Chapter 972: Convincing the People to Return to the City

"General, do you really don't have to go back if you don't want to?" a man in silk asked.

One look at this person and you can tell that he is from an aristocratic family and has a lot of money.

Li Derjian sneered and said: "Of course you can, but for those who don't go back, then Hetian City, no, Li City, everything about Li City will have nothing to do with you, and you will be just a guest when you come to Li City from now on.

Everything you now own in Li City will be confiscated and will no longer be yours."

"Why?" The member of the aristocratic family wearing silk asked angrily.

Those properties were both earned by himself and inherited by their ancestors. Why should they be confiscated? He objected.

Li Derjian sneered and said: "Why, just because it is Li Cheng, we must act according to Li Cheng's laws.

In the old Tsuruta City, you could own slaves and maids. However, slaves were not allowed in Li City. As for maids, they had to sign a labor contract, and the content of the contract was required to be reasonable.

If it is unreasonable, even if you sign the contract, it is a useless contract. Depending on the situation, it is decided whether to compensate the maid or the maid to compensate you.

Now that we have mentioned it, let me tell you that in Licheng, everything depends on the spirit of contract, that is, contract.

If any violation of the contract occurs, you can report it to the government. According to the government investigation, if there is deception, then the minister will be punished. If there is no deception, then the person who reported the false report will be severely punished."

Then Li Derjian looked at the people from the aristocratic family and continued: "Although you have lost a lot now, you will also gain a lot.

One of the things that no one else can do is provide you with a protection system, that is, if your life is threatened anywhere, we will support you.

If you go to Heian-kyo as a Tang native, Emperor Kogoku will embarrass you and even kill you because of this matter, unless we don't know.

Once we know, the court will definitely rescue you. If you die, we will seek justice for you. Whoever takes your life, we will take their life.

In addition, you can do business, politics, medicine, etc. If you do well, no matter what profession you are in, the Marquis of Lantian will take you to the Tang Dynasty to see His Majesty the Emperor."

Drawing the cakes one after another made the people of the aristocratic family moved, especially to protect them and take refuge in Li Tang. Even if they offended the emperor, they did not have to be afraid. Such treatment could not be enjoyed in Fuso Kingdom.

"Okay, that's it for now. If you want to follow me, just follow us. If you don't want to, don't follow us."

After Li Derjian said this, he stopped talking and looked at the people, and directly led the five hundred navy back to the city.

"Marshal, we chased him so hard, why are we just leaving like this?" said a navy man.

Li Derjian said: "Then what can we do? I have said everything I should say. They are not willing to accept such good treatment. What can we do?

They are just a group of ordinary people. We cannot keep them in chains. They are free, even if we can take them all back now.

As long as people who don’t really want to follow us will run away the next day, it’s better to let people who really want to follow us follow us instead of having so much trouble.”

"That's it, the marshal is wise." The navy suddenly realized.

Li Derjian smiled and scolded: "Stop flattering, Hetian City was burned down, and it will be a problem for the people where to live after they return."

"Simple, let them build a simple house to live in first, and then cut down wood to build a house."

"That's all it can do."

After arriving at Hetian City, all the slaves ran away, which made Li Derjian very angry.

"Marshal, you are back." Sugawara, wearing a bamboo hat, immediately stepped forward and said.

Li Derjian said: "Didn't you follow?"

Sugawara replied: "Originally I followed the marshal all the way, but the marshal's speed was too fast and I couldn't keep up. So I decided to go back to the city and clean up the ruins in the city first and keep the useful things.

Throw away all the useless ones. As for the charcoal, it is high-quality fuel and can be sold to the people of Shikoku City.

There are also many beams and columns, although there are signs of being burned, they are still usable, as well as bricks and tiles and other items.

Since the marshal wants to manage Tsuruta Castle, the house must be prepared. The only thing I regret now is that all the prisoners ran away."

Seeing Sugawara's regretful expression, Li Derjian smiled and said: "There is no need to be pity, those prisoners will regret it sooner or later.

I'm lucky to have a husband, otherwise, I might have thrown these things away as garbage."

At this time, a soldier came to Li Derjian, cupped his hands and said: "Marshal Cavalry, there is news from the hot air balloon that the people of Li City are back."

"Great." Li Derjian said excitedly, "Sir, Tsuruta City is Li City. I changed it at will, and I will definitely change it again in the future."

"I see." Sugawara asked, "What are the Marshal's plans for this?"

"Of course it is to build Licheng. I plan to leave it to you. I want Licheng to be restored to life as soon as possible."

"Thank you Marshal, I have already made arrangements in my mind."

"Okay, I will leave five hundred navy for you, and I will take the rest to support my mother."

"Yes, Marshal."

Li Derjian handed over the command of the 500-strong navy to Sugawara, and led the 500-man navy, riding war horses and taking ten hot-air balloons to Oda Castle.

Sugawara never dreamed that He would be so important. He had just surrendered. Wasn't Li Derjian afraid that he would kidnap the five hundred navy?

He can also seduce those soldiers with high-ranking officials, generous salaries, gold and silver treasures, and beautiful women.

However, he thought too much. In the Tang Dynasty, talented people were highly valued from top to bottom.

As long as you have the ability, you will be appointed as an official and you will be assigned important tasks. In the Tang Dynasty, foreigners were uniformly called naturalized people. Naturalized people were very common and there was nothing wrong with them at all.

Now that he has been reused, Sugawara has also shown his energy. Besides, this Li City may be his own city, so he must build it well.

On the other side, Red Hat Girl led a thousand troops to the outside of Oda Castle and directly asked to talk to Oda Ichiro.

At this time, Ichiro Oda was discussing countermeasures with his subordinates.

Emperor Kogoku attacked two of his cities, and he deliberately gave them to Emperor Kogoku.

Because he also received news that Emperor Huangji gave a poor fishing village and a nearly completed gold mine to Lan Tianhou of the Tang Dynasty.

He believed that the Marquis of Lantian would never give up just accepting Poyu Village and the empty gold mine.

The Tang Dynasty would not break up with the Fusang Kingdom, so it could only attack his rebellion, because it was not under the jurisdiction of the Fusang Kingdom and could seize its three cities as long as it defeated him.
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