Yu Yao looked at the soldiers under his command, and in the past month, they have gradually become familiar with dredging canals, and he couldn't help but smile a little on his face.

He never thought that the soldiers he trained would still be able to do this job.

At first, the soldiers under his command were still very resistant to doing this work.

After all, he is a government soldier, and his family has more or less allocated fields, and he wants to be a regular army under Liu Tai, not just a county soldier.

Because the regular army is not only divided into fields, but also can divide women, slaves, and even the wealth of wealthy families after the land is conquered.

In short, the soldiers with a heart wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to climb into the regular army.

But his own commander actually took over a job of dredging the canal from General Liu, this is not a matter of conscription, what are you looking for us county soldiers to do.

However, Yu Yao said that the dredging of the canal is to solve the problem of locust plague, especially the brothers who have fields at home, and this time the dredging of the canal can solve the problem of water in their own fields, and these soldiers gradually began to become active.

At the same time, Liu Tai also began to suggest that Yu Yao use some management techniques, such as what competition with each other, and what progress publicity.

The military historians even reformed the thinking of these county soldiers, so that they understood that the purpose of dredging the canal was to fight locusts and to ensure this year's grain harvest, so the morale of the county soldiers was getting higher and higher.

But the reason that really made the county soldiers active in their work was that the local people knew that they could eat when they came to dredge the canal, and more and more people participated, making them feel worthy.

In this process, the people were afraid of the officials, and they hoped to eat the food provided for work, so they naturally praised or flattered the county soldiers who dredged the canals, and picked up some good words.

After all, the people want to eat, and if they want to stay here for a long time, even if they only want to move bricks here, if you don't have a good relationship with the soldiers here, then how can you move here.

After all, you are a temporary worker, and these county soldiers are more or less career-oriented, and things like happiness have naturally become comparative.

The arrival of the people showed their identity to some extent to the county soldiers, and their enthusiasm for work was naturally a little higher.

The common people who worked for Liu Tai this time were mainly divided into two types of people, one was landless and the other was landless.

People who have land at home are naturally those who want to leave their fields for one year and look at them the next year.

The landless ones are mainly divided into two parts, one is the original tenants in Taishan County, and the other is the displaced people who came to Taishan.

Yes, there are still tenants in Taishan County.

Not to mention that Liu Tai himself gathered a large part of the tenants to establish collective estates, and Liu Tai only drove out the wealthy families in Taishan County who rebelled against him, such as the sheep family, or some rich peasant families, which also had tenants.

After all, Liu Tai did not implement the policy of the 20th century, but only wanted to grasp the population and land resources of Taishan County as much as possible.

For these people, the locust plague really destroyed the very foundation of their existence.

For a good family with land and grain reserves, it is still possible to persist for another year to see the situation.

But for the tenants who had no land and no food, or some ancient hooligans, the locust plague destroyed a large number of crops in Taishan County, especially with the death of crops, many fields did not need tenants to maintain, and they suddenly lost their jobs.

Some of them were bought by the big families to be hidden, but some of them had to fend for themselves.

Liu Tai's current project of dredging the canal and then letting them eat that day is a lifesaver for them.

To be honest, Liu Tai originally wanted to give money.

After all, Liu Tai is from modern times, and he clearly knows the role of leaving some money in the hands of the people.

It is not purely to prepare the people for trading and the circulation of goods, but to let the people have more hope.

Yes, so that the people who have nothing can have a little hope for the future, like a fire in the darkness.

For the vast majority of low-level people, their needs are really not much, and what they want is nothing more than the most basic food, clothing, housing and transportation.

If the people solve these four things, they can have a higher pursuit, if they can't even solve the survival guarantee of chasing the foundation, then any other hope is an ethereal illusion, as long as some catastrophe comes, the people will be beaten back to the prototype.

And Liu Taizheng thought of this, so he didn't send money to these people.

Because when they take the money, but find that what they want to buy in Taishan County, what will rise, then they will give coins, but it will become an unstable factor.

If you want to make money circulate and build your own commodity system, you must first have your own commodities.

This commodity is not the crude trade of surplus products under the subsistence system of the small-scale peasant era.

It is a commodity that can really meet the daily needs of the people, but the problem is that Liu Tai can't even let the people use the money to buy the simplest food, buns.

Liu Tai himself can't provide enough goods, so it is better to pay the people the so-called wages than to let them eat directly.

Of course, after these homeless tenants registered here and became the people under Liu Tai's command, Liu Tai also began to choose places for them to build houses and help them settle down.

But these things need money, and for the sake of what you have nothing, then work for the government, and then build canals, or other conscripts, and after two years of work, the house will be yours, and during the work, you will be provided with two meals.

When the tenants who came here heard this condition, they all knelt down and thanked Liu Tai for his kindness!

And Liu Tai didn't think about giving them land, or letting them reclaim the land, but in the end he vetoed it.

First, because Liu Tai wanted to let some peasants develop in the direction of forced labor and become an engineering team in the future.

In addition, he has implemented the equalization system, either the local people join the army with a certain subsidy, or because of military merits to get acres of land.

In short, it is impossible to divide the land with any displaced person.

Since the rules have been established, they cannot be easily overturned, because there are countless stakeholders up and down this rule, and any change in the rules will be resisted by everyone in the chain of interests.

As for letting them reclaim the land, it's easy to say, but the question is what about the tools for reclaiming? What about the seeds of crops? And even what about food consumption in the process?

It is never easy to reclaim the land, especially for the vast majority of displaced people, the word "reclaiming the land" seems simple, but this is a challenge that requires the homeless people to complete it in a generation, and the people who can complete it are basically the dragon and phoenix among the people.

Because in essence, this is equivalent to completing the class leap, from a hooligan with no land and no house to a good family.

Therefore, with the construction of water conservancy projects, the lowest hooligans and tenant farmers were given food for survival and houses for themselves.

The peasants who were resistant to the cultivation of wheat received food, and some of them were associated with the soldiers.

As for the soldiers who were in charge of the work at the beginning, they felt as if it was not so bad to work here, after all, the construction of aqueducts was beneficial to them who owned the land, and at the same time, they could gain respect for the people.

For Liu Tai, this project was exchanged for the comfort of Mount Tai and the initial shaping of the engineering team.

But Liu Tai is also very clear that this is far from enough, after all, more literate people are needed to enter the engineering team, so that it will be more convenient for him to build water conservancy or something in the future.

Of course, in this win-win system where everyone benefits, we have to thank the original wealthy families of Taishan County.

It was their wealth and food that revitalized the lifeless Taishan County and allowed Liu Tai to survive the most critical moment.

It's just that Gou Xi is not as calm as Liu Tai, not to mention that with the gradual arrival of the sequelae of the locust plague, the victims in the north began to attack the Qingzhou territory under his jurisdiction one after another.

As for his territory, although it is not enough to provide disaster relief to the people of Qingzhou, it is still enough to ensure the food of his army.

After all, when people let go of their inner morality, they will find that the world is open and they are allowed to swim freely.

It's just that if Gou Xi wants to defeat Liu Tai in one go, then he must expand the army, but this will lead to insufficient food, so Gou Xi began to run towards the large and small families in Qingzhou.

Since Gou Xi was relegated to Qingzhou, Gou Xi has implemented harsh laws to Qingzhou, and the implementation of the law is more or less to vent the anger of being degraded in his heart, which inevitably causes considerable persecution to the local family.

After all, the punishment is not a sergeant doctor, and any wealthy family is always resistant to punishment, not to mention that Gou Xi is still a person from a poor family, and now it is Gou Xi's turn to ask for their heads, and they will naturally take it.

However, Gou Xi is not Liu Tai, and he can sweep away the wealthy family regardless of it.

In the end, he is an official, and he is a member of the Jin court system, so at this time, he can only reason with the family, and the family does not ask for it, at least he also visits the past, but he also wants to get some food.

Of course, this is okay, after all, they are a family, but if the local wealthy families are not long-sighted, then they will be leveled directly.

After all, Gou Xi can't afford to offend the family, so can't he afford to offend the wealthy family.

And the resources obtained by Gou Xi for Qingzhou were enough for him to recruit and train new soldiers, not only the original battle losses had been replenished, but also with the help of the locust plague, the number of soldiers recruited reached 50,000.

As for the armistice agreement between Liu Tai and Gou Xi, in Gou Xi's opinion, it should not be torn up.

However, Gou Xi didn't immediately drive these newly recruited soldiers towards Liu Tai, after all, he also had to train a little, at least it would take half a year, at least let these people obey the order to fight the enemy.

Of course, Gou Xi's strategy will inevitably be a little bit exhaustive for Qingzhou.

But in Gou Xi's opinion, if he defeats Liu Tai, his strategy is naturally worth it, after all, Liu Tai's elite Gou Xi is also impressed.

So to a certain extent, the relationship between Liu Tai and Gou Xi is that Liu Tai is in the grain store, Gou Xi is in the army, and no one knows whether the next battle will make Mount Tai become a granary.

It's just that when Liu Tai was preparing for the next war, Yuan Yan came over with Liu Cong's holy decree.

Yuan Yan came all the way to Mount Tai, and found that there was only one county apart, Taishan County was full of excitement and vitality, but the surrounding counties and cities were withered because of the locust plague, but they also had to sigh Chu Yi's governance talent.

Yuan Yan did not delay, and immediately went to the county guard mansion to find Chu Yu, and then found Liu Tai to read the holy decree.

After Yuan Yan read out Liu Cong's will to grant Liu Tai the Qingzhou Assassin History, Yuan Yan smiled and said, "Now I am going to call the general the Qingzhou Assassin History!" ”

"The whole territory of Qingzhou is under Gou Xi, and my Qingzhou assassin history is just a name." Liu Tai sighed.

"As long as the general captures this Qingzhou, then the name of this Qingzhou assassin history will naturally be well deserved!" Yuanyan Road.

"Do you have a strategy to teach me?" Liu Tai heard Yuan Yan's words and couldn't help but smile.

"There is no strategy, but I have a letter from Donglai Gong here, which was specially entrusted to me by Donglai Gong when he knew that I came to Mount Tai." Yuan Yan said to Liu Tai and took out a letter.

"Oh?" Liu Tai took the letter from Yuan Yan's hand, but he also opened it generously, but he saw that these were indeed Wang Mi's words, but in addition, there was a list on it, a list of large and small families in Qingzhou.

Liu Tai understood that Wang Mi really believed what he said about the lack of soldiers and major generals, and the reason why there was a shortage of food and grass.

And Wang Mishan naturally couldn't change food from Gao Luyuan, so he took out this list and let himself go to the Qingzhou family to borrow food.

But although Wang Mi gave himself a list of these families, it does not mean that these families will definitely be used for themselves.

It's just that relatively speaking, these families have a relationship with Wang Mi's Donglai Wang family, and they belong to the objects that can be fought for.

You can even ask them to defect first, and then say that they will support some food, believing that they will give it somewhat.

"However, these wall grasses don't look like this!" Liu Tai thought for a moment, and saluted solemnly to Yuan Yan, "Thank you for the angel sending the enemy to destroy the enemy's command, I'm afraid this thing can be worth 100,000 troops!" ”

"Oh~ Nayan is wishing the general a victory!" Yuan Yan congratulated Liu Tai.

Liu Tai also smiled and said to Yuan Yan, "Please also ask the angel to stay here for a few days, so that I can do my best to be a landlord." ”

Yuan Yan nodded, but he also planned to rest here for a few days, but he also stopped by to observe Taishan County.

After all, in such a troubled place, such a paradise suddenly appeared, to be honest, Yuanyan is quite rare.

After Liu Tai arranged for manpower to be handed over to Yuan Yan for dispatch, he immediately called several lieutenants under him to plot against Gou Xi.

(End of chapter)