After the imperial court escorted all 52 people, including Fang La, Xing Zheng, Fang Maung, and Fang Jie, to Ling Chi at the entrance of Bianjing Caishi to be executed, the news of the failure of Fang La's uprising soon spread throughout the country.

Zhao Jinji, who was later known as the "Daojun Emperor", although he sent Tong Guan to suppress the Fangla uprising, did not cancel the "Battle of Huashigang" that directly led to Fangla's rebellion.

When Zhu Mian was in charge of the "Suzhou Yingfeng Bureau", he took advantage of the robbery, exploited and squeezed, and squeezed the last drop of blood of the people in Jiangnan, however, Zhao Jinji did not have any substantive punishment for Zhu Mian, and Zhu Mian was still in an official position.

Jiangnan, Shandong, Shanxi, Hebei and other places have been oppressed and exploited by the government for a long time, and the people have no way out, so they have risen up one after another, and small and medium-scale peasant uprisings have broken out continuously, and the imperial court has let the state governments suppress it strongly.

Although the peasant uprising was suppressed, banditry became more and more prevalent in various places, and many able-bodied men who had no way to survive in all walks of life and in all states and mountains, large and small, began to become bandits, robbing houses and houses, and robbing large and small households...... The situation of banditry is far more serious than before the Fangla uprising.

In such a chaotic era, the most unsurvivable are of course the peasants at the lowest level and the most honest who still guard their own one-third of an acre, on the one hand, they have to be exploited and oppressed by the government, on the other hand, they have to face the bandits' "borrowing grain" (in fact, grabbing grain), and they are also unable to organize a huge rebellion like the Fangla Uprising, they are faced with the tragic situation of "having land to grow and no food to eat" - the tragic world is coming, and the phenomenon of "starving to death" has broken out on a large scale!

With the starvation of the people and the scuffle between the north and Liao, the "refugee wave" caused by the flight began to sweep the country.

Refugees from Shanxi, Hebei, Henan, and Jiangnan flocked to the most fertile Jianghuai region on a large scale.

And Yangzhou, as the granary of the world, bears the brunt.

Li Mu, the prefect who holds the highest voice in Yangzhou, chose to close the city gate in the face of a large-scale refugee influx, not only not allowing refugees to enter the city, but also sending officials and soldiers to drive away refugees every day, preventing them from gathering and wandering at the city gate.

Before the wave of refugees came, Song Ting took Lu Junyi and Yang Zhao to Yongtai County to make muskets.

A while ago, when I heard that the official army and the Jin army defeated the Liao army with a north-south attack, advanced all the way to the north, and recovered the sixteen states of Yanyun, many people from the government and scholars applauded one after another, and felt that they were angry, and even Lu Junyi and Yang Zhao couldn't help but get excited in front of the Song court-

"Master Horse, the imperial court has recovered the land!"

"Yes! The entire sixteen states were taken back at once! ”

Song Ting just shook his head, and then drew a simplified version of the map on a piece of rice paper, marking the words "Jin", "Liao", "Liang", "Western Xia", "Nanzhao", "Tubo", etc., and then said: "You see, there is still such a large piece of Liao's territory left, mainly in Mongolia, extending to Central Asia; Western Xia did not change; And then this big gold, can't you notice? It borders our Daliang, Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, and they want it too......"

Lu Junyi and Yang Zhao looked at the map blankly, and they were shocked for a while, not only shocked by the vision of the master of the horse to understand the general trend of the world, but also shocked by another thing - they always thought that the beam was very big, so big that it was boundless, and it was surrounded by small countries of Hufan, but they didn't expect that the countries around the beam were not much smaller than the beam......

Buried in fiddling with the musket, Song Ting said to himself: "The Jin people are very capable of fighting, from a small territory in the northeast to become bigger, within a few years, they have robbed most of the land of Daliao, and they are going to rob our territory, whether you believe it or not, things will happen like this, and the court will fight, no, and ...... too much."

After spitting out the three words "can't be beaten", Song Ting stood up, held a musket in his hand, and said, "Da Liang, you have to rely on this thing to save!"

As soon as he said this, Chen Dabeard suddenly broke in and muttered at him: "Brother Chaozhong, there are a lot of refugees outside the city, how is it good?"

"Let's go, let's go out and have a look!" Song Ting led the people to the north gate of the city tower, and as far as the eye could see, the city was crowded with dense refugees, at least tens of thousands, and the entire Yongtai County was only more than 70,000 people.

Some of these refugees dragged their families, and some were alone, but they were all hungry and waiting for the county to open the city gate to take them in.

Song Ting looked at Chen's beard and asked, "You are the magistrate, what do you think should be done?"

Chen Dabeard muttered: "There are too many people, you can't let them in, and if you put them in, there will be chaos in the city."

Master Mr. Zhu said: "It is said that it was driven by Yangzhou City to come here, these refugees Lord Li did not accept, I didn't expect to come to us, alas, the old man is also the first time to encounter such a situation, this is ...... What should I do about this? ”

Everyone was embarrassed, after all, there were too many refugees, and if they let people in, I am afraid that even the food of the entire county would not be enough for them to eat.

What's more, if there are many people, it will be chaotic, Yongtai County, which was originally peaceful and the people are quite happy, suddenly has to suffer such an impact, which is also very unfair to the people of this county.

These are all things that everyone can think of.

It's just that if you don't save people......

Everyone looked at Chen Gui's body, and Chen Gui looked at Song Ting, the meaning was very obvious, this matter is still up to you.

Looking at the crowds of refugees in the city, Song Ting thought for a while and ordered: "First, collect all the cold things in the city, including all the old clothes and old cotton jackets of the people in the city, and arrange for the servants to distribute them to the refugees. Second, start to give porridge tomorrow, here, here, and here, two porridge sheds in each place, a total of six porridge sheds, and arrange for people to give porridge every day; Thirdly, I set up six tables under the city and selected useful talents from among the refugees to come to the city. ”

"Okay, just do what Master Ma said!"

Chen Dabeard spoke, and Mr. Zhu went down to make arrangements.

The next day, the porridge shed with the smell of corn, and the refugees lined up in an orderly manner, and after receiving the porridge, they looked at the white corn porridge in the bowl that was not adulterated at all, and some of them cried excitedly, such white porridge, they had not eaten it for a long time, all the way here, some people even gnawed the bark of the tree, and everything of value on their bodies had long been gone, except for a tattered patched clothes.

Although Yongtai County is not a rich county, these 70,000 people feel that they have received the favor of the horse lord, and they have heard that they will not let the refugees in, so they are very active in donating surplus clothes and cotton at home, and there are many people who donate money and food.

Soon, 3,000 taels of silver, 500 stone of grain, and more than 50,000 pieces of clothing and cotton jackets were raised, and the Song court summoned the county government to distribute them to the refugees.

After the refugees received their clothes, when they heard that it was another good deed, they were grateful and couldn't wait to kneel in front of the horse master and kowtow.

Among the 60,000 or 70,000 refugees, there are indeed a lot of useful talents, and after strict screening, many capable people were selected on the first day, including those who can do martial arts, those who can write and calculate, and craftsmen from all walks of life, and 150 people were accepted in one day.

The next day, Song Ting also went to the scene to take a look, and by the way, he appeased the people's hearts as a relative of the emperor, after all, in this situation, Zhao Jinji, a faint king, must be invisible, but suddenly heard a woman holding a pipa in her hand squeezed out of the refugee pile.

"Master Pony! Horse Master! ”

The woman's face was slightly yellow, she should be hungry, her five views were quite upright, and as soon as she squeezed out of the crowd, she sobbed: "Master Ma, the slave family was originally from Jizhou, and he sang in Jinzhou, and he fled here, hoping to beg Ma Ye...... Find a way for the slave family to survive...... Slave, I haven't eaten for a few days..."

"Who hasn't eaten for days! Stinky bitch, get out of the way! The aunt next to her desperately squeezed her back.

The woman was drowning in a sea of people...

Song Ting can't decide whether to put her in the city or not by her appearance, but based on whether it is useful or not, so no matter how pitiful she is, he can't overturn his own standards, so he doesn't plan to let her into the city.

"Master Pony, hehe, hehe...... Listening to her accent, it's my fellow ......" behind Cao Bin smiled innocently.

Song Ting smiled faintly, this guy doesn't have a wife yet, it's just ...... Grant his wish.

"Well, bring her here."

Cao Bin personally went and led the woman out of the crowd.

Song Ting pointed at Cao Bin and said to the woman: "He is the head catcher of the county government, are you willing to ...... Follow him? "It's better to be subtle.

The woman looked at Cao Bin, Cao Bin immediately grinned innocently, and the woman showed a shy look: "The slave family is willing."

"Thank you, Master Pony! Thank you, Master Pony! Cao Bin hurriedly thanked him.

Cao Bin immediately took the woman into the city, and the people who did not go to the county government along the way bowed to him, but the woman just bowed her head shyly and followed.

The woman was taken away by Cao Bin, and countless hungry faces in the refugee pile showed envy, tsk, it is useful to be good-looking......

After the woman left, the refugees began to scream.

"Master Pony! I'm going to be mischievous, can you take me in? ”

"Master Horse, the old man can tell fortunes and measure words......"

"Master Horse, the slave family also wants to find a man......"

Song Ting raised his hand to suppress the noise, signaled everyone to be quiet, and then said loudly: "Fellow villagers, the temple in this county is small and can't accommodate too many people, so you can only accept a small number of people, and the rest of you...... If you have relatives and friends, go to relatives and friends, and if you don't have relatives and friends, don't go! ”

After speaking, Song Ting returned to the city, the city gate creaked shut, and behind him was an overwhelming shout: "Master of the horse, master of the horse!" Take us in! Please! ”

He really can't help it, this county can't take in so many people, and it will definitely be messed up if they are all put in, and the people of this county will definitely not agree, and he can only try his best to do what he can, but he can't save everyone......

However, sometimes, the evil side of people can really be beyond imagination, and some people do evil and completely lose their humanity.

On the third day after the winter clothes were distributed, a group of bandits, about 300 people, came from outside the city and snatched away the last bit of valuable and cold things on the refugees!

More than 3,000 pieces of clothing were robbed of refugees!

When he heard this, Song Ting was furious and took the case: "There is no humanity! I will punish him! ”

Subsequently, Mr. Zhu was instructed to find out where the bandits came from.

After finding out the situation, Mr. Zhu went back and forth: "This group of bandits was originally also refugees, and when they had nowhere to go, they stole some weapons from the officer and soldier camp, and gathered in Erlong Mountain to do bandit work, there were about 1,000 people, the first two were named Lei Jiang and Chu Xiong."

"More than a thousand?"

Song Ting sneered, and then calmly ordered: "Cao Zhutou, you bring a mixed team of muskets, crossbow arrows, and spears of fifty people to attack Shannan; Lu Junyi, you lead a mixed team of 30 muskets and 20 knife handlers to attack Shanbei. Be sure to hang the heads of the two leaders on the walls of the city! ”

Lu Junyi and Cao Bin took the order and immediately mobilized people to go out of the city, and when they left the city, the refugees could not understand what these people were doing.

It wasn't until the next day that when Lu Junyi and Cao Bin hung the head of the bandit leader on the city wall, took all the clothes back and sent them back one by one, the refugees couldn't help but burst into applause.

As a result, the refugees wanted to go to the city even stronger.

(End of chapter)