The hungry people who were watching around had gathered at this time, and when they learned that Li Yi was the supreme governor of Yunnan, and some people had seen him in charge of the feat of making porridge, and then they saw him try the medicine with their own eyes, and they had a good impression of him who was approachable.

Coupled with Li Yi's painstaking persuasion and repeated persuasion, he gradually understood his good intentions, gradually eliminated his vigilance, and the number of people who took the initiative to drink medicine soon increased.

After a while, the two large vats of medicinal soup were at the bottom.

Li Yi was quite satisfied with the effect of this propaganda, but he also had deep worries about it.

If they all rely on this method to drive them to drink medicine, when will so many people be fully immunized?

Li Yi thought hard and soon had an idea.

He instructed a personal soldier to immediately go and ask Sihu to join the army Lu Mian to come here, and said that the commander had important things to hand over to him.

At this time, Zhuang Qian next to him leaned over and whispered: "Dashuai, I see that there are many young and middle-aged men among these hungry people, and their physique is still good." ”

"Don't you want to reorganize the army and enrich your own soldiers? I think it's still feasible to just select from them. In my opinion, these people have left their homeland and have long been tired of the life of wandering all over the world, and if we sincerely recruit them, they will definitely be enthusiastic to join the army. ”

"And these outsiders have nothing to do with the local people in Yunnan, and there will be no danger of mountains standing on the ground, if they can be allowed to take root here, they will definitely be grateful, and they will definitely be able to swear allegiance to the marshal. I don't know what you think? ”

Li Yi's heart moved, and he praised repeatedly: "Brother Zhuang's idea is very good, I think this thing is feasible, but this will not be said until the hungry people have settled down and the situation is stable." You're good at this, and you'll just have a lot of eyes on me when the time comes. ”

As he was talking, the panting Lu Mian had already trotted in front of Li Yi, he calmed down his rapid breath a little, and hurriedly reported: "Dashuai, I don't know... I don't know what important things you are looking for? ”

Li Yi looked at Lu Mian, who was out of breath, nodded with a smile and said, "Ben Shuai has an important matter to be handed over to you." ”

"You know, nowadays, the number of hungry people is increasing. However, the personnel are mixed, it is difficult to clarify, and the identity of the hungry people in southern Sichuan is not clear to us, which has brought great difficulties to the future resettlement work. ”

"So, Ben Shuai now puts you in full responsibility, thoroughly sort out these situations, and figure out the composition of these personnel. The first task is to count the specific number of hungry people in southern Sichuan, and the distribution in Yunnan, after all, there are many more in the lower counties, you can send a letter to inform the counties to investigate on their own. ”

"Second, you do a detailed count, including their age, gender, place of origin and family composition, and where they have migrated from."

"In addition, it is necessary to keep a detailed record of the occupations they have engaged in and the work they are good at, and if they are skilled craftsmen or professional soldiers, they should be specially indicated, so that we can call them directly when we need them."

Seeing that Lu Mian was quite embarrassed, Li Yi smiled and said: "The current situation is very chaotic, and it should be said that it is very difficult to count, you have to adopt a simple and effective method, point by point, piece by piece, with the family as the unit, and you can't miss it at all." ”

"Of course, this is not a lot of work, how many people do you need, just tell Ben Shuai. For us in Yunnan, this is a very important work, and strive to give me clear statistics within half a month, and all of them will be registered in the book within a month, and then handed over to Ben Shuai in person. Do you understand? ”

Lu Mian hurriedly nodded and agreed: "Follow the orders of the marshal." However, due to the frequent flow of personnel, the lower officials wondered if it would be possible for the Grand Marshal's Mansion to issue an order to allow only the hungry people to move in a certain area and fix the mobile personnel, so that the lower officials could mobilize manpower and carry out this work in an orderly manner. Please also show me. ”

Li Yi shook his head and frowned: "It's not easy to fix these homeless people, how to count them, you can discuss it with Lord Lin." ”

Lu Mian hurriedly agreed, and returned to the Xuanfu Embassy after giving a deep salute.

In fact, Zhuang Qian just gave him a wake-up call, and Li Yi also saw a good prospect from it.

The purpose of Li Yi's arrangement is very clear, that is, to select as many talents as possible from the hungry people for my use.

There has always been no shortage of heroes and talents who have emerged from the hungry, and if you give them the opportunity, they will burst out with unparalleled creativity and potential.

At any time, talent is the decisive force, and only with talent can economic and social development make great progress and productivity can be rapidly improved.

Talent is even more important for Yunnan, which is in ruins.

At this time, Yunnan was still a relatively backward region, with extremely backward productive forces, and people's concepts were also very outdated, which could not adapt to the development of the great changes during the Five Dynasties period.

The Sichuan-Chongqing region has always been far away from the war in the Central Plains, and it is the central area of cultural prosperity and economic prosperity.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, if we can get some useful talents, it will play an immeasurable role in Yunnan's future development.

And even if there is not enough talent, the advantage of population alone will drive Yunnan's development.

This is because the increase in population will inevitably bring about a strong demand for food, clothing, and so on, and only by increasing production capacity and expanding the scale of production can we meet this growing demand, and thus will inevitably promote the development of production technology to match the size of its population.

In the middle and late five dynasties, after years of wars and natural and man-made disasters, the entire Chinese population remained of just over 13 million.

In order to maintain national strength and population superiority, all five generations of countries have issued strict laws and regulations to prohibit population migration and flow and prevent population loss.

Therefore, in this period, having a sufficient number of people has enough influence to even influence the balance of power in several regions.

To sum up, Li Yi fully understands the principle of 'if you want to take it first, you must first deal with it'.

Now we only need to get through this difficult period, and what awaits Yunnan is bound to be a bright future and future.

After several days of hard work by the government at all levels, the hungry people finally settled down.

Although a few hungry people took refuge with relatives and friends and gained temporary shelter, most of them lived in the three monasteries inside and outside the city of Ningzhou, and some lived in Sun Decheng's puppet palace and other idle military camps.

But this is not a long-term solution, Li Yi is already preparing to build a fixed resettlement site for these victims, so that they can integrate into the land of Yunnan as soon as possible.

After burying his mother, the young man named Xu Yanzi also came to Ningzhou with the guards of the Xuanfu Embassy.

Originally, when he first met him, Li Yi admired him very much, and now he has accepted him as a righteous son, stayed in the Xuanfu Embassy's mansion, let Wanru take care of him personally, and officially named him Xu Yang.

As if he has never had a child of his own, Xu Yang is clever and likable, and he is raised as his own child in his heart, and after getting along for a while, the family relationship between the two is also increasing day by day.