"Escape? But I still have farmland at home. How will I eat if I escape? Why don't you stay and try?" One of them was taking a chance and was unwilling to give up the good land and escape.
"Hehe, if you don't run away, then you can wait to be exploited by the Qin and Chu nobles!" Bo Yi glanced at him with disdain, and then continued: "You still think you expect others to be soft-hearted?"
"They always have to collect taxes, but they can't force us to death. At the worst, it will be a little more painful, but we can survive anyway."
"That's not necessarily true. Those nobles won't treat you as Chinese!"
"What are you if you're not Chinese?" Several people were a little confused.
"A good girl!"
Boyi glanced at them and said, "The capital of Ying was conquered, the Marquis of Chu died, and the nobles fled. However, you have nothing to do and have gained a lot of benefits. So, do you think this is normal?"
"No, aren't these grains, cloth, salt, and fields all given by you?"
"It's true that we rewarded you. That's because you helped us carry supplies." Boyi said matter-of-factly.
"But if you say this, will those nobles believe it?" Boyi said with a smile. "They will regard you as female cadres who betrayed the Chu Kingdom!"
"Okay, for the sake of this drink, I advise you to run away quickly!"
After saying that, without waiting for their answer, Boyi staggered away.
But when he turned a corner and entered another room, his slightly drunk expression instantly sobered up, then he changed his clothes and left quickly.
"Brother, I have told those people as you ordered." Boyi said respectfully.
"Sit down and rest. Your Majesty and Dr. Wen are going to relocate the population of Yingdu this time. I think these people know what to do. By the way, tomorrow we will find a few people who pretend to be fleeing from other cities and tell them who are staying here." Whatever happens to those who do it, they will surely make a choice!"
"Here!" Boyi responded with his hands raised.
As Boyi and others spread rumors, the next day, the whole Ying knew that when the Chu and Qin armies arrived, they would plunder their goods and rob their food. The whole of Yingdu became panic-stricken.
Such rumors became more and more intense, and the Huai people did not try to stop them, but instead only added fuel to the flames. There are all kinds of rumors everywhere in Ying, and there are even rumors that the people of Qin are savages who want to eat human flesh without training. In short, all kinds of outrageous remarks came out.
And after the third day, all this became completely panic-stricken. On the third day, a group of unkempt and embarrassed refugees came to Yingdu.
These people are said to be people who fled from near Xinyang, and the Qin and Chu armies attacked. All the food in their homes was taken away, and their young men were also taken away to work as civilians. All those who dared to resist were killed for collaborating with the enemy, and their property was confiscated. Many people have lost their families and their families, and they managed to escape with great difficulty.
Many times, people are more willing to believe what they see in front of them. After seeing the fate of these refugees, the people of Yingdu can no longer sit still. They all went to Huaiguo's official residence to ask the Huaiguo army to stay.
Of course they were all rejected, and just when everyone was in despair, a voice suddenly came from the crowd: "Please take us with you!"
When everyone heard this, they immediately reacted and shouted: "Mr. Huai is kind, please take us with you!"
"Huaigong is kind, please take us with you!"
Many people shouted.
Wen Zhong was very pleased when he saw the following scene: "Finally we can move these people away!"
"The navy should be arriving soon. Send people down to maintain order and let them leave by boat. At the same time, send out troops to escort these people back to the country in batches."
"In addition to cattle, horses, livestock, grain, etc., everything else that can be discarded will be thrown away. While the Qin and Chu coalition forces are still in the north, I will evacuate the capital of Chu State Ying."
Wen Zhong issued the orders one by one and then executed them quickly.
Originally, migrating people was not only time-consuming and laborious, but also often required large armies to suppress it. And even so, many people will escape.
But this time when people were migrating, Wen Zhong did not send troops at all.
To suppress the situation, the people spontaneously prepared things. These people will choose a leader on their own, and then everyone will act together under the leadership of the leader.
These people formed small teams based on the same surname, neighbors, kinship, etc., and then began to migrate eastward under the protection of Huai soldiers.
In order to relieve these people's worries, Huai State promised that everyone would be allocated twenty acres of land as long as they arrived. And the first three years are tax-free, and the next five years only require half of the tax.
Huai State has established prestige in the hearts of these people. They believe that as long as Huai Guo promises, it will be fulfilled. This is due to the fact that Huai State previously recruited these people to transport supplies, build utensils, and help Huai State work, and they would get what was promised.
Wen Zhong successfully established his prestige among these people by using a large amount of grain, grass and cloth that were difficult to carry. In the end, what is incredible is that the credit of Huai State is now higher than that of Chu State at any time.
A large number of people spontaneously went to the Huai Kingdom and migrated with the Huai Kingdom. Seventy or eighty thousand people followed the Chu capital Yingdu alone, and a large number of people also followed the Huai Kingdom in other places.
A rough estimate is that the number of people migrating this time was at least 300,000, or even more.
If a population of three to four hundred thousand were to be forcibly relocated, at least tens of thousands of troops would be required to suppress them along the way, and the movement would be very slow. But when these people took the initiative to follow, Huai State only used 10,000 people to do it. Without driving them, they would keep up and the migration speed would not be slow.
Huai State used various methods to attract a large number of people from Chu State, and people have a herd mentality. The people of Chu State were very surprised when they saw so many people migrating and evacuating.
Later, after hearing about the evil deeds of the Qin and Chu coalition forces, I became a little panicked. After all, three people make a tiger, so many people are willing to leave their homes, which immediately convinced these Chu people. Under the herd mentality, more and more Chu people followed.
This large-scale migration of people from the Huai State directly emptied most of the population near the Ying capital of the Chu State, including the Hanshui Plain. This can be said to be the best part of Chu State. After hundreds of years of operation, most of it was destroyed.
After these people were moved to the Huai State, it would only take a few years for them to integrate into the Huai State. By then, the population of the Huai State would have increased by half a million, and the Chu State would no longer be able to compete with the Huai State.
Although the Huai Kingdom did not intend to occupy the capital of Ying this time, Wang Qi was not prepared to give up Shudi and the large area of land around the Dabie Mountains east of the Han River Plain. These lands accounted for about a quarter of the entire Chu State.
With hundreds of thousands of people migrating from Yingdu, and a part of the population migrating from Huai State to swap with the original population of Chu State, it is not difficult to control these lands. Moreover, with mountains blocking it, it would not be easy for Chu State to attack.
