Since July 17, groups of refugees have been moving northward one after another. Due to the influx of a large number of refugees, the security situation around Shuntianfu has been worrying. The spring wheat in the Shuntianfu area has matured and has entered the harvest period. Many refugees have
There were grain thieves who sneaked into Shuntian Prefecture to steal grain.
In order to put an end to this phenomenon, the Peiping Army dispatched 20,000 cavalrymen to patrol back and forth in several teams. As soon as they saw the refugees, they gathered them together and brought them back to Peiping City. At the same time, they organized a harvest team and went out of the city to harvest wheat and transport it back to Peiping City.
It was dried in Peiping City, and even the wheat straw was brought back to be used as fodder.
Due to late planting, missed field management due to various reasons, and the drought some time ago, overall, this year's wheat harvest is very bad, with an yield of less than one stone per mu. More than 60 wheat crops have been planted in Shuntian Prefecture.
The yield of ten thousand acres of wheat is less than 600,000 shi. If the wheat bran is removed, a maximum of 400,000 shi of flour can be ground, which is only enough to feed the 40,000 or so people of Shuntian Prefecture for half a year. There is still a food gap of hundreds of thousands of shi.
Make up.
Food is the most important thing for the people. As the actual leader of Shuntian Prefecture, Wan Lei is worried about food security. Fortunately, it is still early and he can still plant autumn soybeans. Although the time is tight, the harvest may not be
It would be great, but it is better than nothing. You can also plow the ground and plant winter wheat a month later, so as to harvest earlier next year and say goodbye to the food shortage earlier.
What makes Wan Lei resentful is that high-yielding crops such as sweet potatoes, corn, and potatoes have not yet been introduced. Otherwise, if he rushes to plant a season of sweet potatoes, he will not worry about starvation. In addition, Wan Lei’s favorite peppers are still in America, and he can eat them all he wants.
Unexpectedly, every time he thought of this, he wished he could immediately organize a fleet to explore America.
However, the idea of going out to sea for adventure is just a fantasy in my mind. Now that Shuntian Prefecture doesn’t even have a decent sea ship, it still wants to go to sea and cross the ocean? That’s just a joke. In addition, the Central Plains is still a self-sufficient small-scale peasant society, and there is no shortage of anything.
There is no motivation to go out.
Early that morning, Wan Lei took Zhao Xueer and a group of other disciples and rode out of Peking City to inspect the border. Of course, the first task was to measure the altitude of Shuntian Prefecture and determine how likely it was that Shuntian Prefecture would be affected by the Yellow River flood.
If there is a possibility of disaster, it is better to prepare in advance.
There were more refugees on the official road, and some were bringing their families with them. Wan Lei didn’t need to ask. He knew that these people came from the Yellow River Flood Area. Their homes were flooded, and they either fled south or north to escape. Wan Lei looked for them from the refugee team.
After some inquiries from some older elders, I learned that the Yellow River was very large, stretching for thousands of miles from Henan to Shandong, and hundreds of thousands of people were affected by the disaster.
The hardest-hit areas are Hejian and Baoding, which are located in the lower reaches of the Yellow River. When the Yellow River bursts, the rolling torrent swallowed up most of the fertile farmland and countless villages overnight. Tens of thousands of people were unfortunately killed, and hundreds of thousands of people were killed.
They were displaced and had to flee in all directions.
However, because the Yellow Flood Area was too large, the imperial government's relief grain could not be transported to the north of the Yellow River, and the people north of the Yellow River were blocked by the Yellow River Flood Area and could not go south, so they had to wander in some unaffected areas in the northern part of Baoding Prefecture.
He begged for a living while waiting for the government to distribute relief grains.
However, Baoding Prefecture seems to be determined to ignore the situation. From the prefect to the counties, and from the prefecture to the counties, no one is releasing porridge for disaster relief. Moreover, because Shuntian Prefecture has raised the price of grain in Baoding Prefecture, some grain dealers are
The people who were not affected by the disaster were stingy with their own food and refused to give away food. The refugees had no food to eat, so they had to leave their homes and enter Shuntian Mansion.
However, the people of Shuntian Prefecture have all become citizens of Beiping City. There are no villages around. They have nowhere to go if they want to beg. Some people with low morals have become food thieves. However, most of the refugees are obedient people.
At the intersection, they heard that there was a resettlement site in Beiping City, which provided not only a place to live but also food, so they formed a group and headed north.
After asking about the disaster, Wan Lei and his party rode south along the official road and soon arrived at the junction with Baoding Prefecture. On a boundary bridge, nearly a thousand Peiping troops were stationed and roadblocks were set up. The boundary bridge
There was a dense crowd of people surging across the street, thousands of people at least.
The reason why so many people gather here is that in addition to the porridge store here, it is also an office for entry registration procedures. After the refugees are asked questions such as their name, place of origin and whether they are willing to join Sunchon Province, they are then registered and issued.
Good Citizen Certificate, released for entry.
The refugees who were allowed to enter the country were organized after having a bowl of porridge and marched north in groups under the escort of the army to prevent all unnecessary security incidents.
Refugees who enter the country privately without obtaining a good citizen certificate are all regarded as thieves. Once discovered by the patrol team of the Peking Army, they will be arrested and escorted to Peking City to work as slave labor. It is precisely because of the strict management that many refugees consciously enter the country before entering the country.
There was a queue waiting everywhere, and the order was quite orderly.
Wan Lei asked Chi Xin and others to disperse and conduct on-site measurements, leaving only Zhao Xueer by his side for protection. He talked with the military leader in charge of immigration matters for a while, found that there was no problem, and encouraged them a few words, and then came to the immigration
Office to inspect the handling of immigration procedures.
The staff at the immigration department are all political commissars of the Peking Army at all levels, and their consciousness is not low. They only check whether the refugees have any contraband on them, and will not use the opportunity to enrich themselves. Besides, these refugees are the poorest.
The people had nothing of value with them.
"Brother, look." Zhao Xueer pointed at the refugees opposite. Wan Lei looked in the direction she pointed and saw many seven or eight-year-old children with messy hair and ragged clothes.
Shivering in the cold wind. Wan Lei has been here for a long time and naturally knows that planting a straw tag is a sign of betrayal.
I have seen in movies before that people in the old society sold their children and daughters because they could no longer survive. Now that I saw the real thing, Wan Lei was very emotional. But thinking about it, the common people sold their sons and daughters just to let their children find a home.
There is nothing a wealthy family can do to survive.
Wan Lei scanned around, pointed to a few girls with white ribbons tied on their heads, and looked worthy of the audience, and said to the guard responsible for maintaining order: "Go and invite them over."
The guards were also good people. After hearing Wan Lei use the word "please", he knew not to use violence, let alone damage the image of the Peking Army, so he squeezed through the crowd in a polite manner, came to the girls, and after explaining
, just invited those girls over.
Wan Lei scanned the girls around and asked some questions one by one, and then fell in love with a little girl named Yue Chan. This little girl's parents were drowned, and she escaped by chance. She was covered in mud and water.
, I can’t tell if she looks good or bad, but she has big watery eyes and looks very pleasant. In addition, her voice is sweet and pleasant to listen to.