"What do you mean you can't store?" It was Lou Gui who was questioned, and the location was Kang Ting, the governor of Fanyang Chengnan, Zhuo County, and the person who was questioned was the trembling Fanyang County Commander. "It's only been more than a year, and there is no shortage of population in Youzhou?"

Fan Yangling did not reply directly, but cautiously peeked at Gongsun Xun who was riding on a horse.

"What is Fan Yangling looking at me for?" Seeing this, Gongsun Xun smiled and asked. "Uncle Zi asked you, if there is any difficulty, you can tell him directly."

"Prince!"

Seeing Gongsun Xun speak, Fan Yangling immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and then bowed and saluted, then turned around and hurriedly told Lou Gui the reason.

It turned out that according to the Fanyang County Order, who has been in action for two years, this Fanyang and even Zhuo County can no longer accommodate more displaced people.

The reasons are simple, just two:

First of all, there are too many displaced people from the south to the north, not only this year's comprehensive disorder in Jizhou, in fact, as early as last year's Yellow Turban Rebellion, Jizhou people began to run to Youzhou in large numbers;

The second is the geographical factor, Zhuo County is located at the junction of Jizhou and Youzhou, which is the gateway to Youzhou, and the displaced people always have to go from here to Youzhou.

In other words, Fan Yang, or even the entire Zhuo County, has long lost interest in the displaced people in Jizhou.

"You have a point." Gongsun Xun said thoughtfully. At the very least, these two articles are always irrefutable...... But is that really all there is to it? ”

"The subordinates will never dare to deceive!" This Fan Yangling reluctantly knelt down and pleaded guilty. "It's true. In fact, not only is it that the local government has long since left idle land to be reclaimed and resettled by the displaced people, but Guangyang, which was in turmoil during the Yellow Turban Rebellion, has also allocated all the borderless land to the displaced people from the south before the spring ploughing this year...... In the hands of the government, there is really no place to resettle. ”

"What about the local Haoyou?" Gongsun Xun dismounted and came to the other party, and asked more and more seriously. "Even if the government can't afford to settle it, what about the local Haoyou? Don't they want to take the population for their own use? ”

Fan Yangling was speechless for a while.

"What do you ask?" On the side, Wei Yue asked impatiently pulling the horsewhip.

And Gongsun Xun and Lou Gui didn't restrain him.

"Prince." Fan Yangling helplessly raised his head on the ground. "With the wisdom of the prince, in fact, I also know that there are some things that can't be hidden from you......"

Gongsun Xun, who was standing in front of the other party with his hand, was almost amused by others: "Who did you learn this from?" There is something to talk about. ”

"Yes!" This Fan Yangling hurriedly answered. "If you want to store it right, there are two important points. One is that Haoyou itself picks and chooses, if it is pure and strong, whether it is a man or a woman, they are naturally rushing to want, such as the previous sale of Quyang prisoners of war by the prince and marquis, they are extremely enthusiastic, but they have only fled until now, but most of them are dragging their families, women and children, the old and the weak...... In such a situation, how many Haoyou are willing to accept it? ”

Gongsun Xun turned around and looked at the team following him, and sneered: "In this way, I understand what they mean...... Anyway, the women and children can't hold on, and it takes a little more time, only the young and strong are left, and they also lose their ambition, so they can pick them up and go home to be slaves. ”

"That's about what it means." Fan Yangling sighed helplessly on the ground. "But this kind of thing, you can't count the consumption of women and children, the old and the weak on their heads, right? It's just a matter of taking advantage of the situation, naturally...... In the final analysis, it is now that the world is gradually getting worse, and there are young people who have no ambition and are willing to be slaves, who is willing to waste food for no reason to take in the old and weak? ”

"What else?" Gongsun Xun put away his sneer, disliked or angry, and continued to ask.

"There is another thing to say, it lies in today's Youzhou Fang Bo Tao Gong." This Fan Yang Ling is more in awe of Gongsun Xun, so he is also refreshing. "Tao Gongqi, does the prince know?"

"Tao Qian Tao Gongzu, naturally I have heard of it...... Is this person like that? ”

"This person is different from Guo Gongrou's rigidity and leniency, and his person is extremely strong." Fan Yangling's words made people feel a little 'refreshing'. "As early as before the spring ploughing, he had only been in office for two months, and he openly embarrassed the state in front of several 2,000 stones, and there was no emotion at all...... This county (Zhuo County) was too guarded by Cui Gong, because there were strong and powerful private soldiers in the county, so he was humiliated by him in front of him as incompetent; Guangyang guarded Liu Gong too much, because the borderless land in the county was invaded by Haoqiang, and he was also scolded by him in public for being weak; Before he was transferred to Luoyang for merit, he once accepted bribes from the head of Wuhuan in Shanggu, and he also stopped the car in public for search, and then directly wrote a letter of impeachment...... And so on and so forth. ”

"Isn't that a good thing for the exiles?" Lou Gui couldn't help but ask.

"Uncle Zi thinks too much." At this time, it was Xi Zhong who had been sitting in the car because of laziness, he probably first entered the territory of Youzhou, and came to the famous place of Dukang, so it was rare to move the mind of the activity, but he unexpectedly encountered the scene in front of him.

"I'm really not as good as Zhicai for this kind of thing, I might as well say it bluntly." Lou Gui actually bowed his hands slightly.

Seeing this, Xi Zhong was not easy to sell, and immediately explained: "In fact, it is not necessarily good to be vigorous and resolute in government, especially when Tao Gongzu came to Youzhou as an outsider, and he did such a thing before the foundation was stable, which was inevitably detached from morality and made people daunted...... As I expected, it must be that this Youzhou Assassin has a relevant order, and he is not allowed to absorb the young and strong too much! ”

Fan Yangling nodded hurriedly.

"Keeping an eye on Haoqiang is the basic duty of the Assassin History, and if the Assassin has such a strict order before, so that the county does not dare to let Haoyou accept the displaced people, it is understandable." Lou Gui sighed. "But now it's not the same as when it was ploughing, the number of displaced people in Jizhou has reached this point, and the government no longer has ownerless good land, can't the county and the state be accommodating?"

"This is the result of detachment." Xi Zhong said with a sneer. "How is it possible that the county and the state are not aware of the situation? It's just that the Tao Gong in the state is so strong, and he can't pull down the people who want to do it, and the two thousand stones in the county have been repeatedly oppressed by him, so they simply deliberately don't say anything, and even hold his banner to deliberately strictly enforce it, preventing Hao You from accepting the homeless, so as to embarrass the Tao Gong! Uncle Zi, such a situation is the norm in officialdom. ”

Lou Gui was speechless for a while.

"Exactly as this gentleman said." That Fan Yangling looked at Gongsun Xun's eyes, and he was helpless to admit it. "The state and county are out of harmony, and the government can't help but be stiff on whether to let the wealthy right rein in the displaced people...... We are subordinates, and we don't dare to disobey orders and release the ban without permission! ”

"Get up." Gongsun Xun was not happy or angry, but sighed slightly. "Everything in the world has gone bad to this extent, and they are still doing this kind of thing......"

"Prince, for the sake of the present, it is necessary to consider where and how to settle the displaced people." Xi Zhong Zhengse bowed his hand to speak. "With the prestige of the prince, it is completely possible to impeach this Tao Gongzu in the book, I think that the two thousand stones in the state have already complained and acted in Luozhong, and it will definitely be done! It will take time, though...... At this time, the prince and the marquis are strong with no job and a thorn with such a fierce personality, even if he can suppress it, he is afraid that he will also get into trouble. ”

"So what do you say?" Gongsun Xun turned his head and frowned and asked. "Everyone has worked so hard, and the food around them has been exhausted, so they always have to settle down quickly."

"According to me, don't let these 10,000 people move to Liaodong or follow us all the way to Liaoxi." Xi Zhong seems to have been prepared. "As for the long distance...... The prince may wish to immediately organize the exiles into a military force here in the governor's place to facilitate control; Then select the young and strong according to the establishment, distribute simple knives, bows and sticks as guards, and camp along the way in a military posture; Of course, it is inevitable to ask the prince to spend money, buy some tents, sticks and axes and other standing utensils in Youzhou with private property, and buy grain from large households along the way, and distribute it uniformly. ”

"That's all there is to it." Lou Gui also frowned. "Along the way, Haoyou from all over Youzhou felt that the situation was unstable, and he had to prepare his own grain, so he didn't dare to bargain with the prince, right? There are also local governments, which only help with food and salary, and are allowed to be stationed, so I don't think it will not give face to the prince. ”

"If so, it will be done!" Even Fan Yangling couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. "There are only 10,000 people, and if they are stored in the township with the prestige of the prince, no one will talk much."

Gongsun Xun bowed slightly, but he couldn't help frowning even tighter.

In this way, the team of displaced people who entered Youzhou but still had nowhere to settle down rested and organized in the Dukang Pavilion for a while, and then naturally the Amway, which made a comeback after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, delivered supplies such as tents and sticks and axes - Xi Zhong didn't understand the strength of Gongsun Auntie and Gongsun Clan in Youzhou for so long, where do you need to buy these things?

As for food, there really can't be anything about it. It must be known that since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, disasters and turmoil have not stopped, people's hearts are unstable, and Haoyou has the meaning of self-protection of grain, and although Amway has some strategic reserves, it is mostly in Liaodong, and there is really not much stock within this Lulongsai.

Of course, Gongsun Xun took the posture of General Wei and the Marquis of Ji to lead the private soldiers back to Youzhou. At least that day, I witnessed his people easily pacify the Guangyang Yellow Turban and force Zhang Bao's Zhuo County here, and there is really no fool who dares to refuse the flat buying and selling of the Amway!

In fact, when Gongsun Xun heard that he was here, except for the local county order who came to the Governor Kangting alone when he heard the news, the rest of the clans, Haoyou, old officials, and village elders from all over Zhuo County also came to visit him in the next few days...... Even Zhuojun Taishou Cui Min actually came to greet him in person.

Even after Gongsun Xun finished compiling and set out on the road, the other three county guards near Guangyang, Yuyang, and Shanggu also sent envoys to greet them.

However, it is worth mentioning that only the Youzhou Thorn Shi Tao Qian Tao Gongzu has been nesting in his close office, Jixian County, Guangyang County, that is, the feudal office of Gongsun Xun, the county marquis, has not sent a messenger for a long time, and there is no news...... Thinking that he was so strong, seeing that these county guards went to visit Gongsun Xun one after another, he was already preconceived and resentful. It's just that after all, he is hindered by Gongsun Xun's rank, and his fame, it is not easy to take the initiative to find fault.

Of course, Gongsun Xun didn't think about these superfluous things, he was appeasing the displaced people along the way, and at the same time, he had a lot of thoughts, how could he have the heart to think about Tao Qian, who was destined to do this assassin position soon? Moreover, the further Gongsun Xun went north, the heavier his mind became. When he walks and leads the crowd slowly through Liangxiang into Guangyang County, and before he comes to Jixian County (the progress of later generations), will he have to spend it? When the water (the Sanggan River and the Yongding River in later generations) continued to travel westward, the Wei general could not bear it at all, so he called out to him all the prestigious old men, the prime of life, the local officials, and the steward of the Amway here.

"I'll ask you something." Gongsun Xun asked the leaders of these displaced people earnestly in front of the river beach. "If you don't meet me this time, how will you deal with yourself?"

The leaders of the displaced people shook their heads one after another...... Obviously, they only came to Youzhou according to the tradition of escaping from the famine in the central region of Jizhou, just as the western part of Jizhou would flee to Taihang Mountain, and the people of Qingzhou and Bohai County would go to cross the sea to Liaodong.

"What about the people before that?" Gongsun Xun frowned more and more, and turned back to ask questions to the local township officials in Jixian County and the stewards of the Amway. "You're right here, have you been involved in the resettlement, and do you know where they're going to end up?"

These people also cared about each other, but they did not dare not answer.

"Return to the young master." A local manager of the Amway immediately replied. "Although our Amway has a ready-made system ordered by the old master's mother, we will lead them to Liaoxi, and then make a ferry to Liaodong...... But after all, we are only a businessman, and Liaodong is too far away, not to mention that we are not capable enough, even these displaced people may not fully believe us, and are willing to follow us to Liaodong and Liaoxi where they don't know where they are. So there are actually not many people we save, and we can't compare it with the actions of the young master at all. ”

"As for what happened to them, as far as I know, it's not very good." Another elderly steward said helplessly. "This time, the homeless young master also saw it, if you didn't go to Zhuo County, the big families didn't dare not sell food, and the government didn't dare not come forward to help, then these people would have no food and clothing in Zhuo County! Then, like blind men approaching a deep pond in the middle of the night, they went north in panic, and countless women and children died along the way, but in the end only a few young people survived, and then they were either taken in by the local wealthy clans, or fled into the mountains to the north, so that they were exiled outside the Saiwai ......"

"Outside the plug?" Gongsun Xun was immediately stunned and couldn't help but interrupt the other party.

"It's really outside the plug!" A local pavilion chief hastened to explain. "The prince doesn't know, the little official is in charge here, and he often sees the homeless people at a loss after crossing the river here, and some people continue to go east in a daze, which is considered to be in the right place, and can be taken in by big families from all over the world. However, there are also nearly half of the people, but they turned to the north, passed through the Dagu water and went out of Yuyang, went to Xianbei and Wuhuan, or simply found a valley in the mountains, half ploughed and half hunted, and gathered to live. ”

"Go to Xianbei and Wuhuan?" Gongsun Xun laughed angrily. "Xianbei has been divided and fought since the death of Tan Shihuai...... A group of Han people, whose families couldn't survive, fled to the land ruled by the Han people, and no one took them in, but they wanted to go to the mountains to be savages, and even defected to the Xianbei people in Zuoji? And the Wuhuan people? The Wuhuan people in the north, what is that? ”

"Young owner." An elderly merchant steward cautioned. "It's also a helpless thing. What we are talking about is still after the pandemic, and the displaced people before the pandemic subsided, even we, the Amway, did not dare to accept them easily, so we could only let them wander......"

Gongsun Xun smiled more and more.

"Young master, I have a word." The steward who spoke before saw that it was not good, so he could only persuade him reluctantly. "The old master's mother is in Liaodong, and most of our Gongsun clan's forces have also gone to Liaodong, and there is a little left, so we can only maintain the situation in Liaoxi. And we, a businessman, although we were able to move unhindered in Youzhou because of the reputation of the Gongsun clan and the Weide of Shaodong, neither of them was in Lulongsai before, how could we act freely? ”

Gongsun Xun couldn't stop laughing, but waved his hand and said, "I don't mean to blame you...... Just one more thing for you, on the other side of the river, to the north of Jixian County, what is that place? ”

"This is Changping County!" This is well known.

"I also remember Changping." Gongsun Xun was still smiling. "And if I'm not mistaken, those who go to the mountains, go to the outside of the Saiwai, and go to find Xianbei and Wuhuan, are transferred from Changping to Anle County, Yuyang County in the east, and then go up the Dagu River there, so that they can calmly get out of the Sai, right?"

"Yes!"

"Changping and Anle counties occupy a very wide area, there should be more wasteland, right, maybe to resettle the people?" Gongsun Xun continued to ask.

"Can't!" A local villager shook his head immediately. "The prince doesn't know, Jixian to the north, Changping or Anle, there are many mountains and few plains, and the land is slightly sour, it is a famous bad land, and it is difficult to engage in crops."

"Not bad." The old steward of the Amway next to him couldn't help but interject. "Even our Amway, we mostly collect some chestnuts and dates there...... Yanshan chestnut is a specialty of our Amway. ”

"Can you grow chestnuts?" Gongsun Xun laughed again. "I remember that most of the chestnuts I ate when I was a child came from Changping and Anle?"

"Not bad."

"I see." Gongsun Xun suddenly looked solemn. "Go and get busy, cross the river and go to Changping, and camp there!"

Everyone didn't know why, but they could only say yes.

After a while, only Gongsun Xun was left with the silent Han Dang and Lou Gui, who wanted to speak and stopped, standing on the river beach, looking at the ? The water is thoughtful.

"Wen Qi." After a while, Lu Fan and Xi Zhong really came to ask. "Why do you want to turn to Changping? Didn't you say that Jixian County didn't enter, and went all the way east to Liaoxi? ”

"I'm not going!" Gongsun Xun didn't look at these two people, and responded loudly with his hands.

Lou Gui next to him sighed, but he was speechless after all.

"What do you mean by not going?" Lu Fan and Xi Zhong were still at a loss.

You must know that according to their previous thoughts, and the plan that Gongsun Xun wrote to his mother, they were going to Liaoxi on this trip - the reason is very simple, Lu Longsai is there! The only passage connecting the Liaodong Plain and the Hebei Plain is also there!

After all, shipping is limited in these years, at least until now, it is difficult for Gongsun Xun to imagine transporting the army by sea; At this time, Qinhuangdao, that is, the Shanhaiguan Passage in later generations, still has more than half of it underwater, and the remaining half is often flooded by seawater, which is not open at all; At the same time, at the junction of eastern and western Liaoning, in the lower reaches of the Liao River, there is a swamp that disappeared in later generations but was difficult to pass at this time, that is, Liaoze......

In other words, as Gongsun Xun and Lou Gui discussed many years ago, between Liaodong and Hebei, the only way to really pass the army is to take the Yangle-Liucheng-Guanzicheng-Lulongsai passage, and this road is 500 miles long! And if you only occupy one end, it means that Liaodong is destined to be isolated from the overall situation.

Gongsun Xun's return to the north this time, although it was due to Liu Kuan's sudden death and suicide note, but after all, he planned for personal ambition. And he and his henchmen also have a very clear plan, in the past few years, they will work together with their mother from both ends, take the five hundred miles of Lulong Road as the foundation of operation, connect Liaodong, and then extend their forces to the Hebei Plain. In this way, once the chaos breaks out, and the five hundred miles of Lulong Road is in his hands, he can calmly raise the people of Liaodong, merge the forces of Liaoxi and Youbeiping, and move south!

However, Gongsun Xun suddenly couldn't say anything at this time...... What is this?

"Prince?" Xi Zhong is also inexplicable. "What do you mean by not going?"

"If you don't go, you don't go." Gongsun Xun was awe-inspiring. "I'm going to stay in Changping."

"Why?" Lu Fan was sweating profusely, and Xi Zhong couldn't help but glance at Lou Gui and ask, but the latter was silent.

"This is the teacher's last wish." Gongsun Xun is opposite. "The ...... of Master Liu's suicide note that made me stay here"

"How could Gong Liu make such an arrangement?" Lu Fan became more and more speechless.

Liu Shixin said that Tianxingjian is a gentleman who strives for self-improvement; The terrain is good, and the gentleman carries things with virtue...... He said that I am more than ...... self-improvement," Gongsun Xun sighed faintly. "If you go back to Liaoxi, the place is remote, and you sit back and watch the displaced people lose their way one after another, so that they are reduced to the point of giving Hu people cattle and horses? How can I still have the face to call it virtuous? ”

"Changping is not good?" Lu Fan probably understood Gongsun Xun's intentions, but he could only persuade him like this.

"It's okay, you can grow chestnuts...... Eat the undead. Gongsun Xun suddenly shook his hand and crossed the river.