There is no doubt that the news that Yangzhou is about to be turned to death is a rumor.

However, the more rumors there are, the faster they spread, especially when natural disasters continue and people are panicking, the spread of rumors is like putting on wings.

What's more, there is an official behind this rumor!

In fact, if there is a force or organization that investigates the source of the rumor in detail, it will find that it comes from within the official Pingzhou!

Intentionally or unintentionally, the rumors became more and more outrageous, and even the absurd statement that Tengu was born and swallowed the entire Yangzhou in one bite came out.

Of course, people with a little bit of intelligence don't believe this statement, but there are other rumors that people have to believe.

For example, Pingzhou's grain stocks will be exhausted, and Shanggong will not be able to continue to help the victims, and the Pingzhou disaster relief force will be fully withdrawn from Yangzhou in a month!

The more broad-minded people are, the easier it is to believe this "rumor", on the contrary, those ordinary low-level residents are more inclined to Tengu to devour unreliable things like Yangzhou.

The disaster relief efforts in Pingzhou are so great that the princes are secretly frightened, such a huge consumption, it is reasonable to hold on, if it can continue to last, it is not scientific!

Therefore, as soon as the statement that Pingzhou was running out of food and that Shang Ji planned to give up disaster relief came out, it was immediately widely recognized and widely circulated.

What's even worse is that at this critical juncture, Pingzhou officials not only came forward to refute the rumors, but also slightly reduced the food quota, although the reason given is that the sea and land are not smooth, resulting in the failure of food to be delivered in time, but in the minds of ordinary people, this undoubtedly confirms the news that Pingzhou does not have much food!

In this case, the panic began to spread rapidly.

However, Chen Ang, who was in charge of disaster relief work in Yangzhou, did not panic at all, and was even a little proud.

The panicked situation was brought about by his control, and even the reduction of food quotas was done under his initiative, not because of boredom, but because of the persecution of these refugees and immigrants!

Since ancient times, the Chinese people have a strong idea of relocating to the land, even if they suffer disasters and have to leave temporarily, but their hearts are always thinking of returning to their homeland.

And because of the previous views, many people also regard Pingzhou and other places as bitter cold places, and if they are not forced to do so, Yangzhou people will rarely take the initiative to migrate to Pingzhou.

Chen Ang is well versed in human nature, so he deliberately created and spread rumors, on the one hand, to publicize the news that "Yangzhou is going to die", and on the other hand, to artificially create panic by reducing food quotas.

While doing these things, Chen Ang never mentioned immigration and other matters, and deliberately put on a posture that we are not a rare population, making full use of people's rebellious psychology to form a reverse promotion effect.

Although the means are not bright, the effect is surprisingly good.

Now, for example, a large crowd of people fell to their knees and begged Chen Ang to allow them to move to Pingzhou.

Although Chen Ang was happy in his heart, his face was not exposed at all, but he pretended to be embarrassed, declaring that he did not have the right to migrate people on a large scale, and he needed to ask Xiangping for instructions.

The crowd was suddenly a little flustered, crying and pleading, and the old man and the drooping child rushed to Chen Ang together, begging Chen Ang for help.

Chen Ang immediately hugged and cried with the homeless people, and said that even if he admonished him to death, he would find a way for his father and ordinary people to live.

Subsequently, Chen Ang immediately ordered a returning cargo ship to dock and selected the first batch of 20,000 immigrants to board the ship.

In order to snatch the 20,000 boarding places, the immigrants almost broke out into a large-scale riot, but fortunately, Chen Ang had been prepared, and the patrol team and the sailor Lu Yong jointly suppressed the pressure to barely maintain order.

As the first migrants set sail, the mood of the remaining victims became even more agitated.

Chen Ang waited for another three days, estimating that the refugees' emotions had accumulated to the peak, and then publicly announced that Shang Gong had mercy on the people, allowed the victims to move to Pingzhou, and provided farm tools, livestock, rations, seeds, etc., according to the size of the migrant population, to help the victims tide over the difficulties.

As soon as these words came out, the victims of the disaster all cheered and regarded Shang Ji as a reborn parent.

However, these policies were originally the inherent preferential treatment of immigrants to Pingzhou, and Chen Ang greatly improved the victims' sense of identity with Pingzhou and their gratitude to Shangji without spending a dime more by accurately controlling people's hearts!

Subsequently, the large-scale migration of the victims was fully launched, and the large junk ship from Pingzhou was loaded with food and other relief materials when it came, and when it returned, it took a boatload of migrants with it.

The carrying capacity of large junk ships is very strong, transporting disaster victims, squeezing a ship can carry 3-50,000 people, and under normal circumstances, it takes about half a month to run a trip.

The 3,000 large junk ships can theoretically carry more than 100 million victims in half a month.

However, this is only theoretical, in practice there are not that many at all.

On the one hand, the people did not gather so quickly, and on the other hand, some tonnage needed to be freed up to carry the goods.

Yangzhou has suffered a disaster, there is no grain harvest, and the hungry people are waiting to be fed, but it does not mean that the hungry people have no wealth. Because the disaster came so suddenly, the grain spoiled in a short period of time, but other things did not have a big impact.

As a well-known and wealthy place in the world, even after deducting real estate such as houses and acres, there is still a large amount of wealth, which of course cannot be directly discarded, and many of them are directly shipped to Pingzhou.

Moreover, a city like Shouchun was hit by a strong earthquake, and the entire city was almost destroyed. But after the destruction of the city, those high-value building materials, special minerals, and various rare resources are all good things that are hard to find, how can Shang Ji easily let them go?

As a result, only about 50 million refugees are carried on each boat, and the rest of the space is loaded with precious supplies.

Shang Ji here is a big fanfare of the migration victims, and the other princes are not blind, and they have begun to take action.

Now, the princes with a little insight have realized the importance of people, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Sun Ce, Liu Biao and the princes who are close to the severely affected areas immediately launched similar policies, especially Sun Ce and Liu Biao, the southern region is vast and sparsely populated, which is very suitable for migration.

However, their capital is not as abundant as Shangji, and the conditions they offer are not as good as Shangji's, and Shangji is the only prince who participates in the whole process and fully participates in the rescue, so under the same conditions, the victims are more willing to follow Shangji, even if Pingzhou is more distant.

According to rough statistics, a total of 1.8 billion people have migrated from Runan, Jiujiang, Nanyang, Wujun, Danyang, Lujiang and other areas that have been severely affected by the disaster, and only about 300 million remain in the local area after a year.

Natural disasters and man-made disasters have led to a population explosion in Runan and other places, and the existing population is less than one-tenth of what it was in its heyday!

Among the migrating population, the Shang Ji accounted for seventy percent, and the remaining princes divided the remaining three percent, and the Shang Ji became the biggest winner.