Cao Ke shook his head helplessly and sighed, "Oh, Northern Rong Kingdom... it's over."
"Alas, I wonder if Donglin Kingdom can accommodate people like us from Beirong Kingdom."
If it weren't for Bai Bo's stupid decision, there wouldn't be so many refugees. If he had ordered people to properly treat the patients suffering from the plague, who in the world would not know his name?
There was actually no reaction from the court at all, and many court officials even watched coldly as the people of Beirong Kingdom suffered.
Even His Majesty... Even His Majesty did not say anything about this. The entire Beirong Kingdom was controlled by the evil Taoist Ede.
Cui Min finally heard what he wanted to hear: "Old sir, I don't know if other prefectures and counties will accommodate you, but in Qingshi Prefecture, I can assure you that my master will not turn you away."
"Oh? Really? The Fourth Princess is in Bluestone Province?"
Cui Min nodded affirmatively, "Your Highness's fiefdom is here." He bowed and saluted from a distance in the direction of the epidemic prevention station.
Cao Ke glanced towards the epidemic prevention station, then understood what was going on. He then said reluctantly, "Then we can be saved! Her Highness the Fourth Princess truly has a kind heart."
"Mr. Cui, do you know how His Highness will arrange for so many of us?"
Cui Min smiled and won it easily!
It is obvious that Cao Ke plans to stay here because he sees that Tongcheng is well developed, prosperous, and its residents are happy.
If Ji Wan's place is also infected by the epidemic and people's livelihood is impoverished, these people will not only leave, but may even slip away faster than others.
"Please rest assured, Mr. Cao. My master understands your situation and has many vacant houses. If you would like to rent, you can simply pay a small amount of money after you move in. If you would like to purchase, my master will send someone to hand over the land deeds and other items in due course."
Cao Ke finally felt relieved. The lives of a group of people depended on him alone, so he had to be cautious. "In that case, please thank His Highness on our behalf."
After saying that, he also followed Cui Min's example and bowed from a distance in the direction of the epidemic prevention station.
Seeing this, the refugees resting behind him all stood up and saluted like Cao Ke, and some of them even lowered their heads while holding children.
Cao Ke knew that he was in a weak position with the refugees, so before entering the city, he told the refugees behind him to be well behaved. They were quite obedient and had not caused any trouble so far.
Time flies, it is late autumn.
Although it is late autumn, the weather has not gotten cooler at all, but has become even hotter.
Border, Qingshizhou, near Tongcheng.
"Fellow villagers, we have no surplus food. If we don't have any more food, we will starve to death! Right now, there are only three cities in Qingshizhou and the farmland outside the surrounding cities. The golden grain is already ripe, which is really enviable.
If it weren't for the evil spirits in Qingshizhou causing trouble and taking all the food to Qingshizhou, we would definitely have enough food to eat!"
Zhang Zhou, who was sweating profusely and hadn't taken a shower for three months, shouted.
He is the biological uncle of the two brothers Zhang Baojiang and Zhang Baohe. Ever since he learned that the two brothers died one after another at the hands of Ji Wan, he has been planning to avenge them.
But the weather was too hot, which was not suitable for the bandits under his command to act, and the epidemic became more and more serious. Today, the epidemic has spread to the entire Donglin Kingdom and Beirong Kingdom, and even the Nanxia Kingdom has shown signs of coughing.
Almost all the people in his village died because of this. Now the epidemic has evolved to the point where no matter whether men or women, young or old, as long as they have close contact, they will be 100% infected!
Moreover, the food in his village could not withstand such a long period of summer heat and was already in short supply.
In another month it would be early winter. If he still couldn't find food, the entire village would face difficulties in getting food, or they would have to eat human flesh to survive and eventually die.
The same thing happened in many bandit camps near Qingshi State, and even the official states and counties had begun to suffer from famine.
Many of them gathered together, under the pretext of acting on behalf of Heaven, and gave themselves a righteous name, called "Tianxingjun", but in fact they were preparing to rob the food from the three cities of Qingshizhou.
At this time, they were planning how to send out troops tomorrow, catch Tongcheng off guard, and then successfully break through the city gate and seize food.
After all, Tongcheng was already preparing to release the people to collect grain, and even sent many border guards to help the people.
Since the regular army's strength has been dispersed, these grassroots soldiers can naturally challenge them. A large number of ants can kill an elephant, not to mention that there are so many starving people.
As long as they could grab a little bit of food, or even take over the entire Tongcheng, and then ask for help from the royal capital, they would have as much food as they wanted in the future.
"Yes! Yes! If we kill the monster from Tongcheng, we will definitely have food!"
"It's all the monster's fault. It's left us without food. We're going to enforce justice on behalf of Heaven! Let's get rid of the monster together!"
"right!"
Ji Wan used a formation to keep the temperature of the fields constant, combined with the fertilizer piled up by Jiang Jian and the people, and the spells cast by the children of Moxiang Academy to water the fields.
The staple food of the three cities in Qingshi State was almost completely preserved. The quality of the land was even greatly improved because many children from Moxiang Academy cast spells to water the land.
The past few days are the best time for autumn harvest, so Ji Wan specially sent the border guards to help the people with the busy farming season.
The formation that Lin Chanhua created not only covered the three cities of Qingshi State, but also covered all the effective farmland near Qingshi State.
Ji Wan also taught her unique composting method to many farmers, so the yield of these grains was very large. If they could all be harvested intact, they could provide food for the people in the three cities of Qingshi State for three years.
Ji Wan was very satisfied with the data. If the harvest was this high every year, she would be able to support many soldiers in the army with the help of Qingshi State.
Moreover, there has been severe drought and epidemics for several months. With this batch of grain, she can lead the people of Qingshi State to survive until next autumn harvest.
Ji Wan once thought about accepting the refugees outside the city gate just like he accepted Cao Ke, and he had already taken action by posting many notices at the city gate.
There were conscriptions for soldiers and recruitments for workers. Although there were fewer copper coins every day, at least we could have enough to eat.
Ever since Yan Peinan's condition improved, Ji Wan's financial power is now fully in Yan Peinan's hands.
Therefore, Yan Peinan strongly opposed Ji Wan's wasteful behavior of building a city defense formation and giving each person a salary that was equivalent to an ordinary family's annual living expenses.
Well, the main reason is that most of the money in Ji Wan's hands was used to subsidize the treatment of infected patients in the city and to support the children of Moxiang Academy, so there was not much left in Yan Peinan's hands.
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