Before Ji Xinyu left, he took out the drawings of the front suspension system of the carriage and threw them to Niu Gu, so that he would have time to study and study them after he finished making the bearings, and strive to make them.

After going out, Ji Xinyu went around the Lingchuan Mansion again, and unconsciously opened the Lingchuan Mansion for a month, and many houses have been built in the south of the intersection of the north and south, and there are more foundations under construction next to it. Looking at the villagers who worked hard to bring in cement and gravel, Ji Xinyu thought about whether it was time to build the cement workshop and the road of Lingchuan Mansion first, the current roads are all gravel roads and dirt roads, the road is uneven, and it is difficult for horse-drawn carriages to walk, there are only three miles of road from here to the lime workshop, and the two roads of north-south and east-west in Lingchuan Mansion are also about three or four miles away, and it should not take long.

Call He Xingwang and ask him to find 20 stonemasons according to the original registered craftsman information, and recruit another 50 villagers to build the road leading to the cement workshop first, and then build the inside of the workshop.

He Xingwang's recruitment of craftsmen was very smooth, and the next day 20 craftsmen were found, and I heard that there were 50 more helpers, and each craftsman brought two or three helpers to solve it. Now Lingchuan Mansion does not need to post notices to recruit people, and more than a dozen nearby villages basically know that Lingchuan Mansion has a high monthly income and three full meals a day, and there are too many people who want to come.

After the people arrived, Ji Xinyu began to teach the methods and precautions for building roads, and now that there is cement, he wants to build a cement road naturally. Soon the 20 masons were divided into two groups and started to build the road from both sides of the cement workshop and the Lingchuan Mansion to the middle at the same time, because there was only one road, so they could only divide the road into two halves and wait for the road on one side to be repaired before repairing the other side.

Just when Ji Xinyu established Lingchuan Mansion, the Yangjiang area of Zhaoqing Mansion, which was across the sea, was suddenly attacked by pirates, and the heads of local governments wrote letters to quell the chaos. Gao Linshan, a thousand households of Zhaoqing Pisces Institute, was ordered to lead five hundred households to go to sea to suppress bandits, but three or four hundred pirates cut off the channel in the west of Hailing Island, and then fell into siege.

Seeing that the back road was cut off and about to be surrounded, the three hundred households under the Pisces Institute immediately ordered a retreat and began to break through and flee separately, and Gao Linshan barely broke through under the cover of the other two hundred households. Since then, a large area of coastline from Yangjiang to Rudong has been exposed to this group of pirates, and the pirates have landed in formation, burning, killing, looting and plundering everything, and officials from all over the country have fled in despair, and the pirates have landed and looted for forty or fifty miles before returning with a full load.

I thought that the war had subsided, but half a month later, Chishui, Wuchuan and other places in Gaozhou Prefecture were attacked by Japanese bandits one after another, and Gaozhou Ningchuan and Shendianwei were ordered to suppress bandits, but they were all thundering and raining, and they arrived three or four days after getting the news. By the time the officers and soldiers of the guard arrived, the pirates had already fled, a large number of coastal civilians were killed, and many more people were scattered in all directions.

In Xiuying Port, Qiongzhou Island, a hundred miles away, more than a dozen fishing boats full of refugees were found soon after, and in order to avoid causing riots, Ji Yushan ordered all the refugees to drive the refugee boats to not go ashore, and finally the refugees were forced to rush ashore in the small Shashang Port.

It was only when they rushed ashore that they found that this place had also been guarded by pirates a few years ago, and there were no more inhabited villages near the coast, let alone food, and this was already Qiongzhou Island, and they had no way out, and the fishing boats could not go up, so they had to be forced to go inland.

When Ji Xinyu got the news, he was following Aiden's instructions through the mountains and forests north of Lingchuan Mansion, looking for various common or rare minerals in case of emergency. Now that he has collected a lot, a workshop in the corner of the workshop area has been transformed into his exclusive warehouse.

In order to hide people's eyes, at first I had to drive out in a carriage, and when I came back, I was full of all kinds of strange boxes. When the box was half filled in the warehouse, Ji Xinyu stopped pretending, and no one knew what was in his box anyway, and no one dared to check.

During this time, Ji Xinyu was also communicating with Aiden as much as possible, hoping to familiarize himself with and give full play to Aiden's functions as soon as possible, but Aiden lost contact with the space system after being injured, and all the current functions can only barely use the basic functions that have been tried, and nothing else can be done.

Fortunately, the most basic exploration and mining functions have been tried, and the smelting and crafting functions are barely used, and Aiden can also collect and release items freely within the mining range, and Ji Xinyu is already very satisfied.

"Xiao Yu, there are a large number of displaced people in several villages in the southwest, you can go and see if you are interested, aren't you short of people now." Aiden said to Ji Xinyu, who was digging stones. I don't know if it's because I've been communicating with Ji Xinyu for a long time, and now Iden's communication with Aiden is almost the same as that of a normal human being, and it's no longer so mechanical.

Ji Xinyu was stunned for a moment, and then asked, "How many people are there?" Where did it come from? ”

"I can see about 200 people, I don't know where they came from, I also stumbled upon it when I was just prospecting, and now I can only detect 2 kilometers, if there are 200 kilometers I can probably know." Aiden said with a little helplessness.

"Then go and see, the government probably won't care about these people, and I can't ask for it." Ji Xinyu said happily.

When Ji Xinyu arrived at the place where the refugees were located, there was no longer a trace of happiness. I saw that on the side of the official road, countless unclothed people were sitting on both sides, these homeless people had yellow faces and thin muscles, their eyes were scattered, and several of them were already dying.

Not far away, there was a group of people sitting around the well, a scrawny boy holding a yellow-faced and thin girl, holding a broken bowl in his hand that he didn't know where it came from, and fed the girl a few mouthfuls of water, the girl had no strength, and was drowsy by the sun, and the boy reminded her as loudly as he could in her ear, "I can't sleep, and if I fall asleep, I can't get up again." ”

"Brother, I'm hungry." The girl said weakly, and the boy could only bow his head helplessly.

Ji Xinyu looked at the horse from afar, and couldn't bear to look at the girl's expectant eyes, and her heart twitched.

The sound of Ji Xinyu and the guards' hooves woke up everyone sitting on the ground. "Sir, have mercy on us." The boy followed a group of ragged homeless people to Ji Xinyu, as if he saw the hope of life.

Ji Xinyu didn't know what to do for a while, the guards on the side just wanted to pull out the knife on his waist, but Ji Xinyu stopped him, and ordered the four guards behind him to go back by one person, and inform He Xingwang to prepare a large amount of porridge, so that this group of people can eat when they arrive.

Dismounted, took out the dry cakes from the horses and distributed them to the few homeless people in front of him, and stopped one of the homeless people and asked, "Do you have a leader in this group?" ”

The homeless snatched the cake in Ji Xinyu's hand and ate it, and he ate the small amount of bread in a few bites, and then he said: "The leader is dead, we wanted to rush ashore when we passed through Baisha Port in Leizhou, but the officers and soldiers who blocked it were shot to death with bows and arrows." ”

Ji Xinyu listened helplessly, looked at the homeless and said, "You go and gather everyone to come with me, can I give you food?" ”

The homeless man raised his head sharply and looked directly at Ji Xinyu, as if to see if what the young man in front of him said could be true, and he couldn't help but ask for a long time: "Is what you said true?" ”

"Do you think there's anything else you deserve me to deceive?" After Ji Xinyu finished speaking, he reached out to help up the little boy who was knocked over and couldn't get up, and gave him the last piece of cake in his hand.

"Thank you, sir." The boy took the bread and did not eat it, but ran to the well, carefully broke the bread into a bowl, and slowly fed it to his sister.

The homeless man next to him was stunned for a moment, smiled self-deprecatingly and replied, "Okay, I'll go." He turned and walked towards his companion behind him.

Ji Xinyu walked up to the little boy and asked, "What's your name, is this your little sister?" ”

The little boy raised his head and said gratefully: "Back to the master, my name is Kong Sheng, this is my sister Kong Xiaoling, thank you for saving my life, if the master didn't give us food, my sister would have starved to death." ”

"It's okay, you can eat a little, come with me later, and I'll take you to eat again." Ji Xinyu looked at the two children who were not much younger than his current self, and his heart twitched.

It wasn't long before the outcasts, who had gone to gather the crowd, came over, followed by more than a hundred equally ragged companions. Ji Xinyu greeted him and asked, "Is everyone here?" ”

"Master, there are 158 people here, and some of the others have been separated and can't be found for the time being." The outcasts raised their heads, their eyes wistful.

Ji Xinyu looked at the more than 100 people and said loudly: "Folks, I have already asked people to prepare food, and there will be food for ten miles forward with me, everyone supports each other, don't let people fall behind." ”