Richest Man: Divine-Grade Reconstruct System Chapter 1449 - 1241: Accept Them

Your Majesty, the refugees over there are getting more and more numerous. They’re all pouring in from various places—are we actually going to take these people in or not?

Most of them don’t have household registration; they all belong to outside powers, especially the ones from the Tubo side, those are increasing the fastest.

Hearing this, Lin Yi simply nodded. Take them in.

Leaving people like that over there isn’t safe either. Since they’re willing to come, we’ll accept them.

But we can’t let them mix in with our own people, can’t let them wander freely into our prefectures and counties.

We have to open up a brand-new city just for them. In this new city, we’ll have them all live there, let them settle down and sink roots.

Then, once they’ve all become compliant, integrated, and their thinking has been fully unified, we’ll start assigning them out to various places.

Of course, in the end they still won’t be allowed to cluster together; they must be dispersed.

It’s just that this has to be a gradual process; we can’t just do it bluntly all at once, or it’ll very likely have a bad influence on our own people.

As for your instructions, the men below carried them out very swiftly. Before long they had opened up a new prefecture in a fresh location, and the conditions for these people to join were very simple: if they wanted to be admitted, they first had to help build this prefecture, had to help build these houses.

Faced with such terms, those people had no complaints at all. After all, the conditions in Dayou are simply too generous; once they come here, they can actually eat their fill.

What’s more, they don’t have to worry about grain while building houses. Everyone can earn a lot of grain each day while they work.

Coming here has allowed each of them to find hope. After all, in their own country right now, they don’t even have the hope of staying alive; they can’t even get a single full meal. Once they reach this place, as long as they do some work, they can receive grain—why wouldn’t they be delighted to do that?

It’s something they hadn’t even dared to dream of before. People who were originally about to starve to death can now actually put away surplus grain; the reserves in their homes are steadily growing, the sacks holding their grain are getting fuller and fuller. This makes their eyes brim with hope, one and all.

As for how exactly they’re going to be resettled, that’s something they don’t care about in the slightest. As long as they can eat their fill, that’s enough. When news like this reached Lin Yi’s ears, it was entirely within his expectations.

"Now we can be said to have accepted them. But things can’t go on like this forever either. The Tubo side surely won’t be willing to let us do this; give it a little time and they’ll probably come looking to make trouble for us."

After hearing this report, the ministers at court also grew restless. One after another they came to find Lin Yi and poured out their concerns about the matter. Lin Yi, however, simply waved his hand, not caring in the least:

"They may want to make trouble, but do they even have the guts? Leaving aside the level of prosperity our Dayou enjoys now, just our current reserve of soldiers is beyond anything they can contend with.

If they dare say ’no’ to us, I’ll directly dispatch several million troops to press on their borders. That little Tubo—couldn’t I wipe it out with a snap of my fingers?

At this point, what their Sovereign is most worried about is probably when I’ll decide to march over and crush them.

Right now they can barely curry favor with us fast enough. It won’t be long before their envoys will surely arrive to present tribute to us."

[To be continued...]