During the Dragon Boat Festival, the wheat harvest is busy, and every household goes to the wheat field.

The Dragon Boat Festival of the third year of Jingkang is happy for the farmers under the jurisdiction of the People's Protector Army. The Golden Dog army that crossed the river to the south was either wiped out by the Protector Army or expelled from the Central Plains, and there was no need to worry about the iron hooves of the Golden Dog. After months of growth, the wheat planted last winter finally turned from green to yellow, and the golden ears of wheat swayed in the south wind, waiting for the sickle to be harvested.

The harvest season is extremely heavy, and the wheat must be cut down in good weather. Otherwise, if it rains in a row, the wheat may sprout on the ears of wheat. All the peasant households did not have time to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, so they hastily drank a bowl of realgar wine, wore straw hats, held sickles, and flat shoulders, and rushed to the farmland to cut wheat with stars and moons. Although many of the farmers did not have their own land, and a third of the wheat they had worked so hard to harvest was given to the Lord's family, all the farmers were satisfied.

You must know that the land rent before Ying Tianfu was seven tenants and three of the lords. and the grain that has been beaten down shall be sold to the Lord's house. Before planting wheat in winter, led by Huang Zong and Li Bashao, the villagers and landlords of Yingtian, Xuzhou, and Caozhou gathered in Yingtianfu to hold a meeting, and the land rent must be reduced to 30%. If there are those who do not want to lower the rent, the Protector Army will buy the land and distribute it to the people of the village. Although many landlords did not want to agree, they were forced to sign a new lease contract under the clear sword and gun of the Protector Army. At the end of the meeting, Li Bashao said bitterly. "We rich people are not short of food, and without the forty percent of the food, we can still have fine clothes and food. However, if the peasants have more than 40 percent of the grain, they will live and work in peace and contentment, and they will stop thinking of being homeless people and thieves. In the end, it is all of us who profit. ”

In the past six months, seeing the rich squires from other places rushing to Yingtian for refuge with their families and mouths, the landlords of Yingtianfu felt their luck. And the farmers are even more grateful to the Protector Army. Every household has provided Li Bashao's immortal tablet. In the hearts of the peasants, Li Bashao's status is at least on a par with Yue Fei.

The farmers who harvested the wheat were tired and happy. But in the area ravaged by the Jin soldiers, all the peasant households are preparing to abandon their homes and leave the villages, join the tide of displaced people, and go to places where there is food to eat.

"Folks, our place was robbed by the golden dogs once, and robbed by the bandits three times, and the fields were barren for a winter, and now we see the wheat harvest season, but we are not allowed to put a single grain into the warehouse. Think of how many old people and children we starved to death in a spring. We can't afford to sit back and sit in the village anymore. We must flee the famine, to beg for a living. ”

In a village near Yunzhou on Jingxi Road, a young man wearing a red scarf on his head is agitating the people in the village. The people in front of him were all pale and their eyes were gloomy. The young man's words spoke to the hearts of the people. Half a bowl of grain and half a bowl of bran lasted until the wheat harvest season, but there was no wheat to harvest. The family's food stocks have been depleted, and even if there are many wild vegetables in summer, they will not live long just by eating wild vegetables. They really have no choice but to take the risk of begging. Seeing the crowd's eyes come alive, a middle-aged farmer stood up and asked, "If there is chaos today, there will be a lot of trouble all the way." Where can we beg? ”

The young man pointed in the direction of Ying Tianfu with his hand and said loudly, "Of course it's Ying Tianfu!" According to people who have been to Yingtianfu, the people of Yingtianfu have too much food to eat, and they eat four meals a day. Let's go to Yingtianfu to beg for work. If the people of Yingtian are willing to give us a mouthful of food, otherwise, then kill his mother and rob his mother. ”

As soon as they heard that they were going to Yingtianfu to beg, the farmers who were eager to try just now suddenly calmed down again. Ying Tianfu is the territory of the Protector Army, and it is the foundation of Yue Feiyue's marshal, which is the existence of copper walls and iron walls. The fourth prince of the golden dog led tens of thousands of iron horsemen, and broke into Yingtian for only a few dozen miles, and was beaten to the point that he lost his armor. How dare they, the peasants, go against the Protectors! Yue Dashuai is a star in the sky, ten zhang tall, and the big gun in his hand is hundreds of meters long, tens of thousands of farmers are not enough for Yue Dashuai to kill alone. It was the middle-aged farmer who voiced the farmers' concerns.

"Ying Tianfu is the territory of the Protector Army. How can we, the unarmed people, withstand the iron spear of Yue Dashuai? I'm afraid this road doesn't work. ”

The young man in red said confidently, "We're not going to be robbers. We just went to beg for life, and we only begged the people of Heaven to have mercy on us and reward us with a mouthful of food. We're only a few hundred farmers, how much can we eat from them? Yue Dashuai loves the people like a son, as long as we don't be bandits and robbers, the Protector Army will definitely not attack us. ”

When the hungry farmers heard this, they also nodded and said, "Yes, we only have less than a thousand people, even if we eat the leftovers of Ying Tianfu, we can survive this famine year." Let's go to Yingtianfu. ”

Seeing that the people of the entire village were moved by their words, and they went home to pack their packages and prepare to go to Yingtianfu to beg, the faces of the young man in red and the middle-aged farmer showed smug smiles.

Both of them were low-level disciples of Amitabha Buddhism. Since the fiasco of Amitabus Buddhism in Mulan Town, even Chen Shenxian was buried alive by Zhou Yi. Believers all over the world regard the Protector Army as a thorn in their side. It's a pity that the Protector Army won the hearts of the people and quickly cleaned up the power of Amitabha Buddha from Yingtian Xuzhou.

Since Zhong Xiang Zhong Tianwang and Yang Qi Yang Tianwang raised the banner of righteousness on the shore of Dongting Lake again, they swept the entire Jinghu South Road in a short period of time, and the momentum of Amitabha Buddhism was greatly shaken. The believers who were dormant on Jingxi Road began to move around, inciting a large number of hungry peasant households to move to Yingtianfu. Not only the displaced people of Jingxi Road, Hebei West Road, the southern part of the Central Plains, and even the North Shaanxi West Road, are all marching towards the Bianliang Yingtianfu area under the encouragement of well-intentioned people.

When many peasants went to Yingtianfu, they also had the intention of begging for leftovers. But they didn't know that the total number of displaced people marching towards the territory of the Protectors was at least 10 million. Even if Ying Tianfu took out all the food, he would not be able to feed so many displaced people. On the way to wandering, many young and strong refugees, under the encouragement of Amitabha Buddhism, put on red clothes and red turbans, and called themselves the Red Jacket Army.

Naturally, the Imperial Court's Secret Intelligence Division in the Central Plains would not let go of this great opportunity to destroy the Protector Army. Many celebrities and scholars who fled to Jiangnan were compassionate and compassionate, and asked Yue Fei to live up to the name of protecting the people and not let the tens of millions of children of the Emperor Song starve to death in the land of the Emperor and Song Dynasty. Zhao Gou also adopted Qin Hui's Jianyi, and in the form of a Guangfa Di newspaper, ordered Yue Fei to help the victims.

This trick is very vicious. Zhao Gou preemptively occupied the commanding heights of righteousness. If Yue Fei gave relief to the homeless, it was only following his Zhao Gou's orders. If Yue Fei doesn't help the homeless, it will be the nature of a tiger and a wolf, and he will not care for the people. And Zhao Gou will always have a good reputation for caring for the people.

Zhao Gou believes that as long as nearly 10 million displaced people flock to Yingtianfu, even if they don't eat the Protector Army, they can also drag the Protector Army down. So he appreciated Qin Hui a lot, and directly mentioned a servant of the ministry. Qin Hui finally re-entered the ranks of the current dynasty within less than a year of returning to the dynasty.

Zhao Gou actually wanted to take advantage of the time when the Protector Army was dealing with the displaced people and sent troops to attack Xuzhou Mansion. But he really couldn't find any elite soldiers who could fight the Protectors. Zhong Xiang's army has now swept through most of Jinghu South Road. If it weren't for the militia led by Zong Ze Zhangsuo, who was relegated to Jinghu South Road, to defend Changsha City, it is estimated that the entire Jinghu South Road would have changed its surname to Zhong. The house leak was even rainy, and there was also a rebel army in Poyang Lake. The bandit leader Li Qi led tens of thousands of righteous troops to attack Nanchang. At this moment, the entire imperial court is taxed on the third road of Fujian in Guangnan, and if Nanchang is lost, the imperial court will really be exhausted. Han Shizhong led the army to Poyang Lake, but Li Qi used water as a village. It was also difficult for Han Shizhong to take them down in a hurry.

It is precisely because there is a fire in his backyard that although the imperial court hates the Protector Army to the core, it is only left to let go of the cannon.

No matter how powerful the mouth cannon is, it can't be more powerful than a knife.

Facing the nearly 10 million displaced people who were pouring in to Yingtian Xuzhou, Yue Fei was frightened, but he also began to deal with it a few times. In the face of the public opinion offensive of the imperial court, Yue Fei fought back in the same way. On the one hand, he asked Huang Zong to send countless cadres to the countryside, and on the other hand, he asked the incorporated Jianghu artist storyteller Sixiang to tell the ancients, and told Zhao Gou's conspiracy in the form of a story. The people who harvested the wheat often laughed loudly, but also trampled Zhao Gou's sacredness under their feet. More importantly, through these measures, Yue Fei first gathered the hearts of the people in Yingtian, Xuzhou, Caozhou, and Bianliang. He wanted to let the people understand that only by following the Protector Army could they live and work in peace and contentment in such a year of military turmoil.

Faced with the unstoppable tide of displaced people, Yue Fei used another method. On his side, he sent cavalry to fight against the Red Jacket Army, which had turned into bandits. On the other hand, he also sent people to blend in with the homeless people and persuade them to beg for work in other places.

In order to deal with the most terrible homeless, Yue Fei specially wrote a letter to Zhang Gong, the commander of Tiegu County, who held the calf village, to Kaide Mansion to assist Niu Gao in dealing with the homeless. Zhang Gong was proficient in civil affairs, and soon divided some of the displaced people on Hebei West Road and went to Zhending Mansion and Daimyofu to farm. The Zhending Mansion and the Daimyo's Mansion were repeatedly killed by the Jin soldiers, and the original inhabitants had long since disappeared, so it was just right for these displaced people to make their homes on the spot.

Zhang Heng, the boat on Jingxi Road, also showed his skills in this tide of displaced people. Although he didn't understand civil affairs, there was an extremely cunning Liu Jinshi who gave him advice, and he used both soft and hard measures against the homeless people who wanted to go to Yingtianfu, and finally stopped half of the homeless.

Even so, half of the tide of displaced people instigated by Amitabha Buddhism still approached the territory of the Protectors. At this point, Yue Fei couldn't think of any other way.

If four or five million displaced people poured into Yingtian Xuzhou together, these two places would be completely destroyed immediately. Because there is only so much grain produced in these two places, it is really impossible to feed so many mouths. More importantly, since the rise of the Protector Army, nearly 10 million displaced people have been received, and it has really reached its limit. Both the population and food reserves are on the verge of collapse.

Faced with the information of the displaced people sent by Caozhou, the information of the displaced people sent by Huaibei, and the information of the displaced people sent by Luoyang, Yue Fei had a headache. In the end, he finally signed his name on the strategy offered by Xue Bi.

"Intercept displaced people from entering the territory of the Protector Army. Instigating displaced people to go to Jiangnan. ”

Yue Fei knew that once this order was issued to the locality, at least hundreds of thousands of displaced people would die. But the world's major events are not fairy tales, and there is simply no way to get the best of both worlds.