Chapter 113: The Choice of the Homeless
With food to feed the hungry, life is guaranteed at the most basic level. These homeless people are no longer in danger of starving to death, and Yang Yun and his men can finally focus on curing the diseases of these homeless people!
At the beginning, Yang Yun chose this Luerpo as the temporary residence of these displaced people, firstly, because the terrain here is high and there is still some distance from the county seat. Don't worry, the people of the county are infected by them. Another reason is that the terrain is open and relatively ventilated, which makes it easy to separate these displaced people according to the severity of their illness.
Some time ago, due to the severe absence of drugs. Although Yang Yun and these doctors in Wu County racked their brains, they still did not stop the spread of the disease. There are thousands of patients with more serious conditions, but in the end, their conditions are not controlled, and their lives are taken away by the disease.
In order to avoid these dead people, bring about a greater contagion. Yang Yun arranged for his subordinates to burn the bodies of these dead people on top of firewood. Then, buried deep in the ground.
With the passage of time, a steady stream of various medicinal materials were sent from all over Dafu, and with these medicinal materials, the condition of these displaced people was soon significantly improved.
Many young and vigorous patients are the first to recover due to their strong body resistance and faster recovery. These people were soon arranged by the people of the Wu County Government to collect medicine, mine, and grow grain in the mountains. As a result of doing these things, one can earn silver taels or grain. Therefore, the enthusiasm of these displaced people to participate is still very high.
More and more people are getting under control and even cured, giving great confidence to these displaced people who have suffered from the plague. Their lives were healed, and everyone rejoiced. began to actively cooperate with Yang Yun's subordinates, carry out treatment, and participate in all kinds of labor within his ability.
For people who are sick, the mood is very important, and maintaining an optimistic attitude is conducive to the recovery of the body. These homeless people looked at the hope, and their mood was much better, so the effect of the treatment was much better.
More and more displaced people have recovered their health. In the end, except for a few hundred patients who were particularly seriously ill and whose body's resistance was very weak, they did not recover, and the rest of the displaced people recovered their health.
The two or thirty thousand displaced people who were infected with the plague thought that this time, they would die in the face of this plague. I didn't expect that now, they can actually pick up a life, their mood, not to mention how happy.
At the same time, in the hearts of these displaced people, they are also full of gratitude to His Royal Highness King Wu and his subordinates, officials and doctors. In a short period of time, they also have a certain affection for the land of Wu County.
At the beginning, the reason why Yang Yun was willing to accept these displaced people, in addition to sympathizing with them, another reason was that because the area of Wu County was very large, but the population was very sparse, so he wanted to leave these displaced people in Wu County to supplement the population here.
Some time ago, while treating the condition of these displaced people, Yang Yun had already begun to make preparations and wanted to keep them in Wu County.
The people in the county government, from the people in Wu County who had been treated well some time ago and would no longer be infected by the plague, selected some girls and boys who could speak well, and set up several propaganda teams. They used folk songs, allegro, singing and dancing to publicize the benefits of Wu County to these displaced people in the place of Luerpo, so that they could really feel the attraction of Wu County to them.
After these displaced people improved, Yang Yun gave them a choice. Those who want to leave Wu County will never stay, but those who are willing to stay can enjoy the same policies as the people of Wu County. Here, they can be organized, and many wastelands can be cultivated in the mountains, and they can enjoy lower taxes than the surrounding counties.
In addition, Yang Yun also asked people to take these recovered homeless people to visit Wu County, so that they could take a look at the changes in Wu County, and see the living conditions and mental state of the people in Wu County.
Originally, these homeless people were full of gratitude to Yang Yun and his subordinates. At the same time, the work style of these officials in Wu County also left a deep impression on these displaced people. In the hearts of most of them, they have long been in love with this strange land.
Therefore, Yang Yun and his subordinates expressed the hope that these displaced people would stay in Wu County, and when they survived on this land, except for a very few displaced people who were difficult to leave their homeland, or who had relatives who were reluctant to be separated from the surrounding counties, most of them chose to stay in Wu County.
Not only that, but many people said that they wanted to return to their original places of residence, take their relatives and friends, and go to Wuxian County, a place full of hope, for development.
In this way, this once-in-a-century plague not only did not have much impact on Wu County. It also doubled the population of Wu County. With the addition of these displaced people, Wu County, which originally had a population of only more than 30,000, now has nearly 60,000 people.
Except for a small half of these displaced people, they want to go to the county seat of Wuxian County for development. Most people chose to stay in Luerpo. Everyone has developed feelings for this place that has allowed them to experience life and death. What's more, this place is open, and if you clear the grass and trees here, there will be a large area of land.
Although this place, due to the relatively high terrain, it is not very convenient to get water. But since it is between several large mountains, there are some troubles throughout the year except for the winter, this dry season. The other three seasons have springs at the top of the mountain, as well as water from melting snow flowing down the mountain and streams flowing down the mountain.
Regarding the problem of this water, Yang Yun and the others were very fast. Find a solution. They found a low-lying place. And some of the modifications were made to build a sizable reservoir. In the summer when water resources are abundant, a large amount of water is stored in this reservoir. With these reserves, they will be able to survive the most difficult winters.
Luerpo is not rich in water resources, so it is difficult to grow crops that require a lot of water, such as rice. But it is no problem to grow some crops that do not require too much water, such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, wheat, sorghum, etc.
In addition, the mountains in this place are also very rich in various resources, such as timber for building houses, all kinds of precious Chinese medicinal dishes, and all kinds of rare mineral resources.
As a result, there are about 10,000 displaced people who choose to live in Luerpo for a long time, and they soon regard this beautiful place as their new home, and devote themselves to the construction of their home with great enthusiasm.
Of course, to build a population gathering place suitable for more than 10,000 people on this land where there is nothing, there will definitely be various difficulties. With the efforts of Yang Yun and his men and these ordinary people, these difficulties were overcome one by one.
The population has increased considerably, and most of these people are young adults with strong resistance. From these young and middle-aged people, Liu Yuan and Chi Mu'er selected thousands of strong young people to join the ranks of county soldiers, making the county soldiers in Wu County exceed 10,000 for the first time.
Yang Yun divided these county soldiers into two parts, one part was led by Liu Yuan and stationed in Wu County, and the other part was only led by Chi Mu'er and stationed in Lu'erpo, plus Yan Xiong and Liu Haini, two gangsters from the cottage, forming the three major legions in Yang Yun's forces.
Since the war was about to break out, Yang Yun told Liu Yuan and Chi Mu'er, as well as Yan Xiong and Liu Haini, that they must strengthen the training of these soldiers on weekdays. It is expected that in the future war, they can become the backbone of protecting Wu County and even protecting Dafu.
With the continuous efforts of the doctors, coupled with Yang Yun's medicine, the effect is indeed very good. The last few hundred seriously ill displaced people. With the exception of a very few, which were not saved in the end, most of them recovered.
This menacing plague was completely driven away with the joint efforts of Yang Yun and his subordinates. This boulder, which was pressing on the hearts of the people of Wu County, was completely removed.
Without the threat of the plague, Yang Yun and his subordinates were in the eyes. It began to focus on the development of the economy of Wu County. Because of the impact of the plague some time ago, the economy of Wu County, which was already developing in a benign trend, has been seriously slowed down.
First of all, a large amount of grain and medicinal materials are consumed, which leads to the danger of starvation before the new grain is ripe this year.
In addition, due to the impact of the plague some time ago, merchants from all over Dafu did not dare to come and go to Wu County, resulting in many things produced by the people of Wu County not being able to sell. The Dafu aristocracy who likes to travel did not dare to come to this place in Wu County, which also affected the economic development of Wu County.
Now that there is finally no threat of the plague, the people of Wu County, who do not need Yang Yun's mobilization, have worked hard to act, and they want to get back all the things they lost a while ago as soon as possible.
A small number of homeless people were cured of their own diseases in Wu County. Although they had no choice, they stayed in Wu County to live. However, I have a deep sense of gratitude to this group of officials in Wu County, and I also have a strong affection for the land of Wu County.
So after these people left Wu County and returned to the place where they lived, they began to hype it up. Tell the people around you that there is such a group of officials in Wu County who really care about the life and death of the people and are willing to do things for the people.
Under the propaganda of these people, intentionally or unintentionally, some people who are not good in the surrounding famous counties have plans to start to develop in Wu County. There are also some businessmen who have never thought of coming to Wu County to do business before, and now they also have the idea of doing business in Wu County.
Thanks to the efforts of the people and officials of Wu County, Wu County, once the poorest and most remote county in Dafu, has produced a lot in other places. There are some good things that I have hardly seen, and these things are very good after being used by the people of Dafu.
As a result, more and more merchants came to Wu County and sold all kinds of things produced by the people of Wu County to all parts of Dafu, so that Dafu's economy quickly recovered and surpassed, before the plague.
Just when Yang Yun and his subordinates were gearing up to make a big move and make a bigger leap in Wu County's economy. The advent of a holy decree forced Yang Yun to embark on a new journey.