The next day, the new guerrilla general of the Tian0jin Chunban battalion, Luo Lizong, came to visit Li Zhi. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In addition to the Zhenhai camp stationed in Gegu, there were also two spring and autumn guerrilla battalions in Tian0jin, each with 1,500 people, stationed in the north of the acropolis. Luo Lizong was originally the left guard of Tian0jin, but now that Fanjiazhuang has won a big victory, he has divided more than 100 levels of the first rank, and he has been promoted to the guerrilla of the Tian0jin Spring Battalion.

He was grateful to Li Zhi's head and optimistic about Li Zhi's future future, so he came to visit Li Zhi.

In the Fanjiazhuang Official Hall, now known as the second hall of the Guerrilla General's Mansion, Li Zhi met with the spring breeze of Luo Lizong.

As soon as he came up, Luo Lizong sent out a gift list worth seventy or eighty taels, and said: "It all depends on the majesty of the virtuous brother's victory, and I will wait for the chicken dog to ascend to heaven." In the past, I could only dream of becoming a guerrilla mile, but now my dream has come true! ”

Li Zhi said modestly: "Brother Luo said and laughed, this guerrilla is the result of Brother Luo's life and work for so many years, and this big victory is just a matter of course." ”

Luo Lizong seemed to agree with Li Zhi's words, laughed, and said, "Brother Xian is really good at talking. After a pause, Luo Lizong said sourly: "A year ago, Brother Xian was just a small defender, and he was my subordinate. Now that the virtuous brother has been promoted to six levels in a year, and now he is already a guerrilla general, he is really on the rise, and I can speculate. ”

Seeing Luo Lizong's envious and jealous look, Li Zhi smiled and did not speak.

Luo Lizong paused, looked at Li Zhi and said, "Why is the virtuous brother a little sullen, but what is on his mind?" ”

Li Zhi disguised and said: "Nothing! ”

Luo Lizong said with a smile: "Brother Fool has no other skills, but he still has some skills in watching people do things in officialdom." I look at the color of the virtuous brother, it must be something that happened in this officialdom. There is no harm in saying it, and the foolish brother may be able to come up with some ideas for the virtuous brother. ”

Li Zhi looked at Luo Lizong and did not speak.

Luo Lizong said: "Tell me? ”

Li Zhi asked lightly: "How is Luo Zhending?" ”

Luo Lizong snorted when he heard this, and said, "Sure enough, it's Luo Zhending!" ”

Li Zhi asked, "Sure enough, it's Luo Zhending?" ”

Luo Lizong said: "Yes, brother Xian, you don't know, this Luo Zhending's official style is very bad. The Zhenhai battalion he was in charge of originally had 3,000 soldiers, and he ate 1,200 empty salaries, but in fact there were only 1,800 battalion soldiers, which was the highest proportion in Tian0jin. That's not all, he still had nothing to do in the Gegu area, but he said a few rich thieves with no background, robbed others of their homes, and robbed thousands of taels of silver. ”

Li Zhi said: "It turns out that he has such a bad reputation? ”

Rorizong said: "Notoriety! However, this person makes money ruthlessly, and he is also generous, sending money everywhere. He has dealt with all aspects of Tian0jin, so this time it will be his turn as soon as the position of the general army is vacated. ”

Luo Lizong looked at Li Zhi and said, "If Luo Zhending finds you, it will still fall to the governor in the end." ”

Li Zhi replied: "Now that the governor has made meritorious service, I am afraid that he will be transferred to Beijing to be a scholar." ”

Luo Lizong shook his head and said: "The governor has been in charge of Tian0jin for three years, and he has influence in all aspects. Even if the governor is not in Tian0jin at that time, the officials who come back to Tian0jin with a word still have to help. ”

Li Zhi smiled: "I'm afraid Luo Zhending is not such a good type!" ”

Luo Lizong pondered for a moment, and said hesitantly: "According to Luo Zhending's style, it is difficult to say..."

Li Zhi saw that Luo Lizong didn't have any tricks, so he waved his hand and said, "Don't talk about this, let's talk about Brother Luo's spring camp." ”

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He Shishou will not be transferred away for a while and a half, and Luo Zhending will not be in trouble in a short time. Li Zhi put Luo Zhending's matter behind him for the time being, and continued to be busy with the governance of the collar.

In mid-September, the Tartars had already been out of the customs, and the roads had already been cleared. The sowing of winter wheat began, and the refugees gathered in the north of Fanjiazhuang returned to their hometowns. Although the poor have no money, they can still borrow some food from relatives and friends for half a year and a year. As long as you go back and sow the wheat fields, life will be back on track next year.

Li Zhi gave each refugee a bucket of rice and made dry food for them on the road, otherwise the refugees would starve halfway through.

Within a few days, 30,000 refugees in the north of Fanjiazhuang had left, leaving only 10,000.

Li Zhi saw that the last 10,000 people were not leaving, so he went to the north of the city to have a look.

When Li Zhi went to the north of the city, he found that those who stayed were the most hungry and poor, all of them skinny and skinny. There are men, women and children, and many of them are dragging their families and huddled in their nests, cowering when they look at people.

Li Zhi walked around the refugee camp when several old men walked up tremblingly on crutches.

As soon as they walked in front of Li Zhi, these old men wanted to kowtow to Li Zhi. Li Zhi hurriedly helped them up.

"General, it's not that we rely on Fanjiazhuang to eat rice, we are really desperate!"

Li Zhi nodded and said, "Don't the people have relatives and friends to turn to?" Can't borrow a year's worth of food? ”

The old people sighed and said, "We who have stayed behind are the loneliest, either our relatives are poor or our relatives have also suffered from the disaster, where is there a place to lend a year's rations?" It is estimated that the family's house was also burned by the Tartars, and all the food was robbed by the Tartars, and it is a dead end to go back! ”

After saying this, several old men knelt on the ground one by one.

"Please take us in! We don't want monthly money and a house, we just need to live in this nest and have a mouthful of porridge to eat! As long as there is porridge to eat, we will make cows and horses to serve adults! ”

Li Zhi helped these old people up, took a few steps forward, and looked at these poor people again.

Most of these people are poor people with families, and because of the large population, there are many old and young, so the economy is the most difficult. If it is a single young man with a field at home, and someone can borrow a stone and a half of grain to get through the year, it is still easy to find a place to borrow. If there are five or six people in the family, they have to borrow at least eight or nine stones of grain, and the price of rice is high in this chaotic season, and it is difficult to borrow so much grain.

In the past few months since the Tatars entered the customs, Gyeonggi has been plundered, and a lot of grain has been transported back to the customs by the Tatars, and now the grain in Gyeonggi needs to be transported in from other places to meet the demand. The original price of rice has risen to four taels and one stone. It is estimated that the price of rice will not be reduced in half a year. In this situation, there is not enough silver, and there is no way to buy life-saving food.

But Fanjiazhuang is currently saturated with various jobs, and there is no need for so many people! Li Zhi can't keep all these people.

These people have no ability and can only plow the land.

However, Li Zhi thought again: Fanjiazhuang has been importing grain from the outside world at present, and the pressure on logistics is quite great. Now that Gyeonggi rice is expensive, Li Zhi spends a lot more money to maintain Fanjiazhuang every day. Why don't you gather these together and cultivate the land?

Where to find land for these farmers to plant?

Li Zhi knew that the manufacture of some high-efficiency hydraulic machinery could turn dry land that could not be irrigated by ordinary methods into fertile land. Those wastelands are cheap, and after buying them, Li Zhi can turn them into fertile land. Why don't you rely on these hydraulic machinery to reclaim a new field?

Li Zhi thought for a moment and asked the old men, "Do you all know how to plow the land?" ”

Those old men saw hope at once, and hurriedly walked up on crutches and knelt down in front of Li Zhi, and replied: "General Hui, we are all farmers who do our duty, and we all grow wheat!" Will you take us in as tenant farmers? ”

When the men, women, and children next to Li Zhi saw Li Zhi ask, they all felt hopeful, and crawled out of the ground one by one, hulala knelt in front of Li Zhi.

"My lord, take us in, we will starve to death when we go back!"

"Sir, save us!"

Li Zhi nodded, and in the ecstatic eyes of those poor people, he said lightly: "Then you can stay and farm for me!" ”

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