Chapter 178: Shelter
No one can shake Xu Shiyang's determination.
Wen Ji can't do it, Ma Yi can't do it, and his granddaughter is naturally even more impossible.
Dead soldiers are not suitable to be captains to lead the homeless, but beating people is definitely not a problem.
Led by Lu Zhishen, the five trapping soldiers lined up in a triangular formation and rushed straight over, quickly knocking over the crowded homeless young people.
How could the homeless people be Lu Zhishen's opponent, after the people in front fell, the rest immediately dispersed to both sides.
The five Drafters immediately followed, chasing after the homeless with thick wooden sticks and slashing their heads and faces for a while.
The homeless people were scared by the people early in the morning, and now they are replaced by a group of more ruthless people, so naturally they don't dare to fight back.
Hundreds of homeless young men who rushed to the front were scattered by 10 selectors and beaten in all directions, and not even one dared to fight back during the period.
"Hold your head! Get on the ground! Don't stand up! Whoever stands up will be beaten! ”
The soldiers of the Xu family army roared loudly, forcing the homeless to lie face down and lie on the ground with their heads in their hands.
After a while, all the homeless young people who were crowded in front of them were lying on the ground honestly, and none of them dared to raise their heads.
The women and children behind them hesitated to lie down so as not to be beaten, but it was the fierce thugs (the image of Xu Jiajun in the eyes of the homeless) who reminded them that they were not better than this.
The Divine Soldier stood up, did not ask for specific age, only judged the identity based on height, and formed the remaining young men, women and children separately.
As soon as each team was full of 100 people, someone was brought to the front and received the gruel in the order of line.
Han people are always smart, they quickly realized that today only by queuing up quickly can they eat porridge and rice earlier, and the result of squeezing to the front is to be beaten with a stick, lying on the ground, waiting for others to eat first.
After more than 20 teams were fortunate enough to eat porridge first, in order to get food as soon as possible, many people even consciously formed teams, which greatly accelerated the speed of releasing food.
When it got dark, after going down to the court, he found that his fourth brother and the Xu family were not at home, Wen Zhong asked a little, and learned that Xu Shiyang had killed people in the human market, and then he was following Wen Ji to rectify the human market.
Afraid that they would suffer a loss, Wen Zhong and the clerk immediately ordered a hundred families, and gathered a hundred tenants from their own manor, a total of 200 people came to Chengbei Ren City.
When he arrived at the place, Wen Zhong took advantage of the light of the torches and first saw a few human heads standing tall on wooden poles.
The young man of the Wen family turned dark, and hurriedly entered the human market, only to find that it was not a mess everywhere as he had imagined before.
On the contrary, the situation here can even be said to be quite orderly.
The crowd of displaced people in the human market has been divided into dozens of orderly queues, each queue looks like a hundred people, rows of cross-legged people sit cross-legged in front of a dozen cauldrons that are distributing porridge, whoever has their turn will go to receive food, and those who are not in turn will still stay in place honestly.
After drinking the gruel, the team will be taken to receive a bundle of fluffy hay, spread it in the designated position according to the requirements, and then can lie down and rest.
The whole process was silent, except for a few strangers shouting the same words over and over again in hoarse voices:
"Queue up for dinner! Line up to make the bed! Rest in line! If you want to make it easier to call a report in advance! Go to the pit on the other side of the wall and solve it together! Otherwise ten sticks per person! ”
While talking, dozens of thug-looking guys and soldiers of the Xu family army patrolled back and forth with sticks to prevent disciplinary incidents from occurring.
Seeing this scene, Wen Zhong, who had frowned all the way, suddenly felt much more relaxed.
He quietly walked to Xu Shiyang and Wen Ji, the two young men didn't see him at all, and were discussing the next work with Ma Yi about the light of the torch.
Well, in fact, it was just Xu Shiyang who issued orders there.
"The marshalling has been completed, and according to statistics, so far there are a total of 97 and a half squadrons here, 9755 homeless and beggars."
Xu Shiyang's voice was a little hoarse, but it was still very clear, and it was full of energy, showing the vigorous power of young people.
"75 people died today, I asked a little, it was less than a few days ago, but how much less, there was no specific data before, so I don't know, I can only say that fewer deaths is a good sign."
"But that's not enough! 75 dead people is still too many! Starting tomorrow, according to the team formed today, the grain will be put twice a day, and each time there will be a bowl of gruel per person! After three days, you can put more rice, make the porridge thicker, and then add some salt, radish and other cheap vegetables, and after half a month, the first people can eat some dry rice! ”
"I emphasize again, when the grain is released, you must line up, and you must arrange it according to today's line, and whoever is not in line is not allowed to eat! Cut into the line with a baton, the first ten strokes, the second twenty, and the third beheading! ”
"Don't be afraid of the dead! Now so many people die every day, it's not bad for these few! In addition to violating discipline, those who insult women and children and harm other displaced people will be beheaded directly, don't be polite to anyone! ”
"And ourselves, and our subordinates! Whoever can't control himself at this time, don't blame me for cutting off what he can't control! ”
Ma Yi interjected at this time: "They are all good children, and they can manage it, but they can eat porridge twice a day, and then they have to add food, do we have so much food here?" ”
"In the past, a lot of people died here every day, and there will be a lot of new people who will fill in, and tomorrow there will definitely be more than these people."
Ma Yi's granddaughter added:
"Let's put grain here for half a month, I'm afraid that all the displaced beggars in Lin'an will come over, and I'm afraid there will be more than 20,000 people at that time, and the longer the time in the future, there will definitely be more people to support."
Xu Shiyang replied loudly:
"I will send someone to Shuangyu Port tomorrow to contact, I still have some money there, I will ask them to come up with 30,000 yuan to buy Tianzhu cloth and grain, no matter how many people come, they are not afraid."
For Xu Shiyang, Lin'an is a pilot project that, if successful, will allow him to reassure displaced people and beggars in major cities south of the Yangtze River, and if all goes well, it could provide Xu Shiyang with more than 20,000 people a year.
For Xu Shiyang, these laborers are much more valuable than tens of thousands of dollars.
"Also, from today onwards, this side will not be called a human market! We don't do human trafficking! Starting today, this place will be renamed the Shelter! Tell all the homeless people tomorrow that if they eat my porridge, they will be my people! Don't always try to sell yourself! Lao Tzu is not for sale! ”
"All the displaced people, after 20 days to a month of food and lodging in the shelter, I will send a boat to transport them to Jiangbei! By that time they should be back enough to take a boat. ”
"During this period in the shelter, the homeless people can't be idle, and it's easy for people to have accidents when they're full of food and idle!"
"Men dig toilets, collect materials to build mud huts, and do some training to defend the shelters; Young women are responsible for helping with cooking, laundry; The kids are in charge of cleaning the camp and are all moving! Don't be idle! ”