On the outskirts of the southern part of the city, more than a dozen camps have risen from the ground, and a large number of refugees have been crammed into each camp.

After the first few days of recuperation, the able-bodied of the refugees were organized and began to work on the fortifications. After several rounds of trampling, Jiankang City was mostly dilapidated, with a large number of house wreckage and mounds of earth and stones piled up in the city, some of which were remnants of the rebels and some of which were deliberately barricades by the defenders. At this time, it is natural to clean it up.

Once the work began, the earlier food supply was somewhat inadequate. After the initial gratitude for salvation faded, many complaints began to appear among the refugees, such as the soup was not thick, the labor was too heavy, and especially the devastated capital made them lose hope for the future, and for a while the mood was even more depressed, and even the enthusiasm for work gradually faded.

Naturally, the guards will not be polite to these refugees, scolding and urging are just polite, and it is common to beat and scold at every turn: "You poor people, you are lucky to survive, it is already the grace of the court, and the horse is noble!" If you dare to slack off and work slowly, what's the use of living! ”

A man was pushed and knocked on the gravel pile, blood was smeared all over his face in an instant, and a guard stepped forward to beat and scold, which immediately caused public anger, and several strong men stepped forward to push the soldier away, and couldn't help but stare and roar angrily: "The vegetable soup is not as light as clear water, and you can't raise your strength in the first place, you soldiers force people to death, aren't you afraid of the horses asking for guilt!" ”

Seeing the surging emotions of the crowd, the guard couldn't help but retreat, still shouting: "Do you think that the current meals are all for nothing? Although the horse has benevolence and righteousness, but it is also an edict, if it cannot be completed on time, the horse will also be blamed and retreat! At that time, there will be another overseer in Taichung, and you will know what the real hardship is! ”

Hearing this, the people's emotions couldn't help but be restrained, they may not know many things that are too profound, but they know that when the horses are like the middle again, they refugees are just waiting for death in the capital, and they will not have a bite to eat until the horses return to the capital!

This alone makes the colt irreplaceable in their hearts, and they don't want to let someone who doesn't know the suffering of the small people oversee the work because of their own slackness.

"But, even if we are asked to rush to work, why do we have less food and more food, while we don't have enough to eat, and we can't rest day and night?"

There are still people who do not complain that people do not suffer from poverty but suffer from inequality, and they have indeed seen it with their own eyes, and the treatment of refugees in different camps is also divided into several levels.

"Those people are skilled craftsmen, if you can do their work, and eat the food in their stoves? It's only to blame you for not having skills, and you have to blame for it! ”

Similar disputes occasionally occurred, and a large amount of dissatisfaction was gradually transmitted to Shen Zhezi.

In this regard, he did not have a good solution, so he simply hinted that the people below should rush to work for two days, and only after all kinds of discontent had spread to a certain extent in many camps, and even after there was a bloody incident of resistance to work, he asked some prisoners in the camp to change into guard clothes and behead them, and the heads were transmitted to the battalions, and by the way, the normal intensity of work was restored, and the dissatisfaction was alleviated.

Any number, once stacked up to a certain amount, will have an amazing effect.

Shen Zhezi returned to the capital in mid-January and began to deal with the relief of the capital, and only at the end of January did he barely sort out a rough idea. And the 300,000 Hu disaster relief rice grains that arrived with him in Gyeonggi are also about to run out.

But fortunately, the basic context has been sorted out, and the focus of the next matter has shifted from relief in the early stage to the reconstruction of order after the disaster.

Shen Zhezi returned to his hometown and went into hiding for several months, and it is true that his fame has climbed to a peak, but criticism is not without criticism. Especially after he returned to the capital, even if Taichung Xuan issued a decree, those who should not be confined forever after the three levies.

It can be said that this decree has removed the room for each family to wait and see the current situation and wait for the time to come out, and it is true that the promulgator of the decree, Wang Dao, has been greatly criticized. And Shen Zhezi, as the initiator, is actually a big loss of reputation.

But this is really not a serious matter for Shen Zhezi, in previous years, he did cherish his feathers and invite fame, but that was in the case of insufficient strength, and now his status in the current situation is no longer determined by fame. There is never a shortage of commentators in this world, and there is always a need for people who can do things.

After returning to the capital, he first took over the most difficult problems at the moment, and made achievements in a very short time. Now that most of the area in the south of the city has been cleared, and the displaced people have gradually returned to their hometowns, things are finally on track.

To be able to solve the problem of most of the cold winter in Taichung in such a short period of time, first of all, it is naturally because Shen Zhezi brought sufficient materials. Shen Zhezi has been in the township for a few months, and he is not idle, the most important thing is to visit the various families of the business alliance.

Although most of these families in Wuzhong are in the Shang Alliance, they do not need to completely bow down to the Shen family, and they also have their own independence. If Shen Zhezi can't come up with a plan that satisfies them, they can also stay out of the matter.

This is determined by the long-term feudal style in Wuzhong, even if the old Wusun clan that divided Jiangdong back then, it was just the leader of the Jiangdong alliance. During his reign, Sun Quan launched a series of coups d'état, using all conspiracies and killings, but still could not completely disintegrate the local power of the Jiangdong clan.

In addition to the support of the villagers, another very important reason is that Shen Zhezi has a set of administrative teams with extremely high execution and efficiency. This team is based on the audit team when he was in charge of the family in his early years, and now the scale has reached hundreds of people, and it is also matched with many members of his family and protégés.

The reason why the wealthy family has strong township capital is not only reflected in the acres and people they own, but also in the right to speak on local affairs.

Taking the Shen family as an example, excellent clansmen like Shen Zhezi and his father Shen Chong worked in a foreign land to protect the family's source of privileges. Others, on the other hand, lived in the township for a long time, serving as a large number of subordinate members at the county level to ensure that the privileges were enforced and little by little transformed into the real power of the family.

An efficient and professional audit team ensures the rapid entry of information, while those who have served as subordinate officials for a long time and are proficient in specific business operations ensure the decision and implementation of each initiative.

From this point of view, the main source of power for high-ranking families like the Langya Wang clan is the sharing of imperial power. However, a novel portal like the Shen family, in addition to being able to share the imperial power, also has extensive local support!

In short, the Gyeonggi disaster situation that had been trapped for a long time by Wang Dao and other Taichung princes was solved by Shen Zhezi calmly.

Shen Zhezi has never believed in rewarding meritorious deeds, especially when the imperial court has lost its credibility, so in the process of disaster relief, he has begun to dig out profit points.

Hundreds of thousands of people affected by the disaster are regarded by others as a great trouble, a problem that cannot be solved. Especially these low-level people are soft-spoken, even if they come forward to help and are grateful, they are not enough to have an immediate impact on fame. For many people, it is better to organize a conversation or two and meet with a few celebrities at the moment.

But in Shen Zhezi's view, these victims are a huge treasure trove, an opportunity to requisition manpower in a big way. In addition to the extensive strong labor among the refugees, the most valuable thing for Shen Zhezi is a large number of skilled craftsmen!

In such a relatively primitive agricultural atmosphere in the Middle Ages, large-scale urban agglomeration of population, in addition to relying on developed farming, must also have a rich handicraft industry! In addition to the displaced people from other areas and some farmers in the suburbs, artisan households account for a considerable proportion!

Since ancient times, the craftsmanship of the north has been much better than that of the south, even after a few hundred years. The reason why the handmade products of the Shen family can ensure high quality is because Shen Zhezi brought some skills and research and development with accurate goals, which does not mean that the overall craftsmanship of the south has surpassed that of the north.

Before the rebellion, Shen Zhezi bought a property in Qu'a and was also vigorously recruiting craftsmen, but in fact, the results were not high. Compared with the Shen family of Wuzhong, these artisans from the south trusted the imperial court and those overseas Chinese with their old surnames, and the imperial court was also vigorously recruiting these artisans to settle around Jiankang City.

Coupled with the competition of those overseas Chinese portals, the Shen family has never been too competitive, and there has always been a huge employment gap. To a certain extent, this also limited the growth of the Shen family's various industries. The operation of a high-end market like Nanyuan, in addition to giving full play to its own technical advantages, is actually a helpless choice.

Shen Zhezi's premise for overseeing disaster relief matters is to have completely independent powers outside the administrative structure of Taicheng, on the one hand, he is unwilling to deal with the inefficient temples and offices in Taichung, and on the other hand, he is also to be able to select artisans more freely.

Artisan households that can have a skill are usually registered in a separate register to distinguish them from ordinary civil registration management, and the imperial court has to review them every year, and if the number of artisan households decreases, the officials in charge of management usually have to suffer criminal responsibility. Therefore, even if it is a big family, it cannot be like a shade of ordinary dingkou, and it will not be able to engulf these craftsmen in a big way.

However, after the Liyang army broke through Jiankang, a large number of books were burned, including these craftsmen! So Shen Zhezi's current state is like a rat falling into a rice tank, and a large number of artisan households in the capital have been screened out from the refugees, and he can recruit as he pleases!

So when the refugees' registers were sorted out, more than 1,000 of the original artisans disappeared from the registers! And a considerable part of them are the most strict smelting and casting craftsmen in the imperial court. Once these craftsmen selected a certain scale, they were immediately sent by ship to Shen Zhezi's Wujiang Marquis Kingdom.

Nowadays, rice is expensive, and the price of young women and the like is only between three or five buckets. But a skilled craftsman in the prime of life, the price is more than ten times higher. And this kind of slave will not appear in the market on a large scale at all.

These populations shaded by Shen Zhezi are already a huge wealth in themselves, and if they are added with some other supporting inputs, within a year or two, they will be able to develop a set of military industry with huge production capacity in his Hou Kingdom!