In the City Lord's Mansion, most of the local people with a bit of respectability gathered here, and each of them either sighed with a sad look on his face, or slapped the table with a blushing face and roared angrily.

The overall atmosphere was very tense.

"Why?"

"Why do we have to take responsibility for the troubles caused by these two major sects?"

"It's okay to resettle the refugees. It's a good deed after all, but even the compensation to the surrounding countries has to be shared equally by us. Does the Daqian royal family think that we won't resist and let them take advantage of it?"

"Crazy, crazy, really crazy!"

"All the foundation-building families will share a thousand low-grade spiritual stones among each family. Is this going to break our bones and suck out our marrow?

One thousand pieces of low-grade spiritual stones.

I will never use so many spiritual stones in my life."

"If you really piss us off, the worst we can do is move the whole family. In the past, it was for long-term development, so we didn't destructively mine some resources. If you really force us out, don't blame us for taking away the minerals in our hands."

Even the spiritual veins and the like were all taken away!"

"It's hard to leave my homeland..."

"He just bets that we will never leave our homeland, and that's why he is forcing us so hard. No, I won't give in, I won't give in!"

No one present was satisfied with the tasks assigned by the superiors. Almost everyone was complaining and venting their anger, and everyone had many thoughts in their hearts.

Some people want to leave the Daqian Dynasty directly.

Anyway, the Daqian Dynasty has lost the protection of the Ancestor of the God Transformation. Even if it recovers in the future, it will be nothing more than a mermaid. If their family has the Yuanying Master, they may still get some benefits by staying here, but they can't. It's just a small foundation-building family. Even if there are benefits, it won't be their turn. Instead, they will be forced to bear the disadvantages.

For example, this time the spiritual stones to be handed over are distributed.

That is, the tasks assigned to those large sects from above are assigned to large sects, and the tasks are assigned to large aristocratic families, and finally assigned to them. I am afraid that the tasks of some large sects and large aristocratic families have been assigned to them. , that’s why we have to hand over so many spiritual stones.

This kind of operation is the same as that of ordinary people.

On the surface, it is said that taxes will be increased for all, but in fact, the wealthy businessmen of the wealthy families have not increased at all, or even decreased a little. The increased taxes have all been distributed to the common people and small businessmen who are unable to resist.

These are the weakest foundation-building families.

Naturally, it became the lowest level.

It has become the existence that is assigned the most tasks.

"Okay, okay, everyone, please be quiet.

This is a task assigned by the higher-ups. I don’t even dare to add a spiritual stone to it. Now it can be regarded as a national crisis. Let’s all work together and stop complaining. I think you don’t want to see a big disaster. Let the Qian Dynasty collapse or something like that. Only when there is a country can there be a family.

A thousand low-grade spiritual stones are indeed a bit much, but I think you can still squeeze them out if you squeeze them.

You can squeeze out spiritual stones, but for the rest of you who only need to pay silver and grain, don't tell me that you can't squeeze them out.

Time is running out and the victims are coming soon.

Everyone, go back and seize the time to complete the tasks assigned to you and hand them over. By then, I will be able to complete the tasks here, and by the way, I will build houses and shanties for the victims nearby to accommodate the upcoming victims.

If you don't complete the evasion at this time, regardless of whether there will be any punishment from above, I'm afraid your reputation will be ruined for thousands of years. I hope everyone thinks clearly and don't make mistakes!"

The city lord shouldn't be too tough, saying that he must do it right away, so he can only make relatively tactful threats.

I hope everyone can consider their respective reputations.

However, the tasks assigned this time were indeed a bit taxing for each family, so everyone still complained a lot, and after the meeting, they did not go home individually, but gathered together again in small groups.

Negotiate privately whether they want to accept it or not.

If you don't accept it, how should you respond?

Should I be stubborn or just move away from here?

After several major families negotiated and discussed, they returned to their own homes, summoned the elders, and held another meeting to discuss. During this time, Ding Yun had already demonstrated his foundation-building skills and successfully became the supreme elder of the family.

Therefore, they are naturally qualified to participate in the meeting discussion.

Discussions come and go, but what everyone is most confused about is whether this allocation, or apportionment, is a one-time thing or will it continue. If it is a one-time thing, it will continue.

Then everyone gritted their teeth and accepted it.

It is better to break one's muscles than to start over. Going to other people's territory and grabbing resources from other foundation-building families will cost lives, and the losses will probably be even greater by then.

But if the problem cannot be solved by sharing this time, who can bear it a second or third time? It is really not easy for a small family like them to earn some spiritual stones.

In normal practice, I simply can’t bear to use spirit stones.

Only when they break through the realm, they are willing to use a few spirit stones. Most of the spirit stones they earn are kept and saved to prepare for buying the Foundation Establishment Pill.

After all, the foundation of the Foundation Establishment family lies in the Foundation Establishment monks.

Without the Foundation Establishment Pill, where would they get the Foundation Establishment Monk? This is their foundation. It would take them several years to save a thousand low-grade spiritual stones. The most important thing is that the Foundation Establishment Pill cannot be purchased anytime and anywhere.

This is a matter of luck. What if you are delayed in buying the Foundation Establishment Pill because you need to save a few more years because of the lack of these thousand low-grade spiritual stones.

At a small scale, it means missing an opportunity, but at a larger scale, it may make it difficult for the family to survive.

This is only one aspect of the problem. The other problem is that the drought caused by the death of the Drought Demon cannot be alleviated in one or two years. This means that half of the Daqian Kingdom will take three to five years, or even longer.

They will all look like dry soil.

The kind where not a blade of grass grows and no grain is harvested.

In this way, the victims who escaped from that land need to be fed. Half of the land is used to feed the entire country. Even if many people die, half of the land must be used to feed three-thirds of the country.

Two-fifths, or even four-fifths of the nation.

No matter how you think about it, you know it's very difficult.

Not to mention that the territory originally occupied by the Rising Sun Sect was the most fertile area in the Daqian Kingdom. The food output of the surviving areas could not match the food output of the destroyed territories even if doubled.

The land on their side of Beihai County is even more barren.

If we weren't close to the sea and could catch some seafood to replenish our supplies, people would probably starve to death every year, so it would be a big problem to ensure that the victims who came here didn't starve to death.

Who can bear to allocate half of the already poor rations to the victims, not to mention the increase in taxes, grain taxes and corvee.

It's just about driving people to death.

"Wonderful, the person who came up with this method is really smart. Originally, whether it was compensation or disaster relief, it should actually be the responsibility of the royal court, but now they have delegated this responsibility to others.

This is equivalent to shifting the contradiction.

It is true that some aristocratic families may resent the royal court by doing this, but they divert the conflicts of the victims away. If they don't do this, the victims will have troubles because they don't have enough to eat, and they will definitely resent the court.

With so many victims, millions or even tens of millions of rebels could be mobilized in a matter of minutes. It was terrifying.

But they divided the victims into various counties and cities.

First, it can prevent them from gathering in groups to rebel.

Secondly, it can also divert conflicts. Once those counties, states and cities fail to provide disaster relief and let the victims starve to death, the first reaction of those victims is probably not to resent the court, but to resent the officials and families of those counties and states, as well as those who

The common people were desperate and desperate.

At that time, the conflict will be between the local officials and their families and the victims, rather than the conflict between the court and the victims.

Regardless of local officials and aristocratic families, they are providing disaster relief and rescuing people.

Or don't provide disaster relief, just go on a killing spree or something like that.

The imperial court can take care of itself, and can even act as a referee and make decisions for the people for once!"

After listening to everyone's discussion, Ding Yun, who was sitting in one of the four seats at the top, couldn't help but sigh.

This is a clear plan, like extending a favor order.

It depends on the orthodox status of the imperial court.

When the imperial court still occupies the orthodox position, it is almost impeccable for the other party to do this. After all, the imperial court has issued an order. If you don't listen, you are disobeying the order. If you obey, you will have to bear the blame thrown by the imperial court.

After Ding Yun's analysis, the elders of the Liu family present could not help but be surprised. Although they did not understand the theory of primary contradictions and secondary contradictions, they could still understand Ding Yun's specific meaning and understand the situation.

"Then what should we do?

Is it possible that there is nothing we can do?"

"There is a way to provide disaster relief, and we will do our best to provide disaster relief. We just take this opportunity to expand our power. As for issues such as food and spiritual stones, you don't have to worry about it. I will solve the problem for the entire Jiyun City's victims.

It’s all borne by our Liu family!

If possible, it would be best for us to be responsible for the victims of the entire Beihai County, and even the entire Daqian Dynasty. It just so happens that what I lack the most in my next plan is people, so I’ll do it!"

Ding Yun didn't have any clear plans some time ago, and he wasn't very clear about how he would gain enough influence in the future, until today.

Hundreds of millions of disaster victims represent a huge amount of human resources.

The lands that were destroyed.

What a huge land resource.

Before this, it was absolutely difficult for her to obtain these people and these lands, but now, whether it is land or people, they are both burdens and encumbrances to the Daqian Dynasty, if anyone is willing to take them.

I think they would be happy to give it up.

And isn't this an opportunity for Ding Yun?

And in this way, she will not only gain influence that shakes the world, but also gain the gratitude of these people. Whatever she wants to do in the future, even founding a country, it will not be difficult.

The biggest difficulty is simply feeding these people.

But this is not difficult for Ding Yun.

Not to mention the various high-yield grains and even special grains in her soul space, the two techniques she practiced are not only very suitable for farming, but also very suitable for purifying the land that is almost destroyed today.

With enough people and land.
Chapter completed!