Chapter 227: The Exile (17)

They won't let themselves get sick, so how much does it cost? They don't have it on their hands. After doing the work, they had to take the money to buy food.

Fengqi City was already short of manpower. Their group of displaced people were quickly assigned to work in suitable positions.

Zhai Wenying went to see Li Yingyu again.

"The private soldiers over there are fairly well trained, and there can be a little more time here."

The more powerful the private soldiers over there, the bigger their calculations will be. If nothing else, the work of preparing military rations will take a long time. And how the three brothers share a throne is also a big problem.

"Several other big cities are also short of population, so they can be brought over."

Bring it over, Zhai Wenying also thought. However, the cost is high and it is basically impossible.

"You arrange it yourself, I can choose you or someone else."

Li Yingyu looked at Zhai Wenying fixedly for five seconds, "Okay, let's still send it to Fengqi City or you choose a relatively close place, and I will let them prepare tools, medicine, and food." ”

Zhai Wenying went back again, passing by the area where she had taken people. The people there are still busy, and they are all yellow and thin. There were several children on the hill, and they were playing with tree bark.

Zhai Wenying thought of the bark powder she saw on the road, and her mood was complicated.

Going to another area, she did the same and took another group of people with her. This group of people is said to be Jiang Shengxia's subordinates, and they have the worst life. Jiang Shengxia has no ambition, but he is greedy, and he wants to get more gold, silver and jewelry from the dragon's skills, plus he really can't get used to Jiang Shengtang.

The gold, silver and jewelry were not only begged from the hands of the two brothers, but he also sold the grain and the people here to the big city under the jurisdiction of Jiang Shengtang, first, to spy on the situation, bury a few more nails, and secondly, to make a sum of money.

This time, it was the majority of each village who were willing to follow Zhai Wenying. The rest who are reluctant to leave are the people responsible for oppressing the villagers.

This time, it was Li Yingyu himself who came to answer in person.

Several large pots of gruel with stomach-nourishing herbs brought tears to the eyes of those who followed Zhai Wenying in one breath.

"Thank you!"

"God has opened his eyes!"

"Woo, mother, I can eat white rice porridge!"

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The wails of a group of people made the eyes of the guards red. They were once oppressed and understood the suffering of these people.

While this group of people were holding gruel and drinking it one by one, Li Yingyu asked the guards to build a few more sheds, hang a few more cloths, block the wind, and let these people have a bigger quilt.

When the people who were near heard this, they secretly wept and told the others.

After staring at these people for a day, Zhai Wenying left again. She's going somewhere else to bring someone over.

The people who were brought in by Zhai Wenying also knew Li Yingyu's identity. The people wept bitterly and hated the traitor Jiang Dexing. If he hadn't stolen the country, they would have been Li Yingyu's people now, and they would be able to live a good life where they had paid taxes and had enough food for their families.

For this group of people, Li Yingyu asked them to cultivate for a period of time before working. With their physical fitness, if they work directly, they are afraid that they will get sick or die.

The former has to spend more money, and the latter is just busy in vain, both of which are contrary to Li Yingyu's interests.

The group of people who arrived before saw the miserable situation of these people, and they worked more actively. They want to make money quickly and put down roots in this place!

The area where Zhai Wenying went again was the four cities under the jurisdiction of Jiang Shengguo.

Yicheng, where Jiang Shengguo is located, is the most prosperous, and the people around him are also living well. The people of the other three cities were doing poorly, but the people walking around the road seemed to be doing well.

Zhai Wenying once again put the people in these four cities to sleep and got different feedback.

"Huh? Is there anyone else at home? Of course you can take it away. If you don't have any clothes to wear, you can wrap your body in grass, leaves, etc., and you can wear clothes and sheets. You are going to run for your life, and you are too good to go to other places, are you embarrassed to take credit first and ask for a mouthful of relief food? ”

"The army on the road, rest assured, none of the soldiers in Jiang Shengxia's territory have been able to stop people."

These people did hear about it. Jiang Shengxia has a large number of people in the territory, and he is ready to transfer a batch from them, otherwise no one will collect the fields.

The number of people above has not yet been determined, but they are all panicked when they get the news. They can occasionally hear from the slaves who sold them over there. What's the use of the fields growing up, they can't reach their own mouths!

In the city under the jurisdiction of Jiang Shengguo, the requirement to wear unpatched clothes to go out is too high, and the field tax is much better than that of Jiang Shengxia and Jiang Shengda, at least you can eat half full. Those who served in the service went to work as slaves in large families, and they were fed every day.

It's good that everyone keeps deceiving themselves about their current life, but when Jiang Shengxia asks for someone on his side, he can't be deceived at all!

As soon as they heard that they could run, and that they could run 100 percent, their first choice was to run. Because if he doesn't run, some of the people who stay will definitely be given to his brother by Jiang Shengguo, who is now King Sheng. No one wants to be part of that.

In the feedback received by Zhai Wenying, there are no fewer people on Jiang Shengguo's side than Jiang Shengxia's side.

This time, even the village leaders who were guarding the people followed suit. Part of it is kind-hearted, tired of living this kind of flattering life, and part of it is afraid of responsibility. They knew that the people had run away, and that those who remained would surely be re-branded as peasants. Whatever life the people under their hands used to live, they themselves lived. It's better to run away with you.

There are too many people this time, and Zhai Wenying is estimated to have to pick up a few mountains if she wants to pick up wild vegetables. She discussed it with Tiandao, and Tiandao went to her shop to buy some vegetables and some meat.

When Zhai Wenying was cooking, she put wild vegetables in front of everyone, and then secretly mixed in the vegetables she bought.

Halfway through, Zhai Wenying gave them a soup with meat, and everyone followed with all their hearts.

Li Yingyu still brought people to respond, this time not only the soldiers defending the city, but also the first batch of people to settle down. By their own efforts, they have already harvested a batch of vegetables.

"It's been a good day! We can make money by working like this. You don't have to find this job yourself, someone has arranged it above. The seeds were all subsidized by His Highness. This year of newcomers, but they don't have to pay taxes, they will start paying next year. ”

This group of people had good faces, but their clothes were buried, and some even wrapped themselves in leaves.

They were already very happy when they saw the white porridge, and when they heard the words of the first people who came over, they grabbed people's clothes and didn't let go.

"Can you really give us land, and we won't pay taxes this year?"

It's already autumn and winter. But in their original lands, they had to plant in the winter.

If there is land here, they will now reclaim it and grow a vegetable crop. When it's colder, you can take a little effort to bake and plant another wave, just enough to store enough dried vegetables to eat in spring. If there are many, you can also take them out and sell them.

"Of course, you see these dishes, we grow them. Your Royal Highness is benevolent and righteous, and you will give priority to buying vegetables from our side. Although it is lower than the market price, it is better than those vegetable sellers who collect vegetables, and it does not suppress our claims, and we don't need to do anything. What did that military master say? ”

"Military discipline is strict!"

"Yes, that's the word!"

The common people chatted with each other, and it was called a hot one. Obviously, it was a gathering of homeless people, but it was turned into a large-scale trading market by this Q&A atmosphere.

The food along the way was all from Zhai Wenying. Even though it's a wild vegetable soup, it's also a filling. They brought something and wanted to exchange some household items with the first person.

The first people were very experienced in this, and they did the same with the aborigines here. Let's negotiate the price, hello, hello, everyone.

Li Yingyu, who was standing on the city wall, was very happy, with such a group of people, it would not be long before her seven big cities could develop.

The most important thing in this world is always food and people. She only needs one year to revitalize these seven cities.

"Aren't you worried that the three of them will turn their heads against you?"

Zhai Wenying looked at Li Yingyu, she accepted so many people, and she will know one day.

"Are their soldiers coming from among these people, attacking my city, to send me troops?"

The Jiang clan is brutal, taking the people as things and trading with each other. Moreover, in order to quickly train private soldiers who can fight with the regular army of the imperial court, they also used the method of elimination to kill innocent people and stabilize Jiang Shengtang on the other side.

Now that there were no more people, they would either take people captive from the cities under Jiang Shengtang's jurisdiction, or release the weaker soldiers back to the countryside.

"Moreover, Jiang Shengtang will not miss this good opportunity."

Li Yingyu used the dark line of the imperial city and learned that Jiang Shengtang had gathered a large army, and he wanted to take down these ten cities at once, capture the three kings, and attribute everything to the imperial court.

This time, she wanted to be a fisherman, and take advantage of the fact that their brothers were fighting to the death, and occupy a few more cities.

Fengqi City is the closest to Duancheng. Li Yingyu intended to arrange all the people of Duancheng in Fengqi City. As long as Jiang Shengtang sent troops and the three brothers transferred troops to other places, she sent ordinary people over to make peace, tied up the soldiers defending the city with family affection and a good life of eating and drinking in the future, and secretly took Duancheng.

If it weren't too far away, Li Yingyu would be more concerned about Jiang Shengxia's three cities. The people in there were the most oppressed, and they should be more willing to surrender to her, the emperor of the old dynasty.

Jiang Shengtang finally chose to use troops in winter. After the autumn harvest, the grain will be abundant in various places, and the recruitment and deployment of the garrison will be much smoother. Jiang Shengguo and others occupied the city with surplus arable land, and Jiang Shengtang did not want to delay the spring ploughing.

Jiang Shengtang waved the banner of "the people return to the field", beheaded the three kings inside, and quickly dispatched troops outside. Jiang Shengguo and the others were defenseless and lost four big cities at once.

"How did Jiang Shengtang, that bastard, know about the things in our fiefdom? Why didn't anyone report it? ”

Jiang Shengguo and others also have a lot of internal responses. Every time Jiang Shengtang's people came to "suppress the bandits", their internal should have been notified in advance. Jiang Shengguo would send the worst people over and paralyze Jiang Shengtang's team.

This time it was too sudden. The strategists around Jiang Shengguo only had time to take him away. All of Jiang Shengguo's family members are still in those four cities.

"You can't retreat to our side next, why don't you send people to the old court? If those wall grasses can block us, it will also be their blessing! ”

Originally, those cities were controlled by diehard loyalists of the old dynasty. The convoy that came out on weekdays was all in the ranks, and there was no news at all. Even if you send someone in, it's a meat bun and a dog, and there is no return.

They shrank up like turtles over there, they couldn't gnaw, and they had to guard against Jiang Shengtang, so they gave up over there. Now they can use Jiang Shengtang to break their turtle shells.

If you can mix some benefits, you can mix some benefits, and if you can't mix it, it's okay, and you can also contain Jiang Shengtang's people.

Zhai Wenying received the news and quickly notified Li Yingyu. Li Yingyu led a team of elite soldiers and began to ambush Jiang Shengguo and others on the way to escape. On the other hand, she let her subordinates take over the five cities that were still under the control of Jiang Shengguo and others.

"Why are there so many bugs in this place?"

The three brothers of Jiang Shengguo led the guards through the woods. The guards were heavily armoured, and the three brothers were suave, and they were quite popular with mosquito mouthparts wrapped in cloth.

"There's an open space not far away, we can take a break."

When the three of them sat next to the fire, they looked funny and embarrassed with bag after bag on their faces.

"Jiang Shengtang, this poisonous snake, we should have ended him in the first place!"

Jiang Shengxia hated it to death! Most of his belongings! Maybe the Bei Minmin under his command was taken away by Jiang Shengtang.

"That is, how can a person who can put forward the idea of killing the emperor have awe of family affection. Dad is really, believe his nonsense! ”

Jiang Shengda slammed the ground. He shouldn't have listened to his mother at that time and went out to make meritorious contributions? Standing and standing, his father is gone, and he has changed from a strong contender for the throne to a loser.

"Dad didn't believe it, there are more cities for the three of our brothers than Jiang Shengtang."

Jiang Shengguo is more sensible. When his father died, he personally sealed the places for them, and the output was quite good. It's just that there are too many people, and the people under them can't use it, causing them to lose the strength to compete for the throne.

"The good situation is like this, I doubt that we have Jiang Shengtang's chess pieces by our side. We lost too fast! ”

Four cities, that's it!

"Wait until the people of the old dynasty contain Jiang Shengtang's people, and then we will develop well."

Originally, Li Yingyu planned to kill these three people. But now it's time for her to make up her mind. She wants to send these three people to Jiang Shengtang's people on the bright side, so that Jiang Shengtang can't kill them if he wants to.

With a wave of his hand, the soldiers who came to find herbs and food quickly caught the rabbit that "accidentally" hit the stump. The soldiers grabbed the rabbits and cleaned up the river, and after cleaning up, they scooped most of the pot with a pot of water. While fetching water, they saw a pheasant and chased after it. A few people who didn't catch up ran back, picked up the pot on the ground, and went back to make soup.

In a big pot of soup, the rabbit meat went into the mouths of Jiang Shengguo and the others. The strategists and soldiers who ran all the way were only given some soup.

The soldiers who were on the night vigil were so hungry that they ran back to the river to scoop up water, boil it and drink it to taste meat.

Jiang Shengguo, who had gone to bed early, did not hear the screams of the night watchmen. When they woke up, they were faced with Jiang Shengtang's army of 50,000.

(End of chapter)