Adhering to the idea of expanding the strength of his own race, Xie Jingjun along the way, constantly showing great compassion, and constantly gathering those small families in his own team, after receiving gratitude over and over again, the strength of the Xie family is constantly growing, first of all, it can be seen from the scale of the team in front of him, it was originally more than 5,000 people, and now it has reached the scale of 30,000 people.

The two sides of the road along the way have been covered with fresh tombs, which are small families that do not have much population at all, under the torture of hunger, cold and disease, they have no ability to take care of their own people, so they can only throw them into the wilderness, and the ditches along the way are full of torn and broken corpses by foxwolves, fortunately it is winter, otherwise an inevitable plague will break out.

But to tell the truth, in the hearts of all Cao Wei, I wish that a huge plague would break out in the Central Plains, if that, whoever occupies their former homeland will suffer a devastating demographic blow, such a thing, in the hearts of all those who migrate, there is no burden of conscience and guilt, but think that this is a kind of God's retribution, retribution for those who invade their homeland.

The further south you go, the more densely populated you should be, but the result is that there are thousands of miles of uninhabited people, those who should have moved have moved away, and those who should have died have already died.

The eldest son came and quietly told his father: "Now we don't have much food in stock, but there are no people along the way, even if we buy gold and silver by hand, we can't buy it, and the merchants who sold materials have also lost their whereabouts because of the relocation of the family or the progress of the war, what should we do next?" Then he had to make a careful proposal: "No, we should reduce the various seeds we bring with us, so that everyone can eat a full meal, so that we can have the strength to continue the journey." ”

Xie Jingjun frowned and said: "Now pass the word, the daily ration will be reduced from the original one catty to half a catty a day, and mobilize men, women, and children to scavenge everything that can be eaten, but you must remember that if anyone dares to touch those seeds, there will be no mercy." ”

The rations were halved, and the old and young along the way began to weaken, and the speed of the whole team slowed down again.

"Abandon those weak slaves directly."

Groups of frail slaves were left on the side of the road, and no matter how much they pleaded, they did not respond.

"Snatch the food of those who follow us."

The small families who had taken refuge in their own family were robbed of their belongings, and then the Xie family drove these small families who did not have any materials, property and food to the wilderness and left them to fend for themselves.

"Kick the old man out of our family."

The cold order was carried out, and the old and weak people in the family were abandoned, and instead of crying and pleading, they stood on the side of the road, watching their relatives cry and go away, and finally died of cold and starvation along the way.

"Drive the women out."

Groups of women were left to fend for themselves on the side of the road, and no one looked at their pitiful pleadings, no one at their thin bodies shivering in the cold wind.

As long as the men of the family are left, the family has the hope of multiplying, and as long as it survives to the south of the Yangtze River, the family will prosper again.

Cao Wei's army had built two huge pontoon bridges over the Yangtze River, and the north was crossing the families in the south day and night.

Then the Dantu ferry began to disperse in all directions, like mercury pouring into the land south of the Yangtze River.

The captain of the Cao Wei army, who was in charge of escorting and protecting, stood at the place where they parted and separated from Xie Jingjun: "We can only protect here, and then I will take my team to Dantu to participate in the siege battle, and the rest of the way can only rely on you and ask for more blessings." ”

Xie Jingjun gratefully bowed his hand: "Thank you to the general for protecting all the way, the rest of the road is our own, let us wish the Great Wei Zhongxing together." ”

Here, the surviving small and large families are once again reunited and begin to move into their uncharted territory.

The Xie family is not without roots in Jiangnan, just like the original Wang family, as early as the beginning of the Three Kingdoms turmoil, this family had already branched out to go down to Jiangnan to avoid chaos.

This is the strategy that all families are adopting in this world, not to put the whole family together, but to split them up, distribute them to various regions, multiply there, and continue to continue the bloodline of the family, in case one of the families in one place fails due to war and the forces they have taken refuge in, then the other family branches will continue to continue the bloodline of this family.

In the land of China, the family is the real foundation and the bloodline that has lasted for thousands of years.

For example, the Xie family, so the branch of the family in Jiangnan has blossomed and scattered in Jiangnan, and some of them have become high-ranking officials in the Jiangdong Group.

Now, as long as Xie Jingjun crosses the Yangtze River with the vitality of his family and rushes to the area of the original family, then the entire family will live.

Therefore, at all costs, to keep the man in the family is a victory.

At this time, the family branches that had already branched out in the south sent people to respond, and they even brought a force of more than 1,000 people and a small amount of food, which made Xie Jingjun feel very relieved.

Asked in detail about the situation here, and he was even more happy, now the Jiangnan family branch has gained a foothold in the local area, especially through the method of marriage with the local clan, and has won the recognition of the local ethnic group, and now they have a piece of land that really belongs to their own family, within the sphere of influence they own, the land that can be cultivated is not less than 000,000 mu, which also pleases the late development of the south at that time, and it is really vast and sparsely populated.

"With this 00,000 mu of land, our family will prosper again, now I will hand over the clansmen of Nandu to you, I will step down from the position of patriarch, let the two branches merge, and then I will go to the King of Wei to report and continue to shelter our family from the wind and rain."

In this way, Xie Jingjun handed over the ancestral tablet of the family patriarch to the Jiangnan patriarch, and then said goodbye to the clansmen, and went alone to find Cao Pi in the line of King Wei who was on the front line of the Dantu.