Chapter 257: Busy Akagi
The next three days were the busiest for everyone in Akagi. If you want to say that you are almost tired of becoming a dog, you will count Yin Xian and Dong Zhuang.
The 30,000 Han people who were rescued from the Khitans have to be taken care of by Yin Xian, and this is not counting, how many people in Chicheng will be sent one after another, and he is a clear man. The Khitan people still owe 170,000 people, and in the entire fifteen or six counties of Yunzhou, there are 30,000 people in Qingzhuang alone, and there are almost 100,000 people counting the family members, and the family members of the 3,000 iron armor under Huang Wu's hands have been counted, and there are 15,000 people, and there are 10,000 people on Huolong Island, and almost 350,000 people have to solve the living and housing problems, which is still the result of Qin Wang's order Liu Jian not to bring people from Xinzhou.
350,000 people, everyone doesn't know what this concept is, but Yin Xian knows. Now all the land in Chicheng and Yexian alone is not enough to resettle these people, but Qin Forget also ordered that no cultivated land should be occupied, which is sad.
Yin Xian is also a little anxious, since he can't settle one family at a time being, then separate all their men, women, and children and go to live in Datongpu. All the young and strong laborers were distributed to the two counties of Chicheng, the wharf, the roadside, the monkey nest and the major construction sites of the iron mine.
A shack where dozens of people live is stuffed everywhere, and there are stitches and needles in it, on the flat ground, in the valley, on the gentle slope, and even on the newly developed land of the monkey nest, as long as there is open space, the big one will build a big shack, and the small one will build a small shack, anyway, don't let the open space be wasted. The rest of the old and weak women and children are concentrated in Chicheng and Yexian counties and a few miles around them, which are also all shacks, but they are a little more fine, from the air, in addition to the city wall, the two counties are all shacks of the same size as tortoise shells, covering the two counties tightly.
Yin Xian specially asked Qin Forget to approve and let all the laborers in Chicheng stop work for ten days, and nearly 60,000 laborers were divided into 2,000 groups to build the shack with all their might, and these laborers were only responsible for the construction of the shack pillars and the shack roof, and the other delicate and time-consuming work was handed over to the follow-up old and weak women and children to complete. With great rewards and strict supervision, a group of thirty is particularly efficient. It only takes two days to build a large shack, ten days is 10,000, and one shack can accommodate an average of 20 people, which is barely enough.
The shacks are enough, and the more than 300,000 people must eat, drink, and lazar, so pots and pans, clothes and bedding must also be prepared. This is different from building a shack, the monkey nest has been developed for a long time, and there are all kinds of wood, and there is no shortage of raw materials, but those things are different, they all have to be ready-made, which makes Yin Xian crazy again.
Pots and pans are good to say, and you can order the craftsmen of Akagi to make them with all their might. But the futon did not work, for no other reason, there was not enough cotton cloth or fur. Even if Yin Xian transferred all the tens of thousands of furs in Qin Wang's inventory, it would only meet one-tenth of his needs.
Although these migrants brought their own bedding, he did not dare to use it. With so many people of unknown health gathered together, who knows if there will be a catastrophe like the plague? Those bedding are not allowed to be used directly without selection and washing, so there is a huge gap. He really had no choice, so he had to apply for tens of thousands of taels of silver from Qin Wang, and buy cotton cloth, cotton and other things on a large scale.
It can be said that hundreds of thousands of people have to be in charge of eating, drinking, and Lazar, and his work seems simple, but only he knows how cumbersome and troublesome it is. He barely slept for days to figure things out.
Dongzhuang is also busy enough, and the pastures at the foot of Taihang Mountain are only more than 50 miles away from Chicheng, and they are not far away. When Dong Zhuang arrived there with Jin Sen, the first trouble he faced was the conflict with the locals. Although it was assigned to Qin Forget by Helin, the residents there did not agree. Come to think of it, no one will be happy that their home has suddenly become someone else's.
Therefore, as soon as Dong Zhuang and Jin Sen arrived, the five tribes and some individual people there were united, men and women went into battle, and almost 3,000 people confronted Dong Zhuang's soldiers. Dong Zhuang only had 2,000 infantry under his command, and he didn't dare to fight those people easily. Those people may be afraid of their families or afraid of Akagi's retaliation, but they also can't bear it. After all, Qin Wang's murderous reputation for killing 1,600 prisoners of war has long been spread, and in the northern land of Dayan, it is a bit exaggerated to say that Qin Wang's two words can stop children's night crying, but it is almost the same.
In the end, Dong Zhuang really couldn't, this was an irreconcilable contradiction after all, he had to temporarily keep the war horses, cattle and sheep in captivity, on the one hand, send someone to report to Qin Wang, and on the other hand, send someone to negotiate with Helin, asking Helin to evacuate all the residents of these pastures.
But his pleas for help and negotiations ended in disappointment. Qin Wangna ignored it, gave him full authority to deal with it, and sincerely tested his ability. He Lin simply used the excuse that these people were not subject to He Lin's discipline and were not considered He Lin's people, and drove the messenger back. Both parties were reluctant to intervene, so that the newcomer Dong Zhuang was blinded, and there was no progress for several days.
Later, Wang Ping offered a plan, it was better to pretend to confront the five tribes head-on, secretly draw out soldiers, attack the camps of the five tribes at night, seize their families, and blackmail them into compromise.
This idea is very risky, you must know that Dong Zhuang has only 2,000 infantry, and the elite part of it is a few hundred original county soldiers, which is not enough for the three thousand cavalry of the five tribes.
However, Dong Zhuang still chose to take a risk.
On a dark and windy night, he ordered Wang Ping to lead 700 elites out of the camp secretly and went around more
Baili, to the great rear of these tribes.
In order to keep secrets, they went out day and night along the way, killing people when they saw them, and slaughtering tribes directly when they saw smaller tribes. The hard work paid off, and after three days they managed to steal the rear of the Blue Wolf Division, the largest of the five tribes.
There are almost 3,000 people in this tribe, and there are nearly 2,000 people who can fight, originally Wang Ping thought that there would be a big war, but he really didn't expect that a night attack found that the entire tribe was full of old people and children except for a few hundred women who were guarding. The women were captured in their sleep, and thousands of old people and children were captured without much fighting. Wang Ping saw that the weight was heavy enough, and hurriedly retreated with the captive. Although in the end, he was surrounded by cavalry who rode on horseback on the way, but because there were hostages in hand, he still met Dong Zhuang without danger.
With the hostages, everything was easy to say, and the blue wolf clan took the lead in softening. Dong Zhuang didn't know what method Guo Yong, the patriarch of the blue wolf clan, would use to persuade the other four clans, anyway, the camp of the five clans sounded a tragic battle that night, and the next day Guo Yong knelt outside Dong Zhuang's camp with four heads and more than 2,000 cavalry, swearing allegiance.
Dong Zhuang was overjoyed, looking at his brave and strong physique and the sturdy cavalry behind him, he couldn't help but think in his heart.
Didn't the proprietors always want an elite cavalry? Isn't that what is in front of you? Why should he drive these people out of the pastures where they have lived for generations, so that Akagi will only have one more mortal enemy, and if he provokes them, they are also very likely to be killed by himself.
Dong Zhuang knew in his heart that the old man was gone, which was not so sad for the grassland people, and usually when the Khitan tribe was short of food, there were also many old people who would go to the depths of the grassland in groups in order to save food, bringing nothing and leaving for themselves. Although it is tragic and bleak, it is also something that cannot be helped. The children are gone, they can still regenerate, and for these steppe people, as long as there is pasture, as long as there are cattle and sheep, they have everything. So if they are forced to do their part, they will definitely do their best.
And since these people would live in such a marginal pasture, it means that they are not valued by the He Lin Xiao family at all, otherwise He Lin would not ignore them. Of course, they will not be loyal to the Xiao family, otherwise they will not disobey the orders of the Xiao family, in this case, why not accept them for the owner? Why not give them some shelter in these pastures, at least they can live and use for themselves?
As soon as these ideas came out, they could not be contained, he summoned Guo Yong into his camp overnight, and the two talked all night, others didn't know what they said, only that when Guo Yong came out in the morning, his face was full of joy, Dong Zhuang personally sent it to the door of the camp, and the two said goodbye, as if they were old friends who had known each other for many years.