Mid-October.

Fei Ruhe took a boat all the way and led the troops to Yizhou.

Standing on the bow of the boat, Fei Ruhe's eyes were blank, and he looked at the scenery on both sides of the strait with a dull expression.

Yizhou is governed by the state, under the jurisdiction of Fei County and Tancheng County.

When it was in the border of Tancheng, although it was also miserable, it was not particularly different from northern Jiangsu.

As the ship sailed to the northwest of Tancheng, the situation became more and more terrifying.

To the boundary of Yizhou, the content of the history book is translated into the vernacular: "Locusts are all over the mountains and fields, and they are piled up to a foot thick." The leaves of the trees were gnawed away, and the ground was thousands of miles away. People dig grass roots and gnaw tree bark, father and son cannibalism, corpses are everywhere, babies are abandoned all over the road, people are everywhere who put in labels and sell heads, and countless corpses are piled up in the ravines. ”

More and more soldiers, standing on the boat and looking at the two shores, were dumbfounded and speechless.

The deputy general Vance Tong muttered: "No wonder the bandits didn't come to capture this place, no wonder Zuo Liangyu didn't send troops here." What are we doing in Yizhou again? ”

At this moment, the locusts have disappeared, and there is no sight of the locusts piled up a foot thick.

But all the vegetation is bare, the villages along the coast are deserted, and even the big landlords have fled.

In the evening, I went ashore to cook, and I walked a short distance to see the white bones. Sometimes you can even guess that a few members of the family died, because the bones of adults were still holding the bones of children.

The fleet arrives with a large army to a small town that has also become a ghost town. All the inhabitants of the town disappeared, not starving to death, but fleeing, and no one could withstand the looting of the hungry people.

Perhaps the rich families along the way were also scared away by the hungry, and no matter how high the courtyard wall was, it could not stop the hungry people.

The fleet was approaching Yizhou City, and there were finally more and more living people, and at least twenty or thirty thousand hungry people gathered outside Yizhou City.

These hungry people looked at the fleet, their eyes numb and expressionless.

Fei Ruhe suddenly smelled the smell of meat, he was surprised at first, and then he woke up, and then he was nauseous, and his stomach turned over and wanted to vomit.

The soldiers and men of Datong disembarked and landed on the shore, and the city gate was soon opened, and an official led the crowd to kneel down to greet him, crying and crying: "General, you are here!" ”

Fei Ruhe asked, "What's your name?" What are the jobs? ”

The official wiped away his tears and replied, "The next official is Liang You, the same governor of Yizhou." ”

Fei Ruhe's heart was on fire, and he asked, "What about Zhizhou?" ”

Liang You replied, "I ran away with the silver." ”

"Where's the garrison?" Fei Ruhe asked again.

"Ran away, too." Liang You replied.

Fei Ruhe was furious: "It's all gone, what are you still doing!" ”

Liang You said: "Since Xiaguan is the same as the state, and the governor runs away, Xiaguan is the local parent. How can there be any reason for parents to abandon their children? The lower officials sold their belongings and begged the rich families in the state to pool money and food, but it was still to no avail, there were too many hungry people outside the city. Nowadays, people are starving to death every day in the city, and they can only ...... Can only ......"

Hearing him say this, Fei Ruhe's anger dissipated most of the time, and asked, "What can I do?" ”

Liang You wept and said: "I can only clean up the unclaimed dead bodies in the city every day, throw them outside the city and let the hungry people cook them." ”

"Gross!"

A Datong soldier next to him couldn't hold back, and he vomited nausea on the spot.

Fei Ruhe asked, "Do the rich families in the city still have food?" ”

Liang You replied: "The rich family has no surplus grain at home, only in the grain merchant's warehouse. ”

"Into town!"

Fei Ruhe ordered: "Twenty people should be left to guard each boat, and the grain should be guarded to prevent robbery." ”

The Datong soldiers took over the city defense, and at the same time dispersed to maintain law and order in the city.

When he came to the state office, Hao Dadian, a military medical officer, said: "General, there are too many dead people, and the bodies are not buried, beware of a big epidemic next year!" ”

Fei Ruhe suddenly woke up: "How to prevent it?" ”

Hao Dadian said: "First, immediately burn all the corpses; second, to order the people to boil water and boil their clothes; Thirdly, lime was thrown in places where there were many dead. ”

"Good!" Fei Ruhe said.

Li Shikui, a missionary officer, said: "I suggest that the military missionaries take over government affairs. Each missionary led ten soldiers to work, and the city ordered the officials to coordinate with the officials. Outside the city, the hungry people are divided into areas, and how many people can be accommodated in each area, so as to prevent the hungry people from causing chaos. ”

Fei Ruhe nodded and said, "That's it." After speaking, he asked Liang You again, "What is the price of grain in the city?" ”

"Two thousand wheat." Liang You replied.

Fei Ruhe sneered: "That's 20,000 yuan and one stone of wheat, all of them are rich and unkind." Where is the grain merchant's warehouse? All sent troops to take over, but there was an obstruction, and they were killed directly! ”

At this critical moment, there are no rules to talk about.

Fei Ruhe asked again: "Can Fei County and Yishui be affected?" ”

Liang You said: "Generally, there is no difference, first there is a drought, and then there is a locust plague. Outside Fei County and Yishui City, the same hungry people gathered, and many hungry people fled to the direction of Qingzhou Fucheng. ”

Feixian and Yishui are also strategic targets, but in the face of this catastrophe, there is no need to occupy them anymore.

One Yizhou is already enough, and it is absolutely impossible to help other states and counties.

The hungry people over there can only fend for themselves!

Liang You selected some henchmen and took Datong soldiers to several granaries in the city.

"General, in front of you is the Bai family's grain depot, and a lot of gangsters have been recruited as guards." Liang You pointed forward in a back alleyway.

The leader of the troops was only a captain, named Wang Song, and he was in charge of thirty people.

He came to the gate of the warehouse and immediately shouted: "The grain depot has been taken over by the Datong army, and the idle people will leave immediately!" ”

The steward of the warehouse hurriedly ran out and said with a smile: "Ladies and gentlemen, you have something to say." If you need to raise grain and grass, my lord will definitely pay filial piety according to the rules. Master Jun, please take a step to speak. ”

The steward put his hand into his arms, apparently trying to pay for the bribe.

"Boom!"

Wang Song pulled out his waist knife, hacked the steward to death with a knife, and shouted: "Rush in, whoever dares to stop it, don't worry about killing!" ”

Strictly speaking, Wang Song was suspected of violating military orders, but he couldn't help it at the moment.

Inside and outside the city, there is hunger everywhere, and these grain merchants are still sitting on the ground and raising prices!

In an instant, chickens and dogs jumped in the grain depot, and the guards fled one after another.

Liang You saw that several grain depots had been taken, and trotted to see Fei Ruhe. Along the way, he found that the Datong soldiers were undressing, and hurriedly asked, "Why is Brother Tai undressing?" ”

The soldier replied, "The medical officer said to prevent the plague and make the hungry people outside the city strip and boil." We must not let the people be naked, and the clothes brought by the ship are not enough, so we will give the people what we wear first, and we will wear cotton armor directly. ”

Liang You looked up, and the soldiers on the street stripped one after another, and then collected them and transported them to the outside of the city.

He couldn't help but follow him out of the city, but saw bags of grain being carried to the shore by the people, and thousands of soldiers were guarding there to prevent being robbed.

Then hundreds of military cauldrons were erected, and some officers shouted to the hungry people who gathered around: "If you pick up some firewood, you can drink hot porridge!" ”

Hearing this, the hungry people who could still move around scattered to collect firewood, and even fought because of collecting firewood.

The Datong soldiers stopped some of the hungry people and took the opportunity to let them carry the corpses, and piled all the corpses together for burning.

As for those who were so hungry that they couldn't walk, they were also moved to one place, and they were given priority to drink when cooking porridge.

One after another, firewood was picked up and began to boil water, and the hungry people who had returned were also ordered to line up.

Half a large pot for cooking porridge.

Half a large pot for boiling water.

The corpses that had been piled up were also drenched with fire oil and burned.

All the hungry, male and female, were ordered to take off their clothes and throw them into a cauldron to boil.

The hungry people were naked, first filling their stomachs, and after having strength, they slowly boiled water and bathed. The bath water had to be boiled, and then the inhabitants of the city were organized to carry the well water out of the city one by one, mixing the boiling water with a temperature that could be used for bathing.

Wooden barrels were also temporarily requisitioned for the hungry to bathe.

After bathing, the residents changed into the clean clothes provided by the soldiers, wrung out the clothes boiled in the cauldron and dried them.

After eating, bathing, and changing into clean clothes, the 30,000 hungry people finally became human.

And this series of operations, in an orderly manner, took less than a day.

Liang You was dumbfounded, what kind of terrifying execution is this?

In less than a day, 30,000 hungry people were turned from hungry ghosts into living people again!

He found that the specific executors were all special officers with red hoops around their arms. Each special officer, commanding ten soldiers to do things, can easily arrange hundreds of hungry people.

There are also hungry people who are disobedient, and the punishment is to receive half the hot porridge they receive.

After punishing a few hungry people, all the hungry people in the vicinity became honest, and the Datong soldiers said whatever they wanted.

In the place where the soup was given and the grain was piled up, 1,500 soldiers stood guard at all times.

Liang You walked to the side and asked one of the soldiers: "Brother Tai, who are those generals with red hoops in their arms?" ”

"Missionary." The soldier replied.

"They're all readers?" Liang You asked.

The soldier said, "I used to be able to read thirty, but now I need to know five hundred." Regiment-level missionaries must be literate at least 1,000 and learn addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. If a missionary wants to be promoted, he must be literate. Not only did I learn it myself, but I also took it with us, and I now know more than 60 words. ”

Liang You asked again, "What does a missionary do?" ”

The soldier explained: "Teach us the truth. ”

"What's the truth?" Liang You asked.

"To be a soldier is to fight for the common people, and the common people are the parents of food and clothing. The world is in harmony, that is, everyone has a field to cultivate, everyone has food, and everyone has clothing," said the soldier, "If there is anything troublesome, you can tell the missionaries." Write a letter to your family and ask a missionary for help. The soldiers are all brothers, and the missionaries are our brothers! ”

Liang You didn't continue to ask, but pondered these words carefully.

He is not a serious Jinshi background, he is just a lifter, and he was bought when he was a county magistrate. Although he bought the county order, he didn't stuff the money when he distributed it, and he was thrown to the hellish Dangzhi County in Shaanxi.

At that time, the rogues came, and Liang You encouraged the people to defend the city, but they were confused and defended it.

The gentry in the city did not let him go, and he served as the magistrate of Shaanxi for six years in succession, and he was able to defend the city every time.

Liang You didn't understand what the situation was, and it seemed that the rogue was also very easy to deal with.

Two years ago, he returned to Beijing after completing the examination and was finally promoted to the state governor. Then came the hellish drought and locust plague, and for two years in a row he could not bear to take advantage of the people, but sold the goods he had brought.

Liang You squatted by the moat, watching the Datong soldiers pacify the victims, and suddenly laughed happily.

Suddenly, there was a shouting and scolding voice from behind him: "Damn, I'm looking for you everywhere, hurry back to the city to help with errands!" ”

Liang You looked back, but it was Fei Ruhe scolding him.

Liang You hurriedly stood up, but heard Fei Ruhe say: "I asked the officials and people in the city, you are a good official, and the governors and garrisons who fled are corrupt officials." Follow me to do a good job and do a good job in disaster relief, you can at least be a magistrate! ”

"Thank you, General, for your appreciation." Liang You was very happy, after taking refuge in King Zhao, his official position was only demoted by one level.

Fei Ruhe was very depressed, he came to fight, and now he has become a disaster relief worker.

Zhang Tieniu's side is similar.

There was no war to fight at all, and everywhere he went, the officials immediately surrendered and then begged him for relief.

If the Datong army is killed in Henan, this situation will be everywhere.

What else?

Leaving tens of thousands of disaster victims to die and leave them to fend for themselves? That goes against the theory of Datong!

But once the aid is provided, the food will not be enough.

In this case, Zhao Han must make a choice. How much food should be left for war, how much food should be left to resettle the victims, and while providing relief to the people, it is necessary to continue to expand the territory.

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(There are only two shifts today.) ）