Chapter 65: Transforming Taishan County
"Boom!" A strong black light erupted from Xu Chu's body, allowing Zhang Fei's fist to hammer into his body, and at the same time, he also clenched his fist and hit Zhang Fei's body, and the sound of his fist hitting the flesh was the most beautiful note in the battle.
Xu Zhu was directly stepped on the shoulder by Zhang Fei, kicked into the loess, and the extremely tamped ground was directly smashed out of a human-shaped pit, Xu Zhu only felt that he was dizzy for a while, Zhang Fei rode on Xu Zhu's body, raised his fist and hit.
Xu Zhu came back to his senses, instantly became furious, clamped Zhang Fei's fist with both hands, took a deep breath, and roared, like the roar of a fierce tiger and the roar of a wild lion.
Of the people present, only Li Chuan's cultivation was low, even if he was outside the field, he only felt dizzy for a while, and his ears were buzzing, sure enough! People with big voices are.
Zhang Fei seemed to be immune to this sonic attack, his head glowed red, and he hit Xu Zhu's head down, directly pushing Xu Zhu's head into the loess.
Xu Zhu endured the roar from his head, regardless of whether his eyes were black or not, his legs pressed against Zhang Fei's back, and pushed him forward.
Xu Zhu quickly got up, and then started a fierce hand-to-hand fight.
"Bare hands are a man's romance!" Li Chuan sighed, watching Zhang Fei and Xu Zhu have been playing for half an hour, as if they were watching a movie on the spot.
"If you don't fight, you won't fight, I'm starving to death."
Xu Zhu punched Zhang Fei again, feeling that his arm was numb, and at this time his stomach was rumbling, the fight was so fierce, the consumption was too great, he was already hungry, looking at Zhang Fei and sending out an invitation,
"Do you want to go to my house for dinner? Fight again after eating. ”
Zhang Fei was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Xu Zhu to invite him to dinner, and then looked back at Liu Bei and the others.
"Yide, since Xu Zhu has invited you, you can go." Li Chuan was also a little surprised, he didn't expect Xu Zhu to invite Zhang Fei.
"Third brother, go ahead!" Liu Bei said with a smile on his face.
"Guys, let's go to my house together! The wine and meat are full. Xu Zhu is also a bold person, and he also sent out invitations when he saw others.
"Haha, then thank you Xu Zhuangshi." Liu Bei spoke, and then took a few people to Xu Zhu's house.
Xu Zhu's father let people slaughter a few pigs, set up a banquet to receive Liu Bei and others, the wine and meat were enough, everyone had a great meal, Liu Bei and Xu Zhu's father also chatted very happily, just wait for Mount Tai to stabilize, he moved the family over.
The next day, Liu Bei left Xujiazhuang with Xu Zhu and his brother Xu Ding, as well as more than a dozen fat and strong men, and led the army to Taishan County.
When they arrived at Taishan County, they knew how poor this Taishan County really was, and all the people who were dressed in tatters and skinny grabbed a lot of them, and even when the army came outside the city, the only official in Fenggao didn't bother to come out to greet them.
In their opinion, this army is probably passing by, and who would want to occupy this poor place?
"Who is in charge of Fenggao now? Come out to see me, I'm Liu Xuande. Liu Bei glanced at Li Chuan helplessly, and then yelled at the city.
"I finally know how poor Taishan County is." Li Chuan sighed, looking at this dilapidated city wall, it is estimated that if Zhang Fei and Xu Zhu are allowed to attack the city, they can smash this city wall with a few punches!
The officials in the city came out, welcomed Liu Bei in, and took Liu Bei to inspect the official warehouse, and there was not a grain of rice, and the worst thing was that even these officials themselves couldn't eat, let alone the ordinary people in the city.
"This Taishan County is really poor enough! But it doesn't matter, isn't there still snake meat to eat! It's not too sad. Li Chuan smiled, but he didn't think it was too difficult, the biggest problem in Taishan County was that there was no food, as long as this was solved, it was not up to him to do whatever he wanted.
"It is estimated that in eight or nine days, Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang will arrive with money and grain, and then they can officially start work." Li Chuan had already made a preliminary plan and was waiting for the money and food to arrive.
"Lack of rivers, do we need to open a warehouse to release grain to help the victims?" Liu Bei asked.
"Don't do it. The people of the city were informed that after three days, the initial construction of water conservancy projects and the renovation of the city walls would be carried out, and those who came to work would be given not only food but also wages. ”
Li Chuan didn't plan to pity these disaster victims, opening a warehouse for relief this kind of thing, he couldn't do it, he didn't use this group of disaster victims to create some value, he himself felt unbalanced, and saw Liu Bei's puzzled face, so he explained,
"Cash-for-work is beneficial to both parties. As soon as they come, they will eat and drink for nothing, how can there be such a good thing in the world. Okay, Xuande Gong, listen to me, yes. ”
Liu Bei nodded, and then went to tell Jian Yong to do something, Jian Yong was his old cousin, and he came to help him.
In the next few days, while Li Chuan was dealing with government affairs, he asked Guan Zhang, Zhao Huaxu, and the five people to organize people to catch snakes.
These snakes are all good meat for cooking, although there is no pork and chicken for those who come to work, but just make some white porridge with spicy snake meat, you can let them work, and also give the salary, how humane, it can be said that the effect is remarkable!
In this way, these scattered laborers are condensed into a rope, in fact, they are just for food.
Snakes are actually not very easy to catch for ordinary people, and most of the snakes that come out of the ten thousand snake pits are poisonous snakes.
Li Chuan set up a government affairs team, to put it simply, it is to let them implement Li Chuan's general plan, and then these people will come to the field to investigate, and then formulate a specific plan for him to approve, as long as the plan can be passed here in Li Chuan, it can be implemented.
Li Chuan began to deal with mango seeds, reclamation, displaced people, as well as building city defenses, raising taxes, identifying the population, etc., but they were all making rough plans for his subordinates to do, and he was relatively leisurely.
The army went out on a large scale to catch snakes, and the momentum was huge, and even a small shed was built for the snakes, and the snakes that were caught were collected together, and hundreds of snakes were slaughtered every day to be used as side dishes for the laborers.
Li Chuan also brought all the cooks with some skills in the city over, and put together a cooking class, which was specially responsible for cooking for the laborers.
The treatment of the cooks is still quite good, they are still money to eat and drink, what a good thing, they are scrambling to work for Li Chuan, and the work they do can be regarded as happy.
After all, before Liu Bei and they came, these people also had a meal and did not have a meal, facing the threat of starvation all day long, and the most hateful were those Taishan thieves, who were already very poor, and they still worked tirelessly to rob them.
Under Li Chuan's instructions, these cooks also made a lot of pickles and sauerkraut, which were specially prepared for the laborers to eat, and they didn't even have to eat Chinese cabbage, anyway, their lives were generally okay.
The renovation plan of Taishan County began in full swing.