Jiang Feng listened, looked at the people in the store again, and asked with a smile: "I see that your business should be good, can you support so many people in the store,......"

The man smiled bitterly, "The business is okay, but it is also forced to be helpless, the soldiers in the north are in chaos, the Khitan people and the Tuyuhun people often cause trouble, and the family is not at ease to stay in the north, so they can only come south, but there are still many people in the old family, and I don't know where to go in the future." ”

Jiang Feng has always been very concerned about the situation of the Hu people in the north, in addition to the three major Hu people of Shatuo, Khitan and Dangxiangren, the Tuyuhun is unique in the Saiwai Huzhong and maintains relative independence, and Fuzhou is the sphere of influence of Tuyuhun.

"The situation in Yanzhou is okay? Now the Khitans and Shatuo people should be more willing to go south, just like you just said, the Khitans are willing to come to Youzhou and Jizhou. Jiang Feng asked casually.

Seeing Jiang Feng asking about his hometown, the pock-faced man suddenly became alert, and he didn't dare to say it, but thinking that this Xuzhou had nothing to do with Saiwai Beidi, he paused again before saying: "The Tuyuhun people are better, the Shatuo people don't want to see them, the Khitan people don't look down on them, and their situation is not good. ”

Jiang Feng saw that he couldn't ask anything again, and he didn't expect to find out any confidential information so casually, so Wuwentang could really be withdrawn, he just walked around at will to see how the situation in Xuzhou is different from Shouzhou and Luzhou.

I have to say that even if this Xuzhou has suffered from drought for many years, but in terms of the scale of the city and the prosperity of the streets, it is far better than Shouzhou and Luzhou, the types of shops, pedestrians and business travelers, from all directions, the richness of goods, is not Shouzhou, Luzhou can compare.

The open bath was obviously doing good business, and the guests who came one after another greeted each other and chatted about the neighbors, and the fragrance from the incense medicine shop on the side made the bath seem to have a little more noble atmosphere.

Barrel makers, painters, oil sellers, and farmers with straw sandals, speaking with accents from all over Xuzhou, walked the streets and alleys, shouting hard for the livelihood of their families.

Occasionally, one or two beggars wandering through the crowd would turn into pickpockets in an instant, while the bewildered pedestrians craned their necks to look at the various commercial goods on the street.

"Let's have a bowl of mutton blood soup!" Looking at the steaming cauldron, Jiang Feng couldn't help but ask the busy and sweaty boss to bring him a bowl.

"Okay! A bowl of mutton blood soup!" The boss's hands and feet were quite nimble, and the fragrant and attractive mutton blood soup was quickly handed to Jiang Feng, Jiang Feng was not polite, while eating, he signaled to his own soldiers to come to a bowl too, but the soldiers all twisted their heads to the side, which made Jiang Feng also boring.

Jiang Feng also knew that his temporary whimsical going out made the soldiers very nervous.

Although the situation in Xuzhou has stabilized now, this only refers to the stability of the overall situation, the Huaiyou Army has entered Xuzhou for a short time, and the remnants of the remnants of several major armies under the command of Shi Yu still exist, especially the remnants of Yao Chengtai, which still exist in Xuzhou City, and Shang Yunxi still has his own fuge in Xuzhou City, plus the shadows lurking here in Yanyun Heshuo, and the fine work infiltrated by the Yuan family in Caizhou in the west, so Xuzhou City is not as calm as it seems on the surface.

However, the more this is the case, the more necessary it is for Jiang Feng to come out and take a look for himself, to experience the life of ordinary people in the city, although the worries of the soldiers are not without cause, but Jiang Feng does not think that there is anyone who will wait in broad daylight to deal with him.

If you want to deal with yourself, if you really want to succeed in one fell swoop, the masters of the Dan period are no longer enough to kill yourself in one fell swoop, at least above the Ning Dan period, and looking around, how many masters are there in the Ning Dan period?

Even though there are Daliang, Nanyang, and Caizhou, they are also only a handful of people, and they are among the best characters in their respective camps, how can they have so much time and energy to defend themselves? This is also unrealistic.

"Boss, business is okay, right?" Jiang Feng squatted on the low table next to him, and asked while drinking sheep blood soup with a few rough men in short clothes and open chests next to him.

"Listening to the guest officer's accent, it seems that he came from Huainan?" The boss is a short and fat man, and at first glance he is a bold character, grinning and smiling: "How can I say it? Although the year is not good, but there are many people from the north, and they all pour into our Xuzhou city to beg for food, and the price of grain has risen all of a sudden. ”

"In this way, everyone can still get by. Jiang Feng replied casually.

"Hehe, it's hard to say, our Xuzhou is still passable, but it can't stand the people who don't stop coming down from the north, these people stay in our Xuzhou city and live on charity, but can this kind of life last?"

"The weather in the north is not good, they may not be able to ,......" Jiang Feng didn't expect that the people of Xuzhou were also so xenophobic, and seemed to be very unkind to the people who came down from the north, and asked tentatively: "Can't let them starve to death." ”

"Guest officer, you can't say that, each has its own way of living, life is indeed not easy in the north, but it is not easy for us in Xuzhou, we have been stumbling and hungry for so many years, they are now down, where can we afford so many idlers in Xuzhou?" the boss shook his head, " Our Xuzhou side of the land is not rich, so many idlers rely here, there will be disasters over time, look at it, yesterday there was a disturbance in the Dule Fang, killed several people, I heard that it was because there was nothing to do to play money, lost red eyes, and moved his hands and feet, and caused trouble. Our new county prince is good at everything, but his heart is too charitable, and he can't eat enough at home, and he has to care about whether there is food in other people's bowls. ”

Jiang Feng was speechless about the boss's words.

That's right, I look at the problem too much from a higher perspective, and subconsciously play the role of the victims of Yanyunyi and even Heshuo Pinglu, and I should have found a way to solve their livelihood problems, but I ignored the thoughts of the local people.

These local people, of course, welcome the grain transportation from Huainan to the north, but they are disgusted and hostile to the disaster victims in the north who come south to share food, and the inferior nature of people will also be infinitely magnified in this case, for example, after the idle homeless people can have a bite to eat, there will always be people who breed all kinds of problems inside, such as gambling, fighting, and even being used by external forces, which is inevitable.

It is time to think carefully about the problems of these displaced people from the Northlands, who are still moving south.

Cash-for-work can solve part of the problem, but this is not a long-term solution, and further expansion of the army can absorb some of the strength, but it is not enough to solve the root cause.

For the time being, it is either to let these displaced people return to the Northland, but this is obviously difficult to do, unless they can take Heshuo and Pinglu in one fell swoop, and even then they will still face the confrontation of the local gentry against the land strategy.

The other way is to digest it in situ.

Those who are willing to go south have basically gone south, although Huainan can still accommodate some of them, but many northland refugees are actually not willing to go south, and the humid and hot climate there makes it difficult for northerners to adapt, and even in this era, it is fatal.

Just like Lingnan Road and Qianzhong Road, these places are almost regarded as ghost roads, and they may never have the opportunity to come back once they go, and the climate, epidemics, and long distances are enough to make people in this era easily fall ill.

This is not an exaggeration, and even many people regard the local officials of Lingnan Province and Qianzhong Province as allocation.

In-situ digestion should be the best path, and Jiang Feng has also considered it.

In fact, the only way to solve the problem of these labor forces is industry and commerce, and at present, there are two ways in Xuzhou.

One is to develop the iron ore of Liguo on a large scale, smelt molten iron with a new iron-making method, expand iron mining and smelting, and produce pig iron and steel.

This road is the most suitable, and it can also absorb the labor force to the greatest extent, the only obstacle is that the new smelting method is not yet fully mature, and it is still being further explored, but it is not far off.

Another way is to expand the scale of salt works in Haizhou and increase the production of Huai salt for the Central Plains and Jiangnan.

But this must be based on the premise of retaking Haizhou.

Of course, in addition to these two roads, there are also some temporary auxiliary methods, such as the construction of water conservancy and road repair, Huaibei's water conservancy facilities have been in disrepair for many years, and they urgently need to be repaired and maintained.

Jiang Feng felt that the situation in Xuzhou has stabilized overall, but there are still many thorny problems to be solved, such as the northland displaced people have become more and more a big problem, which must be faced immediately.