Kai Fu Han

Chapter 60 Refugees
Liu Xinqi asked the soldiers to pull a horse, climbed on the horse, and then stood up on the horse.During the process of standing up, the horse was a little turbulent. The soldier leading the horse calmed it down after a few times.

Standing on horseback, Liu Xinqi shouted condescendingly to the onlookers of refugees:
"I am Liu Xinqi, the head of the Liujiapu family in Dengzhou. The Liujiabao is about to build a new port in Dengzhou, so I come here to recruit workers. Anyone who is willing to work will be given one yuan per month for each strong laborer. One hundred and three hundred kilograms of grain, and women also want it. Each person will be given one hundred kilograms of money and 150 kilograms of grain every month. As long as they are selected by our Liujiabao, one hundred yuan will be given to them immediately as settlement expenses."

"And you are allowed to bring your family with you. Liujiabao will arrange accommodation and ensure that you will not be frozen in the winter."

In order to prevent the people below from not hearing clearly, Liu Xinqi repeated these words twice.

"How much work do you do in a day?" asked a young refugee.

"Five hours at most." Liu Xinqi replied.

"Can I go with my mother, two brothers and a sister?" the man asked again.

"You can all go and have a place to live. When the time comes, we will arrange a separate room for your family with a heated kang." Liu Xinqi replied again.
"I'm willing to go!" After saying that, the young man stepped forward.

Liu Xinqi instructed Liu Xinang, who had changed the money, to distribute the money. Liu Xinang counted out fifty coins from the cloth bag and handed it to the young man, and then a soldier took him to the side.

With the young people taking the lead, more than 200 people came up one after another to receive money, and were taken to the open space outside the gathering place by the soldiers.

By noon, a total of 310 men and women had signed up to work. Most of these laborers had families with them. According to the statistics of the soldiers who registered the names of the laborers, a total of 1000, 47 people needed to be relocated to Dengzhou.

Seeing that no one continued to come forward to sign up, Liu Xinqi came to the labor gathering place, looked at the more than 300 people and said: "Since you trust me, then I should also trust you. Now I will give you an hour to go back to your residence to pack your things and bring them with you." Bring your family here to report. We will set off to Qinglinpu in an hour. We will rest there for the past few days and will arrange for you to take a boat to Penglai County."

Finally, he added: "Don't worry, everyone, wages will be calculated starting from today. Okay, go back and clean up. Go back quickly."

After listening to Liu Xinqi's words, everyone hurriedly dispersed towards the shack camp.

"What if they don't come back after taking the money? Should we arrest them again?" Liu Xinang came up and asked.

"If you don't catch them or don't come back, we won't let them go. After an hour, whatever comes back will count. When the time comes, we will set off and go directly back to Qinglinpu." Liu Xinqi replied.

"Time is tight this time and we cannot do detailed screening, so we know nothing about the character of these refugees. We don't even know whether the names they reported are true or false."

"I did this because I wanted to do a simple screening. Anyone who can come back means that this person has a certain degree of credibility and will not break his trust for a small profit. And most of the people who are trustworthy have similar character. Where to go."

"This can make you speak the truth." Liu Xinang praised.

"Of course there is another reason. They must need to go back and pack their belongings. We are currently short of manpower and cannot follow them one by one. If they want to run away, they can always run away, so we simply won't follow them." Liu Xinqi added.

...!
Liu Xin'ang looked at Liu Xinqi with dull eyes, and was so excited by the huge contrast between Liu Xinqi's words that he couldn't recover.

"Xingang, you ride back to Qinglinpu quickly and inform Zhao Liang to organize good people to prepare meals and tidy up the yard to prepare to welcome these recruited refugees." Liu Xingqi called Liu Xingang and gave instructions.

"Okay." After Liu Xingang responded, he ran to his horse, got on his horse, and galloped towards Qinglinpu.

……

An hour later.

310 registered workers came back, including their families, the total number was 1000, 41.Three workers did not come back. I don’t know whether they were late or not coming.

When the time came, Liu Xinqi kept his promise and did not wait any longer. He immediately organized soldiers to lead these refugees towards Qinglinpu.

Liu Xinqi took the lead walking in front, and Liu Xinang held the line at the back. There were some elderly people with walking difficulties or people with disabled legs on the nine horses, and the soldiers led the horses.

Liu Xinqi did not expect that his unintentional move of giving up horses would directly make more than 1000 people who migrated feel at ease immediately, and they all seemed to obey the soldiers' arrangements.

Influenced by the soul of "Liu Qi" from later generations, Liu Xinqi instinctively sympathized with the weak, which was a rare quality in an era of war and chaos.

Liu Xinqi's unconscious "kindness" is gradually and subtly infecting the soldiers he leads and the Liujiapu people.

The person in Liujiabao who sees this most clearly is Liu Xinqi's teacher Zhou Xinyuan, and clan elders Liu Lisheng and Liu Lizhen can also see it to some extent.

This is one of the reasons why the management of Liujiabao can sincerely obey Liu Xinqi, not just because of his magical skills and high force.

……

When they arrived at Qinglinpu, there was only the last ray of light in the sky. Liu Xingang was waiting on the road outside Qinglinpu. After seeing Liu Xinqi, he hurried forward to lead the way. Taking advantage of the last light, everyone came to the courtyard where Wuhu paid compensation.

Zhao Liang borrowed a large pot from Xu and Cui's family that was usually used for red and white affairs, bought some firewood, and cooked a large amount of thick porridge in the yard, waiting for the labor team to arrive.

More than 1000 people were divided into ten large courtyards, which were basically packed to the brim. Fortunately, Zhao Liang was smart and rented dozens of warehouses from the Cui and Xu families before dark, otherwise these people would have to be in the courtyard tonight. Sleeping in the open.

Sitting in front of a warm bonfire, drinking hot thick porridge, these refugees, who had never had a peaceful sleep since fleeing, had a satisfied smile on their faces. Everyone chatted with each other and chatted lively. It was as if what he was holding was not porridge, but wine.

After eating, some youths from Zhaojia Village led the refugees to the warehouse with torches to rest. Liu Xinqi followed him to see that it was still very crowded, but he could finally lie down. The warehouse floor was covered with a thick layer of straw. , and put on the refugees’ own bedding, I was finally able to sleep peacefully.

Soldiers were arranged to take some of the young men on duty at night to deal with outsiders or refugees making trouble at night.

Liu Xinqi returned to a courtyard. The resting soldiers, Zhao Liang, Liu Xinang and other team leaders were all in this courtyard.

Calling all the soldiers who were not on rotation, including several team captains, Liu Xinqi talked about the following arrangements:
"There are more and more people in Liujiabao, and I already feel a little overwhelmed. So I can't follow everything in the future. You must adapt quickly from now on and strive to be able to do your own work as soon as possible."

(End of this chapter)