"One dragon and one tiger, give them food and water." Han Lin said to the two behind him.

When a dragon and a tiger carried two large bags full of food and water, the refugees were like hungry wolves that saw their prey, their eyes flashed with ferocity, and they burst out with the last of their strength and pounced one after another. However, those who are the most hungry, the elderly, children, women, and others who need to eat the most are pushed away by those who still have a little strength left, and even fall to the ground directly!

Han Lin hadn't made a move yet, and Wang Fuzhi on the side couldn't stand it, "It's really unreasonable!" He immediately stepped forward, directly in front of the tall man who rushed up first, and scolded: "Stop it for me." ”

The tall man almost moved his hand when he saw someone blocking in front of him, but he hadn't lost his mind yet, and glanced at Yilong and Yihu and others, so he could only reluctantly retreat and bury his resentful eyes. Wang Fuzhi then lifted up the poor people who fell to the ground one by one.

At this time, Han Lin pointed to the bag of food and said loudly, "Want it?" Then go back to where you were! When everyone returned to their original places, Han Lin motioned for a dragon and a tiger to be distributed one by one.

Yilong took out the food, looked at the thin yellow faces, first put the food in front of his nose and sniffed it deeply, and sighed: "How delicious!" ”

As if hearing the sound of many swallowing saliva, Yihu pretended to be serious and respectful, "You must remember that the one who brought you food today and saved you was this great good man - Young Master Han Linhan, he came from Guangzhou in the south and made a special trip to help the suffering, you must express your gratitude to him after you get the food, otherwise you will be condemned for eating the food, and your soul will be sent to hell after death." ”

A tiger drew everyone's attention to Han Lin, who smiled slightly, making people feel like a spring breeze.

After that, Yilong and Yihu and others began to distribute food, and each person looked at him and said to Han Lin again and again: "Thank you Young Master Han, thank you great kindness, thank you..." As for the tall man, the dissatisfaction naturally disappeared long ago.

Wang Fuzhi looked at this "show", he was dumbfounded, and it took a while to come back to his senses, and he whispered to Han Lin: "Brother Han is a good method." ”

"No, no," the corners of Han Lin's mouth rose slightly, "I went from Guangzhou to Brother Wang's hometown of Hengzhou, and then to Gucheng, spending a huge amount of money and saving hundreds of people, this title of good man is still barely deserved, as for them, if they don't know how to be grateful, should there be any good end?" ”

Wang Fuzhi was speechless, so he could only reply with a wry smile: "That's the reason." ”

Half an hour passed, during which Han Lin and Wang Fuzhi had a brief exchange with these refugees, knowing that most of them came from nearby, their families had no food to spare, and even their land was gone, and the young and middle-aged did not join Zhang Xianzhong's troops because they were afraid of death and did not dare to go to the battlefield or take care of their relatives. As for the women, the old and the young, although Zhang Xianzhong was not like some so-called "kings" who connived at his subordinates to burn, kill, plunder, and forcibly recruit men into the army, he completely lost the original intention of the uprising, and he would not be so kind as to waste manpower and property to take care of the "useless people".

The government is basically full of corrupt officials, that is, they are afraid that there will be too many displaced people and the trouble will be out of control, so occasionally people go to the places where the displaced people gather to distribute some gruel with few grains of rice. Every day, people continue to starve to death, and the rest survive.

Han Lin walked among them and said, "Listen to me, I know that there are frequent natural disasters in various places now, and it is almost difficult for you to survive, and now there is a way out in front of you." You already know that I have come from Guangzhou in the south, where there have been bumper harvests year after year, and if you move to Guangdong, you will not only be rescued, you will no longer have to go hungry, but you will also be given your own land and live well! ”

Looking at everyone's hesitant expressions, Han Lin was prepared, and continued: "Before coming to Gucheng, we went all the way north, and we also stopped in other places on the way, and the refugees there were the same as you at first, but I will immediately send twenty yuan to everyone who is willing to go to Guangdong, and another one yuan of silver after going there, and let one person take you there." I know that many of you don't want to stay away from your homeland, I will not force it, I don't care if there are people who follow me after you take twenty cents, I should use this money to do the last bit of good deed for you, and then I can't help it! ”

Just when most people didn't know whether to trust Han Lin or not, and didn't know how to choose, a woman with a muddy face knelt down in front of Han Lin with a little girl and said: "Young Master Han, the slut knows that you are a great good person, and our mother and son really can't survive here, please take us to the south." ”

"Hurry up, you don't have to be restrained in front of me," Han Lin hurriedly helped the two of them up, "I will definitely let you live a stable life." ”

"One dragon and one tiger, give this lady and her daughter twenty wen each."

"No, no, no," the woman looked terrified, "the little girl and I don't want any money, we just want to have something to eat." ”

"Take it!" Han Lin took the copper coin and stuffed it to the woman, and said in an unquestionable tone, "I said that life counts, the money must be taken, and the food is indispensable to you!" ”

"Young Master Han, I am also willing to go to the south." Seeing this, the tall man from before stepped forward and sneered.

"Okay, I'll treat everyone equally, but if anyone doesn't follow the rules, don't blame me for being unkind!"

"How dare you, how dare you...", the tall man assured again and again.

In the end, everyone received twenty wen, and Han Lin didn't care how many people were still in Gucheng, anyway, it was only a matter of a few taels of silver, and the important thing was that there were definitely a lot of people going south.

After that, Han Lin went to other "dark" corners of Gucheng and did the same thing, and let these refugees and beggars scatter out of the city, and the last two people on the side of the squad he took with him when he left Guangzhou took care of these people.

Scattered out of the city just to reduce the impact, after all, the displaced people in their own jurisdiction are gone, and those officials are too late to be happy.

The remaining eight people have long been left in Yongxing, Leiyang and other places.

There are two or three thousand people who went directly to the south with these ten people, and this is just the beginning, with this good start, more and more refugees and ordinary people who can't survive will come to Guangdong and be under the jurisdiction of the health center. Han Lin understands that in troubled times, the population will lose a lot, and if you want to do anything, you can't do without enough people. In later generations, there were hundreds of millions of people in Guangdong Province, and the current Guangdong Chengxuan political envoy was much larger than later generations, even including Hainan Island, that is, Qiongzhou Prefecture, even in the case of productivity far lower than that of later generations, the population is far from saturation.

As for the interior of Guangdong, the guard is firmly in the hands of Han Duan and Han Lin's father and son, and it is powerful, so it can be said that the emperor's holy decree is not very effective now. In addition, the Han family used the financial resources of Zhao Yu's family to bribe the bureaucracy of the governor and the county officials, constantly open up the wasteland, and buy land from the hands of small landlords and petty officials with weak backgrounds at a price that is even much lower than the market price according to the situation, or let them "voluntarily" give away the land, and the land in the hands of the Han family has reached an astonishing area.

……

"Brother Han, where are we going next?" In a carriage out of the city, Wang Fuzhi asked.

There is only a dragon driving a car, and a tiger, Han Lin asked him to join Zhang Xianzhong's team, with his kung fu, as long as he does not die, he will definitely sit in a position that is not low in the future, which is very important to Han Lin, Zhang Xianzhong is known as the emperor in history, and he has a lot of power.

As for loyalty, Han Lin was not worried at all, both the dragon and the tiger were orphans adopted by the Han family, they grew up in the Han family, and Han Duan had personally taught them martial arts.

"Let's go directly to Jinling next."

"Jinling?"

"The merchant girl doesn't know the hatred of the country, and she still sings about the flowers across the river, let's go and see what kind of scene it is in Jinling, the capital of the Ming Dynasty!"

...

"Commander, Jinling is ahead." A dragon's rough voice came.

Wang Fuzhi has long been accustomed to the title of "military commander", he lifted the curtain and poked his head out, watching the people coming and going on the road, and even the extremely luxurious sedan chair, surrounded by more than a dozen servants, forcing pedestrians to give way.

"Alas!" Wang Fuzhi sighed, "I also heard that the rebel army had hit Liuhe and other places before, threatening Jinling, and everyone was in danger, but I didn't expect this to be the scene now." ”

Han Lin laughed: "The land south of the Yangtze River has always been like this, the people here forget it, but look at those soldiers guarding the city, one by one, listless, undisciplined, full of wine bags and rice bags, not to mention the fierce Qing soldiers, even if they encounter the rebel army with farm tools, I am afraid they will flee from the wind, how to protect their families and defend the country?" And our army in Guangdong is different. ”

"Oh? Brother Han said before that he was the son of the commander of the Guangdong Metropolitan Command, to be honest, in my opinion, the military household of the guard..."Wang Fuzhi shook his head, "Dare to ask how it is different?" ”

"Haha! If it was two years ago, of course Brother Wang's opinion was right, but now, all of my soldiers are brave and invincible! ”

"Invincible? I have only heard that the Jurchens are invincible, but later they were defeated by Yue Wumu and Han Liangchen and others, and now the Qing people in the north are the Jurchens rising again, is our Ming going to suffer the catastrophe of the Song Dynasty? Wang Fuzhi's face was full of sadness.

"Brother Wang, what I said about invincibility is not a lie, but it is a pity that our army cannot go on an expedition, and the capital, as well as a large area of land in the north, I am afraid that it will fall into the hands of the Qing people."

Wang Fuzhi looked at Han Lin and didn't ask much, but said, "I will definitely see and understand when the time comes." ”

At the gate of the city, the carriage stopped, Han Lin looked out, only to see a fat soldier with a shiny face stopping the carriage, squinting his eyes and pretending to say: "Who is inside, what are you doing in Jinling, get off the car and be checked!" ”

"It's just a relative," Han Lin skillfully took out a few pieces of broken silver and handed them to him, "It's convenient." ”

"Count you as acquaintances, go over." The fat soldier weighed the silver and waved his hand in satisfaction.

Seeing this, Wang Fuzhi beat his chest helplessly: "The current situation, if all places are like this, under the combination of inside and outside, how can there be a reason for the city not to be lost!" ”