Chapter 108: Draining the Population and Encroaching on the Chu State

"Run? But I still have a lot of land at home, how will I eat if I escape? Why don't you stay and try?" One of them was lucky and unwilling to give up the fertile land and flee.

"Hehe, if you don't escape, then wait to be squeezed by the Qin and Chu nobles coming back!" Bo Yi gave him a disdainful look, and then continued, "Do you still think that you expect people to be soft-hearted?"

"They always have to collect taxes, they can't force us to death, it's a big deal, it's hard, we can get by."

"Not necessarily, those nobles don't think of you as a countryman!"

"What's it if it's not a countryman?" Several people were a little confused.

"Female!"

Bo Yi glanced at them: "Yingdu was defeated, the Marquis of Chu died, and the nobles fled, but you didn't have anything to do, and you got a lot of benefits, so is it normal for you to talk about it?"

"No, are not you the gift of grain, and cloth, and salt, and fields?"

"We rewarded us with our gifts, and that's because you helped us carry our supplies." Bo Yi said as a matter of course.

"But if you say that, will the nobles believe it?" Bo Yi said with a smile. "They will treat you as a female cadre who betrayed the Chu State!"

"Well, for the sake of this meal, I advise you to flee quickly!"

After speaking, without waiting for them to answer, Bo Yi staggered away.

It's just that after he turned a corner and entered another room, his originally slightly drunk expression instantly sobered up, and then he changed his clothes and left quickly.

"Big brother, I've already told those people as you told me." Bo Yi said respectfully.

"Sit down and rest, this time the king and Dr. Wen are going to relocate the population of Yingdu, I think these people know what to do, by the way, tomorrow I will find a few people who pretend to have fled from other cities, and tell them what will happen to those who stay, I think they will make a choice!"

"Whoa!" Bo Yi surrendered.

With the spread of rumors by Boyi and others, the next day, the entire Yingdu knew that the armies of Chu and Qin would plunder their goods and rob them of their grain. The whole Yingdu became panicked.

Such rumors intensified, and the Huai people did not stop them, but added fuel to the fire. The whole Yingdu is full of all kinds of rumors, and there are even rumors that the Qin people are all savages, and the wild people are not trained to eat human flesh. In short, all kinds of outrageous statements came out.

And all this after the third day, it was completely panicked. On the third day, a group of unkempt and embarrassed homeless people ran to Yingdu.

These people are said to have fled from the vicinity of Xinyang, and the army of Qin and Chu attacked. All the food in their homes was robbed, and Ding Zhuang was also dragged to the people's husband. Those who dared to resist were killed for collaborating with the enemy, and their property was confiscated. Many people have already lost their families, and they have escaped with great difficulty.

Many times, people prefer to believe what they see in front of them, and when they see the fate of these displaced people, the people of Yingdu can no longer sit still. They all went to the official residence of Huai Guo and asked the Huai army to stay.

Of course, they were all rejected, and just when everyone was desperate, suddenly a voice came from the crowd: "Please take us along!"

When everyone heard this, they immediately reacted and shouted one after another, "Duke Huai is merciful, please take us with you!"

"Huai Gong is merciful, please take us with you!"

Many people shouted.

Wen Chong was very relieved to see the following scene: "I can finally move these people away!"

"The navy should be almost there now, send people down to maintain order, let them leave by boat, and send troops to escort these people back in batches."

"In addition to cattle, horses, livestock, grain, etc., everything else that can be discarded is discarded, and while the Qin-Chu coalition army is still in the north, I will empty the Chu Guoying."

The text will issue one command after another, and then execute it quickly.

Originally, the migrants were not only time-consuming and labor-intensive, but also needed to be suppressed by large armies in many cases. And even then, many people will flee.

But this time, the people migrated, and the culture did not send troops at all

Bullet pressure, those people spontaneously prepared things. One of these people would choose a leader for themselves, and then the leader would lead everyone to act together.

These people formed small groups with the same clan, or neighbors, relatives, and so on, and then began to migrate eastward under the escort of Huai soldiers.

In order to dispel these people's worries, Huaiguo promised that as long as they arrived at the place, everyone could get twenty acres of land. And the first three years are exempt from tax, and the next five years only need to pay half of the tax.

The Huai State has established its prestige in the hearts of these people. They believe that as long as it is promised by Huaiguo, it will be fulfilled. This is due to the fact that Huaiguo requisitioned these people to transport materials, build utensils, and help Huaiguo work, and they will get what they promised.

Wen Chong successfully established his prestige among these people with a large amount of grain, grass and cloth that were difficult to carry. In the end, what is unbelievable is that the credit of Huai is now higher than that of Chu at any time.

A large number of people spontaneously went to Huai and migrated with Huai, only in the Chu capital Yingdu, there were 70,000 or 80,000 people to follow, and in other places there were also a large number of people who followed Huai to migrate.

A rough estimate puts at least 300,000 people on this migration, if not more.

If a population of 300,000 or 400,000 were forcibly moved, at least tens of thousands of troops would have to be crushed along the way, and the movement would be very slow. But in the case of these people taking the initiative to follow, Huai Guo only used 10,000 people to do it, and they didn't need to drive away, they would follow, and the migration speed was not slow.

Huai State has attracted a large number of people from Chu through various methods, and people have a herd mentality. Seeing so many people migrating and evacuating, these people of Chu were very surprised.

Later, after hearing about the evil deeds of the Qin-Chu coalition army, he was also a little panicked. After all, the three of them became tigers, and so many people were willing to leave their hometowns, which suddenly made these people of Chu believe it, and under the herd mentality, more and more people of Chu followed.

This large-scale migration of the people of the Huai State directly drained most of the population near the Yingdu of the Chu State, including the Han Pingyuan. This can be said to be the most essential part of the Chu State, which has been in operation for hundreds of years, and most of it has been directly destroyed.

And after these people were migrated to Huai, it only took a few years for them to integrate into Huai, and at that time, the population of Huai would skyrocket by 500,000, and Chu would no longer be able to compete with Huai.

Although Huai did not plan to occupy Yingdu this time, Wang Qi was not prepared to give up a large area of land around Dabie Mountain east of Shudi and Han level. These lands accounted for about a quarter of the entire Chu state.

With hundreds of thousands of people migrating from Yingdu, plus a part of the population migrating from the Huai State and the original Chu State population, it is not difficult to control these lands. Moreover, with the mountain range blocking, it is not easy for the Chu State to attack.