Chapter 454
"He's here, Taishou!" He Qi stood at the top of the city and naturally saw Li Linfei riding into the opponent's camp as if he was in no man's land, so he couldn't help but sigh with relief that it was finally over, their losses were quite heavy this time.
The difference in numbers was too great, and the quality of the county soldiers was not good, the old were old and the young were young, not many were qualified, the real strength was the 1,000 feathered forest troops, but the 1,000 feathered forest troops did not all arrive, two hundred were sent to guard the Imperial Guard's residence along with the He army.
Li Linfei drove his white dragon pony in the direction of the horse's leader, and in just a few moments, he killed more than three people.
The horse leader was dumbfounded, what a freak! He was so fierce that no one could stop him, and even his own formation was scattered by Li Linfei!
"Fire arrows, shoot me hard!" The horse leader shouted angrily.
The mountain Yue people took up their bows and arrows and shot at Li Linfei, but with a swing of his spear he swept down all the arrows and returned them to the man who had just shot at him with an arrow.
Everyone was dumbfounded, was this a fucking human being? There was no way to play!
"Release the arrows! Haven't you eaten? Shoot me hard! " the horse leader roared hysterically!
Never let his opponent rush in front of him, or he would die a horrible death!
But his wish was dashed, and in a short while Li Linfei had arrived in front of the other side on his White Dragon colt, and the road he had come to kill. There were countless dead and wounded on it, and countless corpses fell across the road.
"I surrender!" The horse leader looked at Li Linfei, who was like a god of killing, and gulped. That was an act of seeking death, he might not even be able to receive a single move.
No one would call him a coward, even if the bandits around him had already made up their minds to surrender.
The Han Chinese were always very nice to talk to, and as long as they were willing to surrender, they would certainly not make things difficult for them, and would even serve them good wine and meat.
"Surrender now! It's too late!"
For the Shan Yue they had gone to besiege, it was fine for them to surrender and Li Lin Fei would still be happy to do so, but these bandits besieging Shan Yin were bound to die.
After saying this, the white dragon pony was lifted, and Li Linfei instantly arrived in front of the horse leader, and the curved moon spear-stab pierced directly through his abdomen. The curved moon spear pierced his abdomen, picking his body up and looking unbeatable!
All the Shan Yue men were dumbfounded, the horse leader wanted to surrender but was still stabbed by Li Lin Fei, so what should they do now?
Some wanted to resist, to kill Li Linfei, to kill him and then they would be safe, but the thought of his terrifying force made them cringe inside, most of them wanted to run away, we won't play with you, we won't go into the city, we can hide in the mountains and not come out!
Li Linfei didn't care what they thought, he flung the corpse of the horse leader to the ground and charged at a few more men near him who looked much better equipped.
The Shan Yue people were not particularly wealthy and it was good to have ordinary clothes to wear, not to mention leather armour and armour, which only those with status were entitled to wear.
In Li Linfei's opinion, these people should not be allowed to die. Although there were a few who were really thinking of the mountain people, most of them were compelling the mountain people to attack the city for their own selfish desires, and their sins were unforgivable.
When those mountain Yue people saw how brave Li Linfei was, their souls were almost scared out of their skulls. There were legends of a 10,000-strong enemy in this world, which they had not seen.
But some of them had heard of such legends, and now that they had messed with such a man, it would be foolish not to run away while he didn't have the heart to kill himself, and surprisingly, they started to scramble for the outside.
The white dragon pony kept running through the battlefield, and Li Linfei kept collecting the lives of those chiefs.
In a short while, anyone who was better dressed and better equipped was almost killed by Li Linfei. He felt that he had killed almost all of them before he shouted, "Those who surrender are free from death.
Those who had not yet had time to flee dropped their weapons when they heard these words, joking that the chiefs were dead and that they would be the ones to die if they resisted again!
Of course there were also many who took advantage of the gap to run away, this was not a problem, he did not have enough men now, there were plenty of ways to deal with them later.
When He Qi saw that Li Linfei had secured the situation, he led the remnants of his army out of the city to collect the Shan Yue people, and with Li Linfei as a deterrent, the mountain people were extremely cooperative.
At this time, Dian Wei rushed back on his already panting horse, he saw that the battle on this side was surprisingly over, he rubbed his bald head, he had rushed fast enough, he didn't expect his lord to settle the other side so easily, no wonder he was a god!
"Evil Lai you're here!" Li Linfei greeted him.
"It's a pity I'm late, I didn't expect my Lord to finish them all off so quickly." 典韦 rubbed his shiny bald head and laughed helplessly.
Although his horse was also a good, fine horse, it was not: it could keep up with Li Linfei's White Dragon colt, plus the weight difference between the two sides was so great that his own weight alone was heavier than two Li Linfei's, so how could he catch up.
"Tell you what, you help Captain He to collect these mountain people over here, I need to go into the city now." Li Linfei said.
Deng Wei nodded his head and agreed without saying a word, he was not very intelligent but not stupid, he still knew some things.
There was still a lot to be done in the city for Li Linfei to preside over this time, and the mountain people were not going to riot because Li Linfei had left.
The arm was even thicker than his own waist, so he couldn't imagine what it would be like if his fist came down.
Chapter 455
Although the Shan Yue people outside the city had been dealt with, the city was still under martial law, with many county soldiers and feathered soldiers patrolling the streets. Many of the county soldiers and feathered forest troops patrolled the streets.
The rebellion in the city was quickly suppressed without much damage. When Li Linfei rode alone to the Imperial Guard's residence, Guo Jia and Xi Zhicai were already busy, and even many people from the major families had stayed behind to help in the residence.
When they saw Li Linfei arrive, they hastened to salute him. The people of several families were now convinced by Li Linfei and did not dare to have any petty thoughts. This man could take the head of a local general on a single horse in the midst of ten thousand armies, and he would only go against him if his life was too long.
"No need to be polite." Li Linfei hurriedly helped several people to their feet.
"Was there much damage in the city?" Although he could find out from the system as well, he still needed to ask a symbolic question.
"There were not many Shan Yue people who rebelled this time, and they were quickly suppressed with the help of the major families as well as the mountain people who had surrendered, so the losses were not great, I just don't know what to do with these mountain people in the fight." said Xi Zhicai.
A few people next to him also pricked up their ears to listen to how Li Linfei would dispose of them, through these practices, they could also speculate on his behavior doing things, in the future they would also need to work under his hand for a long time, speculating on the will of the top is also a necessary skill, an upright person is generally hard to mix well unless his background is so big that he can ignore any enemies.
"All the rebellious mountain people will be turned into slaves, and those who are the leaders of the rebellion will have their entire families beheaded, and those with good looks will be turned into official prostitutes, and those who are second best will be turned into military prostitutes, and those who are second best will be reduced to slaves.
Li Linfei did not believe that there would be many women among them, so he ordered this.
This was still a relatively moderate way of doing things, after all, they were rebelling and rebellious! They needed to be punished heavily as an example to others.
Li Linfei then added: "Make a list of the mountain people who helped to suppress the rebellion, and I will have each household receive a reward.
The ancient people were very simple-minded and would be grateful to Li Linfei as long as they sent a sheep or two from door to door.
In the agrarian era, the ploughing cattle were the productive force, so beef was rarely eaten by everyone, even the emperor, and usually the nobles and rich people ate mutton, pork was for the poor, the scholarly people would not go for it.
The price of mutton was also quite high, and Li Linfei gave them fat sheep, whether they ate it themselves or sold it, their days could be improved a lot.
And Li Linfei didn't have much else, there was more than enough among the cattle and sheep system.
Xi Zhi Cai nodded and hastily sent his men to prepare for the eradication of those who had second thoughts, and to reward those Shan Yue who had meritorious service, so that they would become exemplary and more conducive to the integration of the Shan Yue people.
After this battle, almost all the large scale hill tribe in Huiji County had been eliminated. The important thing for them to do was to integrate these hill people into the life of the Han people, which could not be solved overnight.
When they heard Li Linfei mention the rewards, the people from the major families had their ears pricked up, as the mountain people were still a minority, but the majority of the efforts were made by their families.
Li Linfei naturally knew what they were thinking, and after checking each other's thoughts from the system, they all felt quite good about themselves, some not so much that they hated him, but at least they didn't feel ill will.
Li Linfei wouldn't mind giving them a little benefit so he mentioned, "Today there are many mountain people coming into Shan Yin City, the city needs to be expanded, are you family heads interested in contracting this project over?"
Li Linfei didn't have the energy to do so many things, and he didn't have enough manpower on hand, so he adopted the latter-day contracting system to contract out to various families, so that they could also earn money and help him solve the problem of the mountain people's work.
"A project? Contracting?" The heads of the families froze at the sound of these two new terms, what was it? They had never heard of it before, being able to be a big local family, they still had a bit of literature in their hearts, but they still didn't understand what it meant.
It couldn't be helped that in ancient times, government projects relied on labour, they were all compulsory, not only did they not have to pay for their work, but they even had to provide their own rations. When Li Linfei saw their bewilderment, he explained to them what a project was and what a contract was.
Only then did it dawn on the heads of the families, but was this really possible? Would they be punished if word got out? This was not in keeping with the system that had always been in place in the Han Dynasty!
"Your Excellency's idea is good, but this is not in line with the court's system and will also increase the court's expenses. " admonished House Master Yu.
The latter words did not go on, but the meaning was clear: this is a bad idea, if the emperor knew about it, it would be questionable whether your job as governor would continue, and it would be a great drag on the government's finances, there is a free one that does not need to be used but still costs money. Or is it too much money?
The government's financial situation is not good enough for the government. "
Chapter 456
Li Linfei's words made everyone's eyes light up. Li Linfei was tax-free in Huiji and did not have to pay taxes to the court, although they did not know exactly why.
But this fact was known to all of them, the taxes in Huiji County were almost all Li Linfei's, and he used the tax exemption method to exchange for the labor of the family, the two were essentially the same, but the names were different!
No one could find any fault with it, and with the name, all the great families agreed to it, they had a lot of fields and still had to pay a lot of taxes every year, and listening to Li Linfei, they could pay a lot less taxes, and they were happy to earn money.
However, in order to prevent these families from doing anything wrong, Li Linfei also told them his requirements, asking them to give those labourers a certain amount of money for their work, not to treat them badly, the price should be basically the same as Li Linfei's, the quality should be up to standard and so on.
The lords of the families also agreed that the quality had to be good, as they had lost a lot of money last time when the Shan Yue people invaded the gates.
As for the money, they all agreed to do so, as it was Li Linfei's money that they earned anyway.
After Li Linfei had finished ordering all these things, He Qi also returned to the city with the number of Shan Yue people he had captured earlier, and all of them were shocked by these huge sums of money.
I'm afraid they'll have to work overtime today, and it's true that Shan Yin City will have to be expanded, as the population of the county, which originally could only hold over 100,000 people, has now increased by tens of thousands, making it immediately overcrowded.
The Yellow Turban Uprising was about to begin, and the north would be in chaos, so he was planning to take advantage of the opportunity to make some money from the population.
He decided to build all the nearby counties, so that he would have people, money and food.
The Shangyue will not need to be besieged for the time being, they have enough population for the time being, otherwise there will be problems if they can't settle down, and the larger tribes have almost been besieged by Li Linfei, so the remaining small tribes won't cause much trouble for the time being.
Li Linfei called in some of the servants who had been left behind by Zhang Jian, who were originally spies, but now they had all surrendered to Li Linfei and their loyalty value was not low. He asked them to bring some jewellery to Luoyang and send it to Zhang Jian and Liu Hong, saying that he had solved the Shan Yue problem and to see if he could get some benefits.
After dealing with these things, Xi Zhicai and the others were still busy, and Li Linfei, as the Lord, was too embarrassed to go and rest himself, and stayed up with them to deal with things, and the whole Taishoufu was all working overtime.
The great families also sent many capable people to help, which prevented them from dying of exhaustion here.
With the help of a few great talents, the affairs of Huijixian were organised in an orderly manner, and the recruitment of stragglers was carried out in an orderly manner.
The court would have been overwhelmed, not to mention the fact that Liu Hong was a money-grubbing emperor who was willing to spend money on the people.
Not so with Li Linfei! Need money? There is plenty of it in the system, and it is not a problem to ask for as much as you want.
Food is even less of a problem, the system also has it and converts high yielding rice seeds for cultivation.
Cai Yong's reputation was so great that it wasn't hard to find him at all. Guo Jia used Li Linfei's name to invite him, over to open the academy.
When the old man heard that Li Linfei was willing to take him in and provide him with a place to teach, he immediately came over.
The location of the academy was easily solved, on the Huijie Mountain outside of Shangyin City, and it didn't take long for it to be built with the support of huge human and material resources.
Cai Yong, as a great scholar of the sea, was so well known that the local families would have treated him like an ancestor if they hadn't been afraid of upsetting the eunuchs in the court.
Of course, Li Linfei's Huijie Academy was not only open to the scholarly families, but under the promotion of Xi Zhicai, they had launched a policy of hard work and thrifty study, and many children from the poorer families could enter the academy.
On this day, Li Linfei had nothing to do so he came to the academy to visit Cai Yong, who was after all a great scholar, so it was necessary for Li Linfei to visit Cai Yong as a junior in terms of etiquette.
When Li Linfei arrived, Cai Yong was in the middle of a class and was about to salute him when he saw Li Linfei coming.
But this was a celebrity how could he curtsy.
"Li Yun Li Lin Fei meets Cai Zhonglang." This was the first time that Li Linfei had met Cai Bo Xun, Cai Yong's body revealed the aura of a scholar, which made Li Linfei feel good about him.