Chapter 236 Opportunity to Recruit Li Dian

Lin Mu was amused when he heard Li Dian's hesitation. Although he was powerful, his performance and personality at this time were not fierce and strong. Instead, he had a sense of being an approachable boy next door.

However, such a personality gave Lin Mu great confidence to recruit him. He was able to defend this village for innocent soldiers and civilians, to think about them, to repay his father's favor, and endured the hardship of three years of military training without regrets. He was indeed a loyal and righteous man.

"General Li, you don't have to worry. Our territory is currently in ruins and has sufficient land. We need a lot of manpower to develop it. As long as these relatives are willing to come to our territory, we will definitely let them have land to plant, food to eat, and the elderly to rely on and the children to be educated!"

Li Dian thought about the problem from the perspective of an aboriginal. In peacetime, aboriginals with territories generally would not accept a large number of people. For them, that was a burden.

The territory established by the aboriginals was called [Lingzhuang], and the concept of [territory] could only be owned by nobles who were granted titles.

There are restrictions on the villages or territories of the aboriginals, and construction can only be done on private land. For the reclamation of wasteland, the imperial system has strict requirements, and the output needs to pay huge taxes. Of course, the land for reclamation will not be taxed so harshly. After a certain period of time, such as 3 years or 5 years, the heavy taxes will be cancelled, just like other land.

In addition, after many years of development in the Han Dynasty, some fertile, safe, and rainy lands have been developed and become state land or private land.

The remaining land is either as remote as Yinglong Valley or as barren as Wenyuan Village, and the safety, requirements, and difficulty are much higher.

Therefore, for this thankless act of reclamation, the general aboriginals will not consume manpower and material resources to do it, as they have enough land.

And the player's territory, because of the system restrictions and the restrictions of the territory level, will not be like Lin Mu who has the Yellow Dragon Divine Order, so unlimited reclamation of wasteland.

From the perspective of the lord, land and population are the biggest and most important resources!

Therefore, Lin Mu's demand for population is not what Li Dian can imagine.

"In this case, I would like to thank Sima Lin for his generosity on behalf of many relatives." Li Dian clasped his fists and bowed.

Lin Mu smiled slightly, patted Li Dian on the shoulder and said: "This time, we were able to conquer Qinglong Village and bring huge development foundation to our territory. I should thank you!"

After that, Lin Mu learned about the composition of the craftsmen in detail. Sure enough, most of them were miners and blacksmiths.

"General Li, don't craftsmen have other rare professions?" Lin Mu asked softly.

"Rare professions, do you mean prospectors? Swordsmiths?" Li Dian asked in surprise.

"Yes, that's it."

"Yes, there were originally 20 prospectors in our village, one master prospector, and six expert prospectors... Unfortunately, after the uprising, Xu Zhao gathered some high-level professionals and transferred them?" Li Dian said in a rough voice.

Hearing the previous words, Lin Mu was still slightly looking forward to it, but the bad news behind it made him depressed.

"What about the swordsmiths?" Swordsmiths are a separate faction of the blacksmith profession. They belong to blacksmiths, but they only specialize in swordsmithing.

"The swordsmiths in the village are good at casting ceremonial swords. They cast a large number of very fine ceremonial swords for Xu Zhao, sell them to the people of the wealthy families, gather a lot of wealth, and then feed back the development of the military. Before the uprising, they all moved."

"All moved? Where?" Lin Mu frowned and asked.

"This... I can't say, these are what I promised when I was training the army for Xu Zhao, not to disclose any information about that place. If Sima Lin wants to ask Xu Zhao about the composition and deployment of the military, I can't say it either, sorry!" Li Dian said in a deep voice, indicating that he was very firm about these, but under the firmness, Li Dian felt a little guilty.

Feeling Li Dian's sense of guilt, Lin Mu's heart moved, it's good to have a sense of guilt!

After that, Lin Mu analyzed Li Dian's words, frowning, transfer? Does he have a way out? Wouldn't Xu Zhao be wiped out by the players and the Dragon Court in the end, just like in history?

These county overlords certainly don't have the same layout as they appear.

Lin Mu didn't force Li Dian anymore, but continued to greet him, wanting to know him in detail.

For Lin Mu, getting to know Li Dian was the biggest gain of this expedition!

Li Dian should not have reached his peak at this time, and there is still a lot of potential for future growth. If he can be recruited and trained to slowly reach the peak, it will surely be a great gain.

At the same time, Lin Mu narrowed his eyes, thinking about how to make friends with Li Qian, a famous wise man in Juye County, Shanyang County, Yanzhou, through Li Dian.

Li Dian is already a talent, so if you want to recruit him, you have to start with his needs.

The needs of a general are nothing more than magic weapons, armor and ornaments, BMWs, magic skills, beautiful women, fame, glory, Dragon Court position, future direction... and so on.

Li Dian is not a person who covets beauty, so he will not linger on beauty too much; as for magic weapons, he already has his own weapons, so he will ignore them; and the magic skills, treasure armor and magic ornaments, these things are very scarce at present, how can they tempt him! Fame, honor, position in the Dragon Court, future direction, etc. are all empty, and it is difficult to achieve them with the current title of Sima of the county.

BMW horse, this can be tried, I believe that the mutant dragon scale horse in the territory can initially satisfy him.

Yes, speaking of dragon scale horses, if we tempt him by "letting him be responsible for forming a super cavalry", is it feasible? Lin Mu thought to himself.

As a military commander, if he can train a super cavalry that is famous in China and powerful in the world, this kind of meritorious service that will be passed down through the ages and attract worldwide attention must be a huge temptation for Li Dian. This is an opportunity.

Haste makes waste, so he did not directly recruit. After Lin Mu had a long talk with Li Dian, Li Dian went to arrange the migration of military and civilians.

If you want to transport a population of 500,000, it is definitely not possible to return in one voyage, and you have to make more trips.

A Dutian transport ship, which has already been loaded with some food and grass, can only transport about 200,000 people. Another Dutian warship, because it is a combat ship, can only transport about 100,000 people. The Xuan-level Luban warship is even less, and it is difficult for each ship to transport a thousand people.

"He Yuan, you are responsible for transporting the wounded soldiers of the True Dragon Legion and some soldiers and civilians in the Qinglong Village back to Yinglong Valley. I have asked Chang Yin and others to prepare to meet you at the Xufu Town dock. After transporting them back, come back again. Thank you for your hard work." Lin Mu instructed He Yuan.

"Yes! Lord. As for hard work, it's not hard work. It's just escorting two ships." He Yuan responded modestly.

"After transporting the population here back, rest for two days, and then arrange ships to implement the previous military family migration plan to transport people from Yan County, Yuyao County and other counties back to Yinglong Valley. Liu Feng, your family will come by then, make good arrangements. You have been away from home for so many days, it's time to compensate your family. I will ask Chang Yin to prepare a welcome banquet for everyone and have a carnival!" Lin Mu instructed.

"Thank you for your concern, Lord!" Liu Feng said with emotion. This lord treats them sincerely, regards them as brothers, and is very kind and tolerant to the people. In their eyes, the lord is the true dragon emperor!

Liu Feng is from Yan County, and his family lives in the south city of Yan County. The Night Shadow Department had already completed all the information exploration and made detailed arrangements, asking the soldiers to write letters to their families one by one to inform them of the reasons. Immediately, most of the families were willing to come to Yinglong Valley.

Of course, not everyone was willing to migrate. Some families were unwilling to leave their hometowns. Lin Mu also expressed his understanding and did not have too many strict requirements. These matters were carried out a long time ago.

But after Xu Zhao became king, Lin Mu strongly requested that these relatives move here. After a war-like disaster-type persuasion, the relatives abandoned the so-called love of leaving their hometown and were willing to migrate.

This episode made Lin Mu deeply realize that in the hearts of the indigenous people, a stable environment is more important than the so-called love for their hometown.

"Okay, for now, there are only these two plans. After completion, let the soldiers train for a while. Feng Zhong will arrange the subsequent training plan." Lin Mu instructed.

When the True Dragon Legion attacked Qinglong Village, 139 soldiers were killed and about 26,000 soldiers were injured. This result made Lin Mu very dissatisfied. I believe Feng Zhong in the territory will also be furious. The shortcomings of the True Dragon Legion are exposed. It is necessary to change their training program.

Let the soldiers carry the wounded, take 230,000 surrendered soldiers, a total of 250,000 people, and rush to the east coast.

After the introduction of Li Dian and other insiders, Lin Mu knew that the weapons cast in Qinglong Village had been transported away by Xu Zhao, leaving only some weapons for defending the city. As for the iron ore in the mountain, it has been basically mined out. It seems that Xu Zhao has occupied this place for a long time.

Originally, I thought there would be weapons and equipment, casting drawings, mine resources, high-level professionals, etc., but who knew that they would not be as expected.

Although not everything is as expected, Lin Mu is still very happy to be able to harvest so many people, an opportunity to recruit legendary historical generals, and an experience of learning from Cao Cao.

After watching the mighty team disappear in the mountains, Lin Mu asked Liu Feng to lead Zhang Xiaohu, Shangong and his party, and lead two battalions of 100,000 True Dragon soldiers, to follow Li Dian and advance to the west, preparing to take the 270,000 soldiers to the coast and transport them to the Dragon Valley.

After Lin Mu arranged the affairs, he put Cui Wu and other guards into the military order, and rushed to Juzhang County alone along the general direction given by Li Dian.

While on the way, finally, the third district that achieved the achievement of 100 leaders appeared, which was the Dongying District. Hearing the huge world announcement, Lin Mu was a little surprised. As a close neighbor of the Huaxia District, the Dongying District actually has a stronger development momentum than other old super districts such as the American District, so he needs to be more vigilant.