"It's fake, it must be fake. Even the Imperial Guards can't have one for everyone. How about one pill a month?"
"One pill a month. How much does this qi and blood pill cost? I heard that the Fire Crow Army is just a miscellaneous army. Where do you get the qi and blood pills from?"
"Everyone be quiet!" Li Wenhao shouted and saw no effect, so he simply waved his hand, and a wild wolf corpse several meters high appeared on the ground, as well as a pile of Qi and Blood Pills half as tall as a man.
"Hundreds of wild wolves, wouldn't they have wiped out the Wolf Valley?"
"Qi and Blood Pills, they are really Qi and Blood Pills. My God, there are tens of thousands of them!"
"I want to join the army, general, I want to join the army!"
Li Wenhao smiled, and sure enough, even a thousand words and a bunch of Qi and Blood Pills didn't work!
"Don't worry, listen to me about the last two items. The second one is to encourage the reclamation of wasteland outside the city. Whoever reclaims it will own it. Seeds will be distributed for free. The cultivated land will be protected by the Fire Crow Army and a land deed will be issued. It will be tax-free for the first year.
The food tax will start to be 30% from the second year!”
As for the Qi-Blood Pill, the horse bandits couldn't refuse it, and reclaiming farmland was the last straw that broke the refugees' guard.
Many people do not want to lick blood, and just want to live a stable life, so cultivating land has become an inevitable choice for them.
In particular, no tax was collected in the first year, and only 30% of the grain tax was collected from the second year. This was something that people in the Central Plains would not even dare to think of. They used to pay at least 60% or more.
Li Wenhao took advantage of the fact that many refugees had not yet come to their senses, and continued: "The third work, our Fire Crow Army will recruit migrant workers, repair the city, recruit craftsmen, and manufacture equipment and weapons.
All treatment will be favorable. In short, as long as you are willing to take action, you will definitely have food to eat!"
"General benevolence and justice!"
"The living Bodhisattva who saves the suffering!"
"General, if we join the army with our mounts, are there any rewards?"
"Yes! Those who join the army with their mounts will receive an additional one hundred taels of silver each!" The atmosphere was warm, Li Wenhao smiled with satisfaction, waved his hand, and put away the Qi and Blood Pills, leaving dozens of giant wolf corpses behind.
"Ehu, you are responsible for finding a place to build a camp, Wenhe, you are responsible for writing notices to calm the people, cooking, and recruiting soldiers!
Wolf Seventeen, you are responsible for guarding, including the movements outside the city, and Liu Fu, you are responsible for recruiting craftsmen and migrant workers, and tidy up the place where you live first!"
"Follow the order!"
"Follow the order!"
After Li Wenhao gave the order, a group of people bowed to accept the order, their faces flushed with excitement. Even Li Fu was very excited, and each led his men to work on the ruins.
Li Wenhao held Little Fatty in his arms, followed by Li Rong, a hundred soldiers, and more than ten black wolf riders, wandering around leisurely.
The first is Ehu, which was built together with the barracks and the collapsed city lord's palace.
There are ruins everywhere in Tuke City, and there is no shortage of building materials. The soldiers are all strong and can easily lift boulders weighing hundreds of kilograms.
In particular, the golden-armored warrior is like a human-shaped forklift. He works smoothly and smoothly, which is unusually fast.
The old refugee who came before also brought red clay, which is a weakened version of cement made by mixing and grinding three kinds of rocks. People here use this for their houses.
The military camp, together with the city lord's palace, were built up like building blocks, visible to the naked eye.
Zhang Wenhe also went smoothly here. Recruiting soldiers and cooking porridge were carried out at the same time. After a while, the porridge was fragrant at the four recruiting points.
The recruits signed up here and got food there. Then they squatted beside the meat pot, drooling eagerly.
"What the hell are you doing squatting here? Go and work. If you don't work, you won't have any meat to eat!"
As a result, a group of new barracks captains wearing Fire Crow Army armor came over and kicked them one by one to clear the ruins and build a new barracks.
These ten captains are all veterans of the Fire Crow Army, all first-level warriors. This time they finally have soldiers under their command, and they are all full of energy.
On this day, most people in Tuke City were very happy. They finally had a full meal, and it seemed that they would no longer be hungry in the future.
But there are a few people with ulterior motives who are very unhappy.
In a shack in the refugee residential area, there were several Taiping Dao practitioners huddled together with wrinkled faces.
"Third Senior Brother, the surrounding refugees have begun to gather in Tuke City. The day of the announcement is coming, and now a Fire Crow Army suddenly comes. What should we do?"
"That's right. The host of the homeless guesthouse who was persuaded by us just sent someone to tell us that he wants us to leave Tuke City within one day, otherwise he will report us."
"This old guy is ungrateful!"
"Okay, everyone, shut up!" Third Brother Huijing impatiently interrupted everyone's discussion and asked grimly: "Are you sure that Li Wenhao took out tens of thousands of Qi and Blood Pills and thousands of bags of food?
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"That's right. Although I didn't see it with my own eyes, the refugees at the scene said so, so there shouldn't be any lies."
"I asked a few horse bandits and they said the same thing. This Fire Crow Army is so fat!"
After listening to the words of several junior brothers, Huijing shook her head and smiled: "I thought a strong dragon came, but I didn't expect it was a straw bag.
Think about it, what kind of place is this Tuke City? This is a trading market for horse bandits. Although there are not many horse bandits in the city, how many spies are there?
Tens of thousands of Qi and blood pills, five thousand bags of grain, such a fat sheep, a horse with a sword, stuffed with black, and a gust of wind, will these big horse bandits not be tempted?
I estimate that the news has already spread by this time. Just wait, this Fire Crow Army will be finished in two or three days at most.
We will do whatever we need to do, and everything will go according to plan.
As for Mr. Su, no one died that day in Tuke City?"
"Best regards, Third Senior Brother!"
"I admire you!"
"Third Senior Brother, I'll do it right now!"
Several low-level Qi practitioners from Taiping Dao praised him for a while and went out to do some work. Only a young Qi practitioner with curved eyebrows, eyes and mouth, and a very disdainful expression did not leave.
"Junior brother Huixin, what else do you want?" Huijing asked with some boredom. Although she knew that this junior brother had an illness when he was a child and became like this, she still couldn't help feeling disgusted.
It's no wonder that anyone who faces a guy with a disdainful expression will not be in a good mood, and it will be even harder for them to get close to him.
"Third Senior Brother!" Huixin tried hard to adjust her expression so that she didn't look so arrogant, and said seriously: "I have heard of Li Wenhao. He is just a concubine of Qingyang Marquis. His biological mother died young and he has no status in the Marquis's mansion.
Moreover, his fiancée was snatched away by Li Wenheng, the eldest son of Qingyang Marquis. Not everyone can bear the hatred of having his wife stolen. Even if he can't bear it, he must still have resentment in his heart.
I saw the notice posted by the Fire Crow Army to calm the people, and I was very surprised that in this world, there are still generals who care so much about the suffering of the people!
So I think this is our opportunity to persuade Li Wenhao to come to our side!"
"Stupid!" After hearing Huixin's words, Huijing became angry: "Our Taiping Dao is to lead the people and restore peace to the world!
Those aristocratic families regard us as a thorn in their side and a thorn in their flesh, and they want to eat our flesh and drink our blood.
You can figure it out to convince Li Wenhao. Don’t forget that no matter what happens to Li Wenhao, he is still a member of a noble family.
There are no examples like this before. You have harmed so many brothers and you are still stubborn, get out!"
Hui Xin was driven out in despair, with a look of unwillingness in her eyes. She gritted her teeth and walked towards the recruitment point of the Fire Crow Army.