Chapter 19 Self-esteem (1)
The next day, Lu Yao continued his original inspection and inspected the reorganization of Wang Jun's old subordinates.
It is not the time of war, so the army is not concentrated, but is stationed in various military camps in units of the army. This "army" is not the Henghai, Duliao, Woye, Pingshuo, Yingyang, and Dingbian army that Lu Yao planned to re-establish, but the old units. On the one hand, due to the chaos in the organization caused by the continuous combat of the Dai County Army, and on the other hand, the reorganization work has just begun, the number of people in each army is different, ranging from two thousand people to hundreds, among which Wang Jun's old subordinates account for a proportion of 30% to 50%.
Near Jicheng, there are fourteen armies stationed scattered. Lu Yao had already run away for 14 military camps a few days ago. Yesterday, Xue Tong inspected two on behalf of Lu Yao, and seven more had to be reviewed one by one. This work is already complicated and Lu Yao's requirements are strict. During the process, considerable energy is needed to communicate with grassroots soldiers, so the review speed is not fast. From Mao to Wu, three hours were just a complete view of the place He Yun was responsible for.
According to the itinerary, the next military camp I want to visit is located in Quanzhou, southeast of Guangyang, not close to it.
Quanzhou was named after the many clear springs around the county town, and the spring water was sweet and drinkable. During the Warring States Period, it was the "Quanzhou Capital" of Yan State. In the early Han Dynasty, the county was established. To the north of Quanzhou was the Yongnushu that stretched for dozens of miles; to the south, it was bounded by the Juma River, adjacent to Dongpingshu County of Zhangwu State of Jizhou. There were many ferries on the river serving busy commercial roads; to the east was the vast sea. In the fourth year of Yuanshou in the Han Dynasty, salt officials were established here, and it was one of the 38 counties in the country with salt officials. To this day, the salt fields left over from the Han Dynasty are still in use, and most of the salt used by the people of Youzhou come from here.
If the weather gets warmer, Lu Yao can return to Jixian first, and then take a boat to go south along the Qingquan River and the Huogou line, and you will be able to reach it soon. But now in the severe winter, the river channel is either frozen or shallow, and it is difficult to sail. Lu Yao and others can only walk along the main road with a quick horse and cross the Anci County to Quanzhou.
Because Jizhou was hit by the military disaster and the vitality of the eastern coastal counties was severely damaged, there were few business trips on the road, and there were many refugees with no clothes and disheveled faces. They braved the biting cold wind and staggered forward barefoot on the snow. When they saw Lu Yao and his team passing by, most of the refugees just looked dull and looked at it. They were a little clever, and they hurriedly knelt on the side of the road, muttering and begging for something.
This is not the first time Lu Yao has seen such a miserable scene. Even if he doesn't say that his heart is as hard as iron, at least he has seen many things. But when he put his hand on the awning to look into the distance, he saw a sparse team of refugees extending to the horizon in the distance. He couldn't help but frown: "Mr. Shulun of Jizhou is a contemporary capable official, but how can he let the people under his rule be so unrest..."
Today, Huang Yi, a civil servant who is with Lu Yao, is a civil servant who does practical things and is very good at appeaseing refugees. He has just sent his horses to investigate the refugees. He heard Lu Yao complaining, he respectfully responded: "This year, the Central Plains is a disaster, and the poor people in the Three Wei lands were forced to famine and famine, and a large number of them were exiled to Jizhou. However, Jizhou fought for years and the treasury was empty, so it was very difficult for him to deal with it. But these things in front of him were not the governor of Ding, but from the Bohai, Pingyuan, Leling and other places where Shile thieves were originally occupied."
"oh?"
"When Shile bandits were present, they captured local prefectures, counties, forts, destroyed cities, treasuries, and plundered food and fodders. They also wrapped all the strong people into the army and forced them to die for the front-end, leaving only the elderly, weak, sick and disabled people waiting to die on the spot. These elderly, weak and weak had no clothes and had no food and food, and could only struggle and wail, and hundreds of thousands of people starved to death. Because this winter is cold, hundreds of thousands of people have frozen to death. What the lord saw is just lucky people who flowed into Youzhou."
"What do you mean by calling them lucky people?"
"After all, Youzhou has not been directly affected by military disasters. Both the prefecture and the local tyrants have barely spared their efforts to provide relief and resettlement. I heard that the governor of the Zu summoned the tyrants of the county and county a few days ago, and on the condition of reducing the rent of one year, they required them to send out their own people to provide food and be responsible for resettlement of refugees in one place. Anyone who has good resettlement and does not allow refugees to cross the border to sweep other places can also obtain the land deeds of the refugees' settlement and include it in the private sector. General, please look south, there is a simple camp there, which was built by the Tian family. The prestigious leaders of the refugees, as well as those who can work and have a skill, can live there temporarily, and then be sent to the farm where the Tian family belongs. In this way, a considerable part of them can survive after all, so it is considered a lucky draw."
These refugees were originally the elderly and weak who were left after Shi Le took over the strong men. Among them, those who could work and have skills would not account for a very high proportion. These people could stock up in the local wealthy farms, while the rest would undoubtedly die of cold and starvation.
Lu Yao sighed and said, "Not only the governor's office comes forward to provide relief to refugees, we must also do our best to help. When you go back and draw up a charter, try to place children and young women among the people who are selected. Well... the children set up a single battalion, let Ma Rui be responsible for picking up a few personal guards, Fang Qinzhi finds a few scholars to teach them to practice literature and martial arts; women can be betrothed to the soldiers, and if they don't want to marry, set up a single battalion, and let them do some chores such as washing and mending."
With the power of the military government, it is not easy to support tens of thousands of troops; it is even more unrealistic to go with the provincial government to compete for the power to resettle refugees. All that Lu Yao can do is this.
Huang Yi respectfully accepted the order, and the group did not delay and continued to move forward.
After a while, as Huang Yi mentioned the camp was not far away, Lu Yao suddenly remembered something again: "Tian? Are you talking about the one who built the camp ahead? That's the one who built the camp in front?"
"It is precisely. The Tian family of Yan State has manors in Lu County, Yongnu and other places, and the nearest wall is only twenty or thirty miles away from Quanzhou. It is very appropriate for them to be responsible for the refugees on this road."
A few days ago, when Lu Yao summoned the generals and soldiers, he killed Tian Min, a powerful son of the Tian clan of Yan State for personal fighting in the army, which shocked many wealthy families in one fell swoop. After this incident, it was said that some people from the Tian clan made a complaint to the governor's office, but Zu Ti had not responded to this. Unexpectedly, they happened to run into them again today.
Lu Yao and his team had about a hundred people, with their fresh clothes and angry horses, and their iron hooves moving to the ground, and their momentum was quite impressive.
The people in the Tian family camp saw it from a distance and knew that it must be a noble man passing by, so they hurriedly called the person in charge of the camp. Then two men with high crowns and gorgeous clothes came out of the camp in a crowd, waiting to greet each other, as if someone had said something from the side. So they stopped immediately and their eyes became unkind. Needless to say, there must be someone who recognized Lu Yao from the entourage and pointed it out to them.
These two people must be powerful people among the Tian family's children. Lu Yao knew very well that, except for a few people in the powerful family, these powerful families were just worms who gained their foothold by exploiting and oppressing the poor people. As long as the time was right, it would be easy to destroy them. Therefore, he ignored these two people at all, and just slowed down slightly, and walked through the many refugees who were sitting or lying down.
But I never thought that there were many reckless men among the Tian family in Yan State who knew how to live or die. One of the two men in the gorgeous clothes saw Lu Yao stop the horse, and he strode to catch up with him, trying to grab the reins in Lu Yao's hand.
"Bold!" Ma Rui shouted at the sight, and immediately rushed forward to stop the person coming. A cold light flashed in his palm, and the sword was half unsheathed.
Ma Rui is a brave warrior. He has been through the battlefield for a long time. His sharpness is revealed in his actions, and he has a terrifying murderous aura. How can the man in the gorgeous clothes behave? His anger instantly turned into ice water and poured down from the top door. His legs became weak and he immediately sat down to the ground.
Lu Yao didn't bother to pay attention to such an ant-like figure. He glanced at the man coldly, shook his reins and continued to move forward.
After everyone was away, Ma Rui snorted disdainfully, put his sword back and sheathed to chase the brigade.
Another older man dared to come forward at this time and helped the person who was shocked to sit on the ground: "Oh, there was nothing wrong, why are you just fighting for this leisure?"
"What is idleness? It's this thief who killed my brother!" The man in the Chinese uniform struggled suddenly, and threw the old man with his arm away, and said angrily: "It's a pity that hundreds of people from our Tian family are here, but no one dares to move forward with me! Only three or five brave ones, I can at least punch this guy and let out a breath!"
This man in the gorgeous clothes was Tian Min's brother who was shot to death by He Yun with an arrow, and the old man was Tian Min's uncle.
He was clearly stared to the ground by a glance, and now he thought that he could provoke Xionghu's army with hundreds of thugs who can only oppress good people? Is this crazy or what? Tian Min's uncle sighed repeatedly: "Who do you think you are, dare to defeat General Pingbei? This Lu Yao is a person who came out of the sea of corpses and blood. In Bingzhou, he killed Qiao Xi, the leader of the Huns and Han State; in Yecheng, he killed Jisang, a giant gangster who was rampant in Hebei among thousands of troops; after that, he pacified Dai County and led the grasslands, killing the Hu clan scared... Many famous generals and chiefs could not hurt him at all, but died under his hands. Today, there are one more you... no, it is hundreds of lives here. Do you think he cares?"
The man in the Chinese uniform was speechless for a while, gritted his teeth for a long time, and suddenly stomped his feet and cursed: "The Tian family in Yan State is the leader of the northern border. The clan is strong and has been with countless people. He has served in the Wei and Jin dynasties and has been crowned continuously! When Wang Peng Zu was there, he was polite to us. What is this Lu Yao? A mere island barbarian and a vulgar martial man dared to abuse and kill my brother in public, which made the people of our Tian clan laugh at for the prefectures and counties! Oh, hateful! hateful!"
Lu Yao's subordinates have a complex source, but except for the several officials recruited recently, most of them are low-ranking people, either soldiers from Bingzhou, surrendered people from Jisang bandits, or herd slaves and horse thieves on the land and grasslands. These people follow the spirit of being calm and dying in the army, and only see Lu Yao's heroic and bravery, and only rejoice in Lu Yao's rising sky. However, the eyes and angles of the noble families looking at people are very different from them. In the eyes of most noble families in Youzhou, the background of the remains of Lu Yao's Eastern Wu is not pride, but a stain that can never be erased. Not to mention his martial artsman origin, what is the killing of enemies on the battlefield? No matter how brave the soldiers are, they are just thugs raised by the ancestors of the high-ranking families. To put it too much, a dog that raises bites! How can the noble family of officials tolerate a dog that has a broken family crawl on the head of the owner?
The man in China said this, and the old man felt sympathy. He sighed and comforted the man in China and said, "Among the wealthy families in Youzhou, those who are willing to make friends with Lu, after all, only the generals led by Xianyu, don't be too angry. Let me tell you that the clan leader has secretly contacted the other powerful clans, used the relationship between disciples and old friends to write to the court center, denying Lu's domineering and violent behavior! Hehe, at that time, the imperial edict will definitely make this warrior suffer!"
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Chapter completed!