Chapter 49: Soup kitchen

Liu Wei glared at Li Futong, and said unhappily: "Don't be complacent too early, if it is really as the lord said, there is a big chaos here in Denglai, then it will definitely not be small!" When the time comes, once someone comes to commit it, I'm afraid it won't be as simple as just a few hundred thieves!

Our more than 60 guns may not be able to stop them! So I always feel that it's still a bit insufficient! By the way, isn't there still a ship coming over to deliver a batch of grain in the past two days? I don't know if there will be some more men, if there will be two more platoons...... Even if it's a platoon, fifty more guns, it's easier to do!

In this way, in the past two days, the village and the soil fence here, the tenants who have been sheltered have also been almost settled, and the current land reclamation is secondary, you these days you will collect the young and strong among these tenants first, and bring them to the earth fence, where it will be quieter, and they will be trained, and the round bar machine and circular saws that will be sent will also be brought over, and the wood will be prepared enough for you to use, find a few people, and prepare the bow and arrow first!

In addition, the spear is equipped with a full barrel first, and then say, don't send it down for the time being, first practice with a wooden pole, let these tenants train into a village brave, and once there is something to do, you can give you a hand and act as an auxiliary!

But in terms of weapons, don't show them now, otherwise it will be troublesome to let the government know! ”

"Yes! Subordinates will do it! Li Futong saw that Liu Wei was so worried, although he was a little disapproving in his heart, but he didn't dare to say anything, the sea wolf is the most particular about orders and prohibitions, Liu Wei is the person in charge here, that is, the chief officer, his words are military orders, as he cooperates with Liu Wei to act here, he naturally has to obey his orders.

This has a lot to do with the military system of the sea wolf, Yu Xiaotian believes that the most taboo thing in the army is to commit the following crimes, disobedience and disrespect, the army should be a hierarchical place, the higher level is greater than the sky, as a subordinate, no matter at any time, even if the order of the superior is wrong, it can only be obeyed, if there is any dissatisfaction, it can only be appealed in accordance with the established procedures, and before the appeal is approved, it is still necessary to act in accordance with the order.

Unless it is the sand in the army, when it is found that the officers have obvious defection or desertion, they can temporarily expose their identities and take over the command, but even so, after the fact, the practice of the sand at that time must be strictly reviewed.

Therefore, in the military system of the sea wolf, the establishment of the military rank system has made the sense of obedience stronger, which is probably the crushing of people at the level of the official university!

Of course, there may also be another situation, that is, in some operations, the upper peak will sometimes appoint individual lower-ranking officers to temporarily preside over the work, but the premise of this is that there must be a letter from the upper peak.

At present, on the side of Xishan Village, Liu Wei is the designated chief officer, not to mention that this is also his highest military rank, so everyone here must obey his orders.

When the time entered the beginning of November, the weather on the side of Dengzhou Mansion had begun to completely cool, the cold wind began to cross the Bohai Sea, sweeping from the extreme north to the south, and Denglai and other places began to freeze early, and the night temperature had dropped to a very low level, almost to the point of pouring water into ice.

The winter of the Xiaoice River era did come much earlier than other eras, and people at the end of September had begun to wrap all kinds of thick clothes on their bodies early, but fortunately, at noon during the day, it was still relatively warm, but as long as the sun went down, the temperature would immediately plummet, making people feel cold and piercing, and people who were idle would hide in the house early, burn a pot of charcoal, and warm themselves around the charcoal basin.

This kind of winter is really quite difficult for ordinary people, because most of them do not have enough thick winter clothes, leather jackets and other things, and for them, it is an unattainable luxury.

Some people don't even have shoes, let alone cotton boots, and in winter, many people are barefoot, running around barefoot all day long, their feet are frozen and bruised, which makes people look uncomfortable.

Some of the more intelligent people managed to find some hay and roll it into a thin straw rope, and then weave it into straw sandals, mixed with strips of rags, which could keep out the cold a little bit.

However, because this year's Denglai area is not a good weather, coupled with the social security is very bad, bandits are crowded, so that many people in the winter, is even more unsustainable, the family does not have enough food reserves, after the winter, many people can only drag their families out of the famine, trying to go to the city, seeking a way to survive.

So after the winter, a wave of refugees began to form in various places, and streams of refugees poured into the state capitals and counties from all directions, and some gathered near some large villages and forts.

On both sides of the road, more and more starvation began to appear, but whenever someone fell hungry on the side of the road, and before they could even breathe, their clothes would be stripped naked by other people, and almost all of them would be stripped naked, and there would be no human dignity at all.

Liu Wei often traveled back and forth between Ninghai Prefecture and Dengzhou during this time, and when he saw such a scene, in addition to sighing, there was no good way for the time being, and after a long time, he couldn't help but feel a little numb.

Since the end of September, when the Jiannu army besieged Dalinghe City, and Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, sent Kong Youde to lead 800 Liaodong elite cavalry to Guanning to help, no more news has been received for more than a month.

Although Liu Wei has been sending people to keep an eye on the situation in Dengzhou Mansion, but in the past month, he has not received more news, although the area around Dengzhou Mansion is still chaotic, but there is not much happened, the relationship between Shandong soldiers and Liaodong soldiers has become more and more tense after the winter, and small fights have happened every day, but they have not caused too much turmoil.

For a while, Liu Wei was a little unsure of what would happen next, so he could only keep secretly collecting some of the population and temporarily filling it into the soil fence of Yangma Island.

But during this period of time, he is no longer as cautious as some time ago, with the formation of the wave of refugees after the winter, the number of hungry people in the area of Ninghai Prefecture is also surging, and the hungry people are flocking to the county seat of Zhimuping in Ninghai Prefecture, and a large number of hungry people have gathered around the county seat of Muping.

And the number of these hungry people is increasing every day, from a few thousand at the beginning, to more than 10,000 now.

The county seat of Muping has closed the city gates to restrict the influx of hungry people into the county, and strengthened the city's defensive force, sending villagers out of the city to suppress the hungry people gathered outside the city.

However, the relief given by the government is pitiful, first, the government itself does not have much grain reserves, because of the war in Liaodong, a large amount of grain and grass was concentrated in Dengzhou Mansion, and the grain storage in the counties is very limited, and second, those landlords and gentry who have grain in stock and large households will never generously take out the grain for relief, even if they do not hoard goods, in such a year, hoarding some grain should not be prepared is also an inevitable choice.

Therefore, although more and more hungry people gathered, the government did not give enough relief, and dozens of dead corpses appeared outside the city at dawn every day.

However, on the side of Xishan Village, Liu Wei never stopped the porridge shack outside the village, and boiled out four pots of porridge every day to give porridge to the hungry people gathered here.

Therefore, many hungry people heard that there were people in Xishan Village who gave porridge, so they gathered in the area of Xishan Village.

Xishan Village is in the north of Muping County, about ten miles by the sea, and few people have never paid attention to it before, it is a poor and remote place, but with the appearance of Liu Different, there has been an unprecedented lively scene in Xishan Village.

A large number of hungry people gathered in the area of Xishan Village, and Liu Dashanren waited for Xishan Village to open the pot and give porridge every day, which made Liu Shanren's reputation reach its peak in just a few months.

Seeing so many hungry people gathered in Xishan Village, Liu Wei couldn't hold it anymore, he knew very well that his lord Yu Xiaotian was eager to emigrate, so many hungry people were in front of him, but he couldn't get rid of them, it was a very painful thing for him, and he knew very well that this time he was sent to Dengzhou Mansion, which was an important opportunity in his life.

If he can take this opportunity to do something here and get some more immigrants back for the lord, it will undoubtedly be of great help to his future status in the Seawolf Group.

So he saw that the hungry people were gathering more and more, and although there was no great chaos in the land of Denglai, he felt that it was necessary to start moving the hungry people back.

As the temperature gets lower and lower, a thin ice floe has appeared on the sea, the fastest is a month, the sea surface along the coast will be frozen, and then the ship can no longer continue to sail to Yangma Island, and can only take the land route to transport the hungry people, and the land transfer of these hungry people, it will consume more manpower and material resources, and the way is still very unsafe, many thieves are staring at these hungry people, although the hungry people do not have much oil and water to fish, but they can be coerced into the gang, and the momentum is strong.

In addition, the young women among the hungry people are also good commodities, and after being robbed, they can be exchanged for money to sell them, which is very attractive to the bandits, and if they don't take the land route to transfer the hungry people to Shidao Bay, they will be attacked by many bandits.

So if you want to do it, you have to do it now, Liu Wei knows best that what Taiwan Island needs now is young women, for a long time, the immigration structure on the island of Taiwan has not been very coordinated, the number of young men is the majority, and after removing the old and weak children, the proportion of women of school age is very low.

(Thanks again to the Eagle Warriors for the tip!) It's late to update today, so bear with me! It will be updated a little earlier in the afternoon! )