Sanshui Village is only a very small village, with a population of only close to 100.

Lin Yi was carrying fifty armor soldiers, all of whom were wearing thick leather armor, and each armor soldier was carrying eighty catties of sweet potatoes on his back.

With the physique of these old soldiers, in fact, even if the weight is doubled, it is okay, but the mountain road is difficult to walk, and the road is far away, but it should not be too extreme.

Fifty Jia, recruiting so many people, firstly, to transport food with manpower, and secondly, to show force to the mountain people.

The mountain people are simple, but simplicity and ferocity, many times, are not in conflict.

If you are strong, the mountain people are simple and hospitable, and can sing and dance, if you are weak, the mountain people are prone to have other thoughts, become extremely vicious, brave and good at fighting.

This has long been proven by history, this is true in this world, and it is also true in the real world.

In reality, many people become good at singing and dancing, not by relying on some kind of education, but by airplanes, tanks, machine guns, and when the bow and horse are skillful and cannot block a missile, the world will be peaceful.

As for this world, there have to be many people and fierce soldiers.

If not, it will not be able to suppress the evil thoughts of people's hearts.

On the path, Lin Yi looked at the low houses on the higher hillside, and he was also thinking about it in his heart, with the situation of Sanshui Village, he didn't know how many could be recruited this time.

Such a small village is a relatively embarrassing group in the mountains, although the proportion of young and strong occupies a large number, but the total number of people is too small to support large-scale land reclamation, and is still confined to the vicinity of the village.

In addition, there are few girls in the mountains and young people who can't marry a daughter-in-law, and they have a longing for the outside world.

And if you join the army, the number of young people will decrease, and there will be more land to cultivate, which is undoubtedly a good thing.

But if you think about it, you will find that if there are too few people in the stockade, you will lose your resistance in the face of wild beasts.

This is the case with many extinct stockades.

If you don't let the young and strong go out, there are more people and less land, and there are fewer people in the wasteland, and your daughter-in-law can't marry, which is a slow death.

Let it out, that means that there are fewer people in the first place, lose the strength to resist the risk, and it is also a slow death.

This is a very contradictory situation.

In this regard, Zhao Cheng also has an idea, that is, to merge the villages to open up the wasteland, and combine the mountains and hundreds of villages into several large villages.

Today, the total population of Lianshan Baizhai is about 50,000.

This amount can be used for large-scale burning and farming of land by 10,000 people.

And with low-quality fertilizer, it is enough for a group of people to cut off production and form a militia to protect the safety of the village.

Although the beasts in the mountains are fierce, as long as they are not encountered alone, they can be fearless in a team of three or five people, armed with weapons, and after a little training.

When there is enough food, more people can be out of production and more craftsmen can be trained.

Among them, craftsmen can make armaments, and the militia is the reserve of the regular army, which can provide a steady stream of vitality for the Yingtian army.

This is the case with the so-called building high walls and accumulating grain.

The territory you occupy will be built into an ecology that can produce all kinds of resources far away.

For these, Lin Yi only occasionally heard Zhao Cheng mention a few words.

Many officers in the army, after hearing a few words, forgot about them in an instant, a group of big and rough people, let them kill people, but let them figure out the thoughts of the superiors, but it is not good.

Only Lin Yi is different, especially after being reused by Zhao Cheng, he seems to have opened his mind.

He knows that the follow-up merger is imperative, and his future may also be here.

There are 50,000 mountain people in Lianshan, among which the elderly, children, and women are left to have children, about 8,000.

In the past, when food was scarce, the mountain people were able to have an average of one child every two years until they could no longer give birth.

After all, the premature mortality rate in the mountains is too high, even if it is a teenager, he may die of a sudden illness.

And if it doesn't die young, under normal circumstances, Lianshan can add an average of 4,000 people every year.

It's just that the premature mortality rate in the mountains is too high, and there are not many who can really grow up.

Lin Yi is interested in this potential.

Indeed, in the next step, Zhao Cheng seems to be going to pour out of the nest and enter the Southern Wilderness in order to become a hegemon.

But it doesn't mean that Lianshan will give up.

This place is the junction of Qingzhou and the Southern Wilderness, if Zhao Chengruo really enters the Southern Wilderness, and then wants to get out of the Southern Wilderness, this place must not be given up.

It is Lin Yi's idea, that is, if Wucheng is really defeated in the follow-up, when the situation is stable, he will ask Ying, stay in Lianshan, and fight hard here, and wait until the follow-up, Ying Tianjun will come out of the Southern Wilderness, and his credit is indispensable.

Although now, Ying Tianjun is still a big cat or a kitten, but Lin Yi has strong confidence in Zhao Cheng in his heart.

Of course, Hezhai is a follow-up matter.

For the time being, the prestige of Ying Tianjun is not enough, and the control of even the mountains and villages is not good, although this move is beneficial for thousands of years, and it also has many benefits for the mountain people, but if you want to do it, it is definitely not a thing.

Not to mention anything else, outside the mountain, even if the imperial court wants to merge the villages in the strongest things, it is time-consuming and laborious to do, and there are many contradictions that have to be derived.

And then there is the homeland is difficult to leave, and the things that gather in Jingcong have never appeared only in the legends and stories of ancient times.

Only the Holy Emperor in the story can do it, and when an order is given, everyone obeys it.

If it was easy to merge the villages, the mountain people would have done it themselves a long time ago, and it is not that there are no smart people in the mountain people, and they can't see the benefits of concentrating on doing things, but they just can't do it.

However, Lin Yi knew that whatever Zhao Cheng wanted to do, there was nothing he couldn't do.

Of course, there are smart people in the mountains, but there are no big heroes, but now, even in the mountains, there is a big hero!

The mountain people of Sanshui Village are very vigilant about the arrival of Lin Yi and others.

A large group of young people, as well as old people, from afar, took simple farm tools as weapons, and looked at the group of mighty armor soldiers, the invisible murderous aura, making the mountain people tremble with fear.

As long as these armor soldiers are concerned, if there is only one, three or five mountain people, as long as they are brave, they can besiege and kill.

But if there were ten soldiers, even against hundreds of mountain people, it would be like killing chickens.

As for the fifty, these mountain people in front of them, these armor soldiers, one look at their faces, they can kill them cleanly.

Seeing this, Lin Yi immediately waved his hand to stop his subordinates, and at the same time, several mountain people who had been leading the way also immediately stepped forward and chatted with the mountain people of Sanshui Village.