looked at the old man who spoke, and then at the many young people in the village, compared to the old man, these young people's expressions were different, and several of them obviously wanted to refute, but they all held back.

"I know, but the current Datang is different from the previous dynasties, and the most important thing is that the current Datang really treats us as the people of the Tang Dynasty, rather than some mountain barbarians." Huang Lingshan took a deep breath and said.

"The Xiaogou village where Puka is located, because they are closer to the outside world, they have always kept in touch with the outside world, and you all know their changes."

"Now His Royal Highness the King of Qin of the Tang Dynasty collects medicinal materials in Lingnan Road, not to mention that we, the mountain people in the mountains, collect medicinal materials at a high price, and sell us grain at a lower price, Xiaogou Village is not only every household is not short of food, no longer hungry, but also many families have also purchased a lot of new iron tools, knives, pots and other iron supplies."

"Although there is a lot of prey in this mountain, we all know that the prey can't feed everyone, and the farmland we can cultivate in the mountains is limited, and the food we grow is also limited.

"What's more, Datang's attitude towards us is not only to give us preferential treatment, but also to provide us with ironware, and the previous imperial court never dared to sell ironware to us mountain people."

"There is also this book "Barefoot Doctor's Handbook", as long as you are willing to exchange it, almost every village can exchange a copy at a very low price, not to mention anything else, just in our village, because of this book, how many children and people have been saved? In the past six months, five people have been saved because of this book. ”

"I don't need to tell you how expensive the book is, you all know it, but His Royal Highness the King of Qin is willing to sell us this book that cures diseases and saves people at a very low price, although we mountain people may not have much culture, and we are also the innermost barbarians of many Tang people, but we are not people who do not understand the Entu report."

"What's more, His Royal Highness the King of Qin has given us a lot, but he has not asked us to repay anything at all, as for persuading the conscription, joining the army and fighting will kill people, but joining the army and fighting is not the same as protecting ourselves? What's more, when did we hunt in the mountains when was it safe? Huang Lingshan said.

"Headsman. I want to go down the mountain, even if I go to be a soldier, I heard that now Datang recruits all pay military salaries, that is to say, money is given every month, and the money given is enough to buy food to feed a family of more than a dozen people! I now have three children who don't have enough to eat if they were just hunting. Just after confirming that there was nothing wrong with his son, Huang Gu stood up directly and spoke.

"Yes, I'll go too, my wife is sick, if it weren't for Dr. Puka, she might have died, and if I go out hunting and can't get prey, they will all be hungry, so it's better to be a soldier and buy food."

Many young people in the village stood up and said.

Seeing the attitude of these young people, some old people in the village were not easy to object.

……

In Gaozhou, Feng Ang was listening to the report of his own people.

"Big brother, according to the information I have received so far, those veterans under the command of His Royal Highness King Qin, there are more than 30,000 mountain people who have completed their training alone, and nearly 10,000 mountain people have come out of the mountains this month, and they are all from different tribes." Feng Wenji said with a somewhat strange expression.

"Is it just us?" Feng Ang asked.

"Yes, it's just that we are here, if the entire Lingnan Road is the whole of Lingnan Road, I am afraid that there will be as many as 100,000 mountain people who have finished training alone." Feng Wenji took a deep breath and said.

"Hey, I used to hear about how powerful His Royal Highness King Qin was, and I heard it from the Tang Weekly and some legends, but now I have seen a really powerful place." Feng Ang was a little impressed.

"Yes, 100,000 mountain people! With our own influence, we could only recruit 30,000 or 40,000 troops at most, and this is still because we have contacts with the leaders of some big tribes, but His Royal Highness King Qin didn't do anything, it was those mountain people who came out on their own, found local officials to register as Tang people, and then took the initiative to train. The gap is too big. Feng Wenji nodded, his face was somewhat frightened while admiring.

It's so powerful!

The mountain people are mostly brave people, after all, they all need hunting to survive, since they were children, they are good at activities between the mountains and wilderness, fighting with wild beasts, naturally they are good at fighting, and now His Royal Highness easily pulled out 100,000 mountain people, what is the concept?

These 100,000 mountain people, not to mention Lingnan Road, even the entire land of Nanyang can be swept away, although it is said that His Royal Highness did not recruit soldiers, but selected the best among these 100,000 mountain people.

But these mountain people are willing to be trained, which means that in the future, as long as His Highness wants to make a move, he can instantly have an extra 100,000 soldiers!

"Everyone is a lot better behaved now." Feng Ang couldn't help but ask with a smile.

"That's nature." Feng Wenji nodded.

Feng Ang smiled, the Feng family is different from other wealthy nobles, Feng Ang's sons in law are in Chang'an, so since Feng Ang returned to the Tang Dynasty, he has never thought of rebellion, but among the local wealthy families in Lingnan Dao, there are many people who rely on their local influence to do evil and disdain the imperial court decrees.

Now, do you let them try again?

Oh, at the beginning, when His Royal Highness said that he wanted to buy herbs from the mountain people, and pay food to the mountain people, these people were disdainful, they felt that His Highness was just making a show, constantly buying herbs, and if the medicinal materials were not used up, how much money could His Highness have to toss? Although the food in Lingnan Province is cheap, how much food can His Highness take out?

But these months down...... Not to mention the medicinal herb processing factories under His Royal Highness, not to mention the Lingnan Province, there were more and more mountain people who continued to come out to register their households and become the common people of the Tang Dynasty, and then the instructors who followed the expansion of the medicinal herb factory to various parts of Lingnan began to train these mountain people.

The training was not long, only three months, and at the time of training, these mountain people did not have military salaries, only food, but for the mountain people, this was enough, because they received a lot more food every month than they could hunt, and it was stable.

And His Highness will only select the best of them as members of the Tang City Management Force.

Feng Wenji didn't know very well, but Feng Ang knew very well that when His Highness's instructors selected these members, they all selected a few people from each village to stay, which meant that almost every village had personnel to retain.

In the event of a war, these people are the foundation!

The influence of those wealthy families now? No matter how powerful the influence is, in the face of 100,000 mountain people's troops, it will not have any influence.

What's more, His Royal Highness's actions have such a powerful impact on the mountain people, and the impact on the local people is even heavier.

"I heard that His Highness's ironworks have decided to take that loan to the people under the mountain, and then give them priority to provide them with quyuan plows and various iron farm tools?" Feng Ang asked.

"Yes, the person in charge of Gaozhou told us before." Feng Wenji said immediately.

"Contact the other party, just say that if they are short of money, our Feng family is willing to provide funds to His Highness as a guarantee, support His Highness's policy, first give priority to the people to distribute farm tools such as Quyuan plows, and then let all the pack horses under our family name be taken out to be used as stallions, and give priority to the people to cultivate the horses and mules." Feng Ang made a decision directly.

"Yes! Eldest brother. Feng Wenji immediately understood what his eldest brother meant.

If the former Lingnan was like an enclave of the Tang Dynasty, although it belonged to the Tang Dynasty, and even the local wealthy families were also Tang officials, but in fact the Tang Dynasty lacked control over the local area, then the current Lingnan Road may become the strongest control of the Tang Dynasty over the local area, except near Chang'an.

And with the passage of time, after a year or two, this cohesion will become even stronger! In particular, the local people's belonging to Datang will make Datang invincible to the local rule, including Linyi, who has just joined Datang.