"For the remaining more than 10,000 people, we will publish another list and provide them with preferential treatment and travel expenses. The goddess will appear to encourage the people to move and sign up voluntarily. We should be able to collect them."
Sima Yi handed Xu Yue the statistical data sheet and pointed out the living costs of these prisoners.
"If we move all these people away, we will be left with a lot of expenses every year, killing two birds with one stone."
Xu Yue nodded and motioned for him to continue.
Sima Yi pulled out the latest census data table and found that Jizhou had the largest population, but Bingzhou had more barren land and more poor people.
If you want to mobilize people to move voluntarily, you can encourage people in Bingzhou.
In this way, the poor people in Bingzhou can obtain fertile land in the Hexi Corridor and live a better life.
This plan was thought up by everyone together. Xu Yue thought it was good and handed the matter over to Sima Yi and Yuan Song to handle together.
He also said that he would let the goddess assist him.
Everyone had no objection to this arrangement. They held a meeting together in the evening and after discussing the plan of action, Sima Yi set off for Bingzhou.
According to the plan, the collective relocation plan of 50,000 people must be completed before winter comes.
Time is tight and tasks are heavy, and officials of all sizes in the county government are extremely busy.
Even Xu Yue slept in the county government office for three nights to ensure that the plan could be carried out smoothly before returning home.
Sima Yi was responsible for persuading the more than 10,000 people to fill the gap.
Yuan Song rushed to the prison where he first stayed and began to liquidate the prisoners.
The two of them started going in both directions, and things went fairly smoothly.
By September, after the autumn harvest is completed, the great migration officially begins.
At this time, Zhuge Liang, Xu Dalang, Ma Chao and others had already renovated the three counties of Dunhuang, Jiuquan, and Zhangye that Emperor Qing Emperor had set up in the Hexi Corridor, just waiting for the people to move from the Central Plains.
In mid-November, Xu Erniang and Sima Yi, who led the people to migrate, successfully met Xu Dalang and others in Jiuquan County.
Before winter came, 50,000 newly relocated people were separated into three counties, and the once desolate Liangzhou became full of vitality again.
At this time, the road to the Central Plains was covered with heavy snow, so Xu Erniang and Sima Yi had to stop in Jiuquan County.
At the same time, he can also assist Zhuge Liang and others in completing the final resettlement work.
During the busy period, the Qilian Mountains were gradually covered with ice and snow, and all the rivers outside the city were frozen into ice. To get water, you had to break the ice with sharp and heavy tools.
Many children like to play on the ice. If they are not careful, they may fall into the newly opened ice holes that have not yet completely frozen.
In order to prevent such a tragedy from happening again, Xu Erniang was bored and wandered by the river in the cold wind.
With the holy light shining on her body, she didn't feel the cold wind moving her.
When the patrolling guards pass by the river, they will cast awe-inspiring eyes at this luminous pedestrian mobile object.
Xu Erniang walked around in the snow, feeling the romance of the ice and snow. Beautiful faces flashed through her mind. She only regretted that when she came here, she never thought that she would be stranded due to the heavy snow and brought a few more friends with her.
Just as I was regretting it, I saw a sneaky figure suddenly appeared on the ice in front of me. He took two quick steps forward and shouted:
"Which naughty kid, come back to me quickly!"
Just as she yelled, the sneaky figure suddenly straightened up and was actually the height of an adult.
In such cold weather, few people go out of the city to get water.
Because the snow falling from the sky is picked up and heated on a pot, it is enough for daily use, and there is no need to go out in the snow.
Like its name, Liangzhou is not an ordinary desolate place.
No one here raises silkworms or grows hemp. There is a shortage of fabrics and the people who came here during the Great Migration don't have enough clothes to wear. They should all be sitting on the kang to keep warm at this moment.
Xu Erniang suddenly felt that this person was suspicious.
Sure enough, her guess was right.
She just roared, and the figure looked back at her, then turned around and ran away, with his tattered robes and messy hair dancing wildly in the north wind, looking like a wandering beggar.
Xu Erniang narrowed her eyes slightly and suddenly felt that this figure was somewhat familiar.
She stepped up and chased after him. Just as she was about to catch the man, Xu Dalang rode a big horse and led a group of guards to surround the man.
Xu Erniang stopped and looked at the beggar's exposed face in disbelief. It was rough and sunken, almost thin and out of shape.
But even so, she still recognized at a glance that this was Zhao Yuanji.
The Northern Emperor Zhao Yuanji was taken away by his courtiers, fled into the mountains, and was eaten by wild beasts until all his bones were left.
He's not dead yet!
Before Xu Erniang could think about it, the man's feet had been caught by Xu Dalang's hook and he fell to the ground.
"Take it!" Xu Dalang ordered.
After saying that, he glanced at Xu Erniang, and then personally took Zhao Yuanji, who was captured alive, into the city.
Xu Erniang paused for a moment and immediately asked a cavalryman to borrow a horse.
When the soldier saw that it was the goddess, he happily and excitedly presented his horse to her.
"Thank you, I'll have someone bring it back to you later." Xu Erniang smiled gratefully at the soldier who lent her the horse, clamped the horse's belly, and chased after Xu Dalang.
Xu Dalang turned around and saw Xu Erniang, lowered his head and glanced complicatedly at the skinny man lying in front of him.
His eyebrows furrowed deeply, and finally he made a sharp U-turn at the intersection heading to the Jiuquan County Government Office, dismissed the guards, and took the man back to his temporary residence alone.
When Xu Erniang followed, Xu Dalang was no longer at home, only a thin man lying on the ground in the cold main room.
He was really frighteningly thin, with only a loose layer of skin remaining on his body. He was curled up on the ground, only a small ball.
He moved his eyelids and opened his dark eyes.
Even though he was so thin, he could still see through the bone statue that he was a very good-looking man.
Xu Erniang got off her horse and quickly rushed into the main room.
Just as she was about to speak, the person lying on the ground screamed first.
He got up from the ground, covered his ears and let out a piercing scream at Xu Erniang, like a wild beast venting its anger, crazy and terrifying.
Xu Erniang subconsciously took two steps back, endured the piercing scream, and shouted:
"Zhao Yuanji!"
The man was still screaming and didn't hear her voice at all.
Xu Erniang looked at this man who looked crazy and was obviously mentally disturbed, and she couldn't tell what she felt for a moment.
Zhao Yuanji is crazy.
"Stop shouting. I'm going out. If I don't come near you, you won't be in danger."
Xu Erniang didn't know if he could listen, but she still retreated to the door and stood behind the door so that no one in the room could see her presence.
Sure enough, he soon stopped his piercing screams and became quiet.
Xu Erniang waited for a long time, but no one came out. She quietly poked her head to look, and a broom came down with a bang. Fortunately, she dodged quickly, otherwise she would have been beaten.
