The demon world I designed.

Chapter 1141 Southern Barbarians
Nanman has actually been having a hard time lately.

Ever since Southeast County was cut off by Chen Qing, all the southern barbarian tribes that had once cooperated with the imperial court were cut off in the southeast. As Jiangnan became increasingly powerful, the Tiannan Pass in Southeast County became even more difficult to capture than when the Flying Dragon Army was there.

However, the poisonous insect miasma inside the Nanman will become extremely deadly when the spiritual energy soars. Most insect medicines have a low upper limit, but in the case of early mutation, they are very deadly to ordinary people.

In this year when spiritual energy soared, the population of the entire Nanman was almost wiped out by two-thirds!
Most of them died from attacks by various poisonous insects. The terrifying carnivorous insects in the fog are the nightmare of many residents these days, but they can't escape them.

After all, people need to eat, even those barbarians who have grown to the extraordinary level need a lot of food to be supplied, so how to supply food? It is impossible to rely entirely on hunting, right?
Humans are omnivorous animals, and nobles need food diversity even more. Fields must be planted, and those who plant the fields must be ordinary farmers.

It is very difficult to fully protect farmers outside the city. In order to catch up with farm work, farmers have to live outside the city, and their safety is far from guaranteed. This is also the reason why the population is decreasing now. Although carnivorous insects are not very smart, they also know to avoid difficult-to-conquer cities and choose those farmers who are left alone.

Even with soldiers stationed there, safety cannot be completely guaranteed.

This also led to a large number of lower-class people fleeing.

At this time, the situation inside Southeast Pass was the most troublesome.

"Boss, there are more and more people here recently, let's..."

After the Southeast Pass had a new gate god and with the rush of work by the Engineering Academy, the gate there is now more than a hundred feet high. With the blessing of the gate god and the powerful formation, now let alone those southern barbarians, even if the imperial army arrived here, they would not dare to say that they could capture the pass, even though there are only less than 10,000 soldiers at the pass.

The general who stayed in the southeast was from one of the affiliated families of the Tian family. His surname was Bai and his head was Bai Lie. His current rank was that of a deputy general of an army. The commander of the southeast pass received additional subsidies and commanded an army independently. In addition, the emperor was far away, so it was considered a good job.

Of course, it was just good. Compared with those soldiers in the West Sea near the imperial palace and maritime trade, their treatment was definitely much worse. However, such a good position was naturally not something that a family of average status like the Bai family could get. So Bai Lie thought it through at the beginning and simply withdrew from the fiercely competitive West Sea army. It was also good to guard the Southeast Pass.

This position does not have much casualties in battle, there is not much work to do on weekdays, and the treatment is okay, neither better than the best nor worse than the worst. He has recently received a rest. The most powerful deputy generals at the beginning are basically dead, and it is said that there was another rebellion recently. Those affiliated families that were once higher in status than himself have been split up one by one, and their leaders have been captured. It is estimated that they will have difficulty even in the underworld.

Thinking of this, Bai Lie couldn't help but be glad of his choice. He had seen a few years ago that those old friends had long lost their minds in pursuit of profit, and were becoming more and more arrogant and domineering. Sooner or later, something would happen. Now it seemed that this was indeed the case.

However, he also had a lot of troubles here, but no big troubles. After all, the emperor was far away and the interpersonal relationships were simple. The small county magistrate in charge of the southeastern border city was easy to get along with. Although Shen Shiyi from the underworld was a little arrogant, he was actually not a bad person at heart. As long as he was a little accommodating to him on weekdays, many things could be discussed. At least the treatment of soldiers killed in battle in the underworld was always generous.

The biggest trouble is what my subordinates are reporting now.

Bai Lie frowned as he looked at the dense crowds of southern barbarian refugees outside the city gate.

It is said that these refugees were forced out by the southern barbarian countries and had no way to survive. It is said that many people were forced to farm outside the city, which made their survival impossible. Many people died. It is said that billions of people died in the southern barbarians last year.

This number was comparable to the great disaster in the north that year, and it really scared him.

Those who were able to escape with their children from the valley filled with all kinds of miasma and poisonous insects and demons were considered to be relatively lucky. When they reached the city, they had some hope of survival.

Every time a demon approaches, the magic circle will automatically activate. The poisonous insects are very sensitive and dare not approach the area covered by the gate god, which also gives the group of southern barbarians a place to breathe. I don't know who leaked the news that this place is safe, and more and more southern barbarians fled here. Over time, the people piled up at the city gate are almost enough to build a city by themselves, with almost more than a million people.

It’s so crowded that it gives him a headache just looking at it!
The key is Shen Shiyi, a child who looks arrogant but is actually a bit compassionate.

It would be very troublesome if such children had relatively great rights.

He had asked himself and others to supply food to the people below more than once.

It was fine at the beginning, but now there are millions of refugees. How can they be supported by supplies? Either build a town or recruit them. But how dare they recruit such a group of southern barbarians?

What if there are some spies in there? Who will be responsible if something goes wrong?
I want to work in this position until retirement, but I don't want to get into any trouble.

But if I were to refuse, not only would I offend Shen Shiyi, but the women, children and kids below really looked pitiful.

He had also followed Marshal Tian to seek refuge in Jiangnan with his family. After the family moved here, he was still very nervous. He was different from the first group of people who moved to Jiangnan. He came here after Tian Heng sought refuge in Jiangnan and sent him a pigeon letter. He secretly brought his family here. That was a serious crime that would result in the execution of nine generations of the clan. He didn't know how long he was blamed by his wife, children and parents at the beginning.

Now that I have finally had a few years of good life, my wife, children and parents are becoming more and more satisfied with my original decision, so I can't make any trouble.

But looking at the children below whose faces were pale from hunger, he couldn't help but think of his daughter when he was fleeing.

In order not to attract the attention of the imperial court, he dared not bring military rations. His poor daughter had been hungry for more than ten days, and had only a little grass roots and clean water to survive every day. Her pitiful appearance was exactly the same as those children below.

Now if you take a closer look, those southern barbarians and the people from the Central Plains actually look pretty much the same. It is said that they all had the same ancestor. It is really hard to bear to see so many children starving to death outside the city.

Not to mention himself, even the soldiers under him often couldn't stand it and secretly used their own military rations to help the people below.

"Boss, I would like to ask you to let the person in?" one of the lieutenants asked cautiously.

"Are you crazy?" Bai Lie glared at him and said, "Will you be responsible if something goes wrong?"

"Actually, there's no need to be too cautious. These starving guys are just skin and bones. How could there be any powerful people hiding there?"

Bai Lie hesitated when he heard this. As a warrior, he knew very well that the more powerful a person is, the higher his requirements for food. For example, even if he was eating meat specially supplied by Daqing Mountain, it would start from 100 kilograms a day. Many of the people below had been staying at the city gate for a year. It was impossible for a warrior to survive a year of malnutrition.

"Boss," another deputy general suggested, "If you're still worried, how about we only let women and children into the city?"

"This..." Bai Lie was really moved this time, and finally said: "I'll ask the higher-ups for instructions."

(End of this chapter)