That's right, all the things the eldest man did before had a clear purpose!
Taking the opportunity to bring the four major families of Jinling together to increase their momentum is just one of the reasons.
The most important reason was that he felt pity for the people in the north who suffered from the snowstorm, and wanted to minimize their innocent casualties. Then he connected with the secret manpower left by Prince Zhongshun and Prince Yi Zhong, and planned to contribute some efforts to destroy the capital city.
Most of the victims were sent overseas by sea to live overseas.
Prince Zhongshun and Prince Yizhong have just established themselves in Java. If they want to develop and grow, they naturally need a steady stream of people. Naturally, they trust the simple people of Daqi more.
With the rank and status of the eldest master, there are very few things in the court that can be hidden from him.
What happened to the past disaster relief efforts of the imperial court and local governments? The eldest man was so clear-minded that he wanted to Qing Ding!
Yes, it is to consciously reduce the number of disaster victims. The way to reduce the number of disaster victims is to let the old, weak, women, children and even adult men who are not strong enough among the victims die.
The elder had deliberately read the records about disaster relief. He didn't know about other places. Anyway, every time there was a major disaster in the capital, almost all of them were able to return to their hometown alive after the disaster.
If the total number of disaster victims is not reduced by 60 to 70%, it would not be considered normal!
As for how the government quietly reduced the number of victims, it was to put the victims in a state of severe hunger. First, the victims had no energy to make trouble, and then in various severe weather and sanitary conditions, the elderly and the weak who were in poor health or were weak in resistance were exposed.
Women and children will naturally die on a large scale.
At that time, due to long-term hunger, the adults among the victims had no chance to resist even if they reacted.
Not to mention, in order to have a full stomach at that time, all kinds of human tragedies can happen. At least when the old man is looking through the information, he can basically see the four words "eat by changing children".
The eldest brother did not regard himself as a saint, but he also could not do it despite his ability to watch millions of victims. Because of the deliberate actions of the government and the court, more than 60% to 70% of the casualties occurred.
In this era of extremely backward technology, population is the most precious resource and can be an important factor in determining the rise and fall of a force or even a country.
On one side were Prince Zhongshun and Prince Yi Zhong. They were seriously short of manpower. Because they could not recruit people openly and openly, and the people of Daqi had the custom of never leaving their homeland. This made the two royal family bosses who took the initiative to go to sea troubled. In order to get
When the people of Daqi passed there, their hair turned gray due to worry.
On the one hand, the imperial court and officials of Da Qi did not take human life seriously, and easily reduced the number of tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or even millions in disaster years, which is simply chilling.
Fortunately, what the elder did was not in vain. The method he proposed to use work as a substitute for financial support allowed the young and middle-aged refugees to have enough to eat, and by the way, they were able to earn a lot of food rations. They could barely provide for the family and the children without any major problems.
As the Prime Minister of Shuntian Prefecture, Lian Er is naturally qualified to give instructions on the management of the victims. With his intentional and unintentional intervention, the resettlement and sanitary environment of the victims outside the city have been handled quite well.
Not to mention anything else, the igloo built under the guidance of the great master at least gave the victims a place to shelter from wind and rain in the cold winter, and saved most of the victims' lives during the coldest New Year period.
As for those victims who have particularly weak bones, or those who died of illness, the old man is powerless.
In short, under the covert actions of the great master, at least 80 to 90% of the victims who gathered outside the capital this time survived the most unbearable harsh winter, and they can definitely be regarded as thousands of Buddhists.
Oh, by the way, the reason why it was able to achieve this point must be said that Zhang Laodao had a huge contribution in it.
The elder just revealed a little bit of his meaning. Zhang Laodao immediately understood and proactively invited the Taoist monks to come forward to clean up the patients in the refugee camp and calm people's hearts. The effect was quite good.
Later, when the Buddhist monks saw it, they naturally joined in not wanting to lag behind. While helping the victims tide over the difficulties, they also took the opportunity to cultivate a large number of fresh Buddhist believers.
The Buddhist and Taoist monks stepped forward to appease and help the victims, which naturally alarmed the royal family and the present. However, the two monks did not go too far. They used medical methods as the main method and religious methods as a supplement. In addition, the number of refugees was indeed too large and difficult to manage.
, even though he was unhappy in his heart, he did not take action to stop it.
In addition, it has to be said that the grains confiscated from several major grain stores in the capital are sufficient, and the Huangshang family headed by the Xue family has actively contributed. The amount of grains currently under control has reached a certain level.
There was a big boss secretly adding fuel to the flames, and he was very distrustful of the household department in charge of money and food. In the end, all the real work was handed over to the embroidered guards.
It is rare for the Xiuyi Guards to have such an opportunity to show their faces. Besides, they do not care about the little benefit in food. This time, the court's disaster relief did not appear to be corrupt or not. This is why the victims can survive 80 to 90% of the time.
One of the main reasons for severe cold weather.
In short, after the severe winter passed and the weather became warmer, the living conditions of the victims would be greatly improved. At this time, the eldest father took advantage of the fact that the court was in trouble again and proposed a method of sea transportation.
Then docks and cinder roads were built, and large swaths of disaster victims came to the seaside. Under the temptation of the two royal bosses, batches boarded sea ships and rushed to fight in the South Seas.
The two royal family bosses directly offered land as a temptation. Very few people who had lost their land could afford it. Large areas of the victims quickly disappeared into the refugee camps in family units.
The number of refugees was so great that the imperial court and the government were neither able nor willing to implement meticulous management. Whether they were aware of the families disappearing in the refugee camps or not, they probably wouldn't care even if they were aware of them.
In this way, by the time the weather warms up completely and the ice and snow from last year's harsh winter melt quickly, hundreds of thousands of people will be gone from the refugee camps.
This is definitely a big project. Fortunately, the two royal family bosses have deep knowledge, sufficient ships and no shortage of food, so they were able to accomplish this in just a few months.
The disappearance of hundreds of thousands of refugees and civilians, not to mention the reaction of the government, has spread among the refugees. It is said that the big island owner in the South China Sea has gathered the landless refugees, and as long as they are willing to go there, they will be given land. There is no ambiguity.
Regardless of whether the refugees believe it or not, in short they all know that there is such a way out. If they really can't survive, it is not impossible to go overseas and try their luck.
After the severe snowstorm broke out in the north of Gyeonggi Province, and in the following few years, about two million refugees from the north who lost their land rushed to Java by sea to settle down, greatly filling the severely lacking population there.
The elder did not act as a spectator when he delivered his speech. Instead, he used the Jinling tribe's fleet and recruited Shuwan people to go to the Jia family to reclaim farmland and develop construction on several small islands in Java.
A large number of anxious Daqi people poured in. If the two royal family bosses in Java had no problem with their minds, they would inevitably take the opportunity to create gods and solidify their foundation.
There are immortal monks in the world of Red Mansions. The monks in Daqi are severely restricted by the imperial court and the Buddhist and Taoist sects. Basically, it is difficult for ordinary people to meet monks.
But it's different in the outer sea. Java is a big place no matter what, and there are indigenous totem spirits there, and they are closely related to the daily life of the indigenous people.
There were also priests brought over by Western businessmen, all of whom were ruthless men with special skills.
The eldest man's manpower in Java secretly reported that when the two royal bosses expanded their territory, they suffered a lot from the indigenous totem gods and Western priests. This caused several riots and almost failed to control them.
Fortunately, the two royal family bosses in Java are not without expert help. There are no authentic monks from the Buddhist and Taoist sects, but there are many so-called side sect monks, who can finally combine the basic skills of the two royal bosses.
It's stable, but there's no hope of expansion.
This matter is not a secret in the sea area of Offshore Java. The two royal family bosses also told the matter to the elder and sought his opinion in order to solve this trouble.
According to the ideas of the two royal family bosses, they do not want to involve authentic monks from the Buddhist and Taoist sects in the early stages of development. Once the authentic monks from the Buddhist and Taoist sects are involved, basically the secret between them will be revealed.
It can't be saved.
No one is sure whether after hearing the news, Jin Jin will do something that will please his relatives and enemies. With Jin Jin's indifferent character, it is really possible to break the relationship between the two royal family bosses.
The way back.
Even if they don't send out warships for conquest, as long as they strictly control the export of people to the outside world, the two royal family bosses in Java will gradually collapse in despair.
No one can guess what will happen at that time. Don’t expect the dignitaries of this era to have any feelings of family, country and world. Maybe in despair, the two royal family bosses will become the helpers of Western forces spying on Daqi.
No one can guarantee that this kind of thing will not happen.
The eldest master still attaches great importance to this. Based on his understanding of the way of cultivation in the world of Red Mansions, he chose a method of 'creating gods' for the two royal family bosses who are also the Jia family's manpower in Java.
It was obvious that the two royal family bosses in Java did not want to attract the influence of the royal ancestors or the Great Qi Underworld Dragon Ting, but wanted to establish their own lineage and claim to be their ancestors.
The eldest master did not want the ancestral spirit of Second Duke Ning Rong to have the opportunity to go to Java to create a land, so the idea he gave was more normal.
If you want to create a god to protect your territory, in addition to the ancestral spirits, you can offer sacrifices to the spirits of heaven and earth to create a god.
Gods with wide influence, such as dragon kings and sea gods, can use the pious sacrifices of a large number of people to induce their divinity to ignite the divine fire and create a clone of the god, which is enough to protect the peace of the people in a place and not be harmed by those messy indigenous totem gods.
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I don't know what the two people in Java meant, but the elder thought he was benevolent enough, so he didn't do more to understand.