The lively New Year has finally passed, and after the beginning of spring, Wang Mingzhi's affairs have become busy again.

Spring, the beginning of a new year, the season of all things, for those who follow Wang Mingzhi's side, this year needs to be more busy than in previous years. Not only should we prepare the past year's knot to the imperial court as we did in the previous year. I also have to prepare to settle the people who have crossed the river, which little prince of the Gan family is really a difficult lord to wait, and the errand ordered down is that a few old Chengxiangfu officials also feel tricky, and if there is something I don't understand, I have to ask this little prince face to face again and again. If the south and the north are still submerged in a blank of snow today, just wait for the ice and snow to melt, and the work of relocating the displaced people in Jiangbei will be officially launched.

At the beginning of March, the grinning north wind has not dispersed, the thawed land has not seen a drop of rain for two months, Wang Jiao rode on a horse, looked around, the endless flat and dry land, it is difficult to see trees, after the people and horses, the dust raised is all over the sky. Although the land is vast, there are not many people along the way, and Wang Jiao saw that many small villages were abandoned.

Natural disasters and man-made disasters, coupled with Suzong's seven-year southern expedition of the Yan army, the Huaisi region was plundered and did not recover for a long time. The trees were white-flowered, the grass had been eaten, and even the roots had been dug up.

Everywhere there were dead bodies of homeless people starving, and even scrapers on the side of the road were seen like slaughtering pigs and dogs. Displaced people everywhere, bandits everywhere, human life is precious in the south of the Yangtze River, but after crossing the Yangtze River, human life is like grass mustard. Approaching the Yangtze River, there were gradually more people, everywhere were ragged homeless people, and the weak were lying dying on the side of the road, and the scene was like the end of the world.

The sky is pitiful, the first time in decades that the imperial court has taken refugees across the river, since February 2 received a letter from Prime Minister Wang Cheng, Wang Jiao and others were arranged to cross the river in the first batch of displaced people, smoke and dust rolling, but saw a team of Daxia cavalry riding horses, to Wang Jiao near the fist and asked: "In front is Wang Jiao Mr. Wang?" ”

After taking Wang Jiao to nod his head and agree, he said: "Prime Minister Wang is waiting for Mr. Wang in Jiangbei, please ask the brothers of Lao Fengkou led by Mr. Wang to go to the riverside by themselves, Mr. Wang will go with us first, and there are some things to discuss with Mr. Wang as soon as possible." Wang Jiao and his deputy explained a few words, and then followed a few cavalry to the river.

Wang Jiao and others came to the riverside refugee resettlement site, a row of dozens of marching tents by the riverside, with the soldiers into the main tent, on both sides of the big tent sat seven or eight people in different costumes, both men and women, sitting on the main seat is not Wang Mingzhi Wang Prime Minister, but an eight or nine-year-old child, Wang Jiao was busy saluting everyone in the account, only to listen to Wang Mingzhi, who was sitting on the left side of the head Wang Mingzhi said to Wang Jiao: "This is His Royal Highness Gantang, the king of Xiangyang, who took the refugees across the river this time is the king of Xiangyang to the imperial court, and most of the expenses are the private property of His Royal Highness's family. After Wang Mingzhi's introduction, he hugged his fist to Gan Tang and withdrew from the big tent. Wang Jiao hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to Gantang.

Gan Tang said: "Get up!" There are few people in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is impossible to resettle the displaced people in the north of the Yangtze River, hoping for the king

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Sir, don't be resentful of the court anymore, I believe Wang Cheng has already explained to you where you are going this time. With that, he told his retinue to open a huge map behind him.

It was the first time that everyone in the tent had seen this map, and they all looked at the map.

Gan Tang picked up a long stick and pointed to the map with the long stick, "This is where we are now." This is Jiankang, from Jiankang all the way south through Quanzhou, Guangzhou, and then to the south is Jiaozhi, and then to the south is Ceylon, Java, and real wax. The long stick followed Gantang's dictation all the way to the south. Your destination is here, and there are no fixed decent countries here, and there are several small countries that do not have a fixed territorial range, and we can consider it terra nullius. Because it is summer all year round, there is plenty of rain, the land is fertile, there are natural melons and fruits everywhere, and there are many animals and fish in the forest ditches, so the natives here are very lazy, do not produce, and do not starve. Rice can be grown three times a year in this area, and one person can feed 20 people. However, there are also disadvantages here, there are more mosquitoes, it is very susceptible to diseases, and the local natives are not educated by the Celestial Empire, and they are barbaric. If we were poorer than they were, if we were richer than they were, they would rob and attack. Therefore, I have called you here this time to explain the stakes. Because there is no specific name for this large area of land in Bactria now, let's call it Indonesia! ”

"The southward movement is dominated by the fourth uncle Gan Sheng, the official family sent Li Gong Gonggong as the supervising army, and the Tai Hospital Yang Taiyi and twenty physicians accompanied him, and after the arrival of the people in Laofengkou, through three months of training, an army of 2,000 people was established to protect the safety of the immigrants. The army consisted of 1,000 Lao Fengkou Qingzhuang, 500 Mingjiao sect members, and 500 disciples of various factions in Jiangbei. At the end of the three-month training, there will be 5,000 displaced people and 8,000 other related personnel. Fifty ships will be sent by Lord Li Yu, along with a year's worth of rations for 8,000 people and related food tools. After arriving at the location, Mr. Wang Jiao quickly organized the displaced people to cultivate and grow grain, and after you settle down, Lord Li Yu will transport the displaced people over one after another, and how many Jiangbei displaced people can be rescued depends on how many people can support the land reclaimed by your first batch of people. ”

Gan Tang saw that everyone had no doubts, and continued: "Since the land you occupy, the nearby countries such as Ceylon and Zhenwax have always been my subjects of Great Xia, in order not to panic them, you can't go under the banner of Great Xia, you can only be regarded as your own behavior, and it has nothing to do with the imperial court to the outside world." Therefore, Prime Minister Wang Cheng and others should avoid it and cannot negotiate this matter with us. ”

"There is a small country named Sulu in the north of the land we occupy, and there is a mountain on the border between this country and us, and this is it, there is a large gold mine in this mountain, which is easy to mine, and General Han Chong will quickly occupy this place after his arrival, and after you arrive four months later, a second group of people will arrive, and this group of people will not only be homeless, but also craftsmen and experienced miners of the Ministry of Bactria Labor

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, their people, no longer farming, their main mining and alchemy. I will give you a portion of the money I have earned. The rest of the income will be used to resettle displaced people. ”

On 15 March, the first batch of displaced people finally arrived, and the resettlement site on the north bank of the Yangtze River was not 6,000 but nearly 10,000 displaced people. At this time, Gan Tang had returned to Lin'an, and was rewarded by the fast horse, Gan Tang gritted his teeth, collected, and then said.

After reporting to several elders, he knew that with the financial resources of Gantang's more than a dozen houses, he would definitely not be able to afford the consumption of so many homeless people. Gan Tang had no choice but to enter the palace to report to Queen Xie, and Queen Xie sent a royal paper to the major families in the south of the Yangtze River, and the wealthy businessmen proposed that each family set up a porridge shed at the temporary settlement site for the displaced people in Jiangbei to prevent other displaced people from coming to prevent other displaced people from coming to hear the news. He also promised the families in Jiangnan that after the displaced people crossed the river, they would be taken to other places in a short period of time and would never be resettled in Jiangnan. After the first batch of displaced people were transported across the river by boat, and one after another the displaced people came to the Jiangbei resettlement site with great hardship, Empress Xie's private porridge shed was the first to be erected in Jiangbei on March 20, followed by Jia Guifei, Prince Chai Heng, Jia Guifei, Fuwang Chai Rui, Chong'an Wang Chai Xin, Uncle Zuo Prime Minister Jia Ru, Shi Chong, Zhao Chong, the major princes of the Chai family, the meritorious families, the incumbents or famous ministers, and the wealthy businessmen and magnates in the south of the Yangtze River have erected banners to open porridge sheds, and within one day, more than 70 people sat on the banners of each family to follow the erection. There are also two or three hundred families who have arrived one after another to transport grain, preparing to cross the river and set up porridge sheds. For a time, Jiangbei flags were unfurled, and firecrackers rang out, so it was not lively. There was a scramble for the homeless, and there was a fight. Gan Tang felt a pain in his head for the second time since Kong Yang dissolved the Analects.

Gan Tang's actual age is only eight years old, and he integrates the memory of dreams, and his IQ and insight are also similar to those of adults, and for a while he thought of encountering such a situation.

Seeing this situation, Wang Mingzhi quickly negotiated with Gan Tang, "This is not a long-term solution. And suggested to Gan Tang and the elders of the Gan family: "When these Jiangnan families saw that Empress Xie personally set up a porridge shed, they did not deny that there were some people who were sincere in disaster relief, and there were also a large number of people who tended to be attached to the situation and sold their fame. These people are only hot for three days, so it is better to divide those who have the intention of setting up a porridge shed into eight classes, and each class will give porridge for a month. Each class was led by Empress Xie, Jia Guifei, Prince, King Fu, Jia Ru, Shi Chong, Zhao Chong and myself. The royal palaces, meritorious families, ministers, and wealthy businessmen were equally divided into each class. This not only does not waste resources, but also ensures a long-term supply of food for the displaced people, and can also make it affordable for all families. ”

Gan Tang adopted Wang Mingzhi's suggestion, and the chaos was effectively contained.

And Jiangnan is much more orderly, Jiangnan only accepts donations, does not allow private people to set up porridge sheds, donors have a small envoy recorded, erect several huge stone tablets next to the Jiankang city gate, the name of the soup porridge family and the name of the individual donor and how much donation, engraved on the stone tablet, for its fame.

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