It took the laborers to move everything from noon to early evening.

During this period, Kou Ji, Liu Heng and others were not idle.

Kou Ji and the craftsmen of the house cleared a place in the mud, put wooden planks, and began to build a large stove for boiling water.

Liu Heng led people to pick up the walls of Ruisheng Garden and used the bricks and stones on the wall to create a huge pool.

Li Di arrived outside the North City Gate in the evening, and saw Kou Ji leading people to build a large stove and pool, so he stepped forward and asked, "What's the use of repairing these things?" ”

Kou Ji casually handed the mud embryo in his hand to a craftsman in the house, rubbed the sludge on his hands, and said, "Boil water, soak those homeless people, get rid of the cold on their bodies, and wash away the filth on their bodies, so that it is not easy to get plague." ”

When Li Di heard that the large stove and pond were built for the homeless people and to prevent the plague, he urged: "Then we should build more." Since you have picked up the west wall of Ruisheng Garden, then simply pick up the other three walls together.

The masonry is enough for you to build several large pools. ”

"The imperial court will not blame? Officials will not be impeached? ”

Kou Ji stared at Li Di suspiciously.

Demolishing the royal gardens is a felony.

If it weren't for Liu Heng's fact that he had already done something to Ruisheng Garden before he arrived outside the North City Gate, he would definitely not have touched the things in Ruisheng Garden.

Li Di glared and shouted: "Why not borrow the royal corner to shelter for the homeless?" If you are really worried about the impeachment of the officials, you can push this matter onto the old man, and the old man will bear it. ”

Kou Ji hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Then don't ......"

The reason why Kou Ji chased Li Di to ask about this matter was because he was afraid that Liu Heng would get into trouble because of the private destruction of the royal garden.

Now that I hear Li Di say this, it shows that during the special period, the crime of demolishing the royal garden is not heavy.

In that case, then there was no need for him to worry about it.

Li Di snorted, and shouted a few words to Liu Heng, who was leading his subordinates to dig the wall not far away, and asked Liu Heng to call more people, hurry up, and build the pool and stove quickly.

Seeing that Li Di was urging Liu Heng urgently, Kou Ji noticed something, he leaned in front of Li Di and asked in a low voice, "The homeless people are coming?" ”

Li Di's face was gloomy, and he nodded: "The scouts who went to investigate have returned, and the first batch of displaced people have already flocked to a place ten miles outside Bianjing City. Some people may come overnight, but a large number of displaced people should arrive in Bianjing tomorrow. ”

Kou Ji nodded solemnly and asked, "The food hasn't arrived yet?" ”

When it came to food, Li Di's face became even more ugly, "Those people who are killed by heaven deserve to die...... It has been almost three days since the documents of the imperial court were delivered, and their food has not yet arrived.

Little did they know that if they delayed for a moment, some displaced people would die. ”

Just as Li Di gritted his teeth and cursed, Mu Chong wiped the sweat on his forehead, panted and walked in front of Kou Ji, arched his hand, and said, "Kou Gong, the first batch of things has been unloaded."

The three of us won't stay here any longer, and we'll have to go back and urge the second and third batches of things. ”

Kou Ji hurriedly returned the salute and said, "It's hard to ......."

Mu Chong didn't say much, he arched his hand to Kou Ji and Li Di, and left the north gate of Bianjing City with his men.

Li Di looked at the distant backs of Mu Chong and the others, and frowned: "Are you using the power of the merchants to help you settle the displaced people?" ”

The Mu family's business is big enough, and they are imperial merchants, so the officials in the court have an impression of the Mu family.

Mu Chong has been entrenched in Bianjing City recently in order to be busy with the affairs of Jiaozipu, and Li Di has seen him once, so he knows his identity and background.

Kou Ji nodded and said, "Sort of......"

Li Di reminded in a deep voice: "The businessmen are cunning, valuing profit over righteousness, you cooperate with them, be careful that they swallow not even the bones and slag." ”

Kou Ji smiled indifferently: "But they are efficient enough to do things." I asked them for something and they quickly got it to me. ”

Li Di pondered for a moment, and then instructed Kou Ji: "Take the old man to take a look......

Kou Ji nodded, and led Li Di around the location of the pool and stove that had just been built, and arrived at the place where the other party's goods were not far from them.

The first thing that catches your eye is the neat stacks of wood, which are tied up by wet cowhide ropes, and are piled up in one piece.

Behind the wood, there are square piles wrapped in leather blankets.

There are hundreds of neat square piles.

Li Di looked at these things, stunned and stunned, he turned back and asked Kou Ji suspiciously, "What's inside?" ”

Kou Ji stared at the squares and said, "Medicinal herbs, lime, stones and other materials are wrapped in cow and sheepskin blankets to prevent moisture...... They were afraid that I would not have time to help the displaced people build a place to live, so the family added 3,000 tents. ”

"Medicinal herbs? Tent? Lime? Stone? ”

Li Di was stunned and repeated these four things.

Of the four, any one is more difficult to gather than food.

Li Di glanced at the squares with a complicated expression, put his hands behind his back, and left without saying a word.

After returning to the military tent at the south city gate, Li Di drafted a letter and threw it into the palace.

The palace quickly gave the reply.

The 800 miles of Dutingyi were expedited, and the documents approved by the imperial court were sent to the grain supervisors who escorted the grain and grass everywhere.

The content on the paperwork is simple.

The deadline is that tomorrow on the fifth watch, the advance grain transport teams will be dispatched everywhere to transport the grain to the outside of Bianjing.

An hour later, behead the grain officer.

Two hours late, cut the grain general.

Three hours late, behead the head and the head.

……

Five hours later, the battle was made in one piece.

After the five orders were issued to all the grain transport teams, the grain supervisors who escorted the grain and grass finally panicked, and they did not dare to delay on the road any longer, so they lit torches overnight and escorted the grain to Bianjing City.

When they encountered heavy water blocking the way, or silt blocking the way, they simply carried the food on their shoulders.

……

Li Di was stimulated at the North City Gate, and after he went back, he issued a five-beheading order, but Kou Ji didn't know about it.

After Li Di left.

Kou Ji found the craftsmen sent by Meng Weizhong, and together with the craftsmen from Kou's Mansion, Cao's Mansion, Liu's Mansion, and Li's Mansion, they began to plan the construction of houses in the open space at the North City Gate overnight.

Due to the large number of displaced people, it is impossible to pile them up in one go, nor can they build houses for them according to their heads.

So Kou Ji planned several areas and planned to resettle them separately.

The first to be erected were tents, which were temporary shelters for displaced people before they were built.

The construction of the house can only begin after the homeless people have arrived, and the young people have been selected from them.

But the area, Kou Ji has to plan first to avoid chaos.

In addition to setting up tents overnight, building pools and stoves, the craftsmen also used mud embryos to create several places where grains are reincarnated.

Kou Ji led the craftsmen until the next morning, when the sun was rising.

Li Di sent someone to tell Kou Ji, saying that the first batch of homeless people had arrived, so that Kou Ji could prepare early.

The displaced people from the south, east, and west would drink a bowl of hot porridge at the east, south, and west gates, and after warming their stomachs, they would be sent to the north gate where Kou Ji was located.

The displaced people from the north will be directly absorbed by Kou Ji.

There is also a porridge shed at the north gate, which is under the direct jurisdiction of Kou Ji.

The southwest should be the place most affected by the floods, so the first to flood Bianjing City were also the southwestern displaced people.

After begging for a bite to eat at the west and south gates, the homeless people were taken to the north gate.

When the first batch of displaced people were sent outside the North City Gate, some people in Bianjing City who were waiting to see Kou Ji's jokes, Wang Sun Gongzi, gathered outside the North City Gate one by one and stopped to watch.

Some of the princes and grandsons were also running back and forth on both sides of the procession of displaced people, as if they were looking at something new.

Kou Ji ordered Liu Heng and asked Liu Heng to take the people of the Imperial City Division and take them down.

The team of displaced people, led by an official, arrived in front of Kou Ji.

Kou Ji looked at those homeless people with mixed feelings in his heart.

They were not very much dressed in tatters, most of them had nothing, only some with pots and pans and the like, some carrying burdens with children in the burdens, and three or two people pushing wheelbarrows with wives, children, and mothers.

Maybe it's because they drank hot porridge at the gate of Nancheng before, so their faces are also ruddy, but they are a little dirty.

They were like frightened rabbits, and they looked scared when they saw everyone.

I don't speak, I just keep my eyes open and stare at you in unison.

The only thing that can be remembered at a glance is their white eyes without any emotion.

Under the gaze of the homeless, Kou Ji walked in front of the homeless people, and said loudly: "This official Kou Ji, I am the official of the Ministry of Management and Labor, and I am responsible for your future food, clothing, housing and transportation. ”

Kou Ji's voice landed, and the homeless people still looked at him in a daze, and no one spoke.

Kou Jiwei continued: "When you get to my jurisdiction, I hope you will follow my rules. ”

The outcasts still looked at him and did not speak.

Kou Ji stared at them and said, "Are there clan elders and village elders among you?" ”

Hearing Kou Ji ask the clan elder, there was some reaction among the homeless people.

Two elderly men, surrounded by the homeless, appeared in Kou Ji's eyes.

The two old men saw Kou Ji and saluted together.

One of the old men introduced: "Kou Gong Ministry, Xiao Lao'er is under the rule of Kaifeng Mansion, Xiangfu County, Xiaowang Township, Chen clan old Chen Jing. ”

Chen Jing pointed to the homeless people behind him and introduced Kou Ji: "Among these people, many of them are from my Xiaowang Township. ”

Another old man introduced: "Kou Gong Department, the student is under the rule of Kaifeng Mansion, Xiangfu County, Li Wang Township Elder, Wang Tiansheng. ”

Wang Tiansheng pointed to the displaced people behind him and said, "Among these people, most of them are the people of my Li Wangxiang who have been affected by the disaster. ”

Kou Ji listened to the introduction of the two and nodded thoughtfully.

He looked at Wang Tiansheng and asked, "In front of this official, you claim to be a student, but you have a meritorious reputation?" ”

Wang Tiansheng looked arrogant, but said humbly: "It's not a good reputation, during the Chunhua period, Taizong Kaienke took the scholar, and the student was lucky to be selected in the autumn of Kaifeng Mansion." ”

Hearing this, Kou Ji nodded slowly.

He instructed Chen Jing and Wang Tiansheng: "Since many of the victims are people from the township where the two of you live, then you two should cooperate with the officials and settle them." ”

"Little Lao'er (student) obeys."

Kou Ji told Chen Jing and Wang Tiansheng about the process of resettlement of displaced people.

When the two of them had finished listening, they roughly repeated it to the homeless people in very rough language.

The homeless people like to listen to the rough language of the two of them.

After the two of them explained to the homeless people what Kou Ji did and what they wanted to help the homeless, the homeless people looked at Kou Ji with more convincing.

So, whether Koji threw them into the lime-soaked pool or into the hot tub, they didn't complain.

After the homeless people had washed themselves, Koji gave them some clean clothes to change into, and then designated a tent for them to rest in.

Those who contracted diseases on the way were sent to the tents where the doctors were sitting for treatment.

After drinking a bowl of medicine to prevent diseases, young men and women who were free from disease and disaster were assigned to work by Kou Ji.

The young man, following the craftsmen, went to clean the wood, rammed the earth into a wall (tied with wooden posts, leaving a certain distance, filled with wet soil, and then beaten by manpower, little by little, into a wall).

Young and strong women were sent to cut the hay and pick up the dead branches and dead trees that had been washed down by the flood.

Some of the women were sent to a pool to wash the clothes that the displaced people had changed, and when they had dried them, they sewed and mended them for the next group of displaced people to wear.

Kou Ji found that with the cooperation of Chen Jing and Wang Tiansheng, the homeless people were surprisingly docile, and there were very few troublemakers, gossips, and complainers.

Occasionally, there were one or two gossips, and before Kou Ji could speak, Chen Jing and Wang Tiansheng would rush forward, give them a kick, and then pull out the eighteen generations of their ancestors and count them down, and they couldn't raise their heads when they scolded.

Kou Ji asked Liu Heng and Cao Tong to bring in the manpower to suppress the troubles among the homeless people, but it was useless.

Li Di came over once in the middle of the resettlement of the displaced people in Kouji.

He escorted a batch of grain and handed it over to Koji.

After telling Kou Ji how much time the food should be provided for the homeless, he left.

In fact, it was fake that he escorted the grain over.

Come and see how Koji resettles the homeless, it's true.

Seeing that Kou Ji had properly resettled the homeless people through the village elders and clan elders among the homeless people, he didn't say a word more.

Because in his eyes, all this that Kou Ji did was far better than any previous disaster relief by the imperial court.

He was convinced.

He just reminded Kou Ji in a low voice before leaving, "The first batch of displaced people who came over are fine, they haven't been hungry for too long, so they are easy to control." But the later displaced people are not so easy to control.

Remember to be careful......"