Chapter 335: Liquidation and Exit
Xue Xu, Qin Sheng, Ji Wuyin and others sent off the grain-carrying ship when it was already dawn.
Qin Sheng stretched and called Liu Erxi, "Let's go, it's time for us to work!"
Liu Erxi immediately responded, "Okay."
Ji Wuyin on the side looked at him with admiration. After a busy night, he was still so energetic. Are all the young people of this generation so energetic?
What he had experienced recently made Ji Wuyin realize very deeply that he was getting old, and that the world would eventually belong to these young people.
Then they returned to the city.
Qin Sheng immediately took people to the last large warehouse of grain.
When Wu Ren went south, in addition to transporting goods to the south, he also brought a group of people. This group of people was mainly from Yang Wei's escort agency and the Qin family's personal soldiers, and they also brought some newly recruited and very trusted soldiers from the military camp.
After all, the work they are doing this time is risky, and they can only trust their own people.
"Get to work, get to work!" Chief Escort Yang directed everyone to work skillfully. This was a return to their old job, so they had to cooperate very well.
When Qin Sheng led his men to build the granary, Xue Xu sent someone to Xie's house to say hello to Xie Zhan.
Xue Xu hasn't left yet. He wants to wait until everyone has left before leaving. The main thing is to worry.
Hearing the people sent by Xue Xu say that Qin Sheng and his men had a large batch of grain to be transported through the north gate and asked them to prepare, his face suddenly became gloomy and he immediately guessed what the Liaodong County gang was planning! They wanted him to clean up the mess for them! But he had to hold his nose and accept it.
After all, if so much food is transported out of the city without proper prevention and control, it will easily cause riots.
When the riot broke out, Qin Sheng and others certainly lost food, but he and the governor of Nandi County were more responsible and could not escape blame.
Xie Zhan informed the Nandi County Magistrate of the matter, and then they had to dispatch more people to the North Gate to first transfer the refugees at the North Gate to work.
A large number of officers and soldiers were also transferred there to deploy defenses.
Ning Changge is one of the scholars who is determined to go to Liaodong County, and he is one of those who is more resolute and not easily shaken.
Because he was generous and righteous, he was quite famous among scholars.
After the news of his decision to go north spread in a small circle, his friends and classmates came to ask him if they could join him.
Ning Changge has no objection.
So, one person called another, and friends brought friends, and the team became quite large.
Ning Changge was shocked when he learned that there were more than a hundred scholars heading north together.
He thought that their team was not strong enough in fighting, so for safety reasons, he found the shopkeeper Wu Renwu and wanted to ask if they could travel together.
But at that time Wu Ren had already decided to go north on the ship, and he was also one of the persons in charge of transporting grain by water.
So he told Ning Changge that he had important matters to attend to and needed to return to Liaodong County by sea. He also told them that it would be best for scholars like them to travel north by land. After all, reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles. Walking more and seeing more would be beneficial to them.
He then said that if they needed someone, he could introduce them to someone, and they, the scholars, could follow his caravan north.
Ning Changge just wanted to meet the person first.
Wu Ren introduced them to someone, none other than Qin Sheng. However, Qin Sheng was using the pseudonym Lu Liuye, as it was not appropriate for him to reveal his true identity.
With the help of Manager Wu, Ning Changge met with Mr. Lu Liu. The other party accepted their request to travel north together and agreed on a time for departure.
Early that morning, the scholars led by Ning Changge had already left the city through the north gate and were waiting in an open space at the gate to meet up with Mr. Lu Liu before setting off.
There were more than a hundred of them and a dozen carriages, parked half a mile outside the north city gate.
Many refugees outside the city gate looked at them curiously.
At this time, the government was already registering the refugees and arranging them to work in batches.
Although the government officials had tried their best to take the refugees to work, there were still many refugees wandering outside the north city gate. However, they were all driven aside by the soldiers, leaving a wide road extending from the city gate to the outside.
Under the respectful gaze of the city gate guards, Xie Zhan and the Nandi County Magistrate climbed up the city wall. Shortly after they went up, there was movement in the city.
Liu Erxi was leading the way, followed closely by Qin Sheng, who had changed his appearance, and the grain transport team followed closely behind.
Xie Zhan stood there, expressionless, looking down at Qin Sheng.
Qin Sheng noticed his gaze, raised his eyebrows slightly, and looked at him in the air.
Liu Erxi: "Sixth Master, we've reached the city gate. We're leaving!"
"Yeah." Qin Sheng retracted his gaze, lightly stepped on the horse's belly, and passed through the north city gate.
Qin Sheng and his grain transport team were so huge that there was no end in sight.
The head has already left the city, but the tail has not yet appeared.
Xie Nan whispered, "Master, this batch of grain is about 100,000 dan."
Of course he knew! Xie Zhan couldn't help but grit his teeth. All in all, Lü Songli and the others had taken away 300,000 dan of grain from him! This figure matched his estimate of the Zhu family's hidden grain.
When Yue Shu saw Qin Sheng, he hurriedly took the young and strong men to follow and guarded both sides of the grain team, while the elderly, weak, women and children in Yuejia Village also followed.
After Yue Shu took action, several waves of people followed suit.
When the tail end of the grain team left the north city gate, it was followed by a large number of disaster victims and refugees.
Ning Changge and other scholars were stunned when they saw Mr. Lu Liu's grain team. This - this -
No one expected that the team they set out with would be so large!
"Brother Ning, are we going to leave or not?"
Ning Changge gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go!"
They hurried to follow!
Looking from the city gate, you can see waves of people coming up. The food teams are like tree trunks, and these waves of people are like leaves.
"What's this?" Seeing this scene, the Nandi County Magistrate kept wiping his sweat, "Are these people not following the grain train north?"
"Obviously, that's it."
The Nandi County Magistrate murmured, "When did the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce connect so many people?"
Xie Zhan looked on expressionlessly.
It is estimated that the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce's grain team took away about 20,000 to 30,000 disaster victims and refugees.
"In fact, it's a good thing that these refugees have left, as it just reduces the burden on the government." Two or three thousand disaster victims and refugees have left, and they still have hundreds of thousands of people who need to be resettled.
As the Nandi County Magistrate spoke, he glanced at Xie Zhan beside him, fearing he might offend him. This man was a ruthless individual. A few months ago, he had been exiled, but now he had risen to prominence, leading his family to become the largest aristocratic family in the Nandi. Even he was amazed by his intelligence and tactics.
Xie Zhan didn't say anything. Indeed, what the person next to him said made some sense.
But Xie Zhan was very sensitive. These common people originally belonged to the South, just like the chickens and ducks in his cage, and the cattle and sheep grazing. Whether there were more or fewer of them, whether some areas were good or bad, all affected the development of the South.
Moreover, these people are the source of taxation and soldiers...
He even suspected that the good ones had been picked up by the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce.
However, these people were fooled by the people from Liaodong County, and he had no way to stop them from leaving.
Xie Zhan lowered his eyes. At this point, Lu Songli's people had completely liquidated their chips and left.
Lu Songli, you have been the one making the moves all the time. Can you take my move this time?
The next contest will be started by him, and the battlefield will be set in Liaodong County.
Liaodong County seems to be very prosperous, but no one knows that the crisis has already been hidden. Lu Songli, I wonder if you can withstand my move?
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