Chapter 50: The Great Gift of His Royal Highness the Prince (3)
"His Royal Highness the Prince of the World means that these disaster victims will be recruited as strong men?" Shen Qian was not so elm-headed, and after Zhong Yebai's reminder, he immediately opened his mouth, and his head became clear as if he had been empowered.
Zhong Yebai nodded with a smile, it is comfortable to talk to smart people, and there is no need to point too clearly.
Shen Qian patted his head and hurriedly saluted Zhong Yebai, "Thank you Your Highness for mentioning it, thank you for the great gift that His Royal Highness sent to me Chen Jun." ”
This time, Shen Qian secretly scolded himself in his heart, he really lived the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, and even secretly scolded His Royal Highness the Prince, it turned out that he was really not a human, he was a real dog!
Zhong Yebai couldn't help but feel relieved when he saw Shen Qian's face rippling with gratitude to himself, and at the same time, he didn't mind that Shen Qian was more grateful to himself.
"Shen Junshou, I think that among the hundreds of thousands of victims, there are not a few young and strong, about 1120,000! I want to ask Shen Junshou what arrangements he wants to make for them?"
Shen Qian, as a disciple of the Han Sect, went through many hardships before he climbed to this position, his head was naturally bright, and after Zhong Yebai's mention, he also had his own ideas for appeasing the victims and recruiting strong men.
"Your Royal Highness, here is what you think. Most of these victims came from Yanzhou and Yuzhou, which are flood-stricken areas, so I sent people to build porridge sheds, register them, recruit strong men to deal with floods, and then go to the disaster areas to deal with floods. The imperial court distributed 200,000 quintals of grain to Chen County, and I will distribute all the amount to them according to their shares, and give them work for relief, first, to solve their survival problems, and secondly, after they control the flood, I will give them the silver taels to go home and let them go home directly. ”
Speaking of this, Shen Qian was more open-minded, and even learned to draw inferences from one example.
"As for those who are unwilling to be recruited as strong men to control the floods, I will let them open a pit wasteland in my Chen County, and live here, the population of my Chen County is already withering, and they can settle down in my Chen County, and the weather of my Chen County will definitely take on a new look after three or five years. ”
Hearing this, Zhong Yebai couldn't help but nodded, although this Shen Junshou was pedantic and didn't know how to find a way before, but after a little bit of dialing, he was indeed a good official who was willing to do things for the people. But after thinking about it carefully, what Shen Qian put forward is only a preliminary idea, and problems of one kind or another will inevitably arise in the process of implementation.
Thinking of this, Zhong Yebai's heart fell, "Okay, I'll be a good person to the end, Shen Junshou's idea is very good, but it needs to be improved and refined." ”
"It's time to build a porridge shed, you can send someone to do it now. ”
"As for the matter of recruiting strong men, don't worry, you may only be able to recruit sixty or seventy thousand now, but as soon as the news spreads, the surrounding disaster victims will definitely flock to you Chen County, and it will not matter how many strong men you want to recruit at that time. It's just that there is one point, now that the flood in Yanzhou and Yuzhou is serious, it may not be possible to buy grain with silver taels, so it is better to distribute food rations directly with the distribution of silver taels to the strong men. ”
"They are all disaster victims, as long as they have a bite to eat, I don't mean that you want to detain them, but I want you to use limited resources to help as many people as possible, in the future, disaster victims will continue to come, if you recruit them according to the standard of recruiting local strong men, I am afraid that you will not have enough money and food at that time." So I'll give you an idea, why don't you take the two hundred thousand taels of silver and buy food, and if the county guard gives them food to feed them, they can die for you. I estimate that your 200,000 taels of silver and 200,000 quintals of grain can be recruited to recruit 300,000 strong men to deal with the floods, and when the time comes, the court will not be able to reward you, Shen Junshou, you just wait for the addition of officials to the knighthood! Hahaha!"
Shen Qian was as his name suggested, and hurriedly said modestly, "His Royal Highness the Prince of the World praises falsely, as long as Shen Qian can do something practical for the people, he is already very lucky, as for the addition of officials to the knighthood, this should not be considered by Shen Qian, he dare not think about it, and he should not think about it!"
Zhong Yebai shook his head, and directly used the famous words of an emperor of Europa with the surname Na, "Hey! a soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier, Shen Junshou, you must dare to think before you can dare to do it!"
"However, if there are too many disaster victims, I'm afraid that my 200,000 quintals of grain and 200,000 taels of silver will not be enough!" Shen Qian was also embarrassed to continue the topic of adding officials to the knighthood, and directly diverted the topic and expressed his worries.
Zhong Yebai glanced at Shen Qian with slanted eyes, "You want to ask me for money and food?"
Shen Qian was so frightened that he was about to kneel, but he was stiffly held up by Zhong Yebai, "Do you think I look like a person with money and food? But although I don't, I know who does!"
"Who?" asked Shen Qian expectantly.
But Zhong Yebai's answer almost made Shen Qian almost fall, "The big family in the city!"
Shen Qian shook his head like a rattle, "Your Royal Highness, don't look at me as a county guard, ruling this Chen County side, but I can't afford to mess with those big families, they are all families, and their forces are intertwined, they can't be provoked, they can't be provoked!"
Zhong Yebai looked at Shen Qian's embarrassed appearance and couldn't help laughing, "This is simple, you just borrow it from them, if they don't borrow it, you let some disaster victims in, and they naturally don't dare not give it." ”
"How do you pay it back?"
"It's very simple, you lend the borrowed grain to the victims who stayed behind to reclaim the wasteland, they are all honest croppers, they have land and land, are you afraid that they won't be able to grow food to pay you back?"
Shen Qian heard this, "This plan is very good, thank you for your advice!"
Just when Shen Qian was full of confidence, Zhong Yebai poured cold water on Shen Qian again, "Settling down these hundreds of thousands of people is not a simple errand, I estimate that these disaster victims are mixed with some mobs, it is not easy to deal with!
Shen Qian's eyes rolled, and he hurriedly said, "I'm not afraid of His Royal Highness the prince's jokes, the lower official was born in a poor family, and before entering the court, he also dealt with some mobs, and he still had some ways to deal with them." ”
"These mobs do not dare to do evil on weekdays, but once a disaster victim appears, they will blend in with the disaster victims, do some robbery while the fire is hot, and accidentally use the hearts of the victims to stir up disputes.......
After Shen Qian finished speaking, Zhong Yebai laughed again, "Shen Junshou's method is exactly what I want, so let's do it?"
Shen Qian followed the smile of His Royal Highness the Prince of the World, and his eyebrows danced, "The lower officials obey the order, get up!"
The victims of the city looked at the prince and the county keeper who brought them to this Chen County laughing on the top of the city, and they didn't know what was going on above, did the uncle of the son agree to open the warehouse and release grain?
At this moment, someone among the victims suddenly stood on a high place and raised his arms and shouted, "There are 200,000 loads of grain allocated by the imperial court in Chen County, and they haven't opened the door for so long, they must not want to help us, in order to survive, everyone rushed into the city, opened the granary, and everyone distributed the grain!"
The victims began to have some commotion, the Xuanjia army was waiting solemnly outside the city gate, happy to hear that the man was still shouting, the crowd began to have some commotion, immediately angry, took down a halberd from behind, and threw it at the man, the man did not react, but saw a halberd flying, just poked at his feet, as long as he went one inch further, his feet would be nailed to the ground, as long as he went three inches forward, he would be poked through the heart.
"Killed! The Xuanjia Army has killed someone! In their eyes, the victims of our escape from the famine are not human beings, but beasts to be slaughtered...... The man was startled, and then suddenly shouted, and more than a dozen people around him followed suit.
"Kill into the city, but there are 200,000 loads of grain in the city, and the county guard wants to swallow that grain alone......
When rumors spread, the emotions of hundreds of thousands of victims began to ferment.
At this moment, the city gate suddenly opened, and the armor soldiers in the city poured out, as if it was more confirmed that the county guard wanted to swallow the food alone, and the victims were fish and meat on the board.
There was a crowd of people outside the city, and the riots of the victims were imminent.
But after seeing the soldiers in the city, thousands of people came out with several wagons, some loaded with simple wooden pillars and thatch, some loaded with pots and pans, and some loaded with sacks full of grain.
And the last to come out were the prince who brought them to this Chen County and the county keeper of this Chen County.
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