Chapter 606: Central Plains Layout
Gao Zhiyong led all the officials in the two counties of Suizhou to register the displaced people, and it can be said that he is not serious in his work.
This Gao Gongzi belongs to the Ming officials with a clear conscience, his family is relatively wealthy, and being an official is really to run for a future, and he has never scraped the ground, but he can't refuse and can't refuse the Ming Dynasty, otherwise he will be regarded as an alternative by the scholar class.
Gao Zhimou has been a magistrate for seven or eight years, and he has not earned a tael of silver to go home at all, and his father Gao Di not only does not blame his son, but also sends his family members to send silver subsidies from time to time. Of course, this is a loving father's heart, he expects his son to rise to the top and the Gao family to have a successor.
But today's magistrates are not easy to be, especially in the Chongzhen year, too many scholars and doctors were mercilessly clicked by the emperor because of the loss of faith, and Gao Di used his relationship to ask the "God of War" family to assist his son in defending the land, of course, to find the right person.
Pacifying the people, defending the territory, training self-protection arms, the Huang family is a professional counterpart!
Ma Yue, Xu Sijiu, and Sun Zhenhuai led people to select young and strong people from the intact family and each of them was given a gun produced by the Huang family.
Soon, Xiang Yong, who was holding a wooden pole and a spear in his hand, formed 3,000, each of whom wore a red armband on his arm, and was led by the Huang family's private soldiers to participate in maintaining law and order.
Each armband will indicate the number of the owner, and you can immediately find out which owner belongs to, who the chief official is, where the person is from, and how many immediate family members the family has.
The military intelligence office operating in Henan also came to participate in the relief of the displaced people, and under the escort of the Ma Shihu cavalry, they organized the homeless young people to transport 5,000 stone of grain in a wheelbarrow.
The soldiers and civilians of Suizhou were immediately relieved when they saw the food filled with wheelbarrows, and Gao Zhiyong, who had been restless for several days, could finally sleep peacefully.
Ma Yue knew that the cause of the chaos in Henan was the lack of grain, so he personally rushed to Haizhou Port with 2,000 Xiangyong to continue transporting grain, and at the same time escorted the families of these 2,000 Xiangyong to Haizhou Port.
The 15,000 people came to the camp that the Huang family had built two years earlier, and there were collective dormitories here, completely militarized, and each room could accommodate 80 people.
The family members of Xiang Yong only rested for three days, and a southbound merchant ship that had passed through this place to resupply them took them to Cochin Province.
Ma Yue used 2,000 wheelbarrows and applied to transport more wheelbarrows to Haizhou Port, because after putting himself in the shoes of Suizhou to Haizhou Port, he found that only by wheelbarrow transportation was in line with the actual situation.
Haizhou Port to Suizhou more than 800 miles, not too far, the mighty team of bandits and bandits dare to make up their minds.
These ordinary people, who are accustomed to hardship, can walk 100 miles a day under the condition that they can get 70% of their fill, and the speed of walking with a wheelbarrow is no slower than walking.
A steady stream of grain is transported from the sea to the interior, and the villagers of Suizhou take turns to run to Haizhou, when they go, they can sit on the wheelbarrow to sit on the old and weak women and children, and when they come back, they are full of grain.
It's a pity that the efficiency is too low, only 10,000 stone of grain can be transported at a time, it takes more than 20 days to go back and forth, the consumption on the way reaches more than half of the nearly 10%, and there are only more than 9,000 stones when it reaches the ground.
Fortunately, every time the grain is transported, the family members of the villagers will be sent to Haizhou, and the number of displaced people in Suizhou is decreasing, and the grain stock has begun to grow positively.
However, within a few days, the number of displaced people who had obviously begun to decrease suddenly swelled again, and that was because the displaced people who were farther away from Suizhou learned that Suizhou had food to live, and the hungry people who had become blind came to help the old and the young.
Xu Sijiu and Ma Yue organized the villagers to continuously bring in grain, and promptly organized the displaced people to migrate eastward, and they were busy until the autumn harvest.
Although food production was limited in the disaster-stricken years, there was always some harvest, and it was not until the autumn when the food crisis was slightly alleviated that the momentum of the displaced people was temporarily curbed.
There are as many as six or seven thousand people in Suizhou, and many of them have made one or two trips to Haizhou Port, and they have all seen their families get food, and many of them have already gone south on large ships.
All the villagers are more disciplined, because if they do not work according to the Huang family's regulations, they are likely to be separated from their families, and they may not be found for the rest of their lives.
This is because each villager's number corresponds to their family, and there is a detailed record of where each family was placed.
If any villager does not obey the collective arrangement, the consequences will of course be very serious, and if he loses the armband to prove his identity, he forgets his number, and he will really never see his family again.
The Xiangyong who stayed in Suizhou no longer had any worries, they were trained every day, and they had a certain combat effectiveness in a few months, but they were not enough to fight the regular army, because they did not have bows and crossbows and armor.
But it is more than enough to deal with the mob, and the bows and crossbows and armor owned by the mob are not worth mentioning, and there are thirty officers from the Huang family's personal army such as Zhu Guobing.
They were all-powerful in horse, infantry, hot and cold weapons, and killed armed mob leaders with short guns and flintlock spears without much effort.
These six thousand and seven townsmen have worked and trained with the Huang family's private soldiers for half a year, and their loyalty is no problem, not only because the Huang family gave them food and salary.
The most important one is that their relatives have been taken to live in the Huang family system, and their training and work performance will directly affect the treatment of their relatives.
Xu Sijiu's propaganda team not only launched propaganda for the displaced people, but also spared no effort to educate the villagers.
Da Ming's aggressive and strange things, most of the scholars are like goods, their bodies are very weak, too many scholars can't do physical work, and the Huang family simply refuses to let anyone who has the ability to work do nothing.
Therefore, the propaganda team has absorbed many poor scholars, most of whom are not scholars, and belong to embarrassing groups such as children who are not high or low.
Now there are slogans or posters on every eye-catching wall in Guide Mansion, the content of which is of course to call on the common people not to be thieves, as long as they find the family of Nanguo Gong, everyone will have a way to live.
At the same time, the propaganda team publicized the warning issued by the "God of War" that if any gangster dared to wantonly slaughter the common people, even if the "God of War" men and horses chased them to the ends of the earth, they would be skinned one by one.
Since the autumn harvest has just begun, Henan has more or less harvested, and the large-scale gathering of displaced people has been alleviated, and Ma Yue's pressure has been reduced a lot, and they can free up their hands to train the villagers.
Ma Yue, a former trainee of the pro-soldier team, is now full of confidence, and he believes that as long as there is money, food, and equipment, a team of 10,000 people in Suizhou will form combat effectiveness in half a year.