"Liu Gong."

With Jingnu, Cao An, Zhang Ji, Ma Cheng, and Zheng Yong, Zhao Yu quickly came to the place where Liu Wei was and bowed to the county magistrate of Luyang County.

"Second son."

Liu Wei valued the young Zhao Yu very much, and as a dignified county commander, he also returned the salute, and immediately stood side by side with Zhao Yu, and chatted: "The second son is worthy of being the second son, in the past few days, I have ordered the rest of the work sites to follow Zheng Xiang's side to change the system, and sure enough, not only the pressure on the supervisors of the supervision has been greatly reduced, but those who have been lazy and slippery in several work sites do not dare to be lazy anymore......"

Zhao Yu smiled slightly.

He actually knew that in the past few days, whether it was the Liu County Commander or his father Luyang Township, they had successively sent people to secretly check the situation of the Zheng Township Work Point, not that they didn't believe him, but they were making comparisons, learning from experience, and preparing to promote Zhao Yu's management methods to several other work points.

After thinking about it, Zhao Yu said to Liu Wei: "In fact, there is still one step away at the moment, that is the reward mechanism, at present, all the refugees in Zheng Township, no matter how much work, eat exactly the same meal, in fact, this is unreasonable, over time the refugees will be tired, so I think we should set up a reward mechanism, to give extra food to the team with more work, even meat, wine, but because this kind of materials are currently lacking, and it is about to enter the winter, so I did not implement it immediately, but decided to put it for the time being, Wait until next year's spring...... For now, I am thinking about building some shelters for these refugees, and I have already talked to the head of Zheng Township, isn't Zheng Xiang on the west side of the ditch pit? He allowed the refugees to build some houses on the east side of the pit, and the soil dug up in the past few days could also be used to pour some earthen walls to protect them from the cold wind when winter came. ”

After listening to Zhao Yu's words, Liu Wei nodded, and immediately praised him: "Listening to the words of the second son, it is really hard to imagine that the second son is still so young...... Second son, do what you want, and I will order the rest of the work sites to follow suit and follow the example of Zheng Xiang's side......."

I have to say that this Liu County Commander can make such a decision, and he really has a lot of trust in Zhao Yu.

Then, the two chatted a few more words, chatting and chatting, Zhao Yu finally couldn't help but ask a question that he had hidden in his heart for a long time: "Duke Liu, about the relief of the imperial court...... Or is it long delayed? ”

Hearing this, Liu Wei immediately frowned, and then shook his head and said, "No." …… It seems that the imperial court wants me to solve it on my own in Nanyang County. ”

"Nanyang County?"

"Ahh Liu Wei nodded and explained: "I Luyang, located in the north of Nanyang County, Nanyang County is a name in ancient times, most of the time it is called Wanjun, with Wancheng as the boundary, it can be roughly divided into two parts, Wanbei and Wannan, with our Wanbei side is fine, Wannan side is ......."

As he spoke, he sighed and shook his head.

Hearing this, Zhao Yu suddenly remembered what Liu Wei had said at the beginning, and asked curiously: "I heard Liu Gong say a few days ago that there is a war going on in Wannan, and it seems that there is a general named Wang Shangde?" ”

"Hmm."

"Can you tell me more about it?"

"This ......" Liu Wei hesitated for a moment, but in the end, he still nodded.

I saw him take a slight breath, stroked his beard and said, "Does the second son know Nanjun?" ”

"If it's the same as my world, it should be south of Nanyang, right?"

Thinking secretly, Zhao Yu shook his head: "I don't know." ”

"In the south of Wanjun, in ancient times it was the territory of the Chu State, a few years ago, the Nanjun rebellion, there was a rebellion calling himself the king of Chu, self-established Chu State, under the slogan of 'overthrowing the violent Jin', sent rebels to invade my Wanjun, in just a few months, Wannan gradually fell, after learning of this, the imperial court sent General Wang Shangde to lead the army to Wancheng, to kill the rebellion. …… After Wang Shangde arrived in Wanjun, he won several battles and curbed the offensive of the rebels, but the rebels were outnumbered, based on Nanjun, and still often invaded Wannan, until today, Wang Shangde still failed to completely defeat the rebels and drove the rebels back to the south of the river. ”

Zhao Yu was shocked when he heard this.

A rebellion has reached the point of self-reliance, which shows that its scale is not small.

He was puzzled and asked, "Does this have anything to do with the court's almsgiving?" ”

Liu Wei sighed and said with a wry smile: "Wang Shangde and the rebels of Nanjun have been fighting for several years and have spent countless money and food, but even so, the imperial court cannot ignore Wang Shangde's army. …… Compared with disaster relief, the army on the front line is more important after all, right? So in recent years, the imperial court has continuously transported materials to Wancheng to support Wang Shangde to quell the rebellion, although Wang Shangde has a great record, but the rebels are like carp across the river, in desperation, Wang Shangde has recruited strong men in Wannan......"

Zhao Yu was slightly stunned, and suddenly thought of Ma and other refugees.

He originally wondered why there were so many orphans and widows among this group of refugees, and it stands to reason that even if someone died during the escape, it would not be possible to die so many young and strong people at once, right?

Obviously, orphans and widows like Ma should have fled from Wannan - they may have fled from Wannan to Wanbei first, and then when Wang Shangde was collecting grain in northern Wanbei, he continued to flee north, and finally fled to the northernmost county seat of Nanyang County, such as Luyang County and Yecheng.

"Is the rebellion in Nanjun very large?" Zhao Yu asked Liu Weidao.

"It's huge." Liu Yi nodded and explained: "Because the rebels occupy not only Nanjun, like Jiujiang, which has long been occupied by the rebels, Liu does not know what the specific situation is, but as far as Liu knows, the rebels are extremely powerful in Jiangnan, and only Jiangdong is currently under the control of my Great Jin......" Saying, he lowered his voice and admonished: "Don't spread these things, so as not to cause turmoil." ”

"The kid knows it." Zhao Yu nodded, and then couldn't help but ask, "Why did it cause a rebellion of that scale?" ”

Hearing this, Liu Wei's eyes flickered slightly, and then he shook his head and said, "I don't know this." ”

As soon as he heard this, Zhao Yu knew what Liu Wei should know, but he didn't dare to tell him because he had scruples.

Seeing this, he didn't want to ask any further, so he took the initiative to divert the topic and asked Liu Wei: "If this is the case, there should be a lot of refugees from Wannan and even Wanbei who will flock to my Luyang County next, as long as that General Wang still fails to completely defeat the rebels...... Can't you let Wancheng think of a way? ”

Zhao Yu shook his head and said with a wry smile: "The officials of Wancheng almost all died when the rebels attacked Wancheng a few years ago, and now it is Wang Shangde's garrison in Wancheng, the second son, you also know, he is a general sent by the imperial court to quell the rebellion, he only cares about quelling the rebellion, and he doesn't care about what will happen to my Wancheng, look at these refugees who fled into my Luyang County, these are the results of Wang Shangde's wanton recruitment of strong men and wanton harvesting of grain and grass, we can only rely on ourselves." ”

Hearing Liu Wei's words, Zhao Yu suddenly realized.

He originally thought it was strange, logically speaking, disaster relief should be led by the imperial court and the county government.

It turned out that the county government of his Nanyang County had already collapsed, and General Wang Shangde, who was in his place, didn't care about the stability of Nanyang County at all, he only wanted to be able to quell the rebellion.

"Just like the second prince said, at present, Wanbei, there are only one or two counties such as Yecheng and Luyang that are still stable, although we should thank Wang Shangde for blocking the rebels' offensive in Wannan, but ......" said, Liu Wei shook his head and continued: "In short, the matter of settling the refugees can only be found by our county itself, and the imperial court is still vigorously supporting Wang Shangde, and there is no time to worry about us in a short time...... Even, my Luyang County is small, like Yecheng, it is said that Wang Shangde not only did not send people to help Yecheng stabilize the influx of local refugees, but also asked Yecheng to collect a batch of grain and grass for him, compared with Yecheng, my Luyang County is lucky. …… That's right. ”

Speaking of Yecheng, Liu Jian seemed to think of something, and said to Zhao Yu with a smile: "I sent people to Yecheng a few days ago, and Yecheng also began to follow my example in Luyang County to work for relief......"

Zhao Yu was also very happy when he heard it: "Really? In this case, even if Ye Cheng can't help me Lu Yang share some of the burden, at least I Lu Yang don't have to worry about the refugees from there pouring here. ”

"Yes." Liu Wei stroked his beard and nodded, but then said melancholy: "It's just that I'm a little worried about Yecheng's grain storage, my Luyang is just a small county, Wang Shangde may not be able to see it, but Yecheng is a big county, if Wang Shangde ignores Yecheng's situation and forcibly orders Yecheng to recruit a batch of money and grain for him, I'm worried that something will happen......"

"Will you?" Zhao Yu asked with some consternation: "Listening to what Gong Liu meant, then Wang Shangde has already made a mess of Wanbei, will he still extend his hand to Yecheng?" Does the court care? ”

"Hmph." Liu Wei snorted lightly and said: "Wang Shangde, although he can fight, but he never cares about the people's livelihood, he doesn't have a good reputation in the first place, but like I said, he can fight, so even if he does some forbidden behavior, the court will eventually acquiesce, after all, that guy has fought well in the past two years, killing more than 100,000 rebels...... But according to me, God knows if there's an element of lying here, ahem. ”

In the end, he pretended to cough when he realized that he had lost his words.

Seeing this, Zhao Yu didn't ask any more questions.

After a while, Liu Wei said goodbye and left, it turned out that he came to Zhengxiang today, just to see the changes in Zhengxiang Gongdian, and to praise Zhao Yu in person, and thank Zhao Yu for his contribution in person, otherwise how can he have time to chat with a ten-year-old child for a long time?

After Liu Wei left, Zhao Yu looked at the refugees who were working hard in the distance, recalling the things that Liu Wei had just revealed to him.

Judging from the current situation, his Nanyang County is basically paralyzed, Wannan is the worst, Wanbei is slightly better, but it is not much better, only a small county like his Luyang County, which is on the northern border of Nanyang County, is currently the most stable in the county.

But it is conceivable that as long as Wang Shangde has not completely defeated the rebellion and Nanyang County cannot be stabilized, then there will be a steady stream of refugees to Luyang.

Luyang and Yecheng may be the last pure land in the entire Nanyang County.