Sanshui Village is only a very small village, with a population of only close to a hundred.
Lin Yi brought a total of fifty soldiers. These soldiers were all wearing thick leather armor. Each soldier carried eighty kilograms of sweet potatoes on his back.
With the physical constitution of these veterans, it is actually possible to double the load. However, the mountain road is difficult and the distance is long, so it is not advisable to go to the extreme.
Fifty armor, recruiting soldiers and bringing so many people is, firstly, to transport food with manpower, and secondly, it is also to show force to the mountain people.
It is true that the mountain people are honest, but simplicity and ferocity often do not conflict.
If you are strong, the mountain people will be honest and hospitable, good at singing and dancing. If you are weak, the mountain people will easily have other thoughts and become vicious, brave and good at fighting.
This has long been proven by history. This is true in this world, and it is also true in the real world.
In reality, many people become good at singing and dancing, not through indoctrination, but through aircraft, tanks, and machine guns. When the bow and horse, no matter how skilled they are, cannot stop a missile, the world will be peaceful.
As for this world, there must be many people and fierce soldiers.
Otherwise, the evil thoughts of people's hearts cannot be suppressed.
On the trail, Ji Yi looked at the low houses on the higher hillside and was thinking about how many of them he could recruit this time given the situation in Sanshui Village.
Small villages like this are a relatively embarrassing group in the mountains. Although there are a large proportion of young people, the total number of people is too small to support large-scale land reclamation, and they are still limited to the vicinity of the village.
In addition, there are few girls in the mountains and young men who cannot marry a wife have an innate desire for the outside world.
And if you join the army, your youth will be reduced and there will be more land for cultivation, which is undoubtedly a good thing.
But if you think about it carefully, you will find that if there are too few people in the village, you will lose your resistance to wild animals.
This is the situation faced by many extinct villages.
If young people are not allowed to go out, there will be too many people and too little land. If there are too few people to open up wasteland, they will not be able to find wives. This is a slow death.
Letting go means that there are fewer people who are not many, and they lose the power to resist risks, which is also a slow death.
This is a very contradictory situation.
In this regard, Zhao Cheng also had an idea, that is, to open up wasteland with villages and combine hundreds of villages into several large villages.
Today, the total population of Lianshan Baizhai is approximately 50,000.
This number can completely enable a village of ten thousand people to burn wasteland for farming on a large scale.
And with low-quality chemical fertilizers, it is enough for a group of people to go out of work and form a militia to protect the safety of the village.
Although the beasts in the mountains are ferocious, as long as they are not encountered alone, they can form a team of three or five people and hold weapons, and after a little training, they can be fearless.
When there is enough food, more people can be released from work and more craftsmen can be trained.
Among them, craftsmen can manufacture armaments, and militiamen are the reserves of the regular army, which can continuously provide effective strength to Yingtian's army.
This is what is said about building walls high and hoarding grain widely.
Build the territory you occupy into an ecosystem that can continuously produce various resources.
Regarding these, Ji Yi only occasionally heard Zhao Cheng mention a few words.
Many officers in the army, after hearing a few words, forgot about it in an instant. It was okay for them to kill a group of rough people, but it was not okay for them to figure out the thoughts of the superiors.
Only Ji Yi was different, especially after being reused by Zhao Cheng, he seemed to have a new idea.
He knew that it was imperative to join forces in the future, and his future might also be here.
There are 50,000 mountain residents in Lianshan. Among them, leaving out the elderly and children, there are about 8,000 fertile women left.
In the past, when food was scarce, the mountain people were able to have one child every two years on average until they could no longer have any more children.
After all, the mortality rate in the mountains is so high that even a boy in his teens may die from a sudden illness.
And if they don't die young, under normal circumstances, Lianshan will have an average of 4,000 new people every year.
It's just that the mortality rate in the mountains is too high, and not many can really grow up.
What Lin Yi likes is this potential.
Indeed, in the next step, Zhao Cheng seems to be going out to the Southern Wilderness to achieve hegemony.
But it does not mean that we will give up the mountains.
This place is the border between Qingzhou and Southern Wilderness. If Zhao Cheng really takes over Southern Wilderness, he must not give up this place if he wants to leave Southern Wilderness in the future.
Therefore, Lin Yi's idea is that if Wucheng is really captured in the future, when the situation stabilizes, he will ask for help, stay in Lianshan, and strengthen his troops here. When the follow-up, Ying Tian's army walks out of the Southern Wilderness, his presence will be indispensable.
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Although Ying Tianjun is still a big cat or two kittens now, Lin Yi has strong confidence in Zhao Cheng.
Of course, Hezhai is a follow-up matter.
For now, Ying Tianjun's prestige is not enough, nor is it able to control hundreds of villages. Although this move will benefit the future and has many benefits for the mountain people, it is not easy to achieve it.
Apart from anything else, outside the mountains, even if the imperial court was at its strongest, it would be time-consuming and laborious to merge the villages, which would lead to many contradictions.
Furthermore, it is difficult to leave one's homeland, and people flocking to the scene after giving an order have always only appeared in legends and stories from ancient times.
Only the Holy Emperor in the story can do it. With one order, everyone will obey.
If it were easy to merge villages, the mountain people would have done it themselves. It's not that there are smart people among the mountain people who can't see the benefits of concentrating their efforts on things, it's just that they can't do it.
However, Lin Yi knew that whatever Zhao Cheng wanted to do, there was nothing he couldn't do.
Although there are smart people among the mountain people, there are no great heroes, but now, there is a great hero in the mountains!
The mountain people in Sanshui Village were very wary of the arrival of Lin Yi and others.
A large group of young men and old men, holding simple farm tools as weapons from a distance, stared at the group of mighty soldiers. The invisible murderous aura made the mountain people tremble with fear.
If there is only one of these soldiers, three or five mountain people, as long as they are more brave, they can surround and kill them.
But if there are ten soldiers, even if they fight against hundreds of mountain people, it will be like killing a chicken.
As for the fifty, these mountain people and soldiers in front of them can be killed in one glance.
Seeing this, Lin Yi immediately waved his hand to stop his men. At the same time, several mountain people who had been leading the way also immediately stepped forward and chatted with the mountain people of Sanshui Village. After a long time, the mountain people of Sanshui Village
, finally relaxed his vigilance, but still didn’t fully trust him.