Chapter 467
But the words came from Li Linfei, so let's leave the trouble involved to him! This was the thinking of the two official veterans.
Li Linfei was satisfied that most of the Yellow Turbans had surrendered, and if he did a good job, these people could be integrated and sent to Huiji, which would be another large wave of population that could make a great contribution to the construction of Huiji County.
When he heard the concerns of Huangfu Song and Zhu Zhen, he waved his hand to show that he didn't care and said, "Although these yellow turban bandits were deceived by the thieves, they did participate in the rebellion after all, if we don't punish them, won't the world be more chaotic in the future. "
"As you both know, His Majesty is keen on money at the moment, and if he knew we were doing this, he would certainly strongly approve of it, after all, we are providing him with income."
Huangfu Song and Zhu Jiao's eyes lit up at that, before, according to their idea was to pit all these mud-legged people, they were all rebels and deserved to die, and they couldn't afford to feed so many people and had to kill them, but now it was different, Li Linfei had given them a new idea.
The Yellow Turban Rebellion was a huge loss for the family, their slaves had run away and fled, and their own families had countless fields that were uncultivated, so if they sold them these slaves it would be a win-win situation, and even if word got out to His Majesty, he might praise them a few times.
Cao Cao did not expect his brother to come up with such a good idea. He had previously thought about how the Yellow Turbans would be dealt with, and he thought that they would all die in the end.
He did not expect that his Xiandi would be able to come up with such a method, which would be beneficial to the use of the Yellow Turbans in the future, not having to die and becoming slaves would be a much better ending than being pitted and killed.
"The two lords as well as brother Mengde know that Huijie County is a vast and sparse area, now Yun has just taken office and wants to do some political work out, he needs a lot of labour and wants to buy some slaves back, let's discuss a price together." When Li Linfei saw that all three agreed with him, he spoke his mind.
When Zhu Jiao and Huang Fu Song heard that Li Linfei wanted to buy a few slaves, they didn't think so, they just wanted to say that it was just a matter of buying a few slaves. It's not a big deal, you can choose your own if you like, no need to be polite to us.
However, it soon occurred to him that recently, Li Lin Fei had been recruiting a large number of stragglers and a large number of people from all over the world were pouring into Huiji, so the population was not enough, and that was a great demand.
Zhu Jiao was originally from Shangyu County, Huiji County, and knew the situation in Huiji very well.
Li Linfei saw that neither general was generous-. He was slightly disappointed, but did not say anything more, as long as they were willing to sell, he had plenty of money.
"How much does Xiandi Yichen want to buy?!" Cao Cao spoke at this time, although his mind was well thought out, but not as much as those two old foxes thought, he was curious how many slaves Li Lin'fei this was asking for, so that the two generals did not generous some.
"Ten thousand dollars a slave, as many as you want." Li Linfei pondered for a moment and burst out his offer.
He also had slaves on his side, these slaves would also become slaves when they were bought by himself, to do some - some labour work, but they would not be slaves forever, Li Linfei was still very humane.
Seven or eight years, ten years at most, a slave would work for ten years and after ten years they would be returned to freedom, although this was also a kind of exploitation, he was much more generous compared to the policies of other lineage families.
"Hiss." All three of them couldn't help but suck in a breath of cold air, 10,000 yuan for a slave, this was the market price in the past, but now in this situation, the price of slaves was obviously going to be lowered by quite a lot.
Li Linfei was willing to pay such a large price to buy, and already had quite a few ingrate attributes.
"That's not a small amount of money!" Huangfu Song weakly reminded, although your family is rich, but also not so defeated so wave. :.
You actually said how much you want, in case we give you 100,000 people, will you still be able to afford it by then?
Li Linfei nodded, if he were to spend money, buying all the land in the whole of the Great Han might be possible, who made the monastery just so rich!
"I'll pay for it first, and then the Huaiji lineage will ask me to buy it."
It was then that it dawned on the three men that this was to be a slave trade, no wonder Li Linfei was so finely tuned to even these things, no wonder he could make so much money.
In the end, with the unanimous agreement of the four, Li Linfei paid for 20,000 slaves, while the remaining yellow scarves had Cao Cao contact the local families to sell them nearby.
Although Li Linfei was very reluctant to part with the population, there was nothing he could do, 20,000 slaves was the limit, if there were more, I'm afraid he would have to be summoned by Liu Hong for a drink.
Chapter 468
While Li Linfei and the others were celebrating their victory over Bo Cai's army, someone arrived at Changshe with hundreds of country men.
When Huangfu Song heard that they had been sent by Lu Zhi to help him he had them invited in.
By the time they entered the tent, Li Linfei recognised the three men at once.
Liu Bei, Guan Er, and Zhang San. There was no way around it, the images of these three men were too deep in people's minds, Liu Bei with his hands above his knees and a set of big ears with drooping shoulders, Guan Er with his ruddy face and phoenix eyes and long beard, wearing a long green shirt, and Zhang San with his leopard head and ringed eyes.
Anyone who has read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms will remember their looks to be able to recognise them easily.
Li Linfei looked at these three men with a complicated expression on his face. When he was young and ignorant, he still had a good feeling about these three men, thinking that they were benevolent and righteous, loyal and righteous, and so on.
Later on, he played a lot of Three Kingdoms games and alternative crossover novels, and in any Three Kingdoms game, Liu Bei's generals and strategists were among the best, much more powerful than others, even Cao Cao and Sun Quan could not compare with him.
At that time, Li Linfei also loved to use Liu Bei, but then he grew up, learned more, read the Three Kingdoms, and read a lot of Three Kingdoms fanfiction, and instantly had an enlightening feeling!
The big-eared thief! Yes Liu Bei was the big-eared thief, the most despicable, shameless and nasty person in the whole Three Kingdoms was him, and whoever defected to him would die.
Li Linfei had also thought of recruiting Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, after all, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were still two good people, considered loyal and righteous, especially Zhang Fei, Li Linfei had always had a good feeling for this simpleton.
He had no time to make a personal trip to Zhuo County and sent his men to invite them, but they were all kicked out by his third brother, so he stopped trying to recruit them.
Liu Bei entered the tent and looked around at several people, then saluted each of the four, I think he must have done his homework before coming, but he is now very depressed, Lu Zhi that battlefield can not be opened, he can not get any war credit, so he followed his teacher Lu Zhi application to run this battlefield.
Lu Zhi also knew that his disciple was highly motivated and ambitious, and did not stop him. Since he wanted to come to his aid, he asked Liu Bei to lead his own troops to help Zhu Zhen and Huangfu Song.
However, after the group had gone to great lengths to reach Changshe, Liu Bei was left in a state of misery, as the battle here was already over and Bo Cai had been captured alive, and his military achievements had disappeared again.
Liu Bei was even thinking that if he had arrived earlier, this military achievement would have been his own. I believe that with the strength of his second and third brothers, it would have been easy to get the military achievement.
After saluting Li Linfei, Zhu Jiao, Huangfu Song and Cao Cao, Liu Bei began his usual self-introduction, "I am Liu Bei Liu Xuan De, a descendant of King Jing of Zhongshan, and I studied under Lord Lu Zhi when I was a student."
Huangfu Song and Zhu Jiao were full of loyalty to the imperial family of the Great Han, and when they heard Liu Bei actually say that he was a member of the Great Han royal family, they instantly looked much better to Liu Bei: "So you are an imperial relative, my respects.
Li Linfei huffed on the sidelines, whether Liu Bei was an imperial relative of the Great Han or not was questionable in history, even if he was an imperial relative, was his generation so close to Liu's?
Moreover, there were so many people with the surname Liu in the world, and he did not have a clan tree to prove his identity, and in his opinion only a counterfeit person would indicate his identity again and again.
"I dare not dare." Liu Bei could not help but wear a smile on his face after seeing the two generals' instantly much better attitude towards him.
Guan Yu and Zhang Fei behind him saw the two generals treat their elder brother with such respect, a layer of arrogance also surfaced on their faces. It was Cao Cao who pondered over Liu Bei's words, he did remember that there was such a branch of the King of Zhongshan Jing, but it seemed that this clan had been removed, could this still be called, an imperial relative?
Liu Bei saw that his previous introduction had been a success, so he continued, " After the Yellow Turban Rebellion, I had trouble sleeping and eating every time I thought about it, so one day I arrived at Zhuo County and was going to join the army to serve the court with my body, but then I met these two righteous brothers to help me, so I formed this army and went to Guangzong to support my benefactor, who then asked me to come and support the two generals. "
Zhu Jiao and Huang Fu Song listened with great understanding, Liu Bei had given a clear account of his origins and purpose, they were somewhat apologetic, the war on their side was over and it was difficult to do so for the goodwill of their old friend.
"I wonder how the battle is going on Zigang's side?"
"Zhang Jiao is powerful and his military strength is far above that of his teacher, who is now besieged in the city of Guangzong, waiting for reinforcements." Although Liu Bei's military strength was not great, he still had no problem talking about it.