Li Zhen arrived in Fangzhou on June 12.

As a Zhizhou, he feels that everything is new.

Dad felt that he was young and inexperienced, so he sent an old butler to follow him and help him Zhang Luo.

Who to look down on?

Li Zhen was originally a scholar, but later led a soldier for two years, so he naturally had the temperament of a soldier.

There is a spirit of not admitting defeat in everything.

Li Yu took a fancy to his spirit and spirit and entrusted him with a heavy responsibility.

Fangzhou is located in the west of Xiangzhou, and there are water construction and water blocking in the territory that are connected with the Han River.

It is separated from Junzhou by Wudang Mountain in the north, and connected by Jingshan Mountain and Xiangzhou in the east.

There is Daba Mountain in the southwest, which lies between Fangzhou and Kuizhou.

In the middle is Fangshan.

The southern part of Fangzhou is all mountainous, there are no rivers, which affects production and life, and there are only scattered villages and no big cities.

Between Wudang Mountain and Fangshan is a mountainous plain area, and the water of Zhushui, water blocking, and Kongyang water all flow through this place.

Fuzhi Fangling and the Yongqing County, Zhushan County, and Shangyong County under its jurisdiction are all on this flat dam.

There are only 14,000 households in the four cities of Fangzhou, with a population of 70,000.

As for the population scattered in the southern mountainous areas, there are no household registration statistics.

Li Zhen spent a month visiting all four counties in Fangzhou.

It is full of barren mountains and wasteland, sparsely populated, and has no basis for development.

Lack of people!

Don't look at the Central Plains, there are a large number of landless displaced people, and some remote states and counties have a large number of barren mountains and wastelands that have not been cultivated, which is the uneven resources.

Population is also a resource.

For example, Fangzhou is not small in size and has a small population, and no one wants to live surrounded by mountains.

As soon as Li Zhen returned to Fangling, he received instructions from Xiangyang to prepare to resettle the refugees.

It's really sleepy and meets the pillow.

I was thinking about the shortage of manpower, so this is here, welcome!

He issued a state decree that each county should measure the barren mountains and wastelands, prepare them for the register, and plan villages along the water source to prepare for the resettlement of refugees.

Soon a large number of refugees were transferred from Valley City.

These people all spoke with Bianzhou accents.

The daily transfer of people is as high as 1,000 people.

According to the plan, each village has 100 households and about 1,000 people, and the village chief is designated to go up the mountain to cut wood and build houses to live.

Fangzhou did not have much grain in stock, so it could only be transported from Xiangyang.

It's already August, and it's past agricultural time. However, these new Fangzhou people have not lost hope and are doing their best to build their new homes.

There are not many others in Fangzhou, but there are many mountains.

There are many trees on the mountain.

In just over a month, farms have been erected, and the wasteland around the village has been cut off from weeds and turned out new dirt, exposed to the sun.

The refugees' rations were simple, some of them were brought from Xiangyang, and some of them were wild vegetables from the mountains.

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This can replace the meal.

Li Zhen spent all his brains trying to keep these refugees alive during this time.

There are fish in the river, wild things and wild vegetables in the mountains.

He mobilized the young and strong people of all villages to go up the mountains and down the rivers.

Each village has a public canteen, and all food must be handed over to the village for unified arrangement.

His approach really worked.

Every household no longer hides their own secrets, and the grain is rationed and distributed according to the capitation.

On the westernmost side of Fangzhou, on the banks of Kongyang Water, Li Zhen walked into a newly built village.

The village is newly built.

On both sides of a dirt road, rows of houses were built out of wood.

The roof is a thatched hut.

Despite the severe drought, the climate here is humid.

Morning and evening fog is clear.

The river is still abundant, and the wasteland around the village has been reclaimed and vegetables have been grown.

The chickens in the village walk leisurely, pecking at insects on the side of the road.

In the small river near the village, flocks of hemp ducks are sticking in the water, their yellow, orange and orange soles are splashing, and their buttocks are facing the sky, looking for food in the water.

On the river in the distance, clouds of white clouds spread on the water, slowly drifting.

"What's that?"

"Ahem, Erlang, this is a goose."

The old butler replied.

"Oh."

Li Zhen has seen geese, but he has never seen so many.

There are about 100 of these white geese, and they follow the current to eat aquatic plants on the banks of the river.

The effort was not great, and another flock of white geese went down the river.

Li Zhen turned his head and asked Muramasa.

"Muramasa, won't this goose be lost if it goes down the water?"

"Hehe, adults don't know, we made a dam out of wood upstream and downstream, which does not affect the flow of water, and ducks and geese can't pass through the dam when they reach the dam, which is naturally safe."

"Oh? It's a good idea. ”

When Li Zhen heard this, he admired it in his heart. The people's local methods really worked.

"What else do you have?"

"My lord, we have some sheep on the hillside."

"Oh? Check it out. ”

The people left the village and looked up the hill behind the village.

The green hillsides are dotted with small white dots.

It stands out on the grassy hillside.

"How many?"

"Back to my lord, there are fifty."

"Where did you get these chickens, ducks, geese, and sheep?"

Li Zhen was curious.

These people who fled are basically without anything, how can they have the money to buy these things?

"It was given to us by the prefectural magistrate. Chickens, ducks and geese give eggs, and each village has a share. This sheep came on credit from the local village. In more than a month, there are these now. ”

Muramasa is a man in his forties who is full of confidence in life.

"yes, okay."

Looking at these spontaneous productions, Li Zhen sighed in his heart, as long as he worked hard, he would not starve to death.

He visited several villages in quick succession, and the situation was basically the same.

Returning to Shangyong, Li Zhen walked into the county office.

A servant stopped Li Zhen and his party.

Knowing that it was the master of Zhizhou who came, the officials had weak legs.

Hurry up.

Soon, a gray-haired middle-aged man came out.

This person is Lu Yi, the commander of Shangyong County.

There has been no promotion in the position of the prefectural magistrate for many years.

"Lu County Order, how is the immigration arrangement?"

"Lord Zhizhou, I just came back from below, everything is fine."

"Where will the food rations come from this winter?"

Li Zhen felt that Lu Yi could think of arranging breeding projects for these immigrants, and he should consider it.

Lu Yi said with a deep sigh: "Lord Hui, there are 3,000 immigrants in our county, nearly 20,000 people, immigrants are still entering one after another, and it is expected that 2,000 households will enter. ”

"Hmm."

Li Zhen nodded, Lu Yi was telling the truth. Not to mention their Shangyong County, even Fangzhou can't solve it.

Up to now, 20,000 households have entered the entire Fangzhou, with a population of nearly 80,000.

Xiangyang has transferred 50,000 stone of grain, which is only a solution to the urgent need.

The immigrant population now exceeds the local population.

Fangzhou's carrying capacity is limited and cannot be more.

Return to Fangling.

Li Zhen immediately reported to Xiangyang.

"Lord Mingjian: Fangzhou is narrow and sparsely populated, and the resources are poor. So far, it has received 23,000 migrants with a population of more than 90,000. ”

"Although the new village has been built and the wasteland has been reclaimed, the time is not right and there is no way to grow food."

"There are no winter rations for 90,000 migrants, and they urgently need to prepare, otherwise there will be a big hunger this winter."

He turned his pen and wrote down Fangzhou's new method.

"There is a superior order to Lu Yi, to give chickens, ducks and goose eggs to the immigrants in each village, which are hatched by the villagers, stocked along the river, and the upstream and downstream are dammed with wood, and the water flow is still there, which can grow naturally."

"Goats and other things grazing on the hillsides can be used as winter rations."

"It's hard to make a big deal if it's only a small quantity."

Xiangyang City Jiedu Mansion.

Li Yu looked at Li Zhen's recital, frowning for a while, and stretching for a while.

Li Zhen is only worried about the land of Fangzhou, but what Li Yu has to worry about is the entire Nanyang territory.

After Li Yu opened Luyang Pass and Fangcheng Pass, the number of people who passed the customs every day was as high as 10,000.

Within a month, 300,000 people from Henan had entered Jingxiang.

Not only that, but the number of refugees from Chang'an has also surged.

Li Yu now seriously doubts that most of the people from Guannei Province and Henan Province are here?!

At the beginning of August, he received an edict from the imperial court.

His own Zhennan army was left behind and turned regular.

The condition is to give porridge in the customs area and speed up the transfer of refugees.

Can Li Yu not have a headache?

There are at least five or six hundred thousand people on both sides, and who can stand this if they only eat and do not work?

We must not let these people concentrate in Nanyang, let's divide it down.

Li Yu also had a heart, and left the artisan households among these refugees in Nanyang, and the rest of the population was transported south.

Jingnan left a population of 100,000, northern Hunan left 100,000, southern Hunan left 100,000, and Jiangxi left 200,000.

That's half a million space.

If you leave another 200,000 in Jingxiang and Nanyang, it shouldn't be a big problem.

Li Yu believes that it is no problem for Nanyang and Jingxiang to provide winter rations for 200,000 people.

"It seems that Li Zhen is doing a good job in Fangzhou, you can take a look."

Li Yu handed the report to Wang Houxie.

After Wang Houxie read it, he said: "My lord, these measures should be reported to all localities, and let them draw the scoop according to the gourd, and they can still save a lot of rations." ”

"Well, it works."

Li Yu thought for a moment and continued: "Give some salt to the counties, and the meat can be pickled and kept for the winter as rations. ”

"Okay, I'll send it now."

Soon, Nanyang, Jingxiang, and Jiangxi had an edict from the royal palace of De to guide the production of immigrants from all over the country, and a campaign of fishing, touching shrimp and pickling for the winter was launched in these areas.