Chapter 1060: The Noble's Planning

Changle took them back to his slightly dilapidated small hut; compared to those currently under construction, this little house had absolutely nothing to compare with them.

However, Changle found paper and pen with practiced ease, then, using tiny regular script, quickly wrote: "Father, I have found a wife, she is the daughter of Chiyou of the Jiuli, I am about to set off for home, and an envoy from the Jiuli will come along."

Bingzhu and the others could not understand it at all; Ayuduo had been learning characters with Changle, but in just these few short days, how could she have learned much? She only recognized the characters for 'one', 'nine', and 'woman', and knew nothing of the rest.

Changle wrote several copies of the same letter, and only then was it finished; then Chai and the others brought the pigeons over, which could be said to be perfect timing. This time they no longer had to be sneaky, but could be open and aboveboard.

Even if someone on the road asked if these were being taken to be stewed for Changle to eat meat, Chai and the others would not nod, but instead say casually: "No, no, not for eating meat, they have other uses."

Changle tied the letter tubes to the pigeons, then took the pigeons out and released them one by one in front of everyone. The pigeons just flapped their wings and immediately flew off in the direction of Huaxia.

Matters in Huaxia had basically reached their end; Chengqie and the others had gradually adapted to life in Huaxia, and it was also their first time entering a school. Several Leaders had already been tortured in the Battalion until they were no longer human; among them, the short Leader had his hand directly amputated due to a festering wound and was sent to the Hospital for treatment.

All the people of the Suiren clan had been dispersed to various places, and at the same time, the labor models of each town had been transferred to teach those people the skills of clearing wasteland and farming, so that they could manage to clear the arable land within this year.

As for their dwellings, they could only live in simple Grass sheds for now; they currently had no ability to build earthen houses, nor did they have the time, and Huaxia had no manpower to build houses for them. For now, it was only promised that they would be given enough food and enough firewood for Winter, but as for houses, the shacks needed to be built temporarily by themselves first; only next year would there be time and energy to build houses for them.

This was not an empty promise; Huaxia had always been like this, and those people had already seen the tall houses of Huaxia and the extent of its wealth and strength, and were already thoroughly convinced by Huaxia, unwilling to leave here and return to the Suiren clan.

Even if Huaxia said it would take another two or three years to start building houses for them, they believed it and could wait; after all, Huaxia's houses were so good that it must take time. Without enough time, how could such good houses be built? Huaxia certainly would not lie, and could not lie.

In order to live in houses like those in Huaxia City and live the kind of life the Huaxia people lived, everyone told themselves, hypnotized themselves, that only through hard work could they obtain the good things of Huaxia. Huaxia's houses could not be had in a day or two, nor could they be built in a year or two.

Under such self-hypnosis of the spirit, among so many people, not one was willing to leave Huaxia and return to the Suiren clan. Even if you died on Huaxia's land, Huaxia could bury you in the earth and let you occupy a grave mound. As long as your grave was not leveled, then the amount of land your body occupied would always be yours. Was this possible in other places? There was not the slightest possibility. In the Suiren clan, they could see no hope.

In Huaxia, although they did not know how far away hope was, it always existed, and the grain had already been delivered, so they no longer worried about having no food to eat. Huaxia officials also brought strange things and gave every one of them a name; from now on, all of them had names and could address each other by name.

There were not many Iron farm tools because Huaxia did not have enough, so bone and stone farm tools appeared once again to let these people start turning the soil.

At the same time, Baifeng also had people forge more Iron Plowshares overnight so that they could have enough speed to clear the land.

Yishang and Zhu were thoroughly happy because their fiefs finally had people to clear them. The other Nobles looked on with extreme envy; day after day, those wastelands would turn into fertile fields.

Yet their own wastelands would remain wastelands. Ever since Baifeng agreed, they had immediately formulated their own fief policies, intending to attract others to live in and clear their fiefs, but their policies were very good, yet, no one was willing to go.

The people in Huaxia City were unwilling to give up their life in the city to live outside the city. Furthermore, once they heard it was a Noble's fief and not land allocated by Baifeng, they were even less willing. In their view, Noble land had no guarantees and was unreliable; it had to be given by Baifeng.

As for the people in other towns, after hearing this news, they did not have much of an idea. They already had enough land now; clearing land was something they would certainly do, but there was plenty of wasteland, so why must they go to the Noble's land? What benefits could there be? Could those policies be better than what Baifeng gave?

In reality, they were indeed better, but hardly anyone could understand them. They were illiterate and understood nothing of policy. Toward Baifeng, they had blind faith; toward the Nobles, they only maintained a certain level of trust. Between Baifeng and the Nobles, everyone unanimously chose Baifeng.

Those Nobles were at their wits' end; toward others' indifference, they had no solution at all. Under such circumstances, they could only think of one way, and that was to go to the Suiren clan to recruit people themselves.

Baifeng had said that as long as their policies were good and they had food, then they could send people to the Suiren clan themselves to persuade Baoxi and persuade those people of the Suiren clan; that was completely fine, and Baifeng would not make any obstruction.

However, one person was weak and alone; wanting to reach the Suiren clan safely without the protection of an army was almost impossible. Therefore, these Nobles held a meeting again to discuss the matter of recruiting people.

But before this meeting could even begin, some had already withdrawn. They believed that such a meeting truly did not consider Baifeng's authority and excessively consumed their own power; it seemed they gained immediate benefits, but in reality, they were damaging long-term interests.

As for Sanxin, he did not attend this meeting at all. Once Yishang and Zhu knew what was going on, they also left immediately because they did not need to; their own fiefs had already begun to be cleared, so naturally, there was no need to participate in such disputes.