, who is willing to fight desperately? The government military system later declined, because the land annexation was too much, such as today's population has dropped sharply, less than one-tenth of the Tang Dynasty, naturally there is no problem of land annexation, isn't this a very simple reason? ”

Qin Gu nodded: "It's very superficial, it's just that we haven't thought of this layer before......"

He glanced at Li * and said with a smile: "Brother Huairen, do you know why we didn't think of this layer?" ”

Li * shook his head: "I just don't understand, Observation and Zijian are both asked by the university, how could this method not be thought of?" ”

Qin Gu sighed and shook his head: "What's the use of having a university ask?" The longitude and latitude in his chest are not enough, after all, he is just a scholar. ”

He pondered for a while, pondered the words and said: "Brother Huairen's heart is unhindered, he only has a pure heart to save the people, he has nothing to ask for or think, and naturally he has nothing to fear." The law of granting military merits is indeed a good law, and the real resistance to implementation is not great, Yanzhou has been warped several times, the population has withered, and there are a few warriors left, how much land can be occupied? It's just that if we do this, what we are doing in Yanzhou will not only be a corner of prosperity and peace, but a long-term business......"

"What kind of long-term business, a small family-" Li Bin sneered, "Zijian doesn't have to be cautious, there are no outsiders here, to tell the truth, once the military merit awarding system is implemented, the operation of Yanzhou Domain Town is no longer a corner and a place pattern, nor is it a long-term business, but the emperor's business!" ”