1168th Super Migration

There is no doubt that the news that Yangzhou will be turned into a dead place is a rumor.

However, the more rumors there are, the faster they spread, especially when natural disasters continue and people are panicking, rumors spread like wings.

What's more, there are officials behind this rumor that are fueling the flames!

In fact, if there is a force or organization to investigate the source of the rumor in detail, it will be found that it comes from within the Pingzhou official!

Intentionally or unintentionally fueling the flames, the rumors became more and more outrageous, and even the absurd claim that the Tengu came to the world and swallowed the whole of Yangzhou came out.

Of course, people with a little bit of intelligence would not believe this statement, but some other rumors make people have to believe it.

For example, Pingzhou's food reserves are almost exhausted, and Shanggong is unable to continue to rescue the victims. The Pingzhou disaster relief force will withdraw from Yangzhou in one month!

The more broad-minded people are, the easier it is to believe this "rumor". On the contrary, those ordinary low-level residents are more inclined to swallow such unreliable things as Tiangou devouring Yangzhou.

The strength of Pingzhou's disaster relief has made the princes secretly startled. Such a huge consumption is only reasonable if it cannot be sustained, and it is unscientific if it can be sustained forever!

Therefore, as soon as the statement that Pingzhou was running out of food and Shang Ji planned to give up disaster relief came out, it was immediately recognized and spread widely.

What's more terrible is that at this critical juncture, instead of coming forward to refute the rumors, Pingzhou officials have slightly reduced the food quota. This undoubtedly confirms the news that there is not much food in Pingzhou!

Under such circumstances, panic began to spread rapidly to the surroundings.

However, Chen Ang, who was in charge of the disaster relief work in Yangzhou, did not panic at all, and was even a little proud.

The flustered situation was brought about under his single-handed control, and even the reduction of food quotas was completed under his strong support. The reason was naturally not boredom, but to force these refugees to immigrate!

Since ancient times, Chinese people have had a strong idea of ​​relocating to their homeland. Even if they had to leave temporarily due to a disaster, they always wanted to return to their homeland.

And because of the previous views, many people regard Pingzhou and other places as places of bitter cold. If it is not forced, Yangzhou people will rarely migrate to Pingzhou on their own initiative.

Chen Ang is well versed in human nature, so he took a slant and deliberately spread rumors. On the one hand, he publicized the news that "Yangzhou is about to die", and on the other hand, he artificially created panic by reducing food quotas.

While doing these tasks, Chen Ang never mentioned immigration and other things, deliberately put on a posture that we don't care about population, and made full use of people's rebellious psychology to form a reverse promotion effect.

Although the method is not bright, the effect is surprisingly good.

For example, now, a large group of people knelt down and begged Chen Ang to allow them to move to Pingzhou.

Although Chen Ang was happy in his heart, he did not reveal anything on his face. Instead, he pretended to be troubled, claiming that he did not have the right to migrate refugees on a large scale and needed to ask Xiangping for instructions.

The crowd was a little flustered at once, crying and begging were heard endlessly, the sixtieth old man and the children with long hair flocked to Chen Ang, begging Chen Ang for help.

Chen Ang immediately hugged and wept with the refugees, and said that even if he remonstrated with death, he would find a way out for his father and the common people.

Afterwards, Chen Ang immediately ordered a returning cargo ship to dock, and selected the first batch of 20,000 immigrants to board the ship.

In order to snatch the 20,000 boarding places, the immigrants almost broke out in a large-scale riot. Fortunately, Chen Ang was well prepared, and the patrol team and the navy Lu Yong jointly suppressed and managed to maintain order.

As the first migrants boarded the ship and set sail, the rest of the victims became more agitated.

Chen Ang waited for another three days, reckoning that the refugee emotions had accumulated to the peak, and then publicly announced that Shang Gong had pity on the people, allowed the victims to migrate to Pingzhou, and provided agricultural tools, livestock, rations, seeds, etc. according to the number of migrants, to help the victims survive together. difficulties.

As soon as this remark came out, the victims all cheered and regarded Shang Ji as their reborn parents.

However, these policies are inherently preferential for immigrants to Pingzhou.

Through precise control of people's hearts, Chen Ang greatly improved the victims' sense of identification with Pingzhou and their gratitude to Shangji without spending a dime!

Subsequently, the large-scale migration of the victims was fully launched. The large junk boats from Pingzhou were loaded with food and other disaster relief supplies when they came, and brought a boat full of immigrants when they returned.

Large junk ships have a very strong carrying capacity, and they can carry 30,000 to 50,000 people in one ship to transport disaster victims. Normally, a trip takes about half a month.

Three thousand large junk ships can theoretically carry more than 100 million disaster victims in half a month.

However, this is only in theory, in practice there are not so many at all.

On the one hand, the gathering speed of the victims is not so fast, and on the other hand, some tonnage needs to be freed up to carry the goods.

Yangzhou was hit by a disaster, there was no grain harvest, and the hungry people were waiting to be fed, but it didn't mean that the hungry people had no wealth. Because the disaster came too suddenly, the food spoiled in a short period of time, but other things had little impact.

As a well-known wealthy place in the world, even if real estate such as houses and acres are deducted, there is still a huge amount of wealth. Of course, it is impossible to discard these wealth directly, and many of them are directly shipped to Pingzhou.

Moreover, a city like Shouchun suffered a strong earthquake, and the entire city was almost destroyed. But after the city was destroyed, those high-value building materials, special minerals, and various rare resources were hard-to-find good things. How could Shang Ji easily let them go?

Therefore, the number of refugees carried by each ship is only about 50 million, and the remaining space is used to carry precious materials.

Shangji's migrating disaster victims with great fanfare, other princes are not blind, and they started to take action one after another.

Now, the princes with a little knowledge have realized the importance of people. Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Sun Ce, Liu Biao and the princes who are close to the disaster-stricken areas immediately launched similar policies, especially Sun Ce and Liu Biao. The southern region is sparsely populated. , very suitable for migratory immigrants.

However, their capital is not as strong as Shangji, and the conditions offered are not as favorable as Shangji. In addition, Shangji is the only prince who participated in the whole process of rescue, so under the same conditions, the victims are more willing to follow Shangji, even if Pingzhou is more No matter how far away.

The mighty disaster relief activities lasted for more than a year. According to rough statistics, a total of 1.8 billion people were relocated from Runan, Jiujiang, Nanyang, Wujun, Danyang, Lujiang and other severely disaster-stricken areas. A year later, there are only about 300 million people left in the local area, and most of them are aristocratic families with profound heritage and strong ability to resist disasters.

Natural disasters and man-made disasters have caused the population of Runan and other places to drop dramatically, and the existing population is less than one-tenth of its heyday!

Among the migrating population, Shang Ji monopolized 70%, and the other princes divided up the remaining 30%. Naturally, Shang Ji became the biggest winner.