The answer is that there are not many people left.

Whenever there is a war, the ones that suffer the most in China are always Henan and Huaixi. The unique location and terrain of this area, as well as its huge strategic value, make them a battleground for military strategists. The forces of the north and the south have repeatedly seen each other here, and the war has lasted for a long time.

The fighting was so bloody that rivers of blood flowed and corpses piled up, and this time was no exception. The Eight Kings Rebellion, which lasted for more than ten years, severely damaged Henan's vitality. After the Eight Kings Rebellion ended, the Western Jin Dynasty has not slowed down.

After a breath, the barbarians came again, and the bloody fighting and massacre continued for several years. The entire Central Plains was already empty of houses, and a large number of people either fell under the butcher's knife or fled into the mountains and forests to live like savages.

, or fled to the south, where a large number of towns were abandoned and turned into ghost towns with no human habitation and only the cries of ghosts. How many people are there in the entire Central Plains? No one can say, but judging from the fact that there are only hundreds of thousands of people left in Nanyang,

The actual numbers are likely to raise eyebrows.

Li Rui said: "It's okay for the barbarians to expel them and massacre them. As the prince of Jin Dynasty, you have to do this? I really want to know, if there are no more people, can your country of Jin Dynasty continue to exist?"

Sima Fan was speechless.

Jia You was also quite dissatisfied: "Your Majesty, you are ill-considered! These rebels are all very strong and strong. With a little training, they can be brought to the battlefield to fight. If you want to kill them all just to save some food, you are not asking for it."

Is it troublesome? Not to mention missing out on a group of capable soldiers and killing nearly ten thousand people without blinking an eye, how can those refugees dare to surrender to our army in the future? If every refugee is determined to fight us to the end,

Let alone taking over Nanyang, it is doubtful whether we can reach Xiangfan alive!"

Sima Fan blushed and had to apologize: "My king... I really did not consider it carefully. Please forgive me, Captain Li."

Li Rui said: "It's not that you are inconsiderate, you just never treat these common people as human beings." He shook his head, stood up, and walked outside. As he walked, he said: "You are already the most outstanding king of this generation.

One of them, but even you are at this level, what hope does the Jin Dynasty have?"

Shaking his head in his head, he sighed all the way out of the mansion, not knowing what he was going to do.

Sima Fan watched him leave and said rather dissatisfiedly: "Why do I think he respects those common people more than I do?"

Jia You sighed: "Common people can produce food, weave cloth, fish, and build houses. What can you do?"

Sima Fan: "..."

This is really heartbreaking!

After Li Rui walked out, he shouted: "Lu Da!"

Lu Da immediately flashed: "See the captain!"

Li Rui said: "No need to be polite. How are your friends feeling now? Are they still stable?"

Lu Da hesitated for a moment, but decided to tell the truth: "Captain, most people are uneasy and fearful now."

Li Rui asked: "Why?"

Lu Da said: "They are all afraid that the government will turn its back on them and start killing them."

Li Rui frowned and said, "Didn't I promise them that I would not surrender? Why are they still so afraid?"

Lu Da smiled bitterly: "We have heard too many such guarantees, and few of them are true. If we have been deceived too many times, we will no longer trust anyone easily."

Li Rui murmured a curse, and he didn't know whether he was scolding the refugees for being too suspicious or scolding the officials of Dajin for not being human beings. He had forced a group of honest refugees to have a hundred and twenty thoughts. He sighed: "It seems,

I have to take action myself!"

Lu Da asked: "What does the captain plan to do?"

Li Rui thought for a while and said, "Go to the warehouse immediately to pay a sum of money and buy thirty fat pigs!"

Lu Da said: "You don't need to buy this. Jiehu took a lot of them back some time ago and kept them in a swamp outside the city!"

Li Rui smiled happily: "Oh, is there such a good thing? It saves a lot of money! Go and pick the thirty fattest ones right away. I will treat those key men from Guanzhong to a feast."

Lu Da's tongue was knotted: "One...eat thirty pigs in one meal!?"

Li Rui said: "There are nearly ten thousand people. What's so strange about eating thirty pigs in one meal? Go quickly!"

Lu Da had no choice but to comply.

After a while, thirty fat and strong pigs were driven into the prison camp, attracting surprised looks from the prisoners.

Li Rui looked at these fat pigs and his mouth watered... These are native pigs. In terms of meat quality and taste, it is much better than the pork that can be seen everywhere on the market. The pigs raised in major farms in China are absolutely

Most of them are breeds introduced from abroad. These breeds grow fast, have a lot of lean meat, and can be put on the market after being fed for a few months. They are very popular with farmers. However, these pigs that can be put on the market in a few months are different from traditional pigs.

Compared with local pigs, people always feel that they are a bit inferior. It feels like eating fast food and is not as greedy as the pork that I ate when I was a child. In modern times, a pound of pork can be sold for more than ten yuan in the market, while local pigs can be sold for more than ten yuan.

pork……

Sorry, you are embarrassed to see anyone without eighty yuan a pound.

In this era, raising pigs is basically the same as herding sheep. During the day, they are driven to a place with abundant water and grass so that they can eat weeds and various plant tubers. Then they are driven back to the pig pen at night and the feed is amazing. That does not exist at all. Look.

Their heads are all chubby. They must have been raised for two years. They are superb!

This means that all the dishes related to pork must be carefully arranged!

He gave the order, and all the thirty-headed second senior brothers were stabbed, and blood spurted out from their necks. The howls of the thirty-headed second senior brothers before they died were earth-shattering, and shocked the prisoners of war who were trapped in the prison camp.

They were all shocked: What kind of novel method is this to scare the monkeys? Is the cost too high?

Of course, pig blood cannot be wasted. Those who helped Li Rui knew what to do. They collected the pig blood in buckets and boiled it directly in the pot. As for the second brother's body, they boiled water, shaved the hair, and disemboweled him. Everyone

The guys were so busy that they were so busy.

After a lot of effort, these thirty fat pigs finally turned into pots and pots of fragrant meat, which made the prisoners of war salivate. Some children came over involuntarily and looked at them intently.

Guozi swallowed hard. Li Rui smiled and asked, "Want to eat meat?"

The children hesitated for a moment and nodded.

Li Rui said: "If you want to eat meat, go get a bowl, otherwise I will just serve it in the palm of your hand?"

Then he yelled at the guys who were also looking at this place and drooling: "Aren't you hungry? Bring a bowl and eat!"

It’s impossible not to be hungry!

Although there are more than 40,000 tons of grain in the granary, those damn barbarians are so stingy that they hold the grain in their own hands so that they can only eat half full. It is already sunset, so let’s eat in the morning.

The little food I had has been digested for a long time, how can I not be hungry?

Looking at the pots of steaming pork, how could these refugees, who had not eaten meat for who knows how long, still calm down? In line with the principle of "even if you die, you must not starve to death", they brought rice bowls one after another

, lined up under the command of Li Rui. The old cooks held spoons, and when a bowl was brought to them, they just took it. Whether it is fat or thin depends on your luck. But people in this era don't care about the fatness of the meat.

It's good if you can eat it. If you have to make a comparison, they prefer fat meat because it is full of oil and water and makes them hungry.

After receiving the meat, they received food. Buckets of millet and rice were pulled over by horse-drawn carriages, and everyone lined up to receive them. Officers walked back and forth with canes to maintain order. Anyone who dared to cut in the queue or grab them would be given a cane.

The person who received the meal couldn't wait to find a place to sit down, and started to devour it, wiping tears while eating... It was so delicious, I have never eaten such delicious food in my life!

Li Rui's Wuhuan cavalry and Sima Fan's 4,000 Jingzhou soldiers were treated in the same way. There were more than 16,000 people divided into 30 pigs, which seemed a bit missing, but with the addition of pig blood, it was enough for everyone to eat fat.

Li Rui also specially collected all the pig's trotters and put them in a pot to boil the water to remove the dirt and blood, then simmered them over high heat. When they were almost cooked, he added some garlic that he dug out from nowhere.

The sauce and spices make it fragrant. Not to mention those ignorant refugees, even Sima Fan and Jia You who came after hearing the news drooled wildly looking at this pot of braised pig trotters.

After collecting the juice from the braised pig's trotters, Li Rui smiled and looked at the refugees who were obviously not satisfied with eating meat: "Do you still want to eat meat?"

This group of refugees nodded crazily.

Li Rui said: "But there are only more than a hundred pig trotters..."

The refugees said that what we wanted to eat most was these more than a hundred pig trotters!

Li Rui pondered for a moment and said, "If you want to eat these pig's trotters, you have to show some real skills."

The refugees bravely asked, "How do you say this?"

Li Rui said: "I plan to select the 100 most powerful warriors among you as my personal soldiers. You will form a team of 100 people and compete with each other. The winner in the end can become my personal soldiers, and by the way, you can win a pig's trotter."

Only!"

The refugees looked at each other and were ready to make a move.

Soldiers are the most trustworthy and closest group of people to a general, and they are also treated the most generously. They are even the officer reserve of an army. Many times when there are casualties among lower-level officers in the army, they are directly from them.

Choose those who are the most trustworthy and capable among the soldiers to fill them in. It can be said that as long as you can become a member of the soldiers, have a tougher life, and don't die as soon as you go into battle, the future will be bright!

Seeing their eyes shining, Li Rui secretly breathed a sigh of relief... It was safe.

He picked his own soldiers from these refugees not because he really lacked personal soldiers. Although he currently has less than 200 personal soldiers, which is a bit small, he currently only leads 800 cavalrymen.

, enough. Selecting strong and strong men from among them to join your own army is actually sending a signal to these anxious refugees:
Chapter completed!