The Emperor is Above

Chapter 438 Dragon Vulture Air Transport
Qing Yi glanced at Xizi who was feeling anxious.

After a moment's silence, he nodded and said with a smile: "It is a good thing to accept the thank-you gift from others, which means that what you have done is recognized by the people of this country.

I will send another batch of horse-drawn harvesters later, and they will help the people in these pavilions to harvest their crops in the autumn. It will be a good thing to do this way.

As for the cattle and sheep they sent, they can be left to graze around the camp. Dragon City is surrounded by mountains and forests, and the flat land is extremely limited, so there is no place to accommodate these cattle and sheep."

"Hehe, Mu Tou said before that I shouldn't accept thank-you gifts, but it's not good to refuse a sincere gift, and I think it's more conducive to maintaining a good relationship."

Xizi was recognized by Qingyi, and smiled even more happily, "I remember what you said before, Xiaoyi, that if you do a favor, you should repay it. If you do a favor without repaying it, you will be ungrateful."

This was indeed the idea that Qing Yi had instilled in him. Even Confucius praised Zilu for accepting the cow, and criticized Zigong's mistake of redeeming people.

"As long as Xiao Yi-ge approves, that's good!"

Huaimu, who was of a dull character, didn't care about Xizi's boasting, and said in a muffled voice: "Brother Xiaoyi, there are thousands of Chinese people in the camp now, all of whom were instigated by the group of rangers under Shiludan.

Originally I wanted to take them directly to the Longcheng burial mound, but now that the Hutiao River has melted, it is impossible to go upstream. Do they need to be temporarily settled in the camp to reclaim the land?

Yesterday I made a special trip to visit the Yangwu City Guardian, Doctor Tian Bin, and he had no objection to us reclaiming wasteland here, saying that it would be fine as long as we paid the taxes in full. "

Xizi also added: "Brother Xiaoyi, there are ready-made ships in Yangwu City. We can hire ships to carry people upstream to Feixiong Bay, but we can't go north by ship.

The boatman I asked had ancestors who had traveled this waterway. In the Tiger Leaping River from Feixiong Bay, the ice and snow in Yunling melt in spring and summer and the water is turbulent, so it is easy for boats to get into trouble when going upstream.

Listening to Huaimu and Xizi's stories, Qing Yi not only did not have any worries, but smiled with more satisfaction:

"It seems that Shi Ludan has done a good job in his recent mission. In just two months, he has mobilized thousands of people from surrounding cities to migrate.

You see, after the autumn harvest, there will be more people coming here to seek refuge. If the camp needs manpower, just select some of them to stay.

Huaimu, the discussion you had with Doctor Tian Bin can also be implemented. Leaving some of the people behind to cultivate the land and graze the livestock locally will require manpower.

I will bring all the remaining people back to Longcheng. You don't have to worry about how to get back. I have arranged it before I left Longcheng.

We will discuss the arrangements in Yangwu City tonight, and I will take everyone back to Fengtu early tomorrow morning. I think we will still be able to go back in time for lunch."

"Ah? We can reach the Dragon City burial ground by noon tomorrow?"

Huaimu looked at Qingyi with the eyes of a mental patient, opened his mouth slightly, and said in a surprised tone, "Brother Xiaoyi, I'm afraid you are wrong? Yangwu City is more than 800 miles away from Longcheng!
Even if we use a sled in winter and travel 300 miles a day, it will take at least three days to reach Longcheng Mound from Yangwu City."

"That's right, Xiao Yi brother!"

Xizi also scratched his head and said in confusion, "Even if the main road to the city is extremely flat, ordinary vehicles can only travel 180 miles a day at most. The dirt road from Yangwu City to Longcheng Fengtu is very difficult to travel."

Faced with the confusion of the two friends, Qing Yi did not explain further, but smiled mysteriously and said: "You will know what happened tomorrow."

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The next morning, as the sun rose, there were cries of surprise from inside and outside the camp:
"Hey, why is there a red cloud in the sky?"

"Ah! Those are not red clouds, they are a group of big red birds!"

"Oh no! That must be a vicious bird that flew out from Yunling. Find a place to hide quickly."

Fortunately, when Qing Yi appeared, Liu Yi and the old clan leader had calmed down the panic: "Don't panic, everyone. This is the Great Wilderness Dragon Eagle arranged by the Lord!"

With the Jiliu tribe of over a thousand people leading the way, more than 5,000 people were skeptical. Anyway, it should be too late to run away when the situation is not right.

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The overwhelming number of wild dragon eagles flew over, not only frightening the common people and the Jiliu tribe, but also causing the constant sound of horns in Yangwu City several miles away.

As one wild dragon eagle after another landed outside the camp, all the doubts in everyone's mind disappeared, and the only thing in their hearts was admiration and praise for these big birds.

There are a total of thirty-five Great Wilderness Dragon Vultures, each with a wingspan of at least fifteen meters. Especially the four elder Dragon Vultures, after being promoted to second-grade ferocious birds, their wingspans have reached more than twenty meters.

Even after landing with its wings folded, the fiery red feathers and the strange fire burning at the tips of the feathers were enough to make people terrified if they just took a quick glance at them.

The most amazing thing is that each dragon vulture has a pair of huge claws with cold light flashing, holding a wooden cage that is about two meters long, wide and high.

It turned out that after receiving the letters from Xizi and Huaimu, Qingyi had already figured out how to transport thousands of people back to Longcheng Fengtu, and that was to use the advantages of the Great Wilderness Dragon Eagle for air transportation.

Each of these specially made wooden cages is large enough to accommodate fifty people standing inside. Tu Shigu even took the craftsmen in to try them out.

In this way, thirty-five adult dragon vultures can transport more than 1,700 people at a time, and 6,000 people only need to fly three or four times to complete the task.

However, not only the common people were terrified by this flight journey that no one had ever experienced before, but even the young pharmacists of the Jiliu Tribe were worried. Does the Great Wilderness Dragon Vulture really have such a good temper?
In the end, it was the old patriarch of the Jiliu tribe who set an example and was the first to crawl into a wooden cage to show that it was harmless. Qing Yi smiled and shook his head, then crawled in to chat with the old patriarch.

After someone took the lead, some brave young and strong people in the country gritted their teeth and followed in. They were not afraid of even the lord, so what was there to be afraid of when they were poor and had nothing?

The people in this country have the courage to migrate during the spring ploughing season. They are brave by nature. If your lordship can tame these powerful and ferocious birds, he will surely be able to protect their safety.

After the first group of people filled the cage, thirty-five Great Wilderness Dragon Vultures flapped their wings and flew one after another, causing the remaining people in the camp to exclaim in surprise and also making Tian Bin, who came after hearing the news, sigh endlessly, because not everyone is qualified to fly in the sky.

However, these people could not understand the feelings of the people in the wooden cages. It was okay that the dragon vultures did not fly high at first, but in order to climb over the snow-capped peaks of Yunling.

The frigid gale was unbearable, and the snow-capped peaks that seemed to hit them head-on made people scream continuously. Even some pharmacists from the Jiliu tribe were almost frightened to the point of peeing their pants.

A distance of eight hundred miles is quite far for humans, but for the Great Wilderness Dragon Vulture, it only takes more than an hour to fly at full speed.

When they crawled out of the cage again, the first group of people who arrived at the Dragon City mound felt dizzy and felt the ground beneath their feet was shaking.

However, after this special journey, both the pharmacists of the Jiliu tribe and the common people had a new understanding of the lord's strength, and became more obedient to the lord's arrangements.

After the dragon vultures made several trips back and forth and brought all 6,000 people to the Dragon City Mound, a thousand pharmacists from the Willow Sacrifice Tribe were received by the overjoyed Jiang Ji, which made the planting of spiritual plants faster.

The remaining 5,000 people were dispersed and settled in various villages by San Yishen, Nan Guoshi and Beigong Yu. Now that the busy farming season is over, there is still a lot of labor to be done in the fiefdoms.

These newly arrived common people did not feel it was hard, but rather enjoyed it. Not only could they have enough food to eat every day, but the lord even gave them meat!
Besides being surprised, they also felt a lot of hope in their hearts. As long as they followed the lord at ease, they would have the opportunity to acquire the cultivation techniques such as body-building and guiding techniques.

As for the schools that only admit children and teenagers between the ages of five and eighteen, in their eyes it is a privilege that only princes can have, and they are truly falling into a honey pot.

Even for the future of their children, these thousands of Chinese people were extremely happy, and the risks they took during this period were worth it.

Qing Yi didn't bother to pay attention to the changes in the mentality of the new subjects, nor did he pay attention to the huge number of subjects under his command, which had reached 43,000.

After seeing off the old patriarch of the Jiliu tribe, he was attracted by Yang Hu, Kui Wendou and other restless students and puppeteers.

(End of this chapter)