"I said, brother, why did you get so many pigs out? This is the gate of the city. If you don't get them away, the officials may kill you." Li Cong said with a smile, but it looked like he was

But I didn't mean to joke with him.

"Oh, this little brother doesn't know something. I am a big pig farmer around here. I have more pigs at home than here. I have already paid the fee. I just hope someone will come and buy them.

Ah, it used to be that my place was very popular when there were many people here, but not anymore. I heard that the barbarians are coming, and most of the people have dragged their knives with them to the mainland, so my pork is just that.

No one wants them anymore. My biggest property is these pigs. Now I can't just let these pigs run away." This guy felt depressed when he said it. In the past, his pigs could not be supplied to the market at all. Now, now

Fortunately, because everyone left, no one wanted the good pork. Li Cong felt that he was really pitiful. The population in the city had decreased by at least one-third, and many landowners were very depressed.

Qing, they can't leave even if their land is there. It's so close to the northern border, so there is a bad place, and they have to worry about the attack of the savages.

"Okay, I think you should stop being like this. Let's do this. I am in the army. You can give me all your pigs and those at home. If there are people like you around,

Collect them for me, how about I take them all at a 10% discount from your usual price? But I have a condition, if you find anyone, send them to Guangming City for me." Li Cong said with a smile, he knew now

The food provided in the army basically only has staple food and no vegetables. As for meat, there is no need to think about it. How much does meat cost per pound? If we open up the supply to the army, how much will it cost?

A pound of meat costs twenty copper coins in this society. It is absolutely fine for a soldier to eat a pound of meat a day. For 15 million people, it costs 300 million copper coins a day, which is 30,000 gold coins when converted into gold coins.

It's just raw meat. It's even more expensive to serve it after it's done. But this small amount of money is nothing to Li Cong. Now the army uses one meal of meat per month, which is simply not enough.

In normal times, those meals are okay, but now it's a war, these meats can give soldiers great strength, so Li Cong will naturally not be stingy.

"What? The sum of what I have at home and what I have here costs hundreds of thousands. Young man, you're not lying to me. I just hurried over and that's not a small amount." This guy heard what Li Cong said.

Said he sat up immediately, big customer. Energy Group 1683

Hundreds of thousands of pigs, which are tens of thousands of gold coins, are not enough to feed the frontline sergeants for a day. This number is not very large, but there are not a few people raising pigs and sheep around here. Now everyone

If you want to escape back to the mainland, if you buy them all, although this young man said that he will reduce the price by 10%, he will still make a profit. Just like his pork, which usually costs twenty copper coins per pound, now someone

He sold it for ten, and he completed the transaction.

"Haha, this is a golden ticket of 10,000 gold coins. Take it and hurry over with these pigs. If you go twenty miles away now, you can still catch up with people for dinner in the evening. Hurry up and buy from other people.

Well, just send me 200,000 head every day, the money is indispensable from you." Li Cong said with a smile. It seems that the price of meat in the northern provinces should have caused him to stir up speculation recently, and neither does this old guy.

What a fool. He immediately went to do things happily after seeing the golden ticket of 10,000 gold coins. His wife and children were gone, and he was left alone in the northern province. He didn't want to leave now, so he might as well go

Just buy it for a while. It doesn't matter even if it is shipped from several neighboring provinces. Everyone knows that it is used a lot in the army. This pork is the most common thing in ordinary people's homes. Whose family

They all had one or two pigs, and some had maybe five or six. It was not easy to collect these things. This guy happily took some things and went to work.

"Your Majesty, I'm late. I just saw that Your Majesty loves the people like a son. I really admire Your Majesty from the bottom of my heart. To be honest, from the time when the story about the Snake Queen came out to now, the population of the entire northern province has decreased a lot. Although

His Majesty the Emperor has already said that there is no need to move the entire northern province, but who will stay here as long as they have something at home? To be honest with you, my Supervisor Camp originally had two thousand people, but now there are fewer

There are more than three hundred people." At this time, a local official hurriedly came over with a large number of his subordinate officials. Li Cong did not know this guy, but after this guy said this, he must be the chief executive of this newly built county.

Yes, this guy can make those people sell pigs here. He must be a good official. If those officials only care about face but not honour, they would have driven those people away long ago. Listening to him talking now, I also feel that this guy

It is also very annoying for the savages to invade, it will destroy the local economy too much.

"Haha, I don't dare to say that as an adult. In fact, I can only help a little bit. Our economy has been severely damaged by the savages. Although they haven't invaded yet, our economy has been severely damaged. The influence on the border is really not small, but then again, you still have the supervision camp. If they come in, I think it may be gone. By the way, the main reason I came here this time is to take a look at the crossbows. Are you ready?" 138 Kanshu.com does not skip words. Li Cong has a huge crossbow warehouse in Guangming City, but that is the front line after all. If something really goes wrong, there is still one here. Li Cong would not Came over to take a look. When the city lord heard what Li Cong said, he quickly took Li Cong to the large warehouse in the center of the city. Li Cong was also afraid that the people below him would come like the eldest son of Lanshan whom he had tricked. I asked people to open the warehouse. It was pretty good. There were densely packed various types of crossbow arrows inside. There was also another warehouse, which contained black powder. The explosive power of this black powder was not that great, but in It is a very powerful weapon in this society, but Li Cong will not use it until the last moment.

"Sir, this is the large warehouse we recently built specifically for your Invincible Battalion. It is already filled with crossbows, about 140 million of them. Now we can produce them in large quantities every day in our own county. , some materials and other supplies have been shipped a long time ago. 130,000 people in our county have participated in your production plan. Each of them can assemble at least a hundred crossbows every day. Seventy thousand people have participated in the large crossbows. , each of them delivers about ten animals every day. We also have a special transportation team here. As long as there is news from Guangming City, our carriage can go there quickly, and it can arrive in more than an hour at most. Now with your invention That cement road is nearly half as fast as before. I’m not flattering you. Now many people are praising you and wondering if we can use that cement to pave all roads in the future. Yes, I know the empire has this plan. We are in a war zone here, so we have to give priority to it." Li never expected that this guy would have the idea of ​​building his hometown so quickly. Only when officials have such an idea can they do more. Okay, this guy is right, this is a war zone and must be prioritized.

"Haha, don't worry about this. The road to Guangming City here is the first batch, and the road to the provincial capital is the second batch. I won't forget this place. How many people are left in your county? ?" Li Cong said while looking at the empty houses around him.

When he mentioned this, the guy who was smiling at first lost his smile, "Your Majesty, to tell you the truth, although I, Wang Tong, cannot be said to be very capable, I can still handle the things you told me. But my sister has taken care of the matter of retaining the population. Originally there were more than 4 million people in this county, but now there are less than 2 million people left. Half of the people have left, and most of the remaining people are They are some servants in the army or major government offices and their families." The guy said with a grimace. This northern area doesn't sound very good, but the soil is very fertile black soil. In recent years, Because of the Snake Queen, not many people were working on the farm, and they all fled.

"So it seems that a lot of land has been freed up in the surrounding areas?" Li Cong said, looking at the place in the distance where the grass was already taller than a person. It would be too wasteful to continue like this. The price of these lands is extremely cheap now.

He couldn't let the opportunity pass him by.

"Yes, it's not just us recently. I guess the entire northern region is selling houses and land. People are going to live in the mainland anyway, so there is no need to stay here." This Wang Tong didn't know that Li Cong

What do you want to do? Answer truthfully.

"Okay, that's right. Mr. Wang and your subordinates have done quite well. Here are two million gold coins. Go tell the people below you that their salaries will be doubled from now on until the Snake Queen is driven away.

, If they want to stay, give it to them, and we can't stop them from leaving." Li Cong thought for a while and said, Wang Tong took the golden ticket. Although this double salary is not of much use, it is of no use to some families.

For people with money, this is still very attractive.

"By the way, Mr. Wang, when you see someone selling cheap houses and slaves, write them down for me. I will ask my housekeeper to come over every five days to take a look. If they really want to sell them, I will buy them all.

If you don’t, the price you give them will be two-thirds of the price they offered. Since they want to transfer the risk, they can’t leave with so much money. It won’t be that good.” For these critical moments.

Li Cong, the wealthy businessmen who wanted to escape, didn't give them much face, but Li Cong bought them at two-thirds of the price. You know, people who have a little money nowadays don't sleep tightly.

, it is impossible to return the investment. Wang Tong was a little confused when he heard what Li Cong said. It is true that you are rich, Your Majesty. Now let alone give them two-thirds of the house, even one-third is estimated.

These people will definitely sell it. They all know that the Snake Queen is very cruel this time. If you don't pay attention, you may die here. Those who can leave early should leave early.

After visiting the city, Li Cong rushed to Guangming City. Meng Tian had already told Li Cong all the news today. Li Cong was also very surprised by Situ Sheng's behavior. Could it be that this guy had any other conspiracy?

What's the matter with using it? But these things are not our responsibility. Let's take a look at the barbarian army on the opposite side first. Li Cong basically didn't have any etiquette when he entered the city. It's a war now, so we need those

There is no point in pretending. It is more serious to defeat the enemy honestly. Li Cong was very satisfied with Meng Tian's welcome. Meng Tian led dozens of cavalry to wait for Li Cong ten miles outside Guangming City. Li Cong accordingly

There weren't many people coming from there, only that many people came from the imperial capital.

"Your Majesty, you are finally here. If you hadn't come yet, my heart would be pounding." Logically speaking, a brave guy like Meng Tian wouldn't say this, but these words came from his mouth.

Speaking from his mouth, to be honest, Meng Tian is really a little unsure. In fact, as long as the enemy cannot climb the city wall, it is easy to say anything. The battles in the past few days have been very fierce, and the enemy's slings have also been brought to the soldiers on Guangming City.

There have been a lot of losses, and the enemy's bows and arrows seem to be very good. Although they are not comparable to those of humans, at least thousands of people have died under the bows and arrows of the barbarians in the past few days. This shows that they

The changes in the city are also amazing. You must know that at this time before, they were unable to attack the city.

"Haha, I see you are well guarded. This Guangming City was like this when I left. Now that I have come back, there is nothing missing. You are already very competent." Li Cong said with a smile,

Meng Tian was also very happy to hear Li Cong's affirmation.

"Having said that, the attacks of the savages are becoming more and more powerful day by day. At the beginning, they were just throwing rocks casually, but now their humanoids have joined the war. They have more than 20,000 people commanding hundreds of thousands of savages.

The soldiers formed an archery unit, and their bows and arrows are also very powerful. If we hadn't evaded in time, they would have caused us more harm." Meng Tian picked out some main things and explained them. This savage was born

They are the masters of archery. You can tell by looking at their strong arms. If they want to shoot arrows, no one can reach as far as them. But in terms of skills, they are not as strong as their bodies. They are typical

Simple-minded brawn.

"External enemies are easy to deal with. I asked people from the Jingxi camp to come over in advance. They haven't caused you any trouble in this period. What I'm most worried about is Situ Sheng. This guy is not a fuel-efficient lamp.

." Li Cong looked around and said in a low voice, Situ Sheng did not dare to confront humans in Guangming City, and Li Cong, as the coach here, couldn't do that even more. If people say that he has found another suspect,

Li Cong couldn't survive just by gossiping.

"Fortunately, it's not a big deal. That Situ Sheng has been quite honest recently. I can see that this guy really wanted to kill the enemy when he led his people to fight against the savages on the city wall. These days

It seems that they correspond closely with the letters in the imperial capital. I also asked people to pay close attention to them. Because the war has not started yet, I can't open them up. Now they are still in a group." This conspiracy thing.

Naturally, Meng Tian couldn't do it anymore. He had allowed these people from the Jingxi camp to stay together for such a long time. If it had been Li Cong, he would have divided them into several pieces. It would be impossible for them to still have such a big group.

threatening.

"You are such a fool. When you go back, you tell them that there is a large amount of pork coming from the military depot in the rear and ask them to send 50,000 light infantry to protect us along the way. Is there anything you can't say about this? I am the commander-in-chief.
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