After the grain transport team successfully left the city, Xue Xu smiled and said to Ji Wuyin, "It's time for me to leave too."
At this point, they were safe and sound.
Ji Wuyin waved his hand, "Let's go. Let's go." He felt melancholy as all the feasts in the world came to an end.
Qin Sheng sent two skilled soldiers to escort Xue Xu back to the Li tribe. They also hired people to deliver the things that the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce prepared for him.
Of course, they only need to be sent to the outside of Shiwanda Mountain.
Xie Zhan's guess was correct. The total number of victims and refugees who followed them was about 26,000 to 7,000. Most of them had agreed before to go north together, and some of them just followed suit.
Along the way, Yue Shu consciously led others to help Qin Sheng and help the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce maintain rules and disciplines.
The refugees looked eagerly at the carts of food.
Qin Sheng noticed this scene and lowered his head in thought.
Twenty to thirty thousand refugees are following them, and they must be handled carefully, otherwise there may be accidents such as riots and food grabbing.
When Qin Sheng led the grain team out of three miles of land, they stopped in a bamboo forest.
Liu Erxi began to gather people, set up stoves, collect firewood, and bury pots to make rice.
In short, in addition to the families of the employees, the refugees who followed and those who want to eat must help with what they can.
This is their first step in dealing with refugees, feeding them. As the saying goes, if you have enough food and clothing, you will know the etiquette; if you have enough food and clothing, you will know the honor and disgrace. It is difficult for a person to have high moral quality if he does not have enough food and clothing.
After the meal was ready, they began to distribute the food, "Come on, come on, the meal is served, everyone is lining up!"
Everyone was given two multi-grain steamed buns the size of an adult's fist and a bowl of porridge.
Each refugee took the steamed buns they were given and began to devour them. This was the best meal they had had in a long time.
While they were eating, twenty or thirty large pots were boiling medicinal soup.
These pots are soups to prevent epidemics. These were brewed from the plague-clearing medicine that Lu Songli had brought with them when they came to the Southland. She knows that many times, floods are usually followed by epidemics.
"Come, everyone bring a bowl of medicinal soup." The members of the food team clearly told everyone, "This is to prevent epidemics." Everyone drank it obediently.
While the refugees were eating, Qin Sheng summoned Yue Shu and other more prestigious people among the refugees for a meeting, and also invited Ning Changge.
After everyone arrived, Qin Sheng announced something directly without any nonsense, "Our Liaodong Chamber of Commerce has decided to pay three days' wages to the employed personnel first!"
Because wages are settled in grain, that is to say, they are given grain in advance.
"What?"
Did they hear it correctly?
"You heard that right."
After hearing Qin Sheng's answer, some people realized that they had actually spoken out what was on their mind.
Yue Shu hesitated and said, "What if someone gets the food, no longer accepts employment, continues to go north, but chooses to sneak away?"
Qin Sheng said, "It doesn't matter if someone sneaks away, just do it!"
He once heard his daughter-in-law say that an excellent system must take into account the interests of the majority of people.
Sharing the food is the first step, binding everyone together.
Otherwise, the people of the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce have so much food, but the refugees have nothing, and the two sides will naturally be in opposition. He needs to change this relationship. Talking about three days' wages is the first step. He will also pay them five days' and ten days' wages later...
Only in this way will they protect the 100,000 stones of grain from the grain team as their own.
And this is also a kind of screening. By spending a little bit of food, you can screen out those with bad conduct first, otherwise these people will be a hindrance if you encounter problems later.
As for those who took the food and sneaked away, it would not be bad if they survived.
He once heard his wife lament that their population in Dali was still too small.
Ning Changge glanced at Qin Sheng a few more times. He was curious, what kind of place was Liaodong County? Everyone in their group who came to Southland performed well. Wu Ren is like this, and so is Mr. Lu Liu in front of him. They are all capable figures.
Qin Sheng decided, Liu Erxi, Yang Wei and others took action immediately.
The refugees were excited when they heard that the food team had paid their wages in advance, and they all lined up to receive food as required.
The Liaodong Chamber of Commerce took out more than a dozen small scales when weighing grain.
Using this kind of table scale to weigh grain is much faster than using a pole scale.
One by one, the refugees poked their heads around and took a strange look.
As more and more refugees receive food, the food team's food trucks are emptying one after another.
The refugees who received the food were all satisfied. God knows how long they have been living that kind of life where they have had one meal but no next meal, and they are always worried that there will be no tomorrow after today. Now that they have food in hand and are not worried, they finally see a little hope.
Qin Sheng's decision made many refugees grateful, but it made some people with evil intentions grit their teeth!
"Intensify patrols and defense tonight." Qin Sheng and several confidants such as Yang Wei, Liu Erxi, and Yue Shu said.
They looked at each other and nodded.
Of course, Qin Sheng knew that it was not enough to be gentle and gentle, and must be followed by thunderous methods, which is commonly known as courtesy first and then attack. Without the protection of thunder means, Huairou is nothing but weak.
Qin Sheng had some thoughts of his own regarding the two to thirty thousand people.
"Yue Shu, come here, I want to tell you something." Qin Sheng greeted him.
"Master Liu, what's the matter?"
"Is such that……"
Yue Shu's eyes widened even more as he listened. How could it be like this?
Yang Wei and Liu Erxi on the side were snickering. The eldest brother Yue Shu had only known them for a short period of time. In the future, he would know that this was just a trick of the navy. It was trivial.
On the first night, as expected, someone took the allocated food and left quietly.
Some people also had the idea of taking food from the grain team. A dozen little thieves who were accustomed to stealing food went to the grain truck and were subdued before they could even touch the grain. They also wanted to shout to cause chaos and encourage everyone to grab food, but they were all stuffed with rags and couldn't make a sound.
These dozen or so little bastards were publicly punished by Qin Sheng in the early morning of the next day, in order to scare the monkeys.
Almost all refugees feel they deserve what they get. How good people like the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce are. As long as they work, they can get food, so they won't go hungry and can survive. The Liaodong Chamber of Commerce gave them hope of living. These white-eyed wolves, ungrateful, deserve whatever fate they end up with.
Some elderly people among the refugees advised each other, "Let's be more vigilant in the future. If we notice something wrong with someone, please report it!"
"That's right, everyone should be careful. We can't let those people mess around and steal the food from the food team. Everyone knows that the food we distribute is all taken from the food team. If the food team's food is in trouble, Woe to us, we will have to go hungry and have to go back to the old days!"
When everyone heard this, their hearts trembled. At first, they didn't think much about it, and they just felt that it had little to do with them. But when the old man pointed it out, they realized that they had gone astray.
Qin Sheng saw all this scene, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.
On the night when the people of Liaodong County completely evacuated the Southland, it was night and the stars were densely clouded. In the east, the original crape myrtle stars are slightly dim. At this time, several bright stars appeared in the north and south.
At this time, on a mountaintop somewhere in the Central Plains, an old man wearing a robe and a bun was burning incense and taking a bath. He was watching the stars at night. When he saw the starry sky at this time, he couldn't help but became speechless, "This - this -"
The boy next to him asked, "Master, what's wrong?"
"It's a mess, it's a mess."
"What's the mess?"
The old Taoist ignored the boy and just whispered in deep thought, "Ziwei stars gathered, Pojun and Comet went first, Tiankui and Tianyue passed orders, Tianxiang, Wenchang, Wenqu and other subordinates appeared, Zuo Fu and You Bi scattered the astrolabe. This is clear It’s a sign of troubled times.”
He knew that the age of great strife was coming, but he just didn't know when this troubled world would end after it started.
The astrology at this time shows that the north has the appearance of converging with Lucun and Tianfu, and the south has the power of Qisha.
The old Taoist looked at the bright imperial stars in the sky and was worried. He only hoped that the war would not be too brutal and that the common people would have a way out.
