Shi Yiqiu has been living in Lanting for a few days, and according to the reports of several maids who Zhao Fu arranged to take care of her, Shi Yiqiu has not been abnormal these days, and there are no signs of hunger strikes or the like, but she is stunned every day with the clothes that Lin Haoyan left in this courtyard. They had lived in this courtyard for some time, and some clothes were not taken away at that time, and they wanted to keep them for the next time they came, anyway, Lin Haoyan had a lot of clothes. It's just that I didn't expect that there would be no next time, and these clothes have become one of the few items related to Lin Haoyan that Shi Yiqiu has.

Zhao Fu let out a long sigh, thinking that he probably needed to slow down for a while. Fortunately, in this tense situation, he can always find a lot of important things to do.

For example, refugees, although the Zhao family announced the date of the founding of the country, and even sent invitations to the major forces, this does not mean that they have stopped the pace of conquering cities.

The expansion of the Zhao family also ignited the ambitions of other careerists, and expansion and annexation suddenly became the theme of the whole world.

In short, this is the general trend, even if Zhao Fu wants to stop it, he is powerless, even if he is a nominal general who commands the army of the whole country, but this whole country is only the whole country half a year ago.

Zhao Fu deeply felt this sense of powerlessness, peace was clearly a reasonable choice, but everyone was crazy into the war, whether it was strong or weak.

In Zhao Fu's view, the top priority is to appease the refugees who are pouring in from all over the country, after all, these people are still the people of the Lanhe Empire, Lin Sixing can not go out of retreat, but he can't.

Fortunately, the northwest is large enough that even if there is a large influx of refugees, it will not be very crowded, and after the emergency control is implemented, the army goes directly to the border and major towns, and the whole northwest is still stable.

The only problem is food, which has been closely linked to poor harvests since ancient times. When the men took up arms and went to war, the land in the rear could only be cared for by women, the elderly and children, which was a fatal blow to the production of food. If the war lasts long enough to miss the next season's sowing, it will directly lead to famine, and the war is fought against the strength of the country, and the most important point is food, and the daily consumption of food by the army is astronomical.

Although the northwest was the most important military region of the Lanhe Empire, and a large amount of grain and grass was stored in various places, it was obviously not enough in the face of the war that could burn at any time and the refugees who had been pouring in.

Judging from yesterday's report, the number of refugees pouring into the northwest has reached more than 2 million, which is a very frightening number. He Zhao Fu initially made a big mistake in his calculations with Xia Ying, Yang Fengyu and others in the town guard mansion, and they thought that if there were four or five hundred thousand refugees, they would already be able to reach the sky.

Although there are a large number of 450,000 refugees, there is no problem at all in distributing them to the entire northwest, but on the contrary, it can alleviate the dilemma of the vast and sparsely populated northwest to a certain extent, and the grain reserves will be enough to support the next bumper harvest.

But several times the estimated figure really hit Zhao Fu, and the number is still rising, and a large number of refugees will enter the northwest every day.

Most of the credit for this is due to Lin Sixing, the northwest was originally the border of the Lanhe Empire, and now after the independence of various local regimes, it is inevitable to go to the northwest through Lin Sixing or the Zhao family's sphere of influence, and the vast majority of refugees choose to borrow from the territory of Lin Sixing's Lin royal family, after all, in the eyes of many people, the Zhao family is the culprit of all this, although Lin Sixing doesn't know what kind of emperor he is, but he is also the Lin royal family who has ruled them for a long time.

Lin Sixing welcomed the incident with the refugees, and he smiled and snatched a lot of money from each of the refugees, and then drove them to the northwest, leaving all the poverty and hunger to Zhao Fu.

And after learning that the Lin royal family did not resist the large-scale migration of this refugee wave, it further encouraged the people who migrated to the northwest.

Zhao Fu is not only the equal king of the previous emperor, but also a well-known general in the world, not to mention that now the threat of the Hu people to the northwest has been eliminated, and it is difficult for the flames of the civil war to burn to the northwest, plus Zhao Fu publicly stated that he would accept refugees.

The northwest suddenly went from the bitter cold land of the Lanhe Empire to the safest paradise now, and countless people who longed for stability and escape from the war came here with their families and mouths.

Feng Yu was also among the people who came to take refuge, and he was not lost, but curious. He had heard of Zhao Fu's deeds a long time ago, from the original Xingchen to the current power in the northwest, becoming a terrorist warlord with hundreds of thousands of self-respecting troops, Feng Yu had heard of it.

Feng Yu was very curious, what kind of person was Lin Haoyan's appreciation overnight, became the king of the northwest, and then eliminated the Northern Hu, opened the Hu Han trade road, and now it is at this time to accept refugees displaced by the war.

In Feng Yu's view, Zhao Fu is very much like the kind of savior who will help the building and turn the tide as the master said. Moreover, the northwest is indeed one of the most stable areas at present, and even many wealthy families in the imperial capital have plans to move some family members to Lanting. Although according to Xiaolian, death is also an experience that needs to be savored slowly, but he is not willing to die young.

In this way, instead of going to the unknown and turbulent East, it is better to go to the northwest first to see what this Zhao Fu is from. Feng Yu thought so.

No one expected that the current second economic and political center was not the Zhao family, which was gaining momentum, but Lanting City in the northwest.

This wave of refugees and immigrants inadvertently coerced by the Zhao family, promoted by the Lin royal family, and implemented in the northwest, is known as the "Western Development" in history.

Zhao Fu didn't know that he had been targeted, and he was still having a headache about food. Lin Sixing's release policy can be described as very vicious, transferring all the risks to the northwest, even if the refugees make trouble, it will not affect his sphere of influence centered on the imperial capital, and with the continuous influx of refugees, the northwest's finances will definitely be unable to make ends meet in a short period of time until it collapses.

The northwest was not the grain producing place of the Lanhe Empire, it did not have the fertile land and superior climate and environment in the south of the Yangtze River, and the grain stored in the granary was definitely not as good as the imperial capital, let alone the Zhao family, which was rich and rivaled.

Lin Sixing was waiting for the economy of the northwest to naturally disintegrate and collapse, and when the time came, he could easily negotiate with Zhao Fu about the conditions with a large amount of grain in hand. can even recover the northwest region without bloodshed, at this point, whether it is the Lin family in the imperial capital, or the Zhao family, there is an unexpected tacit understanding.

(End of chapter)