Yu Ren smiled and did not answer. "You watch, and you'll know."

Although the situation of the porridge shed set up by Yu Ren is much better than that of Wenxiangjiao, for the victims, it can only be said that they will barely starve to death, and they can't talk about wanting to eat enough.

Three days later, Yu Ren posted notices in all the porridge shacks set up in various branches. The gist of the notice was that due to the limited amount of food and rice, they did not know when the porridge shed of their Xu family would be lifted. If anyone is willing to go with them to Dongfan Island to pioneer the land, then they can be paid a bag of rice and three taels of silver on the spot. This is a year's worth of their labor.

In addition, those who go to Dongfan Island can get a guarantee of one pound of rice a day from the moment they board the boat. After a year, if they don't want to do it anymore, they will send a boat to bring people back.

As soon as this notice was posted, it immediately caused an uproar. You must know that these victims originally came for the soup soup of the Smelling Fragrance Sect, and many people's homes were even hundreds of miles away. Now, seeing that the soup soup of the Wenxiang Sect is getting less and less, it is easy to look forward to the new great benevolent person of the Xu family, but at this time, he said that he didn't know when he would withdraw.

For the notice to the east to pioneer, this method is good, a pound of rice a day, not only can support yourself, but even one more child. But the point is that almost all of these people are natives, and most of them have never been out of Shandong or even Jinan in their lives. Now he said that he would let them go to Dongfan Island, thousands of miles away. None of them dared to take that risk.

On the first day the notice was posted, no one came to Yu Ren to sign up. Yu Ren waited quietly in front of the porridge shed all day, but did not see anyone coming.

Yu Ren was disappointed. At first, he thought that as soon as his notice was posted, many people would respond. You know, this is specially designed by him to distinguish those rich people who take advantage of the disaster year to buy people at a low price. Unexpectedly, these victims would rather sell themselves to those rich people than go to Taiwan with him.

Because they heard that the Xu family's porridge shed might have to be removed, the victims who had originally gathered here began to leave one after another. The new local squires took the opportunity to collect the victims in a big way, buying an adult man for half a bag of rice, and the price of a woman was two cents lower than that.

But even so, many of the victims are still flocking to it. However, because there were so many victims, these squires only picked a few of them, and most of them stayed.

Looking at the despair in the eyes of those who remained, it was as if they had been sentenced to death. Yu Ren was really indignant.

"Why is it that our price is obviously several times higher than theirs, but no one comes, and everyone rushes to go there?"

"For these people know that they have sold to these local squires, and they have found a home. Since these squires have exchanged food for them, they will not let them starve to death casually. And following these squires is just doing some farming things.

But the place we asked them to go was too far away, and because the conditions we gave were so good compared to the squire, they could not believe us. ”

Yu Ren sighed, "It seems that this good person can't do it sometimes!" Okay, then change the notice. Just write, buy a person with a bag of rice. The sell-off period is about ten years. However, the article of following us to Dongfan Island to open up wasteland cannot be changed. Otherwise, we are deceiving them. ”

Huang Ji'an agreed, and immediately let people change it.

However, there was still no movement from the victims.

I waited until the second porridge was served the next night, but no one came. Yu Ren was really disappointed.

Just when Yu Ren had nothing to do, a woman led a fifteen or sixteen-year-old child over.

"We're willing to sell ourselves!"

When Yu Ren heard that someone was willing to sell his body, he was so overjoyed that he almost rushed up to kiss him.

Take a closer look, he knows the person who came. It was Lu Qing, the shopkeeper they met in a small town outside Jinan Mansion a while ago, and his young stepmother Jiang Xiaowan.

"Is that you? Why are you here? ”

"After we left our hometown, we walked most of Jinan Mansion, and in the end we only found a little hope of surviving here. So, we had to come in the end. Speaking of this, Jiang Xiaowan turned to the group of victims in front of her and said, "Fellow villagers." As the old saying goes, people move to live, trees move to death. Now we are in a catastrophic year. If we stay here, we're really going to die.

At the moment, although Yu Xianggong let us go farther, he may have to take a lot of risks. But at least there is some hope for life! And how long can we live if we stay here? Imperial court, we can't count on it. The squires who had surplus food at home had also finished picking people. If we don't go with Yu Xianggong, we will only starve to death when the Xu family's porridge shed is removed after seven days.

Our mother and son have traveled almost half of Jinan Mansion these days. There was a patch of red land everywhere, and it was hard to find even tree bark and grass roots. I also heard that Elder Liu of the Wenxiang Sect also brought his cronies to Yanzhou. It won't be long before their porridge shed will be removed.

When the time comes, how will we survive? Although Yu Xianggong is kind-hearted, their food is also limited, and the number of people they want must be limited. If you sign up late, you just want to come and you won't have a chance. At that point, you will really have to stay here and starve to death. ”

Jiang Xiaowan's few words really touched these victims, everyone heard that the Wenxiang Sect was also leaving, and the number of places here was still limited, and the crowd began to stir. You know, this is now their only hope of survival.

Everyone began to desperately rush to Yu Ren's grass shed. I'm afraid that I won't be able to come late.

Yu Ren finally smiled.

"Don't crowd, let's line up, we want a lot of people, and it won't be full for a while. Whoever squeezes will be disqualified. Huang Ji'an saw that everyone was crowded, and many women were squeezed to the ground with their children in their arms, and the people around them ignored them, and even stepped on them directly; So he hurriedly shouted to maintain order.

Soon, Yu Ren received nearly 10,000 victims. He is different from those squires, he takes all the old and young women and children. Someone asked, "Is the child's life sale period also ten years?" Yu Ren was about to answer, but Jiang Xiaowan had already helped him answer, "Yes, but it must be counted from the age of eighteen to adulthood." ”

Yu Ren glanced at Jiang Xiaowan approvingly, this time, if it weren't for this woman's help, it would not be easy for him to do this.

Seeing that the food he brought was almost empty. Yu Ren had no choice but to suspend the collection of people. But there are still a lot of people around who are rushing here after hearing the news. Today's situation is like a river gate that has been opened, and the crowd of people is pouring here like a tide of water, and it is unstoppable.

Yu Ren knew that the rest of the matter was simple, as long as they had enough food, they would have it for as many people as possible. So he personally led the team to bring this group of nearly 10,000 victims to the Daqing River. Twenty or thirty large ships had already been moored there.

Although a maximum of two or three hundred people can be carried in one boat, there must still be too many people. So it should be shipped in two batches. Those who could not go for the time being encamped on the spot. The officials of Jinan Mansion watched Yu Ren transport these people away in batches, but no one stopped them, but they secretly rejoiced in their hearts. You know, so many people are gathered together, and they have no food and rice to help, which is like a time bomb, which can be detonated at any time. Now that Yu Ren has done this, he has dismantled their time bomb, and they are naturally happy.

The first batch was sent away, and more than 4,000 people were left, and it would take at least more than a month for Taiwan to send a ship to pick up the people. Yu Ren couldn't wait any longer, so he summoned a few of his cronies and asked them to figure out a way.

"Cousin, in my opinion, it is better to buy some small fishing boats around, and let's build some small boats on the spot. Then walk along the canal. Wait until you reach the Yangtze River, and then turn east. Let's stop at our Juhe Hall first.

We have recently built more than a dozen new seagoing vessels there. It's enough to transport these people. And I heard that they have also made some improvements to these ships, which are a lot faster than the previous sea ships. Coming and going can save a lot of time. Liang Zongyi said.

"That's a good idea. But. It's so eye-catching that there are so many of us and so many boats walking through the canal. If there is no official document issued by the government, it will definitely be regarded as a chaotic person, and I am afraid that there will be even greater trouble. Yu Ren tapped his finger and said.