Jizhou is vast, the geography is complex, the plateau, mountains, plains, lakes, hills and other environments are all included in it, there are Taihang and Bingzhou adjacent to the west, Liu Cang and his party passed through the Yanshan checkpoint in the north of Jizhou, which is a farewell to Youzhou and entered the land of northern Hebei.

The geography of Jizhou is complex but the land is fertile and vast, although it is covered in silver in winter in previous years, the cities, manors, dock forts, and villages in Jizhou County will show a slow-paced vitality.

And now, passing through Yanshan Mountain and walking through a hilly land, this vitality is still vitality, but it no longer has the meaning of curling. On the roadside and on the mountain wall, you can see the open canopies erected in the snowy scenes.

or groups of three or five, or hundreds of piles, those refugees hugging each other for warmth, mixed the vitality of Jizhou with the breath of chaos and death.

Jizhou is rich, but no matter how rich the state and county are, it cannot withstand the influx of refugees from the four states.

Qingzhou, Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Sili, refugees from the four states poured into the north, and the state and Youzhou checkpoints were placed with troops, but all the refugees from these states were piled up in Jizhou.

The states and counties around Luoyang basically gave Liu Hong a disaster.

Jingzhou and Yangzhou are less affected than those in the north, and the counties in the north of the two states are close to the counties of Yuzhou or there are exiles, but the vastness of the two states is far from being comparable to that of the north, and the refugees there mostly go to the south to survive, but the situation is much better than that in the north.

Jizhou gathers the victims, everyone!

But this is not to say that the people of Jizhou are much kinder than Bingzhou and Youzhou, which stopped the influx of refugees.

First of all, there are many Qiang people in the state, and Youzhou is close to the border pass, and the refugees may not be able to get benefits when they run there, not to mention, if they move north when they are helpless, then they can directly join the barbarian tribe.

Of course, the Han people will not be as comfortable as the barbarians to join the barbarian tribe, ten people go to nine to become slaves, and the remaining one is probably a beautiful woman, eighty percent of them will be robbed by the barbarians, as a tool for them to play with and procreate.

It's hard to please, but in the face of disaster, migration is instinctive.

Youzhou and Bingzhou have raised grain and grass to transport to Jizhou, but Luoyang has not seen action, about the aid to the victims, the people of the two states to deal with the mood is inevitable, after several batches of aid, has been insufficient strength, gradually silent.

On weekdays, the people of the two states do not have any preferential treatment, and now they are just asked to donate a little if something happens, and they don't contribute money from the treasury, but let them bleed, which seems to be a bit unreasonable.

As for the most critical reason why Jizhou does not set up a card, Jizhou is also helpless, being wrapped in the central government by several states, you dare to set up a card this year, and several other states will dare to dig waterways next year and cut off official roads.

Don't look at the contradictions of droughts and floods, I will give you a place in one state in the coming year.

No, Liu Cang's carriages and horses came, in the winter, the people in the mountains of Jizhou roared constantly, but there were refugees hunting beasts in the mountains to fill their stomachs.

The city encountered, more porridge sheds are opened, here represents the official royal family, the tax is raised by it, and it is naturally in front of it in the event of a disaster.

And those manors and dock forts are mostly local villagers, and the villagers are armed to isolate outsiders, and when they encounter refugees, they will only guide the direction of the county town.

The social rules are different, and the country does not pay taxes on weekdays, and the country does not stick to the people, but in the event of a disaster, the state and county governments should support it. Refugees are not allowed to gather in private villages.

Everyone knows each other well, and if they don't look for the government in a disaster year, but gather in the countryside to seek help, they are not begging for a living, they are simply playing hooligans.

Refugees are also former commoners, so naturally they will not be unaware of these truths, and if the city where the county magistrate is located, if there is a lack of supplies, the county officials will send people to the family for help.

If the refugees gather in the countryside and the villages and forts do not disperse, they can be the same as the thieves.

It's brutal, it's realistic.

It's probably the same as someone blocking your door and begging, and it's not popular these days that people can only fight back after someone robs you.

In previous years, there were many disasters in which the gentry of the world took the initiative to come forward, whether it was to scatter wealth, mediation, kindness, or fame, and coordinate with the government to a certain extent.

And now, I don't need to say much about it.

Nowadays, land reclamation is far from saturated, to put it bluntly, the country dock fort only collects young and strong, and raises you for winter, but in the coming year, it will also reclaim the uncultivated wasteland in the village and township.

Most of the forts were built by families or large families, and their priority now was to take care of the villages, and the situation in the coming year was uncertain, and the number of exiled young people in these places was very limited.

Most of the villages are even more strict against the eviction of refugees, in recent years the miscellaneous taxes are harsh, they can not protect themselves, and many villages are also braving the cold to rebuild their villages into the style of dock forts, in case those refugees who may turn into bandits and plunder at any time.

There are those who stay in Jizhou, and there are also those who return to their hometowns.

After traveling for a few days, as far as Liu Cang saw, there are not many people starving to death now, and it is not as exaggerated as the Taiping Dao legend, but the frostbitten people who freeze to death can always be seen from time to time.

There are many people who sell their wives and daughters, but the ones that can be sold are very good, and the family is accompanied by villagers, and the so-called rich and powerful family recruits serfs and annexes land in later generations is basically a joke.

The reclamation of the village must be naturalized and cultivated, in order to protect the people, the land reclaimed is yours, and you can pay taxes to the village.

The reason for this? The doubling of the poll tax of the serfs, including those taxes on the individual unit, and the miscellaneous taxes that were enough to discourage the wealthy families, could not have gathered too much of the population at this time.

Along the way, Liu Cang went from the initial discomfort to the numbness later, and successively encountered several waves of robbers who robbed the road and robbed the car, not to mention Liu Cang, the twenty guards who accompanied him were all contaminated with human lives.

There are many people asking for help, there are beggars, and the Taiping Christians who help refugees can be seen from time to time on the desolate land, and there will always be their gathering near some villages that focus on animal husbandry.

But Liu Cang also found that when the ranks of those Taiping disciples gradually expanded, a trace of fierceness and discipline began to appear in the original soft and sad overall atmosphere.

"It's been a hard winter." Passing by a group of Taiping disciples pulling grain and grass again, Liu Cang pressed the matching sword beside him with one hand and muttered softly.

Wrapped in fur, Liu Cang sat in the position of Cai Yong's carriage driver, lying next to the eldest girl who was already pregnant with a puppy, looking at the direction of the Taiping disciples.

There was a ruined and rudimentary dock fort, and from a distance, it was clearly an abandoned place.

"Liu Yuan, take my brother and take two steps quickly, let's go there for the night." Liu Cang beckoned to a young man in his twenties next to the frame.

"Whoa!" The young man answered, called a person, hurried the horse first, and ran to the dock fort, and in front of them, the heroes had already run far away.

Now these young men who came out of the village together are quite in awe of Liu Cang, and they have watched Liu Cang slaughter more than 30 'bandits' armed with bamboo guns and wooden sticks.

Just because two of those bandits had short bows.

It was the first time these young men had seen such a killing, and it also made them very uncomfortable.

On the subsequent journey, after Liu Cang rescued two young men who had been dragged off their horses and were almost killed by what they thought were refugees, the mentality of these young men completely changed.

The tube armor that had been thrown on the cart made people feel cold and uncomfortable was worn on the body, and the unbearable bulky stone helmet was put on the outside of the leather hat.

The knives are sharp, the guns are stained with blood, the line is young and strong, and the equipment is still rudimentary, but in this year of famine, they officially completed the transformation process of their peasants to the Qubu.

"Wang, Wang~!" The heroes who came out first barked at the ruins in the distance, and a brisk bark indicated that there was no one nearby.

Gold swirled over the five-acre dock fort.

The two riders entered the dilapidated dock fort first, reconfirmed that there was no one, and shouted at Liu Cang's side.

Entering the fort through an earthen wall that had clearly been violently smashed open, most of the three-vertical single-story earthen houses in the fort had been damaged and collapsed, and blood stains could be seen under the snow that had been trampled by horses.

Not long after the construction of a place, there was a battle and a small dock fort, why the battle was made, whether there were deaths, everything is unknown.

The carriage stopped in front of the main hall in relative condition, and as soon as the carriage behind stopped, several wolverines came out of the frame of Cai Yan and Zhang Xiuniang, rolling and playing in the snow.

helped Cai Yong get out of the car, and Cai Yan and Zhang Xiuniang also got out of the other car with a wolverine in their arms.

It was warm to hold the wolverines in winter, but seeing them struggling and writhing, the two women put them down, and then the two wolverines joined in the kind of fighting.

The hero and the eldest girl have the habit of patrolling the mountains, as if patrolling the territory, running around inside and outside this dock fort for a while, and after a while, the two dogs also joined the wolverine chasing team.

This group of guys is already familiar with each other, and the big man uses his size to turn over the wolverine, and the wolverine will scratch them twice at most, but he won't really take a heavy mouth.

With firewood and water collected on the road on the rear frame, the group entered the rather spacious house, lit a fire and set up pots, fetched grass to feed the horses, and prepared to eat.

Outside the house, Tianpeng and the military advisor were lazy on the cart and did not want to move, and the battle chicken saw the gold fall to the ground, and wanted to ride on the gold without knowing whether it was alive or dead, but in a blink of an eye, the gold claw pressed to the ground, clucking.

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When night fell, the castle was abandoned on a snowy night, and everyone rested and whispered.

Outside the fort, the hero suddenly barked, Cai Yong sat firmly, and everyone subconsciously touched the weapons around them.