Having said that, the two sides have established initial trust, and many things are much easier.

On the third day, the drama was suspended, Xu Shiyang mobilized everyone in the alliance to maintain order, and the new army was also ready to repent and take the opportunity to attack.

At two o'clock (about 9:30 in the morning), Lu Zhishen personally led the first batch of displaced people down the mountain, Xu Shiyang ordered everyone to be dispersed and resettled, or the previous experience, boys and girls were organized separately, every ten people were a temporary team, and every ten teams were a temporary squadron.

Since they were not enemies and were not prisoners, Xu Shiyang allowed them to find acquaintances to form a group, but in order to speed up the time, they were only given sorghum porridge to eat after forming a temporary squadron.

Subsequently, the crowd coming down the mountain was endless, and the entire alliance was busy, in order to stabilize the people's hearts, Xu Shiyang even ordered the new army to temporarily give up the camp where they lived, and give it to the displaced people for a while.

In order to prevent accidents, all the Xuanfu soldiers and instructors of the New Army were all dispatched to patrol back and forth to maintain order, and later, because more and more people went down the mountain, Xu Shiyang even had to transfer half of the officers of the New Army, and asked Lu Zhishen to identify some influential "big brother" level figures among the displaced people to participate in the rectification work together.

"Third brother, this can't be done!" In the afternoon, Xu Shiliu came to Xu Shiyang: "There are more and more people!" There are still not enough people! ”

"If you have already completed the group, you will start after lunch." Xu Shiyang said: "Leave immediately, send some people away first, and send a squadron of soldiers for every 10 homeless squadrons to watch." ”

"But the other families want the population, do we want to have it alone?"

"Tell them that now is not the time to divide the spoils, and when Wulian Mountain is completely pacified, the Xu family will give them the population they deserve!"

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At night, there was still a steady stream of people coming down from the mountain, and Xu Shiyang estimated that in this first day, he had already received almost 9,000 people!

About half of them are strong or half-ding, and the rest are mainly strong women, with less than 2,000 children, and even more rare, only about 2 or 300.

It seems that life in the mountains is indeed not easy, and people with weak constitutions will not live long at all.

Xu Shiyang did not refuse all the people who came, regardless of men, women and children, as long as they could go down the mountain alive and walk in front of the new army, they would all be grouped and given a bowl of gruel, and after resting for another hour, they would set off for the control area of the Xu family.

By the early morning of the next day, Xu Shiyang, who had not slept all night, checked the situation, and at this time, the total population had exceeded 15,000, and this number was still growing rapidly.

In this regard, Xu Shiyang was ecstatic, in his opinion, there is a population is a foundation. No matter what these people do under their hands, as long as they survive this year, they will create a steady stream of wealth and become positive returns from next year!

Moreover, with such an increase in the population, the Xu family's terrifying proportion of off-duty soldiers also seems to be a lot more normal.

It's just that others don't seem to be as happy as he is.

Xu Shisong and other battalion commanders who were also the owners of the dock fort came to find Xu Shiyang, and as soon as they met, Xu Shisong shouted loudly: "Shiyang, you can't pick up people anymore!" Divert people to other families! ”

"Why?" Xu Shiyang was very puzzled: "Most of these are strong men and strong women." ”

"How can our family have food to feed so many people?" Xu Shiliu also persuaded from the side: "That's right, last year was a bumper year, but our family has 3,000 new troops!" That little surplus food went to the belly of the new army! If we want to harvest this year, we have to use the previous public treasury and receive people, and our family can't afford to raise it at all! ”

"No, you can afford it! Another 20,000 or 30,000 can afford it! ”

Xu Shiyang said seriously:

"I'm going to persuade the head of the house to take out all the grain stored in the public treasury, and all of you, don't keep the grain, take it all out!" This year, the whole family eats together in the cafeteria! Available on demand. Tell everyone, endure this year, and the days ahead will be as hot as possible! ”

"There is no food in the house, if there is a storm this year and next year, once the harvest fails, our family will have to eat people!"

"No, it won't." On this issue, Xu Shiyang did not give an inch: "After pacifying Wulian Mountain, Shiliu and I will immediately go to Jiangnan." The last time I fought Tartars, I seized thousands of taels of gold and silver, hundreds of pieces of cloth, and a large amount of copper and iron money, even if the main battle faction in Jiangnan does not support us, it will be enough to buy grain directly until next year! ”

"Everyone, I know that you are also thinking about the Xu family, but now is a critical moment, as long as you survive and turn these people into the strength of our Xu family, then our family will be reborn! Therefore, we must grit our teeth and persevere! When I come back from Jiangnan, I will pay back the money and food you spent! ”

Having said that, no one can complain about anything anymore.

Xu Shiyang has already made it clear that he wants to take out all his family funds to survive this year, and others can only follow up.

After all, he really didn't make a mistake about one thing, so many strong men and women, if they can digest them all, even if they all go to open up wasteland and farm, the strength of the family will be completely different next year.

You must know that after more than ten years of war, the most important thing in Jiangbei is actually land, as long as there is a population, there is always work for these people.

"Okay! We listen to you! Survive this year anyway! Xu Shisong gritted his back molars and said fiercely: "It's just that you have to buy some grain and salt from Jiangnan anyway!" Otherwise, we just have the heart and can't support it! ”

"I know." Xu Shiyang nodded solemnly.

As a result, the Xu family let go of their hands and feet and recruited displaced people at a faster pace, and by the morning of the third day, more than 35,000 displaced people had been brought under the control of the Xu family.

At this time, the lords of the Zhucheng Dock Fort in the east could not sit still, and they sent representatives to negotiate here, hoping that the alliance side could transfer thousands of displaced people to them.

Xu Shiyang refused, and he said to the envoy of the lord of Zhucheng Wubao: "If you want the population, it is better to go up the mountain to recruit yourself, how can there be any reason to take it from other people's pockets?" ”

For this answer, the lords of Zhucheng Dock Fort couldn't help laughing.

The displaced people on Wulian Mountain have a deep hatred with them, and the displaced people do not trust them at all, and they really do not want to treat the displaced people well.

Even if the Xu family gave the population, they would kill some of them as a deterrent, and the rest would be cattle and horses to make up for last year's losses as soon as possible.

Originally, they thought that it was impossible for the Xu family to take away all the population on Wulian Mountain, as long as there was one-fifth left, it would be almost enough for their own use.

But now it seems that the Xu family really has the intention of swallowing all the population in one go, which makes the lords of Zhucheng Wubao more and more anxious, if they can't even get some population, then what are they coming to fight this time?

So, after the idea of taking the population from the Xu family was rejected without accident, the lords of the dock forts in Zhucheng decided to find their own way according to what Xu Shiyang said.

Since they don't expect the displaced people to take the initiative to vote, let alone take out the already small amount of food to win people's hearts, they can only choose the method that will produce faster results - go up the mountain and grab it!