Chapter Seventy-Three: Resilient People's Livelihood

"After the autumn harvest this year, Lantian County will no longer repair water conservancy, pave roads, and start building fortresses, and it will take two years to turn Lantian County into a fortress.

I will leave any thief who wants to enter this land and rob the people of the fruits of their labor without a place to be buried.

It doesn't matter who it is! ”

"You're trespassing."

"Jiannu is about to knock on the customs, you are about to be recalled by the emperor to Beijing to defend Beijing, you don't have time or opportunity to question the affairs of Lantian County."

Sun Chuanting sighed and said, "Without five or six years, you can't build a fortress group. ”

Yun Zhao looked at Sun Chuanting thoughtfully and said, "Five or six years is enough, to tell you, the reason why I want to establish such a fortress group is not to prevent others, but to lock up my own ambition with this fortress group." ”

Sun Chuanting said in surprise: "Can you continue to endure for five or six years?" ”

Yun Zhao said impatiently: "If Jiannu doesn't enter the customs, I will continue to be patient!" ”

"What happened after Jiannu entered the customs?"

Yun Zhao laughed and said: "All of you people are unreliable, Lao Tzu can only rely on himself, and the people dare not count on you, when the time comes, our own homeland, we will protect it ourselves, and we will let Jiannu know that there are people in this land who are willing to sacrifice their lives to protect their families." ”

"In that case, why are you unwilling to send troops to cooperate with Yang Sichang to exterminate the Xiangyang thieves? After getting rid of Zhang Bingzhong, the northwest is determined! ”

Yun Zhao looked at Sun Chuanting with a smile and said, "Have you settled the people?"

Have you allowed the people to live in peace?

Have you found a way for the people to live? ”

Sun Chuanting shook his head and said, "This matter has to be considered in the long run. ”

"Think long-term?

Do you think the kids who are boiling in the pot will wait for you to think about it in the long run?

Do you think those starvations with only one breath left can wait for you to think about it in the long run?

Or do you think that those homeless people who sell their children and wives to wait for their last bite of food can wait for you to think in the long run?

If they are not well settled, it is pointless to kill as many thieves as they want...... Because...... You'll always have a thief you can't kill.

Xiantang, hair like a leek, cut back to life, head like a chicken, cut back to sound, this sentence is not a legend in Daming, but something that is really happening.

You are the governor of Shaanxi, and after taking office, you didn't ask a word about the national economy and people's livelihood, and you began to train your Qin army as soon as you came over.

As soon as he came over, he asked the people of Shaanxi for food and wages, used the money and grain of the Shaanxi people to train the Shaanxi people, and then used the trained Shaanxi people to kill the Shaanxi people who rebelled because they could not survive.

Don't you think there's a big problem here?

The Yun clan is from Shaanxi, so we don't like to kill our own people, as long as they don't come to harm us, we have no interest in killing them.

We are waiting, and when they find out that the rebellion still has no way to eat and live a good life, they will come over on their own.

At this time, we are giving them a little land, a little seed, some tools, and they will become ordinary people again. ”

Sun Chuanting said: "Don't they have to be punished for rebellion and murder? ”

Yun Zhao smiled, pointed at Sun Chuanting and said: "You don't understand thieves, thieves who kill people and taste the sweetness of blood will not be willing to come back to farm."

Therefore, all those who are willing to come back to farm are people who don't want to kill people, and if these people are separated from the thieves, the thieves will have no strength, and they will be a group of relatively strong horse thieves.

This is the way to suppress bandits in Lantian County. ”

Sun Chuanting arched his hand and said: "I want to hear about it!" ”

Yun Zhao said: "It's not too late, we still have time to go to the shelter in Lantian County to see the miserable appearance of the people under your rule." ”

"What's in Lantian County...... Hospice? ”

"That's right, in the homeless shelter, all the displaced people who enter Lantian County must be examined, as long as they are honest people, after staying here for ten days, they can enter Lantian County to make a living.

One is to isolate it, so that no epidemic will be brought into Lantian County, and second, to identify the displaced people, those who participate in the rebellion may be treated differently, and make sure that he no longer wants to rebel, so he will give others a way to live. “

Yun Zhao washed his face, asked the servants to bring the war horses, and together with Sun Chuanting, he took the guards to the left side of Phoenix Mountain.

Liu Ru cut her hair short, wrapped her chest with a cloth belt, put on her deceased husband's clothes, spoke in a thick voice, and her figure was already taller than ordinary women, so on the wandering road, everyone thought she was a young man.

Although Liu Ru is a woman, she has a lot of strength, and all her belongings are only a wheelbarrow, with her thin mother-in-law sitting on the left and her young daughter sitting on the right, and all their belongings piled up in the middle of the wheelbarrow.

As the road became flatter and smoother, and there were more and more pedestrians on the road, Liu Ru's heart that had been hanging for a long time slowly let go.

"Dad, I'm hungry!"

Her daughter is used to calling her father, which makes Liu Ru very sad.

"Son, there is still half a piece of bread, give it to the girl."

Liu Ru glared at her daughter and said to her mother-in-law: "Mother, she can hold on, you haven't eaten for two days, and when you get under the big tree in front, we will rest and you can eat something." ”

The mother-in-law sighed weakly and said, "Always immortal, grab something to eat with your good granddaughter." ”

Liu Ru said with a smile: "Mother, we have entered Lantian County, and I heard that when we arrived at the shelter, there was something to eat, and I couldn't be hungry with Nannan." ”

The mother-in-law said: "How can you not be hungry, child, if you can't find a way to live in Lantian County, you can take the child to look for it, and your mother can live by begging for food alone." ”

Liu Ru gritted her teeth and remained silent, pushing the wheelbarrow hard and continuing to move forward.

Finally arrived under the big tree, Liu Ru walked from Xiangyang to Lantian County step by step through such a small goal.

Putting down the wheelbarrow, Liu Ru sat on the ground, as if she had fallen apart, picked up the water hyacinth and drank half of the gourd water, so that the cooing stomach settled down.

Seeing her mother-in-law and daughter eating the last half of the cake, Liu Ru stood up and said to her mother-in-law, "Mother, I'll go to the locals to inquire about how to get to the shelter." ”

"Don't go far."

"Got it, mother."

There were some tall crops growing in the field not far from the big tree, and when he saw an old man in the field hoeing under the sun, he said loudly: "Uncle, the boy has something to ask." ”

The old man looked up at Liu Ru and said expressionlessly: "Go to the shelter and walk two miles west from here." ”

Without waiting for Liu Ru to thank him, the old man lowered his head and continued to loosen the corn soil, it seemed that there were many people who asked him about the way, and the old man was used to it.

Liu Ru was about to leave, but the old man straightened up again and said, "Wait." ”

Liu Ru looked at the old man strangely, only to see the old man raise his hand to break off two cobs of corn from the corn stalk, and without peeling the skin, he handed it to Liu Ru and said: "The crops are not ripe yet, now they are broken off and spoiled with food, and they are used to satisfy their hunger, and when they arrive at the shelter, they will have porridge to drink." ”

Liu Ru took this strange crop, thanked the old man, and listened to the old man: "This is called corn, it is our new grain in Lantian County, and it is not ripe now, but it can be eaten, don't peel the skin, just wear it on the branches and roast it to eat, it tastes good." ”

After speaking, he waved his hand to signal Liu Ru to leave, and did not mean to get close to her, even when he gave her corn just now, the two tried not to touch.

Liu Ru thought that she was being found out in a woman's pretending to be a man, but after carefully looking at the old man's expression, she didn't feel like it, so she came back confused.

"Mother, we have food to eat, the old man gave it just now."

The mother-in-law didn't know the two cobs of corn that Liu Ru was holding in her arms, but she said happily to Liu Ru: "We have arrived at a good place, the people here are kind-hearted." ”

Seeing the girl's hungry and thirsty appearance, Liu Ru quickly lit a fire on the side of the road, and put it on the fire to barbecue with branches and corn.

At this time, the sun gradually rose, and the great sun in Guanzhong hung in the sky and scorched the earth.

The sweet aroma of roasted corn gradually dissipated, and the stomachs of the family of three growled.

Until the outer skin of the corn was scorched, and the yellow corn kernels inside were exposed, Liu Ru deftly turned the corn to prevent the corn kernels from being scorched, until the corn was completely roasted, Liu Ru gave it to the greedy girl and the hungry mother-in-law, and ate a small half of it herself.

After only eating a bite of roasted corn, Liu Ru said to her mother-in-law: "Mother, how about we use roasted corn as a way to live in the future?" ”