After not talking for long, many people came to collect food, and Chao Qing and his colleagues began to get busy.
Chen Qing left the tent and didn't go far when he saw a family eating in front of the stove at the entrance of the tent. There were seven or eight people, old and young.
Chen Qing walked forward with a smile and saw a pot on the stove. The water in the pot was already boiling. A woman was picking the prepared batter into the pot and cooking it into gnocchi.
This way of eating is relatively common and relatively simple and labor-saving. The four children have already started eating, and the adults are still waiting for the next pot.
Although the leader of the old man did not know Chen Qing, he had seen Zhang Miao behind Chen Qing, and he quickly stood up and saluted.
A soldier set up a small stool for Chen Qing. Chen Qing sat down and asked with a smile: "Are there any side dishes for eating this kind of batter?"
“There’s food!”
A child picked up a long strip in the bowl and said with a smile: "The radish pickled by my mother is the most delicious!"
"Awen, adults are talking, children should not interrupt, and eat noodles quickly!"
The old man said apologetically: "I made the officials laugh."
Chen Qing nodded, "Where are you from?"
"We are from Gwangsan County, Gwangju. We came out first, and more people will come out after the autumn harvest."
"My father-in-law, don't you wait until the autumn harvest to come out?"
"Our family does not farm, but lives in the county town, making a living by making sauce. When the puppet Qi army came to kill us, our whole family fled. When we returned later, more than 200 sauce jars were smashed to pieces and the house was burned down.
, I really couldn’t live any longer, so I had to escape to live. I heard that Sichuan and Shaanxi are tax-free and salt and food are cheap.”
Chen Qing laughed and said: "That Shaanxi song is wrong. The salt is more than three or five cents, it costs forty cents per catty."
"I know, forty cents per catty is very cheap! It costs three hundred cents per catty over there. The difference is too big. A piece of wheat at our house costs two hundred cents, but a bushel of wheat here only costs twenty cents. If I had known better,
We have been here a long time ago."
Chen Qing added: "Your family is making soybean paste. You can go to Gaoling County. Gaoling's soybean paste is very famous and people who can make soybean paste are very popular. You can go to other people's workshops for a few years and save some money."
If you do it yourself, in a few years you will completely turn over."
"With the official's good advice, we will go to Gaoling County. If we can survive, we will settle in Guanzhong."
Chen Qing left the refugee camp and took a carriage to the dock without interrupting the family's meal.
"How much are the refugees' daily relief rations?" Chen Qing asked in the carriage.
"One and a half pounds of wheat for adults and one pound for children. Basically every household has a small stone mill. If there is no stone mill, you can go to the mill and line up to grind flour."
Chen Qing thought for a while and then said: "I thought on the way that it would be better to use work instead of relief, and gather the young and strong people to work."
"If it lasts for a long time, we must provide relief through work. I wonder what we can ask them to do?"
“Drede the river!”
Chen Qing said without hesitation: "We want to develop shipping, and dredging the rivers is a top priority. In winter, farmers are organized to build water conservancy projects, so dredging the rivers will be done by young and strong refugees."
"I understand, I will start counting people today."
Chen Qing added: "We must remember the principle of "giving rice to friends and fighting rice to hate". Our relief can only ensure that they do not starve to death. If they want to live a better life, they have to work hard. We will never support lazy people.
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"Remember your humble position!"
"I want to go directly to Huayin County. I'll leave it to Mr. Zhang for the Daying of Zheng County."
Zhang Miao was startled and asked urgently: "Didn't the prince ask about the riot last night?"
Chen Qing shook his head, "I don't care about the infighting in the imperial court. According to my temper, I will kill everyone without leaving any one behind. Let Mr. Zhang handle it with full authority! Whether you want to kill or let go, you decide for yourself."
Zhang Miao smiled bitterly, how could the prince not care about the internal fighting in the court? Just because he left it to himself does not mean that he did not want to know the inside story of the internal fighting. He still had to submit the final report himself.
Chen Qing only stayed in Zheng County for half a day on his inspection tour, and then continued eastward by boat.
Compared with the refugees from the Jianghuai River, Chen Qing valued the people of the Central Plains more. It can be said that the influx of refugees from the Jianghuai River to Shangzhou was an accident, but the influx of refugees from the Central Plains was the result of Chen Qing's guidance. The army captured Shaanzhou and won
Mianchi County opened the Xiaohan Ancient Road in the hope of bringing people from the Central Plains to the Shaanxi Road.
Sichuan and Shaanxi are Chen Qing's foundation, and he must consolidate the foundation before he can continue to expand eastward.
To lay a solid foundation, the most critical factor is population. If we have to wait for the population to naturally grow and recover, it will take at least several decades. Chen Qing cannot wait, so borrowing population from the Central Plains is crucial.
The resettlement places for the Central Plains population are mainly central and northern Shaanxi. There was originally a resettlement place in the Hanzhong area, but the Hanzhong area was reserved for the resettlement of military family members.
Yu Lian had been more restrained in the past two days. She also knew that her husband would be busy with official duties during the day, so she gave up all her plans to seduce Chen Qing and became very obedient to take care of her husband's daily life. She also wore neat clothes.
Yu Lian brought a bowl of ginseng tea and placed it next to Chen Qing's table. At this time, Chen Qing was carefully reading the preliminary report written by Zhou Kuan. This was the report that he had just received yesterday. What made Chen Qing a little bit confused was that they had just
After moving 500,000 refugees to Huayin County, another 200,000 people accumulated in Shaanzhou, which was a bit beyond their expectations!
"Is the official encountering something troublesome?" Yu Lian pursed her lips and said with a smile.
Chen Qing put his arm around her waist and asked her to sit on his lap. He smiled bitterly and said, "Come and give me some advice. Five hundred thousand people came just now, but another two hundred thousand people came. What do you think we should do?"
"
Yu Lian hugged her husband's neck, kissed him hard on the face and smiled: "Don't the officials say that the more people, the better?"
"It's not that more is better, the key is balance. We have drained the population of the Central Plains. If we take over the Central Plains in the future, there will be no people left in the Central Plains."
Yu Lian thought for a while and said: "My family is from Yan'an Prefecture. What my mother hated most in the past was the large population. She complained every day that others were competing for water from her. She said that when the population increased, everything would have to be fought over and everything would be expensive.
So my husband said that he wants to migrate people to northern Shaanxi. I don’t think they will stay long. There is too little water there. When the Central Plains has the same taxes, the same salt prices and commodity prices, everyone who migrates to northern Shaanxi will be guaranteed to
They all ran back to the Central Plains."
Yu Lian's words made Chen Qing feel relieved. He had indeed thought too much, and the people were not fools. They would naturally go wherever they lived well, and they were not controlled by the government at all.
His hand had quietly reached into her skirt, "You said your hometown is short of water, then why is your skin so delicate? It should be very dry!"
Yu Lian had already felt the changes in her husband's body. Her peach-blossom eyes were almost dripping with water. She twisted her waist and said with a charming look on her face: "I don't know why, husband, do you want to study the secrets of other people's skin?"
"Yeah! That makes sense! I have to study it carefully. I can't turn off the lights tonight."
Chen Qing stretched out his hand and pulled down the curtain with a 'Wow!' sound.
The next morning, the fleet arrived at Huayin County. The refugee camp in Huayin County was even larger. More than half a million refugees gathered in the wilderness on the north bank of the Weishui River in Huayin County. The camps stretched for dozens of miles.
Zhou Kuan also personally went to the pier to welcome Chen Qing's arrival.
"It looks very impressive!" Chen Qing said with a smile while standing on the high pavilion.
"That's natural. Half a million refugees, the size of several counties, is unbelievable when you think about it."
Chen Qing nodded and asked again: "Have you screened them carefully?"
There are half a million refugees. The biggest worry of Chen Qing and the officials in the Internal Affairs Bureau is that the puppet Qi army is mixed among them. If tens of thousands of them launch an attack in Guanzhong, it will be troublesome.
But he couldn't stop eating because of choking, so Chen Qing adopted a three-pronged approach.
On the one hand, the refugee camps are placed in Zheng County and Huayin County, which are far away from Jingzhao. Even if something happens, it will not threaten Jingzhao's safety for the time being.
On the other hand, heavy troops were stationed near the two large camps, with 50,000 troops stationed near each of the two large camps.
The third defensive measure is to send a large number of internal guard soldiers to disguise themselves as refugees and lurk into the camp.
Zhou Kuan nodded, "So far, nothing unusual has been found. I estimate that the Jin Kingdom is about to abolish the Puppet Qi Dynasty, Liu Yu's real power over the army has been removed, and Wanyan Wushu went to Beijing and has not returned. This method is considered the following
The generals of the Puppet Qi Army thought of it, but they did not dare to implement it at will."
"Your speculation is very likely, but you can't take it lightly. Let's go to the camp first and have a look!"
Chen Qing, escorted by hundreds of cavalry, followed Zhou Kuan and other officials and rode toward the refugee camp.
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[There is something going on at home today, there are only two chapters.]