Chapter 61: The Biggest Headache
For a whole day, Zhang Yi was rooted in the ground, at noon and at night he ate with the people in the field, and while eating, he also chatted with the people about family life, his pro-people behavior made the people think more and more that they had met a good official who was rare in a century, but the smart people also knew that Zhang Yi was not really no temper at all, on the contrary, he was a decisive person, which could be glimpsed from the fact that he could take over the Taishou and behead Chen Yu in public. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
At night, Zhang Yi just like the order he issued, directly lit the torch, and began to fight at night with the same lanterns as the people, but the work did not last long, Zhang Yi sent Dian Wei back to the Taishou Mansion, transported the bodies of Xin Chou and the soldiers killed that day out of the city, and pulled them directly to the fields, and at the same time sent an order to Cui Zhi to bring the city guards who were still in Anyi to the outside of the city.
When Zhang Yi was immersed in work this day, he was actually thinking about what he was going to do next, and after thinking about it, Zhang Yi first decided on a way to deal with the dead soldiers, that is, cremation.
Cremation was not very popular in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and generally only the corpses of those who had the plague would be cremated.
After sending officials to put the corpses of the fallen soldiers on the pyre, Zhang Yi personally burned incense and worshipped, and then lit the pyre himself.
"Kneel!" As the flames of the pyre were blazing, Zhang Yi took the lead in lifting his robe and kneeling: "One kowtow, two kowtows, three kowtows, and then kowtow, the soul returns~"
"The soul returns~"
Including Dian Wei and Guan Yu, all the soldiers and the surrounding people knelt on the ground and knelt down with Zhang Yi to worship those fallen soldiers.
After the salute, Zhang Yi still knelt on the ground, turned his back to the soldiers and onlookers and said loudly: "The people burned today are all the soldiers who died in the first battle of Taishou Mansion that day, they used their lives to save the people of Hedong County from the clutches of Chen Yu, it is precisely because of their sacrifice that the government can take over the post of Taishou, and the people of Hedong County can live a stable life, so we should pay tribute to them, pass on the order of the Taishou Mansion, and build a martyr's pavilion in Anyi City, Store their ashes atop the Martyrs' Pavilion and let their names be passed on to future generations! ”
Zhang Yi's actions and words, although they are all for the living, are very necessary, because this is the first step for him to start brainwashing the people under his rule, as for the second step, he has not thought about it, but he already has a rough plan in his mind, and after he finishes planting the wheat, he will start to implement it.
After cremating the bodies of Xin Chou and the soldiers, Zhang Yi sent someone to collect their ashes into the jar, and then turned back to the field to continue to work.
As soon as Zhang Yi's order to fight at night was promulgated, the county orders of the entire Hedong County followed the clockwork, not only did they go to the ground themselves, but even the wives and concubines at home were forcibly brought to the fields, and at the same time, they also gave death orders to the pavilion chief (township head) Li Zheng (village head) in their jurisdiction, so that they must strictly implement Zhang Yi's order.
With officials at all levels taking the lead, the people are more energetic in their work, and many families are almost all in the family, but not everyone is contributing to the grabbing of wheat planting, like those gentry and scholars who have not done anything, and this is the reason why Zhang Yi has an opinion about them.
For six days, Zhang Yi worked at sunrise every day, and he had to work until the second half of the night before returning to his house to rest, under his leadership, all the land outside Anyi City was robbed and planted with Sumai, of course, a large part of it was under the name of Chen Yu, and now it is the field under his name, and a small part is the field of the Wei family in Hedong, of which the field of the Wei family is planted by the Wei family themselves.
For the fields under his name, Zhang Yi promised that when he harvested next year, he would only receive 10% of the tenant rent and 30% of the imperial grain, and the remaining grain would be equally distributed to all the people who contributed.
Zhang Yi grabbed the wheat after planting, there are still about 5 days before the winter time, so Zhang Yi encouraged the people to open up the wasteland, and promised that although the land is under the name of the county government of Hedong County, it can not pay the tenant rent within three years.
After Zhang Yi issued the order of the whole county to mobilize to fight drought and rush seeds, the people of the entire Hedong County were mobilized, and those local displaced people also returned to their hometowns under the advice of the county officials, and in their hometowns, there were pavilion chiefs and Li who were opening porridge sheds to help the victims, and the county commanders of various Xian were also in accordance with Zhang Yi's order, while helping the victims to grab wheat and wheat, while running to mobilize local businessmen, squires and small scholars, encouraging them to also contribute to the people of Hedong County, but with little success.
The counties submitted all the rush to Su Mai to Zhang Yi, basically all the counties have completed the tasks assigned by Zhang Yi, and they have also reclaimed a lot of wasteland, according to the number of wasteland reported Zhang Yi slightly estimated, the entire Hedong County has about thousands of more fertile land.
After reading the reports of the counties, Zhang Yi was both happy and worried, because the reports of the counties not only wrote the results of the rush to plant wheat and open up the wasteland, but also the number of displaced people from other places.
Hedong County just started to help the victims, this news is like growing wings, not only recruited the original people of Hedong County who were exiled, but also recruited more displaced people, in less than fifteen days, the outer counties of Hedong County poured into 20,000 displaced people, and this number is still rising every day, which has become Zhang Yi's biggest headache at the moment.
Zhang Yi got the news from various merchants that the grain they went out to purchase would arrive in Hedong County about the beginning of next month, but the grain they purchased was only enough for the people of Hedong County for two months, and this grain was already the limit of what they could buy.
Sitting cross-legged behind the public case, rubbing his swollen head, Zhang Yi looked at the report with a bitter face and said, "There are so many displaced people, so many mouths, what should I do?" ”
After listening to Zhang Yi's words, An Changshi, who was standing below, suddenly spoke: "Lord, my subordinates have a plan, and they can worry about the lord." ”
An Changshi's words made Zhang Yi raise his head suddenly, and he hurriedly asked, "Do you have a way?" Speak quickly! ”