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Li Jing led 20,000 Zhenguo troops to sweep away grass thieves in Yun and Pu Prefectures, and the results were abundant.

The water is sparkling, and the fleet composed of thousands of large and small ships is full of the harvest of the Zhenguo army. In addition to the huge fleet of boats in the Jishui River, there is also a huge fleet of boats along the road on the north bank of the Jishui River. Thousands of carts of oxen pull horses and donkeys, also loaded with all kinds of harvested materials.

In addition, the national army of the two foreign towns is also responsible for escorting 130,000 young men and women forward. These 130,000 young men and women will be escorted to Liaodong, and before leaving Yunzhou, Li Jing has announced to them that after arriving in Liaodong, they will have 100 people as an army. After joining the military tun, they are tunhu, farming for the Zhenguo army. The Zhenguo army will be given grain according to the standard of five stone grain per year, and there will be two wages per year.

All the tun households, after three years of tuntian in Liaodong, can reclaim their own fields, they reclaimed the fields, three years do not charge two taxes, the town army only collects one bucket of grain per mu, and it is not a big bucket but a small bucket, a small bucket is only five and a half catties. According to the yield of one stone per mu, there is only twenty-two draws of one, and if it is calculated according to one mu and one hundred catties, it is much higher than fifteen draws of one. After the expiration of three years, the land will belong to them, and even if two taxes are imposed, Li Jing promises not to collect more than the proportion of eleven, and no other fees will be levied.

Moreover, Li Jing also said that as long as they behave well, are willing to work hard, and work hard, they can become free people in advance and cultivate their own land without even having to settle for three years, and the Zhenguo army and the local government will also provide them with leased seeds, farm tools and livestock.

In a word. In front of these people. Li Jing tried his best to paint a picture of the prospects. Most of these people were hungry people who had become thieves. After encountering a disaster and breaking his home, he became a starving outcast, and finally he was coerced by grass thieves, or became a robber directly for a bite to eat. Many people have long been desperate and numb, living a life with no tomorrow today. This time he was captured by the officers and soldiers, and he originally thought that he would die. Unexpectedly, the Zhenguo Army did not kill them to repay their merits, but instead sent them to Liaodong.

Although Liaodong is a bitter cold place in the impression. But listening to Li Jing's description, it seems to be a peach orchard outside the world. They don't have to endure cold and starvation, they can not only have food and clothing, but even have their own land. Some people didn't believe it and felt that the Zhenguo Army was just going to pull them to Liaodong to work as coolies. But many people believe it, they have already reached this point, no matter how miserable it is, how miserable can it be? In Henan, the Central Plains, even if they wanted to give those local tyrants a slave and just begged for a bite to eat, no one was willing to accept it at all. Not to mention. The name of Li Jing of the Zhenguo Army still makes many people believe it. In the past six months. Dengzhou has long become a place that countless people yearn for.

The experience of these days has also made them gradually believe Li Jing's words. Since entering the camp of the homeless camp, except for the first two days of gruel, the latter has been served dry rice and cooking cakes, and even vegetables, shiny vegetables, kelp vegetables, radish strips, salted fish strips, and even meat slices, which have been served like this for many days. I heard that the porridge was given two days before entering the camp not because of anything else, but because I was afraid that those who were too hungry before would eat too much and die of death. Eat porridge first, this is to recuperate the body first, to prevent sudden eating and strangulation.

Now, no one of the more than 100,000 people in the camp will run away, and with such good food every day and such wonderful prospects, which one will escape?

On this day they also started to help with the work, the men helping to make the wheelbarrow and the women making the clothes.

Before setting off from Yuncheng, 130,000 young and strong people received a set of clothes. It was a complete set of clothes, shoes, socks and shirts, although they were hurried and not too finely made, but when the brand-new linen clothes were sent to these people, many people couldn't help crying excitedly, they really believed that there was a beautiful future waiting for them.

Time was in a hurry, and before departure, only more than 10,000 wheelbarrows were made in time. These wheelbarrows, one wooden wheel, two handrails, and a rope with a sleeve of shoulders. Because it is a one-wheeled landing, it can be carried unimpeded regardless of the plains and mountains, and it is an economical and practical means of transportation that is better than manpower and animal loading. This kind of car has long been used in a large number of the Zhenguo army, especially in Liaodong, where the roads are difficult to travel, and there are more such cars.

A wheelbarrow can hold at least three stones, and if it is an old wheelbarrow, plus a cart, it can even directly carry seven to eight stone weights.

This time, the Zhenguo army set out from Yunzhou, and all the baggage was divided into three parts of transportation, one is more than 1,000 large and small ships in the Jihe River to transport materials. In addition, there are more than 1,000 carts, in addition to this more than 10,000 wheelbarrows.

Each of these wheelbarrows carries more than five stones, with one person carrying it in front, one pulling it in the back, and two pushing it on one side.

Many young people also take the initiative to carry their shoulders, and the two of them carry the bar.

As a result, except for 450,000 stone of grain and tens of thousands of pieces of cloth and those weapons to be sold, the rest of the supplies were all brought on the road at one time.

20,000 Zhenguo troops escorted 130,000 young people, not so much escort, but actually more protection. No one ran away at all, and no one shouted tired. The task of the Zhenguo Army is only to be responsible for the protection of the front and rear, and follow on both sides. With 150,000 horses, the procession stretched for almost 50 miles from the Jishui River to the north bank. After entering Jeju, he went all the way.

The sun was already hot at the beginning of June, and the team was walking very hot under the sun. Li Jing was not in a hurry to leave, he set off at dawn every day, and when he reached mid-noon, he would find a forest at the foot of the mountain to rest, and wait for the noon sun to pass before leaving.

The Zhenguo army has been in Jeju for ten days, and in ten days, such a huge team has not gone far. Li Wei would come back every day to report on the movements of the Grass Army, and since Li Jing led the army into Yunzhou, the Grass Army has significantly accelerated the pace of its eastward advance. They didn't even dare to ransack the five county towns of Jeju along the way, but hurriedly marched and fled directly into Jeju.

Hearing this news, Li Jing smiled slightly, this is the best result. Although he is not afraid of grass thieves, Li Jing is really not interested in fighting that meaningless battle.

However, after entering Jeju in the past few days, Li Jing successfully recovered the three counties of Yanggu, Dong'e, and Luxian on the north bank of Jishui.

On the tenth day of the first month of June, Wang Chong and Li Zhen rushed to Pingyin City on the south bank of Jishui with the Black Flag Army and the Japanese army with the 50,000 young men and women according to Li Jing's order. On the same day, Li Jing's huge team of more than 100,000 also walked to the north bank of Jishui, across the river from Pingyin City.

On the same day, Wang Chong led his army to successfully garrison Changqing City, the last of the five cities in Jeju that had not been recovered, and it was successfully recovered. The whole of Jeju is fully recovered!

Subsequently, Li Jing stayed in Jeju for another ten days, and during these ten days, Li Jing kept releasing rumors, saying that he would immediately attack Qizhou. But in fact, they did not move, but only sent troops to carry out a sweep in the territory of the five counties of Jeju.

Since the military rebellion suffered by Jeju was not too severe, Li Jing's harvest from this sweep was very rich, and it was not much worse than the harvest in Pu and Yunzhou. Li Jing even swept through the counties of Jeju again, and finally picked 30,000 young men and 20,000 young women, making Jeju almost empty.

Now, Li Jing has 25,000 soldiers and horses, but he has 230,000 young men, including 100,000 young women and 130,000 young men. The number of young and strong women selected this time is very large, mainly because Li Jing considered that among the displaced people recruited some time ago, the proportion of women is very small. The difference between men and women was too large, so Lin Wei, who stayed behind, told him in his letter that there are now many stable young men in Dengzhou and Liaodong who are in a hurry to marry, but there are too few women, which has caused the bride price to become more and more expensive, and even two cows cannot marry a daughter-in-law.

Li Jing got 100,000 young and strong women this time, almost all of them were unmarried or widows, or separated from their families, these people could not only be sent to various workshops to work in those workshops in all walks of life in Dengzhou Liaodong, but also to alleviate the imbalance between men and women, so that more marriageable men could marry wives, so as to enhance the stability of the Zhenguo Army.

In Pingyin City, Li Jing and the generals held a feast and drank bitterly.

In this month, the Zhenguo Army can be said to have made a lot of money, hundreds of thousands of stone grain, millions of yuan, and more than 200,000 young and strong people. And to achieve such a big gain, they only paid for dozens of casualties when they suppressed the bandits. This casualty is nothing compared to such a large gain.

Not to mention the money, even the military merits of the Zhenguo Army this time are also very great. Relieve the siege of Songzhou, annihilate Wang Xianzhi's 100,000 thief army, and this time, successively recovered 15 counties in Pu, Yun, and Jizhou, as well as several counties in Yanzhou. This feat, but the Zhenguo Army alone accomplished it. Although the coalition army of the six towns of the imperial court also defeated more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in Huangchao, they themselves lost more than 20,000, and they were only 80,000 beheaded.

"Dashuai, how should we march next? Will it wait and see what happens, or will it go directly to Qizhou? Wang asked with a smile.

Li Zhen held the wine glass and chuckled: "I think it's better to sit on the wall and watch." After the convergence of Huang Chao and Wang Jingwu, there were as many as 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers and horses, and Huang Chao and Wang Jingwu were not idle people. If we push too hard, they will have no way to escape, and they will inevitably be killed. It's better to garrison here and wait and see what happens! ”

Guo Chengan said: "I'm afraid that Song Dashuai will not be able to sit still, he is the envoy appointed by the imperial court to recruit grass thieves, but now our Zhenguo army has defeated Wang Xianzhi, and the six towns have defeated Huangchao, which makes him very faceless." Now that Huang Chao has entered Qizhou, Song Dashuai must especially want to destroy them and save some momentum. ”

Li Jing nodded, if he were Song Wei, he would definitely be very unhappy at the moment. Must be in a hurry to fight a battle and save prestige. And now, it's a good time to fight that battle. However, with Song Wei's troops, he fought against Wang Jingwu alone for a year without success, and let him deal with Wang Jingwu and Huang Chao alone, I am afraid that it will be more difficult to succeed. Therefore, Li Jing guessed that Song Wei would not forget his righteous son, and he was very likely to let Li Jing send troops to fight the grass thieves with him!

If Song Wei ordered him to send troops, should he send troops? (To be continued......)