Time flies in a hurry, it has been the end of March 620 AD, from the south to the north, from the west to the east of Liangzhou, Yongzhou, Bashu, Bingzhou, Jizhou, the Central Plains, Qingzhou and other places since the beginning of spring dripping rain, the whole world is shrouded in this rare drought, the seedlings in the fields dried up and died, the water level of the river dropped seriously, hundreds of people in the face of nature's heavenly power of helplessness, silently weeping!

The plan of the year lies in the spring, and the lack of rain in spring ploughing means that the harvest is out of harvest this year. Although Yang Tong's waterwheel has become popular across the country, and the fields near the river have been irrigated, there is no way to do anything about it far from the river and the mountain terraces.

The people live on food, and if there is no food, it means that the people will starve to death. Without food, the world will not be stable, and once it is instigated and used by people with ulterior motives, mutinies and civil uprisings will occur one after another.

In the Tang Dynasty, the crown prince Li Jiancheng personally served as a pacification envoy to supervise the drought fighting in various counties, and transferred grain from Bashu and Jingxiang to the market to minimize the impact of the disaster.

When the drought occurred in Yang Gongren, he ordered Yang Shidao, the secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, to be the commander-in-chief of drought fighting, and ordered the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry to go to the counties to guide local officials and ordinary people to build water diversion agricultural tools, and also ordered local officials to supervise the drought resistance of local officials.

Under the strict responsibility supervision of the imperial court, strong measures, the Sui Dynasty drought control effect is quite effective, although the disaster is serious, but the Sui in these years in the infrastructure investment is large, from the beginning of the Jizhou, the canals in various places have not stopped building, by the prisoners of war, slaves to build out of the network of canals at this time to play their huge role, although many rivers have dried up to the bottom, but the harvest of the Great Sui can at least keep about half. The Jizhou and Youzhou plains, where the water network is developed, are not even affected, so the focus of drought resistance is in the Bingzhou and Yongbei regions.

At the same time, Yang Gongren immediately sent more than 300,000 Turkic slaves to Liaodong to reclaim famine, focusing on the development of the Liaodong Plain, a black land without floods and droughts, in an attempt to develop the vast and sparsely populated Baitan County, Shuangliao County, Xiangping County, and Lushun County into a major grain-producing area of the Great Sui that was no less than that of Bashu.

This resolution, the Great Sui Imperial Court actually had a consensus a long time ago, but it didn't want to overdraft the people's power before, so it adopted a slow immigration policy, but now there is a large amount of free labor, so it is simply invested in it at one time, and it will be effective within two years.

In addition, the Great Sui Dynasty itself had sufficient grain reserves, and repeatedly blackmailed tens of millions of stone grain from Li Yuan, and used rotten money to copy the reserve grain and materials of various families in Bashu, Jingzhou, and Jiangnan for many years, even if the Great Sui was out of harvest for three years, it could cope with it freely.

It was precisely because the Great Sui Imperial Court was well prepared and attached great importance to infrastructure construction that the 'supply and marketing cooperatives' in various counties and counties sold grain at a reasonable price, and even in the prefectures and Yongbei, where the drought was the most serious in the country, there was no panic.

But Qingzhou controlled by Dou Jiande is a different scene, Qingzhou has a total of seven counties, from west to east, north to south, namely Jibei County, Qi County, Beihai County, Donglai County, Lu County, Langya County, Gaomi County.

The seven counties were hit like never before when the drought hit. Harvest is inevitable.

The reason for this is man-made disasters.

In the seventh year of the Great Cause of the Sui Dynasty (611), Wang Bo and Meng Rang of the same county launched a peasant uprising based on Changbai Mountain because of heavy military service, calling himself "Zhishilang", and composed "The Song of Death in Liaodong Waves", calling on the peasants to join the rebel army. The event was between Qi County and Jibei County, and the people of Qingzhou responded one after another. The rebel army was huge and camped under Mount Tai. Due to paralysis and light on the enemy, he was defeated by Zhang Xutuo, the general guard of Sui Qi County. Wang Bo led his army north across the Yellow River, and was chased by Zhang Xutuo to Linyi and defeated. Wang Bo was forced to go north to join up with the rebel army of Sun Xuanya, Shi Qinjiao, Hao Xiaode, etc., numbering hundreds of thousands of people, and returned to Zhangqiu City again. Zhang Xutuo led 20,000 troops to reinforce Zhangqiu City and defeated the rebel army again. After that, Wang Bo led the rebel army to fight in the counties of Qingzhou.

After the siege of Yanmen ended, Yang Guang was swept away, and the majesty of the great cause had become a thing of the past. When the sky is swinging, the Sui room is in danger, like a candle in the wind. After this battle, Yang Guang was depressed, lost the courage and confidence to reorganize the rivers and mountains, fled to Jiangdu, and lived a drunken life and dreamed of death.

Pei Changcai, Shi Zihe, Zuo Xiaoyou, Xie Xiang, Lu Xingxing, Shuai Rentai, Huo Xiaohan, Lu Mingyue, Zhai Rang and others either saw the weak nature of the Great Sui, and one by one they complied with Wang Bo, and rose up one after another, fighting with the Great Sui army led by Zhang Xutuo on the land of Qingzhou. Since then, the military disaster in Qingzhou has continued to this day, and the infrastructure such as farmland and water conservancy has been devastated.

After this year, the military disaster once again hit the land of Qingzhou, first Xu Yuanlang was dissatisfied with the military power was seized by Dou Jiande, and with the support of Li Mi, he suddenly attacked Dou Jiande, Dou Jiande defeated Xu Yuanlang in Lu County, Xu Yuanlang fled to the seaside of Langxi County, and was killed by angry fishermen.

Immediately afterwards, Dou Jiande and Li Mi broke out the Qingzhou War, the war lasted until the end of March, Dou Jiande's control of Donghai County, Langxie County, Lu County were all lost, and the bordering land with ally Du Fuwei all fell into the hands of Li Mi, if it was not for Du Fuwei's response, even the remaining four counties of Qingzhou could not be saved.

Although Dou Jiande got a respite, but the severe drought has been irreparable, the double disaster of the war and drought has made the seedlings of the four counties of Qingzhou die, coupled with Dou Jiande's perennial battle and neglected the people's livelihood, the land under his rule has a pitiful amount of food, so that the grain line of rice has risen to a terrifying ten dollars, not to mention ordinary people, even the well-off family can not afford it.

The people of Qingzhou complained that a large number of hungry people starved to death every day, and hundreds of thousands of hungry people fled to the two counties of Yanci and Putai in Bohai County of the Great Sui Dynasty, and then crossed to the north bank of the Yellow River with the help of Bohai officials, and were sent to Liaodong to settle down. Wherever the hungry people passed, the roots were dug up, and the bark of the trees was stripped away.

The people of the counties in the four counties of Qingzhou fled the city, and many county towns became dead cities and ghost towns.

When the drought was raging across the country, the officials of the Great Sui used a large number of boats to transport the victims from the south bank of the Yellow River to the north bank of the Yellow River from Hedong County, Jiang County, Hanoi County, Ji County, Wuyang County, Qinghe County, Pingyuan County to Bohai County.

The officials of the Great Sui were experienced in robbing the population and relocating the victims, and when they ordered the arrival of the border counties, they immediately took action, in addition to sending small workers to the enemy forces to publicize the policies of the Great Sui, and the border counties also set up relief centers to accept the hungry people who fled from the south, and then the groups of ten households were arranged in each county and village.

The imperial court led by Yang Gongren allocated millions of stone of grain for emergency relief in advance for this robbery operation, and appointed 500 officials from the imperial court to preside over the relief work, and at the same time mobilized thousands of students from the Tsinghua Academy to assist, study, and supervise!

The resettlement center of Yangxin County, Bohai County, is located on the bank of the Yellow River, because the famine in Qingzhou is the most serious, so Yangxin County has become the busiest place in the whole resettlement site on the north bank of the Yellow River, and the resettlement center here is composed of tens of thousands of tents, covering an area of more than 1,000 acres, from the beginning of the year to the end of March, more than 400,000 hungry people in Qingzhou have been brought here.

More than 200 officials and 2,000 students were responsible for relocating and registering the information of the victims, and the county guard Gao Yaxian responded to the order of the imperial court and led 15,000 soldiers to maintain order.

On the morning of that day, Wei Zheng, the secretary of the Criminal Department, accompanied by several officials, came to inspect, and Gao Yaxian accompanied him throughout the process.

The 10,000 tents in the resettlement center were overcrowded, all kinds of smells rose to the sky, and the cries and cries of children made people anxious and irritable.

This resettlement point is in charge of Yin Hongzhi, the son of Yin Shishi, and the deputy is Gu Yan, the son of Gu Yi, the father of the two was brave and righteous in the battle of Chang'an in which Li Yuan entered the Guanzhong, the two were outstanding, and after arriving in Yecheng, they got the attention again, although they did not have the experience of being out of the party, but they also had the ability to guard the county, and Yang Gongren sent them to resettle the victims, which was also a major test before the office.

Yin Hongzhi explained to Wei Zheng: "Yang Shangshu, there are too many victims from Qingzhou, more than 400,000 people are gathered together, and each big tent is crowded with more than 40 people, which has brought a lot of public security problems. As of last night, more than 500 people have committed adultery and been beheaded; Tyranny, bullying, and humiliation of kindness have happened repeatedly. Now that the weather is getting hotter, people's hearts are impetuous and bored, and if they are not evacuated and resettled in time, civil unrest is very likely to occur. Speaking of this, he said worriedly: "Fortunately, the army has suppressed it effectively, and the officials below and the students of the Tsinghua Academy can also deal with various cases in a timely manner, and the civil uprising will not happen for the time being." The main concern of the lower officials is the disease caused by the harsh environment, if one person commits the disease, the whole tent will suffer, and then the epidemic will be triggered. ”

Wei Zheng frowned and said, "There are many tents from the Turks, why didn't you ask for it?" ”

Gu Yan next to him smiled bitterly: "Wei Shangshu, there are many tents that have not yet been erected, but no matter how many tents are erected, similar problems will occur, and the two of us think that the best way is to evacuate the resettlement point and set up 10,000 households as a resettlement point, so that all kinds of problems will be reduced." ”

Wei Zheng said: "Very good idea, why not implement it?" ”

"Understaffed." Gu Yan said a very real problem, "We and Gao Daren divided 150,000 soldiers into three groups and carried out day and night patrols, and 5,000 people inspected the camp of more than 400,000 people, which was very reluctant. We have also thought about extracting young people from the disaster victims and having them patrolled by officers and soldiers, but it is easy to separate the people from their relatives. ”

Wei Zheng didn't say anything, he walked into a big tent, and suddenly a turbid breath rushed to his face, the blanket was covered with foul-smelling tattered bedding, and all corners were piled up with all kinds of cages and jars, which were obviously the only few bits of property left by these victims.

There were more than 20 women, children and old people lying in the big tent, but there were no young men, Yin Hongzhi explained hatefully: "This big tent robbed the grain of another big tent a few days ago, so the young men of this big tent were all locked up in the barracks. ”

The anger in Wei Zheng's heart rose, and his face became iron blue and ugly, and he didn't blame him for being angry, the officials and soldiers of the Great Sui didn't sleep for what? Isn't it just to keep the victims from going hungry? But these wicked people are good, not only do they cooperate restlessly, but they also provoke fighting, which is really damned.

When the tent saw a large group of officials entering, they were so frightened that they sat up and held their children tightly in their arms.

Wei Zheng saw a few injured old men sitting on the side, snorting like an uncle, and asked with a cold face, "What's the matter with you?" ”

Several old men said hesitantly: "I fell, I fell and hurt." ”

"Wei Shangshu, don't listen to his nonsense, these old men are not injured by a fall at all, they are injured." Gu Yan explained hatefully: "The six tents near here are from the same family, and these old men are the patriarchs of this family, they instigated the clansmen to grab the rations of other tents, but they were attacked by everyone's group, and thirteen people died, and these culprits were also broken legs. ”

Wei Zheng suddenly snorted coldly, looked at the few old men with white beards, and said fiercely with a fierce look in his eyes: "For this kind of thief who is difficult to change, in the future, if you encounter a person who kills someone, you will meet a clan and destroy a clan." The ban will be published. ”

A group of victims looked at Wei Zheng's murderous appearance, how dare they complain, and they were silent one by one.

"You remember it for me!" Wei Zheng coldly glanced at the victims whose faces had changed drastically, and thought of the situation where these culprits were served like uncles just now, and his heart swelled with anger: "Originally, as long as you hold on for a few days, the imperial court will settle you and give everyone twenty acres of land, so that the family can live in harmony and beauty." But your loved ones died before happiness came! Who caused the destruction of your family? I don't think it's anyone else, it's these old thieves who stirred up the fight, if it weren't for their greed, your relatives wouldn't have died. Therefore hate these men if you want. ”

Thinking of the thirteen perfect families shattered before happiness came, Wei Zheng's heart was furious, and he said angrily: "You are right to respect the elderly, but these bad people who have grown old are not worthy of your respect and are not worthy of your service. ”

In an instant, except for the close relatives of the 'thief old man', everyone looked at them with hatred, Wei Zheng ignored these gray-faced 'thief old men' and led the crowd to leave.

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