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Chapter 499: We Don't Envy You, You Don't Envy Us

Dong Hu's troops started with two thousand mercenaries. Anyone with three or five acres of land in his family would not fight for two kilograms of food a day. They were all people who had nothing but a belly. They had to farm themselves without farming and raising themselves. However, the mercenary camp existed for a short time. After defeating Yan Xing and entering the Hehuang Valley, Dong Hu captured tens of thousands of soldiers and formed Dong Buyicon.

The captive had no choice. Dong Hu said that he had to farm and survive by himself, so he had to carry the plows and farm the fields!

Whether the Qiang people were paired with the army of the characters or the Yellow Turban Army, they were all captives of Dong Hu, so they had their own practice of farming and self-raising. In fact, in "Three Kingdoms", Cao Cao first cultivated the farm because he captured the Yellow Turban Army of Qingzhou, which was the beginning of the farming, instead of using the recruited soldiers to plow the fields and farm the land. If the recruited soldiers not only had to hand over 50% of the fields, but also had to prepare to go to the battlefield to fight, and geniuses were willing to join the army to fight!

If you want Dong Zhuo to let regular Han soldiers farm in the hands of the army, you don’t even think about it. You can only rely on the support of the people. The key is that there are not so many people!

One looked at the people in the distance, with a helpless and bitter look on his face. The other looked down and kicked the stones under his feet. The uncle and nephew didn't speak for a long time, until a team of spies with small flags on their backs rushed towards him...

"Lord, emergency news from Luoyang."

Dong Hu frowned, and took the letter with no concern. After a few glances, he shook his big head for some reason, and then delivered the letter to Dong Min.

"Bao Xin, Cao Cao and Wei Zi led 20,000 troops to leave the Sour Zao. They must have wanted to take advantage of us when people are panic."

Dong Min looked at the letter at a glance, but he didn't know what it felt like. The boy in front of him had made a judgment on Cao Cao before. Sun Jian would definitely attack, so Cao Cao was the first to emerge, but what should he do about the things in front of him?

Seeing the muddy boy lowering his head and kicking the small stone, Dong Min hesitated for a while and finally spoke.

"Uncle San knows that you are for the Dong family. Uncle San listens to you and strictly orders soldiers not to kill and hurt the people. Can you... give Uncle San a face?"

Dong Hu looked up at Dong Min, then lowered his head...

"Uncle San, it's not that we want to take away my uncle's troops, nor that we want to attack your prestige. First, you have never done such a thing as hundreds of thousands of people migrating and forcing the people to drive the people out of their homes. What is the purpose? The purpose is to save the people from war, and ultimately for the people themselves. However, in this way, the people must leave their homes, and there must be a lot of resentment in their hearts. But we think this is only temporary. As long as one or two years, those rebels will fight each other in a mess, as long as the people see the miserable people under the war, they will be glad that they will move the capital today, and the people will be inclined toward the Dong family."

"Today, the people must have resentment in their hearts, but the third uncle cannot forget the purpose of doing this. The big purpose is to save the people from war, for the safety of the court, and the small purpose is to make the Dong family's own foundation, because these people are farming and farming, or to provide money, grain and supplies for the Dong family."

"For the sake of public and private affairs, we must reduce the losses of the people as much as possible. San Shu said that strict orders soldiers to kill and injure the people is just man-made killing, but the migration of hundreds of thousands of people is not that simple. There are also orderly migrations of the people, health and epidemic prevention, and mutual support to comfort the people and soothe people, etc. The most important thing is to prepare for autumn grain, and we must take the lead in organizing young and strong people to enter Chang'an Sanfu as soon as possible, and cultivate autumn grains, build houses, etc.."

Gu Yu

Dong Min sighed, how could the Dong family not know the dissatisfaction of Dong Buyi from all over the country with the Dong family? If the Dong family can't even control its own internal troops, how could they control the closer Dong Buyi from more than 100%?

After sighing helplessly, Dong Min still realized the reality and patted him on the shoulder.

"Forget it."

"But don't say such words to others."

Dong Hu nodded and said, "Let's listen to the third uncle, the eighth camp in Xiyuan, and the soldiers and horses of the twelve city gates are temporarily supervised by Daya and the others. Uncle San can go back to Sanfu first. While the summer planting time has not been missed, the people can still cultivate autumn grain for a season, but if there is no field, how can the people cultivate it?"

"We have already made it clear to Daya, Sanya and the others that they are only responsible for migration and resettlement of the people to farm, and they don't care about other matters."

Dong Min was stunned, then understood, and felt a little relieved, and his expression became more serious.

"Uncle San is heading to Chang'an now, so you don't have to worry about the fields."

"But you have caused such a big disaster. If you don't hit hard for a few times, there will be no way. The salt fields in Anyi and the copper mines..."

"no!"

"Absolutely not possible!"

Dong Min still had to start a fight, but Dong Hu waved his arm and spoke very dissatisfied.

"Uncle San!"

"You have made money in Luoyang, asking for money and food. Brothers have been with the Dong family for ten years! Ten years! How many benefits have the brothers got from the Dong family?"

"No!"

"For ten years, my brothers have not received a single hair from the Dong family! How can my brothers not be resentful?"

"Last year, he won Liangzhou and Hedong County, and this year, he won Hanzhong County. The people suffered war and we all exempted them from taxes. Within one or two years, we would not get any taxes!"

After kicking the stones off the foot, Dong Hu felt a little irritable, dissatisfied, and angry...

"We have never sent troops to the soldiers for a long time. That's because we have been staying in Yanmen County. One is poor and we have no money to pay military salaries to the soldiers. The other is sparsely populated, and even if the soldiers are given copper coins, there is no place to spend them. Third, Yanmen County has our people to support them. Even if the soldiers go out to fight, the people can make up for the military's expenses... But now? We have left Yanmen County! We have come to Luoyang to help the Dong family!"

"There is no tax in Liangzhou, no taxes in Hedong County, and no Hanzhong County. After running to Luoyang, there is no other one!"

"Nothing!"

"You can only rely on the soldiers to farm and eat by themselves!"

"But Uncle San should know that soldiers can farm during the farming season and harvest wheat valley during the food harvest season. But what if they fight at such a season?"

"Even if there is no war during the harvest season, do you still have to let the soldiers weave cloth at home like the people? Do you still have to learn from craftsmen to create various utensils?"

"The soldiers are not farming farmers, weaving women, or craftsmen! They need the support of the people behind them, but do we have the support of the people of Luoyang? No! If there were, we would never have to send him ten million copper coins after Hu San ran to Luoyang!"

Dong Hu didn't look at Dong Min's frowning and said coldly: "We don't know how much money and grain the rich households in Luoyang have, nor how much wealth and ointment the eunuchs have plundered over the past few decades, but we know that this is a mountain of gold and silver!"

"We are not jealous. No matter how much money and grain the Dong family gets, we are not jealous! But the third uncle should not be jealous of the salt fields and mines of Hedong County, because that is the food for the soldiers, because our tiger kids are just the way to support the brothers!"

Seeing that Dong Hu was really angry, Dong Min opened his mouth and finally sighed secretly. He knew all the things that the boy said were, and he knew that Liangzhou, Hedong County, and Hanzhong County had all reduced taxes to support the people. He also knew that Dong Buyi was dissatisfied with the Dong family from the top, but...

"Report...Report--"

The uncle and nephew looked at the team of spies who were kicking the war horses together...

"Report to the general, Luoyang is in danger..."

"What--"

Without waiting for Dong Hu to frown, Dong Min stepped forward in shock and grabbed the clothes of the soldiers who spoke.

"explain!"
Chapter completed!
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