Chapter 797: Dilemma
Qin Feng, Huo Guang, and two small guards, after leaving the large army, went straight to Ningyuan County, where the barbarians were most concentrated, and now they were changed to Ningyuan County. Among the barbarians who went down the mountain, about 700,000 people were concentrated near Ningyuan. What Qin Feng was most worried about now was the resettlement of these barbarians.
We must never let the barbarians return to the mountains, as they would repeat the mistakes before, especially when Murong Hong was not wiped out. If these barbarians escaped back to the mountains, they would once again become Murong Hong's capital for rebellion. The four counties in the north are not big, with limited resources, and it is too close to the mountains, so they must be placed in various places. However, it is not easy to make these barbarians go willingly. At least from Wang Gui's previous memorials, this matter was very difficult.
"This herbal tea is exciting, boss, let's have another pot!" Huo Guang drank all the dark red tea in the big bowl in front of him in one breath, and a coolness penetrated his limbs and bones. In such a season, it should be as comfortable as possible.
"It's really good." Qin Feng nodded repeatedly: "Boss, what kind of tea are you? Why do you look like leaves?"
The old man who set up a tea stall brought a large kettle that was pitch black and unknown how long it took to use. He filled the big bowl in front of several people again, and smiled and said, "This is originally a leaf. It is a kind of fruit tree here, called Ningqing Tree. The fruits are like apples and can be eaten. The leaves can be made into tea. On this hot day, it is best to solve the problem."
"There are still such trees?" Huo Guang asked in surprise.
The old man looked at the people: "Are you not locals? Are you from other places? This tree is everywhere here."
Qin Feng nodded: "Yes, we came from Yuejing City. Didn't the imperial army take back the four counties in the north and turn them into Fuyuan County? We are businessmen, and we want to come and see if there are any ways to do business."
The old man shook his head repeatedly: "What business is there to do? You outsiders, don't know what the four counties in the north look like now? Listen to the old man's advice, go back quickly, and go as far as possible when it's still early, the better. Otherwise, when it gets dark, you dress like you, you will be rich, and you won't live tomorrow."
"Is this mess here now?" Qin Feng said astonished.
"Can you not be confused?" The old man pointed to a river in the distance. On the other side of the river, there were shacks and many people sitting by the river. "The barbarians are now unable to advance and retreat, and are trapped here, and they have no place to eat and drink. People, if they want to survive, they can't do anything."
"Since they are so vicious, old man, you dare to set up a stall here, so you are not afraid of being stolen by them." Huo Guang was a little disbelief.
"The old man has been neighbors with these people for two years. I have been setting up stalls here for many years. In the past two years, these barbarians often visited my stall. Everyone is very familiar with me and will not steal my own." The old man shook his head.
"Old man, are the locals here hating each other with these barbarians? They are very hostile?" Qin Feng asked thoughtfully.
The old man smiled bitterly: "That's not necessarily true. There must be some, but most of them can still live in peace. Most of those barbarians are like old men, poor people, who just run around for a mouth all day long. But now, they can't even fool their mouths."
Qin Feng and Huo Guang looked at each other: "No, as far as we know, the court has special money and food assistance to Fuyuan County. A large part of it is to resettle these barbarians. How could this turn out?"
Huo Guang also sat upright, "Are you corrupted by the officials here?"
The old man smiled and shook his head: "Greed? There are also some at the beginning, but I heard that the emperors of the Ming Dynasty are so powerful now. If the officials dare to be corrupt, they dare to kill them. The newly appointed Wang Jungong is a general, and he even kills people without blinking. The few who dared to be greedy for money and food were directly caught."
"Since that's the case, how could there be no food to survive the famine?" Both of them became surprised.
"This is because our county magistrate Wang is only willing to send food to those barbarians who have left." The old man simply sat opposite Qin Feng: "I heard that the court wanted to divide these barbarians into various county magistrates of the Ming Dynasty. These barbarians were unwilling to go, so the county magistrate Wang came up with this trick. Those who are willing to leave will immediately send food and will be escorted to the road by the county soldiers. Those who are unwilling to leave will have no food."
"The barbarians don't want to leave." Qin Feng said.
"Of course I don't want to leave." The old man lowered his voice and said, "It's all the legend outside that these barbarians were killed on the way to escort. It was said that this was a strategy of the court, and he wanted to kill the barbarians quickly."
Qin Feng laughed and said, "Then is such a thing? Isn't this nonsense?"
"I don't know if this is true, but it's been said that there are no more eyes and tigers to return to the mountain. Think about it, if there are no barbarians who dare to leave? They may feel a little safe when they get together. Unfortunately, if they don't leave, they don't have food to send them, so they can only be hungry. People are extremely hungry, of course they can do anything." The old man shook his head. "It looks pitiful to say that, I want to escape back to the mountains. Now they are blocked by the army. Some of them escaped by luck. They are caught again not long after, but they are beheaded on the spot. Wang Junzhu, who stays here, is the people of the Ming Dynasty, who obey the resettlement of the court, so it's good for the people. Those who dare to escape into the mountains are bandits, and they will be killed."
Qin Feng and Huo Guang looked at each other, and Qin Feng smiled bitterly and said, "This county magistrate Wang is really simple and crude. If this stalemate continues, wouldn't it cause a big mess?"
"Who said no!" The old man sighed: "I said before that they would not rob me, but in fact I was just saying that the locals now have food in their hands. These barbarians are concentrated in that area. Although there are soldiers guarding them, there are always people who can sneak out and enter the village quietly. Here, there will be bloody incidents every day. When outsiders come here, they basically won't survive."
"Old Huo, if you don't come here, you really don't know that things will turn out like this. They are much more exciting than what we saw on the memorandum." Qin Feng shook his head and sighed, reaching out to take out a few bills from his arms, which looked like about five taels of silver: "Boss, thank you for telling us so much, thank you."
The old man picked up the banknotes and was startled, "So much? Guest, my tea is worthless, just give it a little."
"This is not tea money, this is thank you for saying so much to Xie Yi with us." Qin Feng smiled and stood up.
"Customer, hurry up and go back. Fuyuan is very messy now. After a while, you may be better when you come back." The old man said.
"Okay, thank you, boss!" Qin Feng nodded with a smile.
Several people walked out of the simple shed in the air and were about to leave, but a clear singing suddenly came. Qin Feng's eyes lit up. When he looked at the song, he was shocked again.
The singing is very nice, but the singing is a little unusual. Judging from the clothes on her body, she should be a barbarian woman, but her clothes are torn and can hardly cover her shame. Her eyes are also a little dull, but her voice is extremely clear, and she is walking towards this side step by step.
The old man seemed to be accustomed to it. While packing the tea bowl, he sighed: "It's also a pitiful person. This woman was a woman from a wealthy family."
"What's wrong with her? Are you bullied?" Qin Feng slapped her eyes and looked at her. Although the woman was not covered in clothes and had a unkempt face, she had a graceful figure and a beautiful face.
"I heard that this woman was the daughter of a barbarian general before, and later married a local official. The man relied on this relationship and became an official in the barbarian again. But later, the barbarian was defeated. When the family saw that something was wrong, they drove the woman out of the house. It's okay, the woman gave birth to a son, and the woman went to ask for her son. As a result, she was beaten once and became a little dull. She was crazy now, but she still remembered to ask for her son. The fate was naturally bad. Now that family shook her head and changed, she became the Guan Luo of the Ming Dynasty. The woman's father and brothers all went to the battlefield. I heard that they all died in Zhengyang County."
Qin Feng's face changed slightly.
"Boss, are there many such things?"
The old man laughed and said, "The barbarians have been going down the mountain for more than two years. In fact, there have been many locals who have intermarried with the barbarians in the past two years, but ordinary people are not as cruel as those who are officials."
"You Wang Junzhu has no idea about this?"
"We don't know about this." The old man shook his head and said, "That's the matter of the superiors, but looking at this, I'm afraid that the Ming Dynasty will not tolerate these barbarians anymore. Poor Luo!"
Qin Feng's expression was a little complicated. Seeing the woman singing, she actually walked straight towards the river bank. Before he could see clearly, the woman actually jumped up and jumped into the river with a loud bang.
Qin Feng was shocked and moved slightly. In a flash, he had already reached the river bank. Before the old man's scream had stopped completely, Qin Feng had already returned to the tea stall with the woman who was holding back to the tea stall.
"Put this woman a piece of clothing and take him with you, let's go to the county town!" Qin Feng's face looked a little ugly. The old man blinked his eyes and looked at Qin Feng. Even though he was slow, he knew the extraordinaryness of the people in front of him. Just because the young man saved the people just now, the old man widened his eyes, but he didn't see clearly why Qin Feng suddenly went to the river bank so far away, and how he saved this woman in front of him.
"Boss, when you meet those familiar barbarians, tell them that the court will give them an explanation soon. In a few days, food will be transported here." Qin Feng threw down this sentence, turned around and strode away.
One of the two little guards was big, and he carried the woman on his back and followed her tightly.
Chapter completed!