The doctor was still hesitant, and Zhang Lu said: "The matter is urgent, I hope the doctor will return." Today and then, the grain of Hedong will not be gone! ”

Seeing that Zhang Lu said it categorically, Doctor Gong didn't know what kind of news Zheng Anping had sent and what kind of instructions he had received last night, and he was uncertain in his heart. But the 500 stone grain every day was not transported from the battalion, but was sent by the Pi family, and if Zhang Lu said that he would not send it, then it really could not be sent. In desperation, he had to arrange the matter, resigned from everyone, and crossed the river to Fushi to report to the county guard.

After the doctor left, Zhang Lu found Zheng Anping again and discussed with him secretly; I found Chen Si and Mang Wei again and discussed it. Then, Zhang Lu asked Zheng Anping to go back to Pusaka to recuperate from his injuries and visit the pregnant woman by the way.

The next day, Zheng Anping came back and brought the recruitment list made by Pu Ling and set it up on the construction site. Zhang Lu called the doctors at all levels and ordered the doctors to announce it to the soldiers below. It was also announced that all those who wish to emigrate will be reported by doctors at all levels and summarized to the nameless here.

From this day on, the recruitment list was set up on the construction site, and with the forward movement of the construction site, step by step. After camping, Mang Wei went down to the camps to ask if anyone had signed up for immigration, and took the opportunity to talk with the soldiers for a few words, and verbally promised some preferential policies: "Hedong guards the disaster of Shangjun, and the people who have made meritorious contributions, and those who have moved to Hedong can return immediately, and temporarily move home to eat." ”

One after another, some doctors reported the soldiers who were willing to emigrate. Zhang Lu immediately fried five buckets of millet with him, and the book and the festival symbol, the reason for the book was "the meritorious person moved to the east of the river to eat". On that day, they did not have to go to work, but returned to the camp to prepare their bags and eat normally; The next day, they gathered the people and went to Pusaka to cross the river, and went home together to pick up their families.

Every day, more and more people crossed the river from Kasaka, and after ten days, more than 1,000 people had left.

After Dr. Gong returned, he reported to Zhang Lu that the Shangjun Shou had agreed to suspend the transportation of grain to Shangjun and make up the surplus grain when the road construction was completed. Zhang Lu showed him the recruitment order and told him that more than 1,000 people had returned home to emigrate.

The doctor was shocked and hurriedly said: "This matter has not been agreed by the county guard, and it is safe to act recklessly!" ”

Zhang Lu said: "This decree has been issued for a long time, and the counties have nothing to do. Zheng Cheng entered Xianyang to ask for an order, and he was charged with being powerless and flogged twenty. ”

Doctor Gong thought about it, and vaguely remembered that Zheng Anping seemed to be a little strange after he came back, and then he was taken to a dark place. Judging by his actions, it seems that he has been beaten. Could it be that Zheng Anping came back in a hurry to implement the matter of immigrating to Hedong? The doctor thought uneasily. If this is the case, Zhang Lu will keep his eyes on the 20,000 people in Shangjun, but it will be a little troublesome, how can there be 100,000 families behind this. If they were gone, the Upper County would be empty.

When he was worried, he heard Zhang Lu say what he didn't want to hear: "The minister has set up a road crossing for the list of texts, and ordered the doctors to spread it widely, so as to keep this public in Hedong!" If there are those who do not stay, the king's affairs are finished, and they are all sent! ”

The situation in Upper County shows no signs of abating, and this year's harvest is likely to be poor. In view of this, the arrogant Shangjun Shou bowed his head and allowed Hedong not to transport grain. He was about to argue on the basis of reason, but Zhang Lu's subsequent words made him hesitate: "The ministers heard that the county was seriously affected by the disaster, and the people were in distress, and all those who wanted to move were ordered to eat Hedong, and not to wait for their orders: if they wanted to live, they would also live." ”

Doctor Gong knew the severity of the disaster, not to mention that Qin Fa did not allow disaster relief, even if he opened the warehouse door for relief, there was not enough food. Hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children in Shangxian County are estimated to be able to eat up all the stocks in a month; Even if you provide for those strong men who serve in the county, the burden is very heavy. Moreover, there is a drought in Shanggun, not only does it not grow food, but it also does not grow well in any plants, and it is very difficult to dig up wild vegetables. If there is no food supply, it is estimated that many people will starve to death, and a big stain will be left in the county guard's plan.

If you immigrate to Hedong...... Doctor Gong suddenly had an idea: if the support for immigration to Hedong was included in the above plan, then there would be a reason for the decline in the population of Shangjun, and there would be no need to report that all of them had died of starvation due to the disaster.

Thinking of this, the doctor said to Zhang Lu: "Hedong immigrants, Shangjun is thousands of households; I am afraid that when Hedong was first built, there was a shortage of grain and straw, and all industries were not prepared, so I did not dare to move it all. Now Hedong has done it himself, and Shangjun dares to help! Please tell him to help him. ”

Zhang Lu said: "The doctor is back, and he has to leave." Whether the people's army is returned or not, the number of battalions is lacking, and the doctor still needs to be good at dispatching, and do not waste his work. ”

When the doctor saw this, he had no choice but to answer: "Respectfully! ”

In the days that followed, more than 100 people left every day. Then the first family to move back by boat. At this time, the army of road builders had also been repaired to the lower part of Pusaka County. Pu Ling has received guidance from Pi Wan and settled the family relatively smoothly: he found a place with abundant water and grass, and asked the migrant workers who built the road to help build a grass hut to live temporarily; Migrant workers continue to work as usual, get food and mix wild vegetables with their families to make a living—they can still dig wild vegetables around! When the villagers saw the tragic situation of the family, they all wept and sighed. This man said: "At the beginning of the day, there is still grass to dig, and I am afraid that it will not be safe if it is delayed!" ”

The arrival of this family caused a huge wave. Almost all the migrant workers who saw this situation that day applied to go home to pick up their families. Mang Wei said: "There are too many people, and I am afraid that there will be not enough fried millet." ”

This group of humanitarians: "Save people from fire and water, and fry millet for you!" Mangfu did not register his name, and only registered "×× people under a certain doctor", and the festival symbol was only sent to the township "a certain person who served in Hedong×× and people who moved to Hedong to eat"

With the arrival of families, the severity of the disaster in Shangjun quickly spread among the migrant workers, and driven by a herd mood, almost everyone was eager to take their families out, as if they would starve to death if they did not. At first, the doctor wanted to stand by and watch, but when he saw that almost the entire camp asked to leave, he finally became anxious and found Zhang Lu and said: "If this is the case, there must be no one in my hometown!" ”

Zhang Lu comforted: "If the doctor is in the east of the river at the time of the first disaster, how can he be killed?" There are 4,000 households in the Ruguan Pi family, although they are all old and weak, how many people are starving to death? They all died of illness. ”

Because there were too many people to go and it was impossible to register, nor to send out the festival on time, and there were not enough boats, the number was kept down: only 500 people a day, and the work of building the road continued.

Five hundred people leave every day, but only a few people come every day, and most of them travel far away or encounter other obstacles, making it difficult to come back for a while.

Kasaka did his best to fry the millet, and almost all the women who could fry the millet were recruited, including the women who had just arrived in the family and were still able to work. Wei County no longer transports grain here, and Zhang Lu borrowed the method of salt merchants, and asked merchants from four old counties to transport grain here and pay for it with salt. In general, one stone of salt can buy five stone millet - in Xie County, one stone of salt cannot buy even one stone of millet.

The first group of Shangjun people who entered the Pi clan were mostly old and weak, and some of them were led by the merchants of the Pi clan, leading cattle to transport salt and grain, and the scope of the merchants was not limited to the territory of Hedong, but also entered the territory of Korea in the upper reaches of Fenshui. The grain purchased is the grain stored by the people, and it does not affect the government's inventory. Pi Wan also bought a large number of young animals and gave them to these migrant families to keep them. There were very few of these immigrants who were engaged in business or animal husbandry, and the leather silk could only be carried by officials, businessmen and Yu people in the name of service.

Due to the critical location of the Pishi-Fenyin line and the fact that a large number of people still had to cross the river and return to Shangjun every day, Zhang Lu decided to build a road along the Yellow River to connect the Fenyin-Puban line first, which would not only facilitate the obtaining of grain from Pishi and Fenyin, but also facilitate the migrant workers to cross the river and go home.

For a full twenty days, the road was repaired from Pusaka to Fenyin. At this time, there were more families who gathered in Xia Yangjin to prepare to cross the river. Zhang Lu decisively stopped building the road and mobilized all the boats to transport the family members across the river, while others erected improvised straw huts near the road to settle the people. Although due to the large number of households, every ten families can only share one piece of gruel after crossing the river, but everyone has a kind of happiness on their faces for the rest of their lives. Zhang Lu and Doctor Gong led Zheng Anping and others through the fire one by one, talked to them one by one, comforted them, and told them that they had been hungry for many days, and they must not be full, but could only drink a little porridge, especially for children, and their parents must control them and prevent them from eating violently. Everyone climbed down and kowtowed, and said something grateful. Zhang Lu pointed to the doctor and said: "Yes, the doctor of Rujun is also the doctor, not his own, you have to come here!" The men kowtowed to the doctor again. Doctor Gong thought to himself, I have this pot on my back!

From Puban to Pishi via Fenyin, there are more than 200 miles along the bank of the Yellow River, but in 10 days, tens of thousands of straw huts have been densely built to temporarily accommodate immigrants from Shangjun. And in these ten days, 5,000 people crossed the Yellow River and went to Shangjun to pick up their families. Zhang Lu asked the county magistrates of the three counties to quickly measure the land and resettle the migrants, and Pi Wan was in charge of the resettlement work. He led the remaining 3,000 migrant workers to continue to build roads. -- Anyone who has a family member to Hedong can be exempted from hard labor, and according to the arrangements of each county, he shall be organized into a township and choose a place to live; clearing land for farming, raising livestock, or trafficking goods; The women were raking, weaving, frying, and picking in the counties. There were so many people at once, and the three counties along the river prospered immediately.

There are only more than 3,000 migrant workers left to build the road, which is relatively slow, and it is not enough to repair two miles in a day, and from Pusaka to Yishi, along the water, there are more than 150 miles. Zhang Lu refused the request of the Gong Dafu to requisition the migrant workers in Shangjun, and insisted that they first settle down in Hedong, as if building roads was not his main business.

After a few more days, some of the migrant workers who returned had already starved to death in the city or on the road. The further back on, the more tragedies like this. The heart-rending pain of the latecomers was comforted by the grass hut and warm corn porridge that had been built first. The surrounding families are all immigrants from Upper County, and whether they know each other or not, they all share similar pain and can comfort each other. Seeing that the earlier immigrants had already gathered into villages, gathered into villages, and allocated arable land—even though it was a barren land, everyone's hearts were full of hope.

Doctor Gong occasionally came here to visit everyone, but he understood that the common experience had united these people into a new group of people, and they had a sense of belonging to Hedong, and they could never go back to Shangjun.