Chapter 43 Teach the Family Soldiers
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From the time when Emperor Tianyou officially issued an edict and the hungry people who were infected with the epidemic gathered in Taowu, the Marquis of Xinchang sent a group of people to set up a porridge field in the Qiuhu Mountain Courtyard in the name of the third prince Yang Yuanpu to help the hungry people, but Han Qian returned to the villa for the first time after gathering the hungry people.
Fan Xicheng, Lin Haizheng and Han Laoshan, with more than a dozen family soldiers and nearly 50 family soldiers such as Guo Nuer and Lin Zongjing, had already been sent to the villa by Han Qian and his father.
However, there is only one porridge field at the mountain pass on the south side of the grange here, the place is small, and thirty or forty thousand hungry people are pouring here, and it is a mess, Han Qian accompanied Shen Yang to squeeze into the porridge field with great difficulty.
Feng Yi and Kong Xirong had already shown great courage to abandon the boat and go ashore, but at this time, they didn't dare to follow Han Qian and Shen Yang directly into the pile of infected and hungry people, they would rather climb the mountain ridge to the east and go through the forest to the mountain villa.
The vast majority of the hungry people, if not terminally ill, were starved and weak, or else they would have to be in chaos to maintain order with the little manpower in the cottage.
What's more, most of the soldiers still dare not come into contact with the infected and hungry people.
The porridge field is also divided by a wooden fence, and a dozen iron pots are set up on the inside, and the soldiers of the Han Mansion and the Xinchang Marquis Mansion, or the slaves and maids in the Zhuangzi, mix bags of rice into wild vegetables with roots and soil to cook porridge together, and then pour them into a large vat outside the wooden fence wall for the hungry people to eat.
Most of the family soldiers, including the people sent by the Marquis of Xinchang, were behind the fence, and only Guo Nuer, who was naturalized to the Han family with his mother's remarriage, and other more than 20 hungry teenagers, stood outside the wooden fence with Fan Xicheng, Fan Dahei, and Lin Haizheng, barely maintaining order with their thin bodies.
It's not hard to imagine the chaos of the scene.
And the more than 100 veterans of the Dragon Sparrow Army sent over, none of them were here in the porridge field, and Han Qian estimated that they were responsible for setting up gates on both sides of the lake.
Han Qian walked over with a dark face, raised his foot and kicked a row of wooden fences to the ground, stared at the stunned Fan Xicheng and asked, "The porridge field is in chaos, why are so many people shrinking inside?" ”
Fan Xicheng didn't expect Han Qian to have such a big temper as soon as he came over, and explained:
"The Gu poison is violent, and the soldiers are afraid, and they help make porridge in front of the fence wall, but they can barely maintain it."
Fan Xicheng, Fan Dahei, Lin Haizheng, Zhao Kuo, and Zhao Wuji knew the content of "Epidemic Water Sparse", and Han Qian also repeatedly explained to them the key points of water Gu plague isolation of the source of infection and their own prevention, but even so, they were still beating drums in their hearts, and they had no idea whether they would be infected by the epidemic, not to mention other soldiers who were completely in the dark and only passively accepted orders, and they were afraid of the epidemic like a tiger.
Again, in Fan Xicheng's opinion, the Han family has done its best to do this for these hungry people, and they have not forced those soldiers who are afraid of the epidemic to stand outside the wooden fence wall to have direct contact with the infected and hungry people.
"Fool, you're going to live like a dog? They are all soldiers of my Han family, could it be that in the future, on the battlefield, in the face of the raging blade, they will also shrink their heads and hide behind the wooden fence wall, relying on these thin young men to block the flying arrows and swords for them? Han Qian unceremoniously scolded Fan Xicheng with his head covered with his face.
Fan Xicheng's old face turned red, but he had no way to defend himself.
Han Qian took off the saber at his waist and held it in his hand, turned his head and stared at the soldiers behind the wooden fence wall, and said to Fan Xicheng, "Saving the epidemic is like killing the enemy, if on the battlefield of killing the enemy, someone dares to fear the enemy and disobey orders, Fan Xicheng, how should you deal with it?" ”
"Kill." Fan Xicheng said.
"Okay, Lord Shen Yang is here, I can't control the others, I can't control it, but Fan Xicheng, your eyes widened for me, these Han family soldiers who were temporarily borrowed in front of Lord Shen Yang's account to listen to orders, who dare to be afraid, who dares to disobey orders, you fucking stab me to death, my Han family doesn't raise such waste!" Han Qian stared at the many soldiers and children who were huddled behind the wooden fence wall, and scolded angrily.
The method of isolating the infected water is simple to say, but the 30,000 or 40,000 infected and hungry people are so weak that they have completely lost the ability to organize themselves, and the soldiers do not dare to have in-depth contact with these infected and hungry people, how to keep an eye on the infected and hungry people, how to keep them from coming into contact with the infected water, how to make them strictly refrain from drinking only well water, how to let them change their bad habits, concentrate on going to the toilet, and further dispose of the feces and other filth, and how to organize them to build a mud bank along the lake beach before the spring water rises?
If these things are not done, the epidemic will not be controlled, and the infected and hungry people will always be drowning.
Han Qian still hoped that before the Anning Palace came to his senses, he could see the initial scale of the Dragon Bird Army, so that the Anning Palace and the crown prince's side could be somewhat afraid and restrained, and he and his father would be more likely to escape from the retaliation of the Anning Palace.
And more importantly, Han Qian still thought that his father had treated these soldiers too leniently before, making their lives too nourishing, and now he took this opportunity to re-establish some rules.
If everyone is raised as a uncle, and something happens to the Han family, they can have a little loyalty, and it will be called hell.
Speaking of this, Han Qian bowed his hand to the two stewards who came over on behalf of the Marquis of Xinchang's Mansion and said, "Here in the Marquis of Xinchang's Mansion, I can't interfere, so I ask the two stewards to think about it." ”
Han Qian, Shen Yang and the others squeezed into the porridge field from the crowd of hungry people infected with the epidemic, and if they dared to do this, it would be more effective than saying it a hundred times.
Besides, everyone also understands that the young master is far less than the head of the family to serve, and the weight of the young master's speech in the Han family is getting heavier and heavier, seeing Han Qian's temper, the soldiers in the villa don't dare to tremble anymore, remove the wooden fence wall, and go out one after another to maintain order.
Han Qian also knew that if things improved slightly, Xinchang Marquis Li Pu might drive his men out, ensuring that the people who organized and led the troops were under the control of him and the Late Red Mansion, but Han Qian would not choose to sit idly by because of this.
Han Qian let the soldiers and his children have in-depth contact with the infected and hungry people, and even inherited the most chaotic situation in the early stage, not that he has the same compassion as his father and Shen Yang.
He is still trying his best to think about how to live smoothly until the seventeenth year of Emperor Tianyou, if he wants to be compassionate, it should be others who have compassion for him.
In fact, in Han Qian's opinion, the more chaotic the situation in the early stage, the more fully the training that the family soldiers and their children can get involved.
Shen Yang is a famous Confucian who has learned from the world, even if Han Qian is a little lazy himself, and let Fan Xicheng, Fan Dahei, Lin Haizheng, Zhao Wuji, Guo Nuer, Lin Zongjing and other teenagers follow Shen Yang to do things, he can also learn how to sort out the chaotic situation little by little.
This is something that they study hard behind closed doors and have a hard time grasping.
Two or three hundred people dispersed, and the scene was finally not as ugly as just now, Han Qian invited Shen Yang into the Zhuangzi to speak.
Although Fan Xicheng was reprimanded by Han Qian in public, there were still many things to report, and it was enough to see that Lin Haizheng and Fan Dahei cooperated with the steward of the Xinchang Marquis Mansion in the porridge field, pulled Han Laoshan, and walked to the east courtyard with Han Qian and Shen Yang.
"How much food has been consumed in the villa?" Han Qian invited Shen Yang to sit in the hall and called Fan Xicheng and Han Laoshan over for questioning.
Fan Xicheng was slightly stunned, and when he saw that Han Qian's eyes wanted him to tell the truth, he said: "The 120,000 catties of grain prepared in the villa have already consumed seventy-seven eighty-eight in three days, and at most it can support a meal before noon tomorrow." ”
Han Qian took out hundreds of cakes of gold for Fan Xicheng to come over to prepare for relief, but there were thirty or forty thousand hungry people gathered here, and one hundred cakes of gold could be said to be a drop in the bucket, not to mention other materials, only the grain purchased could barely support three or four days of consumption.
The imperial court said that it would pull out 20 million yuan of military resources every year, but even if the Anning Palace did not interfere with it, the corresponding money and materials could be quickly and smoothly withdrawn, and it could only support two or three months.
Obviously, this kind of thing is not supported by the Marquis of Xinchang Mansion and the Late Red Mansion with strong financial resources, even if Han Qian's bones are removed and bought, they will not be able to support it for a few more days.
Han Qian said to Fan Xicheng: "How much food does the villa consume, how many people are invested every day, and how much wages are converted, Fan Xicheng, you make a list of them, and report them to Lord Shen Yang every ten years to know, you can't confuse public and private......
Han Qian is not selfless enough to take his own private money to raise troops for the three princes Yang Yuanpu and Li Pu, not only the food and other materials invested in the early stage must be settled, but also how many people the Han family has invested before and after, and the wages must be converted.
Shen Yang didn't care, the imperial court originally strictly forbade large-scale relief of the hungry by private families, in order to prevent local wealthy families from bribing people's hearts with the intention of causing trouble.
Even if other states and counties can't manage so much, in the capital Jinling, Shen Yang definitely doesn't want anyone to blur this bottom line. And even if the Marquis of Xinchang Mansion takes out the money and grain, it must be paid in the name of the third prince Linjiang Marquis.
After all, the hungry people recruited by the cantonment military government are theoretically all military households under the name of Yang Yuanpu, the marquis of Linjiang, the third prince, and the soldiers and generals of the Longque Army will be recruited from the military households under the jurisdiction of the cantonment military government in the future.
Han Qian could take the initiative to mention this, but Shen Yang thought that he knew how to measure, and even more thought about keeping him by his side, but he didn't think that Han Qian was actually reluctant to give up these money and things in his heart.