There is no doubt that Xingtai will come forward to help these Hebei refugees. It is not because of how many difficulties there are in reality, not whether it can be done, but because this is a fundamental matter of principle related to whether the Northern Expedition is a righteous war!

Therefore, after the front-line letters arrived one after another, and he became more and more aware of the changes in the situation in Xindu, Shen Mu immediately made a decision. Even if this will affect the overall strategic advancement of the Eastern Route Army, we must not give up these desperate Hebei Jin people, lest they lose confidence in Xingtai and the Northern Expedition of Wang Shi.

The Hebei people who were confident that they had fled were not only in the direction of Zaoqiang, but also in the direction of Guangchuan City, which was stationed between the eastern border of Xindu and Bohai County, and a large number of refugees appeared almost at the same time.

In this way, it can be ascertained that there was indeed a great change in the Sindu side of the state of Kan, and that the rout of the displaced people was not an act used by the state to cover up military acts. Because the current state of Qiang no longer has the ability to fight on multiple fronts, if the country's first soldiers are exhausted to attack Tobu Castle, it can still bring a threat to Tobu Castle, but if the division of troops is too much, even if it is pointless.

With such a large-scale rout, there is almost no possibility that the state of Qian deliberately used it to mislead the king. Population is the first element of warfare, and if the state still has such control over the displaced people, it can continue to confront and fight with the king with such a large population base, instead of creating a temporary fighter plane and actively driving the people to the enemy.

After determining that there was no national motivation behind the rout of the displaced people, Shen Mu turned his attention to the issue of relief for these refugees. Even if you don't consider the morality of the Northern Expedition, this is as many as hundreds of thousands of Hebei people!

The fall of the kingdom is a foregone conclusion, and if these hundreds of thousands of people are scattered in the wilderness and left to fend for themselves, I don't know how many people will survive the winter. This is the essence of the Jin people of Hebei, covering the huge population of several counties, once the timely relief is not received and a large number of tragic deaths in the wilderness, the future of Hebei counties will be deserted.

More importantly, this will make the people of Hebei completely lose trust in Xingtai, people's lives will wither, people's hearts will be scattered, and without people, where will the so-called Wang Zhi be attached?

As early as last year, when Wang's troops were approaching the Xindu of the Qiang State, the general sent a message to the front-line generals of all departments, putting forward two basic strategic ideas, one was to protect as much as possible the people of Hebei who had been forcibly expelled and gathered by the Xindu by the Qiang State, and the other was to eliminate the stubborn resistance forces of the Qiang State as much as possible. When these two objectives conflict, the latter must give way to the former.

Xingtai already has as many as hundreds of thousands of mature soldiers who dare to fight, and the killing of the living forces of the Qiang State can be carried out at any time, but these innocent people in Hebei are already suffering from the tyranny of the Qiang State, and they must not cause a large number of casualties on the eve of the Northern Expedition. If you can't be wiped out in a war, then you will continue to fight again, and if you die, you can't come back to life.

The truth is such a truth, but if it is really implemented, it is quite difficult. According to the current enemy situation, it can be determined that Xindu of the Kingdom of Qianguo is already in a mess, and the closest to Xindu at the moment is the Wang Shi of the East Road led by Shen Musuo. If the troops are raised at this time, it is conceivable that this great achievement of destroying the country will definitely be included in the pocket of the East Route Army.

However, at this point in the war, the reserves of the Eastern Road Wangshi were no longer sufficient, and it was no longer possible to meet the two tasks of attacking the army and providing relief to the refugees at the same time. At present, it is still early spring and February, and if you want to get supplies from the rear, you must at least wait until late spring and early summer. The two or three months of this period are inevitably uncertain.

When this predicament was in front of him, Shen Mu also had to sigh at the inhuman cruelty of Shi Hu.

Obviously, the state is declining day by day, and it is no longer possible to effectively control a large number of Hebei people, but it is still strong to gather such a large number of people outside the Xindu City, when this decision was made, Shi Hu, the lord of the Qian, probably foresaw that such a situation would occur, to create a dilemma for Wang Shi to save the people or kill the enemy, so as to create a time for his side to continue to retreat to preserve his strength through the collapse of the Jin people in the last moment of the war.

After realizing this, Shen Mu couldn't help but hate Shi Hu's viciousness and cruelty even more, and even couldn't control himself from raising troops to advance bravely, and after conquering Xindu, he personally stabbed this giant thief in Huzhong!

But now, for the sake of the lives of these hundreds of thousands of people in Hebei, he has to slow down the pace of the offensive, and even needs to completely stop the military operations of the East Road Wang Division. But even so, Tobu Castle's military reserves are still difficult to meet the needs of the people.

Although he has mainly held a military position since the northward journey, the experience of being in charge of Henan East Road in the previous years has also made Shen Mu no longer a pure martial artist who only knows how to fight waves. Relief is a necessity, but it needs to be carefully weighed in terms of methodology.

The Hebei people gathered around Xindu are actually not only the Jin people, but also the many people at the bottom of the Zahu family. Is it to distinguish Hu Xia, only save the Jin people, or to give relief in one piece?

After gathering a group of subordinates to discuss, Shen Mu still decided that it was not appropriate to emphasize the difference between Huayi at the moment, and all the people who came to invest regarded it as one and gave all the food.

Because the people fled without much organization, the Hu people and the Jin people had already been mixed and mixed, if there was still a strong division at this time, when those hopeless Hu people were desperate, there would inevitably be dying madness, once the riot was eroded, the people would be killed and injured, then the so-called relief would be meaningless, and there would definitely be much more people who died in the riots than those who were rescued.

Moreover, it is already a fact that there are many Hu people in Hebei, and the future of Xingtai is wide in the world, and this problem needs to be faced squarely but cannot be pursued. Vainly trying to completely eliminate the Hu people in Hebei in a very short period of time will have no hope of Hebei entering the country as soon as possible. The inner Yi will be edified, and the border Yi will be destroyed!

How to subdue and solve the problem of the country's lords in the future is a headache for the general. And for now, Shen Mu can only make sure to help as many of these people as possible.

In addition, the form of relief must not be as simple as giving food to relieve hunger. Moreover, Tobu Castle's reserves are also difficult to maintain for too long, and at the moment only some refugees are fleeing in this direction, once the news of Wang Shi's relief spreads, refugees from other directions will inevitably flock to it, which will increase the relief pressure several times.

Therefore, in the process of relief, it is necessary not only to provide real supplies, but also to give people hope for life, to instill the concept and understanding of the system in these people who have been in turmoil for a long time, and to evacuate the refugee group as much as possible. In this way, even if there is a temporary shortage of food, the chaos caused and the possibility of riots will be limited to a limited extent.

When this decision was made, Shen Musuo led the 10,000 troops to be halfway to Zaoqiang, and they chose a nearby place to station, and set up the front line of relief and pacification, and then continued to transport materials to the north in the direction of Dongwu City, and set up relief bases along the way, through which the refugees were channeled to Qinghe, Pingyuan and other places in southern Hebei.

Those places have already formed a preliminary order, and the experience and means of relief and resettlement of refugees must be much richer than that of the king of Tobu Castle. Moreover, through this kind of relief for refugees, we can better control consumption and help more people with limited food.

After deciding on the idea of relief, there is another important issue, that is, the problem of self-organized groups among the displaced people. This is almost as important and far-reaching as the relief of refugees, and the problem of many displaced people formed between Yongjia Nandu and Huaisi alone is enough to learn from this.

For example, those exile marshals who had a profound impact on the Jiangdong Dynasty in the early years, such as Xi Jian, Liu Yao, Su Jun and others, were able to grow stronger in the process of moving south, either through personal moral inspiration or through armed annexation, and constantly brought impact to the order of Jiangdong. Regardless of whether the result is good or bad, the power of these outcasts is a problem that cannot be ignored.

Although the problem of the homeless people in Xuzhou has been perfectly solved, the twists and turns in this are really inexhaustible. And Shen Mu's consideration is simpler, in order to rescue these fleeing Hebei refugees, he even gave up the opportunity to attack Xindu, and gave up his merits, in order to establish a line of power among the displaced people, because he absolutely did not allow those rural heroes to steal this self-fattening!

One grain and one meter, all of them are gifts from the line, every wisp of it, all of which are the general's benevolence. Whoever has any greedy thoughts in this regard, and who stretches out his hands and feet, will cut off as much as he wants.

Therefore, before starting the relief, Shen Mu first recruited the Hebei township sages in the camp of Dongwu City, and each gave them temporary ministries and made it clear to these people, so they had to be used, because they were still virtuous, and after they took up their new duties, they must also deeply recite the envy of the Xingtai chapter system, and be responsible for the Xingtai.

Of course, mere stern admonitions still cannot put an end to the trend of stealing morality from the country. After these Hebei people went to various places, Shen Mu arranged for a group of cronies to rush to different relief sites, and the task of these people was very simple, that is, to ask the refugees in Hebei about their characters when they were here to receive relief.

Once a certain name frequently appears in the words of praise of these homeless people, it must be a local wish and a thief, and he will be immediately imprisoned and punished! You are in charge of the ministry of Xingtai, responsible for the relief matters arranged by Xingtai, and Xingtai has its own meritorious rewards, but as a result, the displaced people do not boast of the benefits of Taiwan, but praise the virtuous and virtuous villagers.

The people are simple, and once they feel that they have received the favor of some people, it is human nature to remember that they will not forget, and they are willing to proclaim such virtues. However, after Shen Mu took such tough measures, the praise of the villagers who were originally the most loved by the villagers became a rope tightly around their necks.

And the wide range and scale of the people who need relief this time also make this kind of rural voice collection have a high degree of fairness, not in vain, and it is not good to kill.

For a time, these Hebei villagers were also in danger and complaining about their suffering, lest they be burdened by the old reputation. Now they have no room to resist at all, and the collapse of the kingdom is imminent, and it is a fact that a large number of people have fled. Only Xingtai and only Wang Shi can provide a way for these endangered people to live, and even if they want to use the prestige of their hometown to make waves, they can't do it at all.

After arranging these relief matters properly, Shen Mu wrote a detailed record and presented it to the general in the back.

When this book was delivered to the general, it was already March, and the general had already left Yecheng to arrive in Guangzong, and after reading this letter in detail, the general was already overjoyed, and couldn't help but praise the left and right: "This brother of my family has already won the demeanor of the society!" ”

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