Chapter 1046, Abduction

Ren Xiaosu didn’t plan to fight with anyone on this trip to the Central Plains, so he didn’t bring that many people with him.

Moreover, nowadays the Central Plains is the territory of the Wang Clan and the Zhou Clan, and it’s better for them Northwesterners to go to carry out the plan of the Great Northwest Renaissance to keep a low profile.

However, Big Lulu was still uneasy and insisted on following along to the Central Plains.

With the words of the big lulu, he is responsible for the entire northwest field people, have him follow, the marshal also get the first time intelligence well.

In fact, slowly everyone has discovered, perhaps the marshal and Wang Fugui, such as the deeper feelings of the elderly, but in the Northwest political affairs, the marshal beside the number two figure is definitely the big fool did not run.

On the one hand, the big fool is indeed very capable, for example, Wang Yun, Ji Zi Ang, such as suddenly came to the northwest of the Daxing characters are also his digging, intelligence work is even more stable and orderly.

On the other hand, this big fool is really too good at flattering, and so old, patting up the marshal’s ass to the face are not going to want, hold the thigh hugging is really too tight!

Before leaving, Ren Xiaosu and Wang Yue interest opened a small meeting, Wang Yue interest asked Ren Xiaosu to go to the Central Plains is why, now the Northwest needs someone to preside over the situation ah.

So Ren Xiaosu answered, said it is to solve the population problem.

This answer at that time to the Wang Yue interest to the said froze, in their view of the population problem today can only be solved with time, from the beginning of this year to encourage the birth of children, fifteen years, eighteen years will naturally have a larger population.

As for other ways to introduce talent, not they dare not think, is really can not be realized, Wang’s dead stuck in the junction to the northwest, simply will not let the northwest have this opportunity.

However, Wang Yuexiu now looked at Ren Xiaosu’s relaxed appearance, and suddenly realized that the other party already had a plan.

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At this time, a large number of refugees and stragglers were gathered outside of Zhou’s various barriers, the number exceeding everyone’s imagination.

In fact, Ren Xiaosu and Big Lulu also misunderstood Zhou Clan, in their opinion, it must be Zhou Clan’s inaction and chaotic internal struggles that led to the stragglers and refugees enduring starvation.

But in reality, it wasn’t that Zhou Clan didn’t want to take care of it, but that they really couldn’t!

The northern Kong Clan and the Fire Seed together have more than forty barriers, now there are already ten rooms and four empty, almost half of this number of people all fled south, some died on the road, but most people still arrived at Zhou Clan without any problems.

This number of people was definitely not something Zhou could afford.

Prior to this, Wang’s establishment of Barrier 61 to absorb the stragglers had led to many of Zhou’s factories being shut down and farmland being deserted, so Zhou itself was in a stage of green and yellow, which made it even more impossible for them to take care of the refugees’ lives and deaths.

Sometimes Zhou’s people wondered if Wang had already thought of this one-ring strategy when he announced the 61st Barrier to absorb the stragglers.

This was not a myth about Wang Shengzhi’s strategic ability, but everyone had dealt with Wang Shengzhi for more than ten years, and in the past, Wang Shengzhi had spent seven years laying out the sericulture industry, tricking a large number of stragglers into fleeing into the mountains to raise silkworms, and making the neighboring consortiums nauseous.

During that time, there were also food strategies, business strategies, and countless others.

Outwardly, Wang, Kong and Zhou clans are three-legged in the heart of the Central Plains, but in fact, Wang is the one with the strongest financial power and strength, or else he could not support his policy of universal military service.

This is a very different tactic from Qing Zhen, Qing Zhen is better at military planning for a rainy day, while Wang Shengzhi is the best at laying out from livelihood, industry, agriculture and commerce.

The two had completely different personalities, but both were undoubtedly the most headache-inducing existence for their opponents.

Ren Xiaosu silently looked at the refugees outside Zhou’s 69th barriers, originally he came over to abduct people on a whim, but as a result, when he really saw everything that the refugees were going through, he was also really a bit intolerant.

Refugees outside the barriers set up shacks, as a way to shelter from the wind and rain, they can only get a bowl of porridge from Zhou’s hands every day, so thin that you can not see the grain of rice porridge.

The trees around the barricade had all become bare, their bark gone, leaving only their white trunks. The leaves of the trees were also gone, as if spring had never come, and the scene was still the same as in winter.

Some refugees with a numb expression lying in their own shacks, beside the children crying hungry, but adults can not do anything, the neighborhood can eat things have been all eaten, some people even ate the wrong thing on the spot poisoning death.

Such a scene, like hell on earth.

Ren Xiaosu said seriously, “Daxing Northwest is their only way out!”

The great luminary nodded solemnly.

“Actually, Wang Shengzhi had the ability to stop all this from happening,” Big Snooze said, “According to the information I got, he could have quickly implemented a pacification policy so that the refugees wouldn’t have fled south so much, but the truth is that he didn’t do that, and instead sat back and watched as the refugees came to the south, destroying away all of Zhou’s material foundation. Zhou couldn’t feed so many people, and the civilians would soon turn into a chaotic population, at which point Zhou’s forces would need to expend a great deal of energy just to keep their factories and farmland. In this way, by the time Wang wants to move south, Zhou will have turned into a thousand holes.”

But the big luminary turned his thoughts and sighed, “We are also not in a position to blame Wang Shengzhi, the battle of the consortium is originally a battle of death, if the Northwest had faced the Zongs in the first place, it would have done nothing.”

“Well,” Ren Xiaosu said, “Instead of blaming Wang Shengzhi, why don’t we hurry up and take everyone with us to Daxing Northwest, the steam train has a total of 1,196 seats, but if all of them are standing, it won’t be much of a problem to fit five thousand people. According to the hourly speed of the steam train, it will only take us 23 hours to reach the northwest.”

Steam train, this was the reason why Ren Xiaosu wanted to personally travel to the Central Plains!

If it were anyone else, trying to take away so many refugees from under Wang’s nose would be tantamount to a fool’s errand, after all, these refugees were originally a part of Wang’s plan.

But Ren Xiaosu is different, he has the most efficient means of transportation in this wasteland era ……

When the big luminary talked about the difficulty of abducting people, Ren Xiaosu had already decided on this plan, after all, Wang Congyang could even engage in the courier escort business, so it made sense for him to run transportation.

“But how do we get these refugees to trust us?” Big Snooze said despondently, “I’m afraid they aren’t willing to follow us, right?”

However, Ren Xiaosu smiled wryly, “They’re all starving like this, give them food and they’ll be willing to go with you.”

Saying that, Ren Xiaosu actually took out a potato like a soccer ball from the storage space, “We were scheduled to arrive here yesterday, but I intentionally delayed the departure time for one day, just to let Zhou Yingxue prepare enough potatoes for me. With these potatoes in hand, are you still afraid that these refugees who are starving to the point of gnawing on tree bark won’t follow you?”