Tang Ping didn't expect Li Guangbi to be so eloquent, but of course he had to stand up and support Li Guangbi at this time.
"That's right, I am Tang Ping, Duke of Tang Ping. As long as you are willing to go to Datang with me, I guarantee that as long as you work hard, you will be able to have enough food and clothing."
Population has always been an important factor in ancient national power.
Why did Liu Bei take so many people with him when he fled?
It's not like Tao Qian and Cao Cao had a grudge against killing their father. Those people who stayed in their original place would just become Cao Cao's subjects. In fact, their lives would not be in danger.
It is difficult not to say that Liu Bei led them because of the demographic factor. In ancient times, only with labor, you had labor force, money, food, and soldiers.
A country's national strength is inseparable from its population.
Although Datang has begun rapid development in the past two years, it has inevitably entered a bottleneck, which is population.
New machines can be made and new workshops can be opened, but the new labor force cannot grow even if the people are willing to have more children in more than ten years.
Therefore, it is imperative to attract foreign labor. If nothing else, the workshop area outside Chang'an City has complained countless times that it cannot recruit workers.
If the Tang Dynasty had not strictly controlled the wages of workers in the workshop areas in order to ensure the number of agricultural people, many workshop owners would have been able to offer sky-high wages. Then there would have been a situation similar to modern times, with a large number of workers in rural areas. Most of the agricultural population went out to work, resulting in farmland being abandoned.
So now Datang can only use salary limit orders to ensure that the income of people working hard in farming is equal to the income of working in workshops, so that those who enter the workshops are all surplus labor.
But now there is not much surplus labor around Chang'an and even in the entire Tang Dynasty. Therefore, if the almost 50,000 people in front of us can be brought back to Chang'an, even if we remove about one-fifth of the old and young, we can still get more than 40,000. Thousands of strong laborers.
It can greatly alleviate the labor pressure in Chang'an Gongfang District and the newly built Luoyang Gongfang District.
"Pingguo Gong?"
"Are you Tang Ping, Duke of Ping Kingdom?"
There were many princes in the Tang Dynasty. If it were other princes, these people might not know about it, but Tang Ping was different. He was so famous among the people that there were various legends about him in the surrounding countries.
"What? Don't I look like me?" Tang Ping looked at the surprised expressions of several people and asked a little amusedly.
"It's indeed a little different from...the legend." A cavalryman was obviously an honest man and told the truth directly.
"What do I look like in the legend?" Tang Ping was also a little curious. He never thought that one day he would become the person in the legend.
"Legend has it that Duke Ping is a man from heaven who descends from heaven and has unparalleled wisdom and scheming, so...that's why his head is as big as two people!"
"Pfft..." Tang Ping couldn't hold it back. Is this one head and two heads?
"It is also said that Duke Ping has extraordinary military strength. His arms are as thick as buckets. He fought with the first Turkic warrior for 300 rounds, and finally defeated the first Turkic warrior and allowed the Turks to surrender!"
"Stop, stop, stop!" Tang Ping quickly raised his hand to stop. If he had known better, he would not have asked. He should have thought of how outrageous the legends of this era can be.
"I am indeed Tang Ping, Duke of Ping." He went back to the driver's cab and took out his ID card. He usually left this thing in the car, but it could prove his identity.
The few people took it and looked at it. Although they were not completely sure whether it was true or false, they thought that no one would dare to pretend to be Tang Ping and engrave his seal, and then come here to fool them as a group of rebels.
"Ping Guogong, can we really go to the Tang Dynasty?" One person asked excitedly after confirming Tang Ping's identity.
The happiest pursuit of common people in this era is to have a hot bed for your wife and children. In the bitter cold land of Beiyan, the family has neither enough food nor clothing to keep warm. If there is a better place to go, who wouldn't want to?
"Of course, what I say will come true. Not only can you go to Datang, but after you go there, I can also provide you with job opportunities and housing. Food and clothing are the most basic things. Of course, the premise is that you work hard."
"Don't worry, Duke Ping. I'm waiting for nothing but strength." Several Beiyan cavalry looked at each other and shouted happily.
"In that case, let's ask the master to leave. If we walk quickly in a few days, we can still go to Weijiamian. We should be able to buy some food there. Duke Ping has said that he will cover the food on the way to Datang. I won’t let you starve to death on the road.”
Even if these people brought food from Beiyan, they would still have enough to eat in so many days.
The food we could find along the way was just a drop in the bucket and not enough to feed so many people.
Hearing that Tang Ping was still in charge of the meal, these people believed in what Tang Ping said.
We can't blame them for being naive. In ancient times, there were many rebels who just pulled up the team if they could get food to eat. The rebels still have to work hard, but following Tang Ping is just to work in the Tang Dynasty. So what is there to be afraid of?
"Yes... yes... that..." A few cavalrymen hesitated for a moment, and then said to Tang Ping: "We are stupid, why don't Duke Ping go and talk to them."
As he said that, they looked at the speaker in Li Guangbi's hand. This must have been the thing he used just now, so that so many people could hear him.
These people still had a small calculation in mind. Although they nominally took so many people to escape, to put it bluntly, they were gathered together temporarily.
Now a few of them go back and say that Duke Ping of the Tang Dynasty is taking them to the Tang Dynasty. Those people may not be trustworthy, so naturally it will be more credible to let the people from Tang Ping's side say it.
"Ping Guogong, let me go!" Li Guangbi volunteered.
"Okay!" Tang Ping has never spoken in front of so many people. If he really wants to go up, he doesn't know what to say. Li Guangbi is a bit slippery, but his eloquence is really good, so this task is left to him. .
A few people stayed where they were, while Li Guangbi followed a few Beiyan knights towards the rebel army over there.
"Ahem! Dear fellow villagers, I am also from Beiyan, but now I work with Duke Ping of the Tang Dynasty, the same man who descended from heaven to earth."
The first sentence caused a small commotion in the entire rebel army, but it was quickly suppressed by Li Guangbi's next words.
"When I was in Beiyan, I could only eat one meal a day, which was just some millet porridge, which was not necessarily full. But with Ping Guogong, I had three meals a day, and one meal was full. Eat meat, do you want to live the same life as me?"
"think!"
What else is there to say? These people are naturally willing.
After receiving a response, Li Guangbi raised his horn and shouted excitedly.
"Those who only dream but do not act will never experience the joy of harvesting the fruits."
"Don't let us go into spring just because there is no sunshine. Don't give up on your pursuits just because there is no food. In fact, every road leading to food and clothing is full of ups and downs, full of hardship and sweat."
Li Guangbi said these words in Khitan. Tang Ping didn't understand them at first, so he asked Xiang Long next to him to translate them for him.
As a result, everyone in Tang Ping was stunned when he heard that Li Guangbi was also a time traveler? Otherwise, how could you make this chicken soup for the soul so skillfully?
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