"Not only that, but I will also give you some food to survive this winter, and at the same time guide you in all walks of life, support your families, and live and work in peace and contentment."

"Even, if any of you are willing to join the army as a soldier, I warmly welcome it, not only to give a suitable military salary, but also to eat three meals a day, meat for meals, rewards for killing enemies, and compensation for the dead!"

At that moment, Yuan Yao told Liu Bi what he thought in his heart.

In fact, Yuan Yao's idea is also very simple, Runan has been attacked by Yuan Shu and Cao Cao one after another, and the population has already lost a lot.

In various counties, there are many vacant houses, and Yuan Yao only needs to manage the 180,000 people under Liu Pi in the first batch, and it is still very easy to settle down.

Of the 30 county seats, it is enough to plan 3,000 or 5,000 people in one county.

Don't look at the three or five thousand people, but in fact, that is, less than 1,000 households, there are dozens of households in a village, and 1,000 households are just building more than a dozen villages outside these county seats.

Moreover, settling these people, on the one hand, can open up wasteland and increase grain production, and on the other hand, it is also an important source for Yuan Yao to expand his military resources.

As long as he said his idea of recruiting soldiers, Yuan Yao believed that most of the people in the Yellow Turban Army under Liu Pi would not mind being soldiers.

After all, being a soldier has money and can still eat well, which is already a gift.

As soon as Yuan Yao said his thoughts, Liu Bi had some doubts at first, and even a little resistance.

In Liu Bi's heart, no matter what he says, his gang are all some anti-thieves, it is better to stay in the deep mountains and old forests, if they live in the county seat, it is difficult to guarantee that the imperial court will not settle accounts after the autumn, and calculate the rebellion with them.

Just like Cao Cao, although he recruited them on the surface, he actually just wanted to treat them as soldiers, and did not give them money and food, regardless of whether they lived or died.

Use them when you need them, and if you don't want them, use them as a source of taxes, and if you don't give them money, forget it, and collect their taxes.

This made Liu Pi extremely dissatisfied with Cao Cao.

If Yuan Yao is also like Cao Cao, then Liu Pike would rather be his own mountain king than go to the official mansion to suffer that bird's anger.

But when Liu Bi heard Yuan Yao say that he was willing to give them military salaries, let them join the army, and have meat for a meal and a full meal, Liu Bi immediately became excited.

If you have a military salary, it's different.

This shows that Yuan Yao treats them as human beings, rather than blindly using power to oppress them.

Only this kind of fair cooperation can make Liu Pi and the remnants of the Yellow Turban feel respected.

"Gong ...... Childe, if you are a soldier, do you really have a military salary? ”

"Naturally it's true, I, Yuan Yao, are different from others, all the soldiers and horses under my command are paid, but I never force others to be soldiers, and only recruit people who volunteer to serve in the army!"

"Soldiers, sharp weapons, if you can't even eat, who will work for you."

"If you don't believe it, you can ask General Ji Ling, General Ji Ling is the commander of our army and is in charge of all the soldiers and horses, you ask him if everyone has a salary and a bounty!"

In order to persuade Liu Bi, Yuan Yao also cast his eyes on Ji Ling.

Ji Ling was also very smart, and immediately understood what Yuan Yao meant.

immediately explained to Liu Bi.

"That's right, Liu Qushuai, my son-in-law didn't have many soldiers and horses, there were only 6,000 people before, but these people were paid every month, and they all had meat to eat."

"Even, in the previous battles, some people relied on military merits and received a reward of more than 100,000 yuan!"

Ji Ling is not exaggerating, the first group of soldiers who followed Yuan Yao in the warrior battalion have already followed Yuan Yao through many battles, and at the beginning of the extermination of the bandits, those who have more rewards can get thousands of dollars, or even tens of thousands of dollars.

Later, with Yuan Yao, there were several battles in Zhu County, and some people were not only promoted to three levels in a row, but even received heavy rewards from Yuan Yao.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars are not nothing.

It is precisely because of these rewards of real money and silver, as well as Yuan Yao's spirit of treating his soldiers and loving soldiers like sons on weekdays, that the soldiers and horses under Yuan Yao's command are often able to burst out with strong combat effectiveness.

You must know that there are not no such people under the command of other princes, but this kind of treatment is generally the private soldiers of some generals, and even the treatment that is only available in person, but Yuan Yao has unified all the soldiers under his command, and he can naturally get the love of the soldiers.

With Ji Ling's affirmation, even if Liu Pi still had a trace of suspicion at the beginning, it disappeared at this time.

"Childe, if you are really as you say, then the little one is willing to lead all the Yellow Turban remnants to join Childe!"

"That's really good, with Liu Qushuai's help, I can expect a great cause!"

At present, Yuan Yao has already begun to plan, and he has broken away from Yuan Shu and done it alone, and the difference is just some soldiers and horses who can stand on their feet.

The 10,000 people recruited in Runan have already given Yuan Yao confidence, if these Yellow Turban remnants join, Yuan Yao is confident that relying on these horses, he will definitely be able to break his own way surrounded by this group of wolves.

Liu Bi was successfully persuaded by Yuan Yao, and soon took action.

On the same day, Liu Bi went back to his Blue Wolf Mountain, and told his men and horses about the news that he had brought back from Yuan Yao this time.

A large part of those Yellow Turban remnants were the old, weak, sick and disabled left over from the uprising that year, and most of them were forty or fifty years old.

After all, Liu Pi commanded 180,000 Yellow Turban remnants, of which more than 100,000 were old and weak, and the remaining tens of thousands of young and middle-aged people, and some were thin and weak, which was difficult to meet Yuan Yao's criteria for selecting soldiers.

Yuan Yao ordered Ji Ling to lead people to repeatedly select from these populations brought by Liu Pi, but he only made up 8,000 people, which met Yuan Yao's standards.

Of course, Yuan Yao didn't want to choose too much.

His current economic strength, feeding twenty or thirty thousand troops, is already very difficult.

If Liu Pi's people are all counted in the army at once, the daily consumption of grain and grass will be an exaggerated number.

An increase of 8,000 people is already the limit.

Counting Tai Shici, who came from the first line of heaven, the troops under Yuan Yao's command once reached 30,000 horses.

For a time, Yuan Yao only used one county to attract 30,000 elite soldiers.

Yuan Yao's confidence came all of a sudden.

Finally, the time to find that Zhang Xunqiu to settle accounts has also arrived.

In mid-October, the situation in Yanzhou gradually became clearer.

After Cao Cao's defeat in Xuchang, the losses were actually not heavy, but less than 30,000 people were killed and wounded.

Judging from the strength of Cao's army stationed in various places, although there are many people, it will not hurt Cao Cao's foundation, and it only took half a month for Cao's army to requisition 20,000 horses and horses to reach Xuchang.