Someone once said: When people's lives are seriously threatened, many so-called persistence will be completely discarded!
At this time, people just want to survive.
Therefore, whoever has the power to save people at this time will naturally have power.
For example, in this catastrophe, what Li Zhen deliberately created and stole was the hope of survival for the victims.
Therefore, he was able to gather an army of 100,000 in a very short period of time, and he was so ambitious that he pointed his sword at Chang'an.
And to put it bluntly, Xiao Han actually knows this power better than Li Zhen!
But he didn't dare and couldn't use this taboo-breaking power!
Therefore, he could only use another method: let the people in Ningcheng feel a sense of belonging to this city and have a heart to protect it! Then use protection to fight against Li Zhen's invasion!
Since you want to protect Ningcheng, you must first have the heart of the people.
Needless to say, the people of Ningcheng originally knew that this was their home and the place where they grew up!
Facing the invasion, they must fight to the death with the invaders!
But those refugees who came to the city later were different.
Until now, they had only used Ningcheng as a place of residence and a temporary place to eat. They did not have the great sentiment to live or die with Ningcheng.
So in order to make them feel a sense of belonging here, Xiao Han came up with a way to allocate land to them and build houses.
People will know the value of possession only after losing it!
These refugees walked out from their homes, like lost children, living a life of hunger and hunger, and were already mentally exhausted.
Now I suddenly heard that the county magistrate was going to give them land to build a house, and my dying heart suddenly came to life again.
As a farming nation, the most important thing in the eyes of the Tang people is a family!
Without a home, you are a lonely ghost! And having a home means having a destination!
Therefore, while the county magistrate was still pointing at the people in the old city and shouting curses at the west city gate, there were already countless choking sounds in the new city.
The fat county magistrate, who had lost weight in the past few days, personally took the people to measure the land, mark it with white lime, and handed it to the land owner who was already crying and couldn't stand up. He shed a few tears with him before going to the next level. One family, continue to divide the houses like this.
Such actions lasted for a full day before all the refugees were settled.
Fortunately, the new city was designed to be very large when it was first planned. Otherwise, it would be difficult to accommodate so many people!
Here in the government, I got my own land.
The refugees who were originally gathered together in one pile in the east and one in the west immediately dispersed naturally, each sitting on their own land.
A pair of eyes is watching the surrounding "neighbors" warily, fearing that the other party will secretly move the white line that represents the land ownership.
Even now there is nothing on the land except a few weeds.
"This is territorial awareness! Do you believe it, they will fight with their lives for whoever dares to rob their land at this time?"
Standing high on the city wall, overlooking the open space like a chessboard grid below, Xiao Han smiled happily and said to Liu Hongji next to him.
However, as Xiao Han's good friend Liu Hongji, he snorted disdainfully at this time: "Even if they are willing to risk their lives, they are still just a group of ordinary people. I think it will be difficult to rely on them to fight the war!"
"Difficult?" When Xiao Han heard this, he spread his hands indifferently: "What's so rare about this? Isn't the team of rebels also composed of ordinary people?"
"That's different."
Liu Hongji rolled his eyes and subconsciously took out a delicate small box from his arms. As soon as he took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, he saw Xiao Han staring at him with a surprised look.
Realizing that the secret had been revealed, Liu Hongji blushed and hurriedly gave one to Xiao Han. At the same time, he explained with a smile: "This...this is the team that consigned food last time. It came from Luoyang. There are only a few boxes. I This is also my first time smoking!”
"Hmph?" Xiao Han was a little doubtful of Liu Hongji's words, but in the face of a powerful enemy, he was too lazy to worry about such trivial matters, so he just hummed twice before taking the cigarette and holding it in his mouth.
Skillfully, he turned his head to the side and lit the cigarette with the help of the fire in Liu Hongji's hand. Then, under the astonished gazes of the surrounding defenders, the two brothers leaned against the city wall, squinted their eyes together, and started puffing out mist.
"By the way, you haven't finished what you just said. What's the difference?" Taking a deep breath of the spicy smoke, Xiao Han felt his head was slightly dizzy. He knew that this was because he hadn't smoked for a long time. Later, the feeling of drunkenness caused by sudden exposure to tobacco again.
"Aristocratic family, aristocratic family, what is an aristocratic family?"
Unlike Xiao Han, who was slightly confused, Liu Hongji seemed extremely energetic at this time. Looking at his familiar smoking movements, you knew that this guy was carrying Xiao Han on his back, and he had probably smoked a lot.
"Aristocratic families must have something different from others!" Liu Hongji flicked the burned cigarette ashes with his finger and said with a sneer: "You don't know it, but in this chaos, all the officials and health offices in Shandong seem to have disappeared. Missing? Have you never seen these people appear before?"
"Yes!" Xiao Han nodded thoughtfully when he heard this. He had thought about this problem before, but there was too little evidence at that time, so he could only speculate and could not confirm the truth.
"They are not Tu Xingsun. They won't just burrow into the ground and disappear without a trace! The only explanation is that the officials and guards here have been completely corrupted by the noble family!"
Seeing Xiao Han thinking seriously, Liu Hongji continued to sneer and said: "Don't believe it, these invisible and intangible relationships that can connect everyone together are the so-called heritage of the family!
These things are usually inconspicuous, but at this critical moment, their effect is immediately apparent! Otherwise, how could an ordinary family disturb the whole of Shandong! "
"What do you mean..." When Xiao Han heard this, the fingers holding the cigarette were trembling slightly. It could be seen that he was trying to force himself to be calm.
"What I mean is that those officials and soldiers were not killed in the battle, nor were they separated, but were brought together through countless connections!
Therefore, the rebels' so-called army formed by refugees was actually mixed with many soldiers from the original Shandong Guards!
Hum hum, use regular soldiers as the skeleton, and then fill it with healthy refugees! Among them, there is no shortage of military captains as the little bosses! There are even martial arts masters raised and recruited by aristocratic families!
If it's like what you said yesterday, brainwash them and make them fearless of death! The combat effectiveness of such a large army is inferior to that of the regular army of the Tang Dynasty! "
