Outside the busy city of Xining, since last year, a steady stream of refugees from the Western Regions has fled from Dunhuang along the Hexi Corridor. Gu Ke, who shouldered the heavy task of evacuation, as the temporary city lord of Dunhuang, the hub of the Western Regions, naturally could not let the refugees gather in Guazhou, Jiuquan, Zhangye, and Wuwei on this section of the road, these cities could not afford it, even if they were wealthy nobles, they could not stay, and they were persuaded to go to Xining.

Outside Dunhuang, as long as the Yu army was literate, they were sent to check the passports of refugees one by one, and record the status of their families and assets. Then, the Dunhuang locals or refugees who can know Chinese characters are hired as interpreters and service personnel, and the refugees who have passed the inspection will arrange to pick up free supplies, just enough steamed buns and a large glass of water for the journey, as well as an adult-sized coarse cloth thick cotton coat, and then set off for the next stop, Guazhou, and so on all the way to Xining. If you want to eat better meat or buy some daily necessities, there is no problem, in addition to providing free rations of steamed buns and water at the royal post houses outside each city, there are also many merchants stationed in them, and you can spend your own money. In order to cater for the common people who did not have mules and horses to travel, the post house also provided a passenger service, and the carriages of twenty people could travel between the cities every hour for a low fee, and the coachmen and horses were hired or rented from the refugees. If you don't have the money to buy food and tickets, you can go to the post house to find work, help wash the dishes, entertain guests, repair the city, build houses, maintain order, and save money for food and clothing. Even if you want to join the army, there is no problem, the recruit is trained for three months, and if you can stick to it, you will be a regular soldier, and if you can't, you will be put into the local baggage army or engineering corps. The militias in the cities have also been organized, at least to ensure that these cities can fight even in the face of the Mongolian army, and can maintain law and order in the cities on a daily basis, so as to prevent petty thieves among the refugees from doing something to steal and conspire to sell women and children.

In addition, according to the Refugee Relief Plan, temporary houses outside the city are divided into living areas based on religious beliefs, such as the Buddhist district will provide vegetarian food, and the diocese of Tianfang will not have pork and lard. Through donations from various localities or on-the-spot surveys by the Yu Army, refugee fields were demarcated in the places purchased or received by the Royal Grain Bank, cash crops or grain and fruit trees were planted, and certain supplies were provided for the refugee camps, and they were hired to work and take care of them. There are 12 people in one room in the refugee camp, with a common bathroom, clean room, kitchen, tables and chairs, and six bunk beds with bedside tables, and there are full-top partitions that can be adjusted at will, and different sizes are separated for several families to share. Literate people who can read Chinese characters have been organized and employed by Mongolian and Sinology in various places to teach Chinese and Chinese to children in the Western Regions, as well as to improve the dictionary of the foreign language.

Xining is even more in full swing, a small block to the north of Xinchengguo is a gathering place for Tianfang believers, who specially organized them to move bricks to build their own Tianfang Temple, and other places are the gathering places of ordinary refugees, and the people who bought the nearby land hired refugees to carry out all kinds of reclamation and tree planting, digging ditches and ditches, building city gates, and repairing Buddhist halls.

The bottom line is that none of this is free, except for education.

Therefore, even if the people of the Western Regions earn wages, they will spend it. In this cycle, it is basically the royal industry or the imperial court supervision, in addition to making more money in the hands of the fleeing nobles, the cities of Dunhuang that have not yet experienced the war have also donated a lot of money and materials. What's more, the houses, rice and noodles, clothes and quilts, meat and vegetables and other materials needed by the refugees were purchased in bulk at designated points in the country through the royal industry, which brought back the commerce and trade of many border cities, for example, beef and mutton were transported from Funing City, Xinming City, which was no longer disturbed by the invasion of Tibet, and Shenglong City, Annan, which was gradually subdued by the war, transported a large amount of rice and grain to Jingxi City for backup, and the lush bamboo and wood in the south went up through the Yellow River to provide raw materials for building houses, various convenient products similar to those of the Industrial Construction Bureau, or various grades of ready-to-wear sold by royal cloth merchants, as well as pawnshops opened by treasure shops. There can even be a little surplus, and the real spending on the poor will not be difficult for the household to accept.

With such a good start, when the settlement was settled at the end of June, Li Fang was relieved, and his face was bright.

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The queen in the palace of nourishing the heart is looking at a more detailed account book of special funds for refugee relief, overall, the start-up funds invested by the treasury and the inner treasury have not yet appeared in deficit for the time being, and then look at the budget for the second half of the year, as the news of the Mughal massacre spreads, the refugees will only increase unabated, and they are getting farther and farther away from Dunhuang, and those who can survive to Xining will become poorer and poorer.

The newspapers also reported in detail the process and measures of this aid, and now some sour Confucians, who claim to be noble and noble, are criticizing the imperial court for 'making refugees rich', advocating the use of 'benevolence' to influence them, and that they should take care of the people from the Western Regions who have taken refuge for free.

Gu Ci was very dissatisfied and said to Yuan Yi, who was drinking tea on the side, "This kind of person who doesn't have back pain when he stands and talks is the most annoying, shouldn't he give them a separate place to help refugees for free?" See what happens when foreigners are raised as pigs? ”

Yuan Yi smiled but didn't answer, this newspaper is really a good thing, and some people naturally refute ignorant fallacies, so that they don't have to write a piece of music to annoy. He beckoned Ming Ting to let a few beans in, and it was time for the parent. Ah Sheng and Qiang Qiang, who have officially entered the school, brought their two lively and active younger brothers, who could just run, to come in and wait for lunch. After the salute, the two eldest ones skillfully stuffed the two small ones between the parents, and then Ah Sheng sat next to Gu Ci, Qiang Qiang consciously climbed up Yuan Yi's legs, and Bajie slowly lay quietly and slowly at Ah Sheng's feet.

"Did you read today's paper, babies?"

Gu Ci and the two eldest children's parent-child activities have slowly changed to talking about some content in the newspaper, current affairs, literary allusions, and repertoire.

"Yes, my great-grandfather said that I should let my brother think about whether he should charge for himself, and he would write a small review as homework in the afternoon." Qiang Qiang is very supportive to the adults every time, and he is the first to answer.

"Ah Sheng is so powerful, he can write a commentary!"

"Master said that the writing was not good, and he would not let it be published." Ah Sheng's proud little face had a hint of apprehension.

Publication of reviews for newspapers is the direction that literati are now eager to strive for, not to mention the temptation of 'an article known to the world', and a single comment from the three editors-in-chief is enough to make them stand out from the crowd. I have to say that the ancients were still both modest and arrogant in the way of 'literature', and the selected texts were all the best of the best, from the comments to the content, which could convince everyone, and there was no 'guilty for the text' or the situation of escalating the scolding war with shame and anger for the time being. According to Mingxiu's investigation, there are also people in Jiangnan who are at the peak of their literary style who want to set up a newspaper to fight with the imperial court, but they are generally ridiculed as 'cowards', sarcastically doing things behind closed doors, and 'not daring to discuss it with the world', so they have to entertain themselves, which makes the newspaper run a lot of pain.

Yuan Yi became interested, "Tell your father what you think?" ”

"We didn't force them, how could they not pay them if they volunteered to work? Even slaves have to pay a monthly fee, and they are good citizens. ”

"How do you know for sure they don't have slaves?"

“…… Didn't they write it on Dayu's passport? ”

"It was sent to them to fill it out themselves, but we have no way to prove whether they are slaves or not. Besides, the people of the Western Regions have been fighting each other for many years, and the captives are slaves, and if the restoration is successful, they will be kings and generals. Do you still remember Zhang Qian's cousin's father? The kind-hearted queen gave her eldest son a hint that if you only discuss it in terms of identity, it is easy to be distorted or attacked by others.

Tangyi's father was originally a Xiongnu nobleman, and after being captured, he became a slave of a wealthy family in Tangyi County.

"They also have to work in their homeland to make money, so why don't they come to us?" Qiang Qiang asked curiously.

Yuan Yi praised her, "The baby is reasonable." ”

Ah Sheng thought carefully for a while before speaking, "Someone will definitely say that if you are a guest from afar, how can you let the guests work and pay for food and drink." ”

"And are they guests or not?" Gu Ci asked with a smile.

In fact, this matter is ultimately a matter of status, if you treat refugees as guests, you can warmly welcome them to eat and drink for free, or you can not accept them behind closed doors. However, the 'Protector Order' treats them as 'people', and the subjects have the right to continue to earn money to support their families if they change their lives, and they also have the obligation to pay taxes and serve in the army.

In the previous life, it was reported that Germany's acceptance of Syrian refugees caused huge social problems and serious economic burdens, as well as unpreventable violent and terrorist incidents, completely treating refugees as guests, everything is free, and the service is considerate. If we take the Wenchuan earthquake as an example, refugees who have migrated to other places can apply for jobs and do business if they go to other places, and at most they will be treated as 'preferential employment', and they will definitely not starve to death without relying on relief.

"If you take your passport, you're one of our people!" Qiang Qiang said imposingly, can there be anyone who is not willing to be a subject of Dayu, and Her Royal Highness the only princess will definitely not accept this assumption.

"My sister can't be so arbitrary, if it's an ordinary civilian, it's the same for any country, and there will be no objection when there is a benefit. If it is a person of the royal family, I am afraid it may not be. "After following Xiao Lu in the past few years, Ah Sheng is no longer an ignorant child.

"When the Han Dynasty hid the Western Regions, they can still speak Chinese, why aren't they our people?"

Seeing that Ah Sheng, the eldest brother, was reluctant to refute the words of the cute sister, when the mother stepped forward to strike at the little girl's blind confidence, "Our three have retreated a lot from the east compared to the big Han or Tang Shi. Passports are a way to save their lives, but it doesn't mean that if you run away with something from someone, you will definitely be from this family in the future, right? ”

Gao Xianzhi of the Tang Dynasty lost to the Great Cannibal in the battle of Talas, and during the Anshi Rebellion, Tubo took advantage of the defeat of Gao Xianzhi, Feng Changqing, Ge Shuhan and other famous generals, and the defense of Hexi was empty, cutting off the connection between the Central Plains and the Western Regions. It was not until the Ding Dynasty that mutual trade was gradually restored and even full control of the Western Regions. But the Ji Dynasty also neglected to control the borders, making them seem to be autonomous. The Great Wall of this time and space has not been strengthened and extended by the Ming Dynasty, and the original Great Wall in many places has gradually become the outer wall of the city or deserted, rather than the border barrier, far from the fact of 'ten thousand miles'.

Qiang Qiang was speechless, and like Ah Sheng, he lowered his head and considered how to prove that the Western Regions was his own.

The two little ones were unwilling to be left out in the cold, and they crawled over and pulled Gu Ci's sleeves to hug and kiss, Yuan Yi looked at the children with a smile, and didn't plan to rescue his daughter-in-law at all, who let her just say that the three Kanto retreats are so face-shedding.

Gu Ci kissed two fat dolls who were almost identical one by one, and they were salivaed, and they thought of a way to appease them to play by themselves. Let the two of them say a part of their body, and then point to the corresponding place on their own body according to the place they said with their left fingers, and point to the place they said on each other's body with their right hand. The person who makes the mistake will be slapped in the ass, and if it's right, you can get a kiss from your mother. I don't know if it's the twins, but the two rarely make mistakes after playing a few times. The other four watched in amazement as the two little things were so happy that they forgot the heavy topic before lunch was set.

"Mother, how many countries are there in the Western Regions?" Ah Sheng still asked Gu Ci questions after eating.

"There were thirty-six countries in the Han Dynasty, but now they are divided and merged, and some have disappeared, there should be more than fifty? My mother doesn't know the exact situation, do you want to do your own research and tell your father and master? Gu Ci saw that her husband had already slipped away with the two younger ones, so she had to give them ideas while coaxing the two older children to sleep.

"Good!"

Qiang Qiang hurriedly chased after him and said, "I want it too, I want it too!" ”

"In addition to the west, we can also study other places, do you want to change places?"

"Where?"

"The third uncle is in the north, the ninth uncle is in the south, or the East China Sea where the sixth uncle has been can also be."

"I like the third uncle! I asked Brother Liuliu and Brother Lian to write together. ”

Gu Ci didn't think there was anything wrong with letting his six-year-old children write historical papers, and he said very supportively that he would try to persuade the emperor to get their attendants closer to the interpreters of Honglu Temple, and even allow them to bring enough guards to the library to check the materials.