Chapter 222: Lack of People
Chang Kai said seventy-three in the morning, and now it has become more than one hundred and thirty, which is greatly beyond Zhu Da's expectations, if it grows at this rate, the plan will have to change.
Since Qin Chuan returned to the city, his judgment has always been biased, and Zhu Da followed Chang Shen inward while self-examining, whether he couldn't do it because he had too much to do and limited energy.
“...... Where are you from? ”
"I'm from Qingyang Village."
Hearing this conversation beside him, Juda stopped.
"Are you from the city or from Qingyang Village?"
"Of course, from the city, there are still people in our village, and there is no way to live anywhere!"
People who want to be recruited will be asked a few words of origin and experience, Zhu Da and Chang Shen happened to walk here, judging from the greetings of the deputy officers around them, these people who inspected and received people were also the white-bodied deputy officers of the Yamen.
"It seems that Lao Zhao and they have run for nothing, and there should be no one over there...... That's not Master Zhu, stand up and salute. The attitude of the few people who recruited the young and strong was very casual, and the way they treated those refugees and young people was no different from the inspection at the city gate, but they recognized Zhu Da, and hurriedly got up with a smile to greet them.
"Tell me about the situation of the people who have come over in the past two days, where did they come from, when there were more and when were they less, are they willing to come?" Zhu Da asked four straight questions.
"Yesterday they all came from the city, today there are two groups from Fanggezhuang and Nanshuiji, there were not many people at the beginning of yesterday, there were more people in the afternoon, there were many people this morning, and now there are few." The answer was stumbling, but the idea was clear.
Fanggezhuang and Nanshuiji are only three miles away from the city wall, not so much a village outside the city, but an extension of the county seat, Zhu Da can deduce a few things from this answer, the people inside and outside the county who should know the news have already known, and almost all the people who should have come have come, and there will not be too many people in the places where they are suffering.
After coming to these inferences, Zhu Da's heart relaxed somewhat, but at this time, he noticed that the person who replied stopped talking, with a little hesitation on his face, Zhu Da said with a smile: "If you have something to say, I won't eat you." ”
These words made the atmosphere a little more relaxed, and the man who wanted to speak was obviously dragged down by his companions, and there seemed to be some hint, but after the man made eye contact, he still said to Zhu Da: "Master Zhu, there is something to tell the master, the little ones know that the master only needs young men, but in the past two days, there are so many dozen families who have dragged their families, and the small ones have also been taken in, if the master thinks it is inappropriate, the small ones will drive them away, but this day is cold......"
The next words of this person did not come out, and the people around him didn't care about hinting at it, so they directly pushed and interrupted the words, and then the two of them smiled at Zhu Da together.
Zhu Da looked at the person who got up to speak, although he had a little beard, but he looked at most in his early twenties, compared to the white-bodied deputy he had seen these days, he looked weak, and what was even more rare was that there was a booklet in front of him, and there was a pen and ink inkstone on the side, it was difficult for the weather to be freezing.
"I said I could settle the whole family, why do you think I only need young men?" Juda asked with a smile.
"Master, it's what I think, I think that the old man wants to be young and strong is nothing more than farming, young men can earn it, and the rest is cumbersome, the master said this to us, just for our good work, it is to be polite to Chang Tou......" The other person rushed to speak, this tiger head and tiger brain, looking younger than the one who replied before, it was he who dragged down and pushed down, and there were a lot of small movements.
"It's definitely not what you think, you say this is no different from rote memorization, you two report your name." Zhu Da angrily interrupted the tiger's explanation and asked the name directly.
There were a total of nine people present, the two lieutenants who led the way, the two white bodies who recruited people here, and several young men who were recruiting, even those who didn't know Zhu Da's identity felt that the atmosphere was wrong, and the four who knew Zhu Da were a little panicked.
"Little Fu Yu." The man replied weakly.
"Little Meng Tian, Master Zhu, these things are all the ideas of a small person, and if you want to fight or kill the little one, you are willing to bear it." The tiger-headed man reported his name while rushing to get on the matter.
When Zhu Da didn't speak, Fu Yu touched Meng Tian with his elbow, the expression on his face was very stern, signaling him to shut up, seeing this interaction, Zhu Da showed a smile on his face, and asked: "Fu Yu, can you think of why it is not difficult to contain Qingzhuang, it is rare to set up a trap and trap me to do good together." ”
When he said this, Fu Yu's eyes widened, and then he said earnestly: "Master Zhu, these people finally escaped the catastrophe, and they were lucky to meet the master to do good, if because of the master's good deeds, then this is a good thing to a bad thing, in the winter, the weather is cold, and they lack clothes and clothing, if they have no place to go, they may really be ruined." “
Over there, Zhu Da still smiled and didn't make a sound, but by this time everyone was not very nervous, but a few irrelevant people muttered in their hearts, saying that this Master Zhu is the youngest, but in this scene, Master Zhu looks the oldest.
Fu Yu was a little nervous, stared at the expression on Zhu Da's face, swallowed and spitted at the mouth, and said: "The master must have recruited these people for a long-term purpose, but there is a family and a family to come here, and there is a involvement in his heart, so it is not so easy to go, and it is also good for the master's plan." “
Listening to Fu Yu say here, the others looked a little suddenly enlightened, and the smile on Zhu Da's face became more and more vigorous, and he just nodded and said, "Okay!" ”
At this moment, Chang Shen finally reacted, looked at Zhu Da, then at Fu Yu and Meng Tian, and said with some cringe: "Master Zhu, they are both their own people, they may have accidentally done something wrong, but you must not be punished." “
Zhu Da laughed, this laughter made everyone's hearts even more uneasy, Zhu Da stopped Chang Shen, who wanted to persuade further, pointed at Fu Yu and said: "The brain is clear, the situation is not chaotic, okay!" “
Everyone didn't react, and Zhu Da pointed to Meng Tian, who was confused on the side, and said, "Willing to stand up for your friends, okay!" ”
After Zhu Da finished speaking, he didn't say much, just urged Chang Shen beside him to lead the way in, and when he walked farther, several poor people standing here looked at each other, Meng Tian looked at Fu Yu and said, "Is this to blame us?" ”
"I don't blame it, I praised it twice." Fu Yu subconsciously replied, and after watching the meeting, he whispered a few words: "This old-fashioned man is almost the same as a forty or fifty-year-old man." “
"That's the big man who recruits?" There was a young man who was watching the scene just now, and when this sentence was asked, everyone could be considered to be back to normal, Fu Yu sat on the chair with a smile, sighed at the brush, and said loudly: "You are blessed." ”
If Chang Kai was present, he would have made it clear all the news that Zhu Da wanted to know, Chang Shen was still confused, just silently followed forward, and the two of them came out of the courtyard in front, and subconsciously frowned and covered their noses, because the smell was too bad.
As soon as Zhu Da smelled this smell, he subconsciously remembered what he smelled when he went to the periphery of Zhengjiaji, there were many people gathered, and there was no cleanup, so he would make this smell, and when he walked into the gathering place, he found that it was not much different from what he imagined.
This is actually a few grain hoards and greenhouses in the grange, in addition to storing the grain produced by the grange, the grain hoarding greenhouse also has the function of storing goods, the grange so close to the city, in a sense, is similar to the large yard outside the Zheng family set, so in addition to the straw mat warehouse for storing grain, there is also a greenhouse warehouse built up of bamboo and wood.
The straw mat grain hoard should contain grain, but the greenhouse warehouse is vacant, but all the young men and their families who have gathered are staying outside, because the grain hoard warehouse is surrounded, and this side is sheltered from the wind, but the weather finally cooled down, looking at the more than 100 people present who have no thick clothes, leaning on each other and shivering, looking pitiful.
People are pitiful, but the scene is annoying to watch, just like the garbage dump around the land temple, you can see anything dirty, fortunately, there is no defecation, not too disgusting, everyone who is collected looks a little confused and numb, a month ago they didn't think that their family would fall into such a situation, without any preparation, naturally there is no plan.
Zhu Da and Chang Shen stood on the side and watched so unscrupulously, and the young men who were seen did not react much, what made Zhu Da not completely disappointed was that most of the young people were still a little angry.
"What do they eat?"
"A bowl of mushy porridge in the morning and evening, and those with salt, according to the master's instructions, don't give them enough to eat first."
"Is there anything you dislike?"
"How can you dislike it, someone hasn't eaten for two days, and they don't dare to give more begging, for fear that they will have a good meal."
It is common sense that hungry people can easily die if they eat too much.
Juda nodded, he was not very satisfied with the scene in front of him, but he also knew that this was already decent.
"Twelve-year-old children can eat half a bowl more at night, you arrange for people to keep an eye on it, if there are adults who come to rob them, they will be beaten hard, and the greenhouses will be cleared, and if there is hay, they will spread more hay, so that they can sleep on it at night, and they will be separated from each other to settle down the women and children, and all these rags will be cleaned up and burned, and whoever wants to stop them will be beaten hard, and I will come over tomorrow morning." Zhu Da said his arrangement in a deep voice, and after finishing speaking, he was still not at ease, so he asked Chang Shen to repeat it.
Zhu Da has his own judgment on how to do it and what it looks like to accommodate refugees, and he also knows what kind of ideal effect he will have if he comes to do it, but one person can't use it for two purposes, there are too many things to be busy with and can't take care of them, and there are too few people in the county who can use them.
"Master Zhu, I'm afraid that one of these small ones won't be able to do it well, so the small ones will ask my brother to help."
"Let that Fu Yu and Meng Tian help you!"