An old man next to him echoed: "We promise not to cause damage and will cultivate the land seriously, as long as you give us a bite to eat."
The people who came with them also said: "We just want to live, as long as we stutter."
Ruan Sizhui's expression was a bit hard to describe.
He remembered what Tang Miaoxin had said to him when he left that day. Could these be the people Tang Miaoxin found for him to farm?
He took a look and found that the total number of people in this group was less than a hundred, and they should be from the same tribe.
Excluding the elderly and children who are unable to work, probably more than half of the people are still in good health.
They are indeed short of people now, but using Linyuan people will bear a lot of risks.
After all, Linyuan and Qinzhou have been fighting for decades, and there is no deep hatred between them.
Now if he leaves these Linyuan people to farm the land, he will have to bear corresponding risks.
Ruan Sizhui's mood was a little complicated. The leader of the group said: "Our tribe is gone. The royal court doesn't care about our life or death."
"We have nowhere to go. No matter how many grievances Qinzhou and Linyuan had before, we people can guarantee that we have never harmed the people of Qinzhou."
"We are extremely disappointed with our king. If you can give us something to eat, you will be our great benefactor."
After they finished speaking, they knelt down.
Ruan Sizhui was used to the ferocity and arrogance of the Linyuan people, so when he encountered such a group of Linyuan people kneeling down to beg him, he was a little uncomfortable for a while.
He was a little confused, what did Tang Miaoxin do with the five thousand Qinzhou soldiers and horses?
So that these people bowed to Qinzhou as if their bones had been broken?
He is well versed in human nature and knows that once these people lower their heads, the rest of the matter will be easier to deal with.
Ruan Sizhui looked at them and said, "If you want to stay, you have to prove that you are valuable."
"Qinzhou does not support idle people, let alone incompetent people. I will give you some farm tools. If you can cultivate that land today, you can keep it."
Everyone in Linyuan nodded.
The middle-aged man at the head asked: "Sir, before we open up wasteland, can we give the elderly and children some food first?"
"They haven't eaten anything for two days. I'm afraid they won't be able to hold on if they endure it any longer."
Ruan Sizhui saw that their faces were full of food and they looked very thin. They must have been hungry for a long time.
He thought for a moment, and then gave everyone a little food, which would not make them full, but would not make them fall down.
Such a group of people have no weapons in their hands and have nothing to worry about.
When the food was brought out, the old people and children only ate a very small portion and gave the rest to those who could work.
Ruan Sizhui sighed softly when he saw this scene. He was even more curious about what Tang Miaoxin did to them.
He asked the middle-aged man: "What happened on the grassland?"
The middle-aged man told everything that happened during this period.
Ruan Sizhui heard about Tang Miaoxin's initial attack on those tribes, heard about her driving these people to the royal court, and then heard about the slogan she wrote.
He finally understood what she had been doing during this time.
Ruan Sizhui: "..."
He had heard people talk about Tang Miaoxin's way of doing things before, but that was just a brief listen. It was only now that he truly saw it.
She had only been in the grassland for less than half a month, but she directly stirred up the entire grassland and took advantage of the internal conflicts in Guiyuan to completely divide them.
If this continues, there will be civil strife in Linyuan.
With this kind of civil strife, no one will have the energy to attack Qinzhou anymore.
As long as this is done properly, Linyuan will die without a fight.
After Ruan Sizhui knew the cause and effect, he knew that there would not be too few Linyuan people coming to seek refuge with them this time.
How to manage these Linyuan people well is not an easy task.
Ruan Sizhui was able to be entrusted with an important task by Ning Guzhou and serve as the governor of a state. There is no doubt about his own ability.
He just thought about it briefly and made corresponding arrangements:
After these Linyuan people passed the examination, they were dispersed and mixed with the people of Qinzhou to farm together.
In this way, they can not only prevent them from clumping together, but also allow the people of Qinzhou to teach them how to farm.
They will be farming here for a long time in the future, so they need to build some houses for them to live in.
He then designated an area on a higher ground and began to build a house.
He is still planning, if Linyuan is destroyed, how to make the best use of these people in Linyuan, and at the same time, he must manage them well to prevent trouble...
Just as Ruan Si Zhui thought, it didn't take long for people from Linyuan to come to farm the land one after another.
Ruan Sizhui arranged them in the same way.
Of course, some of the Linyuan people who came here also wanted to grab food.
Ruan Sizhui led his troops and defeated them all without hesitation, and then drove them out of Qinzhou's territory, preventing them from entering Qinzhou again.
While Ruan Sizhui was busy settling the people of Linyuan and letting them open up wasteland, Tang Miaoxin and Ning Changping, with Qinzhou's soldiers and horses, raided many tribes.
What made Song Shiyan collapse was that when they were raiding these tribes, Linyuan's royal court did not make any move.
They actually sent soldiers and horses to encircle and suppress Qinzhou's army of only 5,000 people!
From Song Shiyan's point of view, although Linyuan suffered a lot of casualties after its defeat last year, if a war really came to pass, it would still be possible to gather 100,000 people from all the tribes together.
Tang Miaoxin's army only has 5,000 troops. No matter how powerful they are, if Wang Ting sends a large army, they will definitely be able to defeat them.
But they were completely silent!
Song Shiyan was still somewhat hopeful at first, but the longer she waited, the more desperate she became.
Because she knew that the further back, the smaller the chance of Linyuan people's counterattack would be.
She had always thought that Linyuan was a bloody place, but now she realized that their reactions were different from what she had imagined.
It was only then that she suddenly realized that Lin Yuan was really going to die.
Tang Miaoxin wanted to laugh when she saw Song Shiyan's face growing more sad day by day.
Could this girl have reached this point and still think Linyuan can survive?
She sat next to Song Shiyan and said, "I think you had already guessed that the prince had planted someone in Linyuan before I came here."
"Yes, there are people from Qinzhou in Linyuan's royal court, and there are quite a few of them."
Song Shiyan looked at her: "How did you do it?"
Tang Miaoxin smiled: "What's so difficult about this? Linyuan can send people to Qinzhou, and Qinzhou can send people to Linyuan."
"Besides, Linyuan is not as powerful as you think, nor is he as united as you think."
Although Song Shiyan didn't want to admit it, the facts before her forced her to admit it.
Tang Miaoxin looked at her and said, "Go to bed early today and take you to the theater tomorrow."