eurekapd Chapter 282: Disguised Refugees
Chapter 282: Disguised Refugees
When we arrived at the city gate, we saw a huge crowd of people. They were ragged, skinny and pale, and they looked at the people of Changlu County with envy and flattery.
Some soft-hearted people had already handed the food in their hands to the refugees. A man who was suspected to be the leader walked out from the refugees, took the food, thanked them politely, then returned to the refugees and distributed the food to the hungry people.
Tears welled up in Wuyang's eyes, and the hand holding Xu Jinyu's arm unconsciously increased its strength: "They are so pitiful, how much money do we have? I want to give them some porridge."
But Xu Jinyu thought differently, and a question mark slowly formed on her forehead.
When did refugees become so civilized and polite? Real refugees would rush to get food regardless of everything when they see it. Only a knife across their necks would make them so polite.
If you look closely, you can see that these refugees may be hungry and may not have a good life, but they are definitely not real refugees.
Because they do not have the numbness and despair of life that are unique to refugees.
Instead, beneath the messy hair were a pair of lively eyes, looking around at the people of Changlu County.
These are refugees. Although she had never seen refugees before, she had seen quite a few of them in Zhengyang County.
When he was undecided, he looked for the system. Xu Jinyu simply lowered his head.
[Ah~~ These people are not from Daqian, but from Dayue, which borders Daqian. They all have no land and live in poverty. The people who can't survive, anyway, have no house or land, and the only way to survive in Dayue is to sell themselves. I heard that Daqian has good seeds that can produce thousands of kilograms per mu. ]
[Why not just sneak across the border and come to Daqian to survive. ]
[This is not the only group of people. They encountered countless people who fled quietly along the way. Among these refugees, there were masters who told these people who wanted to flee to Daqian not to rush into one place at once, but to spread out, with a few hundred people going to a county town and more going to a prefecture town.]
[In one autumn, hundreds of thousands of people from Dai Viet fled, and quite a few from Dai Wu as well. Now the emperors of Dai Wu and Dai Viet must be mad with rage!]
The emperors of Dai Wu and Dai Viet were indeed furious. The emperor of Dai Wu was not so bad, as there was Dai Viet between it and Dai Viet. The people wanted to escape but were powerless. Not many people ran away, but the number of people on the border of Dai Viet decreased by hundreds of thousands.
Hundreds of thousands of people!
Dai Viet Royal Palace,
The Emperor of Dai Viet, who was sitting on the dragon throne, threw the memorial in his hand on the heads of the officials below: "Hundreds of thousands! Hundreds of thousands of people disappeared, and you only discovered it now. If you hadn't gone to harvest the autumn crops, you wouldn't have discovered it. What are you officials doing?"
The officials below moved their lips and wanted to say something about the nature of officials. You don’t know yet. If you ask them to go to the countryside, they would rather sleep in the government office.
However, he was gently pulled by the official behind him.
The entire Golden Palace was silent, and no official dared to speak.
The loss of hundreds of thousands of people means hundreds of thousands less in taxes. The most important thing is that these people are still living on the border. Who knows if they will leak the situation on the border.
No one said anything, and the Emperor of Dai Viet became even more furious: "And what about the Xie Family Army? What is the Xie Family Army doing? So many people have left, how could the Xie Family Army not have any awareness? Why didn't they submit a memorial?"
"You don't take me, the emperor, seriously at all. Could it be that you really want to rebel?"
"Your Majesty, calm down!"
"Your Majesty, calm down!"
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The ministers knelt on the ground.
"Your Majesty! Two months ago, you were dissatisfied with the Xie family army's request for food and fodder, so you directly ordered that no memorials from Lord Xie would be read." The eunuch behind the Dai Viet Emperor whispered.
The anger of the Dai Viet Emperor was suddenly put on hold.
"Hurry up and find Mr. Xie's memorial."
When Lord Xie's memorials were found, there was a thick stack of them. Lord Xie wrote an urgent memorial almost every three days, and the content of the memorials was indeed that a large number of Dai Viet people were found illegally crossing the border.
Xie's army tried to stop them but failed, and they also arrested quite a few people. They submitted a memorial to the emperor, asking what should be done with these people.
But they couldn't stop them at all. There were too many people trying to escape. The Xie family army had to guard against the enemies outside Beilang Pass and the Daqian army. In addition, the people were fleeing, so they were simply overwhelmed.
The emperor of Dai Viet remained silent. Who should take the blame?
After the silence, there was even greater anger, directed at the officials present and at Daqian.
"I told you not to read Lord Xie's memorial, so why wouldn't you take a look? And the people in Daqian are bastards too. What's wrong with giving us a little more high-yield seed in Dayue?!"
The Emperor of Dai Viet was furious and incompetent, while Emperor Xuan of Daqian almost laughed his mouth apart.
Hundreds of thousands of young and strong people came here for free and made a fortune.
Divide the land, divide the houses...
The devastated and deserted Blueprint County was immediately populated.
If he had not been afraid of a falling out between Dai Viet and Da Wu, Emperor Xuan would have wanted to post a notice on the border with a line of large characters on it:
"We welcome the people of Dai Viet and Dai Wu to come to our Daqian. We will give them land and good seeds! They will never go hungry."
No matter how many people come, Daqian is not afraid, because people are needed to go out to sea, people are needed to farm, and people are also needed to make the many secret recipes that Xu Jinyu has sold. Nowadays, Daqian never thinks there are too many people, but only too few people.
Emperor Xuan really did not expect such a good thing to happen.
All the officials in the court were almost laughing crazy.
"This is all thanks to Master Xu."
"Yes, Lord Xu is the lucky star of our Daqian."
"His Majesty has already said that when Lord Xu returns, he will be officially named Prince An, the only royal prince in the world."
"Your Majesty already has a queen, I wonder when His Majesty will allow women to take the imperial examinations?"
"Why, you don't plan to train your son anymore?"
"I can't help it. My son is just stupid, but my daughter is smart. I used to think my family was going to decline, and I had been planning to train my grandchildren. Now it seems that my daughter can also be trained."
"But the pressure is too great, and His Majesty may not give in."
"Have you forgotten Mr. Xu's Women's Technical College?"
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