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Chapter 27: Resolving the crisis

After the conditions were negotiated, of course they had to be put into practice. A businessman is a businessman. Li Yuanchen immediately asked how much food Yue Su wanted.

"What my lord means is that the Li family will donate 800,000 shi and then buy 1.2 million shi from the Li family." Jiang Jie directly stated the price.

A total of two million shi. There are currently hundreds of thousands of refugees in Sichuan. Yue Su is not sure about the estimated number yet. With such a large number of people, each person needs at least two shi of rice to survive until next autumn's harvest. This is a large number, but

Yue Su believes that the Li family can definitely get it. Now is the Little Ice Age. The food harvest in Shaanxi and Henan is poor, especially in Shaanxi. Because of the chaos caused by rogue bandits, there are not many people on the land. There has been no farming at all in the past two years.

A few grains of grain have caused grain prices across the country to rise. One stone of rice has risen to two taels of silver. Moreover, if you buy so much, you may not be able to buy it.

But who are the Li family? They do business all over the world. They can basically get as much food as they want. When Li Zhong came here last time, Yue Su’s idea was to buy one million shi, but now he is willing to buy it.

Now that the count has been killed, the lion has to open his mouth no matter what.

"So much..." Li Yuanchen took a breath and said in embarrassment: "All the rice shops in my Li family, put together, don't have so much food. Now is not the season for harvesting food. I'm afraid it will be difficult."

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"Master, you are humble. Who doesn't know that the Li family is the leading businessman in the world. It is not difficult to get two million stones of grain. Other businessmen can't do it. The Li family has absolutely no problem. Moreover, this grain

There is no need to pay it all at once, it can be shipped in installments. Now, we will ship one hundred thousand stones to solve the urgent need, and then we will ship it over little by little." Jiang Jie still had a smile on his face.

"Sir, you are exaggerating. In this day and age, it does not mean that you will have food if you have money. But my brother-in-law finally managed to reply, and I can't answer it all at once. I, the Li family, will do our best for this donation of 800,000 stones."

, and send it to Chengdu in the shortest possible time. As for the remaining 1.2 million, let me slowly think of a way." Li Yuanchen also continued to look embarrassed. This is not artificial, hundreds of thousands of stones of grain, he Li Yuanchen

I don't take it seriously. Two million is too much.

"Well, as long as the young master is here, everything will be fine. The young master is so generous. Jiang Jie is here to express his gratitude to the young master on behalf of my family and the people in Sichuan." With that, Jiang Jie stood up and paid a deep tribute to Li Yuanchen.

Yi Yi.

"Sir, what are you doing..." Li Yuanchen stood up quickly and supported Jiang Jie. "My brother-in-law is a minister of the imperial court. As relatives, of course we have to be able to contribute. It's getting late, so I'll let you

Please arrange a banquet for me to welcome you. My brother-in-law may be in urgent need of food right now, so I will order people to prepare it. According to my husband’s instructions, I will first raise 100,000 dan and transport it to Chengdu.”

"Thank you, sir." The stone in Jiang Jie's heart finally fell to the ground, and there was inevitably a hint of relief in his tone.

The richest man in the world is indeed well-deserved. The Li family's ability to do things is not ordinary. A few days later, one hundred thousand shi of food was ready. Jiang Jie did not stay long and immediately said goodbye to Li Yuanchen, took the food and went by water.

Sichuan.

Carrying so much grain, the ship obviously had to go much faster to reach Sichuan. It took half a month to arrive at the dock in Jianyang County. Li Zhong had already come back to report the news, and Yue Su arranged for five thousand people to wait at the dock to transport the grain. Now

The troops came from Zunyi Prefecture, Xuzhou Prefecture, Long'an Prefecture and other places. After defeating the rogue army, troops from various prefectures in Sichuan arrived one after another. Although not many came, there were only about a thousand people who had no place to go.

But it can be regarded as solving the embarrassment of Yue Da's soldiers being available.

King Qin's decree has come, Yue Su ordered Qin Liangyu to lead the white-pole soldiers to King Qin, and he continued to sit in Sichuan, waiting for food. When the little food raised had been used up, the food for the Li family finally arrived, Mr. Yue

The frown that had been frowning finally relaxed. These 100,000 shi of food were a real life-saving straw.

With this food, it will definitely not be a problem to provide food and clothing for the people in a short time. After a few more days, the Li family's food will gradually arrive, and the problem of appeasing the refugees will be completely solved.

It seems so, but this is only a superficial phenomenon, and the real substantive problem has not been solved. What is the substantive problem? What will these refugees do after they return?

Many of the refugees came from Shaanxi, and the rest were brought here from Baoning Prefecture and Kuizhou Prefecture. Each of these refugees was given some food and sent home. The court felt relieved. God knows what will happen after they return.

What happened? Those in Baoning Prefecture and Kuizhou Prefecture are lucky. There is no food to feed the people in Shaanxi. It is hard to say whether they will be robbed if they go back with the little rations. Once there is no food, no one will

If you take the lead, you will inevitably become a bandit again.

Therefore, Yue Su decided to use the method of building the Yellow River in the past, using work for relief. For now, I will find you some jobs and take care of your food, just treat it as a labor camp. When the situation stabilizes, I will let you go back. Anyway, there is enough food.

You can eat it until next autumn's harvest.

Yue Su immediately ordered that all the refugees be moved to Baoning Prefecture and Kuizhou Prefecture. In these two places, no one is taking care of the land now. The landlords have either been wiped out or have fled. The same goes for the farmers' land.

, all their owners were lost, and the peasants either joined the bandits or fled elsewhere.

Yue Su's policy is this: All land will be temporarily recovered and handed over to the people for farming. The land that has not been cultivated before will also be reclaimed. Farming is not a collective system. Land is allocated to each household, and each household is divided according to its labor force.

The strong and the weak will be distributed. Those with more people will be given more, those with fewer people will be given less. Those with strong labor at home will be given more, and those with weak labor will be given less. But in short, everyone will be allocated land and have a harvest.

, I will cut off your rations, and the remaining 60% will belong to the imperial court, and 40% will belong to you. This is also quite kind, and it makes many people cheer for joy.

Of course, there are also local household heads among the refugees. As farmers, you don’t have much land. As long as you have the title deed, the land that originally belonged to you will be returned to you; if not, your land will be returned to you, at what location.

, you say it, and the land will be allocated to you. One thing at that time was that it was determined according to the labor force of your family. You were not given as much as you said. Some people were allocated more, and some were allocated less.

, if it's less, you have no place to reason. Who told you not to run away in the first place, but to be rebellious? This is equivalent to labor reform. But the land allocated now can be regarded as given to you.

The farmers who ran away before are now back. If they have the land deed in their hands, wherever it is yours, they will be given to you. If the land deed is gone, there is really no way, but Mr. Yue cannot let you starve to death. Following the previous example,

You name the location of the land and divide it according to the proportion of labor force.

If the landowner comes back, the treatment will not be so good. You say how much land you have, but it doesn't work. Show the land deed. If there is no land deed, the land will be in vain. If there is a land deed, then there is still a saying, the land is not

I'll give it to you. It's considered a temporary rent from you. After the people who cultivate the fields keep aside 40% of the grain from the fields, the remaining 60% will be given to the people. The remaining 60% will be given to you as rent, and the court will only need 10%.

If you feel it's not suitable and don't want to rent it, I'm sorry, but your decision doesn't count, the court's decision does. The lease period is three years, and Mr. Yue estimates that after three years, the situation should be alleviated a lot.

The refugees are solved according to this method. Some people ask, is this land enough for hundreds of thousands of people to cultivate? The answer is of course yes, it is enough. Sichuan is known as the land of abundance. The land is relatively fertile. In addition to the difficult roads, there is still a lot of cultivated land.

Yes, the number of people is also large. A prefecture, including all prefectures and counties, must have hundreds of thousands of people. Even if the people who fled the famine come back and make do, it will be enough to survive. When the three years are up, the people of Shaanxi will return

There is more than enough land in my hometown.

This is a big policy. Of course, there are some minor difficulties in its implementation. However, Mr. Yue arranged for the governor Zhu Xieyuan to go and preside over it in person, and brought thousands of people with him to prevent other changes. Mr. Zhu is fair and has strong ability to do things.

He is completely capable of doing this.

As for Mr. Yue, he will stay here in Chengdu, supplying food, recruiting troops, replenishing troops, training new troops, and encircling and suppressing the remnants of the rebel bandits. Anyone among the refugees who is willing to serve as soldiers and eat food can come.

Many of the strong men among the refugees are unwilling to farm and have a gangster nature. When they first took refuge with the bandits, they actually wanted to get something for nothing and make a living. Now that there is an opportunity to serve as soldiers, it is not a job to do it with anyone, and as a soldier.

Eating food as a soldier is obviously more secure than being a bandit.

Master Yue quickly recruited 20,000 soldiers. These 20,000 soldiers were also mixed, but Master Yue was very strict in managing the army. Jin Chan, Tie Qiu, Tong Zhou, and Li Haoran each trained 3,000 soldiers, adding up to 12,000.

This group of people is unlucky and has to undergo arduous training every day. The other eight thousand, who are supplying other generals, may have better luck.

Master Yue governs Shu. I will not go into details here for now. Let’s talk about the Manchu and Mongolian coalition forces. After their setback in Taiyuan, they moved north and attacked Beizhili.

Needless to say, the speed of the Tatar cavalry came and went like the wind. But now they were carrying tens of thousands of plundered people, so their speed was bound to slow down a lot. For this reason, Huang Taiji formulated a strategy of dividing his troops into two groups.

He also has confidence in his own army and its combat effectiveness. There are 30,000 people on one side, responsible for strengthening the front, and the other group is responsible for escorting the loot. Moreover, they also learned the lesson from the last time in Taiyuan, not to attack big cities, but to attack small towns.

The vanguard troops passed through Meng County, Pingshan County, Lingshou County, Xingtang County, and Dingzhou. Wherever they went, there were winds and clouds, and the big cities couldn't be defeated. There was no problem in attacking these small counties, and Dingzhou, too.

They tried to attack, but when they saw no success, they went around and attacked Baoding Prefecture. Of course they would not attack Baoding Prefecture, but Shunping County next to Baoding Prefecture.

However, what the Tatars did not expect was that a dear friend was waiting for them here in Shunping County. This dear friend was Lu Xiangsheng, and the Tianxiong Army he led.
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