He was obedient when eating. After a while, after eating half a bowl, he refused to eat it. He leaned on my shoulder to breathe. I took a handkerchief and gently wiped the soup from the corner of his mouth.

"Do you want to take a rest?"

"No need, if you have more rest, you will be frozen."

“…”

"I'll get up soon, and there are still documents to write."

I remember that he told Pei Yuanhao last night that both of them had to write documents in person. It seems that there are some things that only the two of them know about the migration to Sichuan.

I frowned and said softly: "Qingchen, what you said before, is this the great disaster facing Xichuan? Is there no one in Xichuan?"

He looked up at me: "What do you think sister?"

"I have not traveled all over the country these few times, but the places I saw along the way, including big cities and small towns, are not sparsely populated. Why do you still want him to move to Shu?"

“…”

He was silent and didn't speak, just gently rubbing my shoulders with his cheeks.

Even though this was my younger brother, this posture and feeling still made me feel a little inappropriate. I looked at him stiffly: "You don't plan to tell me, are you?"

He raised his head and said, "The matter has been resolved, so sister doesn't have to worry about it anymore."

“…”

"Just leave this kind of carefree thing to me."

It seems that I really don't plan to say it.

I thought for a while and said, "Is the first batch of 400,000, still there?"

"There are three batches, a total of one million."

"so much?"

"Um."

"I don't think this matter is so easy to complete. Although it is easy to move people into Xichuan now, Pei Yuanhao has already lost control of the Central Plains. To move so many people into Shu, at least he has to wait until the war is over and he regained the imperial power."

"I know."

"But you have to know that he implemented the policy of ditching acres in the Central Plains. After the war, there will be many unowned wastelands, and the people will rush to ask for them; and when we talked a few days ago, it was clear that the tax system did not have an advantage over the outside world. The people are not fools. They may go to Sichuan to avoid the war during the war, but once the war is over, they will naturally leave."

Qingchen said: "So, we have an agreement, too."

“…”

"All people who moved to Xichuan will have their household registration dead. Within 30 years, no people in Shu will be moved out."

"He agreed, too?"

"Um."

I frowned and fell into deep thought.

After the war, land is cheap, and people will become a very scarce resource, because countless casualties are killed or injured in the war. The more large the war is, the fewer people can survive. At that time, if they really win, regain the imperial power, and re-control the Central Plains, Pei Yuanhao himself will be worried about who to find so much land in the Central Plains to farm.

But now, he has promised to move one million people into Shu and will not be allowed to move out within 30 years.

Although the Yan family and Xichuan sacrificed a lot, he also bleeded heavily.
Chapter completed!