Datang: What's wrong with my fief being a billion points larger?

Chapter 77 Ideological Mobilization
When Li Yuanji's calm voice came, Ning Chun and Yang Shu were not surprised at all. They felt that these people were ungrateful.

The development here has not affected them at all, and those people must have known or heard about the development here, otherwise there would be no cave chiefs who would choose to register voluntarily.

However, even so, they still had their eyes on the farmland and canals. They wanted to take them for themselves because they saw what they had created. Even Yang Shu hated such people, as well as him.

After Li Yuanji finished speaking, Yu Minghe immediately stood up.

"My lord, I will gather the army and defeat these chieftains!"

Li Yuanji shook his head upon hearing this, and then looked at several people.

"Yang Shu, didn't I ask you to build a large army before? This time is the time to test you. Although your army's weapons are not complete, they are more than enough to compare with those teasing people.

Go and gather your five thousand troops. I will personally give them a lecture later."

Yang Shu's body trembled a little when he heard this, he knew this day would come, but he didn't expect it to come so soon. This made him excited and nervous, and his adrenaline started to surge before the fight even started.

"Yes, my king. I will go and gather the army now!"

Looking at the falling poplar tree, Li Yuanji then looked at Ning Chun.

"Dahe, you go too. You have to convey what I say later to everyone so that all the people know it."

This time, taking advantage of this opportunity, he will start to give these people chicken soup and bind them to himself. He wants to mobilize the whole nation, get everyone moving, and make everyone support him spontaneously.

Ning Chun was very confused and puzzled, but in the end he had no choice but to agree and went to Yangshu Camp.

Time passed until the poplar came.

"My king, the army has been assembled!"

Li Yuanji stood up upon hearing this.

"Let's go."

Outside the palace, Yu Minghe had already prepared the horses. Li Yuanji mounted the horse and headed for the camp.

Inside the camp, the 5,000 troops assembled by Yang Shu were all assembled and on standby. Most of them had no armor. Although the weapons were somewhat uneven, fortunately everyone had one. As for bows and crossbows and other weapons, there were not many equipments.

These 5,000 soldiers were the remaining weapons in the army, as well as some newly built equipment. They were not as good as the army that originally came from Chang'an, but even so, they still had an equipment advantage over the Cave Chief.

Yang Shu's army had not been training for too long, and Xie Shufang had also given Yang Shu a lot of pointers. Now looking at it this way, at least it looked okay. Everyone held their heads high and chests puffed out. No one was whispering to each other, and no one was moving.

After Li Yuanji arrived, he looked at the five thousand soldiers standing silently in the camp, and he agreed in his heart that at least in terms of discipline, it seemed that they were still okay.

Li Yuanji rode forward along the reserved road, and the army burst into excited voices.

"Greetings, His Majesty!" The loud voices of five thousand people made Li Yuanji's blood boil for a moment.

He came to the platform above, looked at the soldiers below, raised his hand to signal them to stand up, and five thousand people stood up in unison.

After a moment, Li Yuanji focused and spoke solemnly.

"I am Li Yuanji, the King of Qi. I am the king of Lingnan, your king, and the king of everyone in Lingnan!

Since I entered Lingnan, I was ambushed and killed. All of you who are standing below now were the ones who ambushed and killed me and participated in the rebellion. All of you were not registered in the household registration, but I did not kill you.

When I arrived in Haikang, I distributed all the supplies I brought from Chang'an, the Great Tang Dynasty. All of you, ask yourselves, have I ever missed out on food? Have I ever discriminated against you? Have I ever abused you?"

After Li Yuanji finished speaking, he paused. The messengers below rode their horses to convey Li Yuanji's words. After all, there were 5,000 people and the people at the back could not hear what he said, so they could only let the messengers go to various military formations to convey the message.

After a while, Li Yuanji spoke again.

“Since I came to Lingnan, I have never collected any taxes. Instead, I have used my own money, food, and materials to help the development of this place. Now you can see that the new city is about to be completed, and you have never been short of food.

Although there was a period of time when we ate less due to food problems, even so, compared to what you ate before, the food now is probably much better.

Now that we are building new cities, reclaiming wasteland, planting arable land, and developing water conservancy projects, by the time autumn harvest comes, the days when we had no food to eat will be completely gone, and all of you, including your families, will at least not starve to death for a bite of food.

As the king of Lingnan, I have given you so much, and my supplies are quickly being consumed. However, I have done so much for you, but there are people who want to take the farmland and canals for themselves, and also want me to give them food.

These people will not let go of the arable land that all of us have worked hard to reclaim, the canals that we have worked hard to dig, and the crops that we have cultivated. They want to destroy the good days that we have finally had.

Tell me, what should we do with such a person? Tell me loudly, what would you do if it were you!

Li Yuanji's words were gradually conveyed to everyone. After hearing them, everyone was extremely angry. They could be said to be the most perceptive people. When they were captured, everyone thought they would die.

However, the development of things was beyond their expectations. They did not die, and they were even given food. Although they were not full at the beginning, they were not starving to death. Everyone was very well behaved and started working later. Everyone thought that Li Yuanji wanted to exploit them and work them to death.

But they gradually discovered that it was not just them. The people who looked like gods in their eyes and were covered in armor were also taking off their armor and laying down their weapons to work. There were also countless common people working together. They found it hard to believe at first.

As time passed, when everyone knew what they were doing, everyone was touched. Not only did they have food to eat, but the work they did was for themselves, the houses they built were theirs, and the farmland they reclaimed was also theirs.

This is also the reason why they are unwilling to go back and want to stay here. Everyone sees hope here, and they all know who gave them this.

Now, they have such a good life that they once dared not think about, or even could not dream of, but someone is trying to snatch it away. Someone does not want them to live that kind of life. Everyone's eyes are red.

They don't know anything else, they only know that everything they have now is given by Li Yuanji, and that their good days will come when the autumn harvest comes. They will never allow anyone to destroy their lives, let alone disrespect Li Yuanji. This is the consensus of everyone on weekdays.

Although they are poor and humble, they can see clearly and feel who is truly treating them well.

(End of this chapter)