"Don't be reckless!" After all, Zhou Cang seemed more thoughtful and knew that he must not cause trouble at this time. He said to Pei Yuanshao: "Ask all the brothers to follow us into the city and just be patient for a moment longer."
Pei Yuanshao responded bravely and went to inform everyone.
After sunset, Zhou Cang and others arrived at the door, registered their names and household registrations, and then entered the county. There were many porridge sheds set up along the base of the city wall in the county, specially set up for the refugees. At the base of the city wall, there were also
Many articles were posted, and some officers looked at the gong and read them to everyone.
"As long as the refugees who enter the city are registered, they can go to the city every day with the bamboo sticks issued to get porridge and water. When the porridge and water pipes are full, they will go over there after eating. Have you seen it? They will measure you there.
Wasteland, when the time comes, you just go out of the city to open up wasteland, and come to the city on time when it’s time to eat. Some places are far away, and porridge sheds have been set up within a radius of ten miles, but you can go to drink porridge nearby..."
"Don't fight over the porridge and water, otherwise the bamboo sticks will be confiscated and you will have nowhere to drink porridge. There is plenty of porridge and water in the porridge shed, so you won't be hungry."
"Go to your respective villages to pick up the farm tools, and they will be distributed to you at that time."
"Are there any blacksmiths and carpenters here? The blacksmiths and carpenters go to the end of the alley to make records..."
Zhou Cang twisted his nose and said to the people behind him: "Let's go get the porridge."
Everyone immediately rushed to a porridge shed, but when it came time to distribute the porridge, Zhou Cang was not satisfied. The porridge was too thin, and ordinary people could be half full after eating it, but he and his brothers were not satisfied.
How can a strong man eat enough with just this little porridge? He asked the servant serving the porridge, "Just this little porridge?"
The officer was also irritable and couldn't help but put down his spoon and shouted loudly: "That's it, how about it? If you don't want to drink it, don't drink it."
Pei Yuanshao, who was behind Zhou Cang, was furious and shouted: "You yellow-haired kid, how dare you talk to Brother Zhou like this!"
How can the officer be so weak? When he saw many people gathered behind Zhou Cang, he immediately called his companions. In an instant, the sergeant on the guard side immediately came over with swords and guns drawn. With so many refugees entering the city, the city had already been prepared. Whoever wants to cause trouble?
They can suppress them immediately, so it is common for these soldiers to surround Zhou Cang and others and shout loudly: "What are you going to do?"
Pei Yuanshao was still angry: "Dog officers and soldiers, do you want to fight?".
One of the leading military lords saw that these people came with bad intentions and said, "These people look like bandits. Come, surround them, capture them all, and send them to the government office."
All the sergeants agreed, and one of the soldiers stabbed Pei Yuanshao with his sword. Pei Yuanshao suddenly dwarfed, and he didn't know how to catch the soldier's spear with both hands, and then sent it back. The soldier suddenly
He lost his center of gravity and bumped towards Pei Yuanshao. Pei Yuanshao clenched his fist and slammed the soldier's face with a bang. For a moment, the poor soldier's face was bruised and the bridge of his nose was crooked.
Pei Yuanshao showed his hand, snatched the soldier's iron sword, and shouted majestically at the surrounding soldiers: "Who else wants to die?"
The military prince took a breath, knowing that he had met a powerful character. There were only more than thirty soldiers and servants on this side, but there were as many as a hundred people in this group. If these thieves were so powerful, I'm afraid
You will suffer a big loss.
At this moment, a clear voice came out: "Everyone, stop it!" As soon as he finished speaking, a man in a Confucian skirt came over with seven or eight servants stroking his beard. The military prince took a look and hurried over to greet him:
"Chen Biejia, you really came in person."
The visitor is Chen Gong. Chen Gong was appointed by Gao Jin to accept refugees in various counties. He happened to come to Dongyang County for inspection in the past few days and has been living in the county government office. Today he happened to come to see the porridge situation, but unexpectedly he ran into something like this.
, he looked at Zhou Cang and others, waved the army back and said: "You guys stand down and put away your weapons."...
"I'm afraid these people are thieves... thieves... don't drive..." The military prince hesitated, fearing that something might happen to Chen Gong. If so, he would not be able to escape the relationship.
Chen Gong smiled slightly and ignored the military princes. He cupped his hands to Zhou Cang and Pei Yuanshao and said: "My heroes, my lord is extremely benevolent and virtuous. He specially provided food to accommodate the refugees. I don't know why, but you have a conflict with the officers and soldiers."
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Just as Zhou Cang was about to speak, Pei Yuanshao shouted: "You said you were recruiting refugees, but you gave this kind of porridge and water to charity. I'll scold you for a few words, and you officers and soldiers will take action. If you really want to take action, we are not afraid."
Chen Gong smiled slightly, the porridge and water matter was not deliberately greedy. After all, there were too many refugees coming to Xuzhou. The number of people in Shanyang County alone exceeded 40,000, and the total number in the whole state was probably one million.
Not only that, although Xuzhou has some grain reserves, it cannot be provided randomly. After all, it will take a year for the refugees to plant food. Therefore, food and grass are already very tight. There is no choice but to add as much water as possible to the porridge.
In fact, most of these refugees were full and hungry, and they were very satisfied with the gruel. However, they met people like Zhou Cang. These people looked very strong at first glance. The gruel alone would never fill their stomachs. This is why these things happened.
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Chen Gong knew more or less the cause and effect. He chuckled, looked at the Zhoucang people and others, and then said: "There is insufficient food and rice in this state, so this is the only way. You all look strong. I'm afraid you can't fill your stomach with porridge and water alone. I have a place to go.
You can have enough to eat."
He stretched out his hand not to hit the smiling person, not to mention that Chen Gong showed extraordinary magnanimity and was very polite to Zhou Cang and others. Although Zhou Cang was a thief, he still knew some etiquette, so he hurriedly said: "Please enlighten me."
Chen Gongdao: "The Bai'er Army in this state is recruiting sergeants. Why don't you give it a try?"
It turned out that Chen Dao was willing to admit defeat and naturally started working for Gao Jin. He selected some old subordinates from Liu Bei's army and reorganized the Bai'er Army. However, the number was too small after all, so Gao Jin ordered him to recruit a thousand people.
After retraining, the Bai'er Army will be used as a high-ranking Chinese army guard in the future. Therefore, the equipment is excellent and the food is naturally very good. Chen Gong just saw Pei Yuanshao's skills and felt that recommending these people to Chen Chuchu would be a waste.
Can make a difference.
Zhou Cang's face changed and he asked: "But Xiaopei Chen has arrived at the Bai'er Army?"
Chen Gong nodded slightly: "Exactly."
Although the reputation of the Bai'er Army is not as good as that of the trapped camp, nor as good as following Gao Jin to fight thousands of miles away and raiding the military police camp in Shouchun, they are still one of the few elites. Zhou Cang has heard about it for a long time, and at this time he was also moved and embarrassed.
He said: "If I don't want to do it, I'm afraid there is no way."
Chen Gong said: "It's okay. I'll recommend it to you. Come, you follow me to the county government office first. I'll give you a good meal. I'll fix a book for you. How about you go to Xiapi immediately?"
"Good!" Zhou Cang nodded quickly as he had no reason to do so.