Chapter 554: Recruiting Refugees

Hundreds of thousands of refugees are an eye-opener for gentlemen from Earth. [Full Text Reading]: The fastest novel network to update text chapters:

These guys, who are generally more than 2 meters tall, marched all the way west from the temple front, and almost ate all the animals and fruits in the forests along the way, like legion ants. Even if it's a saber-toothed beast,

Vicious monsters such as brand-new lizards and spotted bears fall into their hands, and they only contribute **.

I have to say that the Western Continent is the real land of abundant products, even if it is such a continuous escape team, you can get game from time to time to make tooth sacrifices, running on the ground, swimming in the water, and flying in the sky, all of which can be used to fill your stomach. If you are really hungry, just dig into the ground, from 10 centimeters to 10 meters deep, there are all kinds of insects and animals of all sizes, in addition to being ugly, the protein content is definitely not low. In addition, wild fruits are common and often poisonous, some people can identify them, others do not, but they are usually eaten and few people die.

These large armies, who wanted to escape war and slavery, avoided most of the slave city-states and eventually concentrated in the Xijiang city-states, and their numbers were increasing.

Very few knights captured slaves at this time, on the one hand, because of the military tension, and on the other hand, it was easy to provoke the anger of the people during the Temple War, and it was bad enough that the knights left behind did not go to the battlefield, and there was still enough strength to squire, so it was even worse.

In previous years, the long army of refugees would continue to march west along the West River until the hinterland of large temples such as the Water Dragon Temple and the Fire Dragon Temple, before being settled by the sacrifices. It's like a natural migration of people, just enough to replenish the number of believers and take the opportunity to produce more Knights.

However, when the tide of refugees flocked to Xijiang Leprosy this year, many people who had never traveled far had begun to prostrate and pray.

The tens of meters tall and moving lùtian minecarts, the wide and smooth roads and streets, and the flags of the knights of the gods who often appear all represent the core of the temple.

Except for the walls and altars, everything here fits the description of the temple by the predecessors.

Iyar had to spend most of his time pacifying the refugees and putting in order the remaining army in Marat. Naturally, I didn't dare to say anything like repatriation.

However, the number of refugees soon increased to alarming proportions.

A million, perhaps a million people, began to gather spontaneously on the periphery of the Xijiang city-state. Among them, there are inevitably defeated soldiers.

This kind of population is commonplace for officials of the Chinese country with a county population of millions at every turn, but it is too terrible for the Iyar Priestess.

He began to ask the High Priest for help, and then to the surrounding garrisons, if it weren't for the fact that there were too many refugees, and the troops of Mara City had lost too much in the earliest confrontation, he might have dared to kill some of them.

In the end, seeing that Mara City's own food reserves were decreasing day by day, Iyaal also panicked, and couldn't help but think of Chen Yi.

In his eyes, these strange Jiangning people are almost omnipotent. Even in Sī, he suspected that the Xijiang city-state had migrated from some small remote temple. However, there are enough temples on the mainland, and the union of the Water Dragon Temple and the Fire Dragon Temple is not forced to be helpless, even if there is another small temple in the future and encroaches on millions of believers, after all, it is also on its own side.

The front line of the Temple War is thousands of miles away, and Mara City is the hinterland of the frontier, and whoever builds a hostile temple here will really seek death.

After reporting to the high priest, the priest of Iyar sorted out the resources at hand and came to the Xijiang Office with the 10 tons of gold that had just been delivered.

He believes that these "knocks on the door will definitely knock on the door of Xijiang people."

Nowadays, the gold and platinum of the entire temple are concentrated in order to supply and purchase supplies for the Xijiang people. There is no concept of foreign exchange in the Western Continent, but the slow increase in the price of gold and platinum is self-evident, making it difficult for the temple to collect such materials.

A few years ago, 10 tons of gold could be taken out as long as Mara City until Chen Yi personally ransacked the Mara City-State.

Thinking of the fierceness of the year, Iyaar was all chrysanthemum.

"Your Excellency the Chief Priest, Mr. Chen, is ready to meet you." Li Changning, who came to summon the arraignment, had just been promoted to a servant official, and he looked at Iyaar's raised movements in surprise, and always felt obscene, and secretly said: Could it be that the temple sacrifice is practicing? What a trick this is.

Li Changning led the way, sent him to the door of the conference hall, looked at his tún department suspiciously, and said, "The adults are very short of time, you only have the old minutes, and you are not allowed to exceed them." ”

Iyar is again a convex part of the tún department.

Li Changning looked at it twice with satisfaction and pushed the door open.

10 minutes is only enough to state the facts, and even the cause and effect may not be clear.

It finally took 15 minutes for the Celebrant to explain the matter, and then closed the door of the council hall with Li Changning's vicious eyes.

The moment the latch was tapped, a discussion began inside.

"Are we really going to take on the task of relocating 2 million people? It's not just money, it's dangerous. We only have tens of thousands of people in the Western Continent? One night, it can turn this place upside down. The Li family was the first to object. They have just established a food company in the Western Continent, with nearly 800 employees, capable of producing 100,000 military rations per week, all of which are sold to the front line of the Temple, with a profit margin of up to 5,000%. The raw materials for these military rations are mainly locally produced ferns and meat.

There is no doubt that if millions of refugees are accommodated, there will be no more food supplies for the local population. The food factory that is making money will suddenly fall into a desperate situation. This is no joke, the logistics and transportation in the western continent are extremely bad, and most of them are used for busy wars, and the price of materials provided from other places is likely to soar by more than 10 times. As for transporting grain from the earth to the Western Continent, the profits always belonged to Chen Yi and his Xijiang Society.

Zheng Lao was present and said: "The 10 tons of gold that Iyaar took out is a lot, and I think it is still necessary to strive for some political benefits." ”

He agreed.

Xu Chengchu paid attention to Chen Yi and said, "Refugees can solve the employment problem. ”

"These natives, where can they be workers. The language is not comprehensible, and it is not easy to manage, and our degree of mechanization is so high, there is no need to look for them. "The Zhang family is a metalworker, and the construction industry they are involved in does not welcome a large number of refugees. They encroach on the land, they don't pay for it, and they are not good construction workers.

"Refugees can stutter, at least as miners." The people present nodded their heads and shook their heads, each with their own thoughts.

Chen Yi turned his head and smiled at the Buddha who happened to come to investigate: "What do you think?" The Buddha smiled with his beard: "During the Great War, we organized millions of people to be transport teams to help the army in construction. It's only 2 million people today, can't it be handled? ”

The middle-aged man of the Li family said boldly: "Not only do you have to deal with them, you have to have benefits." Besides, we're taking in 2 million people now, maybe 20 million people will come. ”

When everyone disagreed, they all looked at Chen Yi. Although he was just over 20 years old, Chen Yi at this time firmly grasped the passage to and from the Western Continent and the position of the heir of the Chen family, and was qualified to make any dictatorial decisions.

After a little contemplation, Chen Yi gave an answer: "Since the refugees are concentrated in Xijiang, it is a matter of Xijiang after all. ”

He then ordered Iyar to be summoned and said: "Since I will help you to resettle the refugees, I will have the corresponding administrative powers." ”

"You mean ......, a knighthood?"

"A higher title." "So," Iyaal had no right to give the title, and hesitated, "Does the title of Grand Sir satisfy you?" "Okay, I'll help you settle these two million people."

Iyar left with a thousand thanks.

Everyone looked at Chen Yi.

Chen had already thought about it, spread his hands, and said, "Every time a refugee is solved, 100 kilograms of tonnage will be sold at a time. ”

The Buddha was immediately happy.

The family that chose to oppose it saw that the decision had been made, so they immediately changed it. Wind, began to think about how many refugees he could get.

Even if it is free food for the refugees, it is cost-effective to exchange 100 kilograms of tonnage. Moreover, refugees may be less productive, but they are not inactive.

"We want 500,000 people." Xu Chengchu spoke first: "We are ready to expand the airport. "We also need 500,000 people to build roads and railways that can be used."

Several families scrambled for it.

Chen Yi was silent with his chin and went to negotiate with them, anyway, he only paid for half a month's tonnage. In fact, once the canal is repaired, 200,000 tons will be nothing.

The efficiency of people is much slower than that of machines, but it cannot withstand the number of people. Until today, China has not really entered complete mechanization, the use of cattle, horses and even manpower in rural areas is not uncommon, workshop-style factories abound, and the employment of major projects has always been a tradition.

There are only a few complex projects in the Western Continent, and most of them are foolish manual work, as long as they can be managed well, as many people can use them.

Of course, whether you can use it or not, the money for food is indispensable. The currency of the Western Continent that each family had obtained in a short period of time was returned to the nobles of Mara City to buy all kinds of ferns and meat, and after a little processing, it became food for the refugees, and the price also increased considerably due to the increase in quantity.

The monetary cycle was the foundation of the commercial economy, and because of the Temple Wars, the Temple family, which had been spending a steady stream, was suddenly strengthened.

But any family with a manor, to say the least, has ten or eight years of food, and it is one of their ways of doing business to sell it during the high price.

The stabilization of more than a million refugees has also led to a boom in the vicinity of the Xijiang city-state, where the once empty and uninhabited forests have become dotted with small villages, and the slums surrounding the city and mining areas, although conspicuous and unsightly, have turned Xijiang into a large city.

If you count the number of people, this is more than the number of believers in the Mara city-state.

In the face of such a huge yòuhuò, the priest of Iyar applied for the title of Grand Sir for Chen Yi, and at the same time secretly sent people to preach everywhere.

Chen Yi saw the opportunity, and quietly found his eldest brother Chen Heng, and said, "Are we considering expanding the number of pure indigenous teams?" ”

"How much bigger?"

"A division."!