"Dad, let's go!"

On the edge of the Yangtze River, a young man with several patches on his clothes helplessly pushed his father who was forty or fifty years old, and urged, "The boat over there is about to leave, so let's go quickly!" Mother and younger siblings are already waiting on the boat! ”

On the dock not far from the two of them, dozens of large ships were moored, and a large number of people were boarding the ships in an orderly manner under a group of young and strong organizations, and many men were still carrying tattered luggage that they didn't know what they were carrying, and they didn't look like anything of value.

"I don't know how many years it will take to return to my hometown!" The middle-aged man said sadly while slowly walking towards the big boat by the river, "Our Zhang family was originally surnamed in the Central Plains, and we crossed Shouchun south in the Yongjia Rebellion, but this time we not only crossed south to Jiangnan again, but also went to the wild place in Lingnan!" ”

The middle-aged man burst into tears as he spoke, "In this way, the ancestral tomb of the Central Plains is not only not well maintained, but even the tomb of Huainan's father and ancestor has to be abandoned!" I'm not filial! ”

Looking at the middle-aged man's sad expression, it was as if it was his own responsibility to be forced to leave home this time, and in his heart, he had all kinds of resistance to the relocation of his family to Lingnan, which in his opinion was still a sparsely populated and wild place.

The young man glanced at his father, but was not so sad: "So what's the solution?" Now the land in the north of the river is occupied by the Northern Dynasty, and our court is now only concerned with the overhaul of temples, palaces and pavilions, I heard that the Dahuang Temple will be built recently, and the Buddha inside must be pasted with gold leaf!

Where can we take care of those penniless people who are promoted to fight? Besides, the old things in the Central Plains that you mentioned are all hundreds of years ago, so what are you still doing with them? Can you still let your mother and younger siblings have enough to eat? ”

It can be seen that the position of young people in the family should be very strong, in the ancient society that paid attention to the principle of father and son was very strict, even if the son did not obey his father's words, it was natural to be beaten, not to mention that the son would also point out what his father did wrong, but it seems that this middle-aged man is used to it.

Seeing that his father was silent and silent, the young man continued to persuade: "Besides, where is there such a barbaric father in Lingnan? Since the year of Emperor Taizuwu's Northern Expedition, Lingnan has been developed with the assistance of the Xia Kingdom of the East China Sea, and now the prosperity there is not much inferior to Jiankang City! It's definitely going to get better in the future! ”

How can middle-aged people not hear of these things, but it is better to hear than to see, even in the modern society of later generations, many people think that Yunnan is full of primeval forests, even if you know more about many things, it is difficult to change the stubborn cognition in your heart.

At the urging of the people on board, the father and son walked a few steps to the big ship, and successfully found their families, and now the ship has been crowded with hundreds of people, all of whom are dressed in different clothes, and it seems that they are basically poor Han people at the bottom of society.

The big ship was very large, a typical inland river boat, with a load of 1,000 stones, carrying hundreds of people, and it was not too crowded, and the hard sails made of cattails and reeds on the mast were quickly raised, and the ships went up the river to the city.

Yes, this is Beijiang Prefecture, which was originally a main battlefield for Nanchen Beijiang Prefecture to block Chen Baxian's biggest opponent Wang Lin from advancing eastward, but now it has become an important gathering place for a large number of Lianghuai Nandu refugees, and tens of thousands of Beidi refugees have gathered here.

Although Yuwen Yong strictly forbade soldiers to loot along the way, it was impossible to prohibit these behaviors as long as there was a war, not to mention that it was difficult to prevent thieves, and a large number of scoundrels took the opportunity to loot and caused a large number of people to be forced to leave their homes and move south.

As early as the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, with the chaos of the Central Plains and the chaos of the Wuhu and Sixteen Kingdoms, a large number of people in the Central Plains were forced to cross the south of the Yangtze River.

This is also the reason why many places in the south of the Yangtze River are obviously very close to each other, but the local languages of the people in the two places are not different at all, and there is even a problem of living in neighboring villages but not understanding each other's dialects, which is the phenomenon brought about by the centralized resettlement of people in different states and counties at that time.

Although this increased the number of official posts and caused a certain degree of redundant officials, it also allowed those Nandu people to get an excellent settlement, and in addition, it also greatly promoted the development and progress of the local economy in Jiangnan, and it can be said that the development of Jiangnan was directly based on this foundation.

Since there is such a ready-made example, the Nanchen government can directly use it, at least it can also temporarily calm the mood of the people.

However, because Chen Shubao built palaces and built a large number of temples after he ascended the throne, and also built the Dahuang Temple in Jiankang City, the Nanchen Mansion Treasury was exhausted in just a few months, and where was there any money, food and materials to settle these people?

What's more, with Chen Shubao's accession to the throne, he never cared about national affairs, except for pampering the palace concubines and playing with the fortunate ministers, his biggest hobby was to fill in the glamorous words, so that the local officials were busy with these messy things except for a very small number of upright people, and no one had the heart to manage these homeless people.

So just when some aspiring officials were worried about what would happen to these Nandu refugees, suddenly many powerful people in Lingnan organized groups to come here to recruit the refugees, and they were actually preparing to continue to expand and reclaim the cultivated land, orchards, and orchards in Lingnan and Guangzhou.

Although many local officials felt that this was not good, it was better to let the Lingnan heroes take these displaced people away than to make a mess here without food or drink, so after receiving a large amount of money, these local officials did not say anything. Love Chinese Network

In this way, from the third day when a large number of displaced people crossed the south of the Yangtze River, a large number of people were scattered to the north and south of the entire river, starting from the mouth of Dongting Lake controlled by Nan Chen, all the way to the mouth of the Yangtze River, and successively formed four relatively large concentrations of displaced people in Baling (Yueyang), Huangcheng (Jiujiang), Beijiangzhou (Wuhu), and Jiangyin County (Jiangyin).

Every day, there are people in these places where the displaced people are in charge of soup kitchens, and there are special personnel to maintain order, and then arrange for them to board the ship and head south according to the length of time they have arrived.

In order to allow these displaced people to work better, these heroes also promised them that as long as they worked for five years, all the land reclaimed by these displaced people in the future would be their own, which gave these displaced people infinite hope.

In this way, from the very beginning, nearly 10,000 people boarded the ship here and went south almost every day, and even some Jiangnan Hanmin who worked for people on weekdays also came to pretend to be displaced people to sign up for the south, and these heroes were all accepted.

At this time, some officials were ready to investigate and deal with them because they had complained that these people had abducted their slaves, but then the officials were warned, not only did the Lingnan slang forces intervene, but there were also a large number of top gate valve families in Nanchen.

After all, when Nanchen developed Lingnan, almost all the Nanchen families were involved in it, and now the investment at that time has brought them huge profits, they just regret why they were so timid at the beginning, otherwise wouldn't they be rich now?

In fact, even those officials in Nanchen didn't know that more than half of these people who were ostensibly known as Lingnan heroes were actually those hidden piles arranged by Wang Ze in Lingnan, and they were actually working for Wang Ze, and this time the displaced people were also under Wang Ze's orders.

Over the years, while Wang Ze has greatly expanded the strength of the Han people in Nanyang, he has never neglected the importance of the dozen or so plantations in Jiaozhou, and even because of some future layouts, Wang Ze has paid more attention to this place.

Since all the industries in Nanchen Ming were withdrawn by the Xia Kingdom, the industries remaining in Nanchen were mainly these large-scale plantations in Lingnan, of which more than eighty percent of these plantations were concentrated in Jiaozhou.

The main person in charge of these plantations established in Lingnan, Jiaozhou and other places is Wang Biao, and with the strong support of Wang Ze for more than ten years, the strength has become rapidly stronger, and these plantations have developed rapidly and soon become a powerful force in the local area.

Compared with the limited plantations in Guangzhou, they were more powerful in Jiaozhou, and the more than 20 plantations established by Wang Ze in the north and south of Jiaozhou controlled almost half of the cultivated land in the plains of Jiaozhou, or strategic points, among which controlled more than 200,000 Han people.

Basically, most of the Han people in Jiaozhou were in the hands of Wang Ze.

Because there were still a large number of remnants of the Linyi Kingdom in the jungle south of Xianglin County (which was restored after the destruction of the Linyi Kingdom) in the southernmost part of Jiaozhou, they also used the pretext of guarding against the remnants of the Linyi Kingdom to set up escort teams on these plantations.

Each of the convoys numbered fifteen hundred, so that the more than twenty plantations combined had a convoy of more than 30,000 men.

Because Xianglin County is very close to Luhan County, Qu Liulang, who is stationed here, can send ships here at any time, and these escorts in Jiaozhou can also organize themselves to participate in battles in various parts of Nanyang from time to time.

At this time, the number of Han people in Jiaozhou reached almost 400,000, but in Wang Ze's view, it was far from enough, and it was very difficult to control the existing land in Jiaozhou, not to mention that Wang Ze was also preparing to use Jiaozhou to further expand into the inland areas.

This time, because of the Northern Zhou and Southern Attacks, a large number of people fled from Lianghuai, and Wang Ze set his sights on these people, and Feng Fu and the wealthy families of Lingnan also had a very huge demand for labor after years of development, and they also knew that the more the population of Lingnan, the more prosperous the economy.

So after Wang Ze secretly wrote a letter to Feng Fu, Feng Fu took the lead and finally set off such a vigorous immigration wave.

The fleet from Beijiang Prefecture soon came to Huancheng, and then transferred to Poyang Lake with the fleet here in Huancheng, and then continued to trace the Ganshui until it reached Nankang County in the upper reaches of the Ganshui River, and then could only divert to the land route for a few hundred miles.

Fortunately, these heroes in Lingnan were well prepared with the support of Feng Fu, and there were a large number of rest points along the way, as well as plenty of decoctions and doctors, so these people came to Lingnan smoothly.

Baling's fleet is more relaxed, because it is possible to take a boat from Xiangshui along the Ling Canal to Guangzhou, which is a more convenient one.

Jiangyin County is the closest to Jiankang, so the people here are not blatantly transported, but they are all transferred to the Zhoushan Islands east of Huiji County, and then continue south to Jiaozhou, Guangzhou, and some of them are transported to the islands of the South Seas.