Seeing the wounded man being carried down, the room fell silent, and after a while, Zhao Jin turned to Zhong Gonghui and said: "I will arrange more than a dozen guards for you, you pretend to be a merchant who traffics goods, go back to Fengyang Mansion now, see what happened, inquire about the news clearly and come back, you don't have to worry too much, I promise you must do it." ”

"Bingfeng, you arrange for the good players in your horse team to follow, and Xiao Yong also arranges a few people." Zhao Jin gave an order, and everyone over there agreed.

Liu Yong will arrange all the details of this kind of makeup inquiry, Zhong Gonghui originally wanted to kneel here and beg to kowtow, but when the situation became like this, he also left with interest.

Speaking of the horse team, Zhao Jin remembered Qi San, turned his head and asked again, "How is Qi San now?" ”

"Big brother, Qi San's side is currently only in charge of the internal affairs of the horse team, but he is also very diligent and meticulous, and everyone is praising it." Dong Bingfeng replied.

"His two elder brothers will not leave the city now, but a few of their brothers should have discussed, and each of them is very calm, usually talking and laughing," Liu Yong hurriedly added.

After saying a few words, he found that Zhao Jin suddenly fell silent, a few people in the room looked at each other, and they all quieted down, the situation in front of him is indeed very troublesome, although there are only a few thousand people at present, but the next number is more than 50,000 to 60,000, so many people have consumed materials and silver money has moved the foundation of Zhao Ziying, not to mention that this is a taboo that it touches, and now it is facing that Xuzhou can no longer accommodate it.

Chen Huang, Wang Zhaojing, Ji Xiang, Shi Manqiang, Dong Bingfeng, and Liu Yong all grew up with Zhao Jin, and Cao Ruhui and Zhou Xuezhi are also natives of Xuzhou.

You look at me, I look at you, after the eye exchange, everyone still looked at Zhao Jin, Zhao Jin will definitely be able to come up with an idea, whenever they are embarrassed, everyone will think so.

"Call Qi San to come here." Zhao Jin said suddenly.

Immediately someone shouted to pass the order outside, and the family on duty ran out, Zhao Jin said in a deep voice: "These people must be in their hands, we don't know if it will be a disaster year next year or the year after tomorrow, and there are not so many people for us to recruit, so these people must." ”

Everyone nodded their heads, and now that the decision has been made, the next thing is just how to do it.

"We thought wrong before, thinking that we had to steal to recruit homeless people in Fengyang Mansion, otherwise it would be a big trouble, but now this practice has to be changed, Mr. Cao, do you have anything to do with Fengyang Mansion?" Zhao Jin asked.

Yunshan Temple has a wide range of contacts, not to mention that it was sheltered by the Fengyang garrison eunuchs back then, so it naturally has something to do with that side, Ruhui nodded and admitted, and Zhao Jin said again: "You take the silver to buy land in Fengyang Mansion, the fields and barren mountains north of Fuli Bridge, just spend money to buy it, and the local landlords in Fengyang Mansion recruit displaced people, who dares to say that it is not?"

Everyone was stunned, and then a smile appeared on their faces, Fengyang Mansion and Xuzhou are adjacent to each other, buy a big grange in the adjacent place, collect the displaced people, and then ship it out directly, anyway, their own grange is for their own use, and no one can say anything wrong.

Ruhui had a smile on her face, nodded again and again, and said, "The proprietor has a clever plan, and his subordinates will arrange it immediately." ”

Agreed here, Qi San had been brought outside, and that crying and asking Zhao Jin for revenge had no result, it is estimated that the Qi brothers also knew their recklessness, and they returned to the cautiousness they were when they first met

As soon as he entered the door, he saluted, and Zhao Jin asked straight to the point: "You said that you were born in Huai'an Mansion, are you familiar with that side?" ”

Qi San was still a little ignorant, and subconsciously nodded and replied: "The little one has been there for more than ten years, and he is very familiar with it. ”

These two questions were asked, Shi Manqiang didn't understand yet, Ji Xiang was thoughtful, and Chen Huang, Wang Zhaojing, Liu Yong and Ruhui all looked at Zhao Jin, with an incredulous expression on their faces, Zhou Xuezhi was stunned and raised his head

"From our Xuzhou to the grass nest that can hide people, it takes a few days to walk, is it convenient to walk?" Zhao Jin continued to ask.

Qi San was stunned, and then replied: "It's convenient, go all the way along the Yellow River, there are no cities on both sides, and there are few big towns, and the Yellow River will be frozen in more than ten days, and the canal will also be frozen, and Luoma Lake will be frozen at least half, and it is very convenient to cross the river and lake, and you can walk how you go when you enter the grass nest." ”

"Big brother, in a few days, it will be cold, and if I go to the deserted barren grassy beach, I am afraid that I will not even have a place to live, and going there will be a dead end." Wang Zhaojing said worriedly.

Zhao Jin didn't have any expression on his face, but said indifferently: "The world is so big, only I give them a place to stay, they should be satisfied, they are a dead end in Fengyang Mansion, and there may be a glimmer of life there." ”

He didn't shy away from Qi San below, Qi San was confused at first, but at this time he was stunned, and he didn't know if Lu Dao understood, and hurriedly said there: "Master, in fact, it's not that you can't get food, when the grass nest has not yet had an accident, many disaster victims have fled in autumn and winter, they work for the big households in Pizhou, and there are a lot of renovation and labor work in the winter on the side of Luoma Lake that need manpower, and Yu Cao and some production in the grass nest can be taken to Pizhou for food."

"What's the grain over there?"

"There are a lot of grain warehouses over there, and many people get grain in the summer and sell it in the winter." Qi San said familiarly.

Zhao Jin nodded slowly, and said: "The grain used to exchange for wine is estimated to be the same way, so it is not a desperate situation over there, and some people can survive." ”

Qi San figured it out at this time, knelt on the ground with a plop, and said earnestly: "Master, the small one is very familiar with that side, the huge barren grassland, and only where there is a river and water can people live, and there must be convenient dry roads and waterways, otherwise people can't get in and out, and the goods are the same, and the small ones are willing to go there to lead the way."

"When I can use you, don't tell the public what I said today, you go down first," Zhao Jin said.

Qi San hurriedly kowtowed and agreed, and got up and went out with excitement on his face.

"He is smart, he can think that if we go to the grass nest of Huai'an Mansion, we will inevitably have a conflict with the Feng family, and then he will have hope of revenge or something." Zhao Jin laughed and teased.

Wang Zhaojing had a worried look on his face, and reminded in a solemn voice: "Big brother, the Feng family is powerful, we are already in some trouble to recruit displaced people, and there is a conflict with them again?" ”

"Xuzhou is too small, we are cramped to do a lot of things now, we have to go out, we can only go to Huai'an Mansion and Fengyang Mansion now, then there will inevitably be conflicts, however, their family can't do it blatantly in the grass nest, we won't suffer"

In late October, Zhao Ziying's side was busy, and intermittently a team of hundreds of displaced people arrived in Xuzhou, some of them simply settled in Zhao Ziying's side, and some went directly to those shelters.

Because the porridge shed was erected early, everyone did not feel strange about the arrival of these displaced people, but took it for granted.

Ruhui took dozens of people to Fengyang Mansion, Xuzhou and Fengyang Mansion are places to believe in Buddhism, there is a signboard of Yunshan Temple, it is also very easy to use in Suzhou, Suzhou and Xuzhou are different, the fields in Suzhou are relatively fertile and flat, and there are many rivers passing through, and irrigation is also very easy.

However, Suzhou is not much richer than Xuzhou, Suzhou is the gateway to the north of Fengyang, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, where the Ming Emperor's Mausoleum is located, and it is the place where the sinners of the clan are imprisoned, it can be called the most important place in the world, Fengyang Mansion is stationed in the army, and there is a large number of teams to maintain the imperial tomb, and there are quite a lot of people guarding the clan.

Providing for such a large number of people, the tax and levy were heavier than in other prefectures and counties, and although the number of officials was normal, the actual additional fire consumption and so on were much heavier than in other places.

There are also some strange reasons, it is said that this Fengyang has produced the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, and most of those founding heroes are Huaixi people, which can be regarded as a blessed land, but in fact, it is not, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Fengyang Mansion has been full of disasters, floods, droughts, locust plagues, and even several major plagues.

Heavy taxation and forced labor coupled with frequent natural disasters have made the people flee one after another, and nearly 100 disasters and small disasters decades ago have made the people even feel panicked, and there are many rumors in private, and more related to the Zhu family, these rumors about the royal family are naturally strictly prohibited, and those who are caught are all raided and destroyed, which makes the people's livelihood further wither.

However, since the Hongzhi year, Fengyang Mansion has been somewhat better, although the famine is more frequent than other places, but it has been improved, and the people's livelihood has slowly recovered, but after 20 years of Wanli, it is tossed again.

The local vitality was greatly damaged, and the people fled one after another, and even the governor of Fengyang, who was also the governor of Caoyun, moved the official office to Taizhou.

What's more, there is such a catastrophe this year, although there is fertile and flat land, despite the river irrigation, there is still no human population in sight, and the fields are full of wild grass, but people who understand agricultural affairs can see that such land and conditions will have a good harvest as long as they are cultivated carefully, but now Fengyang Mansion is full of such good fields, which are not worth anything at all.

A large amount of land has been concentrated in the hands of more than a dozen large households in Suzhou, but after Ruhui opened a price two percent higher than the market price, he still bought a large piece of land, and a large amount of cash was smashed down, no one could not be moved, and even people from neighboring prefectures and counties came to ask if Ruhui still needed land.