Chapter 627: Man-eating Refugees
"Yes, I heard from the security department that they were detained there before, but now they have been transferred. They may be detained in the prison behind the palace."
"Why are you talking to the governor all this all day? Governor, I've prepared your medicine for you. Drink it while it's hot."
When his men came in with a bowl of medicine, Long Ba did not continue the previous topic and directly asked the other party to leave.
After dealing with the people from Jin and Nanguo, the mining progress was relatively smooth.
Now it is early spring and the snow in the northern wilderness has almost melted, so Su Yu brought up the issue of land reclamation.
Early in the morning, Cheng Ming was waiting outside the door, and when Su Yu was ready, he went out of the city with her.
"City Lord, most of the wasteland around the city that can be reclaimed has been reclaimed." If you want to find more wasteland, you can only go to a farther place.
There are many low mountains in the northern wilderness, which is one of the reasons why it is difficult to open up large tracts of wasteland.
"Can't a mountain like this be turned into farmland?"
The group arrived at the foot of a mountain. Su Yu pointed at the mountain and said, "The mountain was neither high nor steep, and the soil was relatively soft. It looked like crops could be grown there."
Cheng Ming said: "The young people in this mountain have also visited it. The soil can be used for farming, but because it is on the mountain, it is a bit difficult to plant on a large scale."
Su Yu patted the tiger under its butt and signaled it to go up the mountain.
Not only does this mountain look flat, it is actually not steep at all when you walk on it.
After walking for a while, Su Yu asked the big cat to stop. She walked to the top of the mountain, stepped on the soil, and then picked up a branch and drew circles on it.
"What if this is the case?"
In just a moment, she had drawn circles of stairs on the soil beneath her feet. "Gather this area together. Can we plant here?"
Cheng Ming previously thought that this place was not suitable mainly because he felt that the soil on the mountain was not solid enough. If he planted crops here and it rained heavily, he would be worried that the crops would be buried by the loose soil.
"Look, open two holes on both sides as water storage and drainage. If it rains, open the drainage holes to drain the excess water. Because there is protection from the outer ring layer and the soil quality on the mountain, the possibility of the farmland tilting is very small even if there is a heavy rain."
Su Yu had read about a type of farming called terraced fields, and she thought that any low hill that met the requirements could be transformed into that form.
"Build ridges with stones on the outside to form the outline of steps, and gradually raise the ground stalks. This way, the slope inside the plot will be reduced. Further transformation should be able to meet the conditions for planting. What do you think?"
What Su Yu said was what she saw from the information.
The more Cheng Ming looked at Su Yu's description, the brighter his eyes became. "The city lord is wise. We never thought of this before."
They previously thought that the Northern Wilderness was vast, and the worst that could happen was that they would just have to go a little further to find some wasteland to open up, so they didn't think about it too complicatedly.
But now after hearing what Su Yu said, he felt that the possibility of success was very high. There were many such mountains outside the city. If they could be used, they wouldn't have to run so far.
Su Yu only made a suggestion, and the actual implementation still depends on Cheng Ming and others.
"It's already spring, so hurry up and we'll go somewhere else."
Since we want to have surplus food for everyone in the city, the more food the better.
Cheng Ming left a few people here for further discussion, and he followed Su Yu to another place.
At this time, outside the border of the State of Chu, near the entrance to the Northern Wilderness, a group of people were slowly walking towards this side.
They were dressed in rags, had dull eyes, and their faces were filled with death.
After driving away the people from the Southern Kingdom and the Jin Kingdom, Su Yu sent people to guard the entrance.
The people guarding the entrance saw so many people coming and stepped forward to stop them.
"Stop, where are you from?"
Although Su Yu never stopped refugees and prisoners from entering, he would always ask them questions before they entered.
Those people shrank back when they saw their way was blocked.
"I, we are, we are fleeing from the disaster, we are from the South."
"There was a snowstorm in the south, and our house was crushed by the snow. The imperial court didn't care about our lives, so we had no choice but to flee. But other countries wouldn't let us in, so we had no choice but to come here."
The guard looked them up and down and asked, "Where in the south did this snowstorm happen? Why haven't we heard about it?"
"Oh, you are so far away, how could you know? The heavy snow blocked the mountain, and I don't know how many people were trapped to death. The court doesn't care about our lives. As long as we have a place to go, we can't abandon our country."
The guards saw that the people were so skinny and pale from hunger that they didn't seem to be lying.
But the guards still took out paper and pen and called them into the house one by one to question and register.
After asking everyone, I let them in.
When those people walked into the northern wilderness, they found dead bodies and uninhabited woodlands everywhere, and the deathly look on their faces became even heavier.
"Those people are guarding outside. I thought there must be some treasure in here, but who knew there was nothing. Why do they ask so many questions?" Someone in the team complained dissatisfiedly.
No one responded. After walking this far, they were too tired to even have the energy to speak.
"No matter what, let's find a place to stay first."
They moved forward, but before they had gone far, someone in the team fell down.
“Wang Wu, Wang Wu…” The person next to him walked up to the fallen man and reached out to feel his pulse.
He looked up at the leader and shook his head slowly, "No more air."
These three words seemed to turn on some hidden switch in them. Pairs of eyes glowing dimly in the darkness cast coldly on the corpse that had not yet completely cooled down.
They hadn't eaten for a long time, and now their eyes lit up when they saw anything, even the book cover on the tree. They had eaten a lot along the way!
"Since you are dead, give us a way to live!"
Some people couldn't hold back and rushed over immediately.
"What are you doing? Don't, don't touch my son..." An older lady wanted to push away those ruthless people, but she was no match for them and could only watch.
The people following in the dark frowned as they watched this scene.
Such a thing had not happened for a long time since the Northern Wilderness was rectified by Su Yu. Seeing it suddenly, the shock was still quite big, making them feel nauseous.
"You guys keep following me. I'll send a message to the city."
"Okay, be careful."
"Um."
There were quite a lot of people in this group, so they certainly couldn't just let them in like that, so they sent people to follow them secretly, for fear that there might be people with bad intentions. But they didn't expect that they would witness this scene.
(End of this chapter)
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