The post-war Denglai area was not as peaceful as it seemed, and the reason why so many refugees outside Fukuyama County preferred to live in shacks rather than return to their homes, and why the villages in the countryside were wary of outsiders, was not because of the arrival of the Haihan people. In the mountainous areas south and west of Fushan County, there are still several groups of bandits and bandits who are frequently active, and their targets are naturally ordinary people who lack the ability to resist.

In this kind of struggle between the weak and the strong, in order to survive, the weak side either huddles together for warmth, or can only rely on the strong. The government, or the bandits, the people can only choose one side of it as their own umbrella in the troubled times. A considerable number of the people living in shacks outside Fushan County will give up their plans to return to their homes in order to get the blessing of the government. However, the protection that the government can provide to them is limited to this one-third of an acre of land around the county seat, and those who are a little far away from the county seat can only form associations to protect themselves and seek more blessings.

As for sending troops to suppress bandits, the county government believed that it was the responsibility of the guards, and the garrison in the county town was struggling to defend the city, and could not spare troops to fight the bandits hiding in the mountains. The Weisho Army, on the other hand, shirked on the grounds that the establishment was not satisfied, the military budget was insufficient, and the gangster cottages were not in the defense area, and they were also unwilling to contribute. To put it bluntly, no one is willing to take risks to do this kind of thankless dirty work, and it may not be merit to do it, but if there is a relatively large war damage and consumption, it is who comes out and who bears the blame.

For this situation, Zhang Pucheng, the magistrate, is very clear, but he can't change anything with his ability. But no matter out of public or selfish intentions, he still wants to do his best to maintain the safety of the people under his rule, and his opinion on this group of guys outside the city who are not clear about their origin and intentions is actually the same as that of Han Qin, who thinks that the Haihan people have other plans under the guise of helping refugees.

Huang Qu said: "If this group of people really came from the sea, it should not be the same road as the nearby bandits, even if we don't make a move, there should be others who can't see it." ”

"Are you saying that there will be people who will jump out and eat black?" Zhang Pucheng replied with a sense of understanding.

"The bandits don't dare to come to Fushan County to attack, that is, they are afraid of the government, if these Haihan people encourage the people to leave the county, it will be a rare opportunity for the bandits in this vicinity. Huang Qu pointed to the north of the city and said: "There are still more than ten or twenty miles from here to the sea, and there are only two or three villages inhabited on the way. It will be much easier to wait for these people to fight and lose, and then choose the opportunity to send troops to clean up the mess. ”

Zhang Pucheng sighed: "It's just that in this way, the local people will suffer!"

Huang Qu said: "Under the nest, there are no eggs, and only by keeping this Fushan county can we save more people." Lord Zhang, even if he can't bear it, he can only continue to wait and see for now, and then respond after the situation changes. ”

Zhang Pucheng also knew that Huang Qu had said so much, but he didn't want to risk leading troops out of the city to drive away these people. Although he didn't agree with Huang Qu's idea, he couldn't think of any better way for a while.

However, their knowledge is still too limited, and they can't imagine the methods of the Haihan people, let alone how determined the Haihan is in the matter of immigration. Seeing that twilight was approaching, the horse team gathered up and left the county seat of Fukuyama. However, the horse team did not go too far, and stopped to camp at the edge of the river, and did not seem to intend to leave the place immediately. And that night, some scattered people had already abandoned their shacks outside the county town and moved to the vicinity of the Haihan camp by the Jiahe River, as if they were going to follow.

The next morning, as soon as the sky was dark, Sun Zhen was woken up by Wang Jinmin in his sleep.

"Come and see, it looks like someone is spying on us. Wang Jinmin dragged the sleepy-eyed Sun Zhen directly out of the bed.

Sun Zhen got up and went outside the tent, taking advantage of the newly lit sky, to check the direction Wang Jinmin pointed with a telescope. About a mile west of the camp, two men on horseback stopped to watch, and it would have been difficult to spot with the naked eye had it not been for the help of telescopes.

"How long have those two been here?" asked Sun Zhen as he put down his binoculars.

"The sentry only found out at dawn, and I don't know when he came last night. Wang Jinmin responded: "What kind of road do you think this is? Is it the Ming army or someone else?"

Sun Zhen said: "It's hard to say, I can't really see it in the telescope, just in case, I'll go and talk to Company Commander Liu." ”

When Liu Xian received the news and came out to check, the two horses had already disappeared from where they had stopped. Wang Jinmin thought that the other party had retreated farther away, so as not to be discovered by his own side after dawn.

"I can't care so much, the navy will send a ship over today, we have to arrange for the immigrants to leave here as soon as possible, and we will get this matter done quickly. Liu Xian didn't have the heart to track down the identity of the watcher at the moment, and the first priority of the horse team at the moment was to instigate the local people to take the initiative to go to Zhifu Bay, and everything else could be put aside first.

After looking at the specific situation in Fushan County, Liu Xian and others all thought that Haihan could harvest at least thousands of immigrants here, but how to get these people to Zhifu Island still needed a little more effort. The original plan was for the navy to send ships to meet the mouth of the Jiahe River, but the horse team sailed up the Jiahe River yesterday and found that the navigability of the river should be not bad, and there was still a width of two or three hundred meters near the county seat of Fushan, and the water depth was enough for the passenger and freight sailing ships of Haihan to navigate. Therefore, last night the horse team sent people back to the beach, informed the navy of the progress of the operation, and applied to send sailboats directly to the vicinity of Fushan County in the upper reaches of the Jiahe River, so that the people could board the ships from the local area and avoid the possible variables on the way to the mouth of the Jiahe River.

Although this arrangement took a little more effort than the original plan, the advantages were obvious, avoiding accidents on the way to the coast, and these people were transported directly to Zhifu Island after boarding the boat, and there was no chance of turning back. If anyone wants to hinder Haihan's immigration arrangements during this period, then the Haihan Horse Team will have to use some unconventional means.

After dawn, some of the refugees from outside the city went to the camp of the Haihan horse team sporadically, and according to the information they received, as long as they stayed with the horse team, they would soon receive help from the Haihan good people. This is not a one-time relief for one person to give a bowl of porridge, but a good way to allocate land and provide a long-term livelihood.

This book was first published on the Genesis Chinese website, and the following content will be re-edited later for anti-theft

The post-war Denglai area was not as peaceful as it seemed, and the reason why so many refugees outside Fukuyama County preferred to live in shacks rather than return to their homes, and why the villages in the countryside were wary of outsiders, was not because of the arrival of the Haihan people. In the mountainous areas south and west of Fushan County, there are still several groups of bandits and bandits who are frequently active, and their targets are naturally ordinary people who lack the ability to resist.

In this kind of struggle between the weak and the strong, in order to survive, the weak side either huddles together for warmth, or can only rely on the strong. The government, or the bandits, the people can only choose one side of it as their own umbrella in the troubled times. A considerable number of the people living in shacks outside Fushan County will give up their plans to return to their homes in order to get the blessing of the government. However, the protection that the government can provide to them is limited to this one-third of an acre of land around the county seat, and those who are a little far away from the county seat can only form associations to protect themselves and seek more blessings.

As for sending troops to suppress bandits, the county government believed that it was the responsibility of the guards, and the garrison in the county town was struggling to defend the city, and could not spare troops to fight the bandits hiding in the mountains. The Weisho Army, on the other hand, shirked on the grounds that the establishment was not satisfied, the military budget was insufficient, and the gangster cottages were not in the defense area, and they were also unwilling to contribute. To put it bluntly, no one is willing to take risks to do this kind of thankless dirty work, and it may not be merit to do it, but if there is a relatively large war damage and consumption, it is who comes out and who bears the blame.

For this situation, Zhang Pucheng, the magistrate, is very clear, but he can't change anything with his ability. But no matter out of public or selfish intentions, he still wants to do his best to maintain the safety of the people under his rule, and his opinion on this group of guys outside the city who are not clear about their origin and intentions is actually the same as that of Han Qin, who thinks that the Haihan people have other plans under the guise of helping refugees.

Huang Qu said: "If this group of people really came from the sea, it should not be the same road as the nearby bandits, even if we don't make a move, there should be others who can't see it." ”

"Are you saying that there will be people who will jump out and eat black?" Zhang Pucheng replied with a sense of understanding.

"The bandits don't dare to come to Fushan County to attack, that is, they are afraid of the government, if these Haihan people encourage the people to leave the county, it will be a rare opportunity for the bandits in this vicinity. Huang Qu pointed to the north of the city and said: "There are still more than ten or twenty miles from here to the sea, and there are only two or three villages inhabited on the way. It will be much easier to wait for these people to fight and lose, and then choose the opportunity to send troops to clean up the mess. ”

Zhang Pucheng sighed: "It's just that in this way, the local people will suffer!"

Huang Qu said: "Under the nest, there are no eggs, and only by keeping this Fushan county can we save more people." Lord Zhang, even if he can't bear it, he can only continue to wait and see for now, and then respond after the situation changes. ”

Zhang Pucheng also knew that Huang Qu had said so much, but he didn't want to risk leading troops out of the city to drive away these people. Although he didn't agree with Huang Qu's idea, he couldn't think of any better way for a while.

However, their knowledge is still too limited, and they can't imagine the methods of the Haihan people, let alone how determined the Haihan is in the matter of immigration. Seeing that twilight was approaching, the horse team gathered up and left the county seat of Fukuyama. However, the horse team did not go too far, and stopped to camp at the edge of the river, and did not seem to intend to leave the place immediately. And that night, some scattered people had already abandoned their shacks outside the county town and moved to the vicinity of the Haihan camp by the Jiahe River, as if they were going to follow.

The next morning, as soon as the sky was dark, Sun Zhen was woken up by Wang Jinmin in his sleep.

"Come and see, it looks like someone is spying on us. Wang Jinmin dragged the sleepy-eyed Sun Zhen directly out of the bed.

Sun Zhen got up and went outside the tent, taking advantage of the newly lit sky, to check the direction Wang Jinmin pointed with a telescope. About a mile west of the camp, two men on horseback stopped to watch, and it would have been difficult to spot with the naked eye had it not been for the help of telescopes.

"How long have those two been here?" asked Sun Zhen as he put down his binoculars.

"The sentry only found out at dawn, and I don't know when he came last night. Wang Jinmin responded: "What kind of road do you think this is? Is it the Ming army or someone else?"

Sun Zhen said: "It's hard to say, I can't really see it in the telescope, just in case, I'll go and talk to Company Commander Liu." ”

When Liu Xian received the news and came out to check, the two horses had already disappeared from where they had stopped. Wang Jinmin thought that the other party had retreated farther away, so as not to be discovered by his own side after dawn.

"I can't care so much, the navy will send a ship over today, we have to arrange for the immigrants to leave here as soon as possible, and we will get this matter done quickly. Liu Xian didn't have the heart to track down the identity of the watcher at the moment, and the first priority of the horse team at the moment was to instigate the local people to take the initiative to go to Zhifu Bay, and everything else could be put aside first.

After looking at the specific situation in Fushan County, Liu Xian and others all thought that Haihan could harvest at least thousands of immigrants here, but how to get these people to Zhifu Island still needed a little more effort. The original plan was for the navy to send ships to meet the mouth of the Jiahe River, but the horse team sailed up the Jiahe River yesterday and found that the navigability of the river should be not bad, and there was still a width of two or three hundred meters near the county seat of Fushan, and the water depth was enough for the passenger and freight sailing ships of Haihan to navigate. Therefore, last night the horse team sent people back to the beach, informed the navy of the progress of the operation, and applied to send sailboats directly to the vicinity of Fushan County in the upper reaches of the Jiahe River, so that the people could board the ships from the local area and avoid the possible variables on the way to the mouth of the Jiahe River.

Although this arrangement took a little more effort than the original plan, the advantages were obvious, avoiding accidents on the way to the coast, and these people were transported directly to Zhifu Island after boarding the boat, and there was no chance of turning back. If anyone wants to hinder Haihan's immigration arrangements during this period, then the Haihan Horse Team will have to use some unconventional means.

After dawn, some of the refugees from outside the city went to the camp of the Haihan horse team sporadically, and according to the information they received, as long as they stayed with the horse team, they would soon receive help from the Haihan good people. This is not a one-time relief for one person to give a bowl of porridge, but a good way to allocate land and provide a long-term livelihood.

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