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On the day he received the urgent report from the Red Lady, Liu Sheng led the expedition team back to China.

According to reports from the Red Lady, more and more refugees have come to Queshan from the north in the past few days, and almost all of them have stayed outside the county town and will not go south.

She sent people to secretly inquire among the refugees, and then she learned that most of the refugees came from Fucheng.

The reason for this is that there are rumors in Fucheng that the rebel army has hundreds of thousands of stones of food in Queshan, and they are providing large-scale relief to the refugees, and everyone who has gone there can be fed.

Therefore, not only have many refugees arrived in the past few days, but there are also some refugees who are dissatisfied with the rebels' request for relief and the fact that they only provide two meals of rice and porridge every day.

There were even several small riots by hungry people.

Fortunately, the scale is small, involving only about a hundred people at most.

The two thousand civilian warriors trained by the rebels are barely usable, and most of the refugees are still grateful to the rebels. Therefore, these small riots were quickly suppressed by the rebels.

But Lady Hong felt that there were some problems with the rumors in Fucheng and the several refugee riots outside the county town, and they were probably a conspiracy by the government.

Therefore, I asked him to go back quickly to discuss and make a decision.

Liu Sheng set out near 9 a.m., using several boats, sails and oars, and finally arrived at the riverside camp before dark.

In the past half month, Red Lady has sent immigrants and food to Tianmu Mountain twice.

Each time there were more than 2,000 immigrants and more than 10,000 stones of food.

Therefore, although the Huachu Camp and other four major battalions sent out more than 2,000 people to open the Longshou Bay Salt Factory, the number of people not only did not decrease, but actually increased.

When several more groups of refugees arrive, Liu Sheng will prepare to open two new camps upstream or on the other side of the river.

Or send the refugees directly to Longshou Bay - where you can catch marine fish and there are many tidal flats, making it easier to obtain fish and meat or to reclaim land.

After Liu Sheng returned to the Huabu camp, he first had a quick tour of the four camps, then had a casual dinner at the Huachu camp and discussed matters with Li Changwen.

In the small cafeteria, before the food was served, Liu Sheng told him about the surge in refugees in Queshan County.

He also talked about the investigation and speculation of the Red Lady.

After hearing this, Li Changwen smiled and said: "Even if it is a trick of the government, what do we have to fear?

The person who came up with this idea only wants to use so many refugees to eat up our food reserves. If we stop providing relief to refugees in order to save food, it will ruin our reputation.

Little did they know that the leader could send the refugees to this blessed land of North America - with its fertile fields and abundant fishing and hunting harvests, even if the refugees could not be self-sufficient in the first year or two of coming to reclaim the wasteland, they would not consume much food.

By the next year, as long as there are not too many immigrants, there may be no need to transfer grain from Ming Dynasty.

Besides, what if there is a lack of food? There is none in Queshan County, but the landlords and gentry in the countryside still have a lot of food in their homes.

There are even more in Fucheng - not to mention other big landowners, Prince Chong's Mansion alone is said to have more than 10,000 hectares of land.

The first generation Chong Wang Zhu Jianze was the sixth son of the Yingzong. He was granted the title in the tenth year of Chenghua. It was passed down to the contemporary Chong Wang Zhu Youfan, who is the sixth generation and has lasted for nearly two hundred years.

The leader can imagine how much food and gold and silver treasures were accumulated in Prince Chong's mansion. "

Li Changwen's final introduction about Prince Chong's Mansion suddenly made Liu Sheng excited.

When he first formulated his strategy, why did he want to capture Biyang and Tongbai counties first?

On the one hand, the subconscious uses these two counties to cooperate with Queshan as a barrier to Tianmu Mountain's lair.

The second is to pass through Biyang or Tongbai, rush to break through Xiangyang before Zhang Xianzhong, and intercept Hu to obtain a large amount of money, food and materials from Prince Xiang's palace.

In this way, we learned that there was a Ming Dynasty vassal king in Ruyang, who was also a descendant of the famous Baozong.

As someone who often reads novels about the late Ming Dynasty, how could he not be excited?

So after listening to Li Changwen's words, he laughed heartily and said: "Sir, you are absolutely right. We are not afraid of the government sending refugees over. The more they send, the happier we will be!"

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After dinner, Liu Sheng rushed to Dashui Pingzhai overnight.

But the Red Lady also returned to Tianmu Mountain today with a large number of refugees.

When Liu Sheng arrived outside Dashuiping Village, he saw refugee tents lined up for a mile or two on the mountain road outside the Walled City.

When Liu Sheng met the Matchmaker at the Baihu Government Hall, he asked, "How many refugees did you bring back this time?"

The red lady must have taken a shower and changed her clothes. Although she didn't look dusty, her pretty face could not hide her fatigue. It was obvious that she was very tired from this trip.

She said: "There are more than 10,000 people, all of whom have families. When I left, there were still 3,000 to 4,000 young singles in the county, and thousands of new refugees were added every day."

"You have worked hard during this time."

"It's not hard work." The red lady shook her head and then asked: "The government is doing this. Can the leader think of a way to deal with it?"

Liu Sheng smiled and said: "Having more refugees is a good thing for us. What can we do about it?"

Lady Hong worriedly said: "With the tens of thousands of stones of food we collected in Queshan County, if there are another twenty or thirty thousand refugees, we may not be able to survive the New Year."

Liu Sheng said: "It's not as serious as you think. We harvested more than 2,000 acres of soybeans and 300,000 to 400,000 jins of sweet potatoes in North America this year (a considerable part will be reserved as seed potatoes).

We can also fish in the bay and use salted fish to reduce food consumption.

Also, don’t forget, we plan to attack Ruyang and other places after the autumn harvest.

Ruyang is the fiefdom of King Chong, and there are many large households and wealthy businessmen. Maybe the money collected will be enough to support us until next summer's harvest. "

Hearing what Liu Sheng said, the worry in the red lady's eyebrows immediately disappeared, and her eyes even became brighter.

She thought for a while and said: "On my way back, I saw that most of the millet in the fields had been harvested. In those fields that were not abandoned, a lot of wheat was planted.

If we want to attack Ruyang and other places, we should prepare now. If the war progresses unfavorably and is delayed until the twelfth lunar month, the weather will be freezing and it will be difficult to fight. "

Liu Sheng smiled and said: "I'm here tonight to discuss with you how to send troops and how to capture Ruyang."

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After getting up from the temporary tent in the morning, Li San wrapped himself in a dirty robe and subconsciously wanted to find some water to rinse his mouth.

But looking up, there were only rocks and vegetation on both sides of the mountain road, and there was no water at all.

'The rebels actually moved so many people to Tianmu Mountain to open up wasteland. It's really fantastic. '

Li San smiled secretly and called the two followers in the tent who were pretending to be his eldest nephew and eldest nephew to get up.

In order to find out the roots of the Tianmu Mountain rebels, and even implement a plan to infiltrate the middle and high-level rebels and instigate rebellion from within, Li San was ordered by Fu Ruwei to personally lurk among the refugee ranks again.

After hanging around outside Queshan County for a few days, he had already noticed that the rebels preferred refugees with families.

So he asked two attendants to pretend to be his nephew and nephew.

"Third Master..."

As soon as one of the attendants opened his mouth, Li San stared back and scolded: "How many times have I told you that you are now my nephew and you have to call me uncle!"

"Hey, uncle," the attendant quickly changed his title, "I'm so hungry. Now that we're in the mountains, why don't we go get some game?"