Before June of the fourth year of Xiping in the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a great drought in the world, there was no rain for several months, the fields were unproductive, and the imperial court was powerless, local corrupt officials and corrupt officials were rampant, and the scholars only knew how to take the opportunity to annex the land, so that the displaced people were everywhere, and the peasants and people who were overwhelmed by the pressure either went up the mountain and fell to the grass for the cowards, or dragged their children and daughters to other places.

The pastoral fields in Anyang County are mostly owned by the Chen and Zhang families, and the tenant farmers are mostly two slaves.

The big housekeeper Chen Bao is reporting the grain collection situation in Mrs. Chen's room, Chen Lin and Chen Li are also there, Chen Bao said: "Old lady, there are many disasters in the grange this year, a total of 155,200 stones of grain, each tenant farmer left 5 stones, Chen Mansion also has to keep nearly 20,000 stones, this year my Chen family has 120,000 stones of grain to sell." ”

After Chen Bao finished speaking, he stepped aside, Chen Lin knew for the first time how much grain his family gets every year, Anyang County produces grain, and the Chen family actually accounts for forty percent, but Chen Lin doesn't know that some people are more than ten times that of the Chen family.

Old lady Chen calculated and said, "Well, it's a little less than last year, but now it's the same in the world, and the price of food is going to rise, so it's okay." ”

Chen Lin thought about it, too, if there is less food, the price will definitely rise, but the life of the common people will be sad, like the Chen family can still leave 5 stone of grain for their tenant farmers, and other families are afraid that they will not will. Thinking of the people, Chen Lin had another plan, and hurriedly said to the old lady: "Grandpa, I am walking outside the city today, and there are many homeless people, if the Chen family does not sell grain this year, but uses grain to attract displaced people from all over the world to return to the Chen family, so that they can reclaim wasteland in the countryside outside the city, and the wild man's mountain is a terra nullius land in Anyang County, if it can be reclaimed, the Chen family will not have tens of thousands of fields in the coming year." ”

"Bo has made this plan, so that the people of this exile have a place to live." Chen Li reacted the fastest, Chen Li should be good just because he is dedicated to the people, there are displaced people in the county today, how can Chen Li, as the county commander, not know, when he is heartbroken, when he hears Chen Lin say this, how should he not.

Old lady Chen is not Chen Li, he glanced at Chen Lin and knew that Chen Lin was thinking, Chen Lin wanted to encircle the people for his own use, during the Eastern Han Dynasty, what was the most important? Population, others don't know, but Old Lady Chen knows very well, seeing that Chen Lin also has such an awareness, Old Lady Chen is also very happy: "Well, Grandpa will have 50,000 grains with you, and you will preside over this matter." It's fair, the official document has to be dealt with, don't let people say that my Chen family has a bad heart for accepting homeless people. Yishan, the young man in Chenjiabao also brought it, Bo Zhi also needs a helper, Yishan, you, you are also old, don't be so tired, you are fortunate to be bitter for decades, wouldn't it be good to accompany me to drink tea in the future. ”

Everyone understands that Old Lady Chen is going to train Chen Lin, and from then on, those hundreds of teenagers have officially become Chen Lin's private property. Old lady Chen still has a layer of thought, and Chen Lin will do it himself, and the homeless people must be grateful to Chen Lin, which will be good for Chen Lin in the future.

Chen Lin didn't want help in the mansion, after the young people from the countryside came to the Chen mansion, Chen Lin first gathered this group of new descendants of the Chen family. To say that this group of teenagers is amazing, Huang Long and Chen Bao have practiced all of them, and they can all play with swords and guns without saying a few words, and the Chen family is not bad, they eat well, and they are all energetic, they all know that Chen Lin in front of them is the real master in the future, and everyone also heard that the eldest young master of the Chen family treats his subordinates well, and they are even happier.

Chen Lin first went to his own cloth village and ordered people to make 368 pieces of blue cloth clothes, then returned to the mansion, and with them with guns, hundreds of young men made Chen's mansion hot, Chen Ze Chen also came to mess around, so unhappy. Buzhuang sent the clothes on the second day, Chen Lin ordered no one to put them on, and a group of young people, wearing Chen Lin's new clothes, knelt on the ground and kowtowed, some of them were still sad: "Daddy, if you meet the eldest young master as soon as possible, you won't starve to death, woo woo." ”

This scene happened to be seen by the old lady Chen, the old lady nodded again, and went back with the big housekeeper Chen Bao.

After that, Chen Lin took the 368 families to set up a greenhouse outside the city, transported grain and cooked it into porridge, and planted a sign next to it, which read: "Chen Bozhi, the eldest young master of the Chen family, can't bear the hunger and thirst of the homeless people, and set up a porridge shed at this time." Another family member advertised next to the greenhouse: "The Chen family recruits tenant farmers to farm, if they are willing to enter the Chen family to cultivate the land for the Chen family, they will be rewarded with five stones of rice every year, one hundred yuan, and help build a house." ”

This homeless person himself is a desperate person, most of them are young and strong, and if they are not young and strong, they will not be able to live now, the old and weak have died early, so they are still qualified to become homeless. Seeing that the Chen family has the eldest young master who is kind and gives porridge to drink for no reason, and now that the Chen family has accepted such good conditions, the fool is willing to continue to wander.

Chen Lin led the family to make a vigorous scene, Chen Ze Chen also came to help, a group of family members are people who are hard-working, and when they saw that their eldest young master treated the homeless people well, they were even more moved, and it was not good to do it. Within two days, the surrounding counties knew that Chen Bozhi was giving porridge in Anyang, and the displaced people came to Anyang one after another. When the officials and scholars everywhere heard this, they all laughed, Chen Bozhi, fool. But on the surface, they all praised him, and Uncle Chen was righteous. Chen Lin's reputation has risen a lot, such as Zhao Qian, the Taishou of Nanjun, who has already read Chen Li's official document, although he is very puzzled, how can there be a generous scholar now, he doesn't care, but in Chen Lin's filial piety official document, there is another sentence: be kind to your neighbors.

Chen Lin was busy for a few days, and gradually came to the homeless people, the nearby ones were recruited, and the far-flung ones could not come to Anyang, but this time all the tenants who entered the Chen family as tenant farmers were recorded in the register, and the family came to report, a total of 793 homeless households, with a population of 3451 people. Chen Lin was also taken aback, he had just harvested grain this year, and by next year's harvest, the new tenant farmers alone would have to use nearly 20,000 stone of grain. Chen Lin thought to himself that he would have to get an extra 30,000 mu of fertile land in the coming year, otherwise he would lose money. Thinking of this, Chen Lin hurriedly urged the family to help build the house, so that the tenant farmers could open up the wasteland as soon as possible.

Chen Lin formed a large village between the county seat of Anyang County and the Savage Ridge for the new tenant farmers to live in, and other families in Anyang County were afraid of the Savage Ridge, but Chen Lin was not afraid, and few people knew the identity of the three knives.

On this day, Chen Lin was about to go out with his family again, but he saw Chen Li rushing in from outside in a panic, and when he saw Chen Lin, he breathed a sigh of relief. Seeing this, Chen Lin was very strange and asked, "Father, why is this?" ”

Chen Li hurriedly said: "The county came to the official document, and there was also news from the nearby county, saying that it was a plague and many people died, and I am afraid that you will have to go out." Bozhi has never seen this plague, there is no way to prevent it, and he doesn't know it, this is the work of gods and ghosts. However, it is said that the plague in the fifth year of Yanxi in the Eastern Han Dynasty (thirteen years ago) was ten rooms and nine emptiness, and there was no rooster crowing for a hundred miles, but there were 170,000 fewer people in Runan County. ”

Chen Lin was also surprised, he had only read about the plague in books, and it was also incomplete. Thinking of Grandpa, he hurriedly ignored Chen Li, and went to Old Lady Chen in a blink of an eye, and before he had time to salute, he spoke up: "Grandpa, the disaster has happened, my father is strict, and there is a plague outside." ”

Old lady Chen was wondering why Chen Lin, who had always been polite, was so flustered, and when he heard it, he was also frightened, thought for a while, and said to Chen Lin: "Call your father."

Chen Lin hurriedly found Chen Li, the two sat down, and the old lady Chen said: "The plague is not trivial, can there be people in my Anyang County who are in an abnormal state now?" This is a question of Chen Li.

"I didn't see the report, I only saw the official document of Zhao Taishou, and the news from the neighboring county town."

Chen Lao Tianye: "Well, it is fair to return to the county government to send an official document, so that no one in the county can drink cold water, and it can only be used after boiling." Organize men to sprinkle chalk powder on all the dark corners of the houses in the city. However, those who have high fever, fatigue, foaming at the mouth and other abnormal conditions must immediately report to the government, if there is any concealment, beheading, and do not walk around in the countryside and county during the extraordinary period. Dead things in the county are not to be eaten, but they are to be burned with fire. Be fair and remember that those who have abnormal conditions should not come into contact with people, if they do not obey, shoot them with bows and crossbows, ordinary people must not touch those who are abnormal, for fear of infection, go. Bo Zhi, ordered the people in the house not to enter and exit, and you will practice calligraphy in the house these days. ”

Chen Lin had no choice but to comply, and ordered the family to talk about the chalk on the wall and sprinkle it all over the house, ordering no one in the house to eat cold water, just like that, Chen Lin only practiced calligraphy and martial arts in Chen's house, but he was worried about his father who was outside, and he was worried about the people, and he didn't know what the situation was.

Chen Lin is in Chen's mansion, every day he receives a letter from Chen Li from outside the mansion with a bow and arrow, and learns that his father is fine, and the rest know nothing, Mrs. Chen ordered someone to close the door of Chen's mansion and not open it.

Chen Lin was asking the old lady: "Grandpa, why did this plague start, so terrible?" ”

"Alas, the seasons have changed, and there have been homeless people in the fields who have died of disease and starvation, corpses that have rotted, and water sources that have been polluted, and many other causes have caused this plague." Old Lady Chen replied.

Chen Lin also said: "Alas, it is the people who suffer, and Bo Zhi must do his best to save the people of the world." ”

"If your father is the county commander, he can save the people of a county, if he is too guarded, he can save the people of a county, and if he wants to save the people of the world...... Hehehe. "Old Lady Chen wants to stimulate Chen Lin's ambitions.

Chen Lin looked at the old lady in astonishment, lowered his head and sighed: "Alas", he didn't speak.

The plague lasted for a month, and it was not until July that Chen Lin received a letter from Chen Li saying that it seemed to have subsided. Chen Lin hurriedly asked the old lady for advice, and only after obtaining permission did he open the gate of the Chen Mansion. Chen Lin had seen his father first, and he had to say some greetings, Chen Lin felt that he had lost a lot of weight without seeing his father in January, and his heart was sad.

Anyang County has a county decree to promulgate laws and measures, but the loss is lighter than other counties, other counties are very serious, the plague spread to Yuzhou, Jingzhou, Yangzhou, Yanzhou four states, more than 1.72 million people were injured, Runan County alone is less than 240,000, there is a county almost dead, although Anyang County has some precautions, but still can't bear the doom of this ghost and god, the county has 1258 people died, if it is not for the county order to say that the sick people are isolated, the dead are burned, I am afraid that the dead are more numerous.

After listening to what Chen Li said, Chen Lin's whole body was cold to the soles of his feet, which was terrifying and terrifying. Although Chen Lin has palpitations, he knows very well that the dead are gone, and the living are self-reliant. Chen Lin ordered the Chen family to go to the countryside, and if there was a deceased person's household, he would send 1,000 yuan.

Chen Lin rode a horse and walked around the county, but when he saw the wailing of all around, but the real family was white, he couldn't bear it, he ran back to the study, saw the house full of bamboo slips, grabbed the bamboo slips on the table and threw them, and roared down: "The house is full of books, but no one can be saved." "When he shouted, he cried.

Alas, how terrible is the plague.