On the third day, Liu Bei arrived with Xu Rong and Zhang Fei, and at the same time, Fu Zhu also arrived with baggage and immigrants.

"This is the county seat of Baitan?" Frustrated with some disbelief in his eyes, not far away, the place that should have been the county seat was already in ruins, the city wall that was not high was smashed everywhere, and there was no intact house in sight, seeing the crowd in the distance, a person suddenly stood up from the originally quiet ruins, followed one by one, countless people crawled out of the ruins like gophers, and silently greeted this army.

Liu He said loudly: "In view of the current situation in Baitan County, the state government has entrusted me with full authority to handle Baitan affairs. I, Liu He, are here, and no one will starve to death in this county. ”

Then he turned around and commanded loudly: "Set up camp, make a fire, cook porridge, and let the people of Baitan eat a mouthful of food first." ”

Immediately, Zou Jing was arranged to serve as the county commander, Liu Bei was the county commander, Guan Yu was the county lieutenant, and Jian Yong was the county chief bookkeeper.

Around the barracks, simple shacks began to be erected, and the town of Baitan began to have a little business, and the surviving children among the homeless people began to laugh and play among the shanties after drinking a few bowls of porridge, and the children's happiness was always easier than the adults who were still sad and sad.

A few days later, the military council.

"My lord, it's been counted." Zou Jing handed Liu He a stack of bamboo slips, "The state government has recruited 6,000 households, totaling 33,188 people; In addition to those who were killed, taken captive, or fled into the mountains, in the past thirty or forty years, there are still 1,000 households left in Baitan, totaling 5,000 people; According to the news of the remnants, after learning that the Han army was stationed, after getting the news, it was estimated that there were nearly 8,000 people gathering here. ”

"What? More than 40,000 people? All the people in the tent gasped, to be honest, the army itself was not enough to eat, how could they feed these many people?

"Lord, we can't let these villagers gather in the county seat, there are more and more people, even if we drink porridge, we can't last many days?" Liu Bei said heavily.

"Yes! Lord, the county town can no longer gather Dingkou, otherwise, the grain will crush us. The generals agreed.

Hearing everyone's words, Liu Bei couldn't help but be anxious, "You can't, if these people don't come here, then they will only starve to death, here, after all, there is still a mouthful of porridge for life!" ”

Xu Rong said: "Xuande, you have a heart of love for the people, and you admire it, but more than 40,000 people, even if they drink porridge, how much food do you need a day?" In order not to starve to death, we now have to consume 100 stone of grain a day, with our current grain storage, we can only support a month, and we will run out of food in November, what should we do at that time? ”

Liu Bei's eyes widened and said: "Lord, we can report to the state government in an emergency, please assassinate Shi and allocate food again!" ”

Liu and everyone looked at each other, and they all smiled bitterly, you Liu Xuande don't know, although the lord is the son of the assassin, but the assassin is very particular about the rules, he only gave the 30,000 homeless people recruited by the state government, how could he break the rules he set?

"Please allow me to go to the state capital to ask for food."

"Xuande is indispensable to you in the county now!" Liu He's words are not coquettish, because Liu He and others are not familiar with civil affairs, as soon as Liu Bei goes, the remaining Zou Jing is three heads and six arms, and he is too busy.

"It doesn't matter, now the county has been initially stabilized, as long as there is life food, the people will not make trouble, even if there are one or two small people, Sui'an can easily deal with it, and I and Sui'an have divided and ruled the people according to the township and the pavilion, there are village elders, pavilion chiefs, and the chief of the pavilion to help manage, and it is expected that there will be no chaos." Liu Bei explained.

"The most important thing now is food, dare to ask the lord to order me to go to the state capital, if Liu Gong doesn't give me food, I will hang myself in his hall with a rope." Liu Beiyuan opened his eyes, his beard curled up one after another, and he was angry.

Benevolence and righteousness are unparalleled Liu Xuande? Liu He thought for a moment, but there was no harm in him, if he could get food, no matter how much, it would be good.

"Since Liu Xiancheng is so sure, of course he will support, Yide, prepare a horse for Xuande and send two guards." Liu He commanded.

"Thank you, my lord!" Liu Bei gave a salute and walked out with his head held high.

"Ladies and gentlemen, you have also seen the current situation, the situation is really bad to the extreme, these people who are gathering to the county town can't stop it, let them come. Otherwise, it is very likely to provoke a civil uprising, if there is a conflict, it will be very disadvantageous to us, you must know that Bai Tan is not big, most of the people here are related to the past, and those people are not allowed to come in, I am afraid that we will also be unstable here. ”

"But my lord, it is extremely difficult to feed these people now, and if there are another 10,000 or 20,000 people, how can we support them?" Zhang Fei hurriedly said: "Now my subordinates can only eat one dry meal a day, and they are all hungry and weak!" ”

Liu He said: "I know, this is also a matter of no way, tell the sergeant, survive this while, everything will be fine." Our priority now is to get something to eat. ”

"Mr. Frustration!"

Frustrated professor stood up.

"Sir, you have two terms of county commanders, familiar with civil affairs, you and Sui'an went down to organize the village elders, pavilion chiefs, and group the people into groups, young and middle-aged, women, children and the elderly. Yide and Yunchang, what are the units of the two of you, and each unit leads a group of young men from Mr. Fu to hunt in the mountains. ”

"Bo Yu, your department is also based on what unit, in Mr. Fu's to lead sturdy women and old people and children who can still do things, I don't care whether you go to dig a mouse hole, dig a snake nest or a bird's nest, touch a squirrel hole, or find a wild vegetable that can be eaten, in short, as long as you can eat, you can dig it back."

"Yes!" The generals answered with a loud voice.

"Remember one thing!" Liu He Sen said, "Tell your subordinates, everyone here is our people, our fathers, if the rules and discipline are broken, I, Liu He, will recognize him, and the knife in my waist and the Han family's military law will not recognize him." ”

"Don't worry, lord!" The generals received the order awe-inspiringly, Liu He had repeatedly warned them about the importance of military discipline and the relationship between the military and the people when they were training, and at this critical juncture, if the military discipline was not strict, an army could very well degenerate into a gang of bandits, and if it got into trouble with the common people, it would become a source of no water.

"All the harvest is not allowed to be privately hidden, and all the harvest is handed over to the camp headquarters and distributed by Mr. Fu." Liu He glanced at everyone.

"Hansheng, your department can't be idle, there are 300 people in your department, and they eat two meals a day."

"Ahh Everyone was taken aback, now even Liu He is doing it all the time, why is Huang Zhong's ministry doing it twice a day.

"They have something to do, and they can't do it if they don't have the strength."

Liu He glanced at the puzzled people: "Your department will start to go up the mountain to cut down trees from tomorrow, and after transporting the trees back, let's prepare to build a house, there are not enough people, and I will go to Mr. Fu to ask for it, there are less than two months to go, and the first snow will fall, if you don't build a warm house before the snow, then you will freeze to death this winter." ”

Everyone was stunned, and then they remembered this fatal problem, they had been thinking about how not to starve to death, but now they remembered that if they didn't do it, they would freeze to death.

"Sir, Sui'an, after you go down, listen to the opinions of those village elders and pavilion chiefs, and see if they have any way to find food?" Liu He sat down and said a little tiredly.

"It's my lord, let's do it right away!" One by one, everyone withdrew.

Looking at the empty tent, Liu He smiled to himself: "It's really poor and white, and there are all kinds of waste waiting to be rebuilt!" Xuande, I just hope you will bring me food back soon, otherwise this winter will be really difficult! ”