Water Margin people

Chapter 1646 List

"Don't want to leave? Do you want to stay here and be a local tyrant?"

Sun Lei was a little angry. If this continued, these guys would soon become veteran soldiers.

"Your Majesty, the soldiers didn't mean that. They just wanted to share more of the country's worries! Share your Majesty's worries!"

Mi Sheng immediately helped the soldiers to explain that being a local emperor outside the territory was treason.

"To share my worries? Isn't this just causing me trouble? You've been awarded titles for your military merits, and you've been rewarded with gold and silver, but now you're all telling me that you won't go back?"

Sun Lei said at a row of tables.

"This is all due to your majesty's wisdom and bravery, and the soldiers' loyalty and patriotism. Throughout the dynasties, every expedition has always resulted in heavy casualties, from the pre-Qin Dynasty's conquest of the Xiongnu, the Han Dynasty's conquest of the Western Regions, all the way to the Tang Dynasty, every expedition was a nightmare for the soldiers."

"Only the people of Qi were united, conquering hundreds of thousands of miles, destroying countless nations, yet the army suffered only minor losses, and won every battle..."

Li Zu immediately started to speak well of the matter. He was also helpless about this matter. Since the beginning of recorded history, every long expedition had always resulted in heavy casualties. If 100,000 troops were sent out to fight, they would not dare to consider it a great victory if 20,000 or 30,000 returned.

But the State of Qi broke this curse. From the beginning of the year to the end of the year, the State of Qi fought on a larger scale than any other dynasty. It destroyed countless foreign countries and expanded the territory of Qi to an unimaginable extent.

But so far, less than 10% of the Qi army's soldiers have been killed in battle, and half of them did not die in the war, but died in the dangerous environment and encountered accidents along the way. But even so, the emperor still gave them generous rewards.

  This made the entire army feel grateful. Who wouldn't worship Emperor Sun Lei as a god?

"Okay, I don't want to hear this. I'm going to take 30,000 people back to change the defense. Since you're so good at talking, go pick another 15,000."

Sun Lei looked at Li Zhu who was talking nonstop and spoke.

  Li Zhu's mouth twitched. He regretted it now and wanted to slap himself a few times. Why did he say that? The soldiers didn't want to go back. If he went to pick people now, wouldn't that offend them? How could he say that he had offended 15,000 people at once, and they were all his comrades who had been through life and death with him?

If we select soldiers we are not familiar with, it will be even more troublesome. It is very likely that we will be considered as eliminating dissidents and targeting certain people, which will lead to even more troublesome consequences.

Lin Chong, Wang Jin, Du Fu, Yue Fei and others all lowered their heads and remained silent. They did not dare to speak. Even Lu Zhishen squinted his eyes as if he was in a trance.

"Humph!"

Seeing that these people were silent, Sun Lei had to think of a solution on his own. He had to be the bad guy himself.

Flipping through the roster, Sun Lei began to think of a solution.

"All those married couples who don't have children should go back to me. There are three types of unfilial behavior, and the worst is to have no offspring. You don't even have children, so why are you hanging around out there?"

"If you are the only son in a family with elderly parents, you should also be on the list of people to go back. If you don't go to honor and take care of your elderly parents at home, are you not even taking care of filial piety?"

"And what are these unmarried people doing here?"

Sun Lei quickly arranged the army in order, and the rotation was carried out according to this order.

Everyone was surprised when they heard Sun Lei's arrangements. These reasons were very sufficient and there was no way to refuse them. The problem that they were helpless about was easily solved.

Lu You took the list and immediately started to draw up a list. After a short while, 15,000 people were selected, and the 30,000-strong army that would return was complete.

Sun Lei gave Lu You a look, and Lu You immediately distributed the policies that had already been sorted out to a group of governors and generals.

"Take a look at these things. This is what you, the Governor, will do!"

Sun Lei looked at everyone and said.

"The same writing system, the same track, and the same principles?"

Everyone looked at the nine words on the booklet, which seemed to be the name of the booklet.

Everyone opened the booklet and started reading it. They were all surprised. This solved a big problem for them. "Your Majesty, what if there is a rebellion by a foreign race?"

After reading the booklet in his hand, Mi Sheng looked at Sun Lei and asked.

"You don't need me to teach you these things, just kill those who need to be killed, don't show any mercy, there will be no rebellion under the rule of Qi!"

"But you must also remember that these are your strategies for managing the local area. You are still the army of Qi State. Don't forget the national laws and military regulations!"

Sun Lei looked at everyone and said, it is not easy to govern these places well, rebellion will definitely exist, and these alien races will not surrender so easily and completely.

There are also many problems for the garrison troops. If they are always treated differently from other ethnic groups, they will never be able to successfully integrate and become a country.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty. Our army is the most disciplined. As long as those ethnic groups behave themselves, we can live in peace and they can become citizens of Qi. If they have other ideas in their minds, we will destroy them."

"Of course, it's not that easy to become a citizen of Qi. Those people must make enough contributions and absolutely submit to us!"

Li Zhu spoke immediately. He certainly knew what Sun Lei meant. Governing these foreign lands was a hundred times more difficult than Qin's integration of the six kingdoms.

"Well, it's good that you know it!"

Sun Lei nodded with satisfaction.

After everything was arranged, the army began to move quickly. Cartloads of gold, silver and jewelry were loaded onto the warships. These were all spoils of war to be taken back.

"I'm not going back, I'm not going back!"

Li Kui roared, and Bao Xu, Li Gun and Xiang Chong could not stop him. All the members of the Xianzhen Camp were on the list of those returning to the court, which made Li Kui very dissatisfied. He wanted to go to the emperor to negotiate for it.

"What are you yelling about? Are you itchy?"

Sun Lei originally wanted to see how much gold, silver and jewelry there were, but as soon as he arrived at the port, he heard Li Kui's shouting.

"Brother, I'm not going back? Why should we all go back?"

Li Kui said very unconvinced.

"Why? Because your Qiuxia is still waiting for you in Liangshan City! Your mother is still waiting for you in Liangshan City!"

Sun Lei shut Li Kui up with one sentence. Li Kui has a family now, so it is only natural for him to go back. Besides, Li Kui has an old mother who needs someone to take care of her.

"Don't I have a brother?"

Li Kui muttered a few words in a low voice. In his life, besides Sun Lei and a few others, the people he feared most were his old mother and Pang Qiuxia.

"Your brother took people to Liaodong to open up wasteland. He said he only knew how to farm, so he chose to go to Liaodong to farm."

Sun Lei looked at Li Kui and said, Li Kui's brother Li Da is actually an honest farmer. He has been farming and taking care of his old mother. But Liaodong is now to be developed, and Li Da can't wait. The development of Liaodong means farming, and he has been farming all his life. This is the field he is good at.

"What's the point of farming? How much money can he make? He should just stay at home and serve his mother!"

Li Kui said indignantly that what he hated most was farming, and he had never made any money since he was a child.

"Go back honestly. If you have nothing to do, go move the boxes. There are so many things to carry onto the ship!"

Sun Lei pointed at the endless convoy, which was filled with spoils of war.