Jinyang City is very large, with twenty-four gates.

The curfew patrol in the city is carried out by the three Huangzhuang Tun garrisons in the east, south and north outside Jinyang City, and 300 soldiers are assigned to each battalion every ten days to take turns on duty, which can be regarded as responsible for the defense and security of Jinyang City.

Li Qi's 1,000 guards were forbidden and were only responsible for the security of the imperial city and the Jin Palace.

The guards were cavalry, and the equipment of the cavalry was much more complex than that of the infantry army.

The equipment of the guards was actually a large expense, and Li Qi equipped each of his guards with a riding knife. The body of the riding knife is long, similar to the Tang knife, but slightly curved, and the style is similar to the Yanling knife of later generations.

In addition, the armor and the riding bow, plus the riding spear, the appearance of this body is bright, and the value is more than 150 yuan. If you add war horses, Li Qi estimates that with the current annual income of Taiyuan Mansion, it can support three or four thousand cavalry at most.

The cavalry spent a lot of money, did not have enough financial resources, and simply could not afford to feed it.

After the Tang Dynasty destroyed the Liang, the most powerful period was only more than 20,000 cavalry.

As for the so-called "cavalry" on the steppe, they are actually shepherds on horseback, and this kind of heavily armed cavalry can fight at least five of them against the kind of "steppe cavalry" with only simple leather armor.

In the era of cold weapons, cavalry was the most powerful type of troops by virtue of its strong mobile combat ability.

Li Qi asked Yuan Ren from Yuan Xingqin's subordinates to come over as his personal general, and let him be responsible for the training of his own guards and pro-army. As for how to train, Li Qi can't care so much, and he can't give any good advice anyway.

Due to the severe drought in summer, the annual scenery and harvest in various parts of the river and winter are not very good, and some prefectures and counties have also suffered from drought and locust plagues.

Yin Zhangxian of Taiyuan Prefecture took emergency measures to open porridge shacks outside the city to help the hungry, but did not allow the displaced people to enter, fearing that it would disturb order in the city.

However, with several heavy snowfalls, the displaced people had difficulty surviving in various places, and there were more and more hungry people around Jinyang, so Zhang Xian ordered the Jinyang garrison army to increase from the original 300 people on duty to 500 people, and strictly guarded, and at the same time, several porridge sheds set up outside the city became larger and larger.

When Li Qi returned to Jinyang from Luzhou, the first thing he had to solve was the problem of these displaced people.

On the ninth day of November, a group of more than 3,000 hungry people arrived outside Jinyang City, and Li Qi also gathered officials from Taiyuan Prefecture in the Chongzheng Hall to discuss disaster relief and resettlement of displaced people.

The atmosphere in the hall was a little dull, and Zhang Xian, Zhang Shu, Lu Bi, Cao Xin and others present were silent, unable to think of any good way to come out.

After a while, Li Qicai sighed and said: "Mencius said: The people are precious, the society is secondary, and the monarch is light. It is a sin of a king not to allow the people under his rule to live in peace and contentment. These victims can be temporarily sheltered, incorporated into the army, and after the beginning of spring, the tuntian can be implemented in the vicinity of Taiyuan. ”

Zhang Xian went out and said: "Your Majesty, there is not much money and food left in Taiyuan Mansion, and besides, I have to raise tens of thousands of troops, I am afraid it will be difficult to bear." At this, he shook his head.

The financial situation of Taiyuan Prefecture, he knows best, however, the treasury is empty, only part of the annual endowment was collected in the autumn, it was difficult to support the Yangliang Sanguan and Zhaoyi Army, and it was necessary to help Tonghua Erzhou in the Guanzhong, and there was no extra money and food at all.

Li Qi pondered for a moment, and then looked at Zhang Shu: "There is still some surplus grain in the five imperial villages around Jinyang, including Yangqu, which can accommodate some of the victims. In addition, a part of the young people were recruited to go to Gujiao, where mining and iron smelting also required a large number of manpower. I will find a way to find money and food, and I need to properly resettle these victims. ”

Lu Bi breathed a sigh of relief: "Your Majesty is benevolent, and you can actually mobilize officials and wealthy households in the city to donate." ”

Li Qi shook his head: "This matter is done according to the rules, and it cannot be forced, but the prime minister can come forward and borrow some from the rich families in the city, even if it is borrowed by me." This year, more than 15,000 hectares of winter wheat have been sown in several Huangzhuang, and after the summer harvest next year, I will come forward to guarantee that it will be returned. ”

Zhang Xian said: "The ministers obey the order, in this way, the pressure on Taiyuan Mansion will be reduced a lot." ”

"The porridge shack outside the city should be inspected frequently, and the porridge should be given twice a day, which must be guaranteed. There is also the problem of heating for the victims, and the Jinyang Prison has accumulated a lot of charcoal this year, and temporarily distributed a part of it to the victims for heating by making fires. ”

Cao Xin said: "Let's settle it first, there is a fire in the grass shed, which is easy to cause a fire." ”

Li Qi nodded, and then looked at Zhang Shu: "This matter will be implemented as soon as possible by the Jin Wangfu and Master Cao." ”

After implementing the disaster relief matter, Li Qi changed into civilian clothes, took a few guards, and left Jinyang Palace.

Maybe I watched too many TV dramas in my previous life and was preparing to pay a visit to Weifu, but Zhang Shu, the eunuch of Jinyang Palace, stopped him for a long time.

The carriage traveled to Yingze Gate in the southwest of Jinyang, and Li Qi ordered the carriage to stop and wait in the city, and only took a few guards to walk out of the city.

The northern part of Jinyang is dominated by grazing, and the disaster is not particularly serious, and most of the displaced people come from several prefectures and counties in the south of Jinyang.

Under the outer city wall of Yingze Gate, this camp inhabited by displaced people was newly established.

Taiyuan Mansion set up a camp camp in Jinyang at the beginning of winter, and gave porridge twice a day, and the disposal was timely, but I didn't know how to settle it.

At that time, the original government also used to give porridge in winter, and after the beginning of spring, persuaded the displaced people to return to their hometowns to continue farming.

Due to the heavy snow and low temperatures this winter, the days of the displaced people in the wild are even more difficult.

After the heavy snowfall, the homeless people could only hide in the huts of the camp and shiver from the cold, and they did not even dare to stay outside for a while except for the time of soup kitchen.

When Li Qi came to the camp camp outside Yingzemen, it was almost noon, just in time for the soup kitchen.

More than a dozen cauldrons were steaming, and what was boiling inside was hot rice porridge. Around the cauldron, there were just dense hungry people, who lined up, holding their own clay bowls, wooden bowls or clay pots, all kinds of containers, one after another stepped forward to receive porridge.

The officials of Taiyuan Mansion are maintaining order, all of them are like fierce gods and evil spirits, and their attitudes are bad. Li Qi knew that the people in the public gate were so virtuous, and they couldn't treat the homeless people with a pleasant face, so he didn't bother to reprimand them face-to-face. However, the rice porridge boiled in the cauldron is not thin, and it almost meets the above requirements.

Li Qi knew that the corn for disaster relief was mixed with sand before boiling the porridge, in order to prevent the poor people in the city from receiving the porridge under false names. Even this cannot be stopped, and it is inevitable that there will be poor households in the city pretending to be disaster victims. This can only be done by them, this corn porridge for disaster relief is difficult for ordinary people to swallow, and what can be drunk is almost enough for the standard of relief.

He walked around the camp and was about to return to the city, when he saw a man dressed as a swaggering butler, who had been led into the camp by two puffers, pointing at the crowd of porridge, followed by a few sturdy men with swords.

Well, it's more like a bully, Li Qi's childlike heart is still in his heart, and he suddenly comes to the spirit......