The weather was getting colder day by day, and Lin Yi practiced swordsmanship in Longgu City every day. His swordsmanship had advanced to an advanced level, but unfortunately he failed to master the combat skills.
On this day, before Yan Liang went to the East Wilderness Forest, Lin Yi took him to teach him his sword skills, but he received a reminder.
"You conquer 10,000 aliens and randomly activate a talent mark of summoning soldiers and generals with a gold grade or above."
This reminder stunned Lin Yi. There were 300,000 orcs in four counties, but he had only conquered 10,000 until now.
At this time, Lin Yi couldn't care less about continuing to practice swordsmanship, and found Li Ru in the study room of the Lord's Mansion, who was reading mainland biographies.
There are certain rules for the evolution of literature. Anyway, heroism is very strong in this world, so various biographies are abundant.
Various major changes from the age of the ancient gods to the present, strong men of each era, classic wars handed down from generation to generation, and the rise and decline of races.
As the territory expanded, various resources began to increase, including books. As the saying goes, if you know yourself and the enemy, you will never be in danger.
Li Ru has recently been concentrating on studying the geography of the Eastern Wasteland, the history of various races, the relationships between various races, and the customs, characteristics, and shortcomings of each race.
"Wen You, please help me think about whether there is any good way to quickly conquer these orcs." Lin Yi directly expressed his intention to Li Ru.
"Why are you so anxious? My lord's previous strategy was not very good. A new environment will disturb his mind. Give him a new house to calm his mind. Allocate fields to encourage his mind. Before the summer harvest, he will eat and drink to satisfy his mind. Just wait for the summer harvest. The food is really real.
If everything falls into the pocket, most of the orcs will naturally return home."
Li Ru asked with a strange look on his face.
Although Ji Yi has been moving the orcs around, this is very necessary. As an invader, if you give other people's things back to them, how can they be grateful?
But you move them from their original place to a new place, make them fearful and helpless in the unfamiliar environment, and then assign them new housing. This is called rebirth. Anyone who is dissatisfied with the past will hope for a new life.
Allocating fields to them so that they can live a better life will only make them stop nostalgic for the past and cherish the present, and naturally they will not dare to cause trouble.
The control of food and drink increases their trust. A small number of them who have no way to provide food and clothing will be grateful.
When the food actually falls into their pockets, instead of being promised, they will completely accept their current life. There are still a small number of people who may have lived better before, but they can only accept their fate, at least they are still alive!
Lin Yi told Li Ru the prompt he had just received. Firstly, it was about summoning generals, and secondly, it took 300,000 beasts to subdue 10,000. This clearly meant that the foundation was unstable.
How can I feel at ease in this situation? If there is an expedition or a stalemate in the war, and I don't come back for ten and a half months, or even three to five months, there will be no chaos in my hometown.
"If this is the case, I'm afraid it will cost some money." Li Ru understood Lin Yi's worries.
"I have already asked the tailors in Dahuang City to sew a large number of winter clothes, and also asked the blacksmith to build stoves for heating. I originally thought of exchanging food with these orcs for the next autumn harvest, so it would be appropriate to use it now."
After the iron-inlaid leather armor was remodeled, the iron-tied bow and the basalt shield were completed, the tailor and blacksmith were left without work. Ji Yi never interfered, but he did not expect that Li Ru had already made arrangements for them.
"Okay! Sending warmth when it's cold! Nothing can win people's hearts more than this." Lin Yi clapped his hands and praised.
I didn't know these things existed before. If I had known it earlier, Ji Yi would have distributed them to others. Even if conquering the orcs would not activate additional talent marks, Ji Yi would have done so.
Lin Yi immediately rushed to Dahuang City in person. After a long time, Dahuang City had already changed its appearance. The courtyards in the city were neatly arranged, but most of them were vacant.
Since the temperature during the day has dropped to more than 20 degrees below zero, there is no one in the city, and everyone is hiding in the house to avoid the cold.
Lin Yi found Cao Xing and asked him to take his troops and the Qian Suzaku captain stationed in Dahuang City to escort the stoves and clothes and start the distribution journey.
Of course, this kind of thing must be done personally. The severe winter is just scary for ordinary people, but for epic soldiers like Suzaku Archer, it is just cold.
Of course, it was not yet the coldest time.
The Deer Tribe of Shougu City were the first to fight. Lin Yi ordered the Suzaku Archer and Captain Suzaku to knock on doors and deliver stoves and clothes. The Deer Tribes who received the clothes and stoves were so moved that they could not speak.
When the orcs spend the winter, they rely on hard resistance. Those with stuttering will greatly increase their chances of resisting. Clothes have always been a shortage of supplies for ordinary orcs.
Most orcs are semi-naked all year round. It’s not that the materials used to sew clothes are precious, but that the profession of tailor is scarce.
Just like what Li Ru asked the tailors in Dahuang City to sew was thick linen clothing. This thing was worthless at all, and no noble would wear this kind of thing.
This is equivalent to asking a tailor who earns 10,000 yuan a month to hand-make clothes that cost 10 yuan a piece. It is almost the same concept. Tailoring is a profession that every noble must support.
The salary is higher than that of soldiers in higher-level arms.
Not long after, Ji Yi received two reminders in a row.
"You conquer a race and randomly activate a purple-grade or higher talent mark for summoning soldiers and generals."
"You have conquered more than ten races and randomly activated a talent mark of summoning soldiers and generals above the epic level."
There are eleven races in total, which is really just over ten races.
Lin Yi felt that the efficiency of the two thousand people was too slow. When he went to Huanghe City for the second stop, he directly asked Commander Ling to lead a group of Suzaku archers, three thousand pig-headed warriors, and a thousand Suzaku captains to act with him.
The efficiency of the transport team of 7,000 people immediately increased. When passing by Black Mountain City, another 2,000 troops from Black Mountain City were mobilized.
The orcs in Longgu County are living a relatively good life. After all, they were rebuilt early, and Baili County is the most difficult. Many pig-headed people can only live in tents, but they are unwilling to move back to Longgu County temporarily.
However, Lin Yi was confused about this. There is a saying that people who live in groups are warmer. Those who live in a house may not necessarily be warmer than those who live in a tent.
When Lin Yi arrived with clothes and stoves, he once again gained a lot of favor. Lin Yi specifically told Dekun to pay more attention to the camp area to avoid causing a fire.
However, the camp area was originally intended to accommodate 70,000 to 80,000 pig-headed people, and half of them were moved into housing. The space was quite ample, and the problem was not that big.
Lin Yi had to admire Li Ru's foresight. With so many clothes, it was estimated that the iron-inlaid leather armor would be sewn as soon as it was finished. According to Li Ru's plan, this batch of clothes could definitely be used to exchange a large amount of food from the orcs during the summer harvest.
Fortunately, Lin Yi allowed all the humans in Dahuang City to learn blacksmithing, construction, carpentry, and tailoring.
The demand for stoves is slightly smaller. Many orcs share one stove with one household, and dozens or hundreds of people share several stoves in the tent area.
However, even this cannot supply stoves to Tiemu County and Qiuhe County, only clothing, because the stoves have been distributed, and the stoves will be built much later, and they are more difficult to build and consume a lot of iron ore.
