"Then when you recruit talents, you feel that you don't have enough people, not only the management staff, but also the young people who can do other things?" Cao Lin said.

"I do feel that way. But a certain has been resettling refugees, and I think this situation will soon ease." You Hongyin said.

Cao Lin said: "I think Gaomi resettled many refugees. Based on the past financial resources of Gaomi County, if you want to resettle such a number of refugees, you must make the king supplement your own wealth."

You Hongyin said: "Most of my wealth comes from the wealthy family. I sell colored porcelain, salt, coal, etc. in exchange for food and silk cloth, and then feed back to the people."

Cao Lin bent down and saluted, "Your Majesty is very righteous."

This is the first time he has performed this great gift, and it is obvious that he sincerely surrenders.

Cao Lin straightened up and continued: "But even so, Gaomi County is located in a remote area, with inconvenient transportation. Most of the refugees are intercepted by other counties and counties, and very few people come here. It may be difficult for you to increase the population."

For cities and towns, migrants are both beneficial and harmful.If there is not much food in the city, even if you want to comfort the people, you will not be able to do it. This is why Chen Xiquan and his family have been wandering for several months but have not been taken in by the city.However, the counties of Qingzhou have fewer wars, so they can still have some surplus food. Compared with other places, it is indeed considered to be sparsely populated and able to accommodate refugees.This is why refugees all over the world like to run to Qingzhou and Xuzhou.

"Then what's the magic trick, sir?" Of course You Hongyin is aware of this kind of thing, and this is also what worries him, if he steals someone from the neighbor's house openly, it will be too ugly.

Cao Lin smiled: "This is the blind spot that makes you feel that the people are the foundation of strength, and that you treat the people well so that some people can cultivate food and grass, and some people can get soldiers from a source, but they don't know that other places treat people like livestock, and they only like it." I don’t know the future catastrophe by sweeping the snow in front of my door. In fact, if it weren’t for the governor of Qingzhou who was Lord Shanjian, the chief officials of all counties and counties wanted to please Lord Shanjian. Money and food are difficult, and the money and food in the government and county government are not enough for me, so how can I properly settle the refugees."

When You Hongyin heard this, he understood what Cao Lin meant.

"Sir, you want to lobby the counties?" You Hongyin said.

"Exactly."

You Hongyin sighed, he had always had a misunderstanding, thinking that the refugees did not come because those counties were also preparing to recruit people to resist future troubles, but he didn't know that he thought those people were too smart.

You Hongyin said: "It's because I never thought of this. Mr. is a great talent. The position of chief historian in a certain mansion is still pending. I don't know if Mr. will give in."

"Cao Lin greets the lord." Cao Lin knelt down and bowed.

"Sir, please get up quickly." You Hongyin pulled him up.

"From the beginning of writing the book, my lord said it was the beginning of my book." Cao Lin said.

"When will Mr. Shushi leave?" You Hongyin asked.

"Immediately." Cao Lin was not one to procrastinate.

"Go and invite Ah Gui to come back." You Hongyin called the maidservant and said so.

Then he turned his head and said to Cao Lin, "Agui is the captain of the guard of Gaomi County, named Hu Gui. Although Qingzhou is more stable than other places, it is still a bit dangerous. I can rest assured that Agui will be guarding him."

"I will live up to my lord's expectations," Cao Lin said.

Hu Gui trains the county guards on weekdays, but he has never relinquished his duty of guarding the lord. For him, other things are not as important as the lord's security.

The county army has expanded from the previous 300 to 700 people. It's not that they don't want to be full-staffed, but that the source of troops is scarce. Most of the refugees are old, weak, sick and disabled, and there are very few young and strong. Qu, it's hard to have enough people to supplement the army in the county.

But in fact, Gaomi County can hardly afford to support 700 people. Why has there been a lack of pay since ancient times? Apart from the greed of the generals, it is really not enough for the sergeants to eat one pay.Therefore, half of this group of people is still supported by You Hongyin himself.

But with the food and equipment keeping up with it, the combat power is naturally already incomparable. In addition, You Hongyin taught Hu Gui and Hu Wei various military methods, and the combat power of the soldiers brought out by the two must be stronger than ordinary people.

However, it will be fine after the autumn harvest.

This time, Gaomi County had a bumper harvest, and You Hongyin's own manor was no exception. After the autumn harvest and the slack season came down, You Hongyin planned to conscript labor, build the harbor and strengthen the city wall.

Hu Gui escorted Cao Lin away with twenty cavalrymen, and You Hongyin also started his intensive construction plan.

Originally, I was worried about the lack of manpower, but if new refugees came over, the speed would naturally be accelerated.

Chengyang County has the most convenient transportation and attracts the most refugees. Cao Lin set his goal here as the first stop.

He glanced at Hu Gui, who had been silently guarding him like a log, feeling a little depressed.

Having identified himself as the lord, he was naturally very interested in this Xianbei man who was born a slave but was trusted by the lord, but he said nothing, and the man didn't say a word, which made Cao Lin doubt his eloquence.

There were still a few miles away from Chengyang County, so Cao Lin looked at his surroundings very seriously.

Compared with Gaomi, which is in the midst of a bumper harvest and where merchants come and go constantly, this Chengyang is simply another world.

Along the way, there are still refugees rushing here, and the number of people is much larger than usual.The food in the field seems to have been cleaned up long ago, and that's right, if it hadn't been cleaned up, it might have been robbed and eaten by refugees.Those refugees were sallow, emaciated, and unkempt, and the long journey seemed to have exhausted their last slack of strength.

Gradually, I saw the refugees rushing towards Chengyang full of expectations, but were stopped by soldiers, and then led happily to a place specially designated to house them.

Cao Lin looked at the gathering place. There were large and small huts inside, the height of which was only enough for one person to bend over to enter, and the huts were leaking everywhere. Three or four people might sleep in one hut.

The refugees who have lived here for a period of time all look a little dull, their eyes are motionless, and they are even thinner than those who just arrived.

Cao Lin listened carefully to the conversations of the refugees in Chengyang. It seemed that every day, people from the government would come here to give out wheat porridge for just one meal, and the barley porridge was so thin that a handful of wheat could be cooked in a bucket of porridge, which was not enough to eat.

He remembered the situation of the refugees under the rule of Lord Gaomi.

Because the refugees are different from the local residents, they cannot live together temporarily when they are resettled, so the lord is also living in the same place as the refugees.However, the location of the refugee resettlement site is well chosen, and it does not overlap with the local fertile land, and there are many wastelands nearby, which can be reclaimed by the refugees.

It's just that the land can't grow food for a while, and the rations of the refugees are a problem. However, the lord did not choose direct relief, but arranged for the refugees to work in the workshop under the name of the lord, etc., in exchange for food.

Just this move is much better than others.Labor is exchanged for food, and at the same time goods are manufactured, which can be sold by merchants to earn food.Such a cycle, as long as the refugees survive for half a year, until the wasteland has a harvest, they can support themselves.

But on the way to the city, Cao Lin heard two small officials complain that there are more and more refugees, and more and more money and food are being consumed.

Cao Lin had an idea in his mind.

Hu Gui, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said, "This person is famous but incompetent, far worse than the Lord."

Hu Gui recalled his past. He was originally from Jiuyuan in Bingzhou. Because of his Xianbei blood, he lived together with a certain tribe in Xianbei. However, they had no cattle, sheep and grasslands, so they could only learn from the Han people to cultivate farmland and grow food.But after a year of hard work, he couldn't even fill his stomach. If it wasn't for his ancestral bow skills, leaving behind a bow, and occasionally going into the forest to hunt some prey, he would have starved to death long ago.

Originally, this kind of life went on and on, and I lived my whole life ignorantly.But the King of Bingzhou drew a strong man, and he became a member of the mighty army, holding a wooden stick, and was wrapped and rushed towards the enemy.

Then he was defeated and captured and became a slave.

Knock Knock was trafficked to Guangling, and then met the redemption of his life, still a young protagonist.

Now the lord is getting taller, and he deliberately puts on an old-fashioned attitude. I'm afraid no one knows until now that the head of the county is a 17-year-old boy.

It's just a pity that I can no longer see the once 14-year-old boy, smiling, acting as a teacher teaching civil and martial arts.

"The county guard here is a blind man who relies on his clothes and belts. I'm afraid I can't read all the words. How can I compare my lord with him?" Cao Lin said disdainfully: "Look at how I want my lord. People also want money and food."

Cao Lin thought that Chengyang was sharing the pressure, so he picked away many skilled refugees, not to mention, and took away Baishi's grain in the name of resettlement.However, the governor of Chengyang County has long been impatient with resettling the refugees, but his staff have been persuading him to use this as an act of asking for credit for his political achievements, so he did his best. He became a chicken rib, and he couldn't deal with it. He has always had a big head.

But now that someone has offered to share some of it, and promised to tell the refugees to go to Gaomi in the future, I can't help being overjoyed, and it doesn't hurt to spend a hundred shi of food.

After achieving his goal, Cao Lin, who was praised by Chengyang County Guards, said his farewell modestly, and returned to Gaomi County with the achievements of his mission.

Then Cao Lin hurriedly paid his respects to the lord, met Mr. Fan Wuya once, exchanged a little bit, and then set foot on other counties of Qingzhou with his guards.

Just before leaving, Cao Lin wrote a letter to his elder brother, and asked the servants of the prefect's mansion to deliver the letter to Donglai.

"My younger brother Xin followed the lord Luoyang Guo from Yue. He is actually a minister capable of governing the world. He has great ambitions and loves the people. He has a broad mind, is good at accepting advice, trusts his subordinates, is superior in strategy, and is good at Tao Zhugong's affairs. Now it started at the end of the day. , The generals under his command are in short supply, I think my brother is good at war, so I recommend my brother's bravery to the lord, and invite brother Gao Mi to meet."

Cao Lin's older brother, Cao Yi, was born with strong military power, was well-known in the countryside, and had a wide range of friends, even Liu Bogen, the prime minister of Donglai County, was also his friend.Because of his literacy and ambition, he has a great desire to make contributions.

Now that Cao Lin recognized the lord, he must have turned to the lord. Naturally, he was the first to sell out his elder brother.

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