In October 644, the turbulent Henan Province was temporarily peaceful because the main force of Duoduo retreated across the Yellow River.

Now the whole of Henan is still a three-party situation, but compared with the beginning of the year, Li Yan and Bai Wang, who originally occupied the most prefectures and counties, have shrunk sharply, and now they only control the Luoyang area, and the power of the Qing army has crossed the Yellow River.

At this time, among the three forces, it was still the strongest Qing army, like a hungry wolf lying in northern Henan, eyeing the tiger.

However, now that the Qing army is short of food, there is basically no possibility of going south in a short period of time, so Li Yan, Bai Wang and Gao Yihuan can all prepare for war again.

At this time, with the temporary end of the war, the harm caused by Gao Yihuan's strong wall and clear the field began to appear.

The most direct consequence of this is to lead to the emergence of a large wave of displaced people.

Originally, the land of eastern Henan had been plagued by the army for many years, and the people had just recuperated for less than two years, Gao Yihuan resorted to such a poisonous plan, so that the people in Xuzhou, Xinzheng and other places had no livelihood again and became displaced people again.

Yuncheng, which is the junction of Kaifeng Mansion, Runing Mansion and Nanyang Mansion, is also an important passage and first stop for displaced people to go south.

At this time, on both sides of the official road outside Yuncheng, there were endless tents, 10,000 of them, and nearly 100,000 homeless people lived.

Helpless, after burning the city and burning the fields, Gao Yihuan, as the initiator, had to give relief, and as soon as Gao Yihuan gave relief, the displaced people flocked to him, all of them were in a posture of eating his mother and wearing his mother.

If you don't get resettled and don't give you a way to live, it will definitely evolve into a rogue and create a rebellion against Gao Yihuan.

Fortunately, the land of eastern Henan was plagued by the invasion army earlier, and when Han Jiadi rebelled, some people had already been brought to Yuncheng, so the remaining population was not large.

In addition, the Qing army also captured a lot of them earlier and went to Beizhili to be a flag slave, so there were only more than 100,000 displaced people from the south, and if there were 300,000 or 400,000 people, Gao Yihuan couldn't afford it at all.

After the Qing army's grain storage in Xingyang City was burned and the main force of the Qing army retreated, Gao Yihuan devoted a large part of his energy to the resettlement of the displaced people.

At this time, Gao Yihuan, under the escort of dozens of cavalry, walked through the middle of the tents, and the homeless people were lifeless, squatting or sitting or standing in the camp, their eyes were a little dull, and they had no look.

While riding a horse, Gao Yihuan asked Lu Yifang, the judge of Hu Cao on the side, "How did these displaced people settle?" ”

Lu Yifang stepped forward, half a head behind, "The people who fled from Zhengzhou will be mixed with the displaced people in Xuzhou and Xinzheng." Every 30 households are guaranteed by one guarantee, and each guarantee is divided into several households of the people of Zhengzhou, and soldiers are also arranged to manage the displaced people. ”

Gao Yihuan bowed slightly, the people of Zhengzhou took the initiative to escape after suffering from the scourge of Tartars, Xuzhou and Xinzheng were mainly harmed by Gao Yihuan, and between the two, their feelings about Gao Yihuan were completely different.

Lu Yifang's compilation method, the people of Zhengzhou told their suffering, and the displaced people of Xuzhou and Xinzheng may have a certain understanding of Gao's army's actions of burning the city and burning the fields.

Gao Yihuan was still quite satisfied with this arrangement, and couldn't help but nodded, and then asked the question he was most concerned about, "How is the food situation?" ”

Nearly 200,000 rebels were incorporated before, and now there are more than 100,000 displaced people, so many mouths to eat, Gao Yihuan can't hold it at all.

Lu Yifang said: "The food gap is too big, although the lowly people have grabbed part of the wheat in Xuzhou, but the food is still only enough to settle the displaced people who were coerced by Li Jiyu and Liu Xuan. If these 100,000 people are to be resettled, they will have to reduce the supply of military rations. ”

Gao Yihuan immediately waved his hand, "The supply of military rations must not be reduced. ”

Now Gao Yihuan relies on the army, and he also relies on the army to fight the Tartars, giving relief to the displaced people, and he must not affect the army.

Gao Yihuan directly interrupted Lu Yifang's words, but then slowed down his tone and asked, "Is there any other way?"

Lu Yifang muttered: "Dashuai, in fact, most of the people who were resettled before could only drink porridge, and many people have starved to death. These homeless people rely only on the government's alms, and the government treasury certainly does not have the ability to do this, but if they can rely on the strength of the squires and the army, they may be able to do so. ”

Gao Yihuan frowned slightly, "What do you say?" ”

"Dashuai has governed southern Henan for nearly three years, there has been no war in southern Henan, not to mention the squire's landlord's house, just ordinary farmers, after dividing the land, in addition to food, there is also a small surplus. There are also military dependents, not to mention the salary, there are many acres of land, and almost all of them have surplus grain. ”

Gao Yihuan nodded, somewhat understanding what he meant, he grabbed the reins of the horse, "Go on!" ”

Lu Yifang also paused and said: "These homeless people can be distributed to the squire, landlord, or military dependents, and they will provide grain relief, while the homeless people must sign a contract with the squire or military family members and become their tenants, and the employment relationship can not be terminated until the relief grain is repaid." ”

Gao Yihuan's eyes lit up, he had 30,000 elite soldiers under his command, and each family had a lot of military fields, and this time he would reward some of the soldiers. As a result, the farmland of military dependents will increase, and it will certainly not be possible for their families to cultivate all of their farmland, so it will be necessary to hire laborers to help.

If these displaced people are distributed to military families as tenants, it will not only resettle the displaced people, but also solve a big trouble for the military families, so that the soldiers and generals have no worries.

In this way, it is possible to form a large landlord and military aristocracy like Prussia, and of course it is also possible to gradually settle for pleasure and eventually become corrupt.

The Qing army kidnapped the people to become banner slaves and helped the Eight Banners farm the land, if Gao Yihuan did this, in fact, there was not much difference.

Looking at it this way, his regime is not very advanced, and it is also cannibalistic.

At this time, his mind changed rapidly, and finally he said: "This method can be tried, but it is also necessary to ensure the safety of the displaced people, and it is necessary to formulate a law to prohibit employers from bullying and abusing tenants, and after the contract expires, tenants can decide to stay at their own discretion, and employers cannot stop them." ”

"Humble duty understands!" Lu Yifang saluted.

Gao Yihuan waved his hand, "Then implement it as soon as possible." In addition, Hu Cao is taking out some silver to see if he can buy some grain, and don't care about the price. Silver is a dead thing, people are living things, and as long as people live, they can produce value. ”

"Don't worry, the handsome will do it as soon as possible."

At this time, Gao Yihuan explained the pre-epidemic prevention and other things, and came to a vacant lot.

An officer came up to hold the war horse for him, Gao Yihuan turned over and dismounted, and asked casually, "Are they all called?" ”

"Back to the big handsome, all the security chiefs are here!" The officer saluted.

Gao Yihuan nodded, and then walked into the venue, where a large group of homeless leaders sat below.

They saw Gao Yihuan walking towards the high platform in front of them surrounded by armor soldiers, and they all cast their eyes.

The soldiers who maintained order hurriedly said: "Get up, this is our commander!" ”

Hundreds of homeless people stood up from the ground in a hurry, Gao Yihuan walked up to the high platform, smiled and waved his hands, "Everyone sit, don't be nervous." I'm here today, mainly to accompany my fellow countrymen. ”

Speaking of this, Gao Yihuan's expression became heavy, "I, Gao Yihuan, didn't take care of my subordinates and let them burn down the homes of the villagers, this is my fault for Gao Yihuan." You can rest assured, the general who caused the accident has been beaten by me, I Gao Yihuan is from Henan, and I will never allow my subordinates to harm my township party~"

The homeless people below listened to his words, but their faces did not fluctuate, although they hated the people who burned their fields, but now they were concerned about how to live.

After Gao Yihuan finished speaking, a man below asked, "Gao Dashuai, what should we do in the future!" ”

"Hungry, Dashuai! I've been drinking gruel for six days! ”

Seeing this, Gao Yihuan hurriedly stretched out his hand and pressed it, "Fellow villagers, rest assured, Ben Shuai has already formulated a resettlement plan, and everyone will have something to eat······"