"In the blink of an eye, it's snowing again for another year!" You, Mr. Li, have already begun to grow a beard. Time flies by. In the blink of an eye, it has been ten years since he came to the northwest.
When he came to the northwest land, he was alone, with only a piece of leather armor and a spear. It was with that leather armor and spear that he stood outside the Northwest Pass.
"Lord!"
Li Yi stood behind Prime Minister Li
"Are all supplies ready?"
Li Yi nodded: "Everything is ready, just waiting for the transportation team to transport these materials to the soldiers' homes!"
The New Year was coming soon, so Li Xiang asked Li Yi to prepare a large amount of materials, and then handed them over to the transportation team of Xiliang headquarters to deliver these things to the homes of Xiliang soldiers.
During this year, Xiliang went through two major wars. The number of battles was much less than in previous years, but the severity and the number of soldiers injured were much higher than in previous years.
Those soldiers had worked hard for him for so long, and Prime Minister Li had to express that he didn't need to worry about the soldiers in the army.
However, he had to put some thought into the families of the soldiers, as well as those soldiers who had been discharged due to injuries. They all had to be taken into consideration.
So one month before the Chinese New Year, he gave Li Yi full responsibility for these matters.
These things must be delivered to the families of soldiers or retired soldiers before the New Year, so that they can have a good New Year.
At the same time, this can also encourage other people to join the army. Now Xiliang needs more soldiers. If the major legions lower their recruitment requirements, it's not that they don't want those high-quality soldiers.
But currently there are not that many masters and good soldiers in Xiliang. In the previous recruitments, most of those who could meet the requirements have already entered the army.
However, Xiliang recruits a lot every year. How can there be so many people to recruit for them? They have no choice but to lower their recruitment requirements or expand the territory of Xiliang.
By expanding their territory, they will have more military power, just like this year's Liangzhou land. Liangzhou land has become the main source of recruiting soldiers for major legions.
Because there are still a large number of masters there who have not been recruited, and there are also some deserters who have fought against Xiliang before and escaped secretly, although these were enemies of Xiliang before.
But as long as they are not caught and recruited into Xiliang's army, they will still be soldiers of the Western Alliance. These are rare good hands.
After all, they have experienced war, understand the cruelty of war, and know some military formations, so it must be very easy to train them.
If these people have killed Xiliang soldiers before, it would be better and they can be placed among the cannon fodder soldiers.
There is no cannon fodder in the Xiliang army, but many of these cannon fodder are prisoners from the Xiliang territory. Keeping them in prison is a waste of food.
So these people were organized into a death row camp, that is, cannon fodder. As long as these people made enough contributions on the battlefield, they could survive. Of course, most of the cannon fodder did not survive until they left the military camp.
Once they stand on the battlefield, they will always stand in the front row, and behind them are the Xiliang headquarters soldiers. Once they retreat, they will die under the blades of the Xiliang headquarters soldiers.
They can only rush forward.
"I don't know how many people died in the Central Plains because of this snow!" Snow does not represent beauty in Li Xiang's eyes, because he has seen too many crises caused by heavy snow.
Outside the Northwest Pass, the snow is now more than 1 meter deep. If you continue to go north, the snow there may already be three or four meters deep. He doesn't know what is farther away.
However, according to the investigation results of Xiliang soldiers, the snow in the primitive forest of ferocious beasts is more than ten meters deep. It is covered with snow all year round. If those living there must be ferocious beasts.
The taller ferocious beasts are tens of meters tall, and the top ferocious beasts are even thousands of feet high, so that little bit of snow is nothing in front of these huge creatures.
As for the Central Plains, ten years ago, when the imperial court was still at its peak, no, turmoil had begun to occur at that time, but even at that time, the imperial court had enough energy to provide disaster relief.
The imperial court still controls local leadership and governance, and the power in the hands of the emperor still prevents all major forces in the world from acting rashly.
But today, ten years later, apart from the Zhili area, only the area suppressed by the Northern Army in the Central Plains is better off, while the remaining southern areas have fallen into a state of decay.
There are rebellious officials and traitors everywhere, there are careerists everywhere, and countless people have been displaced due to the war. What is even more terrifying is that because of the war, the food output in the southern region has reached a historical low.
Perhaps there was more chaos than this time in the past, but it was too far away from them at that time. Since the imperial court ruled the south until now, the current stage is the most corrupt in all time.
Judging from the intelligence, there have been cases of people exchanging children for food. Li Xiang looked depressed for a long time. He wanted to help the civilians in the south, but he didn't know how to help them.
Because he can't reach out to the south now, but even if he can reach out to the south, he can't change anything at all with his current power. At most, he can feed and clothe the people under his rule.
There is nothing he can do in other areas.
His strength is too weak, especially for the big forces in the south. There are monsters behind the White Lotus Sect. With the support of the monsters, the White Lotus sect occupies the southwest region.
The southeastern region is controlled by various aristocratic families. Under the aristocratic families, there are various large and small families. The relationship between them is as close as a network.
If we want the southeastern region to resume production, and if we want the civilians in the southern region to live a good life, we must first break the net that surrounds them.
In other words, if he wants to pacify the southern region, he will have to face all the aristocratic families in the southern region, because as long as he deals with one aristocratic family, he is equivalent to fighting against most of the aristocratic families.
"Lord, there is nothing we can do about this." Li Yi could see Li Xiang's thoughts and said calmly: "We can't change anything. We can only make Xiliang live a better life, and we can only protect the civilians under our command.
Live a stable life.
As for other areas, there is nothing we can do!”
"By the way, Lord, last time we gave the Northern Army a large amount of food, and the Northern Army sent a lot of sheepskins in return. Those sheepskins have now arrived in Tongtianhe City." Li Yi remembered that he had another thing to do when he came here.
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"Approximately how many sheepskins are there?"
Due to the war this year, after the major tribes on the grassland were wiped out, the large number of cattle, sheep, and sheepskins and cowhide left behind all fell into the hands of Xiliang soldiers.
Now there is no shortage of these cattle and sheep skins in Xiliang, and even the beef and mutton can be freely purchased by the common people under my command.
Only by keeping the civilians under their command well fed, clothed and warm, and provided with meat, can their physical fitness become stronger. Even if they cannot become colder, our soldiers are so strong that they are at least better than most civilians in the Central Plains.
Much stronger.
For reference, children born in these 4 or 5 years are generally much stronger than children from the Central Plains before.
"According to the list from the Northern Army, there are a total of 80,000 sheepskins and 30,000 cowhide." Li Yi read out the list from the Northern Army: "But according to the appraisal by our personnel, the number of cowhide and sheepskins they sent
It should be more than double the number on the list!”
"It seems they don't want to owe us!" Li Zhen chuckled: "Send these cow and sheep skins to the factory, let them make them into children's clothes, and then give them to the children in the orphanage to wear!"
"All of them?" Li Yi asked
"Why, isn't it enough?" Li Xiang thought that Li Yi felt that it was not enough, and continued: "The clothes produced are not enough for the children in the orphanage, so we will take some more from our war preparation supplies so that every child can wear them.
Put on new clothes and have a good new year.
By the way, give each child five kilograms of mutton and control it strictly so that the moths don't eat it!"
In Jiuyuan County, Li Xiang began to create a large number of orphans in the past few years. This was because he saw the war in the Central Plains at that time, and because of the war, many children became orphans.
These children are controlled by those beggars called the Beggar Gang and become their money-making tools.
So when Li Xiang cleaned up the beggars in Jiuyuan County, he sent these children to an orphanage and handed them over to the Xiliang headquarters, where soldiers who had been discharged from the army due to injuries watched over them.
In his eyes, these children are all future soldiers, future officials, and future pillars of all walks of life.
Because they received education from Xiliang headquarters, their food and drinks have been provided by Xiliang since they were young, so there is no reason to raise a bunch of white-eyed wolves.
Originally, it was only to accept orphans from Jiuyuan County, but later a large number of orphans came to Jiuyuan County from the Central Plains, so these people were arranged into orphanages.
As a result, the number of orphans in Jiuyuan County has exceeded 200,000. This is the number left after some children were adopted by others.
Li Xiang spends a lot of money just raising these children every year, but he feels it is worth it.
Although it does not have much food or money, it is not a problem to feed these children.
"That's enough!" Li Yi quickly replied: "But do you want to let Taoist priests go over to teach your children?"
Li Xiang spent a lot of manpower and material resources on these children. Li Yi didn't want Li Xiang to spend it in vain. To make these children sincerely serve Xiliang, he could only use some small means.
For example, let those monks brainwash these children!
Li Xiang was silent for a moment: "It's better not to give up. They eat and drink from me. They have no reason to betray me, right?"
Li Xiang's tone was very uncertain, because the most unpredictable thing in the world is the human heart. You never know what a person's heart is thinking.
Even if Prime Minister Li can control the life and death of all Xiliang headquarters soldiers, he cannot control these Xiliang headquarters soldiers. What are they thinking in their hearts?
You can only know that they will not betray you, you can only know that they will be willing to sacrifice their lives for you.
But that's enough!
"That's all. If you have anything else, come and ask me again!" Li Xiang said and laughed: "But if it's something you can solve, then don't bother me. I just want to have a good life this year."
In the new year, spend some time with your mother and your children."
"Understood!" Li Yi bowed respectfully and exited.
Soon, the streets and alleys of Jiuyuan County were filled with red lanterns. Now Jiuyuan County can be called the number one county in the world because the population of a single county is astonishing, reaching 70 million.
This kind of population is larger than any county in the Central Plains except the area where the imperial capital is located.
The imperial capital is no longer a county; it is like a kingdom built within a city wall.
Because of the Chinese New Year, every household is decorated with lights and colorful decorations, and you can smell the aroma of meat in the streets and alleys. Beef, mutton, pork, and all kinds of chicken, duck, and fish are everywhere.
Everyone has a happy smile on their face, and they will not get tired of living like this in another 100 years, especially in the current situation.
Nowadays, ordinary people in the Central Plains are displaced. Let alone the New Year, it is difficult for them to survive this cold winter.
In winter in this industry, it is very rare for the common people on the streets of Zhongyuan to have enough to eat, let alone eat these chickens, ducks and fish.
Only with comparison can one be grateful. These people in Jiuyuan County all know who brought them their current life, so they feel grateful to the rule of Xiliang King Li Xia!
In the eyes of outsiders, Li Xiang is a lord who only knows how to kill, a villain who destroys everywhere. But in the eyes of the common people in Jiuyuan County, Li Xiang is their god.
To say who is most grateful to Prime Minister Li, it must be the civilians who have just come from the Central Plains. They were lucky enough to encounter a cargo ship from Xiliang, so they followed the Xiliang people on the ship to Jiuyuan County.
A paradise in the eyes of ordinary people.
Nowadays, Jiuyuan County is really like a paradise in the eyes of many people, especially those businessmen. Everywhere they go, they will promote the goodness of Xiliang and the life scenes of the civilians in Jiuyuan County.
It makes countless ordinary people yearn for the life in Jiuyuan County.
These civilians who had just arrived in Jiuyuan County had not yet been allocated land because of the cold winter, so they were arranged to live in a military camp in Xiliang.
Taking each family as a unit and each township as a region can avoid many problems.
These civilians did not expect that they would be able to get so much food and wear such warm clothes just after they arrived in Jiuyuan County. The clothes on their bodies were made of cow and sheep skin and were very warm.
Even when their family was the richest, they did not wear such clothes, and the food they ate every day would appear in them.
And they also heard that on the Chinese New Year day, each family will be given a pound of meat!
ps: I posted it wrong before. If there are repeated chapters, please refresh it!
