After hearing this, Jiang Feng looked at the people in the store again, and asked with a smile: "Look at your business, you should be good. You can raise so many people in the store..."

The man smiled bitterly, "Business is okay, but it is also helpless. The northern part of the army is in chaos, the Khitans and Tuyuhun people often cause trouble. The family members stay in the northern part are worried and can only come south. However, there are still many people in the old family, and I don't know where to go in the future."

Jiang Feng has always been very concerned about the situation of the Hu people in the north. In addition to the three Hu people of Shatuo, Khitan and Dangxiang, the Hu people outside the Great Wall was unique in the Tuyuhun power and maintained relative independence, while Guizhou was the sphere of influence of Tuyuhun.

"Is the situation in Guizhou okay? Now the Khitans and Shatu people should be more willing to go south. As you said just now, the Khitans are happy to come to Jizhou, Youzhou." Jiang Feng asked casually.

When Jiang Feng asked about his hometown, the man with a numb face suddenly became alert and dared not speak nonsense. However, thinking that Xuzhou was not involved in much connection with the northern part of the Great Wall, he paused again and said, "The Tuyuhun people are better, the Shatu people do not like them, the Khitans look down on them, and their situation is not good. They are sandwiched between the two sides and have to think about everything they do, which is only a pain for us Han people who live in the northern part."

When Jiang Feng asked again, he probably couldn't ask anything. He didn't expect to find any confidential information after he came out casually. Then Wuwen Hall could really withdraw. He just walked around casually to see how the scene of Xuzhou is different from Shouzhou and Luzhou.

It has to be said that even though Xuzhou has suffered years of drought, its size and prosperity of the city are far better than Shouzhou and Luzhou. The types of shops and pedestrians and travelers come from all directions, and the richness of goods is not comparable to Shouzhou, Luzhou.

The bathtub where the door opened was obviously doing well. The guests who followed him greeted each other and chatted about their neighbors. The fragrance from the scented medicine shop next to him seemed to have a little more noble atmosphere.

The peddlers along the street were already ready to start working for their business. The coopers, painters, oil sellers, and farmers carrying straw sandals, spoke accents from all over Xuzhou, walked around the streets and alleys, and shouted hard for the family's livelihood.

Occasionally, there will be one or two beggars wandering in the crowd, who will instantly turn into pickpockets when they are unprepared. The confused pedestrians still stretch their necks to look at the various commercial goods on the street.

"Get a bowl of sheep blood soup!" Looking at the steaming pot, Jiang Feng couldn't help but let the boss, who was sweating profusely, give him a bowl.

"Okay! A bowl of sheep blood soup!" The boss's hands and feet were very quick, and the fresh and tempting sheep blood soup was quickly handed over to Jiang Feng. Jiang Feng was not polite. While eating, he signaled that his personal soldiers could also get a bowl, but the personal soldiers turned their heads aside, which made Jiang Feng very bored.

Jiang Feng also knew that his sudden and temporary thoughts made his personal soldiers very nervous.

Although the situation in Xuzhou has stabilized, this only refers to the overall situation. The Huai You Army has entered Xuzhou for a short time. It turns out that the remnants of the army under Feng's command still exist, especially the remnants of Yao Chengtai, which still exist in Xuzhou City, and Shang Yunxi still has his own Fuzi in Xuzhou City. In addition, the darkzi lurking here on Yanyun and Heshuo, as well as the fine works of the Yuan family in the Caizhou to the west, so Xuzhou City is not as calm as it seems on the surface.

However, the more this happens, Jiang Feng feels that it is more necessary for him to come out and take a look at it himself and experience the lives of ordinary people in the city. Although the worries of the personal soldiers are not without reason, Jiang Feng does not think that anyone else will wait for the rabbit to deal with him in broad daylight.

To deal with yourself, if you really want to succeed in one move, the experts in the Rundan stage are no longer enough to kill you in one move. At least they have to be above the Dynasty stage. Looking around, how many experts in the Dynasty stage are there?

Even though there are Daliang, Nanyang, and Caizhou, there are only a handful of people. How could they have so much time and energy to stay at themselves in their own camps? This is not realistic.

"Boss, is the business okay?" Jiang Feng squatted beside the short table, and asked while drinking the sheep blood soup with a few thick men next to him with short clothes and open chests.

"I heard that the guest's accent seems to be from Huainan?" The boss is a short, fat man. He looked like a generous person. He grinned and said with a big mouth, "What do you think? Although the years are not good these days, there are more people coming from the north, and they all rushed into our Xuzhou city to ask for food, and the food price suddenly rose. Fortunately, the rice and flour in Huainan are transported continuously, barely suppressing the price. Otherwise, it would not be a question of whether the business is good or not, but whether everyone can eat."

"So, everyone can live a life." Jiang Feng responded casually.

"Hehe, it's hard to say. Our Xuzhou is still acceptable, but we can't stand the people who keep going down in the north. These people stay in our Xuzhou city and rely on relief to maintain their lives. But can this kind of life last long?" The boss is also a sensible person. "Logically speaking, after a season of youth and bad luck, they should return home. But look at them, except for some people who continue to go south to make a living, most of them are unwilling to go south because they are not adapted to the south and are reluctant to go south. What should we do if we locals do?"

"The weather in the north is not good, and they may have no choice,..." Jiang Feng did not expect that the people of Xuzhou were also so xenophobic. He seemed to be disliked by the people from the north. He asked tentatively: "You can't let them starve to death."

"You can't say that. Everyone has their own way of living. It's really hard to live in the north, but it's not easy for us in Xuzhou. We have been stumbling over the years, hungry and full. Now, how can we raise so many idle people in Xuzhou?" The boss shook his head, "The land in Xuzhou is not rich. If so many idle people stay here, you will suffer disasters over time. Look, yesterday, there was a quarrel in Dulefang there, and several people were beaten to death. I heard that it was because I was fine and I was so angry that I was so angry that I had to worry about whether there was food in other people's bowls."

Jiang Feng was speechless to the boss's words.

That's right, I'm looking at the problem from a higher perspective. The subconscious role of the victims of Yanyunyi and even Heshuo Pinglu came down and they should find a way to solve their livelihood problems, but they ignored the ideas of the local people.

These local people are of course welcome to the northward transportation of grain in Huainan, but they are disgusted and hostile to the victims and refugees from the north coming to share the food. In this case, people's bad habits will be infinitely amplified. For example, after the idle refugees can have a bite of food, there will always be people who have a lot of problems in it, such as gambling, fighting, and even being used by external forces. This is inevitable.

It is time to consider these problems of northern refugees who are still moving south.

Work-for-relief can solve some problems, but this is not a long-term solution. Further expansion of the army can digest some strength, but it is not enough to solve the fundamental problem.

For now, it is either to let these refugees return to the north, but this is obviously difficult to do. Unless you can win Heshuo and Pinglu in one fell swoop, you have to make good use of the weather. Even so, you will still face a confrontation between local gentry and the land.

Another way is to digest it on the spot.

Those who are willing to go south have basically gone south. Although Huainan can still accommodate some, many refugees from the north are actually not willing to go south. The humid and hot climate there makes it difficult for northerners to adapt, and even in this era, that is fatal.

Just like Lingnan Road and Qianzhong Road, places like these are almost considered ghosts, and they may never have the chance to come back once they go. The climate, epidemic situation, and long journeys are enough to make people of this era easily unable to get sick.

This is not an exaggeration. Many people even regard local officials such as Daolingnan Road and Qianzhong Road as exile.

On-site digestion should be the best way, and Jiang Feng has also considered it.

In fact, the only way to solve the problem of these labor forces is industry and commerce. At present, there are two ways to solve the problem of these labor forces.

One is to develop Liguo's iron ore on a large scale, use new iron smelting methods to smel iron, expand iron ore mining and smelting, and produce pig iron and steel. At the same time, it is extending the industrial chain, using pig iron and steel to produce various agricultural tools, weapons and armor on a large scale, and even innovatively produce some new objects that can promote the development of productivity, such as improved carriages.

This path is the most suitable and can digest labor to the maximum extent. The only obstacle is that the new smelting method is not yet fully mature and is still exploring further, but it is not far away.

Another way is to expand the scale of Haizhou's salt farm and increase the production of Huai salt to supply the Central Plains and Jiangnan.

But this must be based on the premise of regaining Haizhou.

Of course, in addition to these two roads, there are also some temporary auxiliary methods, such as the construction of water conservancy and road construction. The water conservancy facilities in Huaibei have been disrepaired for many years and are in urgent need of repair and maintenance. At the same time, with the unification of Huaibei and Huainan under one banner, it is also a way to increase the investment and construction of post roads in the country.
Chapter completed!