Chapter 68: Cash-for-Work
"The price of rice is settled, but what should be done with the more than 30,000 refugees? I originally planned that those refugees who were unwilling to leave would draw a place in Anlu County to set up a town, so that those refugees could live and work here in peace and contentment, and then distribute Hu Shoucai's tens of thousands of acres of fertile land to them, but time waits for no one, now people are dying every day, and the food in my hands can last for three or five days at most" Sun Shirui frowned, and his face was anxious.
Qin Yiming heard that Sun Shirui was planning to set up another township, thinking that he didn't know if he could set up another guard, so he asked, "Brother Sun, you just said that you can add a town in Anlu?" Will the court agree? ”
Sun Shirui said: "Why not, there is a precedent in our dynasty, in the year of Chenghua, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan more than 120,000 displaced people flowed into Yunyang, Xiangyang, and refused to leave for a long time, and then Lord Li Xian played, reported to the imperial court to approve the official household registration of these 120,000 displaced people who were unwilling to leave, allocated them empty land, ordered them to reclaim and pay taxes, and built prefectures and counties to rule them, so there are now Zhuxi County, Yunxi County and Baihe County. ”
It turns out that there is such a precedent, so it should be feasible to increase the military fort in the name of appeasing the displaced people.
"Big brother, if I am willing to accept these 30,000 homeless people, incorporate them into the army, and let the court divide a few pieces of land, do you think the court will agree?" Qin Yiming asked tentatively.
When Sun Shirui heard this, he was overjoyed in his heart, this kid was fooled, and said righteously on the spot: "Brother, don't worry, as long as you are willing to accept these 30,000 homeless people, I will ask my father to help me find a way to the court, I don't think it will be a big problem, and Hu Shoucai's tens of thousands of acres of land are all yours!" ”
Sun Chuanting helped, that is definitely not a big problem, well, sure enough, there are people in the court who are good officials, Qin Yiming sighed in his heart, there are some guidelines, which are universal, and they have been used throughout the ages.
"Okay, that's it, little monkey, let those people from the old camp set up tents for me tomorrow, and prepare to welcome a large number of homeless people!" Qin Yiming immediately made a decision.
Sun Shirui suddenly felt that there was no pressure at all, and the whole person relaxed, the burden on his head was now taken over by his brother, hey, it's really interesting, righteous, good brother! The excited Sun Shirui looked at Qin Yiming as if he was looking at a naked beauty, and stepped forward to prepare a bear hug, but fortunately, Qin Yiming's movements were relatively agile.
"Brother, I'm not good at this!"
After eating at noon, Qin Yiming began to discuss with Sun Shirui about arranging the homeless people.
"Here, here, here. The tent was set up in three places, which had to be completed within three days. Qin Yiming commanded at the big cow.
Da Niu looked at the position that Qin Yiming pointed at on the sand table, and said, "Young Master, why don't you gather together, and this Ying Mountain, High Core, and Small River and Creek are so far apart, how can we drive those homeless people!" ”
"One is to separate the refugees, they are not easy to get sick, so as not to withstand the plague, the other is that these three places are the places where I want to increase the walled forts, I have long wanted to build the cottage, those people in the old camp are still repairing the ditches, there are not enough people, now with these displaced people, you can start, three days later, the county will stop giving porridge, and when the time comes, tell them that there are porridge sheds in these three places, and those displaced people will naturally go!" Qin Yiming said.
"What, you're going to let these people build the fort? Aren't you afraid that they will make a rebellion? Sun Shirui worried.
Qin Yiming said: "Big brother, you are too merciful, you have raised them for more than a month in vain, but it will be different when they come to me, when they come to me, they will be military households, I will manage them in accordance with military law, they can eat if they want, but they must work and obey orders!" ”
Three days later, Anlu County stopped giving porridge and the porridge shed was demolished.
The refugees made a fuss, the porridge shack was demolished, where did they go to drink the porridge? Later, they saw the notice of the government, which said that there were porridge sheds in Yingshan, Gaohe, and Xiaohexi, and many people left Anlu County with the big team, and the citizens who were mixed in the refugee team before saw that they were going to drink porridge elsewhere, so they didn't follow the food and drink, and now many rice merchants have opened their doors, and many more rice shops have opened, and the price of rice has begun to fall.
Qin Yiming let people set up porridge sheds in three places, and also built a lot of tents for the victims to live, the victims are very satisfied, those tents are separated by a certain distance, for people to walk, and the environment is clean and hygienic, the victims are very happy, Qin Yiming also ingeniously built a mound, all the refugees who died of illness and starvation in Anlu County were buried in the mound, so that the victims could be buried in the grave, and it was also convenient for those relatives who were still alive to worship, which won the hearts of the people. The ancients paid attention to these, although there was no such condition in troubled times, many corpses were abandoned in the wilderness and reduced to food for wild beasts, but it does not mean that their relatives are not sad and sad, Qin Yiming's small move made those relatives feel a lot better in their hearts, at least their relatives have a grave, so that they will not be lonely ghosts.
A few days later, a notice was posted at the porridge shack, saying that only those who were willing to stay and incorporated into the military could continue to drink porridge, and those who did not want to stay would be cleared out, and those who felt that life here was not bad, and their dead relatives were buried here, many of them chose to stay, and those who did not want to stay did not entangle, and in the end the vast majority of people chose to stay, and very few people left.
After the registration process began, many follow-up policies followed, and the first thing I saw was Zhang Xiaoshe's gang of hooligans wandering around the camp, they were assigned to maintain law and order, and some soldiers with spears patrolled. Qin Yiming used military law to restrain these victims, young people cooked, strong men cut wood and labored, women and girls drew water, old people rested, and the refugees all felt at home, and soon settled down here.
It didn't take long for Qin Yiming to start building walled forts in Yingshan, Gaohe, and Xiaohexi, and the work of distributing land was also going on at the same time, these homeless people were full of energy, because they knew that building a walled fort was to build their own homes, and they also had their own land, so they could live here for generations in the future.
The refugees were also very interested in Qin Yiming's reward policy, and in one day, hundreds of people received a reward of ten taels of silver, and Qin Yiming got three thousand high-quality soldiers at once.
Sun Shirui saw that those refugees were so diligent and hardworking, and changed their previous sick demeanor, and all of them had a new mental outlook, and he simply admired Qin Yiming so much.
However, Qin Yiming also encountered Sun Shirui's trouble before, that is, the food consumption is too fast, according to his estimate, he can still have tens of thousands of stone grain in the account during the autumn harvest, but now he needs more than 10,000 stone of grain a month, and these people must be raised until they harvest next summer, so he is very melancholy, and he must find a way to solve it.
Ma Deputy Qianhu and Yang Yanshi should be executed according to military law because they escaped from the battle at Wuyang Pass last time, but Qin Yiming did not catch the two on the battlefield, and when they came back, they could only imprison these two people, waiting for the above ruling, this wait was more than a month, but finally waited for the news, the reply given by the people left behind in the division was very simple, not guilty and released, this decision made many soldiers in the Qianhu Institute unhappy, such people are not brought to justice, so can military law still manage people? No wonder Ma Qianhu shouted that Qin Yiming couldn't kill him, it turned out that there were people above to protect the two of them.