Chapter 87: Lu Zhixian's New Troubles

(The second volume has begun, and Liu Jun has begun to emerge and gain a bigger stage world.) )

The doctor invited by Liu Jun had very high medical skills, and after following him to the shack to diagnose the Zhao family's boy, he directly took out the silver needle and acupuncture, and then took out an old ginseng whisker and let Zhao Shun's wife stew it into ginseng soup and feed it to the child. Soon the boy of the Zhao family was sweating, and the person also came to his senses, and began to call his father and mother, and even knew that he was hungry.

Zhao Shun and his wife were overjoyed, and they kept being grateful to the doctor and Liu Jun, and even kowtowed. The old gentleman and Liu Jun helped one by one, and the doctor said, "The child is recovering from illness and his body is still weak, so he needs to recuperate carefully, strengthen some nutrition in his diet, get some egg custard every day, or fresh fish and meat to make up, but also remember not to make up too much." ”

Zhao Shun's wife was full of sorrow, now that the family is like this, where can there be eggs, fish and meat for the child. At this time, she didn't know that Liu Jun had given new hope to the refugees in the shack area.

"Don't worry, don't worry about that anymore. I'm going to tell you, we're going to have a good time in the future. Let me introduce to you, this is the second son of the Liu family in Xiwan, the captain of the nine-headed bird, and now he is still the patrol of Hutou Pass. He was the one who came forward to help us solve the trouble with the pawnshop, and he had already invited me to be the chief craftsman of the nine-headed bird, with five taels of grain and one stone of grain every month. ”

Zhao Shun hugged his son and excitedly talked to his wife about digesting it, while Liu Jun watched from the side.

The news soon spread all over the shacks, and at first many of the women and old people who remained in the shacks did not believe it, but soon the men and sons of the various families returned from the county town one after another. They didn't come back empty-handed, they also took the white money and cloth they had issued, and even carried a bag of rice each.

If it weren't for the fact that Liu Jiye's son was sitting in Zhao Shun's shack, some old people would even suspect that these juniors who had been shouting and carrying sticks before had robbed the county seat and came back.

After figuring out the cause and effect of the incident, everyone burst into tears with excitement.

Uprooted, fleeing to a foreign land, struggling to survive, the taste of these days is extremely bitter, and many people feel confused about the future, and they are almost out of breath. Unexpectedly, this god also opened his eyes, and they actually met such a good person.

There are more than 300 households and more than 1,000 people in the shack area. Liu Jun wanted to take them all away from here and take them to the vicinity of Hutou Pass in Taiping Township. More than 100 young people will become recruits of the nine-headed bird, dozens more will become craftsmen, and the rest will become workers. Their families will also be settled for them when the time comes.

In short, do good things to the end, send the Buddha to the west.

Moreover, Liu Jun feels that helping these refugees is not just about doing good deeds, these are refugees who have left their homeland, and if they take them in, they can become their own people, become his soldiers, become his craftsmen, and rely on him completely.

That night, the shack area was full of torches and bonfires, as bright as day.

Families are cooking freshly brought rice, and since they have fled, few people have eaten fragrant rice. Today, the refugees have found a new way out, life is hopeful again, and everyone has begun to cook rice to celebrate.

Liu Jun has become the most welcoming person, and wherever he goes, someone wants to kneel down for him, full of praise, as if he has become a savior Buddha in the hearts of refugees.

All night, no one slept, everyone was excited to sleep, men and women and old people were looking forward to a new life, and they couldn't sleep when they thought about it. And those children had a rare meal of fragrant rice, and they all ate round stomachs, and they couldn't sleep at night.

At dawn, Lu Jinxi, the magistrate, rushed over with a group of people.

Not to arrest people, but to give money.

Lu Jinxi didn't sleep all night last night, tossing and turning all night, the more he thought about it, the more scared he became.

After these people came, they built a shack outside the city, and more than 1,000 people stuck to Macheng like a piece of dog skin plaster. The appearance of these people has made the security of the county much worse, and there are beggars everywhere, and even many people steal.

Every once in a while, he had to have people go there to give porridge a few times, so that no one would starve to death.

Although he hated this group of people, Lu Jinxi was just annoying. But yesterday, hundreds of refugees from the shack area poured into the county seat with sticks, clashed with the county pawnshops, and confronted each other across the street, almost starting a fight. He even heard later that there were refugees shouting at that time, and they were simply against his mother.

Fortunately, Liu Jun appeased the matter, if there was a real fight last night, or even these homeless people simply reversed, burning, killing and looting, then he would not just lose his official position.

It's scary to think about it, this is a shack area, this is simply a powder magazine. If you're not careful, you're going to burst into flames.

After thinking about it for a night, Lu Jinxi decided to fully support Liu Jun and let him get rid of this group of refugees as soon as possible. Fortunately, Liu Jun is willing to take over these people, and he actually treats this group of refugees as a treasure and wants to recruit them as soldiers and craftsmen, and now he is very worried that Jun will turn around and regret it, so this shack area will stick to the county seat again.

In order to get Liu Jun to get this group of people away immediately, Lu Jinxi even urgently discussed with a group of colleagues and subordinates of the county government early in the morning, and finally decided to take out a sum of money and give it to this group of refugees as a resettlement fee, so that they could leave early.

He has even contacted the various commercial houses in the county town and mobilized them to donate a sum of money together so that the refugees can be sent away as soon as possible. I believe that after yesterday's incident, other shops don't want to be suddenly besieged by these refugees one day.

Lu Jinxi came up and thanked Liu Jun first, thanks to his unruly situation, and wisely and quickly dealt with and calmed down last night's incident.

"After the county knew that you were going to take these refugees to Hutou Pass, it was also very grateful, you helped the county solve a big problem. Placing them is really a big hidden danger. We all know that you have done a great job, and after consulting with other colleagues in the county, I feel that I can't let you contribute alone. The county decided to give you 500 taels of silver to help resettle the refugees. In addition, all the merchant houses and shops have been mobilized, and five hundred taels of silver will be raised to house these people. ”

One thousand taels of silver, Lu Jinxi is very serious. The merchants in the county were probably also a little surprised, and when the world was in turmoil, no one wanted the thousands of refugees at their doorstep to become bandits one day. It would be better for each family to give some money and send these people to Taiping Township, far away.

"The kindness of the lord and all the neighbors, I took it on behalf of the refugees, and I thank you for them. Here, I also ask the eldest lord and all the neighbors to rest assured that they will move out of here today and go to Taiping Township to resettle. I will distribute the 1,000 taels of silver you raised to the refugees in full amount, one tael per person, and I will make up for the deficiency out of my own pocket. ”

"Can you move out today?" Lu Jinxi didn't care whether the thousand taels of silver ended up in Liu Jun's pocket, or if it could really fall into the hands of refugees, what he cared about was that Liu Jun would really move these people away.

"Everyone actually doesn't have any property, just a broken shack, a few pots and pans, and they don't even need to use a car, just pack it and carry it away. It is not far from Hutou Pass, seventy or eighty miles away, and it will be there after a hard day. ”

Lu Jinxi's face suddenly showed a relaxed expression, and he breathed a long sigh of relief in his heart. This powder keg is finally going to be moved, although it is still moved to Taiping Township in Macheng County, but after all, it is seventy miles away from the county seat.

"If you need a carriage or a horse, I can ask the yamen to help you find some."

"It's best to have nature, after all, among the more than 1,000 people, there are also many old people and children, and some women are small feet, and it is too difficult for them to walk down by themselves for seventy or eighty miles."

"Leave this to me, and I'll arrange for someone to organize some carriages and horses immediately." Lu Zhixian now hopes that these people will leave the county seat immediately, and the farther away the better.

The refugees in the shack area did not have a big reaction to the county magistrate in his official robes, they settled in the county seat of this lord, but they did not receive much care, so they did not like anything, but more indifferently.

All families are lighting firewood, and they have already said last night that after eating early this morning, they will start packing their belongings, and then go to Hutouguan, Taiping Township, their new home.

"Jiye, there has been a new resolution in the imperial court recently, I don't know if you have heard of it." After dealing with this group of refugees, Lu Jinxi's mood was obviously much better. At this time, he began to think about how to solve another problem that was bothering him. Standing here, Lu Zhixian suddenly found himself in a new direction.

"I don't know what the old man is talking about?" Liu Jun asked. For Lu Jinxi, Liu Jun still has a lot of respect, this person is not bad, the magistrate who was born in Jinshi is very young, although he is a little inexperienced, but he is still very conscientious. Especially for himself, he still didn't say anything.

Liu Jun is now an inspector, and Lu Jinxi is the county magistrate and his direct boss, so Liu Jun is still willing to cooperate with him.

"What else is this, of course, that is, the imperial court previously ordered all parties to levy additional salaries, the governors and governors of each border town to train their troops, and the prefectures and counties to train their bravery. In Macheng, we have also spread out two pieces, and a large amount of training and salary levy has been dispatched, and there are quite a few of them. Second, the county has to start training 500 bravery. ”

Speaking of this matter, Lu Zhixian's good mood was gone. A little extra money and food is not a big problem. The additional levy is mainly levied according to the acres of land, and those who have more land will produce more, and those with less land will produce less. There are many gentry in Macheng, and many families have officials and officials, these people are also more supportive of the imperial court, and they generally don't shirk too much about the matter of money.

Now the more troublesome thing is the matter of five hundred practicing bravery.

Five hundred practice courage is not a simple five hundred village bravery, but after the conscription, it will be trained, and then the above will definitely come to inspect, and then this practice will not be able to practice, and there will definitely be problems. According to the old practice, this kind of training is generally sent down according to the townships of each mile, and a few young people are produced in one mile, and then they are gathered together and trained for two or three months in autumn and winter.

But in the spring and summer, these people still have to go home and farm. The most troublesome thing is that such a Xiangyong basically has no possibility of training, spending time and money, and in the end he can't even practice his appearance, and he must be unlucky in the end.