Chapter 763 People Migrate North

Under the wanton propaganda of the Pingzhou navy, the common people in Dali also knew about the new thing called honeycomb coal.

As Lü Songli, Xie Zhan and others expected, in this extremely cold winter, the attraction of cheap honeycomb coal is unparalleled.

After the common people learned about honeycomb coal, they discussed it very enthusiastically.

"Have you heard? Pingzhou has made something called honeycomb coal, which has a good heating effect."

"Yes, the key is that it is cheap."

"Governor Lu is really righteous. For the sake of the people under his rule, he would rather not make money."

The people of Dali believed that Lü Songli did not make money, but the boss only sold a piece of honeycomb coal for two cents. What's the profit?

"It's a pity that they don't sell it to the public, but only supply it to the people of Pingzhou."

"That's easy, we can just become the people of Pingzhou."

"Move to Pingzhou? But the government may not give us a pass."

"Yes, and if we move our family to Pingzhou, the government will not allow us to sell the land. Then do we not want our land?" The few acres of land in the family were saved by two or three generations of frugality, and it would be a pity to abandon it like this.

"As for farming, you can farm anywhere. Let's talk about it after this winter."

"It's just the beginning of the heavy snow, and there will be the winter solstice and the minor cold later. It's very cold."

"Indeed, it's not uncommon for people to freeze to death in such a cold weather." If you're dead, who cares about things like land? Anyway, just survive first.

"I heard that there is a kind of glass bottle for sale in Pingzhou. Pour hot water into it and put it in the quilt. It's very warm, just like a hot water bottle."

"Is this glass bottle expensive?" Hot water bottles are used by nobles.

"Not expensive, very cheap, ordinary people can afford it."

The people of Dali naturally discussed the matter of moving to Pingzhou.

In recent years, Pingzhou's many benevolent policies have also made the people of Dali familiar. In their hearts, Governor Lu is a good governor, which is why they are willing to go to Pingzhou from afar after making up their minds.

Countless people went north and poured into Pingzhou.

Qin Heng ordered people to open the city gates to welcome them, and set up several reception points.

Officials were quickly sent from the rear of Pingzhou to take over, welcome the influx of Dali people, and properly settle them.

For the waves of people going north to Pingzhou, the Dali government along the way did not dare to stop them.

They stopped them, but the people going north were very irritable, and even a few times, they almost caused local riots.

At this time, the people had only one idea, that anyone who stopped them from going to Pingzhou would not care about their life or death, and would want to kill their family.

Zhou Da led his troops to maintain order. Looking at this scene, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart that the governor's means of fighting for the world were indeed different.

Before, he asked General Qin Heng for orders. He was willing to be the vanguard, lead an army, attack Yongzhou and Chang'an, and was willing to sign a military order. As long as he was given enough troops and enough food, he would take Chang'an for the general and the governor!

Chang'an is the capital of Dali. The symbolic significance of taking Chang'an is self-evident.

But the general refused, saying that this was also the governor's intention. They didn't care about these formal things. Attacking Yongzhou and Chang'an was too sensitive, and it would inevitably make Dali fight back desperately.

By then, the casualties on both sides would be difficult to control.

Then the general said, "I won't move if the enemy doesn't move. If Dali doesn't take the initiative to attack us, everything will wait for the results of the Xianbei battlefield."

Looking at the Dali people who were like crucian carp crossing the river in front of him, Zhou Da felt that the governor and the general were right.

Hancheng

Tuoba Lian looked tiredly in the direction of Shengle, the Xianbei royal city.

Previously, he and his second brother Tuoba Jin took all the Xianbei warriors in Yanzhou City to pass through Dali, hoping to bypass the blockade of Pingzhou and return to the embrace of the grassland.

Unexpectedly, their whereabouts were leaked, and then they were ambushed by the Sun family army halfway, and his second brother Tuoba Jin died in that ambush.

Later, he had no choice but to retreat to Hancheng with the remnants.

Now they are blocked by the Sun family army and besieged in Hancheng.

Tuoba Lian didn't know who leaked their whereabouts, but he estimated that there was probably a problem in Dali, and there should be spies from Pingzhou buried in it.

He hoped that his father Khan would send an army after learning the news from him, and then they would work together inside and outside to break through the siege of the Sun family army and escape.

But as time passed, Tuoba Lian's heart became heavier and heavier. He shouted in his heart, Father Khan, my son can't hold on any longer, please send someone to save my son.

At this moment, there was another eagle cry, and then things kept falling from the sky.

Tuoba Lian looked up, "What is that?"

"Is it paper?" It was light and yellowish-white, so it should be paper.

From their angle, they could see the paper on the eagle's back falling from the sky and scattering into the city.

"Send someone to have a look." Tuoba Lian ordered, his face extremely heavy, he always felt that nothing good was going to happen.

Not long after, the team that went to check came back with a stack of paper.

"Seventh Prince, let's pick up everything we can, I wonder if any warriors in the army have picked it up."

Tuoba Lian looked at it, and there were pictures on each piece of paper, all of which were familiar food and objects for the Xianbei people, or inflammatory words written in Xianbei language, such as "Dad, my child and I miss you very much in our hometown: When will you come back?"

Tuoba Lian didn't know the purpose of Pingzhou's move, but he still subconsciously felt that it needed to be dealt with. "You go and arrange people, strengthen patrols in the city, and deal with these scattered papers."

"Yes."

Tuoba Lian didn't know that some Xianbei soldiers had secretly hidden these scattered papers. After reading the contents of the papers, they broke through the defense in an instant and blew up the camp in the cold and hungry winter night.

The final result was that the fortress was disintegrated from the inside by the enemy. Tuoba Lian and the remaining Xianbei soldiers became prisoners of Pingzhou.

Chang'an

The situation of a large number of people going north to Pingzhou to make a living was reported to the court by local governments, and the court was asked how to deal with it.

Xie Zhan sighed. It will rain, my mother will get married, and the people will grow legs. Where will they go? Can you control it?

"Regent, our charcoal can't be sold at all." Liao Xuewang and others were at a loss in the face of unsalable charcoal.

Xie Zhan said calmly, "Then give it away! Give it to the people for free, at regular intervals and in fixed quantities."

Liao Xuewang and other people from the Royal Merchant Group felt their hearts bleed when they heard this, and they were destined to lose all their money.

There was no way. Although Pingzhou did not have charcoal, the low-priced honeycomb coal squeezed out the charcoal market.

After Xie Zhan finished speaking, he comforted Liao Xuewang and others, "Don't worry, after passing this level, you will have everything."

Liao Xuewang and others did not know what Xie Zhan was thinking at this time, but since things had come to this point, they could only believe in the promise of Xie Zhan, the regent.

Fan Yang knew that the regent wanted to snatch people from Pingzhou, but——

The amount of charcoal they had was not enough to cover the people of Dali throughout the winter.

Faced with this situation, Xie Zhan thought about it and decided to set aside a large part of charcoal for the people of Yizhou in addition to Chang'an to ensure their supply for the whole winter.

Xie Zhan believed that after a winter, Yizhou was difficult to travel in winter because of its mountainous areas. Moreover, with the supply of affordable charcoal, the number of people who left was the least in this state.

"Send Xu Junfan to do this." Xie Zhan ordered.

Fan Yang was puzzled. Some time ago, the Empress Dowager and the Regent were fighting for power, and most of the civil and military officials chose to stand on the side and camp. Xu Junfan defected at that time. But he didn't find that the other party had any outstanding talents. How did he catch the eye of the Regent?

But Xie Zhan didn't say much.

Fan Yang thought, okay, Xu Junfan is a Cao Yuan of the Cangbu Department, it's okay to promote him to take on this important task.