Chapter 55: Relocation of the Army (I)
Yin He came to the high-rise study of the Ji mansion again three days later.
It was raining that day, the sky was gloomy, there was rain in the air, and the clouds were hanging low, which made people feel a little depressed in their hearts.
Ji Hou sent everyone away and set aside a period of time for this young man. When there were only two people in the study, he and Yin He, the powerful and important elder in the holy city looked unusually patient and calm, and asked Yin He, "How is it, have you thought about that matter?"
Yin He solemnly said, "I have thought about it, I am willing to serve the elders." ”
Ji Hou had a smile on his face, and there was a look of relief in his eyes, and he smiled and said, "Good, good." ”
Yin He said again: "It's just about this matter, I still have a few points here that I need to learn more about for you." ”
Ji Hou nodded and said, "It's natural, you say." ”
Yin Hedao: "Where did the desolate people who entered the inner ring land to build roads come from, and how many people did they have?"
Ji Hou said without hesitation: "The earliest batch is 1,000 people, if you need to supplement manpower in the future, as long as you send out the news, I will help you make up for it, there is no cap, don't worry." ”
Yin He silently recited the words of "no upper cap" in his heart, his expression was a little more solemn, and then he said: "As we all know, desolate people never enter the inner ring land, how do you plan to let them enter the inner ring land to work?"
Ji Hou said: "Forced to rush in, threatening their lives, they can't help but do nothing." ”
Yin He pondered for a moment and said, "Of course, it is necessary to suppress these desolate people by force, but I have also thought carefully about this matter in the past few days, and I have a strategy, I don't know if you would like to hear it, elder?"
Ji Hou smiled: "We are all our own family now, why bother to be polite, come, let's hear it." ”
Yin Hedao: "Although I don't know what impact the strange spiritual power in the Divine Mountain and the Inner Ring Land has on the desolate people, it is a fact that they have long feared the Divine Mountain and refused to enter the Inner Ring, if they are forced to enter, I am afraid that there will be many troubles." It is better to cover these people's faces and eyes first, and only say that they will move to a remote place to do hard labor to build roads, so that perhaps the backlash will be much lessened. ”
Ji Hou thought for a moment when he heard this, then nodded slowly and said, "Okay, this method is very good, just do what you say." ”
Yin He nodded, and then said: "The people who built the road in the Inner Ring Land before suffered extremely heavy casualties, and now let them build the road, the speed is surprisingly slow, and it doesn't have much effect." It's better to withdraw all the Terrans, and leave only an elite guard to monitor and suppress the deserted people to work, so that no rumors leak when someone is working, what do you think?"
"Evacuate all the Terrans?" Ji Hou's brows furrowed, he stood up and paced back and forth, and after a while, he said, "Will this actually slow down the speed of road construction?"
Yin Hedao: "Two groups of people work together, and the desolate people are that kind of fiery nature, even if our guards suppress it, most of them will still have conflicts." In addition, I think that if we only use wasteland people to work, we may be able to repair faster. ”
Ji Hou was silent for a moment, then nodded and said, "You did something inside, I believe you, then it's decided." Anything else?"
"The materials for road construction are mainly the amount of that kind of blue jade stone......"
"You don't have to worry about this," Ji Hou said directly, "I will send more manpower and mobilize the Desolate Tribe to help, in short, there will never be a shortage of you again." ”
"Good. This time, Yin He was silent for a long time, as if he was considering his words in his heart, and after a long while, he stood up, walked in front of Ji Hou, and said, "I want to ask, the commander of the high sacrifice, we will speed up the construction of the road, but has he ever said how fast it will be?"
Ji Hou was stunned for a moment, frowned and thought for a while, then slowly shook his head and said, "This ...... It seems that he did not make it clear, but when he talked about it in the temple that day, the high priest spoke sternly and looked unhappy, and rebuked us for being too slow to build the road, but he did not tell us how fast we should build it. ”
He glanced at Yin He and said, "What do you mean by asking?"
Yin He smiled bitterly and said, "Isn't it true that I don't have a bottom in my heart, I'm afraid that if I try my best to do things then, and I still can't meet the high priest's request, then I don't have to go." ”
Ji Hou said "um" and said, "This is indeed true, why don't you wait first, and I will go to the temple to ask the high priest later, and ask him carefully about this." ”
Yin He stopped him and said, "Elder Ji, slow down." ”
Ji Hou said: "What?"
Yin He looked a little hesitant, but finally said, "I think so, you should not mention this matter to the high priest for the time being. As long as we can do what we said before, you can give me three more ...... With 500 elite sergeants and 1,000 desolate people working, I think the speed of road construction can be at least doubled compared to before. ”
He raised his eyes to look at Ji Hou and said, "When the time has passed for about a month or two, you can tell the high priest with this to see if he is satisfied with this speed." As he spoke, he smiled bitterly and said, "If he is still not satisfied, then I can't do it, so you can ask another master." ”
Ji Hou pondered for a moment and nodded: "Yes, but are there other reasons for you to do this?"
Yin He nodded, lowered his voice a little, and said, "In this way, it may not be too much persecution for those desolate slaves, of course, there will be people who will die, but the team of a thousand people should be able to last longer." Otherwise, if it is pushed desperately, this group of desolate people will probably die cleanly within a month. ”
Ji Hou was stunned for a moment, then glanced at Yin He deeply, and after a while, he nodded and said, "This is very good, although I have a way to continue to bring in desolate people, but it is still in trouble, it is best if you can do this." ”
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I don't know how many great events were silent and unknown before they happened, at least now in the huge city of the Holy City, there are very few people who know about it. Even the other two powerful Long Clans and Xiahou Clans in the Council of Elders, their attitudes towards this matter were actually far away.
When Ji Hou proposed to the two elders that they pay for their own help to get desolate slaves, Xiahou and the Long family agreed without much hesitation.
Money, such wealthy families are piled up. Of course, the number of Ji Hou is also amazing, which makes these two giants hurt for a while, but compared to the difficult and troublesome thing of catching more than 300 desolate people back, it is nothing.
Anyway, from beginning to end, the road construction was all carried out by the high priest and pushed with all his might, and the inner ring was notoriously difficult and troublesome, and everyone couldn't be happier to be able to take this matter over.
Therefore, this major event was unexpectedly smooth in the high-level of the Holy City, and Ji Hou also mobilized all the strength at hand to make various preparations, and at the same time sent people to urge the White Horse Tribe to get desolate slaves as soon as possible, and spread the word to let the desolate people go to more deeper and more dangerous divine rivers to dig up green jade stones, as long as they can get it, there will be rewards and so on.
Everything was out of sight of the people of the Holy City, quietly and silently.
About a month later, the preparations were basically completed, and the most important desolate slaves, the White Horse Tribe, were also quietly sent over, a total of 1,000 people, basically adult men, many of them had tortured scars, and the essence, qi, and spirit were not too good.
Of course, Yin He is not very satisfied with this, but there is no way, in fact, such a situation is unavoidable. In order to hide people's eyes, he simply did not let these desolate slaves enter the holy city, and directly locked up these desolate people in a military camp far away outside the city, and raised them for three or four days.
In the middle of this, he asked his sergeants to reprimand and scold these desolate people, and said that they would go to the east of the holy city, a dangerous place with gold mines, to build roads for the Terrans, and as long as the roads were built, let them go home freely.
Five days later, Ji Hou sent a large number of carriages and horses, and Yin He commanded elite soldiers to tie up these desolate people one by one and wear black jackets to catch up with the carriage, squeezing as many people as they could.
Under the sword, the desolate slaves dared not speak out, so they all sat in the crowded carriage in the darkness in front of them.
The carriage moved, and then walked a long, long, long way, but it was actually Yin He who made them go around in a circle directly outside the barracks for a dozen laps, and then began to head to the inner ring.