Chapter 19 The Yellow River is full of harms, and it is only a set of profits

It is a very common and normal policy strategy to make up for the loss of the embankment and the external compensation of the embankment, and it will not be shaken by the subjective wishes of the rulers.

When you are alone, you can be kind, you can be gentle, at most you will suffer a little, and you will be over by gritting your teeth.

When you have millions of people under your command, their needs are where you're headed.

Rich places will always have an explosion of population.

This is especially true in Guanzhong, a place that is very suitable for having children.

People from outside continue to pour into Guanzhong, and after the local people in Guanzhong solve the problem of food and clothing, the children are born in piles, and from the first day they start crying, Lantian County will prepare land, food, and schools for the child.

In the past, three out of ten children born in Guanzhong were unlikely to survive to adulthood.

Since Lantian County has integrated health knowledge into the Guanzhong Wenpo system, the premature death of newborns has become a rare thing.

In particular, after the two measures of disinfection and forceps spread in Guanzhong, the maternal and infant mortality rate in Lantian County has greatly decreased.

Because a large number of immigrants have moved into Lantian County, children here rarely develop dementia after the blood mix is mixed.

The number of children is a sign of prosperity, and the same is true for a region of the Ming Dynasty.

There are too many people, and the land is not enough, Yun Zhao keenly found that a Ming person obviously needs more land to survive than later generations, and if he wants to live a good life, he needs more land to succeed.

In the past ten years, the population of Guanzhong has gradually recovered, and when the land in Guanzhong could not support such a large number of people, since Yun Zhao collected taxes from the people, then he had the responsibility to find more land for these people.

Create a more relaxed and comfortable living environment.

In order to achieve this goal, whether Yun Zhao steals, robs, or sells himself, the people don't care, after all, the taxes that should be paid have already been paid.

Land can't be stolen, and Yun Zhao can't sell himself, so robbery becomes the only option.

The land of Hetao was originally the ancient Shuofang, and it has been a battleground for soldiers since ancient times, and now Ningxia Wei has a pig's brain to come to the world.

Ever since the giant Kou Yang Liu, who shot the sky and listened to Yun Zhao's persuasion, took a large group of thieves to Ningxia Wei, this place has been completely chaotic.

The seventy or eighty thousand Han people coerced by these two giants rushed headlong into Ningxiawei, where all Hui lived, although they were fiercely resisted by the aborigines of all ethnic groups mainly Hui in the early stage, but after all, they were not Yang Liu, and the opponent who shot the sky, not to mention that there were two hundred people from the Yun Group to assist.

After the death of He Huchen and Wang Shilong, the officers and soldiers of Ningxia Wei have basically degenerated into farmers.

In today's Ningxia Wei, the people live in this fertile land in fragments, which is extremely unfavorable to production and life.

Yun Zhao is not the supreme leader of Shaanxi Road, but he believes that he still has some say in Ningxiawei, a place that is controlled by Shaanxi Road, especially for the development of a place, Lantian County must pay attention to.

Speaking of which, Yun Zhao has been coveting Ningxia rice for a long time.

Yang Liu's follow-up shot collapsed the sky has already completed their task of stationing in Ningxia, and now, the heavy task of deeply cultivating Ningxia, which is plugged into the south of the Yangtze River, should be handed over to Lantian County.

The best candidates to go to Ningxia are naturally Li Dingguo and Zhang Guofeng, so Yun Zhao had to hold a banquet again and discuss the matter of running the Hetao with these two people.

"What should we do if we go to Yang Liu's follow?"

"They're not a problem!"

"It's not a problem, you mean that after we go, these two people will not exist?"

"Half a year ago, they didn't exist!"

Yun Zhao looked left and right and didn't see outsiders, so he said in a low voice.

Li Dingguo was stunned for a moment and said, "You killed it?" ”

Yun Zhao shook his head and said: "It was Duan Guoren, the chief of Ningxia Wei, who thought that these two guys had a tendency to abandon us to build the surrendered city alone, so he found someone to poison them, and the heads were sent in February, because they were top secret, so they didn't tell you." ”

Li Dingguo swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said, "Poisoned? ”

Yun Zhao nodded and said: "Duan Guoren thinks that this matter should not be made public, let alone let outsiders know, and if he wants to leave time to clean up these two people's henchmen, he can only use secret means."

I was going to give them eight months to calm these people.

It's a pity that Lantian County first turned over the dragon, and then the flood, which affected the workshop production, and the road was seriously damaged, and the business situation next year will be very poor, we must take precautions to find a new source of wealth for Lantian County.

After considering it, we thought that the Hetao was a good place, that it had been going well for many years, that the people had accumulated a lot of wealth, but that it had not been used effectively, and that the distribution of wealth there was very uneven, and that the power of the aliens was too great to be good for our rule.

After you pass, you must break down this barrier and support Duan Guoren's great cause of restructuring by force. ”

Li Dingguo took a sip of wine to calm down and said, "How is Duan Guoren going to restructure?" ”

Yun Zhao took a sip of wine and said lightly: "Juntian, Pingfu, take the surplus money to build a good Hetao, and wait for the immigrants in Guanzhong to eat." ”

Li Dingguo shook his head and said, "In other words, you want to fight those local tyrants and inferior gentry, right?" ”

Yun Zhao gave Li Dingguo, Zhang Guofeng poured the wine again and said: "The situation there is complicated, there are too many people who believe in Islam, we do not prohibit the belief of the people, but we do not tolerate someone to exploit the people in the name of the gods."

Over the years, Duan Guoren has cultivated some local imams who are well versed in Muslim teachings, and you have to support these new religious people and fight against the old, rotten, and degenerate religious people.

The eventual establishment of a new religious system that belongs to us is an extremely important task, and it is extremely important for us to march into the Western Regions in the future, and we can even say that they are the vanguard of our march to the Western Regions.

This is an extremely important part of the Lantian County system, you have to be cautious, Duan Guoren is a yin owl, he may not be likable when he speaks and does things, but you don't have to doubt his position.

He is a person who can shed his blood for my Lantian County. ”

Zhang Guofeng put down his wine glass and said, "How much authority do we have?" There is no scale for the degree of autonomy. In the event of a sudden**, can we improvise? ”

Yun Zhao said lightly: "Do it, the military plans there are all up to the two of you, you have to cooperate with Duan Guoren's work, and at the same time, Duan Guoren must also cooperate with you, Lantian County has always been the principle of non-interference between civil and military forces, but in the first stage, it is focused on Duan Guoren's work, I think, you should be able to grasp the scale." ”

Li Dingguo said softly: "Killing is inevitable. ”

Yun Zhao looked up at Li Dingguo and said, "That's what the army does." ”

Li Dingguo was silent, raised his wine glass and touched it with Yun Zhao, and drank it all.

Sending these two people away, Yun Zhao couldn't help but shake his head, the policy he implemented among the insiders was actually very troublesome, and there were many things that could be done, but he couldn't say it.

Once you get it thoroughly, it will lead to other troubles.

Duan Guoren made it very clear in the letter that Islam is extremely important and irreplaceable to Ningxiawei, and also said that the recognition of the human mind by the human mind is different, even if the appearance and language are the same, it will be stranger than a stranger.

It's better if there is a national concept, but unfortunately, in the Ming Dynasty, the Han people identify with their own family, and Hui Hui will only recognize their own religion.

Li Dingguo has no experience in dealing with this kind of thing, Yun Zhao is very worried that he will make a mess, but without Li Dingguo, others will be even more inexperienced, so it is better to let Li Dingguo go out.

Facts have proved that Yun Zhao bought Li Dingguo back with 20,000 taels of silver, what a bargain.

After Li Dingguo left Yun Zhao's big study, he quickly found Yunxiao, the chief of internal intelligence in Lantian County, and he asked Yunxiao to find someone for him in the shortest possible time.

After Yunxiao told Yun Zhao about this again, Yun Zhao happily slapped himself twice on the head, if he was a wise wild boar spirit before, then, in this matter, he was a real stupid pig.

To deal with the Hui people, it is naturally the best for the Hui people, and when they deal with each other, it is the contradiction of the ethnic group itself, and it has nothing to do with foreigners.

What Li Dingguo is looking for is his former colleague, Suide people - old back!

Lao Hui was also a hero, once led the soldiers and horses to Shaanxi, Ningxia, Shanxi, Henan, as far as Hebei, Hubei, when the prestige was at its peak, he commanded more than 30,000 soldiers and horses.

Since Li Hongji's defeat, Zhang Xianzhong, and Luo Rucai surrendered, Lao Huihui has disappeared, some people say that he has died of illness, but more rumors say that Lao Huihui still does not give up, and is still secretly accumulating soldiers, horses, food, and grass, preparing to make a comeback.

This person has a high reputation among the Hui people, and has the ability to respond to all calls.

Lao Huihui did not die, but he did not prepare for any comeback, but lurked in the northern foot of Funiu Mountain near Nanyang to recuperate, and he has not appeared for two years.

It is estimated that Zhang Bingzhong has been disheartened. ”

"Funiu Mountain!"

"That's right, Feng Ying's subordinates are in Funiu Mountain, however, Feng Ying is ready to make Funiu Mountain his lair, so he adopts a gentle attitude towards the people of Funiu Mountain, plus Lao Hui lives in a simple place on weekdays and never causes trouble, so he was missed by Feng Ying, if it weren't for Li Dingguo asking me to thoroughly investigate Lao Hui this time, I wouldn't know that he was under our noses."

Yun Zhao smiled and said to Yun Xiao: "Inform Li Dingguo!" ”

After the arrangement was completed, Yun Zhao ignored it anymore.

Under the fierce sun, the huge Guanzhong became a huge sauna room, and Yun Zhao was afraid that the massive amount of water vapor would fly into the sky and turn into rain and fall.

Fortunately, the clouds drifted away......

"Be sure to drink boiled water!"

Yang Xiong's voice was a little hoarse, and after seeing Yun Zhao, he subconsciously said the most said sentence these days.

"The river water is not drinkable, and the well water is dirty, so it must be boiled and drunk...... The white ash is spread on the ground, people can't sleep directly on the ground, and if they can dry the bed, they must be sun-dried, even if they don't dry, they must see the sun. ”

This is the most common thing that students at Yushan Academy say these days.

There are no mirrors in Lantian County anymore, and all the expensive glass mirrors made by the glass workshops here have been turned into solar stoves, which are carried by these students to those places where there is no coal and firewood cannot be burned.

The thick loess in Guanzhong finally absorbed all the excess water on the ground, which also indicates that the disaster has slowly passed.

For the first time in his life, Yun Zhao earnestly thanked the gods and Buddhas of Mantian, and thanked the gods for not letting the plague fall on Lantian County.

Everyone knows that the reason why Lantian County was able to escape this time was related to the large amount of coal stored in Lantian County, and only this thing could bring people a pot of boiling water and hot rice when the firewood was wet.

It is also clear that it is the result of the 3,000 students of Yushan Academy walking the streets and alleys to promote the health regulations, and it is also the reason why the Lantian County government has spent a lot of money and materials at any cost.

However, as long as people talk about the first contributor to disaster relief, they list the stone in front of the Yun Clan's gate as the first.

As a result, the boulder at the door of Yun Zhao's house was so strong that some people even advised Yun Zhao to build a "stone temple" here to satisfy the people's worship.

Yun Zhao naturally vetoed the nonsense of the stone protecting Lantian County for the first time.

But in this way, the stone was still wrapped in red silk and dressed like a bride, attracting more people's worship.

"When a woman asks for a son, she might as well ask me for this stone!"

Yun Zhao would inevitably be furious after hearing that many foolish men and women actually thought that touching this stone would help them conceive.

Feng Ying said faintly with a big belly that was about to give birth: "That's true, you have at least impregnated the two of us, you have experience." ”

"Mr. Xu's idea is not good, a stone will wipe out the efforts of my Lantian County officials and people, I really don't know what to do."

Qian Duoduo said with a smile: "This is Mr. Xu helping you shirk your responsibility, in a year, I dare to be more unlucky than my Lantian County, first the earth dragon turned over, and then it was the flood, if it wasn't for the manpower, there would be a big epidemic after the disaster, and the sentence would be verified in my Lantian County."

With this stone, although half of the credit is taken, but half of the responsibility is also taken, the next time we are unlucky, you will have at least one chance to anger the stone. ”

This truth Yun Zhao is naturally clear, but he is just depressed in his heart, and it is not good to discuss the gods with the two big-bellied women, so Yun Zhao naturally changed the topic and asked Feng Ying.

"Are you sure it's just these days?"

Feng Ying stretched out her hands and said, "The concubine body counts the days." There are still ten days left to go. ”

Yun Zhao set his eyes on Qian Duoduo again, and Qian Duoduo sighed and said, "There are still two months." ”

Yun Zhao nodded, looked at the two pot-bellied women, and suddenly felt as if he was entangled in a spider web, although this web was invisible, it really existed, and the knot that bound him firmly.

Men are born to be an animal yearning for freedom, after having a family, they are supported by a sense of responsibility, and after a long period of support, they will get used to it, and finally forget to resist.

Lao Hui's surname is Ma, and he doesn't know his name, maybe he doesn't have a name, and it's more likely that he doesn't want to say it.

This is very common among the rebellious people, Li Hongji and Zhang Bingzhong also used bandit names in their early years.

It's just that he thinks he is strong, so he uses his original name, or gives himself a louder, elegant and cultured name.

Lao Hui is not like this, even if he lives in seclusion at the foot of Funiu Mountain, he has adhered to his beliefs, and his name is still Lao Huihui, but in Daming, as long as people see Hui people, they will call it so, so it is not inconspicuous.

When Li Dingguo, Zhang Guofeng and the guards came to Lao Hui's mansion, it was noon.

The estate is neither large nor elaborate, almost a thatched, adobe complex.

In front of the door is a small stream, opposite the creek is a hundred and ten acres of fields, from the field of some sparse autumn grain to see, the land here is not a good land, should be the product of the land not long ago, want to become a good land, need many years of continuous fertilization, careful service to raise the land.

After a few days of running, even Li Dingguo felt a little tired, more than a dozen people washed their faces in the stream, and sat under a cypress tree like an umbrella cover and waited for someone to open the door to greet guests.

It didn't take much effort, a bearded man pushed open the chai door and walked out, came straight to Li Dingguo and said, "Little Wei Chi, did the eight kings order you to take my life?" ”

Li Dingguo glanced at the old man in surprise and said, "Why do you think so?" ”

Lao Hui replied: "Yun Zhi'er came once, but I beat him away. ”

Li Dingguo said: "What is Ainengqi looking for you?" ”

Lao Huihui laughed and said: "What else can I do, I want to go back to recruit the old department, return to the Eight Kings, and work for him." ”

Zhang Guofeng interjected: "Do you have the heart to be self-reliant? ”

Lao Hui glanced at Zhang Guofeng angrily and said, "Flying Harrier, you are not qualified to talk like this in front of you." ”

Li Dingguo smiled slightly: "So, are you going to die here?" “

Lao Hui looked back at the weapons of the guards around Li Dingguo and said: "The female king on the mountain is very good, as long as there is a little food, since you can survive here, there is no need to gather the sons and daughters to send your life, Xiao Wei Chi, you are a rare good person under the command of the Eight Great Kings, you know that you are not your opponent, but if you want me to be humiliated again with the Eight Great Kings, Lao Tzu will not do it, you kill me!" ”

Li Dingguo smiled bitterly and said, "How long have you not been out of the mountain?" ”

Lao Hui replied: "Three years and seven months." ”

Li Dingguo shook his head and replied to Lao Hui: "Kill the sheep, get me a meal of mutton in a water basin, I didn't have time to eat on the way." ”

"You're not going to kill me?"

"Who has the heart to kill your old goat, your rough skin and thick meat are not delicious, this time I will tell you something."

"It's okay to kill sheep and eat mutton in the water basin, but it's impossible to return to the Eight Kings."

Li Dingguo said lightly: "Someone has begun to plot against Ningxiawei, if you don't go out of the mountain, your clan will suffer heavy casualties, and if you want to continue to worship your god, I'm afraid there will be no chance." ”

Lao Hui sneered and said: "Our clan has been living in Qingyang and Ningxia for almost two hundred years, and I am used to seeing heroes and heroes, and I have never seen anyone who can wipe out our clan." ”

Li Dingguo looked at it and replied with some excitement: "This time, your clan is really in trouble. ”

"Who? Li Hongji or the Eight Kings? ”

"Yunzhao of Lantian County."

"This is impossible, he is rich in Lantian County, and I, who has not been out for three or four years, know that he owns the entire Guanzhong, and he will not look down on the poor land outside the Saiwai."

Li Dingguo was silent.

The old man returned for a while before he said in a trembling voice: "He is out of Tongguan is Henan with a horse and Pingchuan, he takes the Shu Road is the country of abundance, and he is the land of fish and rice like Hunan and Hubei to the south, what is he doing in the north?" ”

"People say that the land of the Hetao is plugged into the south of the Yangtze River, and he wants to take it down and plant rice."

Lao Huihui arched his hand to Li Dingguo for the first time and said: "Thank you for the report, I will go back and take the descendants to fight with the surname Yun." ”

Li Dingguo waved his hand and said: "Don't worry, don't worry, it's serious to beckon me to eat a bowl of mutton first." ”

"Do you have a second plan?"

"Yes!"

Li Dingguo followed the old man back into the courtyard, looked down at the carefully paved ground of the broken stone slabs and sighed: "It seems that you really want to live here for a long time." ”

Lao Huihui sighed and said: "If the Ming Dynasty could give us people a bite to eat, I would not have rebelled, and if I rebelled, I shouldn't have followed the eight kings to fool around, so that I was a good hero, because I said one more word that I was unwilling to surrender, I was smacked in the mouth."

Seeing that there is no shortage of water and soil here, I want to take the rest of the descendants to settle down here, but I didn't expect that I would toss again, and this time it seems that I have lived to the end. ”

As he spoke, he casually beckoned some offspring, dragged a sheep out of the sheepfold, and without saying a word, he peeled and washed a sheep in three or two clicks.

The mutton was thrown into the cauldron and boiled, and Lao Hui stuffed firewood under the cauldron while looking at the flames in a daze, and seemed to be very melancholy.

The mutton is very tender, and it doesn't take much effort to cook, Lao Hui tore off a leg of mutton and handed it to Li Dingguodao: "The things are not complete, you can't make exquisite things, make do with a meal." ”

Li Dingguo took a bite of mutton, and replied to the old man who was listening: "This time, the commander who led the troops to strangle Ningxia is me!" ”