Chapter 1158: Refugees (Page 1/1)

Wuguan.

Xu Shu stood on the city wall with his hands behind his back, looking at the refugee team under the city being inspected and entering the city, his eyes were cold.

The drought in Guanzhong has become more and more serious, and the imperial court has not been effective in disaster relief, and many refugees have chosen to flee from Guanzhong. Compared with the wave of refugees in previous years, the number of refugees this time is not so large, and the order is relatively orderly. First, the refugees have experience in fleeing and are not as panicked as they were at the beginning; Second, they all knew that as long as they entered the martial arts, their lives would be saved. Less is not less, at least one bowl of gruel is wrapped in the stomach every day.

In normal times, this bowl of gruel is insignificant. But now, this bowl of gruel can save lives and allow them to enter the hinterland of Nanyang alive.

The people of Guanzhong heard the wind and came, and every day before Wuguan was overcrowded, and the cauldron of cooking porridge was almost idle, not only consumed a lot of food, but even firewood was a heavy burden. Xu Shu thought of a way and sent someone to the front to post a notice, and all the refugees who could bring thirty catties of firewood could get an extra bowl of porridge.

As soon as the news broke, the refugees flocked to the nearby mountains to cut their wages. Thirty catties of firewood is not heavy, but there is no burden when you go out, let alone these hungry refugees. The problem of firewood was solved, but soon it was reported that someone had abandoned a child who couldn't walk for the sake of firewood. After Xu Shu received the news, he had to send someone to the front to report that anyone who abandoned his child was not allowed to enter Wuguan.

The situation of abandoned children has been curbed, and even so, many children are abandoned every day and thrown into ravines to die. When adults can't live, who can take care of children. The child can be reborn when he is gone, but he really has nothing left when he dies. In the face of life and death, any moral preaching pales in comparison.

As a martial arts guard, Xu Shu also bears a heavy psychological burden. He also wanted to save everyone, but he knew it couldn't be. In order to accept these refugees into the customs, Zhang Hong and others went around asking for help and loans, and had already looted the savings of several surrounding counties, just waiting for the autumn harvest to make up for it. If the autumn harvest is not satisfactory, there will be a famine in Nanyang this winter.

What is even more critical is that once the Guanzhong army invades, Wuguan does not have enough food to hold onto, and there will be a danger of falling.

After guarding the Wuguan for several years, Xu Shu has never been under so much pressure today.

"Xu Duwei, Xu Duwei!" Suddenly, there was a loud cry from the ranks of the city. Xu Shu followed the sound and saw that it was a middle-aged man, holding a white-haired old woman beside him, and a middle-aged woman holding a child in her hand, carrying one on her back, and a thin boy of thirteen or fourteen years old standing on the side. The middle-aged man was carrying a large wooden box on his back, which was somewhat familiar, and he should have seen it. He waved his hand and asked the soldier to let the middle-aged man come over.

The soldier let him go, and the middle-aged man was overjoyed, and while supporting the old woman, he beckoned his wife to follow. The family squeezed through the crowd and into the city amid countless envious glances. The middle-aged man settled his family under the city, carried a wooden box on his back, and came to Xu Shu. Seeing Xu Shu looking at him suspiciously, knowing that Xu Shu couldn't remember who he was, he immediately unloaded the wooden box, put it on the ground, untied a few straw ropes wrapped around the box, and revealed more than a dozen iron-striking tools.

Seeing these familiar standard tools, Xu Shu remembered. "You're a craftsman from Nanyang Wood Academy, right?"

"yes, yes." The craftsman was overjoyed, and as he responded, he took out a small cloth bag from the box and opened it carefully. In the cloth bag is a wooden waist card, with Nanyang Wood School written on the front, and the name and rank of the craftsman written on the back: Uncle Pu, B-class 1.

Xu Shu took the waist card, checked it, and couldn't help laughing. He remembered. This craftsman came all the way from Nanyang with his mother, the craftsmanship is good, he is a second-class craftsman of the wood school, and he once came to Wuguan with the master craftsman Mo Ze to help build the city, and he was quite trusted by Mo Ze. As soon as he heard that Guanzhong hired a craftsman with a high salary, he immediately resigned and wanted to go back to Guanzhong to make a fortune, Mo Ze was furious, scolded him fiercely, and announced that he would break off his friendship and never see him again.

"Why are you back again, Guanzhong is not good?"

"Well, don't mention it." Uncle Pu has been out for a long time, and he is very thick-skinned, so he doesn't feel ashamed at all. "Originally, it was okay, but Guanzhong has been affected by the disaster recently, and various workshops have begun to reduce wages, and some simply don't give any money. I think about it, it's better to go back to Nanyang, with my skills, it's more than enough to feed a family. ”

Xu Shu smiled: "That's right, I'm afraid that Master Mo won't accept you." Stay with me for now, I don't have a blacksmith here. ”

"Uh......" Uncle Pu touched his head. Du Wei can afford me, it's okay for me to stay, but can I let my family go to Nanyang first? Even if it's my son alone. ”

"Why?"

"My son's name is Pu Yuan, he is fifteen years old this year, and he should have enrolled in school a long time ago, but the big families in Guanzhong looked down on craftsmen, saying that my son was born to strike iron and did not let my son go to school. I thought that even if it was iron, it would have to be knowledgeable, isn't Master Huang a scholar? If you don't read or learn, you can't be a real master. They didn't let my son study, so I went to Nanyang. If I have the opportunity to worship under Master Huang, my son will definitely be better than me in the future. ”

Speaking of his son, Uncle Pu's eyebrows fluttered, his face was full of red light, and he couldn't see the appearance of fleeing from the gate just now. Xu Shu's heart moved, and he thought of his mother's nagging, and felt that it was time for him to marry a wife and have children.

"Then I won't keep you, you better go to Nanyang first, don't delay your son's future." Xu Shu made a joke and ordered someone to go through the customs clearance procedures for Uncle Pu, and took advantage of his free time to call Pu Yuan over and ask a few words. Although Pu Yuan was thin and a little timid, he was very clever and answered clearly. Xu Shu was very surprised, and specially gave Uncle Pu a piece of paper so that their family could take a stagecoach to Nanyang. After the autumn harvest, Nanyang County School will prepare for enrollment, and there are many people who sign up, and it is difficult for Puyuan to have the opportunity to enroll.

Uncle Pu was overjoyed, pulled Pu Yuan to the ground, and kowtowed Xu Shu twice.

Just picked up Uncle Pu's father and son, someone came to report that the envoy of the imperial court came. Xu Shu didn't dare to slack off, and immediately went down to the city and rushed outside the city with his personal guards. There were too many refugees in front of the city gate, and they couldn't give way to the envoy for a while, so the envoy Zhao Wen could only stop outside the city and wait for Xu Shu to clear the way. Seeing that Xu Shu rushed over with someone, Zhao Wen was a little strange.

"Are you Captain Guandu? If you don't know the way to let me pass, what's the use of coming out? ”

Xu Shu is not in a hurry. "I'll see what edict you've brought. If it weren't for the edict we were waiting for, you wouldn't have to enter the customs and go back to Chang'an directly. ”

Zhao Wen was furious. "How can this be reasonable, you, a Guan Du Lieutenant, dare to stop the envoy of the imperial court, you want to read the edict, do you want to resist the edict?"

Xu Shu was not in a hurry and smiled slightly. "What's the matter, it's okay to fake the edict, the messenger wants to detain me for a big crime first?"

Zhao Wen was speechless, his face was blue and red for a while. He flicked his sleeves and shouted: "Let me ask you, there is a great drought in Guanzhong, and the people are waiting to be fed, why the 300,000 stone grain promised by General Sun has not been shipped." Don't lie to me, I know that the grain is in Wuguan. ”

Xu Shu smiled and pointed to the refugee team on the side. "Aren't these people all the people of Guanzhong, and don't giving them disaster relief?" Without waiting for Zhao Wen to speak, he flicked his sleeves and shouted in a deep voice: "I'm sorry, I'm just a lieutenant of a single pass, and I can't control things like the imperial court and edicts." The order I received was that the verdict of Yuan Shao's rebellion case would not be issued within a day, and not a grain of grain should pass through Wuguan. If you have an edict, I invite you to enter the customs. If you don't have an edict, you don't have to waste time, please go back to the customs and ask for the edict. ”

After speaking, Xu Shu arched his hand, turned around and left.

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