"It's a good idea. I'll reward you with a house. You can choose it yourself!" Mu Siyu said.
Li Guyuan looked at Mu Siyu in surprise: "Zhaizi?"
"Don't look at how dilapidated Tongyang City is now. The housing prices here will definitely increase dozens of times in the future. What's the matter? Don't you like the house your master gave you?"
"No, no, no, my disciple is so happy. Tongyang City is the master's place, and one day it will become even more magnificent than Hubei City. My disciple has never doubted this."
"How is your mother doing?"
"Thanks to Dr. Zhu's treatment, she is much better now. She suffered from the disease when she was young and needs good care. Now she has servants to take care of her. She doesn't have to do everything by herself. She hasn't been sick for a long time." Li Guyuan said, "Master, then I
Can you take a leave of absence for these two days? After I finish taking care of the house, I will come and share the worries of Master."
"Okay, you look at the arrangements."
"Thank you, Master."
After Li Guyuan left, Lu Zhiyun said: "Mom, my daughter has to do something, right? Otherwise I will look useless. My daughter has an idea, but I don't know if it can be realized."
"you say."
"The people left in Tongyang City are either old people, women or children. The strong laborers were expropriated by the rebels before. Needless to say, after this war, there will definitely be few people left alive. The old people are not good at working, even if they are allowed to farm, it will be a waste.
I can't do much. I want to set aside an area to plant mulberry and raise silkworms, and then gather those women to weave cloth. There is a playground in Hubei City, and there will be no shortage of financial resources there. Let's build Tongyang City into a world of silk and cloth.
If you want to buy the best cloth, you have to come to Tongyang City to buy it. Besides, I also brought ice silkworms here."
"You asked Li Guyuan to take you back to the countryside some time ago, just to take away the ice silkworms, right? I remember that you also took away a few good silkworm farmers, just for today?"
"You can't hide anything about your daughter from your mother, that's what I think. Tongyang City is lacking everything, so I'll bring more things, maybe they'll come in handy."
"Come with me." Mu Siyu said to Lu Zhiyun, walking towards the map hanging on the wall.
She drew on the map with a pen and said: "This area is suitable for planting mulberry trees, so I will leave it to you to take care of. As for whether you can make something special, it depends on you."
"Thank you, mother, I won't let you down."
Mu Siyu and her daughter worked tirelessly to build Tongyang City, and the results were obvious. Not long after the tax-free announcement was posted, many people moved from other places.
These people came here to get free land, so they came to the government to report as soon as they arrived in Tongyang City, and the government assigned them villages to settle down.
Pingyuan Military Region. Qi Xiao coughed, took a sip of tea, and then opened the letter on the table.
After reading the letter, Qi Xiao laughed.
"Is this a letter from Madam?" the attendant asked, "Madam has sent someone to send a large amount of military pay, which is more than we had planned before."
"Do you know what Madam wrote?"
"I don't know."
"The madam said that the silver is not given for free, it must be exchanged with equal value." Qi Xiao said calmly, "Our soldiers have to open up wasteland for her, one tael of silver per acre of land."
"But now we just need military pay to recruit more soldiers..."
"So she made the advance in advance and will fulfill her promise when we are ready." Qi Xiao stood up, "Since the military pay is ready, let's take it out and show them!"
After clearing out those unclean soldiers, only 7,000 of the 20,000 soldiers were left.
Qi Xiao originally brought five hundred people, and now these five hundred people are the soul of this army, mainly managing the scattered soldiers.
It is no exaggeration to say that the people brought out by Qi Xiao are worth a hundred soldiers and generals. With these people supervising the scattered soldiers, the military appearance and morale have been much stronger recently.
Seven thousand people gathered.
In front of them were many boxes, containing silver ingots one after another.
"That's a lot of money!" someone said, "I've never seen so much money."
"I used to follow Zhou Pengfei and I had no worries about food and clothing, but I never had any extra money."
"You don't think this money is for us, do you? Have you forgotten what happened to Chen Er, Liu Heizi and the others?"
More than 10,000 people were killed at will, and the bodies were burned. Finally, a pit was dug and the ashes were buried.
How many people are not afraid of such methods?
They were extremely lucky that they had only stolen some points before and never hurt anyone else's life, otherwise they would have turned into ashes underground now.
Qi Xiao walked out.
He stood on the high platform, looked at the soldiers in front of him, and said, "Have you seen these pieces of silver?"
Everyone was silent.
"These are your military pay."
Everyone looked at him in shock.
"However, it needs to be exchanged for military merit."
"Sir, are we at war again?"
What else can military merit include besides killing enemies on the battlefield?
"According to the statistics of my people, there are a large number of bandits near Ronghua City, Fenglai City, and Yuntian City, which are closest to us. As long as you destroy these bandits, you will be rewarded with two taels of silver for each person captured alive, and one hundred coins for each person killed."
"Why is it worth so much money to capture him alive?"
"Of course it's because... I want to recruit them as my soldiers. In fact, not everyone is born a bandit. Some are forced to live in exile, some are unable to afford food at home, and some are heinous. To deal with those heinous people, of course
Kill them quickly. However, this general is willing to give those who go the wrong way a chance to survive, so just capture them alive."
"Capture a person alive, twenty taels of silver. If the other party has a strong sense of resistance, don't fight, lest you hurt yourself. In addition, tell those bandits that as long as they have never killed anyone or raped a woman, they can take the initiative to join this general and reward them with a piece of silver."
Two taels of silver. If they can persuade other people to submit, each person will be rewarded with one tael..."
"General, when will we set off?"
"In an hour, you should be ready."
"yes."
As the saying goes, as long as the horse is well fed, it can run as much as it wants.
The soldiers had been hungry for so long, and seeing so much glittering silver waving at them, their fighting power was extremely strong.
An hour later, the mighty bandit-suppression team set off.
In the next two months, the newly appointed General Qi led his soldiers and generals to fight everywhere, wiping out various bandit dens. In the end, his military exploits and reputation were so great that many people surrendered voluntarily.
After all... there is a reward of one or two silver coins for voluntarily surrendering. If you don't get it, you won't get it in vain.
Two months later, General Qi Xiao returned with his fifty thousand troops.
Needless to say, half of the 40,000-odd people were picked from bandits' dens, and the other half came here because of their fame and took the initiative to seek refuge.