Fight the Giants

  Chapter 500 Good News

  Patriarch Lu was stunned.

   "Relocation?" What is this?

Huo Xi explained their doubts: "You originally came from the Central Plains to avoid chaos, and there were many people like you back then. After disasters and wars in the Central Plains, there was no one left, and it became increasingly desolate. Now that the emperor intends to move the capital, he cannot look to the north. The land is vast and sparsely populated, and the fertile land is uncultivated. Over the past few years, people have been relocated to the north one after another, and hundreds of thousands of people have been relocated."

  Patriarch Lu and his family members looked at each other, and they couldn't even close their mouths in shock.

   “Is this forced relocation, or voluntary relocation?”

   "There are all of them. For example, in Shanxi and other places, there are few people and less land. It is clearly ordered that three people will get one, and five people will get two. But if the whole family should move, there will be certain benefits."

  Patriarch Lu endured the excitement in his heart: "Then, is there any benefit to relocating people? Will the government give them land?"

"Yes," Huo Xi nodded, "All the people who should be relocated will be resettled by the government. They will give them farmland, cattle and seeds, and there will be certain discounts for buying farm tools. Labor."

   "This, is this true?" Patriarch Lu stood up excitedly.

  Huo Xi nodded.

  Patriarch Lu spun around excitedly, his hands and feet trembled, and he couldn't even sit still.

  They originally fled here from the Central Plains, spent all their money, and the clansmen fell ill and died. Now the government is still giving them Sichuan tolls to let them go back?

   "My lord, do all prefectures and counties have such policies?"

   "No. It is mainly to move the rich households in the south of the Yangtze River, the population of Shaofu County, a densely populated place in Shanxi, Shandong and other places, to the north, and there are also some refugees from the mountains."

   "Then we are not in the scope of emigration. We are farmers, not exiles."

"There are four types of immigrants, repatriation, military settlements, commercial settlements, and civilian settlements. You can explain to the local government that you moved from the Central Plains, and now you want to return to the Central Plains. Not many, the north is vast and sparsely populated, and many people will be moved in. This is a government order, and you should be able to move back."

   "But the exodus of the local population is related to the achievements of the county and government officials. Will they agree to let us go?"

"Nowadays, the achievements of local governments are not comparable to national policies. The emperor wants to relocate people, and the prefectures and counties dare not disobey the decree. If the prefectures and counties are willing to move some skilled people to the north to fill the population in the north, it is estimated that the credit will be recorded. Last one."

"This is real?"

  Huo Xi nodded: "You can go to the local government to ask. Now Beiping is building palaces, and there is a shortage of craftsmen. If you have craftsmanship, the local government should be willing to let you go."

   "Okay, I'll send someone to ask about it!" Patriarch Lu couldn't sit still excitedly. Called his son and grandson to call someone.

  After a while, several elders in the village came to discuss matters in the rain. All of them shook their heads excitedly.

   "My lord, is this really the case? The government is willing to pay us the travel expenses for going out of Sichuan, and will give us farmland, cattle and seeds when we get there?"

   "There is such a policy. As for the situation in Shu, you still need to go to the government to ask."

   "Great, we're saved!"

  The members of the Lu clan couldn't sit still and insisted on going down the mountain in the rain.

  Huo Xi was afraid that they would not speak, and would offend the government, so he taught them some speaking skills. And let them bring some finished products made of wood and stone.

  So a dozen men, carrying the dry food collected by the clan and some stone and wood carvings on their backs, set off down the mountain. Patriarch Lu, supported by his grandson, looked at them on the mountainside, his face full of hope.

  Huo Nian pouted.

   "What's wrong?" Huo Xi poked him in the face.

   "Sister, you didn't even go to school, why do you know about these court affairs? But I don't know." Huo Nian thought about studying hard, learning skills, adding honor to the family, and protecting the family. But he himself seems pretty useless.

  Huo Xi held his hand to watch the rain under the eaves.

"Nian'er, look, when it rains, the mountains, trees, and houses outside are all covered by the rain, and no one is spared under the rain curtain. Although we can't get wet in the house, the way is blocked by the rain, right? "

   "Yes." Huo Nian looked up at his sister.

   "So sometimes, things that seem to have nothing to do with us, but we will be affected a lot when we are in it. Therefore, we are required to listen to six ways and see all directions, so as to take precautions early."

  Huo Nian seemed to understand but didn't understand.

"The matter of the court seems to have nothing to do with us, but in fact it has a lot to do with it. A policy, a personnel change, may affect the fate of our ordinary people. You see, if my sister doesn't know the decree of relocation, the Lu family will Trapped on this mountain, can’t you hear any news? So you need to listen more, read more, memorize more and learn more. Don’t just stare at the things in the books.”

   "Well, sister, Nian'er understands. Isn't it like the master said that reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles?"

"That's right. You see, if we hadn't come out this trip, you would never have imagined the life in the exile village from the sky to the ground. After seeing it, if you enter the officialdom in the future, you will know what to do for yourself." Officer, how do you do things? If you don’t come out, you won’t be able to see the thousands of miles of land and mountains, and you won’t be able to see the lives of different people in different places. Sometimes we look at the peace of the world, but it’s not.”

   "Sister, Nian'er understands."

  Huo Nian nodded to his sister with firm eyes. In the future, he will read more, listen more, learn more and memorize more.

   It rained for two days. Huo Xi and his party had no choice but to temporarily take refuge in Lujia Village.

  The day after entering Lujia Village, Qiansankunsi came back, bringing with him twenty taels of silver as a reward from the government.

  Huo Xi didn't want it, and gave it to Patriarch Lu. These bandits have caused a lot of damage in Lujia Village, and even killed several people, so it can be regarded as a supplement.

  The next day, the villagers who went to the government to inquire about the relocation also came back.

   brought good news.

   "Can we really move back to the Central Plains? Pay one dime for two taels of travel expenses? Half a dime for women, children and the elderly?"

   "Really will give us arable land, seeds, and tax-free taxes?"

  A dozen villagers who came back from the county nodded excitedly. They didn't dare to stop all the way, and rushed back overnight.

  Facing the patriarch, with tears in his eyes: "Patriarch, it's true! The county magistrate also said that he would give us a letter of recommendation, so that skilled people in our village can come to Beiping to find work!"

   "Great, great, our clan has a way out, a way out!"

   Regardless of the light rain still falling outside, the patriarch knelt down on the open ground with a plop, and bowed again and again. Blessed by the ancestors, this group of people can survive, and they can return to their hometowns!

  Thinking of the tragic death of their clansmen, some villagers burst into tears. Why don't you stay longer? They can return home, they have a way out.

  When the wind stopped and the rain stopped, Huo Xi and the others had to hurry.

  Patriarch Lu stopped her. Mysteriously opened the floor tiles in the house, and lifted out a pole seven or eight feet long, wrapped in layers. Open the layers of wrapping cloth, revealing a black wood silver gun.

Putting it in both hands, she handed it to Huo Xi: "Miss Huo saved my Lu clan, and there is no repayment. This is the black sandalwood silver gun passed down from my ancestors. I followed my ancestors and made countless military exploits. It has been handed down to the present, and the clan has already No one can restore the glory of the ancestors. In order to avoid dust, I present it to Miss Huo, hoping that it will restore the glory of the ancestors again."

  Huo Xi repeatedly declined: "I can't make it! This is something from your family, how can I want it!"

  (end of this chapter)