Chapter Forty-Seven: There Are Too Many People Tie Xinyuan didn't go back to Qingxiang City with his mother, and now he wanted to see how crowded Hami City was.
It is true that there are more than a million people living in the city, but the city of Tokyo is more than ten times larger than Hami City.
After separating from his mother from the Red Mountain Pass, he hurried to Hami City.
When he came to the familiar rocky slope, he suddenly found that Hami City was gone.
In the beginning, the walls of Hami City were not very high, but now, the walls are tightly covered by shacks, rotten tents, and rotten cloth sheds as far as the eye can see.
The city wall is not so much a wall as it is a back wall that belongs to many people's homes.
The Hami River is also full of temporary shelters built by Uighur refugees, and it stretches more than ten miles downstream along the banks of the Hami River.
There were people everywhere, and the wind swept through Hami City, bringing a thick fishy stench that almost suffocated Tie Xinyuan.
At every turn, it seemed that Uighur refugees were trying to break through the blockade and flee into the interior of Hami, each time being driven back by cavalry roaming the periphery, and every time there was bloodshed.
Then, there was a cry of despair and helplessness......
With just a glance, Tie Xinyuan understood that with the strength of the Hami Kingdom, he was simply not capable of placing so many people.
He overestimated the affluence of the Uighurs, and one only had to look at the trees on either side of the road that had withered and died because their bark had been stripped off, and he knew that the Uighurs who had been left behind by the Ada were destitute!
That is, when these people fled from the Uighurs in a hurry, they had nothing but two shoulders and a head.
Before coming, Tie Xinyuan also complained that Ah Da was really a little pedantic, and when he was not there, he should quickly arrange these refugees to where they should go.
Bringing refugees together is the greatest danger.
Now it seems that Ah Da is not too careful, but he is already poor in donkey skills.
When people are hungry, they have to eat, this is an iron law, and no one can violate this natural law.
However, without food, what to eat?
Lowering the living standards of the people of Qingxiang Valley and Daxue Mountain City to help these outsiders who have fled?
It's simply not possible!
There is no reason to take the rations of his own people to feed some outsiders who don't know if they can stay in Hami.
Even if they did, that little food would not be enough for more than a million people.
The end result was that the whole country of Hami went hungry together.
Tie Xinyuan knocked on his head, and the scene in front of him was actually caused by himself.
The bold words that we will have as many people as there are still echoing in my ears, which I said to Ah Da when I left.
Well, now there are more than a million mouths waiting to be filled by himself, and Tie Xinyuan really doesn't know what to take to fill those more than one million mouths.
A few war horses climbed the rocky slope, but it was Huo'er and Ling'er.
They naturally knew the news of Tie Xinyuan's return for the first time, and the reason why they didn't go to greet them was because of the terrifying chaos of the homeless people in front of them.
"How many Uighurs are there around Hami?"
Tie Xinyuan jumped off the war horse and asked after finding a big stone and sitting down.
Huo'er smiled bitterly: "There are no less than 500,000 people in the city, and outside the city, we have never counted them clearly. ” "Did they all come from the Tianshan Road?"
Huo'er knew what Tie Xinyuan meant by asking, he wanted to know if Tianshan Road Pass didn't expect such trouble after too many people.
"There were less than 300,000 people coming from the Tianshan Road, and after Mr.
Da found that there were too many displaced people coming in, he immediately closed the Tianshan Road, and more Uighurs came from the direction of Shanshan.
They crossed the Great Plague Moraine (Kumta Desert) and came to Hami with their lives, thus disrupting our plans to slowly receive the Uighurs. ” Tie Xinyuan slammed his fist on the stone and roared, "Isn't there anything the furnace of hell can stop them?"
What did the Qarakhanid do in the Uighurs?
So that they would rather pass through a place like the Great Tribulation Ghost Moraine and come to Hami?
” Ling'er gritted her teeth and said: "The Qarakhanid march into the Uighurs this time is very suspicious, they don't seem to want these fellow tribesmen, I heard the Uighurs say that even if they surrender, they will not succeed, and the Qarakhanid army will kill everyone, which is very unreasonable."
The Uighurs who had recently arrived in Hami said that they had been forced into the Great Plague by the Qarakhanid army, and that if they did not enter, they would die. ” Tie Xinyuan didn't want to dwell on this issue too much, there were not many people who could do genocidal things, and Mu Xin was definitely one of them.
He has a lot of resources at his disposal, and both the Khorezmians and the emerging Seljuks have an obligation to help him maintain a holy war to the east.
Under the holy war, any reason will be overthrown, and the divine right is above all else.
"What are the Uighurs eating now?"
Huo'er laughed at this time, pointed to the homeless people under the rocky slope and said, "Eat yourself, more than a million people, we can't afford to raise them." ” Tie Xinyuan's heart froze, and he hurriedly asked, "How do you eat yourself?"
On my way here, I didn't see this statement in your papers. ” Huo'er bared his white teeth and smiled: "Hami City has become the largest slave trading place in the Western Regions, and those who have no food will sell themselves to slave traders. ” "Slave traders?"
Tie Xinyuan's eyes were about to fall out in surprise.
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"Yes, slave traders, actually, in Hami, not only do we lack manpower, but many tribes themselves also lack manpower, and there are many displaced people in Hami, so they come here with food and choose slaves for their tribes.
We are in Qingxiang City, and the people in Daxueshan City do the same, especially the samurai in the army, specially select the strong Uighurs who can farm the land to help them plant their own fields, anyway, the most worthless people here are people. ” Tie Xinyuan's beating heart finally eased, and the answer Huo'er gave was not the kind he thought in his heart.
"In that case, why are there so many displaced people here?"
"Mr.
Big is not allowed to buy hard people to pick fat and thin, if you want a strong slave, you must match an old and weak, otherwise they will pick out all the strong, and the remaining old and weak will only be a dead end.
Moreover, these people are now the property of my Hami, you are not there, Mr.
Big does not allow those slave owners to take people away, but let those who want to buy slaves must pay a certain amount of grain to raise the slaves first, otherwise they are not allowed to trade.
What if you have other uses?
” Tie Xinyuan snorted helplessly and said, "You treat the people here as a business?"
” Ling'er opened her mouth and said, "What else can you do if it's not business?"
At the beginning, Brother Qiao, Mr.
Big, and Tie Yi thought about using these people to settle fields by the Hami River, and even settled some of them.
When the Uighurs who came later found out about such a good thing, they also asked to participate in the tuntian.
However, this year, we have already resettled more than 100,000 Han Chinese from the Khitan, whether it is farm tools or cattle and horses, there is a serious shortage, in order to appease the resentment of the later Uighurs, we have to withdraw the tuntian order.
Strange to say, the first group of Uighurs now hated not the Qarakhanids, nor us who were not allowed to live in Hami, but the later Uighurs.
The group was now clearly divided into two factions, the Uighurs who came first and the Uighurs who came later.
If it weren't for the Uighurs who came first to help us maintain order in Hami, there might have been chaos here. ” Tie Xinyuan pointed to the huts on both sides of the Hami River and asked, "Who are you talking about?"
” Ling'er said with a smile: "That's right, their current situation is much better than that of the Uighurs in Hami City, they can fish, they can go to the mountains to dig wild vegetables, hunt, and even go to Qingxiang City, Daxue Mountain City, and Balikun Lake to help people, and it is not a problem to make a living."
Of course, those who can do these things are all people who have meritorious service to us Hami, and only by ensuring that these people are on our side wholeheartedly will they be treated with such and such preferential treatment. ” "I'm afraid it's a drop in the bucket."
Huo'er said indifferently: "This is also a helpless thing, many people die every day in Hami City, dead bodies can be seen everywhere on the streets, it doesn't matter when the weather is cold, now the weather is already very hot, if it weren't for the Uighurs sent every day to clean up the corpses, and transport a large amount of lime to the city every day, there would have been a plague here."
I can't blame us for being like this, they came here on their own. ” Tie Xinyuan shook his head and said, "If you want to speed up the solution of these displaced people, sooner or later there will be trouble when you gather together."
Ouyang Xiu and the others will arrive in Qingxiang City tomorrow, and the affairs of the displaced people can only be left to them, and in this regard, they are much more experienced than us. “ Tie Xinyuan got on the war horse as he spoke, looked down at Huo'er and Ling'er, and said: "Mr.
Big has arranged it well, and it has done a good job, and the effect can be seen, you hold on for a few more days, and when Ouyang Xiu and them come to Hami City with supplies, you have to cooperate with them to solve the problem here."
As for how to solve it, I don't care, I just look at the results. ” Huo'er stepped forward to tidy up the bridle of the war horse under Tie Xinyuan's crotch, and pointed to the Tianshan Mountain in the distance and said: "The Tianshan Road is now inextricably fighting, you are careful on the road, there are too many Uighurs, it is inevitable that some fish will slip through the net, and now that group of people have become robbers, we will rob everything we see, and we dare not leave." ” Tie Xinyuan smiled and nodded, and urged the horse to march towards Tianshan Road, he had seen the crisis in Hami City, but there was no good solution.
In fact, when there is not so much food on hand, no one has a good solution.
Fortunately, it is quite stable here for the time being, and once Ouyang Xiu and them arrive, no matter whether it is good or bad, things will always be resolved.
Tie Xinyuan is ready to accept the brutal consequences of starvation.
Nowadays, the battle on the Tianshan Road is the most important problem, and if the Tianshan Road is not defended, once the armed Uighurs on the Tianshan Road are allowed to enter Hami, the millions of Uighurs in Hami will definitely be shattered by the new Hami state.