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On the bank of the Shuishui River, a large group of people are helping the old and the young to go south along the river. From the elderly over seventy, to children under the age of ten, and even babies in swaddling clothes, they are hobbling south.

Li Chao arrived in Xiangyang, and homeless people began to appear in Shannan.

The autumn drought continued, there was no rain for a long time, and many crops had died of drought, leaving only the places near the river, and some places with wells were still barely maintained, but the crops were also withering day by day.

Some families who were already poor began to think of other ways when their crops died of drought and their families had no food to store. Some experienced elderly people began to take their families to leave their hometowns with their families and go to other places to join relatives and friends, preparing to leave their hometowns and escape the catastrophe.

There are also those who have no relatives to vote for, so they can only take their families and the little food they have left, and go south.

"Xiangguo, Dengzhou, and Tangzhou have reported that many sporadic victims have entered the territory."

Li Chao, who was dealing with official business, heard this, raised his head, and sighed.

What should have come is still coming.

Droughts, locust plagues, whatever the plague is, will eventually be a famine, and famine is most afraid of the displaced people. Once the hungry people leave their homes and start moving, it is even more terrible than a plague of locusts.

As soon as the plague of locusts gathered, they ate wherever they went, eating all the crops, even the leaves and grass.

But when the hungry people moved, it was even more terrible, because not only would they eat wherever they went, but they were also very prone to riots. In order to eat, they will ignore all rules and regulations, all laws and regulations.

Stealing, robbing, even murder and arson, eating and eating, the hungry do everything.

The most terrifying thing is that some places may be able to hold on, but after a large number of victims pour in, they will immediately eat up one place, and then the victims of that place will be forced to go to the next place with them.

When the locusts eat up the food, the hungry become locusts!

The already weak food reserves will definitely not be able to withstand the saturation attack of this group of hungry people, and wherever they go, they will have to collapse.

Therefore, for Li Chao, preventing the movement of hungry people has become the key to the key.

There are some orders that Li Chao doesn't want to give, but sometimes he has to give them.

Gritting his teeth, Li Chao let out a long sigh.

"Chuan Ben Xiang ordered all states and counties to prohibit the people from leaving the country, set up customs and cards, and not let anyone go!"

Famine is actually a plague that can spread to all places and people if not quarantined. After isolation, there is a chance to control and minimize the loss.

This kind of isolation, although it will be more effective, can also be cruel. When the people are hungry, they can't leave to find life, and can only be forced to stay there and wait for death, which is absolutely cruel.

But Li Chao now has to give this order and make this decision, because he has to think about more other people and can't let the loss be greater.

"Immediately step up the distribution of food, so that all localities can start distributing relief food!"

"Do you want to send it now?" Shangguan Yi asked in surprise.

It's still autumn, and the disaster hasn't really started yet, so it's a bit early to put grain now. Put the grain now, but what will happen when the real catastrophe comes?

"I can't wait, as a magistrate sent by His Majesty, a parent official, I can't watch the people under my rule starve to death. Let all localities start registering, and start putting grain now! ”

If you can't wait, you can't let the hungry people leave their hometowns, and if you don't give them food, you will really starve to death. The kind of thing that locks people up and starves to death, Li Chao can't do it.

After pondering for a moment, Li Chao said again, "Those who come to receive relief food must all have to check their identities. If there is indeed no food at home, then distribute relief food, and at the same time send the young and strong people who receive relief food to Dengzhou, and their women, children and elderly people stay in the local area and organize them to hunt locusts! You can't let them sit idle, but you have to make sure they have something to eat, at least twice a day! ”

"Even if you eat locust cakes, you have to let them eat seventy percent full!"

When you are full, everyone will not panic, you will not be chaotic, and you can obey the arrangements of the government.

The most important thing now is not to mess around.

The construction of Hankyung is about to begin!

But now Xiu Hanjing is no longer the top priority, Xiu Hanjing is just to centralize and manage those young and hungry people, so that they can have something to do and eat, so as not to get out of control.

"Xiangguo, if we start putting grain from now on, I'm afraid the food in our hands is far from enough." Wang Xuance also said on the side.

"I know that, but I can't watch them starve to death."

Li Chao thought for a while, "You go and talk to the families of those grain merchants in prison to see if they are willing to use grain to ransom people." If you wish, then give the food and bring the people home. Tell these bastards, be honest with me in the future, I will let them go this time, but if they do it again, don't blame me Li Chao is not polite. ”

It is true that Li Chao is usually open-minded towards businessmen, but this is also a premise. If the businessmen make money honestly, of course Li Chao will not get them. But if they dare to go against Li Chao and deliberately go against the tune, Li Chao will be ruthless when he is ruthless.

Especially at the moment, if it is on fire, it is really a mistake to kill and not let go.

This time, Li Chao spared them once.

"How much is the fine?"

"A fine of 100 stone grain per person!" Li Chao spit out a standard, which frightened Shangguan Yi, and fined 100 stones for violating a curfew and alcohol prohibition? A hundred stone of grain, that's a lot.

"Wang Xiao'an, don't let it go, continue to lock it up, seal up Hefeng Building, and fine the Feng family 3,000 stone grain!"

Shangguan Yi asked in a low voice, "When will it be closed?" ”

"Until he honestly repents, if he returns that attitude, I don't mind letting him sit through the prison!"

In troubled times, it should be re-enacted.

In the current situation, Li Chao has no time to talk to those people. Whoever dares to provoke him must be prepared to bear the consequences.

"Give orders to the military governments in various places, and summon some government soldiers to stand by in the military government."

"Xiangguo: What is this?" When a group of subordinate officials heard this, they were all startled, and mobilized the government soldiers, which was not an ordinary trivial matter. According to the Tang system, the government soldiers were engaged in agriculture in peacetime and went out on expeditions in wartime, and they also had to take on the tasks of going to Beijing and the military government as a town and taking turns to train in the military government.

In peacetime, there are military government commanders such as Commander Guo Yi and others who are responsible for management, but when the government soldiers mobilize more than 10 people to defend the area, they must have the order of the military department and the military order of the defense government.

No one can afford such consequences.

"It's just to make some preparations in advance and let the military government have more manpower. In the name of strengthening training, two more shifts can be transferred to train in the military government. ”

A military government, as few as eight hundred, as few as one thousand, as many as one thousand two hundred. In normal times, they are divided into several shifts, and they go to Beijing to go to Beijing, guard in the military government, go to the military government for training, and stay at home to work as a farmer, all of which come in turn.

In the military government, there are generally about two shifts of people in peacetime, and the number is not large.

And now Li Chao asked the military government to summon a few more classes of people for training, and asked the military government to keep at least half of the soldiers in the government.

"Don't worry, it's just that they have strengthened their training, and they haven't been transferred out of the mansion, and they don't need to be transferred by the imperial military department. Besides, I'm not an ordinary metropolitan governor, don't forget, I'm still a Xuanfu envoy, and when this Xuanfu envoy went out of Beijing, I was granted an expedient measure by His Majesty. ”

The expedient measure granted to Li Chao by Li Shimin was that in the event of a riot, rebellion, etc., he could immediately mobilize the government soldiers under his jurisdiction without first asking the imperial court for instructions.

There is no turmoil, Li Chao does not have the right to transfer troops, but it is no problem for them to train in the house. And once chaos breaks out, Li Chao can immediately dispatch these soldiers who have gathered in the mansion for training.

Li Chao has already begun to make preparations with both hands!

"It won't come to that point, will it?"

"Prepare for the worst first, so that you don't get to that point in a hurry!" Li Chao replied. (To be continued.) )