It is impossible to willingly take the initiative to give. The people are mine, the food is mine, and the benefits of the output are still mine. As for the safety of the community...... This kind of major problem at a higher level is still left to His Majesty the Tiger King to solve.

Although Hu Yaoxian has a suspicious personality, he is not so easy to fool. The data on paper must be reviewed, and if you are not willing to give anything, only mobilizing workers from the Tiger King's direct territory will only provoke the Tiger King's anger in the end. Based on this consideration, the stingy nobles could only negotiate in private, and each of them took out the agreed population and resources and sent them to Lifeng City.

Hu Yaozong knew why the Tiger King was angry.

The plan to build a new direction came at the expense of abandoning large areas of the Northern Territory. It was all plains, there was no danger to defend, and more importantly, there was a need to create a strategic buffer zone between Mighty Wind and Iron Jaw, so as many as hundreds of thousands of civilians were forced to move south.

It's a great opportunity to make money!

To migrate is to give up.

In any era, no commoner will abandon his homeland. But now there is no way, there is going to be a war, and if you don't want to die, you have to leave.

According to Hu Yaozong's instructions, his cronies led the soldiers to storm the homes of civilians and loot them. They have a high-sounding reason for this———— His Majesty has an order to move to Mighty Wind City in the shortest possible time, and those who violate the order will be killed.

If you want to go fast in a hurry, you can only travel light. This meant leaving behind most of the family's possessions, taking a few clothes and a little food with them and leaving in a hurry.

In all fairness, no one wants to do that. Whether it is a house or food, whether it is furniture or valuables, it is all accumulated by generations of hard work. Just like that, with an order to throw it away, no one will be willing.

Hu Yaozong raised his butcher's knife: all civilians must leave the city within an hour and move to Lifeng City. Civilians who remained in the city beyond the time limit were killed.

The severed head has a strong deterrent effect. What is personal property in the face of death? Frightened, civilians hurried out of the city. Right behind them, Hu Yaozong walked into the empty city with his cronies triumphantly, collected the belongings that originally belonged to the civilians, and transported all the food that could not be taken away.

He made a lot of money.

By the time the entire southward relocation plan was completed, the amount of money and goods that Hu Yaozong had forcibly taken from the displaced civilians had reached a huge amount. Of course, he knew he couldn't do it all and had to pull more people into the water to be safe. In this way, everyone from the top of the royal family to the influential nobles received a gift. Despite this, the amount of the Tiger Yao Sect engulfed was still staggering, more than thirty times his original wealth.

This kind of thing can't hide from the eyes of Tiger King Yaoxian. However, even the Tiger King himself did not expect that his trusted henchmen were also bought by Hu Yaozong, and when he reported what had happened, he pinched his head and removed his tail, and only understated that "Hu Yaozong disturbed the people many times in the southward relocation plan, and obtained the property equivalent to two hundred war horses." ”

Hu Yaozong is experienced, and he is well aware of Hu Yaoxian's bottom line of tolerance for "corruption". There is no problem with being less greedy, and for officials, this is perfectly normal behavior. Especially in the eyes of the Tiger King, this is actually a weakness of his subordinates, which is beneficial to maintaining the internal political ecology of the Tiger Clan, as long as the amount of corruption is not too large.

The report concealed the whereabouts of all the relocated walled city reserves south of Mighty Wind City. This caused Tiger King Yaoxian to deviate from the current situation of food storage in Lifeng City. Because according to the edict issued before, Hu Yaoxian demanded that "the relocated people must take away all the grain reserves and transport them to Lifeng City for centralized storage." ”

This is also the reason why Hu Yao refused to transfer grain and grass after receiving Wulin's emergency document first. In his opinion, although there are millions of civilians gathered in Lifeng City, the food supply will definitely not be a problem in the short term. But Hu Yaoxian never expected that because of Hu Yaozong's greed, the huge group of refugees starved during the migration, and they went to Lifeng City until they had their first full meal in a few days.

A very bad premonition surged in Hu Yaozong's mind. It's just that he doesn't have the slightest idea of being honest about it, and doing so is simply killing himself.

"No, there is a lot of food in Mighty Wind City, at least enough to eat for at least three months." Hu Yaozong made a look of surprise: "I personally checked it when I left Lifeng City, and there is absolutely no problem. ”

This kind of thing must not be admitted, otherwise there is only a dead end.

Hu Yaozong's brain turned quickly, in fact, he had already thought of a countermeasure———— no matter how angry Tiger King Yaoxian was, no matter what kind of news came from Lifeng City, the only thing he could do was to push everything onto Wu Lin.

Whoever has ever been stained will always be a sinner.

Although the Tiger King reappointed Wu Lin as the national teacher, he did not trust him as much as before. Once the seeds of suspicion and precaution are planted, they will thrive on the fertile soil of the human heart. This kind of thing will always exist in legends. The clay stencil records a story called "Harmony of Peace" in ancient times. Hu Yaozong has always believed that this story is no different from a fairy tale. At least if you can't do it yourself, Tiger King is even more impossible.

Looking at the innocent Hu Yaozong, the Tiger King frowned and fell into deep thought.

He was confused by all these things, and in turn became suspicious.

Obviously, between Hu Yaozong and Wu Lin, there must be someone who is lying.

But this is not the crux of the problem———— whether it is Hu Yaozong or Wu Lin, the two of them have arranged for their cronies to directly obey their orders. Now it seems that there is a huge discrepancy between the two secret reports, and the descriptions and records of the actual situation are completely different.

Hu Yaoxian couldn't help but shudder: it didn't matter to him that Hu Yaozong and Wu Lin lied, as long as he cut off their heads, he could solve the problem. The point is that his cronies have joined the ranks of liars...... Who can I trust from now on?

Sitting on the tall throne, Hu Yaoxian did not speak for a long time of more than ten minutes.

Much-needed food on the front lines, refugees struggling with hunger, threats from the dragons...... All these things seemed to him to be negligible. The key to maintaining the continuity of a group is to rule, and if you don't have absolutely loyal subordinates, your own Tiger King is a joke.

After thinking about it for a long time, Hu Yao made a decision first———— sent the most elite guards around him to Mighty Wind City to investigate. In order to ensure the authenticity and credibility of the investigation results, Hu Yaoxian sent five groups of investigators one after another. These people didn't know each other, all they had to do was to rush to Mighty Wind City immediately to find out the truth as soon as possible, especially the current grain storage figures in Mighty Wind City.

He directly ignored the two secret letters from Wu Lin and the commander of Mighty Wind City asking for food allocation. Hu Yao stubbornly believed that even if a large number of civilians who moved south poured into Mighty Wind City, causing a series of problems to the local area, there should not be much shortage in the daily ration distribution.

After all, the autumn harvest season has just passed, and there is enough grain in various places.

Mighty Wind City is no exception.

The king did give the edict to move south, and the commoners were not fools, they must have carried enough food. After all, it was the fruit of a whole year's hard work, and it was their most precious possession.

Judging from the information currently available, if you want to choose a damn liar from among Wu Lin and Hu Yaozong, Tiger King has a greater probability of leaning towards Wu Lin.

Hu Yaoxian thinks that he is a fair and just person. Even if you want to cut off the head of the deceitful, you must first get enough evidence.

……

Dragon territory, Iron Jaw City.

The city, which originally belonged to the Tiger Clan, is in a state of full fortification.

Expanding along the perimeter of the city, the new part is a small tower of 50 meters square. The construction mode is not neatly arranged according to the traditional "mouth" zigzag quadrangular pattern, but every three towers are in the form of "pin" reciprocating form. The benefits of this are obvious, no matter what direction the enemy attacks, it will be hit from multiple levels by the defenders. Even if you destroy one of the towers, you will still not be able to break the defensive side that is unfavorable to your side. The only solution is to bombard them with long-range weapons for a long time, or launch a non-stop large-scale attack to completely destroy all the towers.

The fleet was constantly bringing in a large amount of steel from Bucks City. The Dragons have a strong smelting and forging capacity, a very stable supply of peat, and with the newly built cement factory and brick-making kiln in Iron Jaw City, there is no shortage of building materials.

Large-scale construction of the city walls was no longer necessary. In fact, such a small tower is only a stopgap measure. The structure is simple, the cost is low, and the basic cordon is built with the south as the main defense direction. Mobilizing the people of the whole city, guided by the dragon engineers, in just over two months, the periphery of Iron Jaw City was already full of small towers. Supplemented by artillery mounted on the roof of the tower, the defenders firmly grasped the long-range advantage.

Yonggang is the new defender of Iron Jaw City.

Since the year before, the dragon clan no longer has the position of "city lord", and has replaced it with "city guard".

Yonggang is an old man who came out of the rock village, is Tianhao's predecessor, and is also one of the senior managers who have received various trainings in the system. After coming to Iron Jaw City, Yonggang strictly implemented the plans formulated by Tianhao, comprehensively carried out internal rectification, and while collecting the original residents of the Tiger Clan in Iron Jaw City, he continuously strengthened the city's outer defense facilities, and built this place into a real water and land dual attribute forward base.

Since last week, a large number of Tiger civilians have fled from the south. They offered to surrender, hoping to get help from the dragons.

Yonggang did not refuse these people to come, opened the checkpoints and put them all into Iron Jaw City.

All Tiger refugees must be identified and at least two people prove their identities before they can enter the temporary rest area of Iron Jaw City, distribute the day's rations, assemble a certain amount, and escort them to the docks in the eastern part of the city, board the ship, and transport them to Stag City in batches.

The location of Ironjaw City is very important, and the armistice between the Dragon Clan and the Tiger Clan is only a truce agreement, not a real peace. There is no guarantee when the fight will start, it depends on the situation and the determination of the highest in power.

The number of Tiger civilians who could not get proof of more than two people was small, about 7,000 during this time. Men and women, young and old, were all assigned to "temporary concentration camps". Yonggang sent soldiers to escort him to the direction of Tiger Prison Pass and acted as road builders.

When he left Rock City and went to Iron Jaw City to take up his post, Yonggang learned a secret from Tianhao that even he found unimaginable———— Wu Lin, the national master of the Tiger Clan, is our ally.

Note that it is the "allies", not "ours". Although the two expressions have something in common, they represent two quite different meanings.

Among the first Tiger civilians to arrive in Ironjaw City was a messenger arranged by the Witch Forest. According to his statement in the secret letter, there are currently a large number of civilians stranded in Lifeng City, because of the shortage of food, Wu Lin secretly spread rumors to lure a large number of civilians to leave the city and flee north, so as to achieve the goal of weakening the Tiger Clan.

He did it.

As of yesterday's statistics, as many as 600,000 Tiger civilians had poured into Iron Jaw City. Most of them passed the identity verification, and Bucks City also urgently dispatched twice as many ships to transport away a large number of civilians, which greatly relieved the overall pressure on Iron Jaw City.

The task force and the propaganda team have played a huge role in calming the emotions of these Tiger civilians.

"Storytelling" was a great invention of the regent. The propagandists have written a lot of stories: the rich man takes a fancy to the beautiful wife of the poor and forcibly occupies it; In order to squeeze the poor for long-term labor, the landlord Lao Cai hid in the chicken coop before dawn and pretended to be a chicken to deceive the long-term workers into plowing the fields; The black-hearted merchant poured mercury into the wooden weighing rod and deceived him when he traded and bought and sold...... These stories take place around civilians, and although the tribes are different, many people have experienced it firsthand.

Of course, the story itself does not end in tragedy, but invariably ends with the poor winning with their wisdom. For example, the beautiful wife of a poor man, without losing her body, disturbed the rich man's house to the point that she could not be at peace, and finally had to dispel the idea of hegemony and attach a large sum of property; The landlord who learned to crow in the middle of the night was recognized by the long-term worker, and beat him up in the name of "catching the thief" as a lesson; The scam of the black-hearted businessman was discovered, and in turn he was trapped.

Each story is divided into five paragraphs, each of which lasts for an hour. These stories gave the Tiger civilians a superficial understanding and cognition of the dragon clan, and then developed a psychology of dependence and trust.

Mini-drama is a common form of performance for propaganda teams. It is usually arranged in an empty space with a lot of people, and only a few logs can be used to set up a curtain, and the props are simple, the soldiers will maintain order around them, and the audience will form a circle, and each performance will attract thousands of people.

The drama is an extension of the storytelling story, the honest officials are the positive side, and the opposite party who does all the evil is either the emperor's relatives or the landlord's old wealth. The story revolves around the interests of the poor, and all the plays end with the wicked being punished and the good being happy.

The civilians of the Tiger Clan watched it with relish, and then it resonated strongly. The team struck while the iron was hot and carried out propaganda in the middle of the square meters in the form of leaflets and slogans.

"His Royal Highness the Regent is the guide to all civilians."

"Only by following His Royal Highness the Prince Regent can we be happy forever."

"Resolutely support His Royal Highness the Regent, so that we can have a better tomorrow."