Jia Xu did not continue to argue with Yang Hong, and arched his hand and retreated to the side.

However, Yan Xiang stood up again, and said with a wry smile: "Yang Gong's words are light, you don't know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive, 200,000 people, if they are resettled, from now until May next year to harvest grain, during this period, there is still nearly half a year to solve the problem of their housing and food, dare to ask Yang Gong, how can we have so much food for them to eat?" How can there be so many houses for them to live in? ”

Yang Hong was speechless, although he didn't care about logistics, but he also knew that the food consumed by these 200,000 displaced people every day was not a small amount, this year's Nanyang harvest was a bumper harvest, and the Taishou Mansion paid a lot of taxes, but he still had to feed 30,000 troops and so many officials, how could there be extra money and food?

Qin Feng is now worried about money and food all day long, he will send troops to Guanzhong after the spring next year, this soldier must also come out, the area of Nanyang is not small, the cultivated land is not small, but only half of it can be mastered by him, only this grain harvest can not support so many soldiers and horses, the reality forced him to find a way out, this way out is to develop westward.

The purpose of this is not only to expand the living space, but also to find a relatively stable rear area, only in this way can you deal with other princes.

Everyone discussed for more than an hour without discussing a result, Qin Feng could only order the government close to the border to organize officials to temporarily settle those displaced people in the local area, build some simple shacks and tents for them to shelter in, and send people to prepare some food porridge every day to make these displaced people barely wrap their stomachs, waiting for the next order of the Taishou Mansion.

After dinner in the evening, Qin Feng rubbed his temples while soaking his feet, thinking about how to deal with the affairs of these 200,000 homeless people.

Xiao Qiao took the sewing needle to turn on the oil lamp, and when he saw Qin Feng's seemingly troubled look, he asked, "Troubled?" ”

"yes!" Qin Feng sighed, and then told the matter of the 200,000 displaced people, and then said: "Now the opinions of the officials are different, some people advocate gathering troops and horses to drive these 200,000 displaced people out, and we can't let these displaced people drag down the good situation that we have built up with great difficulty!" ”

"There are also people who advocate that these 200,000 homeless people should live and settle down, and the hooligans are also the people, no matter where they used to be, they will enter Nanyang and settle down in Nanyang, and they will be the people of Nanyang! However, what do we use now to feed these 200,000 displaced people, and if we have eaten the last meal and not the next meal, how can we have the ability to resettle these 200,000 people? ”

Xiao Qiao came over and squatted down, stretched out his hand to wash Qin Feng's feet, and said while washing, "Do you want to hear the thoughts of the slave family?" ”

"Oh? Tell me about it! ”

Anyway, being idle is idle, Qin Feng feels that it doesn't hurt to let Xiao Qiao talk about it.

Xiao Qiao said: "Now the people of Nanyang have divided the fields, but there is still a lot of wasteland that has not been cultivated, right? I heard that in the past, Nanyang was the most populous county in the world, but now it is not one out of ten, Nanyang wants to increase its strength, first of all, it is necessary to increase the population, and if the population increases, it can increase grain production, and if there is more food, the population is more, and the government will pay more taxes and grain! ”

"If you have money and food, you can build weapons and armaments, and you can recruit soldiers and horses, and if you have a large population, you will have enough soldiers, if you have money and food, but you don't have a population, you can't recruit soldiers and horses; If you don't have money, food, and soldiers, how can you fulfill your ambitions? ”

Qin Feng listened to Xiao Qiao's words, and was quite surprised that she actually had such an opinion, even among the officials of the Taishou Mansion, there were not many who had such a deep understanding.

He smiled and said, "How can I not know what you are talking about, but where does the money and food to feed these 200,000 people come from?" ”

Xiao Qiao said: "Didn't we form an alliance with Hanzhong Zhang Lu? Maybe you can't get grain and grass from elsewhere, but you should be able to raise a batch from Hanzhong, Hanzhong has a bumper harvest every year, and there is too much food to eat, you can find Zhang Lu to buy grain, maybe you can solve the food problem! ”

Early the next morning, Qin Feng was about to send someone to convene the strategists and officials again to discuss countermeasures, when the subordinate officials came to report: "General Qiyu, Captain Lu asks to see you!" ”

"Let him in!"

"No!"

Lu Sheng quickly walked in and hugged his fists and said: "Lord, Eagle Eye has received news that the displaced people who have entered my Nanyang realm are Cao Cao, Liu Biao and others who deliberately spread rumors and encourage them to come to Nanyang!" ”

Qin Fengxin said that this is the case, if these princes don't have a good thing, they can't see that others are good, he and the Flame Army are just a little better, these people have bad intentions to sabotage, and it is okay to send a few people to carry out assassination, this time they actually came up with such a vicious trick, it is really hateful!

"How did they spread the rumors and how did they encourage the displaced people?" he asked. ”

"Cao Cao and Liu Biao sent people to tell those homeless people that Nanyang would divide the fields and land, and give them houses to live in, and each family would also share three stones of grain, and distribute farm tools and livestock for free, and then they encouraged those homeless people to come to Nanyang with their families to beg for a living!"

"Those homeless people can't survive in Cao Cao and Liu Biao's territory, Cao Cao and Liu Biao are also worried that there are too many homeless people in their jurisdiction and something will happen, and when they learned that we are dividing the land to the landless farmers, their advisers came up with such a bad idea to frame me Nanyang!"

"The homeless people themselves can't survive on the territory of Cao Cao and Liu Biao, and now I heard that Nanyang is so good, how can there be no reason not to come, there are not many people who just started on the road, and others saw that someone came all the way to Nanyang, so they brought their families on the road, resulting in more and more people coming, and gradually developed into today's scale!"

Qin Feng sneered in his heart after hearing this, Cao Cao and Liu Biao, you two guys are so deliberately harming me, I, Qin Feng, want to live well, not only to accept and settle these 200,000 homeless people, but also to let them all survive for my use!

Anyone can say cruel things, but it is not easy to really settle down these 200,000 Liu people and live to harvest wheat next year, and it is not known whether they can buy grain by sending people to Hanzhong.

"Come on, summon Yang Hong, Xu Shu, Yan Xiang, and Jia Xu······ Wait for someone to come and discuss it! ”

Not long after, Yang Hong and others came to the lobby of Taishou Mansion one by one.

Qin Feng looked at everyone and said: "Everyone, I come from a humble background, I know the hardships and hardships of the people, now there are 200,000 displaced people entering my Nanyang, whether these displaced people heard that I Nanyang distributed fields to the people and were attracted to come, or they were encouraged by Cao Cao, Liu Biao and others to spread rumors, they can come, it means that they yearn for my Nanyang, this is a good thing, it shows that the hearts of the people are in me, as the so-called people who win the hearts of the people win the world, if I have hundreds of millions of people, why fear him Cao Mengde?" ”