After hearing Wang Lun's words, Xin Qiji sighed.
"It's snowing heavily, and the snow is as deep as the knees. These refugees are almost frozen, so what can they do? Besides, there are so many armed guards around. The refugees are unarmed and don't dare to mess around. Didn't you see that they are all Are you kneeling and begging for alms?"
"But……"
"Privy King, if you give them some food now and persuade them to leave with kind words, we will be safe. If we only care about eating and drinking ourselves and ignore them, once the resentment in their hearts is aroused, they will do anything. The real danger will come when the price hits the inn."
Xin Qiji turned around and looked at the inn.
"There must be a lot of rice in the post station. It can be divided into small packages. Some rice in a small package can be distributed to these refugees by armed soldiers, and then let them leave here. Only by applying kindness and force can these refugees be persuaded to leave. Otherwise, they will soon be Privy Master Wang will not be unaware of what people who starve to death will do."
Wang Lun thought about it and his complexion became very bad.
He knew that what Xin Qiji said made sense, and at this moment, this might be the only way to solve the problem.
So he glared at Liu Wei fiercely.
"Immediately do what Chief Xin said, ask the soldiers to distribute rice and grain packets to these refugees, and then order them to leave, otherwise they will be severely punished!"
"Understood."
Liu Wei humbly accepted the errand, bent over and ran to arrange these things.
Of course, he had prepared a large amount of food, as well as the food stored in the station itself, which was enough to cope with the more than 200 refugees here.
"Director Xin, go in and eat. There are other people outside taking care of things. There won't be any problems."
Wang Lun didn't want Xin Qiji to stay outside and watch something embarrassing to the Southern Song Dynasty.
"Just wait a little longer."
Xin Qiji wanted to continue watching, seeing that these refugees had received life-saving food before going in to eat. Otherwise, how could he eat this exquisite and gorgeous meal?
Wang Lun could not influence Xin Qiji's decision, so he could only stand aside and accompany Xin Qiji.
At the same time, his heart was filled with anger.
In fact, he had received reports a few days earlier that a relatively large number of disaster-stricken refugees had appeared on their planned route south to Lin'an.
The reason why these people appeared was because several southern states were hit by snowstorms, which destroyed many houses and left many people homeless and without food.
Although the local government was ordered to provide relief, due to corruption, the government could not provide food or money, and no one was willing to brave the severe cold to help the refugees, leaving them to fend for themselves.
Anyway, they know that the central government will not fall out with them because of this kind of thing.
Why do those officials care about the lives of tens of thousands of refugees?
Unless they rebel.
In the disaster-stricken areas, there were only porridge shacks opened by some large local households with the purpose of earning fame and good deeds to help the refugees. However, these porridge shacks alone could not save many people. A large number of refugees had no food to eat and no houses to keep out the cold. As a last resort, they had to Go north to the prosperous economic zone to beg for food and a way to survive.
Xin Qiji followed a fixed route all the way south, and there were some relatively prosperous and stable prefectures and counties along the way.
After research, the Song court tried to let Xin Qiji see the prosperous and prosperous economy of the Song Dynasty and the people living and working in peace and contentment. In this way, no matter what ideas he had, he would think more about it when he saw the prosperity of the Song Dynasty and the people.
Is it not worth engaging in confrontation with such a prosperous and powerful country? Isn't it dangerous?
As a result, the sudden appearance of this group of snowstorm refugees disrupted Song Ting's deployment. Wang Lun was very angry after receiving the secret report - Xin Qiji was already here, how could he change the route temporarily?
Wang Lun could only immediately order the state and county officials along the way to clear out these refugees. If Xin Qiji dared to see a refugee, he would be severely punished.
At the same time, he reported the news to Lin'an and asked Lin'an to deal with this group of refugees immediately. Xin Qiji must not be allowed to see these refugees, so as not to make Xin Qiji have a negative view of the Southern Song Dynasty.
With this level of demand, of course the government along the way was full of energy and mobilized to drive the refugees away from Xin Qiji's only way.
Those who were disobedient were frequently beaten and scolded, and those who dared to resist were directly arrested and then executed.
The poor refugees were unarmed, accompanied by old women and children, dressed in rags and staggering, and were just being driven around.
It was freezing cold in the middle of winter, and they didn't know what evil they had done in their previous lives to deserve to be treated like this.
However, although the local government's actions were swift and cruel, there were some oversights.
There was a group of more than 200 refugees who were not discovered by the expelling team because their temporary residence was relatively remote. They followed Xin Qiji's route and arrived at this small inn like a ghost. Seeing the smoke, they Smelling the fragrance, I finally couldn't walk on the road.
Then there was this scene.
Wang Lun was so annoyed that he felt that no matter what, he must teach Liu Wei a profound lesson after this incident, so that he would know how cruel Shangguan's anger was.
These bastards are used to being domineering, but when they are suddenly asked to do something, they do it so poorly that they are not worthy of sitting in this position!
The Great Song Dynasty treated you as a doctor, and it was true that he did not kill anyone.
But at the very least it is an exile!
Go to Lingnan and join the savages!
Wang Lun had already sentenced Liu Wei to death in his official career in his heart.
Xin Qiji didn't care about all this. He watched the people in the station gradually prepare small food packages one by one and began to hand out small food packages with weapons.
Although they had a fierce look and a rough tone, the Song soldiers still distributed the food to these hungry refugees.
The refugees knelt down and knelt down to thank the ferocious Song soldiers. After receiving the grain packages, they hugged them tightly in their arms, as if the things in their arms were the most precious treasure in the world.
Xin Qiji glanced at the two women with their children and saw that they had received the food packages and were comforting the sobbing children, so he reached out and took the two food packages and walked over.
"Director Xin?"
"I gonna go see."
Xin Qiji walked towards the two women with their children, walked closer and looked at the two women.
The two women looked at the tall and majestic Xin Qiji with a little fear, and took a few steps back, not daring to come forward.
Xin Qiji looked at their blue-purple faces and chapped hands, as well as the two hungry children with extremely large heads. He felt sour in his heart and reached out to hand over the two food packages.
When the two women saw it, they didn't dare to take it. They just raised the grain bags in their hands to show that they had got it.
Xin Qiji shook his head.
"Children also need to eat. Just eat more for them. It will last for a few more days until spring. It will be fine."
The two women looked at their children, their eyes were red, they stepped forward to take the food packets, then knelt down and kowtowed to Xin Qiji.
Xin Qiji's nose felt sore again and he almost couldn't hold back tears.
How long can the food in these small food bags last them?
Thinking like this, Xin Qiji decided to take off his coat to protect them from the cold.
This move was dissuaded by Wang Lun who stepped forward.
"This coat is very valuable and can be exchanged for a lot of money. I can give it to them, but there is no guarantee that it will not be taken away by others later. It is a crime for orphans and widowers in this team to possess a treasure."
Xin Qiji was stunned and stopped taking off his clothes. After a while, Xin Qiji returned to the inn, then rushed out, took out the blanket he had brought with him on the road to keep out the cold, and cut it into two pieces with a knife. Half of it was given to two women.
This blanket is not a valuable item. It has been used for some years. It is old and fluffy. It should be thrown away. However, Xin Qiji got used to using it and found it comfortable. He was reluctant to throw it away, so he took it with him south. Now he can use it. use.
So the two women knelt down and kowtowed again, thanking Xin Qiji profusely, and even asked their children to kneel down and kowtow to Xin Qiji.
It took Xin Qiji a long time to stop the urge to cry.
The suffering of the people is all shown here. The world that Su Yonglin wanted Xin Qiji to see, Xin Qiji saw.
Xin Qiji was very angry, angry, and sad. The only thing that gave him some comfort was that in the Central Plains, wherever the Renaissance Society was involved, such things would no longer happen.
The Revival Church, which they work hard for together, is doing its best to change this phenomenon.
As long as there was no large-scale natural disaster, refugees of this scale would probably never appear in the Ming Dynasty.
Whoever dared to allow such refugees to appear in the Ming Dynasty, Xin Qiji was determined to kill him with his sword.
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