Compared with Chen Jing, he saw more and cared more about it.

"You're going to go back to farming in the spring?"

Kou Ji stared at Wang Tiansheng and Chen Jing with a questioning expression.

Wang Tiansheng and Chen Jing glanced at each other and shook their heads in unison.

Kou Ji said with some surprise: "It is said that the people take food as the sky, and you don't want to go back to farming?" ”

Chen Jing rubbed his hands, his wrinkled face was squeezed into a ball, and said with a wry smile: "Of course, Little Lao'er knows that the people take food as the sky, and he also knows that farming is what we little people should do.

It's just that a flood has made us bankrupt.

Even if it was spring and the court asked us to go back to farming, we would have to wait until autumn to have a harvest.

From spring to autumn, we can't live during this period. ”

Chen Jing looked back at the tent not far behind him, and sighed: "I don't know how many people will need to sell their sons and daughters to beg for rations." If you can't keep it, it will ......"

Speaking of which, Chen Jing couldn't go on.

Wang Tiansheng added with a heavy face: "Eat tree bark, chew tree roots, and gnaw Guanyin soil...... Cannibalism ......"

Chen Jing sighed, an ugly smile squeezed out of his old cheeks, and said to Kou Ji: "Our Great Song Dynasty is much stronger than the Zhou Dynasty at that time......

Kou Ji was stunned, not understanding what Chen Jing meant by this.

Wang Tiansheng frowned and said to Chen Jing: "Those words that compliment the imperial court don't need to be said in front of the Ministry of Kougong.

The Ministry of Kou Gong is different from other officials. ”

Chen Jing was stunned, smiled dryly, and nodded.

Only then did Kou Ji react, what Chen Jing said just now was the scene.

Kou Ji smiled indifferently: "In front of this official, there is no need to be restrained or complimented. ”

Chen Jing arched his hand and said, "The lesson of the Kou Gong Department is ......"

Kou Ji nodded and continued: "According to the will of the imperial court, I will give you a ration to support you until the spring of next year. ”

Hearing this, Chen Jing and Wang Tiansheng's faces changed.

Kou Ji smiled: "But you don't need to worry, I have already asked you from the imperial court." ”

Chen Jing and Wang Tiansheng were stunned when they heard this, and looked at Kou Ji with a stunned expression.

Chen Jing cautiously asked, "After the spring, the Kou Gong Department plans to support us?" ”

Without waiting for Kou Ji to speak, Wang Tiansheng glared at Chen Jing with the corners of his mouth twitching, but did not speak.

He felt that Chen Jing was a little whimsical.

With the financial resources of the imperial court, they are only willing to support them until the spring of next year.

Can Kou Ji be richer than the imperial court?

Can you support them for more than half a year?

Chen Jing was glared at by Wang Tiansheng, and he also realized that he had said the wrong thing, and his face was unnatural.

Kou Ji didn't care, but said with a smile: "It's not impossible to provide for you." ”

Chen Jing and Wang Tiansheng's eyes widened for a moment, as if they had heard something unbelievable.

Wang Tiansheng reminded in a deep voice: "Among us, the number of old and weak women and children is more than that of young and strong......

Wang Tiansheng was reminding Kou Ji that more than half of them were homeless and couldn't do anything for him.

Kou Ji chuckled in a low voice: "It's out of the way......"

Chen Jing and Wang Tiansheng glanced at each other, looking shocked.

The two of them pondered for a long time, forcibly suppressed the shock in their hearts, and said to Kou Ji: "Since the Ministry of Kou Gong is willing to support all of us, then we will naturally listen to the Ministry of Kou Gong." ”

Kou Ji pretended to be joking and said: "I'm afraid that I have supported you for more than half a year, and when the time comes to use you, you will have to go back to farming." ”

When Chen Jing and Wang Tiansheng heard Kou Ji's words, their faces were very ugly.

Kou Ji's worries are not unreasonable.

The vast majority of the displaced people have been farming for generations.

Cultivating land has penetrated deep into their bone marrow, and in the hearts of many of them, farming life is far more solid than any life.

Chen Jing gritted his teeth and said, "As long as the Ministry of Kou Gong can give us a long-term livelihood, Xiao Lao'er will definitely try his best to let more people stay." ”

Wang Tiansheng didn't promise anything, but just said, "The students will try their best to persuade the people to stay......"

Seeing that the atmosphere was a little heavy, Kou Ji grinned, "It's too early to say this, we haven't settled all the victims yet. We'll talk about this after we've settled all the victims. ”

Chen Jing and Wang Tiansheng seemed to be relieved, the expressions on their faces were much more natural, and they nodded in unison.

Kou Ji waved his hand, "Let's go back and rest...... Tomorrow we will have to take in more victims. ”

Chen Jing and Wang Tiansheng agreed, and each went back to their respective tents to sleep.

Kou Ji instructed the officials to lead the selected young men to do a good job of patrolling.

Then, he took Cao Tong and returned to the place where the grain and grass were stacked.

In the next few days, as the displaced people continue to come, food will become the focus of the displaced people, and it will also become the key object of Kou Ji and others.

The amount of food distributed by the imperial court was sufficient, and it was only enough for the displaced people to eat two meals a day, and drink a bowl of gruel for each meal.

There will definitely be a lot of people who don't have enough to eat, and they will be worried about this food when the time comes.

So Koji must guard this grain.

In the corner where the grain was stacked, a tent was set up, and three beds were placed in the tent.

One belongs to Kou Ji, one belongs to Liu Heng, and one belongs to Cao Tong.

After entering the tent, Cao Tong sat on his bed, stretched his waist, and asked Kou Ji curiously, "Fourth brother, why did you say that to Chen Jing and Wang Tiansheng just now?" ”

"That's that?"

These are the words of the victims who ran back to farming. You yourself said that it was too early to discuss that issue, so why should you discuss it? ”

Cao Tong looked suspicious.

Kou Ji sat on the bed, took off his boots, shook the dirt on the boots, and said with a smile: "Just give them an explanation in advance." Let them think about it in their hearts, think about it, and then help me do it.

I have to let the victims think of me and help me do things.

Otherwise, after the spring of next year, the imperial court will let them go back to their hometowns to farm, and they won't all run away?

Won't I be busy in vain? ”

Cao Tong exclaimed: "The fourth brother thinks really long-term...... At present, the victims of the disaster have not been properly settled, and the fourth brother has thought about the question of where the victims will stay in the future. ”

Koji took off his coat, lifted the quilt from the bed, and lay in.

After covering the quilt, he said to Cao Tong: "Go to sleep...... From tomorrow onwards, we will probably be very busy, and it will not be easy to get a good night's sleep. ”

Cao Tong agreed, followed Kou Ji's example, took off his boots and coat, and lay down in the bed.

After lying down, Cao Tong called the official standing guard outside the door to come in and blew out the candles in the tent.

In the middle of the night.

Liu Heng came back from Bianjing City, got into the tent, lay on the bed, and fell asleep with a snort.

Following.

It's not dawn yet.

Li Di sent someone to send a group of displaced people.

The three of them got up and rubbed their faces, woke everyone up, and began to settle the homeless.

With the help of Chen Jing, Wang Tiansheng and other clan elders and village elders, and led by the first batch of displaced people yesterday, Kou Ji and others did not need to do anything, and the displaced people consciously began to wash, drink medicine, and work.

The walls are rammed with wet earth, and they are being raised at a speed that is visible to the naked eye.

By the evening of the second day, the walls of the first houses had been formed.

The firewood and hay that the women had gathered had been piled up into hills.

The laundry that the women washed was lined up in rows and rows.

Some of the people who were waiting to see Kou Ji's joke left the gate of the northern city in disappointment after sending someone to observe the movement of the homeless people's settlement.

Kou Ji's resettlement of the displaced people not only did not go wrong, but did better than ever.

At least, since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, none of the many examples of resettlement of displaced people can be compared with Kou Ji.

After dark.

There was a strife.

The cause was an argument between two women over the snatching of a wooden bowl, which eventually led to the husbands behind the backs of both parties attacking each other and injuring people.

Kou Ji and others rushed to the scene as soon as possible.

Chen Jing, Wang Tiansheng and others unanimously decided to kick the two families out of the place where the displaced people were staying.

But Koji didn't do that.

He first comforted the two arguing women and the crying children who were hiding on the sidelines, and then asked the doctor to intervene and treat the injuries of the two men who had done it.

In the end, Liu Heng sent the two of them to a windowless house to recuperate.

Since neither of them was seriously injured, it was planned that they would rest in the house for three days.

The displaced people were convinced and approved of Koji's verdict.

As a result, there were three or five fist and foot fights in succession that night.

Kou Jidu used the original treatment method and sent them to recuperate.

In the hearts of some victims who like to cheat and play tricks, Kou Ji's approach is not only not punishing them, but providing them with opportunities to be lazy in disguise.

Chen Jing, Wang Tiansheng and others have advised many times, but Kou Ji has not adopted them.

After a fight, people are still dealt with in this way.

After returning to the tent in the evening.

Liu Heng asked Kou Ji very incomprehensibly, "Fourth brother, if you do this, it won't play a role in punishing people at all." The victims will only see this as a way to escape their work, and to be lazy. ”

Kou Ji glanced at Liu Heng and said indifferently, "When did you see me do something useless?" ”

Cao Tong said curiously: "Fourth brother, do you have any other intentions in doing this?" ”

Kou Ji asked Liu Heng to move a brazier and put it in the tent, and then said indifferently: "Why is it that a small country and a small country are far better to control than a big country?" It's because the more people, the more things, the more troubles, and the more friction.

More than 30,000 people have been resettled here.

The 30,000 victims of the disaster are piled up together, and it is naturally easy to have quarrels and contradictions, and it is inevitable that they will fight and make trouble.

So this kind of thing can't be put an end to at all.

Even if you pull them all out and hit the board, it's bloody.

When they turn around and heal their wounds, they will still make trouble. ”

Liu Heng said viciously: "Then cut it all!" ”

Kou Ji and Cao Tong looked at him with stunned expressions.

Liu Heng snorted: "Am I not right? I still don't believe it, can they not be afraid of death? ”

Cao Tong added a piece of charcoal to the brazier and said disdainfully: "Do you think those victims are the servants of your Liu Mansion, and you can kill them if you want to?" ”

Kou Ji reminded: "Outside Bianjing, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, they are all peasants, protected by the laws of the imperial court, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty are staring at it." As long as they don't kill people, you can't kill them. ”

Cao Tong took Kou Ji's words and said, "If there is a murder in various places, the magistrates are not qualified to execute the prisoners without authorization. The prisoners need to be taken to Bianjing City, and after being interrogated by Bianjing City, they can only be executed in the autumn.

During this period, whenever a prisoner complains about injustice, the court must remand the case for retrial.

And a murderer, during the interrogation, can cry out twice.

The imperial court is still the same for those who are executed for murder, let alone those ordinary people.

If you really kill them when they didn't commit a murder.

The Imperial Historians will surely impeach you. ”

Liu Heng glared and said, "They disturbed the resettlement of the victims, shouldn't they be killed?" ”

Cao Tong spread out his hand and said, "Although Gong Kou said on the vertical arch hall that those who disturb the resettlement of the victims can be cut first and then played. But the papers of the inner court were not handed over to us. but in the hands of Li Gong.

In other words, the only person who can cut first and then play is Li Gong. ”

Liu Heng shouted: "There are so many lives stuffed in the Jinshui River, and I haven't seen the court investigate it. ”

Cao Tong closed his mouth and stopped talking.

Kou Ji didn't open his mouth to help Liu Heng solve his doubts.

There are so many lives stuffed into the Jinshui River, it is because the identities of the people stuffed into the Jinshui River are different, and the identities of the people who rushed to the Jinshui River are also different.

Although the imperial court has always advocated people-oriented, it has also formulated a series of people-oriented laws.

But it doesn't bind everyone.

For example, some officials in the DPRK and China believe that the sedan chair is the use of people as a beast and should be banned, but they themselves have not given up the sedan chair.

Liu Heng hummed and lowered his head and thought for a while, figuring out the joints.

He raised his head, stared at Kou Ji and said, "Do you just let those thorns make trouble?" With them stirring up, can the victims be okay? ”

Kou Ji shook his head and smiled, "That's not it...... Most of the victims are still fine, as long as they are given a mouthful of food, they will do whatever they want. Those thorns are just a small group of people.

Now, it's time for the two of you to help. ”

Kou Ji got up, bypassed the brazier in front of him, walked to the table in the tent, took out two pages, and handed them to Liu Heng and Cao Yan.

"These are the few ordinances I have drawn up for the management of the victims in accordance with the laws of the imperial court. Tomorrow, the two of you will send out your servants to manage the victims along with the village elders and clan elders.

Anyone who encounters a disturbance will be dealt with in accordance with the method I have dealt with before. ”

Liu Heng read the instructions on the paper, frowned, and said, "Fourth brother, you just locked them up and didn't teach them a lesson, isn't this encouraging them to make trouble in disguise?" ”

Cao Yan took the paper and nodded: "The heaviest punishment is only for fifteen days." If they want to be lazy, they just need to make trouble, get into a fight, and then go to the house and stay comfortably. If it were me, I would have made trouble. ”

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