"Not only that, I will also give you some food to survive this winter, and at the same time guide you to engage in various walks of life, support your family, and live and work in peace and contentment."

"Even if any of you are willing to join the army, I will warmly welcome you. Not only will you be given appropriate military pay, but you will also be provided with three meals a day, including meat, rewards for killing enemies, and pensions for those who die in battle!"

At that moment, Yuan Yao told Liu Pi what he was thinking.

In fact, Yuan Yao's idea is also very simple. After Yuan Shu and Cao Cao successively attacked Runan, the population has already been lost a lot.

There are many vacant houses in various counties. Yuan Yao only needs to take care of Liu Pi's 180,000 people in the first batch, so it is very easy to settle down.

Among thirty counties, it is enough to plan three to five thousand people in one county.

Although three to five thousand people may seem like a lot, in fact, there are less than a thousand households, and there are dozens of households in a village. A thousand households are just a dozen more villages built outside these counties.

Moreover, settling these people can, on the one hand, open up wasteland and increase food production, and on the other hand, it can also be an important source for Yuan Yao to expand his troops.

As long as he expressed his idea of ​​recruiting soldiers, Yuan Yao believed that most of the Yellow Turbans under Liu Pi would not mind becoming soldiers.

After all, being a soldier means you can get paid and have enough to eat, which is already a gift.

As soon as Yuan Yao expressed his thoughts, Liu Pi had some doubts and even a little resistance at first.

In Liu Pi's mind, no matter what, his group of people are rebels. It is better to stay in the mountains and forests. If they live in the county, there is no guarantee that the imperial court will not settle accounts with them for the rebellion back then.

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Just like Cao Cao, although he recruited them on the surface, he actually just wanted to treat them as soldiers, without giving them money or food, and regardless of their life or death.

Use them when you need them, and treat them as a source of tax revenue when you don't need them. Don't give them any money, and still collect their taxes.

This made Liu Pi extremely dissatisfied with Cao Cao.

If Yuan Yao is like Cao Cao, then Liu Pike would rather be the king of his own mountain than go to the government and suffer that birdiness.

But when Liu Pi heard Yuan Yao say that he was willing to give them military pay, let them join the army, and have meat and meals every meal, Liu Pi immediately became excited.

With military pay, it's different.

This shows that Yuan Yao treats them as human beings, instead of just using his power to oppress them.

Only such fair cooperation can make Liu Pi and other Yellow Turban remnants feel respected.

"Mr... Young Master, if you become a soldier, will you really get military pay?"

"Of course it's true. I, Yuan Yao, am different from others. All the soldiers and horses under my command are paid. But I never force others to serve as soldiers, and only recruit those who voluntarily join the army!"

"A soldier is a sharp weapon. If you don't even have enough to eat, who will work for you?"

"If you don't believe it, you can ask General Ji Ling. General Ji Ling is the commander-in-chief of our army and is in charge of all soldiers and horses. Ask him if everyone has military pay and bounty!"

In order to persuade Liu Pi, Yuan Yao also cast his eyes on Ji Ling.

Ji Ling was also very smart and immediately understood what Yuan Yao meant.

He immediately explained to Liu Pi.

"That's right, Liu Qushuai, my young master doesn't have many soldiers and horses under his command. There used to be only six thousand people, but these people are paid military pay every month and have meat every meal."

"Even in the previous battles, some people received hundreds of thousands of dollars in rewards based on military merit!"

Ji Ling was not exaggerating. The first batch of soldiers from the Warrior Battalion who followed Yuan Yao had already experienced many battles with Yuan Yao. Starting from the initial annihilation of bandits, those with more rewards could get thousands of coins.

, even tens of thousands of dollars.

Later, following Yuan Yao, several battles took place in Zhu County. Some people were not only promoted to three levels in a row, but also received heavy rewards from Yuan Yao.

It's not like there's hundreds of thousands of dollars.

It is precisely because of these real gold and silver rewards and the spirit that Yuan Yao treats his soldiers like his own children that Yuan Yao's soldiers and horses can often burst into powerful combat effectiveness.

You know, it is not that there are no such people under the command of other princes, but this kind of treatment is usually only given to the private soldiers of certain generals, or even personal followers. However, Yuan Yao unified all the soldiers under his command to a unified standard, so he can naturally get it.

Loved by the soldiers.

With Ji Ling's affirmation, even if Liu Pi had any doubts at the beginning, they disappeared at this time.

"Young Master, if you are really as you say, I am willing to lead all the remnants of the Yellow Turbans to join you!"

"That's great. With Liu Qushuai's help, I can expect great things!"

At present, Yuan Yao has begun to plan to break away from Yuan Shu and go it alone. All he needs is some soldiers and horses who can stand firm.

The 10,000 people recruited in Runan have given Yuan Yao the confidence. If these remnants of the Yellow Turbans join again, Yuan Yao is confident that relying on these people, he will definitely be able to break out of the pack of wolves.

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Liu Pi was successfully persuaded by Yuan Yao and took action quickly.

Liu Pi returned to his Canglang Mountain that day, and told his men about the news he had brought back from his trip to see Yuan Yao.

A large part of the remnants of the Yellow Turbans are the old, weak, sick and disabled left over from the uprising. Most of them are in their forties or fifties. It is naturally impossible for these people to join the army, so Yuan Yao ordered people to place these remnants of the Yellow Turbans in Cang in batches.

Several counties near Langshan.

After all, Liu Pi had 180,000 yellow turban remnants under his command, more than 100,000 of whom were old and weak, and the remaining tens of thousands of young men, some of whom were too thin to meet Yuan Yao's criteria for selecting soldiers.

Yuan Yao ordered Ji Ling and his people to repeatedly select from among the people brought by Liu Pi, but they only managed to collect 8,000 people, which met Yuan Yao's standards.

Of course, Yuan Yao doesn’t want to choose too much.

With his current financial strength, it is already very difficult to support an army of 20,000 to 30,000 people.

If all Liu Pi's men were included in the army at once, the daily cost of food and grass would be an exaggerated figure.

An additional eight thousand people is already the limit.

Including Taishi Ci who came from Yixiantian, Yuan Yao's troops once reached 30,000 troops.

For a time, Yuan Yao recruited 30,000 elite soldiers from just one county.

Yuan Yao's confidence suddenly came to him.

Finally, the time has come to settle accounts with Zhang Xunqiu.

In mid-October, the situation in Yanzhou gradually became clear.

After Cao Cao's defeat in Xuchang, the losses were actually not heavy, but less than 30,000 people were killed or injured.
Chapter completed!