Zhang Xi was surrounded by the people of Xia Pheasant County.

Yes, it's incredible, Zhang Xi was surrounded by a group of people in the county office of Xia Pheasant County, and everyone was looking at Zhang Xi with fierce eyes, and some people had already begun to copy wooden sticks.

This is outrageous.

This is the county office.

If he was surrounded by a group of government officials, or the soldiers and dead soldiers raised by the county order, Zhang Xi would not be surprised, but the people are so bold in these years, they dare to enter and leave the court at will? !

A thousand years from now, people won't be able to do that, okay.

At the beginning, there were not many people around Zhang Xi, that is, more than a dozen, but as time went by, the number of people became more and more, so much so that Zhang Xi blocked the market at a glance.

And these people didn't come to see the excitement, some of the young people had already begun to come with wooden sticks.

With the expressions on the faces of these people, it doesn't look like they came to see Zhang Xi try corrupt officials, but it looks like they came to rob the law field or to put it bluntly, they want the people to change.

Zhang Xi's expression was suddenly serious, and the thirty guards were also like the enemy Zhang Xi was thinking, should he take advantage of the lack of people now, hurry up and get out of the encirclement, go to Exian County to transfer troops, and come to suppress the rebellion? !

But the county order of Xia Pheasant County stood up at this time.

"What do you want?!"

Zhao Lei broke free from Zhang Xi's control, tidied up his clothes, walked in front of the people, and scolded loudly, "Uncle Liu Huang has sent an envoy to supervise the place, and the official wants to discuss official affairs with the envoy." You and the others trespassed into the government and rushed to the envoys, don't you want to rebel?! ”

This Zhao Ti is enough to speak, first, he didn't say that Zhang Xi was the identity of Jiangxia County, he only said that he was an envoy of Uncle Liu, and second, he didn't say that the people were holding wooden sticks and other things, but only said that he had trespassed into the government and collided with Zhang Xi.

In the end, he asked if it was a rebellion, not to convict at all, but to let the people deny it, so that Zhang Xi would not be able to pursue it.

Sure enough, the leader of the people immediately denied that he was going to rebel, but also said, "I am embarrassed to see this dog official, so therefore, therefore."

After all, the culture is limited, and dragging the text or something, it is really embarrassing for the leader.

Zhao Lei didn't wait for Zhang Xi to speak, he waved his hand directly, and said, "Don't talk nonsense, this is Jiangxia County, Uncle Liu Huang thinks about the people, so he came to settle the displaced people, and is about to negotiate with the official, you still don't retreat, make preparations early?!" ”

As soon as Zhao Lei said this, the people suddenly fell silent, and then.

"Uncle Liu Huang came to settle me, waiting!"

"I'll just say that Uncle Liu Huang is benevolent and righteous, and he won't ignore me."

"It's extreme, last year I thought it was Cao Thief who was fierce, and Uncle Liu Huang couldn't take care of me. Hurry back, come back. ”

"Yes, yes, yes"

The people were noisy as they dispersed.

It's Zhang Xi, and now he finally noticed that something was wrong, what the hell is going on with this county magistrate?!

This person is very revealing, if this is a dog official who doesn't care about the lives of the people, can the people protect him like this?! Will he disperse because of his words?!

At this time, Zhao Lei also bowed to Zhang Xi, apologized, and said, "Neglect the county, it's not appropriate to talk about it here, I don't know if the county can deign, go to the backup, and confess one by one when you are tired." ”

What can Zhang Xi say?!

Talking about things here, in case this county order "snorts" and he has to be wrapped like a bun, it is better to go to the backyard, there are 30 guards of his own, and this county order can't be turned over tricks.

Zhao Lei led Zhang Xi to the backyard, and introduced himself on the way.

As soon as Zhang Xi heard that the name of this county magistrate was Zhao Lei, he immediately let down half of his vigilance.

The name Zhao Lei is very familiar to Zhang Xi, one of the four people enshrined in the Guandi Temple.

It's just that Zhang Xi is not sure if this Zhao Lei is the former governor of Guan Yu in the future, after all, there are many people with the same name and surname in recent years, and he has not completely let down his guard, and it is also because of this.

Zhang Xi sat down on his knees in the back hall with Zhao Lei, and then listened to Zhao Lei's story about the people outside the city.

Zhao Lei is different from Cheng County Commander in Qichun City, he is a native of Jingzhou, and he was originally appointed by Liu Biao as the Jingzhou County Commander.

But because Liu Cong surrendered to Cao, Zhao Lei was unwilling to submit to Cao Cao, and happened to meet Liu Bei going south, so Zhao Lei gave up his official position and followed Liu Bei.

After Liu Bei basically took control of Jiangxia County, he searched for people with grassroots talents in his own entrainment, and finally found that Zhao Lei had experience as a county commander, so he appointed Zhao Lei as the county commander of Pheasant County.

After Zhao Lei came to Xiapheasant County, the first problem he had to face was the resettlement of displaced people.

Liu Qi moved all the people who followed Liu Bei south to the four eastern counties of Jiangxia, but Liu Qi really didn't think about it so much, thinking that when the people arrived in the place, they could farm and live with peace of mind, and they didn't think about resettlement at all.

Liu Qi didn't have a plan, and the magistrates of the four counties were not good at getting out of the way, so the original county orders of the four counties ignored these displaced people and left them to fend for themselves.

Fortunately, later Sun and Liu formed an alliance, and in order to ensure the grain route of the Jiangdong Army, Liu Bei arranged for a new county magistrate of the four counties to take office, which made some changes.

In the two places of Yi County and E County, Liu Qi did not have a large number of people who migrated over, and the two places were divided, and each county was a few thousand people.

But I don't know what Liu Qi thinks, and arranged for a total of nearly 50,000 people to come over to Xia Pheasant and Qi Chun.

As long as the displaced people do not rebel, he will not care whether the displaced people are dead or alive, and focus on governing the county seat, even if it is his own credit.

Zhao county magistrate of Xia Pheasant County. He really couldn't watch so many homeless people trapped in the wilderness, not to mention food and clothing, and in winter, they could freeze to death at any time.

Therefore, he wants to resettle these displaced people.

But the problem is that Zhao Lei is only a county magistrate, and what he can do is really limited.

During the Battle of Chibi, because he wanted to ensure the grain route of the Jiangdong Army, help the Jiangdong Army build granaries and transport ordnance, Zhao Lei could also organize the young and strong to work, and then report to the above to apply for rice and grain subsidies.

This also made Zhao Lei reprimanded by Chen Zhen.

This kind of thing, all counties use the method of forced labor to solve it, why do you want to subsidize it in Pheasant County?!

Zhao Lei had no choice but to report the actual situation to the top. There are more than 20,000 displaced people on my side, and there are less than 1,000 people registered under my rule.

Chen Zhen also understood Zhao Lei, although he still wrote to reprimand Zhao Lei, but he finally helped him solve some food problems, and barely let these homeless people survive the winter of that year, without a large number of freezing and starvation.

On the contrary, in Qichun on the other side of the river, because Cheng County ordered the displaced people to ignore them, many displaced people could only support themselves, and as a result, after a winter, they either fled or starved to death, or fled to the south bank of the Yangtze River, where they could still live, on the side of Xia Pheasant County.

This is also the reason why Zhang Xi only saw more than 10,000 homeless people in Qichun, and when he arrived at Xiapheasant, the number of people increased suddenly.

According to Zhao Lei's statistics, after the winter, the number of displaced people outside the city has become more than 30,000.

Zhao Lei couldn't help it, he couldn't drive these homeless people back to Jiangbei again, so he could only take them in.

Fortunately, spring is coming, there is not much else in Xia Pheasant County, that is, there is a lot of ownerless land, and when the time comes, Zhao Lei will organize these displaced people to settle the fields, and then the government will ensure the living needs of these displaced people before the harvest, and then deduct it when the harvest is completed.

It's tiring, but it's good to keep these homeless people alive.

But before the spring ploughing began, Zhao Lei's official mansion suddenly had a lot of noble servants visiting.

These people, without exception, all took Liu Qi's documents and came to Zhao Lei to do land registration.

Liu Qi sold most of the ownerless land in Xiapheasant and Qichun counties to others, and he gained a lot of money and continued to eat, drink and have fun.

Theoretically speaking, it is impossible for the population taken captive by Jiangdong to return to Jiangxia, so their land will naturally become ownerless land.

But this ownerless is only relative to other people or families, and for Liu Qi, who is the assassin of Jingzhou, he has the right to dominate these lands.

Then Liu Qi sold these lands to the nobles of the family in exchange for money to support him as the face of Jingzhou's assassin history.

In other words, it is legal for Liu Qi to do this, and it is also legal for the nobles of the family to buy land.

Zhao Lei was about to cry.

These people bought all the land, where did they go to find vacant land to resettle the displaced people, and organize the reclamation of the land and the tuning of fields.

forced Zhao Lei to contribute all his eight hectares of Lu land, plus some inferior woodland that the noble family looked down on, made up about 20 hectares of land, temporarily handed over to some homeless people for planting, and then organized the homeless people to go into the mountains to hunt and fish along the river to subsidize their living needs.

But these things are simply not enough to ensure the food needs of tens of thousands of people, Zhao Lei gritted his teeth, and decided to open the county government treasury and grain storage to help the people.

This is a clear offense, and in this era, it is also taboo, but Zhao Ti has no choice, he can't watch the people starve to death.

Fortunately, Liu Bei laid down the four counties of Jingnan and organized production there, and no one came to check the accounts of the pheasant treasury for the time being, so Zhao Lei could continue to fool around.

No matter how foolish you are, you won't be able to survive the end of the year.

After all, Xia Pheasant County was looted by Jiangdong, when Zhao Lei took office, although Chen Zhen allocated a batch of money and food for emergency, but in the end it would not be too much, Zhao Lei can use these money and food to support the life of more than 30,000 people for half a year, which is already the limit.

When Zhang Xi came, it was when the treasury was empty, and Zhao was anxious to die, but he was helpless.

Even when Zhang Xi came, Zhao Lei was relaxed.

What Zhao Lei can do has been done, and what Zhao Lei can't do has also been done. At this step in the field, Zhang Xi just cut himself, and Zhao Lei also recognized it.

But just one thing, you can't ignore these more than 30,000 displaced people.

You must know that I have already put out my words just now, you are dealing with the problem of displaced people on behalf of Uncle Liu Huang, if you don't care about the displaced people and leave, then try it, see if you can get out of the Pheasant Realm.

(End of chapter)