The demon world I designed

Jiangnan has been locked up for a month, and Liuzhou City has a population of 100,000!

Wu You collected this number by himself these days.

It was the tenth day since he and Hong Lie arrived in Liuzhou, and he still hadn't seen the mysterious Liuzhou prefect, but the situation in Liuzhou was getting better and better with the naked eye.

"I said, Lao Wu, what are you doing with such a sad face today?"

In a tea stall close to the city gate, Hong Lie was holding a large bowl of meat worms that were deep-fried until golden, eating them deliciously. His heartless look made Wu You even more sick to his stomach.

"General Hong, look, there are more and more people in Liuzhou City."

"Yeah, that's true." Hong Lie nodded: "The queue for food these two days has been longer than the previous few days. There are indeed more and more people."

Wu You's face twitched and he looked at Hong Lie faintly: "Didn't the general find anything wrong?"

"What's wrong?" Hong Lie ate the meat worms and looked at the other person curiously.

Needless to say, this worm is really getting more and more satisfying the more you eat it. It has the chewiness of beef but is not as dry as beef. The gravy is paired with their black pepper sauce. It tastes really good. When you leave here, you have to find Chen Qing wants to go back soon and see if he can make a living in the Hong family's backyard.

"General." Seeing that the other party didn't take it seriously at all, Wu You frowned and said, "Look around, do you know how many people there are in Liuzhou now?"

"About 100,000 people," Hong Lie replied honestly not understanding why the other party was so serious.

"One hundred and sixteen thousand eight hundred and fifty-three people!" Wu You said coldly: "Among them there are less than 20,000 old and weak women and children, and 90,000 young people over the age of fourteen!"

"How do you know so clearly?" Hong Lie asked curiously.

Wu You's face twitched. You thought everyone was just like you. They were careless all day, either basking in the sun or queuing up with the refugees to get meat.

"Do you know what this means?" Wu You sighed.

"what?"

"Soldiers!" Wu You squinted his eyes and said in a low voice: "Most of the young men have lost their families and land, so they are excellent sources of soldiers, and in Liuzhou, the willingness to join the army is extremely strong!"

"Oh, that's true." Hong Lie nodded: "The treatment is good, and December Ring, if I were one of those refugees, I would be very willing."

"Twelve moon rings." Wu You sighed and said: "If there were no soldiers at the beginning, it would be necessary to attract warriors to join the army with heavy profits, and that would indeed be the case. But now, Liuzhou has the ability to defend itself, and this condition has not changed."

"If it hasn't been changed, it hasn't been changed." Hong Lie asked doubtfully, "What's the point?"

"What's the point?" Wu You said with a smile: "The magistrate's conscription is in the name of the court, but everyone knows that such exaggerated treatment is impossible for the court to allow. The guards in the north don't have this treatment. It's okay now. , what should we do once the crisis situation is resolved?”

"He has been paying for this expensive military salary?"

"It should be disbanded on the spot." Hong Lie said nonchalantly while eating the meat.

"Disband on the spot?" Wu You rolled his eyes at the other party: "Look at those soldiers, what kind of ability and strength? Will they be disbanded on the spot?"

"What are you worried about?" Hong Lie frowned and said, "Are you worried that Chen Qing will rebel? Then his recruitment efficiency is not enough. He has not recruited new soldiers in the past ten days."

"But the atmosphere has not diminished!" Wu You said quietly: "Have you not noticed that Liuzhou is constantly improving the status of those who serve as soldiers, intentionally or unintentionally? Why should children who settle in Liuzhou, be allocated real estate, and join the army be given priority to attend official schools? , now those girls or widows in Liuzhou who have not left the government, basically want to marry into the army first? "

"Really?" Hong Lie was startled: "But didn't I hear that you can get this kind of treatment if you work in Daqing Mountain?"

"That's why it's abnormal!" Wu You said coldly: "These refugees were rescued in a disaster and were like duckweeds without roots. This Liuzhou city gave them safety and sufficient food. Logically speaking, there is no need for them at all. If they need to be promised huge profits, they can do whatever they need to do, such as providing work-for-relief, letting them farm or work. As long as they are willing to give them enough food to eat, 99% of the refugees will not resist. Why should they be given such great preferential treatment? ? Too much money to use up?”

"Uh." Hong Lie was startled. He felt that it was the same. He also felt that the people of Liuzhou were living too well these days. The cost is indeed high enough

"But this is good," Hong Lie said with a smile, "Isn't it a good thing that people live well?"

"A good thing?" Wu You sneered: "What do you think of the taste of these meat worms?"

"Um?" I don't know why the other party suddenly mentioned the meat worms again. Hong Lie nodded: "It's very good. It tastes delicious and chewy. It's better than the fat beef shipped from the West Sea."

"Then if you are used to this, if I let you eat the mutton at home, will you get used to it?"

"Well, you must not be used to it." Hong Lie immediately grimaced: "It seems that I really need to ask Chen Qing to get some for me to take back to the capital. I feel sick when I think about having to eat only the dry and fishy mutton and fish after I go back. Yes"

"Look, you are like this, what do the people who can only eat some coarse grains think when they go back?"

"Uh" Hong Lie raised his head, feeling that something was not right.

"When we lead soldiers, we all know that we can't let the soldiers at the bottom eat too well." Wu You said coldly: "Unless you can always ensure that the soldiers under you have that kind of treatment, you can't raise the treatment too much from the beginning. Gao, scholars all say that it makes sense that it is difficult to move from luxury to frugality. These people who work in agriculture have tasted the taste of meat and insects and have a good life. Will they be willing to let them go back to their previous life? Fortunately, what about the soldiers?"

"You have also seen, what are the strengths of those soldiers? They have strength and relatively good treatment, and you want them to disband? Even if Chen Qing is willing, those soldiers are not willing!"

"This" Hong Lie swallowed the meat in his mouth: "What should we do? Will these soldiers mutiny by then?"

"It depends on what you say," Wu You said quietly: "If Chen Qing disbanded these soldiers himself, then the mutiny would be his responsibility, but if the imperial court forced Chen Qing to disband these soldiers, then these soldiers would not think it was Chen Qing will resent the imperial court."

"Forget it if they are ordinary people without power, but these soldiers are different. They are armed with sharp weapons and have a murderous intention. If the court wants to take away their treatment, Chen Qing can give them treatment. Who do you think they listen to? ?”

Hong Lie: "."

"The area south of the Yangtze River is very literary, so it is actually the worst place to rebel, because not only are there strict restrictions on ethics and education, but the people's lives are not too bad. Most people who seek stability will not be willing to follow the rebels, but now It's different." Wu You pointed outside: "This corpse transformation has broken the peace, so those who can give them peace and make their lives better will naturally have unprecedented reputation."

"You just want to say that Chen Qing wants to rebel, right?" Hong Lie rolled his eyes at the other party: "With the land of Liuzhou? And the situation you just mentioned is wrong. The situation you mentioned only requires that Chen Qing can How is it possible to be content with such a life?”

"I didn't think it was possible at first." Wu You sighed: "I thought the prefect was a bit stupid at first, because he would increase the treatment of refugees in this way. Once the treatment drops in the future, it will be thankless. The situation has been like this since ancient times. Yes, but look at the 100,000 people now, do you ever feel that the food distributed has decreased? "

Wu You pointed at the meat worms in Hong Lie's bowl: "Look at these meat worms. A dozen days ago, when there were only tens of thousands of people, we could allocate one to each person a day. Now that there are more than 100,000 people, we can still allocate one to each person." , as if I can’t finish it.”

"This..." Hong Lie clicked his head with some guilt: "It should be temporary, right?"

"What if it's not temporary?" Wu You sneered: "What if he can guarantee such a life? Or even better?"

As he spoke, Wu You pointed to some soldiers wandering outside: "Look, our soldiers are arranged to take turns guarding here. They have the same food every day. They have been eating for more than ten days. Do you think this will happen again?" After a month or two, I take them back to continue to eat military rations. How do they feel? "

"Forehead"

"This is just a matter of food. Others are more dangerous." Wu You lowered his voice and said: "These days, I often ask soldiers to explore the bottom and ask about dealing with the soldiers at the city gate, but I didn't expect that they were completely unprepared. To be honest, these soldiers in Liuzhou were just ordinary people before. They became so powerful because they believed in Liuzhou’s door god and the fighting god of the Tiger Guard after joining the army! "

"Isn't this very revealing?" Hong Lie frowned: "Although this situation is a bit unreasonable, at least Chen Qing is not hiding anything."

"He didn't even think about hiding it!" Wu You said coldly: "He just revealed it on purpose. Haven't you noticed in the past few days that our soldiers are becoming more and more envious of Liuzhou's soldiers?"

Hong Lie frowned, but he had a feeling that the soldiers around him were okay. Those ordinary soldiers would discuss how the soldiers in Liuzhou were doing almost every day, and most of their words were filled with envy or even jealousy.

"You have never been in the border army, so you don't know the situation in the army." Wu You sighed: "The army has always been polarized. Soldiers with blood are superior to others. Soldiers without blood are related to blood regardless of their treatment or promotion status. The soldiers are very different, and such an atmosphere will lead to a sense of fragmentation in the army, but this situation is not unique to our country, it is the same for all forces in the world, and there is no way to solve it. "

"But it's different here with the prefect named Chen!" Wu You said in a low tone, with certainty: "Ordinary people here can become as strong as blood soldiers. This alone can attract many heroes in the army. If the situation here is magnified infinitely, it will be the cause of overthrowing the Jin Dynasty! "