Chapter 269: Intrigue and deception, no way to cause trouble
"Whoosh!"
Li Dingguo released the spiritual pigeon in his hand, checked the letter he had just received, and his face was calm.
This is the information Liang Liping sent back from the vicinity of Xiahezhaiqian.
The squadron led by Liang Liping was responsible for collecting and transferring refugees in the area around Nanlong Bay.
So far, the operation is going smoothly.
But the situation she encountered was almost exactly the same as that of Xiao Shitou's fleet.
"Humph!"
"I underestimated the ability of these big and small forces and local government to gather information."
"It must be that the general situation of the several battles we experienced on Lingshan Island has spread throughout the Jiaozhou area, causing all the big and small forces to panic and be frightened."
Li Dingguo was a little surprised and thought to himself, "In order to avoid conflict with our Fuxing Army, they simply gave up on using any means to obstruct them. In the process of collecting refugees, they even opened the city gates in various places, allowing our people to gather and guide a large number of refugees to various temporary resettlement sites."
"How afraid of death are these guys? They don't even bother to make trouble."
But no matter what, this is a good thing, and it can be regarded as good news of a good start.
These large and small forces and local governments chose to do this not only because they were afraid of attacks and retaliations from the Restoration Army, but there were deeper reasons.
They want to push all the refugees who are now scattered all over the Jiaozhou area to the new force of Lingshan Island.
In any era, a large number of refugees are constantly generated. If the scale becomes larger and larger, it will become a huge hidden danger for local governments.
Once instigated by some people, or if someone directly rises up in rebellion, it will undoubtedly cause great trouble to the local government.
If you are not careful, you may lose your official hat, or even your entire family may be implicated. This is normal.
The Ming Dynasty imposed extremely severe punishments on civil and military officials who lost cities and territories.
After losing cities and territories, most officials would at least be relieved of all their posts and return to their hometowns.
In more serious cases, the person will be convicted and beheaded, and even his family members may be implicated.
Today, the flood of refugees erupting everywhere in the land of Qi and Lu has caused the White Lotus Sect to stir again, causing local governments a lot of headaches.
At this time, a powerful force suddenly appeared on Lingshan Island, causing the Ye family of Fuqing, the Liaodong Tartars, and the white Hu people in Haojing to all suffer great losses. After learning the news, they were shocked and became more worried.
However, no one expected that this new Lingshan Island force was actually a young and inexperienced person who seemed to have no ambitions. Not only did it not land to capture the city, it even acted as a philanthropist, gathering a large number of refugees from the coastal areas without limit, and accepted everyone who came!
Regardless of whether the other party has so much money and food to consume, this is undoubtedly a great thing for the government in Jiaozhou area.
As long as these huge number of refugees, who were like oil boiling in a raging fire and about to explode, went to Lingshan Island, no matter whether they could survive or not, their departure would definitely be a great thing for the local government.
Therefore, local governments now not only did not stop the soldiers of the Fuxing Army from collecting refugees from all over Jiaozhou, but also opened the door wide and allowed the refugees within their jurisdiction to enter and leave.
This meant that within less than half a month of the start of the operation, the five squadrons of the Restoration Army had gathered more than one million refugees at various resettlement sites!
This great event kept more than 20,000 soldiers and tens of thousands of logistics personnel very busy.
Especially the craftsman camp, which already had more than 15,000 people, was busy on Lingshan Island all day long. In the coastal areas of Lingshan Island, they were building large farms and villages, and they were also carrying out large-scale water conservancy projects. They were busy from morning to night and could not stop at all.
As batches of refugees were sent back to Lingshan Island by various squadrons and after strict screening by the Ministry of Internal Affairs personnel, they were placed on construction sites one by one, immediately solving the problem of shortage of manpower.
The scene of hundreds of thousands of people working together appeared again on Lingshan Island.
Because there are sufficient manpower, various food supplies and labor tools, Lingshan Island is changing with each passing day, and obvious changes occur with each passing day.
Even large farms of tens of thousands of acres were rapidly increasing in number by hundreds, and the large number of refugees who continued to arrive were finally successfully settled. After being formally registered, they joined the Restoration Army.
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"Commander-in-chief, this time it turned out to be as expected."
In the meeting hall of the City Lord's Mansion on Lingshan Island, He Lijing was reporting to Li Dingguo, "With the help of three hundred three-tailed iron-backed magic wolves, we have conducted a comprehensive investigation of the refugees, who now number more than one million, and have not missed a single one."
"Over the past few days, we have arrested, interrogated, and eliminated more than 3,000 spies and people with bad intentions!" "Among these people, there are not only people from local government offices, wealthy families, gentry, and aristocratic families, but we have also discovered hundreds of spies from the White Lotus Sect!"
"I never thought that this anti-treason force, which has never stopped since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, would now target us."
"Before Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and Li Jiucheng rebelled, the White Lotus Sect, which had its roots in the land of Qi and Lu, had already raised its flag and rebelled the year before last."
"Although they were powerful, they were quickly suppressed by the government, and even their leader was killed."
"The person who sent the White Lotus sect members to infiltrate the refugees this time was the Saintess of the White Lotus sect who had just taken over the position of sect leader."
"She wants to work with us after understanding our background."
At this point, He Lijing's tone changed a little, and she said disdainfully, "Little did you know that you, the commander-in-chief, had already issued an order that all soldiers and civilians of our Renaissance Army are forbidden to believe in religion!"
"No matter which sect you belong to, you are not allowed to appear in the area under the jurisdiction of the Renaissance Army. Once discovered, you will be killed without mercy!"
"They don't know at all that what you hate most, Great Commander, are those who rely on deceiving the people, not doing their jobs, and relying on brainwashing to govern the people all day long."
"People like this who are incapable of achieving anything and always cause trouble cannot even be called decent scoundrels, but are pure scum and charlatans!"
"I have followed your instructions, Commander-in-Chief, and have executed all of these White Lotus members after conducting a severe interrogation, so that the sight of them will not make people feel sick and want to vomit."
Ever since her squadron's operation of collecting refugees got on track, Interior Minister He Lijing returned to Lingshan Island and fully initiated the work of identifying the refugees and checking for spies and people with ill intentions.
It has to be said that hundreds of three-tailed iron-backed magic wolf spirit beasts, led by the two fourth-level magic wolves, played a huge role with their extremely keen perception and sense of smell.
Especially the two fourth-level magic wolves. No cultivator below the fifth level could hide from their perception of malicious intent. They caught them accurately and easily captured all the spies and people with ill intentions without missing a single one.
With the Ministry of Internal Affairs personnel and hundreds of three-tailed iron-backed demon wolves working together, how could those spies, whose cultivation level was at most third-level warriors, resist?
Anyone who dared to resist was immediately beaten or captured, and could not escape.
Moreover, this is on Lingshan Island, the base of the Renaissance Army. Not only does it have strong defenses, but there is also a large formation to protect the island.
As long as you enter Lingshan Island, anyone who has not been marked with the entry and exit marks by Wang Qiang and Wan'er will not be able to escape from the island protection formation and can only surrender.
Even those treasure ships had to be personally marked with entry and exit marks on the core of the formation on the treasure ships by Li Dingguo, so that they could enter and exit Lingshan Island freely.
After injecting the mark of the island protection formation into the core of the formation on the treasure ship, there is another benefit: as long as people are on the treasure ship, they do not need to be marked with the formation mark of the island protection formation. The island protection formation will treat them as part of the treasure ship and can enter and exit the treasure ship with the formation mark.
This would save Li Dingguo a lot of trouble and would also greatly facilitate the future management of Lingshan Island.
After all, except for the combat soldiers and logistics soldiers of the Restoration Army, the rest of the people who entered Lingshan Island will basically not enter or leave Lingshan Island in the future.
They may have to live on this large island of tens of thousands of square kilometers for their entire lives, and there is no need for them to be marked by any formation mark of the island protection formation.
Not to mention the present era, even in Li Dingguo's previous life in the 21st century, more than 90 percent of ordinary people had never left the province where they grew up in their entire lives.
Lingshan Island is not small. It is even larger than Wanwan Island in the previous life. It is equivalent to a province in the 21st century in the previous life.
"Well, that's good."
After listening to He Lijing's report, Li Dingguo nodded and said, "We have just started the work of collecting and bringing in refugees. You in the Ministry of Internal Affairs must not let your guard down."
"Within this year, we must conduct multiple comprehensive inspections of all military and civilians on the island. Don't miss any enemy!"
"Since they dare to come in, they should not leave again."
"We, the Renaissance Army, are different from any other force in history. We will not leave any hidden dangers within!"
"We have too little time to develop. Only through this unconventional method can we ensure our rapid development momentum and prevent it from being interrupted by any external factors, so that we can quickly catch up with the major forces of all parties and eventually achieve comprehensive catch-up!"
"We will not play those games of back-and-forth with enemies from all sides, like playing house! If we don't take action, it's fine. But if we do, we must aim to destroy the enemy and try not to give any enemy a chance to rise again."
"We are still in a period of patience. Let the enemies on all sides be proud for a while. In a few years, our Renaissance Army will conduct a major reckoning on them. All hostile forces will not be able to escape this disaster!"
"If you don't kill the snake, you will get bitten. This is an eternal truth."
Li Dingguo is not a good man. He only knows one way to deal with any enemy: kill them directly and eradicate the roots!
(End of this chapter)
