A certain person is the Heavenly Killer Li Gui.

Chapter 282 Vote with both feet

"do not want!"

Li Gui didn't even hesitate before throwing the so-called letter of surrender onto the messenger's face.

"You guys, these guys who don't even want the Song Dynasty, why do you think I, Liangshan, will want it?"

"We, Liangshan, are currently busy in disaster relief and restoring people's livelihood in Mizhou. Who would be interested in accepting you?"

"Sooner or later, Denglai Prefecture will be defeated, but we have to follow the pace of Liangshan, and we can't make the same mistakes again."

"If you really want to defect to Liangshan, then take your people directly to Mizhou. There is a shortage of manpower there now. If you go there, you will get a share of land."

The messenger was originally from Mizhou, and was taken to Laizhou after his family was ruined.

When he fled that day, he could see how miserable Mizhou was.

But this time when I came from Laizhou, I saw the situation in Michigan along the way, and found that my hometown has been rejuvenated, and various construction teams are working in full swing everywhere.

He went to check it out and found that food, accommodation and wages were included here, which made him a little greedy.

But greed is greed, and now he is not willing to give up his official position of "general" and become a common man again.

If he could keep his official title, even if it was a smaller one, he would accept it. He immediately knelt down and begged:

"The villain has been traveling along the way and has seen the people living and working in peace and contentment under the rule of Liangshan. He also knows in his heart that the heroes of Liangshan are really doing justice for heaven."

"I also ask your Majesty, for the sake of the tens of thousands of people in Laizhou, to rebel early and save the people of Laizhou from hanging upside down."

What Li Gui hates the most is moral kidnapping. Dang even shouted impatiently:

"Untie the hair and hang upside down?"

"They are not members of a certain family, and a certain family cares about their life and death?"

"You don't have to make any noise here, just go down the mountain quickly!"

Li Gui waved his hand and had people drive the messenger off the mountain.

After the man left, Zhu Wu said:

"Brother, this Mizhou is now empty of ten houses and is short of people. Since there is unrest in Laizhou, maybe you can send someone there to recruit some refugees back."

Li Gui frowned and said:

"That side is still the territory of the Song Dynasty. How can we be allowed to recruit them?"

Zhu Wu then smiled and said:

"This shouldn't be difficult. We don't go through official channels. We only send some caravans there. While trading goods, we also publicize the situation here. If there are those who are willing to come, we will let the caravans hire Bring them back in the name of.”

Today, Liangshan has also developed many special products, such as high-strength wine.

All the heroes in Liangshan loved drinking, and there happened to be a lot of food crops in Liangshan in previous years, so they built their own winery.

Originally, this winery was only for drinking by the leaders on the mountain, but Li Gui mentioned the matter of distillation to Wu Dalang one time when he was drunk. Wu Dalang took this matter to heart and went back to find many winemakers. I came to try it and finally came up with the spirit "Erguotou".

Everyone on the wine mountain agreed after drinking it, so they expanded the scale of the wine shop, and finally turned it into a unique product of Liangshan, which was shipped to all parts of the country through land and sea transportation.

Although the relationship between Liangshan and the Song Dynasty has always been at odds, business dealings have not been delayed at all.

If the caravan is allowed to do this, it will indeed be more concealed than the official one, and it will be easier to be accepted by the Song Dynasty court.

Although the cost of doing this will be slightly higher, it is not much higher.

For those refugees, it is actually only necessary to provide food and accommodation on the road.

"This is a good idea. You can let the caravan go over and try it." Li Gui nodded in agreement.

Zhu Wu said again:

"Actually, we in Liangshan also have businesses stationed in the two states of Penglai. We can just send a letter to them and let them start working immediately."

Li Gui had really never paid attention to these details, and he said in wonder:

"If we let local businesses do the work, wouldn't our identity be exposed?"

"But don't provoke the local government, it's not worth it."

Zhu Wu then smiled and explained:

"Brother, you are worrying too much. The identity of our trading firm is no longer a secret. Most of the local gentry and powerful people know it."

"But those gentry brothers also know that they always have two sides and bet on both sides."

"When we were powerful before, they didn't dare to offend Liangshan, so they turned a blind eye."

"After Liangshan's power was withdrawn from there, those gentry were still thinking about our Liangshan goods. They were afraid that they would lose a way to make a fortune after it was cut off, so they still turned a blind eye."

"Although this approach will definitely alarm the local gentry and powerful people, we are conspiring this time."

"We need more people, but they are worried about too many refugees. Everyone gets what they need, and they don't worry about any radical behavior."

Li Gui laughed and cursed after hearing this:

"Thief!"

"These black-hearted ghosts should sell them hanging ropes!"

"Let's store their heads there for the time being. After the situation in Mizhou is resolved, we will knock down Laizhou. By then, all these silverfish will be dead!"

Zhu Wu went to send the news, and the trading houses in Laizhou spread their hands and began to spread the news.

Although there are no more refugees in Laizhou City now, it does not mean that the lives of the people in the city have become better.

Exploitation and oppression exist everywhere.

In the past, many dirty and messy jobs could be done by a large number of people as long as they took care of the food. Now, only those at the bottom of the city can do it themselves.

Originally they could exploit the refugees, but now that the refugees are gone, the bottom class has become the bottom class again.

At this time, many people were immediately interested when they heard that as long as they were willing to go to Mizhou, there would be land available for them, and food and lodging would be included on the way.

Those who have families and young children still have concerns, fearing being cheated, but singles are not afraid of this. At most, they will be sold as slaves, and they may not live a better life than they do now.

The key is that Liangshan has been here before and left traces here.

The people in Laizhou also know that Liangshan is the real land!

The only concern is the plague problem in Mizhou.

Thanks to the women with long tongues all over the streets, everyone in the city now knows the origin of the plague.

Although it is good to have land, life is more important.

The trading company had already prepared for this, and took out a number of magic cards and distributed them to those who were preparing to immigrate, telling them.

"This is a divine card that has been consecrated and blessed by the True Lord Exorcist. As long as you pray devoutly to this divine card every day, the plague will not dare to come near you." "Of course, this divine card will not be effective until it enters the realm of Liangshan. It’s invalid here in Laizhou.”

The people at the bottom of this era were relatively ignorant. They were fooled by the staff of the trading company with just a few words. They put down their burdens, put on their magic cards, signed contracts with the trading company, and were treated as hired workers and went to Michigan in batches of a hundred people. Send it over there.

In order to solve the problem of food and lodging for these people on the road, the trading company specially built a few large trucks, followed behind them full of camping supplies such as food, tents, pots and pans.

Mizhou and Laizhou are originally close to each other. They are only one or two hundred miles apart. It takes two or three days to reach the border between the two states by walking.

On the Mizhou side, on the other side of the Jiao Lai River, there were already a large number of ships, carriages and horses waiting here. As soon as the caravan arrived, they immediately swarmed up, divided up these strong laborers, and transported them across the river. , stuff it into the car and transport it to Gaomi, Jiaoxi and other places.

The caravan immediately returned empty and shipped the next wave.

Their approach was so impressive that they could not hide the local gangsters in the city. However, they were discovered by these powerful gentry only three or two times.

"Master, the Liangshan Chamber of Commerce has transported another hundred people out of the city this morning. Do you want me to stop them?" Qin Du bowed his head and smiled flatteringly.

Qin Daguan lay leisurely on his back on the Taishi chair, and a pretty little maid behind him was gently kneading his joints.

Zongze's army in front fought continuously and won 70% to 80% of Laizhou.

If the local villages and counties were not too scattered and the marching speed could not increase, I am afraid that they would have returned victorious long ago.

Without the threat of the mob, the Qin official was relieved of his pressure and returned to his old ways. He stretched out an index finger and shook it slightly, and said leisurely:

"Stop what?"

"The people they transported away were all poor people. They didn't even have any craftsmen. What could be done to stop them?"

"It's better if they leave. The city will be cleaner and tidier without them."

"This city lacks everything except poor people!"

"Zhizhizhou will be back soon, and he will definitely bring back a large number of poor people."

"Now that he has a lot of money and food provided by each of our families, he will bring these plague ghosts into the city again without any hesitation."

"Since you have this free time, you'd better think carefully about how to isolate these plague ghosts from the gentry, so as not to let this disease spread to the nobles."

Qin Dutou pursed his lips and wanted to say that if he continued like this, sooner or later even the old man collecting the night incense would be gone. However, after feeling the impatience in Qin's tone, he finally failed to open his mouth and instead laughed. He echoed:

"That's what the official said!"

"Then just pretend you didn't see me!"

"Don't worry, senior officials. After Mr. Zong comes back, the villain will throw all the sick people into the quarantine area outside the city to die. Then he will lead three squads of government officials to patrol outside the noble's house day and night. He will never let those sick people wander around. Come in."

"Well, that's pretty much it." Official Qin waved his hand and closed his eyes. Qin Du nodded and quietly exited the room.

Without the strong interference of the local gentry, Liangshan gradually became more proficient with the increase in the number of transportations, and the transportation speed also accelerated a lot.

On the road from Laizhou to Mizhou, there are at most a dozen batches of people transporting goods.

As a result, when Zongze led the army back, he suddenly discovered that the city seemed to have become much deserted.

The negative consequences of the lack of people working at the bottom of the city have also begun to show up. A lot of garbage on the streets has not been cleaned up. The originally developed urban sewer system is now experiencing problems.

But these situations will not affect the lives of the nobles in the short term, and no one cares too much.

There are a lot of people who need work, so if you don’t do it, there will naturally be a lot of people who will do it!

Sure enough, the vacant positions were quickly filled by refugees.

Although Zongze relied on the civil unrest to once again overwhelm the local gentry and powerful people, but now that the place is peaceful, it is impossible for him to obtain any support in gold, silver, food and grass from the local gentry and powerful people.

Based on his knowledge of that group of gentry, he must be planning something secretly.

And he only needs to wait until tomorrow's spring plowing. When the big landowners need these people to cultivate and cultivate for them, they will take the initiative to carve up these people.

Only then will he be considered successful, but before that, his food must be saved and used wisely.

So although Zongze didn't know what was going on, he was happy to see that the people could support themselves instead of having everything provided by the court, which would allow him to persist longer.

Everything seemed to go smoothly next. The sick people were sent to the quarantine area, a refugee camp was set up in the city, porridge was distributed regularly every day, and the local gentry did not jump out to stir up trouble... It seemed Everything seems normal.

However, where the nobles did not see, refugees continued to flow out.

The operations at the trading house are still continuing, but because Zongze is back, the operations have become more covert.

And under the deliberate cover-up of those local snakes, Zongze has always been kept in the dark.

When refugees gather together, it is much easier to pass news to each other.

Within a few days, almost all the refugees knew that Liangshan was recruiting people back to Mizhou in large numbers.

Even those refugees who have jobs and no longer live in gathering places will inevitably want to know where the people who did this job went after work, and they will know the news just by asking.

It turns out that most of these refugees escaped from Mizhou and had a strong attachment to their hometown. Now that they heard this news, how could they still sit still?

As for worrying about the plague... Haha, they are already treated as potential plague patients, so what are they worried about?

What's more, there is also the True Exorcist Lord to bless him... so many people believe in it, it must be quite effective, right?

Then the trading company can't deliberately bring a group of plague patients back to its own territory, right?

With all kinds of luck, a large number of refugees want to return to their hometowns.

The trading company hurriedly arranged another supply truck to take people out, but this time there were too many refugees, and many people couldn't wait at all.

The trading company only transports a hundred people at a time. This scale is too small, and it is a drop in the bucket.

More refugees don't care about the convoy or not. If the convoy goes in front, they will follow behind.

That crowd of thousands of people followed behind, simply telling others that if there is a problem here, come and check it out!

The trading company urgently loaded up a few more carts of grain and followed them, fearing that if they ran out of grain along the way, this group of people would get into trouble again and turn a good thing into a bad thing.

I don’t know whether it was because I was scared after being killed several times, or because I didn’t have enough food at every meal, or for some other reason. The journey went very smoothly, and no one caused trouble among the team.

When we arrived at the Jiaolai River and saw the boats, carriages and horses waiting here, those who had been on tenterhooks all the way put their hearts back in their stomachs and truly believed that Liangshan was really recruiting people to return to Mizhou!

Many people in the team came to test the situation. After seeing the results, they did not board the ship, but followed the convoy of the trading company back to Laizhou to report the news.

After getting the news, those who were originally hesitant also made up their minds.

They want to go home!

You can imagine what happened next. There was no need for the trading company to organize anything anymore. Those homesick people set out to head west one after another. Even if there was no trading company providing food on the way, they would not stay in this strange city of Laizhou. .

Not only did these refugees run to Mizhou one after another, but the local landless refugees also followed the crowd and went to Mizhou together.

You can't survive in Laizhou anyway, so you might as well go to Michigan to try your luck.

I heard that many people died in Mizhou, so there must be a lot of land abandoned. Go there early. If you encounter the Liangshan Land Distribution, you might have the opportunity to get your own land. Isn't that much better than being a tenant for high officials?

In just ten and a half days, the refugee camp in Laizhou City was sparsely populated.

Those who didn't leave were basically either old, weak, or injured, and they really couldn't stand the repeated bumps.

The petty officials who manage this place are also happy that there are few people. After all, the rice grains are allocated in quotas. The fewer people there are, the more opportunities they have to do something!

(End of this chapter)