Traveling through troubled times, he fled with his stepson

"As far as I know, Lei Hao is a man who will do anything to achieve his goals. You just said they were going to take risks. Can you... tell me what risk means?"

Li Yuan did not miss Jiang Shiping's confusion about how to address him.

"If they want to strike quickly, they will just attack our food and water sources. My uncle only needs to send people to heavily guard these two sources and place a large number of troops nearby to provide support at any time."

"Secondly, they might spread rumors and bluff about how they will capture Yizhou in a few days. If Yizhou is in turmoil, it is easy for riots to break out. With people in panic, the soldiers defending the city will be attacked from all sides and I am afraid they will not be able to withstand Yizhou."

Li Yuan's words did not add deliberate severity, but rather were light and airy, sounding weightless.

But Jiang Shiping and the deputy general were sweating coldly after hearing what Li Yuan said, because what Li Yuan said did make sense.

"How do you know that Lei Hao will do this this time?"

"Don't you have no solution?" Jiu Lan asked before Li Yuan.

Li Yuan glanced at Jiu Lan and continued, "Because Lei Hao did the same thing in Luozhou before."

These words startled Jiang Shiping, but he immediately reacted.

When Luozhou lost its power, the governor of Luozhou wrote to him, so he knew the details.

When I think about it this way, it coincides with Li Yuan’s idea?

"But after all, it is something that has not happened yet. It is up to you whether you believe it or not, little uncle, but I don't know if Yizhou will have a second chance."

Li Yuan, who said this, was standing there. He restrained his coldness and stood there with a calm expression.

Until now, Jiang Shiping suddenly discovered something.

Li Yuan did not seem particularly excited when he spoke, as if what was happening here and about to happen had nothing to do with him.

correct.

What did he just say?

Robbed Lei Hao's first batch of food and fodder? Killed six or seven hundred people?

"What do you want?" Jiang Shiping suddenly became interested in his nephew whom he met for the first time.

"You came all the way here to see me, not just to recognize me as your relative, right?"

If it's just about recognizing relatives, where did they go in the early years?

"I can help you overcome the difficulties in Yizhou, and even Lei Hao will not be able to do anything to Yizhou in the future."

"It's just that I want half of Yizhou."

Nothing Li Yuan said tonight failed to surprise Jiang Shiping and the deputy general. He simply spoke to them in a way that touched their hearts.

"You want half of Yizhou? Nephew, isn't that too much?"

Although Jiang Shiping refused verbally, his tone betrayed him, and he would agree anyway.

"Don't worry, little uncle. I'm just asking my people to stay in Yizhou for a year. After the one-year period is over, we will leave.

During this period, my people will only obey your orders.

how is it? "

What else?

He was certain that Jiang Shiping would agree.

But Jiang Shiping really had no other choice. If he had known a way, he would not have tried it out as soon as Li Yuan asked to see him.

"Yizhou is isolated and helpless, just like Luozhou at that time. No one will support Yizhou, whether it is food or manpower."

"I'm telling you in advance, if you have a way, just tell me, I'll decide whether to do it or not. If you make a mistake and lose Yizhou, and make the people of Yizhou homeless, I will kill you even if you are at the ends of the earth."

Although what Jiang Shiping said was a little ridiculous, his expression did not seem fake.

Li Yuan is also willing to cooperate with such people.

Jiang Shiping would never know in his life that the reason why Li Yuan asked him for help was not because of his identity as his cousin, but because he sincerely cared about Yizhou.

For Li Yuan, no one in this world could restrain him and use them to gain what he wanted.

Unless that person is Wei Qiqi.

Li Yuan stayed in Yizhou completely. He asked Jiulan to return the same way. When she returned, he handed her a sealed letter and asked her to read it with Dai Jiangong after she returned to her place.

Jiulan rode his horse through the city gate carrying the things, and the refugees unconsciously surged in the direction of the horse.

Li Yuan and Jiang Shiping were both on the city wall. Looking down from the wall, they saw a dense crowd of people below. These people were ragged and had malnourished faces with sallow complexions and not enough food.

Looking at these people, Li Yuan curled the corners of his mouth unconsciously.

He said to Jiang Shiping: "The refugees below must be dealt with as soon as possible. These people cannot continue to gather at the city gate. If a war really breaks out, these people will become victims of the sword."

"The lives of thousands of people will nail you, my little uncle, to the infamy of history."

Jiang Shiping knew all this, but what could he do? If he wanted to settle these people, he had to provide them with food and shelter, and manage these non-native people so that they would not cause trouble. The energy and manpower required to do this were beyond imagination.

Besides, where would the surplus food come from? Yizhou was barely surviving on the grain stored in previous years, so who could give them a handful of food now?

"Uncle, tell the people below to go thirty miles west now. There are people there who are robbing the rich and giving to the poor. They will be given food. The prerequisite is that they have to help with the work and fight with us."

The second half of Li Yuan's words were just to reassure the refugees. They themselves knew that there was no free food in the world, and if they wanted to get something, they had to pay for it.

He was just presenting the transaction as fair and just.

Giving them food allows them to fight hard and have a chance of survival. If they continue to stay and become refugees, they will either become victims of the war or starve to death.

See how they choose.

Li Yuan and Wei Qiqi had discussed this group of refugees before. In Li Yuan's view, the life and death of these people were dispensable. If they could live, they should be allowed to live as much as possible. If they died, it would be easier and more convenient. Li Yuan promoted this method.

But Li Yuan knew that he could not express this idea out loud. He could not show such a violent side in front of Qiniang.

Qi Niang said: These people are just poor people caused by the power struggle at the top. Xiao Bao, if possible, try to be kind to them.

Water can carry a boat but can also capsize it. Good deeds you do will surely bring you good karma.

Qinnan's words finally made these refugees decide to recruit and surrender.

They have no manpower, but they have almost enough food. These people have nothing, but they have a life.

In troubled times, only life is of some use.

But when they went out, they only brought enough supplies for their own people. Since there was not enough food, they had to rob whoever needed it.

But it caught Lei Hao off guard and unexpectedly.

After all, no one would have thought that someone could launch a surprise attack and take away the first batch of food and grass in their own territory, between the team and the city gate.

What Li Yuan wants to do now is to use this batch of food and fodder that can feed tens of thousands of people to feed those refugees.

He used food and fodder to make those refugees willingly serve under him.

Maybe it can be of great help this time.