The snow outside the house was still falling, the wind was whistling from time to time, knocking on the doors and windows creaking, the officials of the Great Commander's Mansion had grim faces, and they were silent around the fire, Li Yu let out a long breath and turned his face to look at Wang Ziyong, this guy was still looking at the burning flames and hugged his hair - he was appointed as the official in charge of civil affairs, but he always bowed his head and rarely spoke, and he has not been able to integrate into the atmosphere of the Great Commander's Mansion.

"Brother Wang, everyone trusts you, and leave the people to you, just say anything you want, everyone here is a brother, it doesn't matter if you say something wrong." Li Yu said softly.

"What else can I say, everyone has done their best, if 30,000 or 50,000 people died on the previous escape from the famine, it would be nothing if someone collected the corpses," Wang Ziyong shook his head painfully, and continued with red eyes, "I went down and walked around, and there were more than 10,000 cattle and sheep frozen to death in each guardhouse, and more than 3,000 houses were crushed, mainly the thatched huts and straw huts that were just erected this year, and there were 50,000 people in need of relief, we needed food, cloth, and wood to build houses, and these big warehouses couldn't be taken out!" ”

"I've cleared the inside and outside of the big warehouse a few times, but I really can't take out anything, there is still some food, but it's only enough to eat until the beginning of spring, take it out now, what will the battalion soldiers eat in the future? What happens when the green and yellow are not connected? There is less cloth, and taking it all out is not enough for disaster relief, Commander, I will be honest, a dead person is really nothing, we have long been used to it. Zhao Sheng, the envoy of the library, also said.

Li Yu shook his head, and turned his face to Ortai, Li Huai, and Li Fugui, who sighed and didn't speak, but patted Li Huai.

"We are short of food in our hands, and we don't have the ability to resettle the victims, but the old Fengzhou people still have some food at home, and most of the houses are intact. Li Huai lowered his head and said.

Li Yu's heart was sour, when the old Khan Nurhachi entered Liaodong, he may have encountered the same predicament as him, so he came up with the method of "living together, eating together, and cultivating together", but the old Khan used a knife to force the Han people to accept Zhushen, can he force the people of Fengzhou to do this?

Li Yu silently walked out of the house, pacing back and forth in the courtyard, Wu Xian hurriedly brought him a cloak, Li Yu gently pushed it away, and let the wind and snow blow on his body - what he needed now was to think calmly. Liu Xingzuo and Ortai quietly walked to his side and gently patted the snow on his body for him, Li Yu's body trembled and looked back, and saw Li Huai, Li Fugui and the officials also walked out of the house and stood in the snow with him.

"Yuzi, what should be faced must be faced, no matter what decision you make, we support you." Ortai said.

Li Yu nodded, rubbed his face vigorously, waved his hand to the officials, and strode back into the room, at this time his expression seemed calm and mighty, as if he had returned to the battlefield.

"We can't hesitate any longer, many people will die if we continue like this, and we will immediately start disaster relief, from today onwards, all officials and battalion soldiers below me will have their salaries halved, mobilize the people to take the victims who have nowhere to live to their homes, and those who take in the victims will pay a reduction in taxes next year, and open the treasury and the treasury of each health center, and the money, grain, and property in it will fully guarantee the needs of disaster relief," Li Yu gave an order with a firm attitude, waved his hand and pointed at Wang Fang and said: "Tell every Fengzhou people and every Fengzhou soldier about our situation truthfully, Once again, we are facing danger and need to work together as a family to get through it, and I am confident that my people and my soldiers will continue to support me as they have always been. ”

"Archon, we won't have a long time in the future?" Yun Rong screamed in pain.

"Fengzhou is not a Ming country, we can't watch people starve to death and freeze to death, let's talk about it later, I don't believe that God won't give us a way to live!" Li Yu replied categorically.

"It's still not proper, it's better to do this, we don't help the poor, we can't farm and work in winter, but we can stick grain for training, the victims of the disaster will be given four liters of food first, and then the guards will be trained in winter, and two liters of food will be given for each day of training, and the old and weak women and children can also be given one liter of food for learning archery and building camps, so that they can not only give the people a bowl of rice to eat, but also strengthen my Fengzhou military strength, I always feel that next year Jinguo may find us trouble." Li Fugui reminded.

"If you give another order, all thousands of households and hundreds of households can't just wait for relief from above, but also have to think of ways to save themselves, hunting, fishing, trading to make money, do whatever they can do, as long as they don't starve to death, the Great Commander's Office will support it." Ortai also added.

Wang Ziyong, Zhao Sheng and Bai Yuzhu couldn't help it, and said "The villagers are saved", grinned and cried, and Shen Shoulian, who participated in politics, glanced at them with disgust, he regretted it during this time, he knew that Fengzhou was so bitter, he should have left with Sun Tingyao and Li Jianji, what did he do when he stayed as this broken official, and now no one stopped him if he wanted to run, but can he afford to lose this face? It's better to find an excuse.

"Li Hanmin, you have made me miserable, and it is really a crime to be an official for you!" Shen Shoulian first complained, and then said with a smile, "I'm soft-hearted, I can't see others suffering, I'll go to Datong, and I'll get you some money and food back, I can be regarded as a leave." ”

The disaster relief was basically finalized, everyone discussed the specific details for a while, and then dispersed, hurriedly doing their own things, Li Yu went to his study, and immediately lay on the bookcase to write a letter, at this time it is not possible to ask for help.

Li Yu first wrote a letter to the Lama of Qiuerji, in which he talked about the current difficulties in Fengzhou and the relief measures to be taken, clearly stating that the heavy snow was very harmful, and tens of thousands of victims were in urgent need of relief, but Fengzhou's financial resources were limited, and it was not only after the snow disaster, but it would also fall into famine before the beginning of spring, and the people of Fengzhou needed to share weal and woe and work together to deal with the crisis, and there must not be a little detachment, and the old lama was the most respected elder of the old Fengzhou people, and had the ability to unite people's hearts, and he begged the old lama to give him full support as always.

Li Yu then wrote a letter to Liu Wenzhong, the eunuch who monitored Datong, truthfully reported to him the disaster in Fengzhou, and asked him to intercede with the emperor. Subsequently, he wrote letters to Zhang Zongheng, the governor of Xuanda, Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides, Zhang Tinggong, the governor of Datong, and Song Tongyin, the governor of Shanxi, asking for help, hoping that these familiar old officials could give him some assistance. When it was his turn to write a letter to his boss Jin Sheng, Li Yu hesitated, his master held the title of Fengzhou Tuntian Road, but stayed in Datong for a long time, except for occasionally coming to Manhan Mountain to see, he didn't care about anything, Li Yu thought for a while, or wrote a letter to him, asking why the officials of the Tuntian General Military Mansion and the guards reported in Fengzhou have not been approved by the imperial court, so far almost everyone in Fengzhou is a puppet official except for him, so if Fengzhou is still the territory of the Ming Dynasty?

After Li Yu finished writing the letter, he immediately instructed Mo Rige to arrange for someone to send the letter out, at this time it was already very late, Wu Langha couldn't wait, ran to the door and called Li Yu to go back to sleep - Li Yu's study was a key place, and she didn't dare to enter casually. Li Yu smiled bitterly, it is better to ask for others than for yourself, you can sow your own seeds, and you still have to deal with your own predicament.

At the order of the Commander's Office, the whole of Fengzhou launched disaster relief and self-rescue operations, but this time everyone had emotions in their hearts, and the response to the call was not as positive as before. The battalion soldiers were deducted from their salaries, and there were naturally no fewer complaints, but from the commander to the captain, the salaries were halved, which made them have nothing to say, and as soldiers in Fengzhou, they were in charge of food and clothing, and the food and salaries would not be deducted or arrears, and their families in the guard could also get a lot of preferential treatment, compared to the Ming army who could not afford to support their families after starvation in the Guannei, they were still much better, so the complaints were complaining, and the orders still had to be implemented. The common people are resentful, take outsiders to live at home, and eat their own food, no one is happy, and some people privately rumored that the commander is a good man, but his heart is too soft, he should not bring the Ming refugees to the Mongolian steppe, which angered the gods of the steppe, and rained heavy snow to warn those Han people.

If the people did not support it, it would be difficult to advance the relief efforts in Fengzhou, and the officials of the health center tried hard to persuade the people, but the results were not great - the Bansheng people could barely accept the homeless immigrants, while the Mongols just did not agree, and the Guannai people did not want to live in their tents. The matter is urgent, tens of thousands of victims are displaced, and may die of hunger and cold at any time, Li Yu personally came forward, he and Wulan, Wulangha, two hatun braved the wind and snow to go down to the villages, pastures, and shouted to the people "We are all Fengzhou people", calling on the people to lend a helping hand to their compatriots, and the mission department also made a big public opinion, shouting the slogan of "we are all Fengzhou people" loudly, Wang Fang also wrote the lyrics of Li Yu's demolition of the wood of his own wooden house to build a cold shelter for the victims. Shanxi Bangzi and Mongolian pastoral songs were sung everywhere, and at this time, the Qierji Lama arrived in Fengzhou.

The old lama rarely went out in Meidaizhao, and spent most of his time thinking about problems - too many things had happened in recent years, first the Chahars called, then Fengzhou rose, and then the threat of the Jin State intensified, and as the direct descendant of the highly regarded Yellow Sect Grand Lama and Altan Khan, he had to worry about the future survival and development of the Yellow Sect and Tumut.

After the Mongolian right-wing tribes were defeated by Chahar, the nobles on the steppe died and fled, and the people became a piece of scattered sand, he and many respected Huangjiao lamas learned from the pain, and agreed that it was no longer realistic to continue to rely on useless Mongolian nobles, and it was necessary to find a new force to reintegrate the right-wing departments, this new force was Li Yu, he was also the Tabu Nang (son-in-law) of Tumut Boshuo Ketu Khan, and he was also involved with the nobles, and the lamas recognized the title of Hongba Tulu awarded to Li Yu by the Yuerji Lama, In order to increase the constraints of the Yellow Sect on Li Yu, the reincarnation of Lamaism was also applied to Li Yu, and Li Yu suddenly became the reincarnation of Altan Khan and had the legitimacy to rule Fengzhou. And Li Yu did not disappoint the lamas, leaving Chahar behind in two or three years, and the power of the Red Lama Sect supported by Chahar Khan also weakened, and the day of the revival of the Yellow Sect seemed to be coming.

However, a new threat came, Zhushen in the mountains and forests rose again, and began to gradually conquer the Mongol tribes, and its ambition frightened the lamas - Zhushen's predecessor Jurchen established the Jin Dynasty, once implemented a cruel policy of reducing the number of people in the grasslands of Monan, and when the Mongols arose, they almost killed the Jurchens who entered the pass, and Zhushen also took refuge in the Ming State as a dogleg to kill the Mongols, and the Mongols on the steppe had an inextricable feud with Zhushen in the mountains and forests, and only one fell down, and the other could stand up. They also don't believe that the people of the Jin Kingdom really believe in Lamaism, that is just a means for them to fight against Chahar Khan, the barbarian Zhushen still believes in shamanism in their bones, and they spread the bad habit of the Red Sect of not abiding by the rules and regulations to the Yellow Lamas, so that the lamas can **** have children without punishment, and those who trample on the Dharma in this way are naturally also enemies of Lamaism.

This enemy was too strong to be countered even by Humba Tulu Li Yu - although Zhushen had a much smaller population than the Mongols, he had become a large country of two million people by recruiting and plundering the Mongols, Han Chinese, and savages from the north, and the Jin Khan had supreme power to fully deploy the forces of the Jin state, compared to the Mongols, who were not only sparsely populated, but also scattered with tribes, and had no hope of resisting the threat of the Jin state, and the lamas were worried about this. Li Yu's immigration from the Guannei made the Pila Erji Lama greatly inspired, and after thinking about it a few times, his thinking gradually became clearer, so he came up with the idea of "the same race and different customs", that is, to recruit a large number of people to expand their strength, no longer limited to the region, ethnic groups, all the people who came to this land can be regarded as the same race - Fengzhou people, but the language and customs are different, and the Purji Lama has now replaced the name of "Tumut" with "Fengzhou", thinking that this is conducive to population integration.

The Lama is very proud of his innovation, and gathered the virtuous lamas on the grassland, and officially launched his proposition, believing that only by treating those strangers well, the prairie will subtly make them attached, and the population will increase Our strength will increase, and the Guannai people are mostly believers in Buddhism, and their migration to Fengzhou also just gave the Lama Huangjiao the opportunity to expand the number of believers, we have the population in our hands, plus a strong general government, Fengzhou will have the ability to fight with the Jin State, and with the strength of Fengzhou, The influence of the Yellow Sect will also expand, and the power of the Red Sect will definitely not be able to afford to fall from now on. The lamas were skeptical, but they were willing to try under the weight of external forces.

It happened that heavy snow caused a snow disaster, and he immediately realized that this could be an opportunity to promote ethnic harmony, so he held a large **** in Meidai with the participation of Tumuts, Chahar and Bansheng Han people, promoting the idea of "the same race and different customs". There were many lamas who cheered for him, and this proposition was naturally recognized by the believers, who responded to his call to donate food and materials to ensure that they were kind to strangers in Fengzhou. Subsequently, with the support of everyone, the old lama rushed to Fengzhou with dozens of truckloads of food and property raised, and missed the letter that Li Yu gave him.

He refuted the absurd statement that the people in the Guannai brought the snow disaster, pointing out that this statement must come from the mouth of a stupid shaman, according to this statement, how to explain the snow disaster every ten years and eight years, on the contrary, he believes that the snow disaster is the will of the gods and Buddhas, the purpose is to test whether people truly believe in Buddhism and are willing to do more good deeds, and he also promotes the idea of "the same race and different customs" to the people - Buddhism has a cloud "all beings are equal", and it is not different because of different languages and customs, The Han people in Guannai believe in Buddhism like the old Fengzhou people, and they can naturally become brothers of the same race, and since they are brothers, they should be generous and help each other, which is also an opportunity for the gods and Buddhas to accumulate merit for everyone.

The "same race and different customs" of the Lama of Qiuerji and Li Yu's "we are all Fengzhou people" proposition is completely consistent, an old and a young two of the most prestigious leaders of Fengzhou went to the middle of the people, calling on the people to be close to each other and tide over the difficulties together, which made the blood of the Fengzhou people boil, and the estrangement originally hidden in the heart disappeared, replaced by the cry of "we are all Fengzhou people", the old Fengzhou people walked out of their tents, bansheng, and took the hungry and cold Guannei people into their homes.

"Brother, bring your wife and children to live in my tent, I have dozens of sheep and a stove, enough for our two families to survive the winter." The Mongols warmly greeted the new brothers in half-baked Chinese.

"Fellow, my ancestors are also from Shanxi, come and live in my Bansheng, I still have some yam eggs and corn in the cellar, I won't starve your family." Bansheng Han people also welcome fellow villagers.

"Brother, thank you for saving your life, we don't eat your rations in vain, we can also earn rations by participating in military training, I will also farm, and I will help you do the work in the field after the spring." The people from Shaanxi and Shanxi who came from the Guannai replied with tears in their eyes.

"No thanks, we are all from Fengzhou!" All the old Toyosu people would say the same.

The vast grassland gave birth to open-minded people, they were illiterate, poor and fierce, and the powerful nobles of the Ming Kingdom scolded them as Beilu and Hanyi, in fact, they also had a kindness in their hearts, and this kindness would only be revealed in the free and equal Fengzhou, and would never appear in the Ming or Jin countries.

Li Yu and the Lama of Qiuerji met by the Heihe River, and tens of thousands of people braved the bitter cold to go out of their homes to meet their leader, including the Bansheng Han, the Guannei Han, the Tumut, the Chahar, and the Karaqin, and now they were all from Fengzhou. Looking at the cheering crowd, Li Yu's eyes couldn't help but moisten, he was proud to have such a people, and such a people were also worthy of his defense. Ulan and Wu Langha also came with Xiao Li Jin, and the Lama Yuerji excitedly took Xiao Li Jin from Ulan's hand, kissed him again and again, and then held him high, the child's little face was red from the cold, but he was still giggling, and the people were boiling, and the cheers were louder - we have the Great Commander, and there is little Zhuo Liktu, and the future of Fengzhou is very promising.