With his hands behind his back, he ate a melon, and the country's fortune soared.

Chapter 150: Shui Nanfeng, Lord of Yucheng

Erdan's eyes were dark blue, and he was staring at a place where seven or eight ragged men were gathered.

Qianqian followed its gaze and frowned.

Dahua has grasped the spear tightly, ready to attack at any time.

Only Li Huan greeted the Lin family army, "Come on, come on, Brother Liu, help me carry the ingredients. I will give you a snack today. In addition to the crayfish, I have also made a lot of new food. You can all try them when the time comes."

"Okay," said Brother Liu, a short but strong man who is now in charge of the dock construction. "Come on, come on, help Young Master Li."

He looked up and was about to greet the princess, but found that she was staring at the refugees.

Liu Da was a little nervous. He bowed to Qian Qian and said, "Princess," then turned to Da Hua, "Princess, those people are refugees from the Chu State who came here from the villages and towns around Kuncheng these days."

"Refugees from the Chu State?"

Qian Qian retracted his gaze and looked at Liu Da, "You just put people at the dock like this? Did you check their pulse? Did you teach them the Daxia Mandarin?"

Liu Da scratched his head. "Well, these people fainted from hunger at the dock yesterday, and were rescued by our people."

After many days of study, the Chu people who stopped working could understand the simple words of Daxia official language even though they could not speak it well.

Seeing that the princess was cold towards the refugees, he immediately became uneasy.

After all, they have relatives in the surrounding villages.

Moreover, there are many people who want to settle down in Qiankun Port, not Kuncheng.

There was no way. The taxes in Chu were too high now. After paying taxes, many families had little food left after a year's harvest.

The villages and towns around Kuncheng are unable to get enough food due to extremely high taxes, and many villages have not had any newborns for two years.

They had discussed it together and wanted to advise Her Royal Highness the Princess to accept the people from the surrounding villages and towns.

But now, seeing the princess's expression, the people working looked at each other and began to feel uneasy.

[Little Princess,] the system noticed the people's uneasiness and immediately reminded, [There are many people from the Chu State in the villages and towns around Kuncheng, Zhaocheng, and Wucheng who want to flee to Daxia.]

[The people on the dock originally wanted to discuss this with you. They are very sensitive to your current attitude towards the refugees.]

Qian Qian smiled, [What about those people? Are they really refugees?]

[Yes and no,] the system sighed, [They are all ordinary people from Yucheng. Oh, Yucheng is just fifty kilometers away from Zhaocheng.]

[After passing Yucheng, we reached the inland of Chu. ]

[Shui Nanfeng, the Lord of Yucheng, captured the families of those people and threatened them with their lives, forcing them to cause trouble at Kuncheng Wharf.]

[They hid a lot of muskets and explosives near the dock.]

Qian Qian narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "Tell me the location."

As the system spoke, Qian Qian asked the secret guards around him to go find it.

After a while, a pile of crudely made muskets and gunpowder were thrown at Erdan's feet.

"Tsk, tsk."

Erdan sneered twice with disdain, and Liu Da was almost scared silly.

Without waiting for Liu Da to plead guilty, Qian Qian looked at Da Hua and said, "Sister Hua, those eight people have explosives on them. Please help me think of a solution."

Dahua nodded and looked at the water tank beside the dock that provided drinking water for the people. At this time, the water tank was empty.

She picked up the water jar with both hands, went close to the beach and filled it with sea water, then looked at everyone with horror.

Blah, blah, blah...

After a few splashes of water, the refugees were drenched from head to toe by the sea water.

The girl put the water jar back to its original place and nodded to Liu Da, "Bring those people here and search them."

"Yes."

Liu Da looked serious and personally led people to bring the refugees over.

Looking at the skinny men in front of him with their hands tied behind their backs by Liu Da and others, Qian Qian sighed deeply.

She glanced around the dock and asked, "Who among you speaks the Daxia Mandarin better?"

A man raised his hand tremblingly, "I, I, I used to do business in Daxia."

Qian Qian nodded to the man and said, "Come here."

The man carefully moved to Qian Qian's side and asked, "What's your name?"

"I, I, grass, grass civilian Tong Si."

"Tong Si, please convey this to me," Qian Qian said in a childish but serious voice, "You guys."

Tong Si repeated it in Chu dialect.

Qian Qian waited for him to finish and continued, "I know that your family is in Shui Nanfeng's hands."

Tong Si looked at Qian Qian in shock, then repeated the story.

Upon hearing this, the refugees also raised their heads and looked at Qian Qian with tears in their eyes.

Qian Qian continued with a cold face, "I want to capture the city of Yu. If any of you are willing to provide information, I will forgive you for what happened."

After saying this, without waiting for Tong Si to repeat, Qian Qian gave Liu Da a look and walked aside.

"your Highness."

Liu Da bowed respectfully.

"Pass the order down. If there are refugees from the State of Chu who come to seek refuge in the future, they should all be taken in."

"Yes."

"But before entering the city, they must have their pulse checked by a doctor, take a medicinal bath, change into new clothes, and have the Daxia laws explained to them."

Liu Quan's eyes lit up, "Yes."

"Then, let the Chu people learn simple Daxia official language. After learning, they will be tested. Only after passing the test can they apply for household registration and distribute land."

"Yes."

Qian Qian tilted his head and thought for a moment, "Pass the order to General Lin Wuhui first, and let him fill in the gaps if there are any omissions."

"Yes."

Liu Quan immediately went down to make arrangements, and the refugees were taken into custody and locked up.

Qianqian glanced at the dock where they were still busy with their work with their heads down, gave Sister Hua a look, and Sister Hua also jumped onto Erdan's back.

After returning to the county government office, Qian Qian ordered the secret guards to place the Chu muskets and explosives in front of him.

[Tongzi, these things are really crude. ]

[Yes,] the system sighed, [after all, the technology is not good enough, it is good enough to have something like this.]

[Little princess, please don't try it. This thing can easily injure your arm.]

Qian Qian curled her lips, "No surprises, come here," she instructed while writing a note, "Send these things to Zhang Junmo."

After giving the note with the precautions to the secret guard, Qian Qian went to the kitchen to find Li Huan for food.

Shui Nanfeng was waiting on the city wall of Yucheng, holding a telescope.

In the biting cold wind, I waited and waited.

Until the sun rose the next day, he did not hear the explosion from Qiankun Port.

Instead, I heard a loud rumbling sound and the uniform sound of horse hooves.

He raised the telescope and looked down.

There was only a barren scorched earth covering the ground, and more than twenty huge catapults lined up in a row amid the billowing smoke.

Those trebuchets were clearly very large, but each one could be pulled by only two horses.

Following the catapult was a man in dark red armor riding on a horse. He slowly moved his eyes upwards and saw a huge word "林" on the scarlet banner.

Shui Nanfeng's eyes widened and his lips trembled uncontrollably, just as he turned around and wanted to run down the city wall.

Boom.

A loud noise came from above his head. He squatted down quickly with his hands on his head, "Someone, someone, take this city lord away."

boom.

The remaining words were drowned out by the deafening explosion.