Throughout late September, Shen Zhezi was busy seeing people off. There may not be too many wise men in this world who are aware of the situation, but avoiding risks is a human instinct. There are many people coming from the West to the East in the capital, and Liyang's troops practice martial arts day and night on the banks of the Hengjiang River, which inevitably made the people in the capital feel even more panic.

Not to mention Li Yang's reputation, his achievements are solid. In his early years, he suppressed the chaos and won the battle, and the Wang army was almost defeated without resistance. This is not an old story, especially for the people in the capital. In his early years, there were many people who witnessed the battle between the two armies outside the Suzaku Dawang, and still remember the bravery of Li Yang's troops.

These rumors spreaders must be inseparable from Liyang, so Taichung also attaches great importance to this. The Imperial Guards are spread all over the city inside and outside Jiankang City, guarding important water and land roads. Anyone who finds suspicious people or spreads such shaking remarks will be detained.

But what's the use of this? These rumors are not trained military spies, they are just a group of refugees. Shen Zhezi once asked his family to catch a rumor spreader and asked for a little bit of ridiculousness. Liyang drove away the refugees from the east, and anyone who spreads such remarks can get a few buckets of brown rice as food.

Shen Zhezi is not unfamiliar with the situation in Liyang. In the early years, the Secretariat gradually dismantled the people's hearts of Liyang through political pressure, and the approach was ingenious. The current management and rule structure, regardless of the level, is similar.

The power and source of power of subordinates does not rely entirely on the grants of superiors. They themselves control almost independent troops and do not have a particularly strong personal dependence relationship. Therefore, superiors do not have much jurisdiction over subordinates. Whether they are loyal or not depends entirely on their personal moral qualities.

Compared to the court, there is still a righteous orthodox existence, the centrifugal force of the refugee commander group is much stronger. Su Jun's subordinates are not so much subordinates as partners, and they join together to keep warm and start a business together. When we hug each other, we cannot protect their interests and gain a sense of security, but instead have a strong sense of crisis. It is a matter of time before their internal collapse is a matter of time.

Li Yang's counterattack can also be called fierce. The basis of its existence is that it is bravery and good at fighting. When the beast is about to show its fangs, the opponent will be afraid no matter what. Through a large number of refugees to incite the panic in the hearts of the people in the capital, on the one hand, it can put pressure on the Secretariat, and on the other hand, if there is really a war in the future, the resistance will be much smaller.

Nowadays, this trend of escape and avoiding disasters in the capital is still spreading. It was originally a family escape, but as the situation became more and more serious, it is now beginning to migrate based on clans.

Shen Zhezi has been out of the city several times recently. Seeing that Changganli and other places that were already crowded, gradually becoming sparsely crowded, the entire street market was filled with a sense of depression. The originally prosperous prosperity was cut off in half, but now the only commodity on the market that prices of many goods on the market are food. In the past, rice was still between dozens of dollars, but now it has soared to 300 dollars and is still rising.

Unlike the depressed scene in the city, the roads heading south and the roads eastward are crowded, men, women, young and old stroll in the wilderness and head towards places they think they are safe.

According to the latest data obtained by Shen Zhezi, Jurong County alone received tens of thousands of refugees in the past half month! This is no longer something that a county can bear. The county government is helpless. The large families in the county are even more vigilant about these refugees. They occasionally send their servants to drive them away. The atmosphere suddenly becomes tense and is almost about to turn into civil rebellion.

Under such circumstances, even if Shen Zhezi wanted to stay out of the matter, he could only instruct Qian Feng and others to organize the county's large clans, and combine the power of the Jingkou direction merchant alliance to quickly evacuate these refugees. If they were still allowed to stay near the capital of the capital, once the war broke out and were enslaved by the rebels, today's lamb would be tomorrow's jackal.

At this time, considering the pros and cons is already a joke about your wealth and life. Therefore, the manpower and material resources accumulated by the Shen family are almost invested regardless of costs, and it is a secondary issue to disperse the refugees as much as possible. The most important thing is to not let them gather in the same place.

Fortunately, the Shen family began to prepare for this situation very early. The large number of refugees in Jingkou moved south almost to a certain extent, which had almost expanded the capacity of refugees. And along the way to Wuzhong, due to the early turnover of goods, the roads had already been sorted out and unblocked, and people could be evacuated quickly.

However, the most important thing about evacuating refugees is not these, but the issue of food supply. Wuzhong is also preparing for war, and food is also an extremely important strategic material. Even with a large amount of grain storage, Shen Zhezi would not be able to pay out of his own pocket. This is not a question of morality or not, and it has risen to a political issue. If he really dares to do that, the Secretariat would probably doubt whether the Shen family would rebel before Liyang.

But if food is not provided at all, these refugees will naturally form many armed forces to predate during their migration in order to survive. Once this armed force is formed and penetrates into the Wuzhong area, it will also be a disaster.

The only way that Shen Zhezi could think of now is to use work instead of relief and organize production labor along the way. Migration is a flowing process, so it is naturally impossible to carry out production such as land reclamation and planting, so it is mainly about cutting down, collecting and other work. At present, most of the mountains, forests, rivers and swamps are in the hands of aristocratic families. To carry out such labor, we must have sufficient communication with these local families.

In the past, the power of the Business Alliance alone might not be able to convince these big clans. Those refugees who were dispersed and without organizational strength were even less taken seriously by the big clans who were entrenched in the local area. But when the two were combined, they had extremely powerful deterrent power.

In order not to touch the heart of the Secretariat too much, Shen Zhezi mainly asked Yu Tiao to do this kind of matter. With the financial resources of the Shang League and the human resources of the refugees who were like locusts, there was no unblocked family where they passed along the way. Even the Zhou branch, which was quite inconsistent with the Shen Family Dongzong in Yixing, needed to cooperate obediently and let go of their own enthroned mountains and lakes for those refugees to collect, hunt, cut down and other production.

What we lack the most at present is manpower. These obtained raw materials can be sent directly to Wuzhong and processed into products and sold to Jingkou and other places. In fact, the benefits of this entire cycle are not very large, but even if it is cost-effective, as long as it can achieve several core purposes, it is also worth it. On the one hand, it avoids the clamor of refugees, and on the other hand, to some extent, these people along the way are included in the framework of the business alliance.

The stubbornness of the aristocratic manors cannot be disintegrated overnight. If the existence of these manors is not disintegrated, the mere personnel allocation or military push is just a solution to the symptoms and will make a comeback without being promptly followed. Although the Shang League is prosperous now, it is actually limited to Wuzhong and Jingkou, and its influence is still minimal.

The splash of massive amounts of money is actually to avoid the Shang League being too deeply affected by the war in the future and will not recover. From the perspective of the Shang League's growth, Shen Zhezi did not resist the destruction of Su Jun's rebellious army on the capital and even the rural areas of Wuzhong.

Thinking of this may be a bit inhumane. After all, when the war is in progress, the innocent people are the ones who suffer the most. However, the growth of the business alliance must be based on the liberation of productivity and productive resources from the aristocratic manors. If you want to seize these resources from the major families, you cannot completely rely on a peaceful transition. The necessary military means are absolutely indispensable.

This war between Liyang and Su Jun is inevitable, and it is definitely not something that Shen Zhezi can stop it. All he can do is hope that this war will not just consume Jiangdong's vitality, and will still be in the same place after the chaos, and can lay the foundation for the future situation and operation, which is the best result.

The food needed to evacuate refugees mainly comes from Xuancheng. Xuancheng, from western Zhejiang to Jiangzhou, is now the most important grain producing area in Jiangdong. In terms of the capital, it is stronger than the Three Wus.

On the one hand, it is because the power of the southern clan on this line is weak and easy to control the center, while the Three Wus are mixed up. With the rise of the Shang League, the influence of the court is vaguely excluded. On the other hand, it is because the Three Wus, especially Kuaiji, have not yet fully tapped out the potential. Although the scale of Kuaiji's land reclamation has soared significantly in recent years, it has not yet reached the level of stable output.

My father sent a message to Shen Zhezi earlier, saying that since the grain from Wuxing and Wujun was greatly transported north to fill the Jingkou market, the reserves had gradually decreased. Kuaiji's army was being prepared for war, and even had to mobilize grain from several counties in Jiangzhou and Guangzhou in the south. However, this was not a big problem. After all, even if the war came, the intensity of the battle in the east of Jingjin was not strong, and it was almost certain that it would not spread to Kuaiji.

The reason why the grain was collected in Xuancheng was not entirely because Wuzhong had poor food, but mainly to weaken the supply of the rebels. As for Gushu, Xuancheng was an extremely important place to store grain. The rebels crossed the Hengjiang River, and this place was the first to be hit and it would be difficult to defend. Instead of storing these grains for the use of the chaotic army, it would be better to embezzle part of it first, which could save Wuzhong's grain reserves.

However, what made Shen Zhezi feel helpless was that Huan Yi, the inner historian of Xuancheng, was extremely sensitive to the outflow of grain. He had only warned earlier that he had already started to directly expel the Shen family's grain purchase team by force. Although this could not prevent the outflow of grain, after all, all major households had sufficient grain storage, and as the situation was tense, there was also a demand for grain sales, but the price was much higher.

Huan Yi is an important supporter of Yu Liang in the local area. Although he is not as strong as Jiangzhou, his status as a party directly facing Liyang is not unimportant. But to be honest, this public ability is lacking and cannot be overly praised for his death in history.

Ability is ability, and integrity is integrity. He has been in charge of Xuancheng for not short time. He was almost destined to be on guard against Liyang's mission at the beginning of his term, but the efforts and even results made in this mission were not much. Judging from the situation where the Shen family bought grain, this man had almost zero control over the local area. To be honest, since he knew that his position was so important, he could not do a precautionary operation early, who would die if he didn't die!

On the first day of October, Du He, who was in charge of the Secretary of the Central Secretariat, came to pay a visit at night and opened his mouth and said, "The Secretary of the Central Secretariat has issued an edict during the day, and the inner public will be announced to return to the capital of Liyang."
Chapter completed!