She looked up at him and asked in a deep voice, "Why are you so panicked?"
"Sir, there are a large number of refugees gathering outside the city gate. Do we need to close the city gate?"
"Refugees?" Zhang Feimo was puzzled.
He had just arrived in Heshan County and didn't know much about the situation here.
Hu Yuhao probably thought of it, so he explained:
"Sir, you don't know that the northwest has suffered a hundred natural disasters. So far, it has not rained for almost two days. The people have fled here to escape the famine. Thousands of people have gathered outside the city gate, and the number is still increasing. Judging from this, I am afraid that there will be thousands of people gathered."
Hearing this, Zhang Feimo's heart sank.
Not only is there constant disaster in the northwest region, it is also close to the border.
He had heard from his father before that there were often wars over there.
Although the border has been peaceful recently, I never thought that I would still live in such misery.
It hasn't rained for two days. You can imagine what the day will be like.
"Sir, the city gate must be closed as soon as possible." Hu Yuhao said again.
At the same time, it also brought Zhang Feimo back to his senses.
Hu Yuhao would say this because, in fact, the entire Heshan County is poor.
These people are refugees who do not have travel permits, and they have the right not to accept them.
What's more, according to the current situation in Heshan County, they can't settle down at all.
It is not easy for them to settle down, and if these refugees continue to flow to their side, it will only bring them endless troubles.
You have to know that those refugees who fled south to escape famine and survived had all kinds of life and death experiences, and they must have a strong will.
This is not something that the good people in Heshan County have.
Whichever county town took in these refugees would be in trouble.
Therefore, whenever there are refugees, the county government is unwilling to accept them because it will bring trouble to itself.
Most of the time they simply did not open the city gates. Even if they did, they would only let them pass through, and the yamen runners would not stop until they personally watched them pass.
"How many people are there approximately?" Zhang Feimo looked at Hu Yuhao and asked in a deep voice.
"There are about a thousand people at present, and more are coming. It is hard to estimate. I guess there will be about four to five thousand people."
Hu Yuhao was not worried about anything else but that Zhang Feimo would take in these people.
You have to know that the people in Heshan County can't even take care of themselves. If these refugees come, they will definitely need porridge every day.
In this case, Heshan County could not afford it at all.
There are too many people. Even if porridge is only provided once a day, thousands of people will need at least several hundred kilograms of rice a day.
The land in their Heshan County was originally barren, there was not much food at all, and the people did not have much surplus food.
If these refugees stay, they will just starve to death.
Hearing this, Zhang Feimo fell into deep thought.
What Hu Yuhao said made sense. Given the current situation in Heshan County, they simply could not feed these refugees.
What's more, if we can take in a group of them, there will be more.
After hearing Hu Yuhao's words, Zhang Feimo immediately walked towards the city gate.
It is still early and there are not many people walking on the streets of Heshan County.
The streets seemed a bit empty...
Zhang Fei quickly climbed up the city wall, and the scene before him made him gasp.
It was just that in the open space outside the city gate, there were crowds of people surging everywhere...
It looks like there are more than a thousand people.
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