It is impossible to be willing to make dedication. People are mine, food is mine, and the benefits of output are mine. As for the safety of the tribe... such a major problem at a higher level should be left to His Majesty the Tiger King to solve.

Although Hu Yaoxian is suspicious, he is not so easy to fool. The data on paper must be reviewed. If he is not willing to give anything and only mobilizes workers from the Tiger King's direct territory, it will eventually only arouse the Tiger King's anger. Based on this consideration, the stingy nobles can only negotiate in private, bear the pain and take out the agreed population and resources and send it to Lifeng City.

Hu Yaozong knows why the Tiger King is angry.

The new direction of construction plan comes at the cost of abandoning the large area of ​​northern territory. There are plains and there is no danger to defend. More importantly, a strategic buffer area is needed between Lifeng City and Tieja City, so hundreds of thousands of civilians were forced to move south.

This is a great opportunity to make money!

Migration means giving up.

In any era, no civilian will give up his homeland. But now there is no way to fight a war and he must leave if he doesn’t want to die.

At the instruction of Hu Yaozong, his confidants led the soldiers into the homes of civilians to rob them at will. They had a high-sounding reason for this - Your Majesty has an order to move to Lifeng City in the shortest time, and those who violate the order will be killed.

If you want to leave quickly in a hurry, you can only go into battle lightly. This means abandoning most of the property in your family, taking a few pieces of clothes and a little food and leaving in a hurry.

To be fair, no one is willing to do this. Whether it is houses, food, furniture, or valuables, they have been accumulated through hard work by generations. In this way, if you throw them away with an order, no one will be willing to do so.

Hu Yaozong raised his butcher knife: All civilians must leave the city within an hour and move to Lifeng City. All civilians who remained in the city after more than time will be killed.

The cut-off heads have a strong deterrent effect. What can personal property be counted in the face of death? The frightened civilians hurriedly left the city. Behind them, Hu Yaozong walked into the empty city with his confidants proudly, gathered the property that originally belonged to the civilians, and transported away all the food that could not be taken away.

He made a big profit.

By the day the entire southward migration plan was completed, Hu Yaozong's forced property from the migrant civilians reached a huge number. Of course, he knew that he could not take it alone and had to pull more people into the water to ensure safety. In this way, everyone from the royal high-ranking officials to the influential nobles received a gift. Despite this, the amount of parts that Hu Yaozong swallowed was still astonishing, more than thirty times his original wealth.

This kind of thing cannot be hidden from the eyes of King Yaoxian of Tiger. However, even King Hu himself did not expect that his trusted confidant was bribed by Tiger Yaozong. When he reported the incident, he only underestimated that "Thu Yaozong disturbed the people many times in the plan to migrate the south, and took advantage of the property equivalent to two hundred war horses."

Hu Yaozong is experienced and he is very clear about Hu Yaoxian's tolerance for "corruption". It is no problem to be less greedy. For officials, this is a normal behavior. Especially in the eyes of the Hu King, this is actually a weakness of his subordinates, which is beneficial to maintaining the internal political ecology of the Tiger clan. As long as the amount of corruption is not too large, it is enough.

The report concealed the whereabouts of all the migrant grain reserves south of Lifeng City. This led to a deviation from the current situation of the grain reserves in Lifeng City. Because according to the previous edict, Hu Yaoxian asked that "the migrant people must take away all the reserve grains and transport them to Lifeng City for centralized storage."

This is also the reason why Hu Yaoxian refused to transport food and grass after receiving the urgent document from Wu Lin. In his opinion, although Lifeng City gathered millions of civilians, the supply of food in the short term is absolutely no problem. But Hu Yaoxian never expected that because of Hu Yaozong's greed, the huge refugee group endured hunger during the migration process and walked to Lifeng City, and only had the first full meal in a few days.

A very bad premonition came to Hu Yaozong's mind. But he had no idea of ​​facing it honestly, and doing so was simply seeking death.

"No, Lifeng City has a lot of food, at least enough to eat for three months." Hu Yaozong looked surprised: "I personally checked it when I left Lifeng City, and there was absolutely no problem."

Such things cannot be admitted, otherwise there will be only a dead end.

Hu Yaozong's mind was very fast, but in fact he had already thought of a countermeasure. No matter how angry the tiger king Yaoxian was, no matter what kind of news came from Lifeng City, the only thing he could do was to push everything on Wulin.

Those who have had stains will always be sinners.

Although the Tiger King reappointed Wu Lin as the national teacher, he was not as trusted as before. Once the seeds of suspicion and defense were planted, they would grow vigorously in the fertile soil of the heart of the people. The thing like resolving past grudges will always exist in legends. The mud template records a story called "harmony of generals and ministers" in ancient times. Hu Yaozong always believed that this story was no different from a fairy tale. At least he could not do it himself, and the Tiger King was even more impossible.

Looking at the innocent Hu Yaozong, the Tiger King frowned and fell into deep thoughts.

He was confused by all these things and became suspicious.

It is obvious that there must be someone lying between Hu Yaozong and Wulin.

But this is not the key to the problem——Whether Hu Yaozong or Wu Lin, both of them arranged a close friend who directly obeyed their orders. Now it seems that the two secret reports are very different, and the descriptions and records of the actual situation are completely different.

Hu Yaoxian couldn't help but shivered: In his opinion, Hu Yaozong and Wu Lin lying was not important, and just chopping off their heads can solve the problem. The key is that his close friends also joined the ranks of liars... Who can I trust from now on?

Sitting on the tall throne, Hu Yaoxian didn't speak for more than ten minutes.

The food that the frontline is urgently needed, the refugees struggling in hunger, the threat from the dragon people... all these things can be ignored in his opinion. The key to maintaining the continuation of a group is rule. If you don’t have absolutely loyal subordinates, you will be a joke.

After a long period of thought, Hu Yaoxian made a decision - to send the most elite guards around him to Lifeng City to conduct an investigation. In order to ensure the authenticity of the investigation results, Hu Yaoxian sent five batches of investigators in succession. These people did not know each other, and all they had to do was to rush to Lifeng City immediately and find out the truth as soon as possible, especially the current grain storage figures in Lifeng City.

He directly ignored the two secret letters of Wulin and Lifeng City commanders for grain allocation. Hu Yao stubbornly believed that even if a large number of civilians migrated south flocked to Lifeng City, it brought a series of problems to the local area, there should not be too much gap in the distribution of daily rations.

After all, the autumn harvest season has just passed, and there are enough grain storage in all places.

Lifeng City is no exception.

This king did issue an edict to move south, and the civilians are not fools. They must have carried enough food. After all, it was the fruit of a whole year of hard work and their most precious property.

Judging from the information currently available, if the damn liar is selected from Wulin and Hu Yaozong, the Tiger King has a greater probability of favoring Wulin.

Hu Yaoxian thought he was a fair and just person. Even if he wanted to cut off the head of the deceitor, he had to get enough evidence first.

...

Dragon tribe territory, Iron Jaw City.

This city, which originally belonged to the tiger tribe, is in a state of full reinforcement.

The expansion along the periphery of the city is a small tower with 50 meters square. The construction model is not neatly arranged in the traditional four-corner shape of the "mouth" shape, but is a reciprocating form of "four" shape. The benefits of this are obvious. No matter whether the enemy attacks from any direction, it will be hit by the defender from multiple levels. Even if one of the towers is destroyed, it is still impossible to break the defensive surface that is unfavorable to one side. The only solution is to bombard the long-range weapons for a long time, or launch an uninterrupted large-scale attack to completely destroy all towers.

The fleet continuously transported a large amount of steel bars from Bucks City. The Dragon Clan has strong smelting and forging capabilities, and the peat supply is very stable. In addition, the newly built cement factory and brick kiln in Tiejan City are not short of construction materials at all.

It is no longer necessary to build a city wall on a large scale. In fact, such a small tower is just a temporary measure. It has a simple structure and is cheap. It is built with the south as the main defense direction. Mobilizing the people of the city and guided by the Dragon Clan engineers, in just over two months, the outer edge of the Iron Jaw City was already covered with small towers. With the cannons set up on the top of the tower, the defenders firmly grasped the advantages of long-rangeness.

Yonggang is the new Iron Jaw City Guard.

Since the year before yesterday, the Dragon Clan has no longer had the position of "City Lord" and replaced it with "City Guardian".

Yonggang is an old man who came out of Panshi Village, a senior of Tianhao, and one of the senior managers who have received various trainings in the system. After coming to Tiejang City, Yonggang strictly implemented the various plans formulated by Tianhao, carried out internal rectification in an all-round way. While gathering Tiejang City's original Tiger Clan residents, it continued to strengthen the city's outer defense facilities and built it into a real water with a double-level land attribute forward base.

Since last week, a large number of tiger civilians have fled from the south. They have taken the initiative to ask for surrender, hoping to get help from the dragon people.

Yonggang refused all these people and opened the checkpoint and put them in Iron Jaw City.

All tiger refugees must be verified and at least two people have proved their identity before they can enter the temporary rest area of ​​Iron Jaw City, distribute the rations of the day, gather to a certain amount, and take them to the pier located in the east of the city, board the ship, and transport them to the Bucks City in batches.

The location of Iron Jaw City is very important. The Dragon Clan and the Tiger Clan only sign an armistice agreement, not a real peace. No one can guarantee when the battle will start, it depends on the situation and the determination of the highest superior.

There are not many Tiger civilians who cannot obtain more than two people. Over the past period of time, there have been about 7,000 people. Men, women, young and old are all included in "temporary personnel concentration camps". Yonggang sent soldiers to take them to Hulaoguan to act as road builders.

When leaving Panshi City and heading to Tieja City to take office, Yonggang learned from Tianhao that even he felt unimaginable——Wu Lin, a national teacher of the Tiger Clan, is our ally.

Please note that it is "allies" rather than "our people". Although the two statements have similarities, they represent two meanings that are quite different.

Among the first batch of Tiger civilians who arrived in Tieja City, a messenger arranged by the Wulin was mixed in. According to his secret letter, there are currently a large number of civilians in Lifeng City. Due to the shortage of food, the Wulin secretly spread rumors, which induces a large number of civilians to leave the city and flee north, so as to achieve the goal of weakening the tiger tribe.

He did it.

As of yesterday's statistics, as many as 600,000 civilians of the Tiger Tribe have flocked to Iron Jaw City. Most of them have passed the identity verification, and Bucks City has also urgently dispatched twice the number of ships to transport a large number of civilians, greatly alleviating the overall pressure on Iron Jaw City.

The task force and propaganda team played a huge role in appeaseing the emotions of these tiger civilians.

"Storytelling" was a great invention of the Regent. The propaganda wrote many stories: the rich man took a fancy to the beautiful wife of the poor and forced himself to occupy it; in order to exploit the poor, the landlord and old money hid in the chicken coop before dawn, pretended to be a chicken to deceive the long-term workers and got up to farm the fields; the black-hearted businessman opened the wooden scale pole and poured mercury into it, and made fraud during trading... These stories happened to the common people. Although the tribes were different, many people had personal experiences.

Of course, the story itself will not end with tragedy, and without exception, the poor end with the victory with wisdom. For example, the poor's beautiful wife disturbed the rich man's house and could not be peaceful without losing her virginity. In the end, she had to give up the idea of ​​dominating and attached a large amount of money; the landlord who learned to crow the chicken in the middle of the night was seen through by a long-time worker and beat him up in the name of "catching the thief" as a lesson; the scam of the black-hearted businessman was seen through and was cheated in turn.

Each story is divided into five paragraphs, each storytelling for one hour. These stories allow civilians of the tiger clan to have a brief understanding and understanding of the dragon clan, and thus develop a dependence and trust.

Small dramas are a common form of performance for propaganda teams. They are usually arranged in empty places with a large number of people. The curtain can be built with just a few pieces of wood. The props are also very simple. The soldiers will maintain order around them, and the audience will form a circle, which will attract thousands of people every time the performance is performed.

The drama is an extension of storytelling stories. The honest officials are the right side, and the opposition who does everything evil is either the royal relatives or the landlords and old wealth. The story revolves around the interests of the poor. All dramas end with evil people being punished and kind people being happy.

The tiger commoners were relished and resonated with each other. The working team struck while the iron was hot and promoted it in the middle of a square meter in the form of leaflets and slogans.

"His Highness Regent is the guide of all civilians."

"Only by following His Highness the Regent can you be happy forever."
Chapter completed!