Qingzhou, Linzi.

Liu Yu, who had just visited the city to inspect the army training, was having dinner with his newly married wife Wang Ze in the governor's mansion.

The concubine Yunzhu and others served him respectfully, and there was no way to see the concubine's arrogant look in front of the eldest wife after being favored by the male protagonist.

Because of the master-servant relationship in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, it was a real difference.

Liu Yu believed that if Yunzhu had even a slight disrespect in front of her wife Wang Ze because she was favored, she would probably be beaten to death immediately.

Liu Yu now knows that there are twenty or thirty strong servants in the dowry team of Luo Li and Wang Ze. As for their role, they are of course used as tools for the hostess to remediate the violent tools for the backyard.

Moreover, through this period of time, Liu Yu found that no matter how she likes Yunzhu and other dowry concubines, she did not take it seriously in the eyes of Little Luo Li and Wang Ze. Liu Yu could clearly feel that she would think that she had gained Liu Yu's attention and likes.

At the beginning, Liu Yu was quite puzzled by this. Could it be that this little Luo Li Wang is really a virtuous wife who is not jealous?

Soon Liu Yu figured it out by himself, because Wang Ze did not regard Yunzhu and other concubines as his own threat, and even regarded them as helpers to consolidate the relationship between husband and wife.

The reason for this situation was that in his heart, Little Luo Li Wang did not regard Yun Zhu and other concubines as equals people like her.

In her heart, these people are like toys. How could a person get angry and jealous of her husband's love for a toy?

After Liu Yu understood this, although he was completely in conflict with the education he had received, he did not educate Little Loli to say something like everyone is equal, freedom and fraternity.

Because these will not only not make Liu Yu's image tall and majestic, but will also make Little Luo Liwang feel that his mind is abnormal.

During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, even the gentry and cold tribes were very different, not to mention the relationship between master and slave.

Moreover, when Liu Yu knew that most of the concubines such as Yunzhu were Xianbei slaves and were prisoners offered to Wang Jun by Duan's troops, he would not have such ideas.

Just as Liu Yu and Wang Ze and two evil feudal slave owners were enjoying the careful care of the poor alien race, a hurry came.

A maid wearing a light-colored dress came to report, saying that Liu Yu's subordinates came to report on emergency military affairs.

Unlike before, he started shouting at the notification at the top of his voice across the yard wall, since Wang Ze became Liu Yu's wife, he has had quite some institutional rules in the backyard.

Of course, these rules must not be controlled by Liu Yu. Instead, as the master, he can enjoy all-round maid service as soon as he enters the backyard, which also makes Liu Yu feel the superiority of being a ruling class once again.

When Liu Yu came to the front hall, he met the messenger sent by Dong Ping, a confidant stationed in Jinan County.

Liu Yu opened the letter and saw that he knew that his old acquaintance, Wang Mi's old subordinates Cao Yi, Xu Miao and Gao Liang led his subordinates to leave Wang Mi and ran to join him.

Although Cao Li and the other two were Wang Mi's iron-kicks when they followed Liu Bogen to rebel, Liu Yu still recognized the ability of these three to lead the battle.

Not to mention Xu Miao and Gao Liang, Cao Yi alone is a person who left a name in the original history.

In the original history, Cao Li and the other two left Wang Mi and led their troops back to Qingzhou. They soon occupied Donglai County. After a tug-of-war with Gou Xi and Gou Chun, they completely occupied Qingzhou, and Cao Li became the actual ruler of Qingzhou.

It was not until Jiehu Shile pacified the north and south of the Yellow River that Cao Yi failed under the powerful attacks of Shile.

After Cao Yi was defeated and captured, he was still thinking that he had become a Hu person, and was eventually killed by Jie people because of conspiracy to rebel against Shi Le.

In this way, Cao Yi is also a good general. After all, when Shi Le became powerful, except for a true hero like Zu Zhen, few people could compete with him.

For a person like Cao Yi, if he truly surrendered to him, Liu Yu would still be willing to accept him. After all, in the upcoming Five Barbarians chaos, even the noble gentry could surrender to Hu with peace of mind. Cao Yi, a rebel martial artist, was already considered a good man to be able to do that.

After reading the letter, Liu Yu asked the messenger.

"When you left, where did Cao Yi and his army be stationed?"

"When the villain left, Cao Yi and the others were stationed outside Nanding City. Dong Fujun only provided them with warmth and did not let them enter the city."

After hearing this, Liu Yu nodded slightly. Dong Ping was more secure in doing this. After all, he was defensive. If Cao Yi and the others were allowed to enter Nanding City, if they came to earn the city for Wang Mi, Liu Yu would have lost an important stronghold in Hexi.

Cao Li and the other two led their troops to surrender, which was of great importance to Liu Yu's opinion.

Because if Cao Li and the other two could be conquered for their own use, it would not only increase three generals and nearly two thousand veterans, but also boost the morale of Qingzhou.

Let the powerful people and the people of Qingzhou see that even Wang Mi, who is now spreading across Hebei and sweeping thousands of miles, is completely invisible to Liu Yu.

Otherwise, why would Cao Li and the other two give up Wang Mi and surrender to Liu Yu?

Two days later, after handling the affairs of Linzi, Liu Yu led 200 cavalry guards to Jinan County.

When Liu Yu was in Nanding City, he saw Cao Yi, Xu Miao, Gao Liang, and his confidant generals who came to pay their respects to him.

When Cao Li and the other two saw their old friend Liu Yu, they couldn't help but sigh.

Liu Yu immediately talked about old friends with him, and he was not as unfamiliar as before, so he doubted the truth of their surrender.

In fact, Liu Yu thought in his heart that the so-called "do not doubt people, do not doubt people" may not be correct, but it is definitely not wrong to show his attitude of "do not doubt people, do not doubt people" on the surface.

When Cao Li and the other two learned that Liu Yu would not only not annex their subordinates, but also invited them to rest and recuperate with them before, and then continued to lead the troops, they immediately expressed their intention to follow Liu Yu wholeheartedly, and it was no problem to go through fire and water.

After Liu Yu encouraged him, he also said that if Liu Yu fought with Wang Mi in the future, he would try his best to avoid letting Cao Yi, Xu Miao and Gao Liang go to battle, so as not to let them face the old master Wang Mi, and preventing embarrassing situations.

When Cao Yi and the other three received Liu Yu's previous answer, they all knew that what Liu Yu said was standardized and solicited people's hearts, and they seemed to respond to Liu Yu in the same stylized language.

But when the three of them heard Liu Yu's words and tried to avoid them from facing the old master Wang Mi on the battlefield, they were indeed moved.

At this time, most of the rebel generals would let them fight with the old master on the battlefield. On the one hand, they would use it to consume the enemy's strength and morale. On the other hand, they would also use the rebel general's betrayal behavior as an iron-like fact to prevent them from playing tricks on two sides.

Cao Yi looked solemn, and he said with a resolute look on Liu Yu.

"Ji Xing is so generous and magnanimous that Wang Mi can't compare to."

After hearing Cao Yi's words, before Liu Yu could respond, Xu Miao beside him suddenly spoke and said loudly.

"It's not just incomparable. If you want me to say, Wang Mi can no longer be considered a human being!"

Gao Liang, who was not good at speaking, also agreed with Xu Miao's words.

After hearing this, Liu Yu was a little surprised. He didn't know what happened, so that Xu Miao, who was originally Wang Mi's iron-core, could actually say such words.

After knowing Liu Yu's doubts, Xu Miao said excitedly.

"Ji Xing, you don't know. If we don't come to join you, we may not be able to do it."

"I can't even do it? What does it mean?" After hearing this, Liu Yu became even more confused.

"If we follow Wang Mi again, we can only be beasts, not humans." Xu Miao continued, "When we left, we would guide Shi Le in Hebei with Wang Mi. Liu Ling's army had been short of food for a long time, and the road was blocked with heavy snow. Hu people in the military camp had already started to eat people."

"Ah?! Eat people?" Liu Yu was really shocked when he heard this.

During the Five Barbarians' Invasion of China in history, although there was no title of "two-legged sheep", because this title appeared and recorded in the later Song Dynasty, agriculture was destroyed and famines occurred frequently. These barbarian Hu troops, which did not pay attention to logistics supplies, did kill similar people for feeding when famine occurred.

"Jizhou Governor Ding Shao defeated Wang Mi several times recently, Shi Le and others. The originally looted food was completely lost, and it encountered heavy snow again."

"Shile's army was all the Xiongnu and Jiehu in Bingzhou, all of which were fishy beasts. After they broke through the nearby fort, they fed food, strong men and women as slaves, killed useless old and weak, and killed children to think jerky, and claimed that they were more delicious than lamb meat!"

Xu Miao's words made Liu Yu feel chilling. It can be imagined that after a desperate resistance, his home was destroyed, his relatives were slaves and servants, and some people were not even qualified to be slaves. They were killed like wild beasts as useless garbage. The children that were originally hoped by the clan were eaten by wild beasts as food. How miserable and desperate it was.

"Didn't they grab the food? Why do they still have to eat people?" Liu Yu was still a little puzzled.

Although the road blocking heavy snow in the cold winter is not conducive to transporting food and supplies, since they have broken through the fort and grabbed the food, why do they still have to go and eat people by taking advantage of the world? Is it really a shortage of meat to eat?

After hearing Liu Yu's confusion and confusion, Cao Yi smiled bitterly and explained to Liu Yu.

"Because there are not too many food storage in Hebei's forts. Moreover, the Hu people like Shi Le and Liu Ling are short of food because there are a large number of horses in their army. These horses are in the heavy snow and have no food to eat, so they can only eat food. Such a beast can eat as many strong men as they eat. After a few meals, the food that could barely be enough for food."

Cao Yi sighed and continued, "Wang Mi told me that Shi Le and Liu Ling all believe that these old and weak children cannot do heavy work and cannot bear the meat shield that fills the ravines for the front. Keeping them is a waste of food. It is better to kill and eat them, which saves food and can also fill the stomach with meat. Anyway, as long as you survive the winter, by next year, those men and women can continue to have children."

After hearing Cao Yi's words, Liu Yu's originally cold heart instantly felt anger.

These Jiehu people are really worthy of being half beasts and half humans that even the Huns despise. As long as they encounter disasters and crises, they will completely abandon all the beliefs of being born into humans like livestock.

Perhaps in Jiehu, there is no big difference between one person and a sheep in the minds of these slaves of the Southern Xiongnu.

"We are fighting in Hebei this time, and Wang Mi's army also has a large number of horses. After barely storing for a while, there is still insufficient food. Wang Mi is reluctant to kill horses for food. It is probably only a matter of time before killing the old and the weak and eating people."

After Cao Yi finished speaking, he was silent.

Xu Miao said in a low tone.

"So Brother Cao took advantage of this opportunity to go out to plunder the fort and told us that we left Wang Mi and returned to Qingzhou. When we returned home, we both agreed happily."

After this conversation that was completely unexpected to Liu Yu, a few people who had met old friends in a foreign land fell into a dead silence.

Finally, Liu Yu said to them that he would take them back to Linzi, Qingzhou, and let them tell the powerful geniuses in Qingzhou and the ordinary people in Qingzhou, so that they could know that it was in Hebei, separated by a river in Qingzhou, where there was such a group of Hu people who led beasts and ate people.

Let them know how cruel the enemies they face are, let them know that when these Hu people kill red eyes, they will not care whether you are a Gaomen clan or a Cangtou Qianshou.

Perhaps in the eyes of the Hu people, they are just cattle and sheep that can plow the fields and weave cloth.

If the people of Qingzhou can realize what kind of enemy they are about to face, they can only exert their strength to defend themselves.

Otherwise, the Jin Dynasty in the Central Plains today would not have the absolute strength that could crush the Hu people in the Han Empire era.

Take Qingzhou as an example.

According to the "Book of Jin·Geography", the six counties and states under Qingzhou had 53,000 households during the reign of Emperor Hui of Jin. According to the general population of eight people per household at this time, the population of Qingzhou was about less than 500,000. After Liu Bogen's uprising, the war began for two consecutive years, causing many people to flee.

Even if there are a large number of Yinke tribes and refugees without household registration, the population of Qingzhou today will not exceed 600,000 at most.

During the late Han Dynasty, the number of registered households in Qingzhou alone was more than 600,000, and the population was definitely six or seven million.

In comparison, there are now only one real people who live in the ten real people.

Now relying on Qingzhou about 600,000 people, Liu Yu has an army of 50,000 people. The military-civilian ratio has reached a terrifying one-tenth. In other words, the ten residents in Qingzhou have to support one soldier, and these ten residents are not all Ding men and strong women, including the elderly and weak children.

This is almost like the military and civilians who were in a war throughout the year during the Three Kingdoms period. You can imagine how great the financial pressure it faces.

Now, all the officials in Qingzhou under Liu Yu's rule have almost only a small salary. If they were ordinary officials, they would probably have quit. However, officials of all sizes in Qingzhou still maintained a very active work enthusiasm. All the things assigned by Liu Yu were doing very quickly.

The reason why these people are like this is entirely because, in addition to these ordinary government officials, they are also military officials in their respective counties and counties, they are all "vassals" with great autonomy.

When they truly realized that there were still a group of Hu people who led beasts and ate people and were eyeing them, Liu Yu could better control them.
Chapter completed!