In an empty city.
If demons could reach here, the entire Waii Sub-continent would have collapsed. Zhang Tie felt that it was meaningless to let over 100,000 people die in the isolated city in order to consume several times more demonized puppets. Therefore, Zhang Tie didn't arrange "volunteers" to stay in the three cities across Huaiyuan Prefecture; instead, he told everybody to leave.
On the wharf, a row of huge ships ranging from 10,000 tons to 1 million tons were lined up. Everybody was walking towards their own ships silently.
After the ships were filled with people, they left one by one, whistling as they headed east.
In front of the several million-ton warships, there was a long queue. The boarding certificate of the people in the queue was not the expensive tickets bought with gold coins, but a contract written in both Hua and Hebrew with their fingerprints. It was a document in which they voluntarily gave up part of their personal rights and freedom, settled down in some lower provinces or remote places of the Eastern Continent, and obeyed certain arrangements made by the holder of the document.
Everything had two sides. Although it was a catastrophe for Waii Sub-continent, for Eastern Continent, it was a good opportunity for the major clans, business groups, even the local governments in lower provinces and remote places to gain population at the cheapest price and enrich their border areas. It was the best opportunity for basic development of some barren, bitter and cold places which were hard to be developed before.
This policy was called "Frontier" in Taixia Country.
"Frontier" was one of the national policies of Taixia Country. In each holy war, Taixia Country would acquire a lot of foreign population who escaped from wars from subcontinents and enrich its remote places with those foreign population.
Most of those remote places were lower provinces of Taixia Country or barren provinces which were more primitive and backward than lower provinces.
As for "Frontier", Taixia Country had already established a set of complete laws and mechanisms to ensure the smooth implementation of this national policy in Taixia Country.
In the holy war, population was also a powerful and special resource. Those foreign people heading for Taixia Country's "frontier" were also a powerful and special resource. Perhaps not everyone could fight on the battlefield; however, as long as they were alive, as long as they could work. As long as they could give birth, they would have their value.
In Taixia Country, "frontier defense" was a big business in each holy war. Those ambitious major clans in Taixia Country who wanted to expand their clan territories and territories. Those business groups that wanted to make a fortune would all set their sights on the non-human population of the 'border'.
These foreigners who came to the border of Taixia Country were not slaves; however, they were only one level higher than slaves. They were border residents of Taixia Country.
It was an exchange for these people to become border residents of Taixia Country. Those major clans and business groups would take them away from this perilous subcontinent in case of being killed by demons. For a long time to come, they would have to obey the orders of the people who held their contracts. They would become a member of the army of "frontier" of Taixia Country and dedicate their loyalty, sweat, wisdom and sometimes even lives to Taixia Country.
Since the beginning of the holy war, huge ships from Taixia Country had been arriving at Yiyang Harbor constantly. Half a year ago, the number of non-Chinese who left Yiyang Harbor for "frontier" of Taixia Country by those huge ships every day ranged from tens of thousands to over 100,000.
Huaiyuan Palace took 700,000 border residents to Youzhou Province, Taixia Country, most of whom were skilled workers, technicians, engineers or craftsmen.
Over the past half a year, as the corps leader of Hurricane Corps, Zhang Tie's most important responsibility was to ensure that those border warships could return to Yiyang City with full loads smoothly.
Those border warships had made agreements and exchanges with Huaiyuan Palace before coming to Yiyang Harbor. Therefore, Huaiyuan Palace had a great interest in this event.
Zhang Tie's responsibility was to ensure the interest of Huaiyuan Palace and save as many people as possible.
Not everyone could go to the border of Taixia Country whenever they wanted. At this moment, when the opportunity to leave Waii Sub-continent became precious, it became an extravagant hope of many commoners to go to the border of Taixia Country for a life-saving welfare and special treatment. Those who could enjoy the privilege of border with Taixia Country in priority were those whose family members stayed in their countries and cities to resist demons. These people hated demons. Meanwhile, they knew that it was not easy for them to leave Waii Sub-continent. Therefore, they cherished the opportunity to go to the border of Taixia Country very much. As for those people, as long as they could arrive at Taixia Country and live a stable life under the protection of Taixia Country, the most powerful human country, avoid wars and ensure that they would not starve to death, they would be satisfied.
What was that bit of hardship, tiredness, and sweat? As long as one had experienced the precarious life of an ordinary person in the chaos of war, words like "hardship" and "tiredness" had long been removed from their life dictionaries.
In those border warships which carried so many border residents of Taixia Country, the moment they boarded the warships, the kids would be separated from the adults. In a million-ton warship called Flying Whale, when the warship set off, those kids would be taken into classrooms of different sizes. Each kid would be given a notebook and a pen when he entered the classroom. A 60-year old black teacher with a solemn look in glasses wrote two big Hua characters on the blackboard with chalk — — Taixia Country!
After going through so many ups and downs with their families, these children seemed to be more mature and sensible than ordinary children. In this classroom of hundreds of people, no one made a sound, and there was not the slightest bit of noise.
After writing the two words, the black teacher turned around and watched those kids whose ages varied from a few years old to a dozen years old. Closely after that, he started to speak in Hebrew.
"When the warship set off, each inch of deck and cabin on this warship has already belonged to Taixia Country. Taixia Country has already become your motherland. From today on, you have to learn everything about Hua people and Taixia Country from me. When you get off the warship, you will find that the more Hua languages and Hua languages you master, the better you will live than others in the future and the earlier you can get rid of your current social class, you will enter the mainstream of Hua people's society and win more social recognition and respect. I hope to enter the mainstream of Chinese society and win more social recognition and respect at a certain time in the future. I hope that some of you could get rid of the status of border residents and become citizens of Taixia Country so as to open up a broader space for your families and your children in the future. " The black teacher said as he watched those kids. He knew that these kids might not understand it yet. Therefore, he didn't say anything more; instead, he turned around and pointed at the two words on the blackboard by his pointer, "Read taixia together with me..."
"Taixia" hundreds of kids read it together in a half-familiar tone.
"This is where we're heading for, the greatest and most prosperous human country and the only human country that could match demons. Taixia Country is not here. If you have a chance to leave Taixia Country again in the future, you will be the first human. If you have a chance to leave Taixia Country again, if someone asks you which country you're from, you could tell him loudly that you're from Taixia Country. Well, read taixia together with me. "
“taixia”
This time, the kids' pronunciation was more accurate.
Half an hour later, the black teacher started to check the two Chinese characters of "Taixia Country". The one who could write the best characters and pronounce the most accurately would be rewarded with an apple.
Looking at the red apple, all the children's eyes lit up, and they were all filled with envy.
...
In the evening, Zhang Tie left Yiyang Harbor by the last huge warship...
When this huge warship left the harbor, the entire Yiyang City had become an empty city.
Standing on the deck, Zhang Tie watched this city which was going to be occupied by demons with a bizarre brilliance in his eyes.
...
After the fleet left Waii Sub-continent safely and sailed towards the east for 3 days, Zhang Tie declared his decision to the commissioned officers of Hurricane Corps calmly after knowing that the fleet would not be raided by demon knights anymore. After declaring his decision, facing the confused and shocked looks of those commissioned officers of Hurricane Corps, Zhang Tie revealed a smile, "I've already contacted some elders of Huaiyuan Palace and told them about my decision.
After announcing his decision, facing the confused and shocked looks of those commissioned officers of Hurricane Corps, Zhang Tie revealed a smile, "I've already contacted some elders of Huaiyuan Palace and told them about my decision. I'm very honored to be the corps leader of Hurricane Corps and stick to Waii Sub-continent with you until the end. Your performance is impeccable. To be honest, I feel that I'm not a competent corps leader. I also let out a sigh of relief when I could lead you out of Waii Sub-continent. When you arrive at Youzhou Province, you will have a new corps leader and a new start. At this moment, I only have one sentence for you — — the fist that you withdraw today is for a more powerful punch tomorrow!"
After saying these words, Zhang Tie stood up and gave a military salute to the commissioned officers of Hurricane Corps solemnly.
Under the silent gaze and solemn military salute of the commissioned officers of Hurricane Corps, Zhang Tie left his tiger-token on the table of the conference room before turning around and leaving there.
After leaving the conference room, Zhang Tie found Donder who left together with him on this huge warship and told him about his plan. It was a farewell to Donder.
He pointed at Zhang Tie's nose and swore, "Are you out of your mind? Do you know how many knights of demons and Three-eye Association have? Do you know how many times the demon general could kill you with one hand? Do you really think that you're unrivaled after becoming a sh * tty knight? Or do you think that you're the reincarnation of a savior who has already formed 3-5 chakras? How could this father teach such a stupid person like you to do such a losing business?" Zhang Tie's face turned red as he scolded Zhang Tie, "Are you out of your mind? Do you know how many knights of demons and Three-eye Association are there? Do you know that the demon general could kill you many times with one hand? Do you really think that you're unrivaled after becoming a sh * tty knight? Or do you think that you're the reincarnation of a savior who has formed 3-5 chakras?
Zhang Tie wiped off Donder's saliva. Closely after that, he gave a big hug to Donder. As a result, Donder couldn't move at all. Patting Donder's back forcefully, Zhang Tie whispered, "Don't worry, I will not die. I've not even seen my wife and kids in Eastern Continent, how could I die in Waii Sub-continent..."
"If so, why did you..."
"I have my reasons!"
Watching Zhang Tie's serious look, Donder couldn't help but let out a sigh, "If you really want to go there, I will tell you that you should think about it all the time!"
"What?"
"If you die, there will definitely be a man who will sleep with your woman and beat your baby in the future!"
Zhang Tie's face twitched as he said, "Can't you say something nice?"
"Nice words can't touch your soul!" Donder said with a serious tone.
'F * ck! '
Hearing Donder's words, Zhang Tie almost wanted to give up his plan. However, after struggling for a short while, Zhang Tie still chose to leave. 'Something has to be done.'
Besides Donder and the senior commissioned officers of Hurricane Corps, nobody else in the fleet knew about Zhang Tie's departure...
After leaving the fleet, Zhang Tie returned to Waii Sub-continent as he didn't have to worry about anything anymore...
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