Quick Transmigration: Survive to the End

"So many!" Fu Yuanzhou exclaimed in surprise, nodded in agreement, and turned to ask Yinyin, "Shall we go together in a few days?"

"You take some people to take a look tomorrow, I won't go," Yin Yin said. "We still need to figure out where to distribute all these people."

“There are hundreds of fellow villagers, and they can’t all be in one place. If one of them starts making trouble, the others won’t just stand by and watch.”

Upon hearing this, Fu Yuanzhou said, "Then I won't go either. I'll take the people from the Yangliao camp to wander around a few more times."

“It won’t make a difference to wait a little while,” Yin Yin laughed. “You should go and see how well the Changping Granary in Yangliao is being repaired.”

The Changping Granary in Yangliao was built after Yinyin took over. Every year, the grain belonging to the official land was dried and stored directly in the granary, and never flowed out. Even the taxes collected, after the portion sent to the capital was separated, were handled in the same way.

In addition, Yinyin often took advantage of the Chu family's merchant caravan to buy grain from other places. She would buy small amounts from each place each time, but she did so every year.

Several years passed in this way, and Yinyin not only filled three granaries, but also had to exchange old grain for new grain every year. Although old grain suffered from spoilage and its price was not as good as new grain, Yinyin never skimped on the subsidies.

Now that they know there are problems in the Song Kingdom, they will naturally stop selling this year's grain. But this alone is enough to ensure that the refugees in Yangliao have enough to eat all year round and live a peaceful life locally.

Fu Yuanzhou felt that staying here would be a hindrance, so after washing up, he decided not to change the date and went to visit several Changping warehouses in the afternoon. He was shocked by the storage inside the warehouses, and when he returned home, he kept praising Yinyin.

Yinyin didn't even look up when she heard this, and immediately told him to help with the task.

Fu Yuanzhou sat for a while, then came back to sit next to her: "Yinyin, what are your plans for settling these people?"

Yinyin stopped writing and flipped through the booklet on the table: "This part is intentionally left in Yangliao. I plan to assign it to a more remote village and let them reclaim the wasteland."

"They will stay and eat at the manor for the time being. Once the regulations are issued in the capital, if they are allowed to stay, the wasteland they have cleared will become their livelihood."

"The rest of them still yearn for the Song Dynasty and hope to return. Let them go and repair the road. During the repair work, Yang Liao will provide all their food and lodging."

“This is a good idea,” Fu Yuanzhou said. “They can focus their energy on farming and road construction, so they won’t have time to think about anything else, and we’re not afraid of them causing trouble.”

On the Yangliao side, everything was arranged according to Yinyin's plan. Any more refugees from the Song Kingdom were also dealt with in accordance with the same procedure, and the days went by without any disturbance.

When the emperor received the memorial, he happened to be in the Empress's Phoenix Palace. He saw the memorial and the letter to the Empress and said with a sigh, "They have only been gone for a short time, and they have already rushed to deliver this memorial."

The Empress calculated the time and urged the Emperor, "Even if it's a letter, this is too fast. Counting the days makes it seem like it was sent by express courier. Your Majesty, why don't you take a look first?"

The emperor then ordered someone to present the memorial, and the empress also opened the letter beside him.

The Empress glanced at it twice and then stopped, handing the remaining half to the Emperor: "These are for Your Majesty."

The emperor read it quickly, his face showing a mixture of deep thought and anger.

The Empress knew that his anger was not directed at Yin Yin and her husband, so she did not speak up for them.

The emperor immediately ordered the chief eunuch to summon the relevant officials to the palace. He himself hurriedly finished his meal and went ahead as well.

Hundreds of refugees preferred to flee to other countries rather than go to the capital of Song. There's a lot going on here. Ironically, the only ones who managed to send a message to the capital were the King and Queen of Yangliao, who had just returned to their fiefdom.

The emperor's instructions to Yang Liao came quickly: Yang Liao could keep this group of people if he wanted, or not send them back now if he didn't. He also instructed Yin Yin to send a letter to the Ming Kingdom to mention this matter.

"What is the Emperor planning? Why is he sending a letter to the Ming Kingdom?" Fu Yuanzhou said casually, then said to Yin Yin, "Our people said that the court has transferred a lot of troops to the area near the Song Kingdom's border."

Originally, Yin Yin sent people to investigate the Song border to check on the situation there, since there were already several hundred people in Yangliao, and there would definitely be more closer to the Song border. However, instead of finding out about the refugees, they learned about the army's deployment.

Yin Yin spread out the paper and wrote a letter, saying meaningfully, "The Ming and Li kingdoms are adjacent to the Song kingdom. If Your Majesty has any ideas, they cannot be accomplished without reaching an agreement with the Ming kingdom."

Fu Yuanzhou seemed to be deep in thought: "It seems that His Majesty has grand ambitions."

“We don’t know if it will work out yet. I’m just writing this letter to pave the way,” Yin Yin said. “They haven’t found out where those refugees went yet. These hundreds of people couldn’t have just dug a tunnel underground and crossed three cities to get to Yangliao without ever passing through there, could they?”

"They say there's some news, but they haven't found any evidence yet," Fu Yuanzhou glanced outside. "They say that local powerful families have acquired many capable people, but they don't know where they are."

Yinyin scoffed, "These people are quite bold."

If Yangliao had followed the example of those other cities and allowed the local powerful families to secretly hide their people, they would certainly have been fine. However, Fu Yuanzhou and Yinyin reported the matter to the emperor.

If the Li Kingdom ultimately gains nothing, that's fine. But if they do profit from it, the officials of those cities will be in deep trouble, and the powerful clans will be purged. Is privately harboring hundreds or thousands of unregistered people an attempt to rebel?

However, as an official stationed near a border city, he lacked even this basic political sensitivity, so it's no wonder he fell from grace.

Although the emperor gave new instructions, Yin Yin immediately suppressed them and did not tell anyone.

There are methods to retain people. If people in Yangliao still think about the Song Dynasty, it won't make much difference if you force them to stay. Only those who stay willingly will consider themselves true Yangliao people.

After holding several small meetings with Yangliao officials, Yinyin finalized the regulations. Although these refugees who had fled from Song were all unregistered, they could be registered as Yangliao citizens and own their own land if they met Yangliao's standards.

As soon as the news came out, not only the farming team who originally wanted to stay in Yangliao, but also some members of the road construction team who originally did not want to stay in Yangliao were tempted.

As for the rest of the people, Yin Yin is waiting for a spark.

When Shi Qiuliang, a king of a different surname from the Song state, sent his men to Yangliao to request an audience, Yinyin knew that this fire was about to ignite.