My younger brother Lü Fengxian

Chapter 122 Hua Tuo Arrives
After the dead, wounded and disabled guys were properly settled.

For the remaining thirty men, Lu Yi did not plan to recruit from outside.

It was already early July, and after waiting for a few days.

By mid-July, the tenth rating of the guests was officially released.

Lu Yi's previous promise was that he could regain his freedom if he received A-grade awards ten times in a row.

But this is just a carrot he uses to motivate everyone. It is extremely difficult to get an A-level evaluation ten times in a row, and it is extremely difficult to achieve under normal circumstances.

He was also planning to arrange for some activists to be given special treatment as top ten individuals after the autumn harvest.

This was a way for him to establish his own virtue.

Only rewards that exceed the other party's expectations can have such an effect.

If they were to complete ten consecutive A-level evaluations on their own, they would think that it was a reward they deserved, and their gratitude towards Lu Yi would be greatly reduced. If Lu Yi broke his promise again, these people would begin to resent Lu Yi instead.

That's human nature.

However, now there is a shortage of guys, so Lu Yi made this decision in advance.

Lu Yi gathered the best-performing servants and asked them if they were willing to join the team.

Thirty people were selected according to their evaluation priority among those who were willing, and their status as servants was specially pardoned. New employment contracts were signed with them and they were added to the cavalry, making up the number of 800.

With the guidance of the old, the new will soon be able to fully adapt to the life of a partner.

The crops in the fields are now almost ripe, and at a glance you can see full ears of grain, heralding a good harvest in a month.

Therefore, except for the harvest one month later, there is no need for so much labor, so Lu Yi incorporated these servants into the team.

As for the other servants, they also had to start collective training after the autumn harvest. They did not expect to be able to fight in the battlefield like the servants, but at least they had to be able to resist possible attacks from the enemy behind the walls of Luwu.

After the troops were fully staffed again, Lu Yi announced the news of Zhang Wan'er's pregnancy in public, and spent millions of dollars to host a lavish banquet to entertain everyone in Jiuyuan Pavilion.

The entire Jiuyuan Pavilion was filled with joy.

Not only the servants, servants and refugees under Lu Yi were happy about the news, but the 1000 people in Jiuyuan Pavilion were also very happy.

They are now all either directly or implicitly dependent on the Lu family.

This pattern of dependence has lasted for hundreds of years and has become an unspoken social rule.

Although the family master would exploit some benefits after the people became dependent, he would exempt the dependent people from the obligation to pay taxes and perform labor service to the court, which would be more beneficial to the dependent people.

Therefore, compared with the free people recorded in the household register, these people who depended on the powerful families lived a more comfortable life.

Moreover, the wealthy families also have their own connections, and not just anyone will be willing to rely on them.

Either they completely lose their freedom and serve the powerful as slaves for generations, or they can only be protected by fellow villagers who know them well.

Otherwise, why would so many refugees in Jizhou prefer to sell themselves into slavery rather than find a way to survive?

Compared to most people of this era, the people of Jiuyuanting are happier.

At least, Lu Yi's eating manners were better than those of other wealthy families. Although he was also a form of exploitation, his purpose was not to be a miser. He used this method to resist the risks of chaos and natural disasters and to pass down his family from generation to generation.

It is to accumulate enough strength to proactively establish a new order in troubled times so that more compatriots can survive.

Of course, as a leader, Lu Yi is not completely selfless, because he can also use this to satisfy his desire for power.

Possessing power and possessing violence are the most basic desires deeply engraved in the blood of every normal man.

Even Lu Yi is not immune to this.

Not only did the people of Jiuyuan Pavilion respond enthusiastically, but even Jiuyuan County Magistrate Wang Li, Jiuyuan County Lieutenant Huang Huan and others took the initiative to send their servants with gifts to congratulate after hearing the news.

The gift was naturally not very valuable, but its meaning and weight far exceeded the value of the gift alone. It not only made Lu Yi's decrees more unimpeded in Jiuyuan Pavilion, but also silently proved Lu Yi's status among the officials of all ranks in Jiuyuan County. It is believed that the secret attacks against Lu Yi and Jiuyuan Pavilion will be greatly reduced in the future.

The banquet lasted for three days, and while millions of dollars were spent, it also thoroughly established the status of a new wealthy family like the Jiuyuan Lu family. It raised the class status of the Lu family to a higher level, and qualified them to sit down and participate in the game of wealthy families.

After the banquet, Lu Yi selected one hundred best-performing single servants and tenants, pardoned the slave status of the redeemed female slaves, and married them all off one by one.

Lu Yi spent a lot of money to hold a collective wedding for the hundred couples, and announced to other bachelors that he would continue to redeem new female slaves and distribute them to those with outstanding performance.

After the yin and yang were harmonized, some hidden dangers of Jiuyuan Pavilion were greatly eliminated.

When other bachelors saw hope, the suppressed desires in their hearts became motivation to work hard.

Now is an extraordinary period, not the time to talk about human rights as in previous lives.

When the granaries are full, one knows etiquette; when one has enough food and clothing, one knows honor and disgrace!
Everything has a sequence. As for these things, we should wait until the day when everyone has food to eat and books to read under Lu Yi's command, the society is stable and the people live and work in peace, and there is no external threat before considering them.

By late July, Luwu's infrastructure had been largely completed.

In the center of Luwu, there is a tall tower several meters high, several huge granaries that can store 200,000 stones to support the annual consumption of 10,000 people, as well as money warehouses, armories, toilets and other facilities distributed around more than ten streets.

As long as the master's mansion and other buildings are built, it will become a complete medium-sized dock.

However, Lu Yi's finances were also exhausted as the project progressed.

His original treasury consisted of only more than 20 million yuan.

If it weren't for the 15 million yuan in financial support from the horses brought back by the caravan that returned at the end of June and sold to the Zhen family, Lu Yi's finances would have collapsed long ago.

The construction of the remaining family mansions and some temporary houses can only be continued after Cheng Lian leads the caravan back at the end of July and the horses are sold in early August.

However, these are minor details and will no longer affect Lu Yi's defense of Luwu.

Most of the invasions by the Hu people occurred after the beginning of winter, which was October at the earliest, so Lu Yi still had some time.

Just as Luwu's construction entered a new stage, another good news came.

It turned out that Gao Shun was sent by Lu Yi to Pei State to find the genius doctor Hua Tuo, and he actually completed the mission successfully in one go.

Hua Tuo was successfully brought back to Jiuyuan Pavilion.

(End of this chapter)