Chapter 47 Restoration of Runan
Just when everyone was staggering, Zhang Fei also took advantage of his drunkenness to say the words that he held back in his heart.
"Ladies and gentlemen, since we have captured Runan City, how should we divide it equally? You can't divide this Runan City in the middle. ”
As soon as Zhang Fei's words came out, everyone present was silent.
Cheng Yu saw that everyone didn't speak, so he said quietly: "It is naturally impossible to divide Runan City into two, but I don't think General Liu can look down on some of the surrounding counties. ”
"What do you mean?" Liu Bei asked with some expectation, after all, he didn't have much strength to attack Runan, so he couldn't just get some rags.
Xun Yu carefully observed the expressions of Liu Guanzhang and the three of them and said: "General Liu, Runan has been hit hard by the war, so Runan will not be handed over to you, and after my lord has captured Chen and Liang, he will hand it over to the general, so that if Chen Deng captures Guangling, the general's territory can be connected to Xuzhou." ”
After Liu Bei heard this, when he was thinking about it, Guo Ming suddenly said: "General Liu, in addition, we will also give you some food, so that you will not suffer at all." ”
Guo Ming's words also made Xun Yu and Cheng Yu a little dissatisfied, because Cao Cao told the two of them before he came that they must discuss with Liu Bei and not let themselves suffer.
Liu Bei heard Guo Ming say this, so he had no choice but to agree, and the atmosphere of this banquet began to be a little cold, even Zhang Fei noticed that something was wrong, and hurriedly said: "Everyone should eat and drink." ”
At the end of the banquet, Cheng Yu and Xun Yu both found Guo Ming, Guo Ming looked at the two with gloomy faces, and said helplessly: "Don't look at me like that, you two, I know what the lord sent you for, but I didn't suffer a loss." ”
Hearing this, Cheng Yu and Xun Yu glanced at each other, and then didn't say anything more, because both of them already knew that Guo Ming had an idea in his heart, so they planned to go and get a good night's sleep.
Looking at the backs of the two of them, Guo Ming murmured in a slightly reproachful tone: "What are you doing, it's okay to look for me with a dead face." ”
The next morning, Xun Yu and Cheng Yu were woken up by a loud noise, even though the two drank a lot of wine last night, they were still woken up by the loud noise.
The two put on civilian clothes with some displeasure and followed the sound, only to see Guo Ming manipulating the excavator brigade to clean up the garbage, and as for the common people, they were repairing the city wall.
The large number of ordinary people repairing the city wall is because Guo Ming promised to give the people who came to repair the city wall a bag of food and some belongings, and now with the help of excavators, the restoration of Runan will be very fast.
What's more, there are such good things, and how many people are unwilling to do it.
As for Guo Ming, at this moment, he is like the common people, wearing ordinary clothes, repairing the city wall with his own hands, if it weren't for Xun Yu and the others seeing Guo Ming, they wouldn't recognize him.
Even in the previous battle, Li Dian, who had not yet healed from the injury in his left leg, was on the side to help.
Guo Ming also saw Xun Yu and Cheng Yu at this moment, so he shouted at the two of them: "Lord Xun! Master Cheng! Come and help me, I can't do it alone. ”
When Xun Yu and the others heard this, as if they hadn't heard it, they turned their heads and left, and continued to go back to rest.
Guo Ming looked at the backs of the two of them, and Guo Ming also muttered to himself: "These two old lazy bears." ”
Just when Guo Minggan was in full swing, the people who had the dead at home were also assembled at this moment.
Guo Ming's reason for summoning them was naturally because he wanted to cremate the bodies of the deceased in their home.
However, in ancient times, people generally believed that the body was the container of the soul, and the soul was sacred and inviolable, so the body could not be burned, but needed to be buried.
As for burial, this preserves the body of the deceased and allows for the protection of the land gods.
As for what Guo Ming wants to do, it is to be cremated, because when these corpses are gathered, there will definitely be a plague, so cremation must be carried out, firstly, it can reduce the probability of plague, and secondly, it can reduce the use of land, because now it is necessary to develop land and increase production, so there is no land to bury.
And Guo Ming's idea has also been strongly opposed by everyone, Guo Ming looked at these guys who were angry below, if it wasn't for the pension that people gave them at the beginning, it is estimated that they would have to be rushed up and beaten to death by them now.
After calming their emotions, Guo Ming also began to explain: "Fellow villagers, I promise here that an ancestral hall can be built in Runan City, and everyone's relatives can live forever in it." ”
After that, Guo Ming took out an urn with very exquisite workmanship and displayed it in front of everyone, which he also opened with the creation system not long ago.
Guo Ming took it and said solemnly: "Everyone, this box is called the Soul Lock Box, it can preserve the souls of the deceased and let them be buried, and I will also personally do things to surpass their souls!" ”
Hearing this, the crowd no longer resisted, for they themselves knew that if they came into contact with the corpses now, the plague would surely kill them alive, and they compromised.
After Guo Ming saw that everyone agreed, he opened a cremation department and began to cremate the corpses, and then Guo Ming personally put on protective clothing and began to disinfect with alcohol in every corpse dumping place in the city.
Guo Ming also had people post notices everywhere in the city, indicating that they would reward cultivation and weaving, so that people should seize the time to restore cultivated land, and use the land of those who fled as a reward for cultivation and weaving, so as to mobilize everyone's enthusiasm for production.
Just when Guo Ming's side was in full swing to restore Runan City, Ji Ling and Liu Xun became irritable after receiving Yuan Shu's order.
Because they also knew that if the two of them went back together, with Yuan Shu's temper, they would definitely cut off their heads.
After the two discussed, they decided to take a gamble, taking advantage of the fact that Guo Ming and others were not firmly established, and gathered local rangers and some local bandits who occupied the mountains to recapture Runan City, so that they might be able to get a lot of rewards.
Therefore, the two also deliberately dressed up in disguise and came to the front of Runan City to inquire about the situation, and watched those excavators and many soldiers repairing the city wall, and the original dilapidated city wall has begun to take shape.