Outside Dapanbao, there was a huge crowd of thousands of people, who were walking to a place one or two miles away from Dapanbao, these people were in tatters, and there was nothing on their shoulders except for hoes, sticks, and rakes.

Liu Yan led Wang Yue, Wang Bo, Xu Ming, and Miao Shao to the north of Dapanbao, and the small banner officials Wang Yue and Wang Bo had already led their troops to line up on the left and right sides, and Liu Yan and Miao Shao led a banner of men and horses in the middle, as the commander of the Chinese army.

Xu Ming led the Yebu Qidun army to sweep the formation in front, trying to use the impact momentum of the horse team to force the thousands of hungry people in front.

Liu Yan withstood the oncoming cold wind, looked at the wave of hungry people getting closer and closer in the distance, and saw that those hungry people were all like dead ashes and staggering, at first glance, they really looked like cannon fodder zombies in later movie games.

Seeing this, Liu Yan also lowered his heart and shouted loudly: "Raise the gun!" ”

The small flag officials Wang Yue, Wang Bo, and Miao Shao all ordered and shouted: "Pikeman, raise your gun!" ”

In an instant, a total of forty-five pikemen from the three flags formed a defensive line of nearly 100 meters, and the other forty-five bird-gunners were also ready, ready to kill the enemy with a salvo at any time.

At the same time, Xu Ming led the night flag to retreat from the front, and shook his head at Liu Yan on his horse, saying that he had failed to lead his troops to force back those hungry people.

Liu Yan was not depressed, this is also a reasonable thing, how could thousands of hungry people be forced back by a horse team of dozens of people, you must know that most of these hungry people have never seen the power of the horse team, and they don't know how to be afraid of the horse team at all.

"It looks like we're going to see blood today!"

Soon, the two sides converged, and in just a moment, the hungry people were like a tide, pushing and shouting back and forth, like a wave, and taking an extra step forward, but then they shattered on the reef, and in an instant, the tide rolled upside down, and the momentum came to an abrupt halt.

In this contact, the defense line of the Dun army in Dapanbao was as stable as a rock, and the small flag officials Wang Yue, Wang Bo, and Miao Shao stood in front and shouted loudly, although more than 100 dun soldiers were also afraid in their hearts, but they did not retreat at all, and everyone was roaring and fighting.

In the blink of an eye, a hundred or dozens of hungry people covered their wounds, groaning and rolling on the ground, but those hungry people behind could not see the situation in front of them, and were still crowded forward.

The Yanling knife in Liu Yan's hand also killed two people, but looking at the scene in front of him, he knew in his heart that these hungry people were hungry and crazy, but the screams of so many companions, and the rock-solid resistance of the soldiers of Panbao finally made these people who should have been "obedient people" sober up after a moment of fierce fighting, and slowly, those hungry people stopped one by one, like a pile of wood carvings nailed to the ground, and no longer moved forward.

On the one hand, the numbness was shattered by the dazedness, and on the other hand, the tension under the tactical oppression of the sea of people, at this moment, there were no words on both sides, only a heavy breath, and the wails of those unlucky people on the ground.

Liu Yan immediately ordered all the flags to shoot their guns into the sky, and in a roar, the thousands of hungry people were completely stopped, and even the crowd behind them stopped surging forward.

Then Liu Yan roared and waved, and the little flag officer Xu Ming immediately led the soldiers who did not collect the flag at night to rush out, shouting around the crowd opposite, and ordering everyone to put down their weapons and wait for them to fall.

Under such coercion, I saw that the group of hungry people in front of me suddenly came to their senses, and then they all knelt down in a hula.

"Good deeds, military masters, give a mouthful of food!"

"The grace of life, I dare not forget it for the rest of my life!"

"Poor uncles, our family has nothing to eat for three days!"

Liu Yan looked ahead, only to see thousands of hungry people mourning, kneeling on the ground and pounding their heads like garlic.

"After eating this meal, what about the next meal? Besides, Shengmien, Doumi ......"

Then Liu Yan shook his head and sighed, he knew a lot about doing good deeds but suffering calamities.

So Liu Yan asked a few small flag officers to command the soldiers to come forward to guard those hungry people, and he found a place to sit down, and he frowned and thought for a while, how to deal with the thousands of hungry people in front of him, but after thinking for a while, Liu Yan didn't think of any way to get the best of both worlds.

Just when Liu Yan was about to send someone to contact Wangjiazhuang and give up these hungry people, he suddenly saw those dun soldiers who had been trained by himself in front of him, staring at the hungry people like a torch, preventing them from making any more abnormal moves, which was extremely eye-catching in the crowd.

Pregnant!

Liu Yan's eyes lit up, he originally wanted to be able to contain all these hungry people, convert them into military households on the spot, and live in the tuntian fields all over Dapanbao.

However, after such a large number of people were digested at the same time, Liu Yan had to provide food, clothing, shelter, reclaim land, etc., so much of the cost even the current Dapanbao may not be able to bear it, and at most only a small part of the population will be left.

What's more, now that the cultivated land around Dapanbao is close to saturation, if we want to reclaim wasteland, we will have to go farther away, and we will have to conflict with the surrounding Huolupier and Tunbao, which are all contradictions and problems. Although Liu Yan had the intention to swallow these thousands of hungry people, the actual conditions did not allow it, and Liu Yan had to find another way.

So now Liu Yan can only find another way to solve the problem of thousands of hungry people on the spot.

So Liu Yan called a few small flag officials, and arranged it immediately, everyone heard Liu Yan's plan, and they all froze, and only after a long time did they nod their heads like chickens pecking rice, this method is good!

But then the heads of several small flag officers shook like fans.

Chen Xun said worriedly: "Captain A, this is a hungry people, they are not chickens and ducks, how can they be fed?" ”

Xu Ming also said: "Yes, Chief Jia, we can't open this good hall in the fort, and the money and food in the treasury are all accumulated by everyone's hard work." ”

But Liu Yan looked at everyone's appearance, but laughed, what solution did Liu Yan propose?

Buy people!

These thousands of hungry people have nothing on their bodies, and if they give food directly, not to mention that they will not solve the problem, and they will easily leave too many disasters.

But the hungry people don't really have nothing, they still have children.

Turning charity into a transaction, the two sides are equal in this matter, and there is no favor, so naturally there is no need to worry about the grievances and entanglements in the back, but Chen Xun and several small flag officials are worried that Dapanbao cannot afford to support these people.

"How can you not afford it? As long as the half-grown children, the old and the weak don't want any of them! ”

Children between the ages of eight and fourteen, male or female, are given three taels of silver and one hundred catties of grain. Whether it was grain or silver, it was paid directly from the treasury of Dapanbao.

Then Liu Yan sent Chen Xun over to negotiate, let those hungry people push out the representatives, and talked to Liu Yan about it, and thousands of hungry people all had the same words.

At the same time, Liu Yan inquired about the representatives of the hungry people, and learned that most of these people were people in the Anqiu area of Qingzhou Prefecture, since the locust plague, there was no livelihood this year, and many people froze to death after winter.

Liu Yan looked at the fact that most of these hungry people were young and half-grown children, and there were very few old people and children, so it was no wonder that the frail ones were already dead. So he proposed to buy people with grain, the hungry people to get food to survive, and Liu Yan to get manpower to expand his strength.

Selling sons and daughters in disaster years, one can be sold for two or three dollars, and now Liu Yan has given such a price, and he has also set up grain, such a transaction, no matter how you think about it, you have taken advantage of yourself.

It's just that the problem comes again, there are only 1780 eligible children, and the families who sell their children can live, but what if they don't sell their children?

Liu Yan faced the eager representatives of the hungry people, and said again: "I can still leave fifty households and turn them into military households on the side of Dapanbao, but these fifty households must be young and strong." ”

"But there are still hundreds of families, and if you are kind, you might as well let us all stay."

Liu Yan looked at the representatives of the hungry people who came to negotiate, and said expressionlessly: "I don't have any extra land here, and I can leave fifty families behind to do my best, and I can't get an inch in life!" Settle this matter with yourselves, and whoever has money or grain can borrow it or sell it, but we can't control it. ”

Liu Yan said to the representatives of the hungry people that anyway, he gave more than 500 taels of silver and more than 17,000 catties of grain, and the rest was coordinated by the hungry people themselves. The more you do in this kind of thing, the more you make mistakes, and it is better to let the hungry people call their own shots.

At this point, not to mention Chen Xun and a few other small flag officials, even those representatives of the hungry people were dumbfounded, it turned out that the matter could still be discussed like this.

The matter of charity has become a transaction, and you can completely withdraw and throw all your interests and grievances to the hungry themselves, how can things be done like this!?

"If you have money and food, you can't ignore other families, right?"

Liu Yan asked the representatives of the hungry people who were still a little hesitant, and the representatives of the hungry people led by him gritted their teeth, and finally nodded helplessly, this matter was thrown on him, that is, a great responsibility, he had to persuade the families who sold their children to see what way he could take care of the families who did not sell his children.

"Captain A, I knew you were doing good, but I didn't expect you to be so ......"

Chen Xun stood next to him and said in a tangled manner, but he couldn't find the words to describe Liu Yan's behavior.

"I just think that since they can hug together and run so far to grab our Dapanbao, then they can also hug together and take care of each other to tide over the difficulties."

Liu Yan's faint words made the representatives of the hungry people ashamed.

Just as he was talking about this, suddenly those hungry people moved, and all the dun troops also looked in one direction, and they saw that in the southeast of Dapanbao, a group of men and horses were quickly rushing towards this side, and the banner was the people and horses of the hundred households in Wangjiazhuang.

Wang Weizhen, the officer of the management team, came in person, and not only mobilized the 200 dun troops and young men of Wangjiazhuang, but also pulled out more than 70 family members from the general flag officer, and it was completely prepared to deal with the thousands of hungry people.

"The surrounding area has been sealed by the dun army everywhere, even if something happens to you, it will be difficult to fly!"

A moment later, Wang Weizhen, the officer of the management team, panted and shouted at the thousands of hungry people kneeling at his feet.

"Since Dapanbao has protected you, you have also reined in the precipice and have not injured anyone, so this incident will not be investigated. This official will coordinate with all the places to send you some rations, and when you get them, you will return to your respective hometowns as soon as possible......"

The reprimand of a hundred household officials was like a sledgehammer, smashing the heads of thousands of hungry people on the ground, splashing pieces of fine soil.

Later, Wang Weizhen left Jia Hongyu to cooperate with several small flag officials of Dapanbao to deal with these hungry people here, and Liu Yan also sent people to bring more than 170 children into Dapanbao.

Liu Yan pulled Wang Weizhen into the fort to rest, and the two went to the general flag official hall to sit down, Wang Weizhen couldn't suppress the joy in his heart, not to mention that Liu Yan led his troops to help exterminate the bandits in Tiepu Mountain and the pirates on the seaside. Let's just say that this time, if Liu Yan hadn't taken more than 100 Dun troops from Dapan Fort to suppress the field, these hungry people would definitely be able to wash Dapan Fort in blood, and the surrounding fire road piers would be even more difficult to preserve, and their year-end evaluation would be in vain at that time.

Not only that, how to settle the 1,000-odd hungry people, Wang Weizhen was also heartbroken on the way here. This must be done with money, otherwise the hungry people will surely continue to stir up, and then there will be murder and bloodshed.

But now the silver in Wangjiazhuang is the silver in Wang Weizhen's own pocket, and he wants to let blood go out anyway. Unexpectedly, Liu Yan bought the children of these hungry people and settled them temporarily. As long as these hungry people are driven back to their original places, and then they go to the Qianqian Household Office in Xiahe Village to do some activities, let those Shangguan send them away, so that these hungry people can breathe a sigh of relief, this matter will be settled in the near future, and the far disposal is to write the state and county of origin of these hungry people, and let them come over to collect people as soon as possible.