The answer is that there is not much population.

During wars, the most severely injured in China will always be Henan and Huaixi. The unique location and terrain of this region, as well as its huge strategic value, make them a place where military strategists must fight. The forces in the north and south repeatedly tug and fight for a long time, killing blood to form rivers and corpses to accumulate into rivers and rivers. This time is naturally no exception. The Eight Kings Rebellion, which lasted for more than ten years, damaged Henan's vitality. After the Eight Kings Rebellion, the Western Jin Dynasty had not yet recovered, and the Hu people came again, and there were bloody fighting and massacres that lasted for several years. Nine out of ten households in the Central Plains were empty. A large number of people either fell under the butcher's knife or fled into the mountains and forests to live a savage life, or fled to the south. A large number of towns were abandoned and turned into ghost towns where no people could be seen and only heard ghosts cry. How many people are there in the entire Central Plains? No one can say it, but judging from the fact that there are only hundreds of thousands of people left in Nanyang, the actual number is likely to make people shudder.

Li Rui said: "It's okay if the Hu people expel them and slaughter them. As the prince of the Great Jin Dynasty, you should do this? I really want to know, if there is no one, will your great Jin Dynasty continue to exist?"

Sima Fan was speechless.

Jia You was also quite dissatisfied: "Your words are not considered! These rebels are strong and strong. You can go to the battlefield to fight with a little training. If you want to kill them all to save some food, wouldn't you cause trouble? Not to mention that you missed a group of soldiers who can fight, and killed nearly 10,000 people without blinking. How dare those refugees surrender to our army in the future? If every refugee is fierce and wants to fight to the end, it will be a problem for us to take Nanyang, whether we can arrive in Xiangfan alive!"

Sima Fan blushed and had to apologize: "I... I really don't think so, please forgive me for the lieutenant Li."

Li Rui said: "You are not thinking about it, you just never treat these people as human beings." He shook his head, stood up, walked outside, and said: "You are already the best among the royal royal family in this generation. As a result, even you are at this level, what else can you expect in this Jin Dynasty?"

He shook his head and walked out of the mansion with a sigh, not knowing what he was going to do.

Sima Fan watched him leave and said dissatisfiedly: "Why do I think he respects those common people more than me?"

Jia You sighed: "What can you do if you can produce food, weave cloth, catch fish, and build houses?"

Sima Fan: “…”

This is really heartbreaking!

Li Rui walked out and shouted: "Lu Da!"

Lu Da immediately flashed: "See the captain!"

Li Rui said: "No need to be polite. How are your partners in the mood now? Are they still stable?"

Lu Da hesitated for a moment, but decided to tell the truth: "Report to the lieutenant, most people are now worried and afraid."

Li Rui asked: "Why?"

Lu Da said: "They are all afraid that the government will turn against each other and start a massacre of killing them."

Li Rui frowned and said, "Didn't I promised them that I would not surrender? Why are they still so scared?"

Lu Da smiled bitterly: "We guarantee that this kind of thing has been heard too much, and it has been true few times. If we have been deceived a lot, we will no longer trust anyone easily."

Li Rui murmured and cursed, not knowing whether he was scolding the refugees too much or scolding the officials of Dajin for being inappropriate, but forced a group of honest refugees to show their slightest despairs. He sighed: "It seems that I have to take action myself!"

Lu Da asked: "What does the lieutenant plan to do?"

Li Rui thought for a while and said, "You go to the warehouse to pay some money immediately and buy thirty fat pigs and come back!"

Lu Da said: "You don't need to buy this. Jie Hu snatched back a lot a while ago and was kept in a swamp outside the city!"

Li Rui smiled and said, "Oh, there is such a good thing? It saves a lot of money! You can pick up the thirty fattest ones right away. I want to invite those Jianer from Guanzhong to have a big meal."

Lu Da’s tongue was knotted: “Eat thirty pigs in one meal!?”

Li Rui said: "Nearly 10,000 people, what's so strange about eating thirty pigs in one meal? Go quickly!"

Lu Da had to do so.

After a while, thirty fat and strong pigs were driven into the prisoner-of-war camp, attracting the surprised gazes of the prisoners.

Li Rui looked at these fat pigs and saliva... These are native pigs. In terms of meat and taste, they are much better than the pork that can be seen everywhere on the market. Most of the pigs raised in major farms in China are introduced from abroad. This type of breed grows fast and has a lot of lean meat. It can be slaughtered after feeding for a few months, which is very popular among farmers. However, compared with traditional local pigs, this kind of pig that can be slaughtered in a few months always makes people feel a little worse. It feels like eating fast food, not as greedy as the pork I ate when I was a child. In modern times, a pound of pork can be sold for more than ten yuan in the market, while the local pork...

Sorry, you are embarrassed to meet people if you don’t have eighty yuan per pound.

In this era, raising pigs is basically the same as grazing sheep. During the day, they are driven to a place with abundant water and grass and let them eat wild grass and various plant tuber. At night, they are driven back to the pigpen and feed them. They do not exist at all. Look at them all round, they are probably going to have to be raised for two years. They are the best!

This is a good arrangement of dishes related to pork!

With his order, all the thirty-two senior brothers were stabbed, and blood blew in the neck. The howlings of the thirty-two senior brothers before they died were shocking, shocking the prisoners of war trapped in the prison camp: What kind of novel way to kill chickens and war monkeys? Isn’t the cost too high?

Of course, pig blood cannot be wasted. Those who helped Li Rui know what to do. They took the pig blood in a bucket and then put it in the pot to cook. As for the second senior brother, they boiled water and wiped the hair, cut the caesarean section, and the big guy was so busy that it was so busy that it was dark.

After a lot of effort, these thirty fat pigs finally turned into a big pot of fragrant meat, which caused the prisoners of war to salivate one by one. Some children couldn't help but walk over, staring at the pot with their eyes straight and swallowing. Li Rui smiled and asked, "Do you want to eat meat?"

The children hesitated for a moment and nodded.

Li Rui said: "If you want to eat meat, go and get a bowl, otherwise I will just put it in the palm of your hands?"

He then shouted at the guys who were also drooling at this place not far away, "Are you not hungry? Come and eat with the bowl!"

If you are not hungry, that is impossible!

Although there are more than 40,000 hu of grain in the granary, those damn Hu people are stingy and hold the food tightly in their hands, so that they can only get half full. It is already sunset, and the little things they ate in the morning have been digested. How can they not be Eme!

Looking at the steaming pot of pork, how could these refugees who hadn't eaten meat for a long time still calm? Based on the principle of "even if you die, you can't be a starving ghost", they all brought their rice bowls and lined up under the command of Li Rui. The cooks took spoons and saw a bowl coming in front of them, and they all depended on your luck whether they were fat or thin. However, people in this era did not care about the fatness and thinness of meat. It would be good to eat. If they had to make a comparison, they prefer fat meat because they were hungry because they were full of oil and water.

After receiving the meat, they received the meal. Buckets of millet rice were pulled over in a carriage, and everyone lined up to take it. The officers walked back and forth with the rattan to maintain order. They dared to jump into the line or grab it, and directly sucked the rattan. The person who received the rice couldn't wait to find a place to sit down, and began to swallow it, wiping tears while eating... It was so delicious. I have never eaten such a delicious thing in my life!

Li Rui's Wuhuan cavalry and Sima Fan's 4,000 Jingzhou soldiers were treated the same. More than 16,000 people were divided into thirty pigs, which seemed to be a little less, but adding pig blood was enough for everyone to eat. Li Rui also specially collected all the pig's trotters and put them in the pot and removed the dirty blood and then stewed them over high heat. When the cooking was almost done, some garlic, soy sauce, and spices that were taken out from the corner were added, making them fragrant. Not to mention those vagrants who had no knowledge, even Sima Fan and Jia You who rushed over after hearing the news were drooling at the pot of braised pig's trotters.

After collecting the braised pig's trotters, Li Rui smiled and looked at the refugees who were obviously not satisfied with eating meat: "Do you still want to eat meat?"

This refugee nodded wildly.

Li Rui said: "But there are only more than one hundred pig's trotters..."

The refugees said that what we want to eat the most is these more than a hundred pig's trotters!

Li Rui pondered for a moment and said, "If you want to eat these pig's trotters, you have to show some real skills."

The refugees plucked up their courage to ask, "How do you say this?"

Li Rui said: "I plan to pick one hundred of you who are the most powerful in martial arts as my personal soldiers. You will compete with each other in a team of 100 people. The winner will become my personal soldiers and you can also win a pig's trotter!"

The refugees looked at each other and were ready to move.

Personal soldiers, that is the most trustworthy and closest group of people, and the most favorable treatment is even the army's officer reserve team. Many times, the lower-level officers in the army have casualties, and they directly select the most trustworthy and capable of making up for it. It can be said that as long as you can become one of the personal soldiers and have a stronger life at the same time, don't die as soon as you go into battle, your future will be quite bright!

Looking at their eyes lit up, Li Rui secretly breathed a sigh of relief... This was stable.

He selected personal soldiers from these refugees, not because he really lacked personal soldiers. Although his personal soldiers are less than 200 now, which is a bit small, the cavalry he has brought now is only 800, which is enough. Selecting strong and powerful people from among them to join his personal soldiers is actually sending a signal to these anxious refugees:

I value you very much. As long as you have real skills, I will use it!
Chapter completed!