"Daddy, why are we leaving the house?"

"Silly boy, Daddy doesn't want to! But if we don't escape, we will have a big battle there, and if we don't flee now, we may have to lose all of our family at that time. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

"And where are we going to flee now?"

"Daddy doesn't know, let's take one step at a time. But I've heard that as long as we follow those people, we can go to a good place and settle down again......"

…… These are probably the most common conversations among the displaced people who fled Jingzhou. And the homeless people themselves have a kind of blind obedience, as if when they don't know where to go, they will consciously follow the leader.

Let's say that after Lu Ren crossed over, he has almost always been dealing with the homeless group since he officially took office, so Lu Ren is also very clear about the mentality of the homeless group. What Lu Ren has to do now is to take advantage of the period of the Battle of Chibi to steal people from the Jingzhou area, and of course he has been prepared for this kind of thing.

For example, the section of the road from Shaoguan to Guiyang, the straight-line distance is less than 200 kilometers, but Lu Ren assigned no less than 20 "caravans" to Xu Shu, and these "caravan" merchants are only part-time, the real purpose is to guide the displaced people in Jingzhou to go to Shaoguan smoothly, and then guide the displaced people to go south along the Qujiang River to Guangzhou after arriving in Shaoguan. When you get to Guangzhou, it will be convenient to take a boat from Guangzhou to the sea, go northeast along the coastline to Quanzhou, and then divert from Quanzhou to Yizhou.

To be honest, this route is actually quite far, for example, Guangzhou is on the coast of Guangdong Province, and Quanzhou is in Fujian, and the sea distance between the two is nearly 800 kilometers. However, the Southern Sea route that Lu Ren has on hand is Yizhou & gt; Quanzhou & gt; Guangzhou & gt; The four main points of Zhuya have been opened up a long time ago, and there is no problem with the sea route, so the really difficult to walk is the road between Guiyang and Shaoguan.

In order to ensure the distance from Guiyang to Shaoguan, Lu Ren specially sent Xu Shu over to sit in Quanzhou. In fact, Lu Ren really wanted Xu Shu to go directly to Guangzhou, but considering the importance of Quanzhou to Yizhou's defense, he could only let Xu Shu dispatch Guangzhou in Quanzhou. However, Lu Ren sent two good helpers to Xu Shu, one was that Xu Shu took Deng Ai with him when he set off from Yizhou, and the other was that Lu Ren gave another order to transfer Xu Shu's good buddy Shi Tao to Guangzhou. With this trio, coupled with the telegraph communication between Quanzhou and Guangzhou, I believe there should be no problems.

Lu Ren will choose Changsha & gt; Gyeyang & gt; Shaoguan & gt; Guangzhou & gt; Quanzhou & gt; Such a route in Yizhou also has its own reasons. For example, if the line from Changsha to Guiyang goes directly to the east and then turns to Quanzhou, not only is the land distance too long and the road is mountainous, but the most important thing is to enter Sun Quan's territory on the way, and Sun Quan will sit back and let these displaced people go to Quanzhou through their own territory? I'm afraid it's impossible to think about it with your toes, okay?

Secondly, Lu Ren also considered that in addition to Yizhou, Guangzhou, Quanzhou, and Zhuya all need to supplement the population base, and the displaced people are not necessarily willing to go to Yizhou by boat, so those who are unwilling to go to Yizhou can arrange them to Guangzhou, Zhuya, and Quanzhou by the way. Among them, Zhuya is not a smooth road, but it is only about 500 kilometers from Guangzhou to the southwest, Lu Cheng and Lu Xin have been building Zhuya mines in Zhuya for the past two years, and there is a great demand for human resources. In addition, Guangzhou itself, which at the present time also included Macao and Hong Kong in later generations, also had an indispensable need for human resources. Of course, at this time, Macao and Hong Kong were not as important as later generations, and were mainly used as secondary dock locations.

Lu Ren calculated such an account, that is, since Lao Cao went south to Jingzhou, in addition to the big battle of the Battle of Chibi, there were many messy, fragmentary, and small battles. Leave him alone, anyway, Jingzhou will have a long period of turmoil. And through this turbulent period, it should be possible to steal about 100,000 people from the Jingzhou area.

This is not nonsense, Jingzhou had more than ten years of peace before the Battle of Chibi, and Liu Biao pursued a strategy of not causing trouble and only developing with peace of mind on his own territory, so the population base of Jingzhou was very high at that time, and a single sentence of "more than 100,000 with armor" was enough to prove the population of Jingzhou. With such a foundation, it seems that it is not difficult for Lu Ren to steal a population of about 100,000 people when Jingzhou is in the midst of war. Just kidding, it's like using a percentage-based blood-sucking skill in the game, of course, you can't suck much blood from a character with brittle skin and thin blood, but it's not the same from a blood-cow-type character, and isn't the current Jingzhou area just a "blood cow"-like existence?

However, it is said that after Lu Ren finished the festival in Yizhou, the time had already come to March of the thirteenth year of Jian'an, and the battle for power between Liu Bei and Liu Cong was in the first month, which means that the battle in Jingzhou has been fought for two months. In the past two months, how many displaced people will flee the war in Jingzhou will occur, I am afraid that no one can calculate clearly.

However, Shi Tao, who is now in Guangzhou, may know a little more, and he is sitting in front of the telegraph at this moment, "Di Di Di" patting the telegram, but if Lu Ren knows what Shi Tao is filming now, his nose will be crooked...... Xu Shu and Shi Tao are both high-level internal personnel in the Luren group, and of course they know how to use the telegraph. And these two simply made up a set of code by themselves, and actually used this code to chat when they didn't have anything important to do!

In other words, this kind of thing is actually very common in modern society, that is, people in a certain circle, who can speak well, but like to use the internal password of the circle to communicate, and the most common may be the so-called "black language" or "jargon". And some people in the IT circle often communicate with code. And Xu Shu and Shi Tao are considered to be people in a certain circle, and their relationship is very good, so it is normal to have some such problems.

Fortunately, Xu Shu greeted Lu Ren before this, originally intending not to affect the communication of several other receiving points, Lu Ren simply told Xu Shu that the transmitter could adjust the band by itself, and let Xu Shu and Shi Tao choose a band by themselves. The original transmitter was to carry out relay communication, and it used the same band as far north as Jeju Island and Nanpi where Zhao Yu is located, and south to Zhuya where Lu Cheng and Lu Xin are located. Now because it is to steal a large number of people from Jingzhou, it is also appropriate for Xu Shu and Shi Tao to have their own band channel to facilitate communication, but Lu Ren didn't expect that Xu Shu and Shi Tao would make their own encoding for chatting.

I won't talk about this, just talk about the conversation between Xu Shu and Shi Tao at this time.

Shi Tao: "Three days later, you sent a boat to Guangzhou to pick up people. ”

Xu Shu: "How many homeless people have been collected so far?" ”

Shi Tao: "Not much, about 5,000." Among them, 800 went to Zhuya, 1,200 stayed in Guangzhou, and 3,000 were transported away. ”

Xu Shu: "So much? ”

Shi Tao: "Not much, really not much." The war in Jingzhou has started, and there are many displaced people who have fled the war, and the current 5,000 is only the first batch that we have received. According to the scouts, there are many displaced people along the way from Guiyang to Shaoguan, and it is difficult to count. ”

Xu Shu: "Do you need more people from my department to help you?" ”

Shi Tao: "It's better to transfer some." The number of displaced people fleeing the war is greater than you can imagine, and I am short on manpower. In addition, you should not leave Quanzhou lightly, it is best to transfer Shizai to our place, and he will lead someone to Shaoguan to supervise. ”

Xu Shu: "Yes." However, Shizai is still young, and it may be difficult to convince the public, so you need more support. ”

Shi Tao: "This is natural. By the way, when I heard about the Yizhou Festival, Miss Lan performed on stage twice? ”

Xu Shu: "I heard so. ”

Shi Tao: "It's a pity! It's a pity that you and I can't be in Yizhou for some reason, and I can see Miss Lan's stunning skills......"

Well, the latter words are already crooked in modern terms...... However, as Shi Tao said, the number of refugees in Jingzhou was indeed beyond Lu Ren's expectations. However, at that time, the aversion of the common people to war was also indescribable.

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The few days of festivals in the small town of Yizhou can no longer be described as lively. Just imagine, the main residents of Yizhou are all migrated from the war-torn Central Plains, and after arriving in Yizhou, not only can they no longer suffer from the war, but also live a stable and prosperous life.

However, after the madness of the festival, the small town of Yizhou soon returned to its previous situation. A few days later, Lu Xun's fleet back to Jiangdong left the dock, and Lu Ren personally bid Lu Xun farewell. As for Sun Shangxiang, she still stayed in Yizhou, this girl won't go back if she doesn't have a good time, anyway, Sun Quan also agreed. As for why Sun Quan agreed, Lu Ren said very clearly in his heart.

The Yizhou Mansion resumed normal operations after the festival, and at this moment, Lu Ren listened to the reports from all sides in the Yali and asked everyone's opinions to make certain political changes. was busy until dusk, everyone left one by one, Lu Ren sat on the seat and rubbed his eyes and pressed his head, he was really a little tired.

"Sir, take a sip of tea."

Zhen Mi, who was in charge of Yizhou's main finances, smiled and put a cup of fragrant tea on Lu Ren's desk, and Lu Ren thanked him and drank half a cup in one go. After drinking tea, Lu Ren shook his head a little dizzy, and asked Zhen Mi: "Xiao Mi, if you don't go back earlier, most likely there is something important to discuss with me, right?" ”

Zhen Mi nodded, knelt down next to Lu Ren and said, "Sir, I have counted with the officials of the treasury in the past few days...... We may be issuing the first silver banknotes. (To be continued.) )