The time has turned to midsummer, and the heat waves on the ground are higher and higher.
In Yuxi City, Heyue sat in front of Li De without saying a word. This was the fourth time this scene had appeared in the past seven days.
Regarding the question of when Yuxi City will march eastward, He Yue and Li De have discussed many times. Purely starting from the interests of Yuxi City, it seems that the best choice is to wait for Liyi and the other young masters to draw a general victory or defeat, and then reap the benefits of the fisherman; but in the long run, the sooner Yunyang is unified, the better the people will be. Get out of the sea of suffering sooner.
Li De is actually not willing to discuss this issue with He Yue, because he and He Yue actually know the answer. It takes one's own strength to forge the iron, and the time to send troops from Yuxi City is not in his and He Yue's hands, but in Fang Shisan's hands. When Fang Shisan thinks he can go out and wipe out the forces that are rising and falling in Yunyang, when will Yuxi City take action.
Until then, all we can do is wait.
The training of 50,000 people is not easy, and the time given by Fang Shisan is that it can be basically completed by the end of this month. This is like casting a sword. Fang Shisan's training has basically formed the army, and what the army needs after that is to become stronger and stronger through the training of war.
With so many soldiers recruited in one breath, the shortage of weapons and equipment is inevitable. Even if Liushi took the apprentices around him to make it day and night, it would not be able to fill such a big hole.
Lide proposed three solutions. The first is to give priority to the training of light infantry, the second is to continue to purchase quality weapons and equipment, and the third is to expand the lineup of blacksmiths in Yuxi City. The parallelism of these three methods can be regarded as alleviating the shortage of military weapons and equipment to a certain extent. As for the food and grass, the current food reserves are enough to last until the end of the year, and with the batch of food that the demons will send in autumn, even if they don't buy new food, it will not be a big problem to last until the middle of next year.
Because of the further increase in the production capacity of Yuxi City, the annual production of anti-magic medicines is also increasing, and the land that can be reclaimed by the demons is gradually expanding. Heyue also sent someone to contact Shetong, and proposed to expand the demon farmland year by year. Shetong readily agreed, and expressed the hope that Yuxi City would win Yunyang as soon as possible, so that the cooperation between the two parties would have a qualitative leap. At that time, Shetong's strength is likely to stabilize against the King of the South, Fengshan, and become the second in the demon clan, and Lide will also obtain a large amount of food and grass in one go, which can greatly speed up Yunyang's recuperation.
Everything is going according to plan. It's just that for He Yue, the dead cannot be brought back to life.
No matter how quickly Yuxi City ends the chaos in Yunyang, no matter how much they offer to appease the people, no matter how much support they will gain from the people in the future, it will not change the fact that countless people died in this war. To make matters worse, Yu Xicheng actually had the power to save them, but he didn't use it.
This is really not a good thing for He Yue.
Lide took a sip of tea, smiled and said:
"What's the matter, so sad. How about I sing you a song?"
He Yue held her cheek and said slowly:
"I was just thinking that when I was in Tiancheng, my reforms were not carried out. So all these years, I have always felt that if Lord Tiancheng could adopt my suggestion back then, maybe no one would die so painfully. After coming to Yuxi City, I have tried my best to do things, but now I still have to see with my own eyes that there are so many people I can't save, which makes me feel like a failure."
Li De handed the herbal tea in his hand to Heyue, completely ignoring that Heyue continued to drink tea from the cup he drank, and said leisurely:
"The order to use troops after the training of the thirteenth party is completed by me, and it has nothing to do with you."
He Yue raised her head and took a sip of tea, only to feel that a burst of coolness temporarily suppressed the boredom in her chest, and then she heard Lide's serious voice:
"Actually, you and I both know that those people outside need to be saved. If no one saves them, people will die in pain every moment. Did they do anything wrong? At first glance, it seems that there is no. So you think they are innocent, Poor and sympathetic. But I still have the opinion that in this world, doing nothing is the biggest mistake."
Lide looked out of the window with a calm expression:
"In order to persuade them to come to Yuxi City, we dispatched a large number of Anbu organizations, including the propaganda department of the Shaoyu Camp, and tried every means to lead them out of the sea of suffering. For this reason, the Anbu death list given to me by Shuang last month included More than 800 names, and more than half of the propaganda department of the Shaoyu Camp was killed or injured. He Yue, do you know what this concept is? They never killed so many people during the war. We paid the greatest price and gave the most Good benefits, just to beg grandpa to tell grandma to invite them over—"
He Yue stared at the teacup in her hand, with a sad smile on her pretty face.
Lid put his hands on the table and said without emotion:
"But most people are still unwilling to come. Knowing that coming to us is a better choice, they still choose to stay. You can call it simplicity, kindness, and honesty. But in this period, they must pay the price for their wrong choices."
He Yue said sadly:
"I know... I know. But, no one has ever taught them to think and seek change, right? All rulers throughout the ages have been inseparable from the concept of 'the people can make them what they want, but they can't make them know'. How is it possible to make the right choice at a time when you have never been taught to 'know it'?"
Lide got up and found a round fan from the side cabinet to fan himself. Although there were a lot of ice cubes in the room to cool down, the summer in the south was still too hot. Add that to the humidity, and ice alone won't solve the problem.
When he came back, he sat beside He Yue, so that the wind he fanned could also reach He Yue.
Liede just said lightly:
"From then on, we'll just teach them."
More than two years ago, the people of Yuxi City were the same as other areas, and even looked worse than other areas. They are ignorant, ignorant, and bullying, as can be seen from the Felita incident alone. But in more than two years, the atmosphere of Yuxi City has changed greatly. Now they can think and discuss various issues independently, and some talented people even directly participated in the construction of Yuxi City.
The Valley of the Wicked, the Brave Guild, the Industrial Base, Yuxi Academy... and the newly opened Abyss Church, all kinds of things that cannot be judged by the worldly eyes make the people of Yuxi City have to learn to explore the essence of things by themselves, and the rise of science It also equips them with the theoretical basis for research and problem-solving.
Yunyang is very big, and it may be difficult to popularize these.
But Lide is confident, not because he thinks he is so good, but because he has already set up the framework. Yunyang will become a better Yunyang. For this, someone must sacrifice. Only the price of blood can awaken the people, and only pain can make them find a way out for the future.
It's all about... a better tomorrow.