All the sea ships that could be dispatched by Hongmen were used by Li Tianyang, and they continued to go to the coast of Xuzhou Mansion to receive the displaced people recruited by Qi San and them all the way from Shaanxi.

At this time, the displaced people, where can they care about the truth that their homeland is inseparable, when they hear from the recruiters that they will go to Dayuan Island, they can get daily food support, and all the daily necessities for daily expenses can be provided for free, and they are not even worried about whether this group of people has other bad intentions, they have enthusiastically signed up, and followed the recruiters towards the place where they landed at the port.

Last year, the new members of the Hongmen organization went on an inspection operation, and the Hongmen members who returned from the inspection were all vividly aware of the miserable pictures they had seen, but if they came back to the place where they had inspected now, they would understand that it was not the worst part of hell on earth.

People with conscience and no courage may still be quietly suffering, waiting for the government's indefinite rescue; And those who are ruthless and daring have begun to go on a furious life, looking for the corpses of people who died of hunger and almost skin and bones, and secretly eating them in order to survive.

There are even more cruel ones, who are afraid that there will be a plague on the dead corpses, so they turn to the living who still have breath, and quietly drag them to the dark place to slaughter them, and then come to eat them.

Of course, there are more people who have neither courage nor strength, looking for things that can eat snakes, insects, rats, ants, bark, grass roots, etc., in the dry and cracked land all over the mountains, and even dig three feet into the ground to find the Guanyin soil that can make the stomach and stomach feel good, but in fact it cannot be digested, but finally died tragically because they could not defecate.

This is a corrupt environment, even if there is still a breath of homeless people have a more wary heart towards other homeless people, no one knows what bad intentions the people around them have for themselves and their relatives, and even many families themselves have bad intentions towards their relatives.

And the most important point of Hongmen Qisan's recruitment operation, from the first day of recruitment, they distributed gruel, soup and other food to hang everyone's lives, but it was safer than those surrounding homeless people who dared to work hard and had no scruples for a mouthful of food.

At least they have food, and even if they ask them to sign a contract to sell themselves into slavery at this time, everyone will probably sign it without hesitation, not to mention that in the recruitment notice they put forward, the treatment they give is not much different from when they lived in their hometown, or even more.

Some were happily recruited into the Hongmen, while others were desperately rejected by the Hongmen recruiters.

After all, Hongmen is not a good hall, they still have basic requirements for the recruited refugees, and not all those who want to join Hongmen can be accepted.

The first person to be accepted is naturally a person with a skill: blacksmith, You Fang Langzhong, tailor, carpenter, etc., etc., and even if you connect with Shengwenpo, you can also be regarded as a skilled talent.

For these people, after interrogating some specific contents and determining the authenticity of their skills, Hongmen, together with their families, was soon entertained by Hongmen's good students and sent to Dayuan Island in the first batch.

Later, the recruited families had more than one adult strong laborer, although these families were now thin and weak because of famine, but after a period of recuperation, they could become a living force under the command of Hongmen, plowing the land, grazing and raising, or recruiting as soldiers, that was no problem at all.

Although it will bring a great burden to Hongmen in a short period of time, fortunately, there are many workshops in Hongmen, and the chicken coop and Bengang government can also provide a lot of relatively easy work, which is enough for these women to support their families.

In the end, Hongmen recruited, but it was the groups of orphans who lost their parents and discarded, bullied, and even secretly slaughtered orphans for food like thin monkeys.

These orphans are more burdensome than women's families, but Li Tianyang has a good conscience after all, and for Li Tianyang, on the contrary, these orphans who have lost their relatives are easier to be transformed by him, and no one can interfere and influence how they want to build their three views, but after a few years or more than ten years, they are most likely to become the backbone of their team.

Of course, the recruitment of these children is not a small pressure for Hongmen, at least for a few years or more than ten years, they will not be able to provide any return for Hongmen, and Hongmen will have to consume too many resources on them to cultivate them, so that they can become talents.

What was given up was a large number of elderly people over 50 years old and patients with physical disabilities and incurable injuries, which was already commonplace for Qi San and others who often walked around the disaster area and recruited displaced people, but for the second batch of Hongmen students who graduated from Bengang School this year and were slipped out by Li Tianyang to practice visiting, it was too cruel.

The kind hearts of the students couldn't watch the groups of old people kneeling in front of them and others, their eyes blank, but they stared at themselves with muddy old tears, and there were no words on their lips, but the despair and thirst for survival emanating from their bodies came to their faces.

Other old people, with all their strength, pushed the thin child in their arms in front of the Hongmen recruiters, kowtowed fiercely and begged the Hongmen to take the only bloodline in their family, and as for themselves, they gave up this last glimmer of hope to live.

The students spontaneously organized themselves and made a wish to Qi San and others, who were in charge of the recruitment, hoping to recruit these lonely old people to Dayuan Island, but as expected, Qi San and the others categorically refused.

Qi San's many years of experience are already iron-hearted for such things, for them, even if these old people are recruited, with their figures, they are afraid that they will die seven or eight percent during the long journey, and most of the two or three percent who survive in the end will be seriously ill, which will increase the burden on Hongmen in vain.

Moreover, Li Tianyang has also given a death order, for those who should give up, they must give up, they can't drag mud and water, if they can save a mouthful of food to recruit more strong people to come over, their strength will be stronger for Hongmen.

Between the trade-offs, before he knew it, Li Tianyang had become the kind of person he hated when he was in Tanmen, but he himself took it for granted now.

(End of chapter)