Since the proposed finishing plan was approved by the Chinese and foreign governments, Li Tai did not continue to stay in Jiuqu City, and even began to command the troops to pack up and prepare to leave Heluo and return to Chubei.

After Wei Xuan and the other generals learned of this situation, although they felt sorry in their hearts, they could only come to the door to say goodbye when they saw that the situation was like this.

Li Tai also temporarily borrowed the City Lord's Mansion of Jiuqu City to set up a banquet to entertain these local Hao chieftains and generals in Heluo.

"Since the return to righteousness, there has been almost no month without fighting, and there are hundreds of families, and now there are only a few generals and a few young children left. Since the war with the East Thief, there have been many losses and few victories, and only the general has fought twice and achieved brilliant results! The general has abandoned the crowd and left, and if the thieves attack again, I don't know how many people here will be killed......"

At this farewell banquet, after a few glasses of wine, a Heluo villager couldn't help but shed tears and said sadly.

When the other people present heard this, they couldn't help but feel emotional, and people like Li Renjie, who also had several relatives who died in battle, couldn't help but cover their faces and choked up.

Li Tai knew that the disadvantages and predicaments of Heluo here existed objectively, and they could never be solved with a few sensational slogans. Moreover, these Heluo Yishi still insisted on fighting against the Northern Qi under extremely difficult circumstances, and they did not need the encouragement of others' words, what they really needed was real support.

Although Li Tai lacked skills and could not sit in Heluo in person, he still left them with support in many aspects.

In several battles in Heluo this time, the most abundant material harvest was the battle of Baiting City, but because of the barbarians participating in the war, these barbarians took a considerable amount of materials. The other cities of Kim Yong City and the southern city of Heyang, including the Jiuqu City here, have also accumulated quite a lot, and it is more than enough to maintain tens of thousands of horses and horses for a year.

Li Tai only deducted some of the grain and grass that his headquarters and the captives needed to return to the north, as well as some of the fine ordnance such as battle armor and bow lances, and handed over the rest to Han Xiong, Wei Fabao and other leaders of the righteous divisions.

However, these materials can't last too long, and their troops add up to more than 10,000 troops, of course, they are inevitably old, weak, and young, plus these righteous teachers themselves and their families, and there are tens of thousands of people in total.

Because they could not occupy the Heluo Plain for farming and production, and there were a large number of barbarian tribes distributed between the mountains and wilderness, the ways and quantities of materials obtained by these righteous teachers were very limited, and they were often in starvation, and they did not have as complete and sufficient logistics as the Northern Qi garrison.

People like Han Xiong, Chen Xin and others were able to rely on their respective connections to get some salt and other materials from Hedong, and exchange some supplies with the barbarians or other parties through trade.

However, this method has become more and more limited in recent years, because Li Tai had previously advised the Bafu to implement the salt introduction method, which made the Bafu's control over the salt pond resources in Hedong more and more systematic, and the outflow gradually decreased. Even Pei Kuan, a native of Hedong, has very limited access to salt because he does not work in his hometown.

Li Tai was also a little embarrassed about this, but this situation was also unexpected, so this time he specially asked for the salt introduction of 50,000 stone of salt for the Heluo Yishi as an input to support the Heluo battlefield.

Although the Chinese and foreign governments approved this request, they also played the principle of consistent deduction and search, saying that it was necessary to pay in installments year by year. As for the first year, he first gave 8,000 stone salt introductions, and it is estimated that it is still for the sake of Li Tai, the general, who personally speaks his face, and as for the rest, I don't know if it can be given to Qi before the end of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

Although Li Tai is also very good at internal production, the premise must be that kind of foundation, and now Heluo is the front line, and all that the Western Wei can control are corners, and he can only say that it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice.

He also wants to give these righteous teachers a certain amount of material assistance every year, but first, this is not his obligation, and second, to help the emergency and not the poor.

These Heluo Yishi themselves have almost no hematopoietic ability, if they are accustomed to the material assistance of the northern part of the province and formulate a consumption plan, once there is any unexpected situation in the northern side that delays the funding, it may lead to more serious consequences.

Based on the demographic structure and living environment of these volunteers, Li Tai helped them develop some production methods for mountain cultivation and gathering.

Although Han Baohu's hunting of tigers at the age of thirteen reflects his bravery, it also shows that even a young man of this age already needs to participate in hunting, production and fighting.

It is not practical to grow millet grain in a large area between the mountains and fields, but it is still possible to grow some cash crops on a small scale, such as tea and medicinal herbs. Although the amount of labor is also not small, it is much safer than other hunting or venturing to the plains to cultivate the wilderness.

What Li Tai proposed, in fact, these righteous teachers and their families are also doing it, but the scale and output are relatively limited. After all, these outputs are not suitable for food and clothing, and there is no market to trade and monetize.

But now Li Tai is willing to make relevant transactions with them, not to mention that he himself has a huge market and many channels, and the Jingzhou Governor's Mansion itself has a large demand for these materials. Therefore, these Heluo Yishi can not only expand their own production, but also buy from the barbarian tribes and organize their production, even if the output surges more than ten times, Li Tai can also eat it.

The generals were also very enthusiastic about the plan proposed by Li Tai, and they each collected their sadness and disappointment, and they raised their hands in response. They are naturally more willing to accept this kind of mutually beneficial cooperation than some free funding, because only in this way can it be maintained for a long time and dignity can be guaranteed.

Li Tai reached a preliminary agreement with them, agreeing that he would send officials from the governor's office here to negotiate the details after the year, and that the Jingzhou governor's office would be able to provide 50,000 stone of grain and 20,000 horses of silk next year. Even if they can't raise enough goods, it's okay, and they can pay them year by year.

When everyone heard Li Tai's promise, most of the regret and apprehension in their hearts dissipated, and their hearts were full of gratitude to General Li, and they thanked him again and again.

After saying goodbye, Li Tai led his troops to set off from Jiuqu City to the east, passing through the southern part of the Heluo Plain to Yique.

In addition to the 5,000 cavalry soldiers who had brought them to the north, there were also many barbarians accompanying them.

People's yearning for the pursuit of beauty is irresistible, when these barbarians are following General Li to fight, and heard about the superior production and living environment in the north, even if they want to follow the followers to the north. Their local feelings are naturally not heavy, if it weren't for the terrible times in this troubled world, they wouldn't want to keep squatting in the mountains to make a living.

In addition to these barbarians, there were also a large number of Northern Qi captives. Li Taiqian captured more than 2,000 prisoners of war in the first battle of the White Horse Temple, and Baiting City, Heyang City and Jiuqu City made gains one after another.

Especially in Jiuqu City, due to the defender Yuan Jing'an's strong wall and clear the wilderness, focusing on the defense of Jiuqu City, almost all the nearly 20,000 defenders in Yiyang were concentrated in Jiuqu City, and he failed to survive Li Tai's teasing and rash battle out of the city, and finally more than 10,000 soldiers in Jiuqu City were almost completely captured.

Therefore, in the series of battles in Heluo, Li Tai alone killed and destroyed more than 20,000 Northern Qi troops. Some of these captives stayed in Heluo to serve as volunteers, and some of them followed Yuan Jing'an and other captured soldiers to be escorted back to Huazhou Bafu by Cai You, and the rest of Li Tai took all the orders and returned to Chubei with Lin Sheng, Lin Jia and his son with Li Tai.

Li Tai did not interfere too much in the personnel arrangements of Luoshui, but Yishui was related to his advance and retreat from the Heluo Plain, so he proposed to let Pei Kuan guard Kongcheng and Li Renjie go south to guard Luyang, plus Xiangcheng guarded by Guo Xian, this area became the added jurisdiction of the Jingzhou Governor's Office.

When Li Tai led his troops to Fuliu City, he encountered many barbarian chieftains who came to meet him. The two battles in Heluo before and after, especially Li Tai's act of dispersing the spoils of war to the barbarian tribes who helped the war, made his reputation skyrocketing among these barbarian tribes among Yiluo, and these barbarian chieftains outside Fuliucheng came to pay their respects when they heard the news.

They did not come empty-handed, and the two elderly barbarian chiefs also presented a few bloody heads, and through their introduction, Li Tai knew that the owners of these heads were the former Eastern Wei Dynasty's Northern Jingzhou Thorn Shi Mei Jichang and a few others.

Li Tai had some impressions of this barbarian king Mei Jichang, who had previously led his own barbarian troops to harass Luyang Pass on the orders of Murong Shaozong. Later, after Li Tai defeated Murong Shaozong in Huainan, these disturbing barbarians disappeared, and Li Tai had no time to take care of it for a while, and he didn't want to lead the people back to the town to receive such a gift by the way.

So Li Tai stayed in Fuliu City for another day, comforted these barbarian chieftains, and gave them some official titles of the governor's office. High-ranking magistrates such as the Assassin Shi and the county guard cannot be directly appointed by the Governor's Office, but the Guardian Left Officials who are issued to the barbarians are not restricted, and they can be expedient, as long as they submit a supplementary report to the Chinese and foreign governments afterwards.

After Fuliu City, it has reached the end of the lunar month, and the brigade of nearly 20,000 people is mighty, and the advance is naturally slow, and I am afraid that this posture may not be able to reach Jingzhou after the New Year. As the New Year is approaching, there must be a lot of personnel to be dealt with in the governor's office, so Li Tai simply broke away from the large army and led a few hundred cronies to ride straight back to the city.

Not long after Li Tai led his troops to leave Heluo, news came from the north bank of the Yellow River that He Balen, the king of Northern Qi Stability, was leading a large army to the south, preparing to recover Heluo.

After learning this news, Han Xiong, who had just led his troops to withdraw to Han Guancheng, couldn't help but secretly rejoice, and at the same time actively repaired Guancheng, strengthened defense, and prepared to meet the upcoming Northern Qi army.

However, it was not until the beginning of the spring of the following year that the trajectory of the activities of the Northern Qi cavalry appeared again between Heluo. Because He Balen fell seriously ill shortly after leaving Jinyang, he stopped in Jianzhou for more than a month before leading the army south. And it was not that He Baren was cured of a serious illness, but that he learned that Li Boshan, who was supposed to be his opponent, had appeared in Yiyang and drove away Gao Yue, the king of Qinghe, who had just arrived in Huainan.