Chapter Twenty-Three: Exiles

Previously, the construction of the new city and the drill of the new army had attracted a large number of displaced people to go to watch, but because of the existence of the heavily armed new army, and the obvious difference between the equipment and clothing of the new army and the officers and soldiers, the displaced people did not dare to stay for a long time, but just passed by and stayed for a while before continuing to Pingyang City.

Pingyang City is strictly guarded, and homeless people are not allowed to enter.

But the anger and anger that had accumulated in the crowd were saturated, like a bomb that went off at the slightest bit.

Tang Xidong's time to enter the intervention was just right.

As soon as a large number of new troops arrived in Pingyang City, they lined up neatly, formed an offensive formation, and confronted tens of thousands of displaced people in the air.

The arrival of the new army already caused a commotion among the displaced people, and after the weapons were displayed, the displaced people were even more frightened and uneasy.

Tang Xi Donglama stood in the army, looking at the black and oppressive homeless people in front of him, his eyes flashed, but his face was extremely indifferent.

Waving his hand to signal the start, Li Shangquan led the cavalry out of the column and rushed to the homeless.

The cavalry galloped, the sound of horses' hooves was dense, the dust was flying, and the horses neighed.

The slaughter swept away the homeless.

Among the displaced people, while everyone was frightened, a small number of them were excited.

The formation in front of him seemed to be that Tang Xidong couldn't bear it anymore and decided to open the killing ring to the homeless.

As long as Tang Xidong can't help it, it will be a great thing for these people, as long as they incite the slightest demagoguery, they can cause a riot among the homeless.

But then things went beyond what these people had imagined.

I saw the whole cavalry, lined up to face the homeless.

Li Shangquan took out a notice from his arms and unfolded it in public, looking at the frightened and frightened homeless people for a long time, Li Shangquan bowed his head coldly, and read out the notice in his hand word by word, and every time he read a sentence, the cavalry around him would chant and repeat a sentence in unison.

The voice was neat and loud, and it was transmitted to the homeless.

"Natural disasters and man-made disasters, the people are not happy, the people gathered in Pingyang City, just for a ration to live, but the Ming officials of Pingyang City have already fled with money and food, leaving an empty city, the granary in the city has long been without rats and ants, how can we help tens of thousands of people. When the king heard the tragedy in Pingyang, he couldn't bear the people starving all over the wilderness, so he came here today only to relieve the people of Li and give everyone some rations, so that they could survive in this troubled era. ”

"Now set up a refugee camp, no matter what status you have before, as long as your background is true and there is no deliberate concealment, you can enter the camp, after entering the camp, as long as you obey the order, young and strong people can receive rations every day, the old and weak, women and children, you can queue up for free every day to receive porridge shed gruel, one in the morning and one in the evening."

"Those who are willing to enter the camp, come to report, and those who do not want to enter the camp do not force it, please find your own way out."

After the notice was spoken, the homeless people were in turmoil again.

Everyone panicked a little, at least the army in front of them didn't come to rob and kill.

Tang Xidong glanced at the black-pressed homeless people and signaled to start recruiting.

The soldiers stood out in two rows, leaving an empty passage in the middle, and the tables were set up, and the scribes sat and waited.

As soon as he put on a momentum, there was a demagogic shout from the homeless people: "They are bandits, don't believe these bandits!" ”

"Follow the bandits, but you will be killed!"

A sound of demagogy was heard, and the homeless people were in a commotion again.

Tang Xidong had already expected this, at this moment he couldn't send troops in to raise people, just a few demagogic rumors, Tang Xidong didn't take it to heart, he had his own way to solve the big and dark agents lurking among the homeless.

Time passed, and Tang Xidong waited unhurriedly.

Finally, after a long silence, someone finally stepped out of the crowd of displaced people, passed the soldiers standing on either side, and walked to the wooden table that was set up.

This is an old man, with white hair, an old figure, a face covered with wind and frost, and his eyes are full of twilight and shadow.

"Old man, aren't you afraid that we are bandits?"

Li Shangquan stopped the old man and asked with a smile.

"Little Lao'er is dying, what else is there to be afraid of, even if he is going to die tomorrow, if he can eat a bite of food today, he will be willing." The old man spoke slowly.

Li Shangquan nodded and let the old man over: "After entering the camp, there is food, drink, clothing, drying, and hope to live, the old man must live well." ”

With the first person, it is the beginning.

The crowd began to surge, some were still thinking about it, and some were already eager to get out of the ranks of the homeless.

Tang Xidong showed a smile on his face, and then turned around and left with his personal guard.

More and more people are starting to move towards the wooden tables that recruit people.

A line began to form in front of more than a dozen wooden tables, mixed with busy questions and answers.

Each person must go through a detailed inquiry, and at least 20 people from the same village and township need to be confirmed on the spot, and at the same time, if someone finds that the person who has been recruited, what he said is false, his life experience is false, and he is identified on the spot, and there is also a food reward.

In this way, although the recruitment process has been greatly slowed down, it has also ensured that no secret agents among the homeless people will be recruited.

The displaced people recruited will be temporarily arranged aside, and after the number of people has increased to 1,000, they will be arranged to enter the camp in a centralized manner.

The shelters of the homeless campers were temporarily built on wooden planks, and although they were simple, they were now dry and rainy in summer, and they were enough to use.

Of course, there are too many displaced people, and it is impossible for Tang Xidong to do everything well for them, so after the displaced people enter the camp of the displaced people, the first thing to do is to collectively cut down trees and build houses, and at the same time, public toilets should also be carried out simultaneously, and public baths can be slightly postponed.

Entering the camp is only the first step, followed by more detailed household registration and grouping.

According to the previous household registration political reform in Pingyang City, all the people who entered the camp were customized with special identity plates, and according to their hometowns, people in the same place were divided according to the registration of group, A, and Li.

In the camp camps, each group of 10 households is jointly guaranteed to force everyone to consciously supervise each household and strangle the possible turmoil at the source.

At the same time, the first chief and the lieutenant chief were also given great power, and led their strong men to join in the construction of the new city.

Every day the homeless camp will open a porridge shed, considering the problem of order, Tang Xidong in the camp of the homeless camp, each will open a porridge shed, the porridge shed has a special place for eating, every morning to open the porridge shed, the chief is responsible for notifying, the first chief is responsible for supervision, the group leader is responsible for organizing, according to the order of the group, every ten households collectively receive porridge, there are new army soldiers on the scene to check the identity plate, eat on the spot, and then leave collectively.

Make sure that there is a porridge shed in each room, and ensure that everyone can eat a bowl of gruel regardless of size, but no one else is allowed to eat enough except for those who go out to work.

This is not that Tang Xidong treats them harshly, but there is not much food, and the summer grain will still come down for a while, plus there are many people with ulterior motives among these people, and if they are full of food and have nothing to do, they may have evil thoughts.

The number of homeless campers is increasing every day, and new homeless people gather in Binh Duong every day.

After five days, the number of homeless camps had increased to 10,000, and Tang Xidong deliberately pressed the progress, while giving hope to others, he also tried to delay time as much as possible, waiting for the day of the summer grain harvest to come, and then he would be able to greatly relieve his own food pressure.