Chapter 1238 Outlook

Sanshui Village is just a very small village with a population of only a few hundred.

Lin Yi brought fifty soldiers with him. These soldiers were all wearing thick leather armor, and each soldier carried eighty kilograms of sweet potatoes.

With the physique of these old soldiers, they could actually double the weight, but the mountain road was difficult to walk on and the journey was long, so they should not be too extreme.

Fifty soldiers, recruiting so many people, one is to transport food by manpower, and the other is to show military force to the mountain people.

It is true that the mountain people are simple, but simplicity and ferocity are often not contradictory.

If you are strong, the mountain people will be simple and hospitable, good at singing and dancing. If you are weak, the mountain people will easily have other thoughts and become extremely vicious and brave.

This has long been proven by history. This is the case in this world and the real world.

In reality, many people become good at singing and dancing, not by any kind of persuasive education, but by airplanes, tanks and machine guns. When no matter how skilled the archery and horseman are, they can't stop a missile, the world will be peaceful.

As for this world, it must be more people and more fierce soldiers.

Otherwise, the evil thoughts in people's hearts cannot be suppressed.

On the trail, Lin Yi looked at the low houses on the higher hillside, and was thinking in his heart. Given the situation of Sanshui Village, he didn't know how many people he could recruit this time.

Such a small village is a relatively embarrassing one in the mountains. Although the proportion of young and strong people is high, the total number is too small to support large-scale land reclamation, and it is still limited to the vicinity of the village.

In addition, there are few girls in the mountains, and the young and strong who can't marry a wife are inherently eager for the outside world.

If they join the army, the number of young and strong people will decrease, and there will be more arable land, which is undoubtedly a good thing.

But if you think about it carefully, you will find that if there are too few people in the village, they will lose their resistance to wild beasts.

Many extinct villages are facing this situation.

If young and strong people are not allowed to go out, there will be too many people and too little land. There will be too few people to open up wasteland, and it will be difficult to find wives. This is a chronic death.

If they are allowed to go out, it means that the already small number of people will be even smaller, and they will lose the power to resist risks, which is also a chronic death.

This is a very contradictory situation.

Zhao Cheng also has an idea about this, which is to merge the villages to open up wasteland and combine the hundreds of villages in Lianshan into several large villages.

The total population of the hundreds of villages in Lianshan is now about 50,000.

This number can be enough for 10,000 people to burn wasteland and cultivate land on a large scale.

And with inferior fertilizers, it is enough for a group of people to leave their jobs and form a militia to protect the safety of the village.

Although the wild beasts in the mountains are ferocious, as long as they are not encountered alone, three or five people form a team, holding weapons, and after a little training, they will be fearless.

When there is enough food, more people can leave their jobs and cultivate more craftsmen.

Among them, craftsmen can make armaments, and militiamen are the reserve forces of the regular army, which can continuously provide manpower for the Yingtian Army.

The so-called high walls and wide storage of food are just like this.

Turn the territory you occupy into an ecosystem that can produce various resources far and wide.

For these, Lin Yi only occasionally heard Zhao Cheng mention a few words.

Many officers in the army forgot about them in an instant after hearing a few words. A group of rough people can kill people, but they can't figure out the thoughts of the superiors.

Only Lin Yi is different, especially after being reused by Zhao Cheng, he seems to have opened his mind.

He knows that the subsequent consolidation of the village is inevitable, and his future may also be here.

Among the 50,000 mountain people in Lianshan, there are about 8,000 women who can give birth, excluding the elderly and children.

In the past, when food was insufficient, the mountain people could give birth every two years on average until they could no longer give birth.

After all, the mortality rate in the mountains is too high. Even a teenager may die from an acute illness.

If they don't die, under normal circumstances, Lianshan can add an average of 4,000 people every year.

It's just that the mortality rate in the mountains is too high, and not many can really grow up.

Lin Yi is looking at this potential.

Indeed, the next step is that Zhao Cheng seems to be going all out to enter the Southern Wilderness to achieve hegemony.

But it doesn't mean that Lianshan will be abandoned.

This place is the border between Qingzhou and the Southern Wilderness. If Zhao Cheng really enters the Southern Wilderness, he must not give up this place if he wants to leave the Southern Wilderness later.

So Lin Yi's idea is that if Wucheng is really conquered later, when the situation is stable, he will volunteer to stay in Lianshan and prepare for war here. When the Yingtian Army leaves the Southern Wilderness later, his contribution is indispensable.

Although the Yingtian Army is still a few big cats and small cats now, Lin Yi has strong confidence in Zhao Cheng in his heart.

Of course, the combined village is a subsequent matter.

At present, the prestige of the Yingtian Army is not enough, and the control over the Lianshan Village is not good. Although this move will benefit the future and the mountain people, it is not easy to do it.

Let alone, outside the mountain, even if the court is at its most powerful, it is time-consuming and laborious to merge the villages, which will lead to many contradictions.

In addition, it is difficult to leave the hometown. The matter of gathering and following the order has only appeared in the legends of ancient times.

Only the Holy Emperor in the story can do it. Everyone obeys the order.

If it were easy to merge the villages, the mountain people would have done it themselves long ago. There are smart people among the mountain people who can't see the benefits of concentrating their efforts, but they just can't do it.

However, Lin Yi knows that there is nothing that Zhao Cheng can't do if he wants to.

There are smart people among the mountain people, but there are no great heroes. Now, there is a great hero in the mountains!

The mountain people of Sanshui Village are very wary of the arrival of Lin Yi and others.

A large group of young and strong people, as well as old people, from a distance, holding simple farm tools as weapons, stared at the group of mighty soldiers. The invisible murderous aura made the mountain people tremble with fear.

If there were only one of these soldiers, three or five mountain people would be able to surround and kill them as long as they were brave.

But if there were ten soldiers, even against hundreds of mountain people, it would be like killing a chicken.

As for fifty, these mountain people and soldiers in front of them could kill them all at once.

Seeing this, Lin Yi immediately waved his hand and asked his men to stop. At the same time, the few mountain people who had been leading the way also stepped forward and started chatting with the mountain people of Sanshui Village. After a long time, the mountain people of Sanshui Village finally relaxed their vigilance, but they still did not completely trust them.