However, it is said that after the eighth and ninth batches of immigration teams are settled, the five-way defense zone under Jinhai Town, whether it is an island or an area on land that is easy to reclaim wasteland and cultivate, has basically completed the immigration arrangements.

However, there are still as many as 3,300 households waiting for quarantine on Tuoji Island, Daqin Island and North and South Chenghuang Islands.

Considering the current reception and resettlement capacity of Jinhai Town, after the ninth batch of immigrants had been resettled in mid-May, Yang Zhen had to temporarily suspend the immigration operation under the strong suggestions of Zhang Degui, Shen Zhixiang, Qiu Zhenhai and others.

After two consecutive months of large-scale cross-sea immigration, Jinhai Town's various jurisdictions have successively received the population of forty-six villages.

Forty-six villages are a total of 13,800 households.

Among them, there are 55,200 people who are over twelve years old and can receive land.

Such a huge population with no means of livelihood suddenly entered all roads in Jinhai Town in just two months, putting severe pressure on the generals from food supply shortages.

In addition, there are 3,300 households waiting for resettlement across the sea in the isolation and quarantine areas of Daqin Island and North and South Chenghuang Islands on Tuoji Island, as well as 600 households under quarantine and observation in Dengzhou Shuicheng waiting to go to the island.

They also need the Assistant Camp Office of Jinhae Town Hall to provide them with food and rations.

As a result, no matter how sufficient Jinhai Town's previous food reserves were, they would never be able to support such large-scale expenditures.

Zhang Degui, who also serves as the general manager of the Assistant Camp Affairs Office of Jinhai General Town Government, saw the money and supplies gained through repeated battles and the hard-earned money and supplies flowing out like running water. He looked at the buildings in Lushun City and Lushun Port that were originally filled with food.

The warehouse was gradually being emptied, and he felt very distressed.

So he once again persuaded Qiu Zhenhai and Xiangping Bo Shen Zhixiang, and the three of them jointly advised Yang Zhen, hoping that Yang Zhen would control the number of immigrants and postpone the immigration process.

In addition to the reason that Jinhai Town's grain reserves are rapidly decreasing, Zhang Degui, Shen Zhixiang, and Qiu Zhenhai also gave many other reasons.

The most important among them is that since the beginning of the resettlement operation, Yuan Jin's West Route Navy, Qiu Zhenhai's South Route Navy, and Yu Liangtai's East Route Navy, which is now different from the past, have almost all been busy with immigration transportation and resettlement matters, occupying their

Almost all capacity.

The iron materials, nitrate, sulfur, various ores and other materials needed by the iron works and ammunition factories in the northern city of Lushun are about to be exhausted, but they cannot be replenished in time.

Yang Zhen assigned many production tasks to the Beicheng Iron Works and the Ammunition Factory. However, once the raw materials are exhausted and cannot be replenished, it will be difficult to complete these tasks with quality and quantity.

Faced with these problems, Yang Zhen had to take Zhang Degui's suggestions seriously.

At the same time, after mid-May, the work of Chen Shunong and others in the nursery camp was already fruitful.

Under the day and night care of more than 300 people, the growth of sweet potato seedlings and vines in Longhe Nursery far exceeded the expectations of Chen Shunong and other seed potato masters from Fujian.

They originally thought that Liaodong has a relatively dry and cold climate. They thought that sweet potatoes would grow more slowly in Liaodong, which has a relatively dry and cold climate, and that the seedling cultivation period might take longer than in Fujian.

However, after late April, especially after May, the climate in Lushunkou is not dry or cold at all. Its warm and humid climate, even slightly hot and humid, is completely suitable for the growth of sweet potatoes.

In mid-April, sweet potato seeds were sown on the seedbeds of the nursery camp that were burned and plowed in an emergency. After entering late April, they began to break through the soil and germinate.

By mid-May, the green sweet potato vines were growing vigorously and lushly on the sweet potato beds at Longhe Nursery Camp. It was time to cut the vines and transplant them elsewhere.

At this time, in order not to miss the transplanting season, Yang Zhen also needed to mobilize a large fleet to sail from Lushun Port and distribute the sweet potato vines that needed to be transplanted to the villages in various jurisdictions as soon as possible.

A combination of various reasons forced Yang Zhen to send Shen Yongzhong across the sea with his letters on May 21, the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, and went to Tuoji Island to convey an order to Fang Guangchen and Li Ji, telling them to suspend

Continue to accept refugees from Dengzhou Prefecture.

He also asked Shen Yongzhong to stop at Tuoji Island, go straight to Dengzhou Prefecture, and send a letter to Yuan Shu, the prefect of Dengzhou, and his staff Yue Qijie, asking them to learn from their own Jinhai Town and reclaim wasteland and farmland to resettle the refugees in Dengzhou Prefecture.

Promise them that Jinhae Town will restart immigration affairs in September.

Yang Zhen's idea is of course a good one.

Let Yuan Shu and Yue Qijie use the power of the Dengzhou Prefecture to resettle the refugees on the spot to reclaim wasteland and farmland. On the one hand, they can stabilize the refugees and avoid causing chaos. On the other hand, they can also cultivate and help themselves and relieve the resettlement pressure on Jinhai Town.

At the same time, Dengzhou Prefecture can also take this opportunity to select strong men and form them into a group of village warriors to train and enhance their own strength.

However, when Shen Yongzhong arrived at Tuoji Island in the afternoon of that day, he met Fang Guangchen and Li Ji on the pier who were hurriedly arranging the boat.

Shen Yongzhong was looking for the two of them to convey Yang Zhen's latest order. When he saw them, he was overjoyed and hurriedly stepped forward to greet them.

"Fang Consultation, Li Dusi, the Governor has a letter and asked me to forward it to you two. He also asked me to continue south to Dengzhou Fucheng to meet with Yuan Shu, Magistrate Yuan, regarding our recruitment of immigrants. The Governor would like to express his gratitude and delay for a while!

"

Shen Yongzhong explained his intention when he came up. Although he did not directly say that it was Yang Zhen's order, Yang Zhen asked him to bring a message, so it was naturally an order.

Shen Yongzhong personally did not approve or disapprove of the number of immigrants to be recruited, and he never considered these issues.

When Yang Zhen had something to do for him, he would do it. When there was nothing for him to do, he had to hide and relax.

For him, as long as nothing happens to him and he keeps waiting, sooner or later there will be a Spylord from Xiangping County waiting for him, and he doesn't have to be like others, working so hard every day through life and death.

But he knew that this emigration from Dengzhou was a step forward for Fang Guangchen, Li Ji and others, and they must be very concerned about it.

However, what surprised him was that after he told the actual news he had brought, Fang Guangchen and Li Ji were suddenly stunned for a moment, and then they let out a sigh of relief and looked at each other and laughed.

Not only did he not show any confusion or displeasure, but he seemed to be waiting for the news after a severe drought.

The performance of Fang Guangchen and Li Ji made Shen Yongzhong confused on the spot.

"It's true that auspicious people have their own heavenly appearance, and auspicious people have their own heavenly appearance!"

Fang Guangchen hurriedly read Yang Zhen's letter handed to him by Shen Yongzhong, handed it to Li Ji, and said this at the same time.

"Brother Shen, do you know why Brother Li Ji and I are so anxious that we have to go to sea separately before the time has passed?"

Fang Guangchen breathed a long sigh of relief again, then stroked the beard on his chin and looked at Shen Yongzhong. Without waiting for Shen Yongzhong's answer, he asked and answered his own question:

"Something happened in Dengzhou Prefecture. From yesterday to this morning, a group of refugees from Hejian Prefecture fell ill and died suddenly outside Dengzhou Prefecture.

"It is said that the onset of illness and death were severe and rapid. The patient vomited blood like watermelon water and died immediately after vomiting. Judging from the symptoms of the patient, this is what the governor called the Great Plague!"

Speaking of this, Fang Guangchen took a breath with lingering fear, and then continued: "Fortunately, the governor is wise and has already prepared a way to deal with isolation. Otherwise, once the immigration team is introduced and enters Jinhai Town, it will be a big deal!"

"Yes, thanks to the Governor's wiseness, now that I think back to the Governor's original design, it is really a stroke of genius. It is indeed a lucky person who has his own destiny!"

After Fang Guangchen finished what he said, Li Ji next to him also echoed, and his words were filled with some kind of relief and joy.

But what Fang Guangchen and the others said made Shen Yongzhong a little confused, and he couldn't turn around for a while.

He only returned to Lushunkou from the south with his fleet in mid-April, and then headed north to the Jinzhou Shipyard within two days, without participating in the immigration affairs.

Therefore, he did not know about the plague problem that Yang Zhen originally told Yue Qijie, Fang Guangchen, Zhang Degui, Li Ji and others.

At this time, after listening to what Fang Guangchen and Li Ji said, he was just stunned, and then asked: "Then, how should I handle the matter where the governor asked me to go to Dengzhou City to deliver a letter?"

Seeing Shen Yongzhong's behavior, Fang Guangchen knew that he did not know the seriousness of the plague. He shook his head and smiled bitterly and said to him:

"What did the governor ask you to do in Dengzhou City?"

"One is to deliver a letter from the Governor to Magistrate Yuan, and the other is to inform Magistrate Yuan and Mr. Yue Qijieyue that Jinhai Town will suspend immigration matters."

"Haha, in that case, Brother Shen, you don't have to take the risk. Moreover, I have sent an order to temporarily prohibit all ships from Dengzhou Shuicheng and Dengzhou Prefecture from entering the sea from the north. We also prohibit all our ships from leaving the port and heading south."

After listening to what Shen Yongzhong said, Fang Guangchen knew that it was not an urgent matter, but that Yang Zhen wanted to explain the reasons for suspending immigration to Yuan Shu and Yue Qijie.

Fang Guangchen already knew the reasons for suspending immigration from Yang Zhen's letter to him.

However, does Jinhai Town still need a reason for its decision to suspend immigration? Does it still need to be explained to Yuan Shu and others?

No need at all.

"Moreover, Mr. Yue Qijieyue also sent someone to deliver a message. At present, the city of Dengzhou has been sealed off according to the response method that Governor Yang previously told them. Not only are the four gates tightly closed, only exit is allowed, but no entry is allowed, and the people in the city are also

The doors are closed and no one is allowed to come and go, so it's useless even if you go."

"Lose the city?! - Then, Fang Consultation, how should this matter be handled?"

The news that Fang Guangchen said about the closure of Dengzhou's capital city directly shocked Shen Yongzhong and made him suddenly realize the seriousness of the plague problem.

"Haha, you can leave the letter written by the Governor to Magistrate Yuan to me, and I will find another time to send someone to Dengzhou City. As for you, if you are too tired after a day trip, you can rest here overnight and return to Lushunkou tomorrow morning.

"

Fang Guangchen said while thinking: "Li Dusi, I, and Lieutenant General Wu of the Wu Chaozuo Camp in Lushun Prison had already agreed that I would go back to Lushunkou, Li Dusi would go to Daqin Island and Chenghuang Island, and Lieutenant General Wu would stay at Tuoji Island.

Isolation camp.

"But now, since you are here, and the governor has decided to suspend immigration, there is no need for me to rush back to Lushunkou urgently.
Chapter completed!