Updated: 2012-06-12

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After entering Juyeze, Ruijin Camp spent five days to clean up the places where the bandits lived next to the mountain village and the water boa. Some hidden people were also found and directly bombarded out of the mountain village. Nearly 30,000 men, women, young and old were driven away from the mountain village. For them, they didn't know where to stay.

Li Xian was not sympathetic when he ordered these things. No matter the people begged or cried, they could not touch his heart. Several rookies took the opportunity to provoke the cavalry who tried to make the people attack the Ruijin Camp. The fast-witted flying tiger spies rushed into the crowd and caught them on the spot and chopped their heads. Their decisive methods shocked everyone. Even if they were unwilling, they could only leave this place where they had lived for two or three years.

Perhaps they will all become homeless wanderers, maybe they will find another place to be thieves soon, or maybe they will return to their hometown to start a new life. But all this has nothing to do with Li Xian, because these people must not be left behind. For the terrain of Juyeze, these people are far more familiar than the people in Yanshan Village. Staying them can only be a disaster, and it will be like a time bomb that will blow the victory that I finally got to ashes.

He failed to kill Zhang Jinsheng in one fell swoop, so Li Xian had to be more careful.

During these five days, the soldiers of Ruijin Camp collected all the fishing boats in the water and burned them. This was also to prevent Zhang Jincheng from coming in from the water after returning. Just in case, more than 4,000 people from Ruijin Camp were stationed by the water and patrolling day and night.

This is also why Li Xian wanted to leave behind the craftsmen who built the ship. The boat was a necessity in Juyezawa, and it became meaningless without the huge water moors of the ship. The boat could burn, but the craftsmen had to stay.

There are still several years before the collapse of the building of the Great Sui Dynasty. In recent years, the Li family army will have to live in Juyeze. Whether it is a fishing boat or a warship, it must be available. Temporary destruction is for temporary stability, and there is no way to do so.

In the end, there were about 300 craftsmen who remained, and these people were strictly controlled by Li Xian's order. Before Zhang Jincheng was solved, the defense of these more than 300 people should not be careless. To establish authority, they should also be kind. Among these more than 300 people, their parents, wives and children were also left behind, but they could not take Juyeze as a step forward, otherwise they would be killed immediately. Most of these people were captured by Zhang Jincheng from all over the place. In fact, they did not have any extreme reactions to who was the boss of Juyeze.

Li Xian's caution seemed a little too much, but it was also a means of necessary implementation.

The homes of these people were basically razed to the ground by Zhang Jincheng's men. In desperation, they followed Zhang Jincheng back to Juyeze. They just wanted to survive, but in fact they had no support for Zhang Jincheng. They actually don't care who is Juyeze's master, but what they care about is whether they can survive.

Since this is the case in troubled times, the people at the bottom are the ones who are most miserable.

Five more days later, Daxi Changru led more than 20,000 infantrymen from the Li family army. At this point, all the troops entered Juyeze. They reorganized the mountain village, built the water village, and then sent additional personnel to patrol day and night. During the first period, they could not be taken lightly.

Next, what Li Xian has to do is to think about Juyezawa's stability.

Zhang Jin said that when he occupied Juyeze, in order to ensure the survival of tens of thousands of people in Juyeze, he had to go out to rob the house and rob the house, and countless villages were razed to the ground by bandits. Although the food and grass of the Li family army are not a problem for a short period of time, Li Xian had to do something wrong. Go out to rob the people? How long can the stolen things last?

Li Xian is waiting for an opportunity to make a fortune.

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Walking by the water and looking at the huge lake that is beyond your limit, just like standing by the sea and looking into the distance, it can make people's hearts open. Although for the sake of safety, all fishing boats are burned and not being able to raft on the lake waves is considered a pity, but just standing on the shore to see the scenery of the lake and mountains is also a very pleasant thing.

"What a pity, it would be great if there was a boat. You can go to the lake to have a look."

Ou Siqingqing stood beside Li Xian and said with some regret.

Li Xian smiled and said, "There are ships. There are several larger warships I have to drag to the shore and they have not burned them. However, we have just arrived at Juyeze, so it is better to be safer. There are opportunities to raft on the lake after I have solved the problem of Zhang Jincheng."

"I know."

Ou Siqingqing smiled and said, "I just think it's a pity that those boats burned."

Li Xian pulled her hand and sighed, "Silly girl...How can you hide your thoughts from me? I know you don't feel sorry for those fishing boats, you feel sorry for those people who were driven out of Juyeze by me?"

Ou Siqingqing nodded with her lips and said nothing.

Li Xian pulled her down in a small pavilion by the lake, looked at the rippling lake water, and said in silence for a while: "The people are pitiful, I know. But if you don't drive them out, once Zhang Jinsheng comes back with his men, it is difficult to guarantee that you will not cooperate with these people. Although these people were stolen from outside by Zhang Jinsheng and force them to settle in Juyeze. I know that they may not necessarily support Zhang Jinsheng, but I am not willing to take risks even if there is a little danger. After all, there are tens of thousands of lives pressing on my shoulders now."

"The biggest characteristic of the people is patience. Zhang Jin said that maybe he was not good to them, and robbed them of food and abused their wives and daughters. But in the past few years, the robbed women have long been accustomed to their current life. The bandits who had forcibly occupied their bodies have now become their husbands. With children and homes, they have accepted their lives. From hating those bandits to standing at the door of their own yard every day waiting for their men to rob their houses and come back to reunite, the process is not slow and they accept it and it is not difficult."

"Now we are here, and they seem to be good to them. In fact, their resentment towards us is far greater than that of Zhang Jincheng. Perhaps in another year or two, they will adapt to our arrival and live a stable life again, but... I don't have a year or two to comfort them, because the enemy cannot give me one or two years."

Li Xian's voice was very light and his reasoning was very strange.

So although Ou Siqingqing nodded gently, she didn't understand very much.

"I told you before that I want to create a land of Taoyuan, without war, disaster, and sadness. Maybe you will think that what I am doing now is to make the people sad. I am a liar."

Li Xian smiled and said, "But, what is the prerequisite for building such a happy land?"

He answered his own question: "It is to live. Only when I live can I realize the ideal in my heart. If... we all died because of our mercy and soft-heartedness, would those people who were driven out of Juyeze before with sadness in their eyes, would they laugh happily?"

"The road ahead is still long, maybe I will do a lot of things that seem cruel, but Qingqing... You must believe that in the future, I will definitely complete what I promise you."

Ou Siqingqing nodded, her face slightly red.

"Tell you a story."

Li Xian smiled and said, "A long time ago, Jiangnan in the Central Plains was occupied by three people. They established their own countries, one called Wei, the other called Shu, and the other called Wu. Among them, the person who established Shu was Liu Bei. He was very weak when he first started the army, with only a few thousand troops and only one county. Later, his opponent Cao Cao of Wei led hundreds of thousands of troops to attack him. Liu Bei could not defeat him and had to escape, but he was a benevolent and charitable person. He could not bear to see the people fall into Cao Cao's hands, so he led the people of the county to run away."

"Liu Bei has a very famous and capable person named Zhuge Liang. He advised Liu Bei, "My lord, you can't even leave twenty miles a day with your 100,000 people, and you will be caught by Cao Cao's army. It would be broken. It would be better to abandon the people. We can still get rid of the pursuers when we rush to the road. Liu Bei refused and said that I couldn't bear to see the people being implicated because of me, so I must take the people with you."

Li Xian asked Ou Siqingqing: "Do you think it is Liu Bei's benevolence and righteousness to the people, or Zhuge Liang's benevolence and righteousness?"

Ou Siqingqing said without hesitation: "Liu Bei, he can't bear to suffer the people. He would rather be caught up by Cao Cao's pursuers than abandon the people. Naturally, Liu Bei is kind and righteous."

Li Xian smiled and shook his head: "In fact, you were wrong."

"Just because Liu Bei and 100,000 people fled together, they couldn't go far every day. Although Zhuge Liang repeatedly used a clever trick to stop Cao Cao's pursuers, he was eventually caught up. In order to kill Liu Bei, Cao Cao's men and horses rushed forward and chased them. Both Liu Bei's soldiers and the people who stood in front of them were killed. I don't know how many people were killed by the 100,000 people. I only know that if they did not follow Liu Bei, there was no need for Cao Cao's men to massacre the people."

"If they stayed at home, the county would become Cao Cao's territory, and they would become Cao Cao's people. Why did Cao Cao kill them? Doesn't Cao Cao need the people? If Liu Bei followed Zhuge Liang's advice and fled with his own army, would his soldiers die in battle because of the drag of the people? Will those people... be massacred?"

"So, Liu Bei, who seemed benevolent and righteous, was actually an idiot. To put it in a darker way, who knew that his purpose of running away with 100,000 people was to use the people to block Cao Cao's pursuers for him? Zhuge Liang, who seemed unbenevolent and righteous, was actually really thinking about the people, because he knew that no matter how sinister Cao Cao was, his country also needed the people. Without the people, can it be called a country? Take the people with them, and the people would be slaughtered. If the people were left behind, the people would become the people of Wei. They had to pay taxes to Wei and protect their people, and it was that simple to change from Liu Bei's soldiers to Cao Cao's soldiers."

Ou Siqingqing's face became a little ugly. She thought for a long time and nodded slowly and said, "I understand, Anzhi."

Yes, if Liu Bei did not take the 100,000 people away, would Cao Cao need to kill the people? He wanted to kill Liu Bei, not the people!

Although An Zhi drove all the people of Juyeze out, did he really harm them? If Zhang Jincheng brought back tens of thousands of people, would the people in Juyeze help Zhang Jincheng or An Zhi help? If someone secretly put Zhang Jincheng's men and horses in, An Zhi's soldiers and Zhang Jincheng's men and horses fight, then no matter who wins in Juyeze, how many people will die? How many people will die?

This is Ou Siqingqing's insight, and it is also the insight that Li Xian gave her.

In fact, Li Xian himself did not have these worries at all. Because he really understood a truth that if he wanted to protect the people, he was far from the qualifications. Being able to protect himself, his relatives and subordinates was what he should consider now.

Choosing between you and I will naturally be that if you die, it is that simple.
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