After resting enough, the army continued to advance north, but after walking less than ten miles away, he ran back to report that many unclothed Han people appeared along the way.

After Li Zhongyi learned the news, he thought about it a little, and then sneered: "Brother Xiu wants to use the feelings of his fellow tribe to drag down our logistics supply system."

Last year, with the help of the navy, Li Zhongyi swaggered into the Youji Plain.

Objectively speaking, there are few beggars in cities or villages along the way. In a sense, the Khitans adopted the strategy of using the Han Dynasty to control the Han Dynasty and achieved great success.

Previously, wars in the Central Plains were flying, and the city walls were constantly changing. However, the Han people on the Youji Plain have always enjoyed the abnormal peaceful life under the rule of foreign races. The relative abundant food and clothing really allowed the Han officials in Youzhou to do it.

In other words, wherever Li Zhongyi led his troops, almost every village had food and clothing, and some villages near the water source were even very wealthy.

"Hehe, Brother Xiu never dreamed that I need a population, the more the better." Li Zhongyi smiled coldly and ordered, "Collapse all the brothers and sisters of the tribe who were driven out of their homes into the auxiliary barracks, give them clothes, give them enough food, and then send someone to escort to Daming Mansion. Hehe, 80% of the land in Daming Mansion belongs to the orphans, so let's rent them to farm for the time being."

"Here!" After receiving the order, the messenger turned over and rode his horse and left.

Gao Qiang and Zhang Sanzheng, you look at me, I look at you, both of them are a little strange. In the past, after Li Zhongyi took Pinglu, he adopted the strategy of dividing land equally according to population. Why did this time change it to leasing?

Li Zhongyi saw the thoughts of Gao Qiang and Zhang Sanzheng. He happened to mention them with a thought, and then smiled and said, "The people of Pinglu have always been hungry men and never had land. Therefore, I distributed all the land to them, which was equivalent to giving them a great favor. Now, the Youji Han people who were driven out of their homes by Yelu Xiu Ge originally had land and family business. If I directly distributed land, they would be grateful, but they could not be too grateful. Therefore, I had to rent the land to them first. After ten years, I would pay enough rent and sell it to them. You can consider discounting the market price and selling it to them."

Gao Qiang understood in an instant, to put it bluntly, it was a problem of means and strategies for giving kindness. You can't give up a lot of benefits, but kindness is not rewarded, right?

Zhang Sanzheng thought about it a little more. Although these victims from Youji Plain were driven out of their homes by the Khitans, they had been away from the influence of the orthodox culture of China for decades and were likely to be wild, so Li Zhongyi deliberately increased the difficulty for them to get rich again.

The purpose of Li Zhongyi doing this was to tell these Youji victims that the Khitans didn't want them and they drove them out of their homes. In the future, they could become rich again entirely due to his kindness and kindness of Li Daguan Ren.

Solving the problem of the victims greatly slowed down the pace of Li's army's advancement north, but Li Zhongyi was not in a hurry at all. Population is the most important resource, and Yelu Xiu Ge doesn't understand it, but Li Zhongyi understands the mystery of it better than anyone else.

Yelu Xiuge is not a fool. After he drove the Han people in Youzhou out of his home, he drove them all to the main road, which just blocked the way for the Li family army to head north.

When the Li family army set out for war, according to the regulations, each soldier must prepare dry food for at least seven days and pork strips marinated with salt.

When the meal is started, the chefs only need to set up a large pot to boil water, and the soldiers can throw the pork strips and pancakes into the hot water, and wait until the soaking is soft before eating.

To put it bluntly, the speed of the army is the most important. The Li family army and the Khitans' eating methods have brought revolutionary changes to the speed of the marching.

The devil is always hidden in the details. When the army goes to war, it is not only a competition of weapons, strategies, systems, but also a crucial way of logistics supply, which includes the way to eat when going war.

Among the army of the same era, in addition to the Li family army and the Khitans, other warlords, or other countries' army, had to camp first, then bury pots and cook rice, and then divide bowls and chopsticks to prepare meals for the soldiers.

After this whole process, it took more than two hours to go through, which is far less than the speed of the Li family army's meals.

The soldiers of the Li family army each carried dry food. When they were on the road in an emergency, they could ride horses while eating dry food.

Hard dry food has a bad taste, but it can fill your stomach and save a lot of time to make rice in a pot.

According to Li Zhongyi, since the Khitan barbarians can all suffer this kind of hardship, let alone the iron army of the Supreme Kingdom of the Celestial Empire?

Let’s not talk about it. During the emergency march, even Li Zhongyi didn’t drink hot water, let alone the rest of the people?

The Li family army was slowed down by the victims' advance. After Yelu Xiuge heard the news, he couldn't help but sigh softly: "Li Wujiu knew that it would cause great trouble to the army's supplies, but he still chose to contain the southern barbarians who were driven out of the house. This is what the benevolent lord did."

The Zuopishi Army was quiet and stable (the commander of the capital) Yelu Aman shouted disdainfully: "King, isn't the Southern Barbarians foolish? Isn't it the result we want?"

The Youpishi Army, who had always been incompatible with Yelu Aman, carefully stabilized Yelu Huashan. One of them was rare to agree with Aman's statement. He said to him: "The Southern Barbarians always like to do brainless things, and they are completely defeated."

Yelu Xiu Ge heard the wrong thing and immediately said with a stern face: "If Li Wujiu had not been too sharp, I would not have made such a bad decision. More than 100,000 farmers were originally the food foundation of our Great Khitan Kingdom, but we threw it to Li Zhongyi. It would definitely be very unfavorable to our reputation if it was spread."

The Khitans usually rely on Han officials to govern the Han people and enjoy the rich fruits. They really look gentle rulers. However, once the critical moment of life and death, the Khitans immediately exposed the hideous face of foreign rule, and did not regard the Han people under their control as human beings. They turned against each other faster than turning a book.

Like Yelu Xiu Ge, Li Zhongyi also sucked the flesh and blood of the Goryeo sticks on one side, but on the other side, he did not regard the Goryeo people as humans, killing them whenever they say they want to kill them, and beating them whenever they say they want to fight, for fear that the methods are not strict.

This is the logic that is common throughout the world. The rise of any nation is based on the exploitation of other nations.

Starting from the slave society, the ruling elites of society, without exception, are doing one thing: continue to eat more and eat more, and build happiness on the pain of the people.

After several years of development, the elites took too much, which led to the people's miserable life and eventually started the cycle of dynasty changes.
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