Chapter 28 A brilliant idea
Yuchi Shuo's sudden question surprised everyone present, including Gu Feixue herself.
Gu Feixue first looked at the Duke of Zheng in front of him. Seeing that the other party was surprised, his face showed an expression of wanting to hear more details. This Duke of Zheng was indeed a good general who was not ashamed to ask questions.
As for the other side, Gu Feixue didn't care about the Liangcheng prefect who was so humble and had no sense of presence.
After thinking for a moment about her words, she said slowly, "Xue'er does have some superficial insights, so I'd like to share them with everyone. If they can provide some reference value, that would be great."
After saying that, she looked at Yuchi Shuo, whose eyes were gleaming with an inexplicable light, and said in a neither humble nor arrogant manner:
"According to Xue'er, the people of this world, aside from those who are starving and in need of food, are the ordinary people with few servants hoping to be exempted from or have their military service postponed. Alternatively, farmers with limited land are hoping for tax reductions. If we want the people to actively recruit refugees, we must provide them with due benefits, ensuring their efforts are rewarded."
In fact, what Gu Feixue said was already quite concise. What she didn't say was that she could infer that once these policies were implemented, most of the families would actively recruit a large number of refugees.
They must be the middle class, such as landlords and rich farmers, because for these families who have surplus grain but are not too rich to look down on this benefit, recruiting some refugees can not only reduce some taxes, but they may also hire some servants from among the refugees.
In this way, some refugees will have more choices, which is at least more secure than reclaiming farmland.
Of course she wouldn't say any of this, as she still vividly remembered the aftermath of her outspokenness yesterday.
Although this idea is novel, the actual implementation depends on these people themselves, so she won't be too conspicuous.
However, what Gu Feixue did not expect was that even though she had held back, everyone present, including Yuchi Shuo, was still surprised.
Especially the prefect, who looked at Gu Feixue as if he was looking at a living Buddha.
Not to mention Yuchi Shuo's slightly smiling eyes, even Gu Tingchuan beside her had a look of great surprise on his face.
Duke Zheng was a military commander, and his expressions and actions were usually exaggerated. At that moment, his expression was almost full of admiration.
"How did you come up with such a brilliant idea? I've been struggling with this problem all morning, and it was solved so easily by a little kid like you. It's really... really!"
Duke Zheng was both delighted and puzzled, but he saw Gu Feixue's face was humble, as if she were a little adult:
"Duke Zheng, you are too kind. These are all things Xue'er has seen in books before. They are not Xue'er's own wisdom, but the wisdom in the books."
Duke Zheng slapped his thigh without waiting for anyone to speak, and said openly:
"No wonder! I was wondering why I couldn't figure it out. So you saw it in a book? May I ask which author wrote this book? I'll definitely read it carefully when I get back!"
Gu Feixue was stunned. Who wrote this book?
How does she know.
Yuchi Shuo saw Gu Feixue's cherry lips slightly open, obviously choked by his question.
I felt funny inside, but I said something to save the situation:
"The most important thing right now is to resolve the disaster first."
After Yuchi Shuo's reminder, Duke Zheng suddenly came to his senses. He immediately took his leave and led his men to deal with the matter in a hurry.
Duke Zheng had a token bestowed by the emperor, which allowed him to directly dispatch personnel from Liangcheng without going through the prefect.
Therefore, the prefect himself did not go with them, but continued to accompany the prince and others to inspect the situation.
Seeing Duke Zheng and his men leave, Gu Feixue couldn't help but feel relieved, but her eyes unexpectedly caught Yuchi Shuo's half-smile.
It seemed as if he was making fun of her for being able to tell lies but not being able to cover them up.
At that moment, Gu Feixue looked away guiltily.
However, he didn't expect that when he looked up, he saw a crime scene happening not far away.
Yuchi Shuo saw Gu Feixue with a slightly blushing cheek in the previous second, but looking to the left front with a serious expression in the next second.
Following her gaze, she saw a group of four or five adults dressed as refugees, pushing two children around ten years old, obviously aiming for the bowls of porridge in their hands.
Yuchi Shuo withdrew his gaze and wanted to ask Zhuifeng to catch those people and question them, but he didn't expect that the little guy was faster than him and ran away in the blink of an eye.
Gu Feixue thought back to her days in the orphanage. Back then, all her classmates were older children, and she was always bullied more than others.
If she had not desperately protected another child who was younger than her, and was not spotted by Captain Yan who came to the welfare home to select talents, she would not have been able to join the country's special forces combat team.
She is seven years old now, but she is already in her twenties inside, so she naturally cannot ignore the behavior of those people.
When they got closer, Gu Feixue finally realized something was wrong.
Although these men were dressed in ragged refugee clothes, they were strong and fierce, full of the spirit of bandits.
Looking around, there were many elderly, weak and sick people who had just received their porridge and rice. The chances of them being robbed were not necessarily lower than those of two ten-year-old children, but these people chose to rob them.
The way they pushed each other showed that they were martial artists, and their eyes were full of ferocity.
These people are either bandits from outside the city or human traffickers, or...both.
Gu Feixue narrowed her eyes slightly, and her little face was instantly filled with a coldness that was not in line with her age.
Yuchi Shuo, Gu Tingchuan and others who hurried over from behind obviously also noticed something was wrong. They wanted to stop Gu Feixue but were still a step too slow.
Gu Feixue took a quick step and nimbly dodged and kicked the leading attacker.
Although he was small in stature, Gu Feixue's full-strength kick forced the man to let go of the hands holding the two children, and he staggered back several steps before steadying himself.
"Wow! Wooah!" After regaining their freedom, the two half-grown children hurriedly hid behind Gu Feixue, speaking a language similar to the Mongolian language Gu Feixue spoke in her previous life.
The general meaning is: "Help! Someone wants to steal food!"
After the two shouted, they found that the robber was rushing towards them.
It seemed that they suddenly realized that the person coming to help them was a little girl younger than them. The two hesitated for a moment, but still stood in front of Gu Feixue, putting on a protective gesture.
Gu Feixue couldn't help but feel warm in her heart, and at this time the people behind her also arrived.
Seeing that Gu Feixue was not seriously injured, Yuchi Shuo looked at the men with murderous looks and said coldly, "Catch them and interrogate them."
Afterwards, Zhuifeng easily subdued all the people in a few moves. After interrogation, he confirmed that they were indeed not refugees from Liangcheng.
Instead, they came from a bandit stronghold 200 miles southeast of Liangcheng to capture the children. Naturally, the last few of them were taken to the government office.
Since the two of them didn't speak Central Plains dialect very well, Gu Feixue asked about the situation and was able to roughly understand what they meant.
It turned out that they were all nomads from the north of Liangcheng. They originally came here to purchase, but they didn't expect to encounter famine and be separated from their families.
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