Zhu Dadian, as the governor of Shandong, naturally did not want to see this scene appear. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Xia Nan offered to be willing to transport away the hungry people to maintain the stability of Shandong, Zhu Dadian was happy to see it, and handed over the matter of helping the hungry people to Xia Nan to do, and at his request, sent Xie Sanbin to co-organize.

Sheltering the hungry requires food and money. The problem of money has never been something that Xia Nan is worried about, let alone making a windfall after capturing the money of the rebel fleet. As for the problem of grain, Dengzhou was originally a collection and transportation place for grain and salary in the northern border towns, and there were a lot of grain and grass reserves, and Li Jiu became a big rear to consolidate Dengzhou, and the grain plundered in various parts of Shandong was transported back to Dengzhou City, and the rebels could not take all of them away when they fled in a hurry, so there was not much pressure to settle some hungry people.

For the hungry, as long as there is a place to get by, a mouthful of hot porridge to satisfy the stomach, it is a great thing. Under the impetus of Zhu Dadian and under the personal supervision of Xie Sanbin, the prefectures and counties in Shandong disseminated news in the name of the government to guide the refugees to Dengzhou on their own -- the fewer hungry people in the area under their jurisdiction, the better it would be for the local officials, and they naturally spared no effort.

Xie Wenjun proposed to Xia Nan to set up porridge sheds along the official road from Qingzhou and Laizhou to Dengzhou, so as to prevent the hungry people from not having enough physical strength to walk to Dengzhou alive, which was adopted by Xia Nan and Xie Sanbin. Therefore, the soldiers of the Qiongzhou battalion, together with the officials of Dengzhou, Laizhou, Qingzhou and other prefectures, set up porridge sheds on official roads in various parts of the three prefectures to replenish the physical strength of the hungry people on the way.

On a gloomy afternoon, near Huangxian County, a large number of hungry people were slowly moving forward.

This group of hungry people numbered about six or seven hundred, men, women, and children, and the ranks were large and mixed, looking loose and disorganized, but in fact they were also somewhat organized. Roughly with the village and clan as the core, the state of the group within the group is formed. Young men walked on the periphery, with old and weak women and children in the middle, mixed with wheelbarrows loaded with tattered household goods and food. Sometimes people who can't walk and are infirm can sit in the car for a while.

There are also those who are marginalized, completely excluded from the periphery of the crowd, without rest and help, and gradually fall behind into a corpse by the side of the official road, except for the very strong.

Although the group of hungry people formed the core of clans and villages, there was a man with a strong body in the team who stood out, and some old men who seemed to be able to give orders to the hungry people surrounded her, asking him from time to time whether to stop and rest for a while or continue walking.

"Brother Ma, it's not far from Huang County here, the villagers have been gone for a day, are you begging the official to let us go into the county seat to take a breath?"

"Yes, the rebels have been wiped out, and I heard that Huangxian County has also been recovered, so you should be able to let us enter the city, right?"

The man was looking ahead, as if looking for something. Compared to the ragged, grizzled hungry people around him, his sturdy and muscular physique looked particularly impressive, and the constant running around did not make him as vegetable, skinny as the hungry people around him.

Hearing the questions of the old people around him, he shook his head: "Although Huangxian County has been recovered by the imperial court, it is impossible to let so many of us enter the county seat, and the officials are afraid of gathering too many people to cause a civil uprising." I heard that the new governor and governor of Shandong have set up porridge sheds in Qingzhou and Laizhou, and we have eaten porridge in Laizhou, and now they are all in Dengzhou, and there should be them. ”

Although I don't know if there is such a porridge shack in Dengzhou, and how far it will be to reach it, but when he said this, those old people didn't dare to say more, and spread the word to the surrounding crowd.

Some of the people in the crowd sighed, but no one disobeyed the strong man's words and went on.

After walking two miles, they met another group of hungry people, this group of refugees came from the direction of Pingdu Prefecture, the scale was slightly smaller than them, but there were obviously more young and strong, and it seemed that they were also heading for Dengzhou.

After the two groups met, they did not make contact, but secretly raised their vigilance. In the troubled times, human life is as cheap as a mustard, in addition to worrying about the attacks and plundering of the rebels, the hungry people will also attack each other, perhaps because the other party has their own rations and wheelbarrows, and the moral limit of human beings has been repeatedly broken in the face of the desire to live.

After the two sides traveled side by side for a while, several makeshift straw huts appeared on the official road ahead, and more than a dozen cauldrons were erected in the sheds, and bursts of aroma were emitting -- this was the fragrance of porridge -- Dengzhou, like Laizhou and other places, set up porridge huts to relieve the refugees.

The hungry people, who had not eaten rice for many days and lived on wild vegetables, smelled the fragrance and lived patiently, and immediately rushed forward, and many women could not run fast with their little feet, and fell to the ground halfway.

If there is only one group of hungry people, relying on the old people of the clan to suppress it, they may be able to barely maintain order, but at the moment there are two groups of people, no one wants to be left behind, maybe one step slower, the porridge will be robbed of others, and it will be the end of starvation.

There were soldiers of the Qiongzhou battalion who maintained order in front of the porridge shed, and when they saw such a scene, they immediately showed their weapons and blocked the front. In the past few days, it is not the first time that they have dealt with such a thing, and they have gained experience. If you let the hungry people storm the porridge shack and can't help the hungry people, you will be in danger of your own life.

The officer in charge of protecting this porridge shed was Su Thick Legs, who picked up his Qionghai-style rifle and shouted, "Everyone stand for me!" Storm the porridge shed of the official mansion and kill it on the spot! ”

Hearing Su's thick legs' intimidation, some hungry people hesitated and slowed down, but more hungry people couldn't bear the hunger in their stomachs, and with the mentality of not being responsible for the law, they still rushed towards the porridge shack.

Seeing that his words were ineffective, Su Bu Leg clenched his rifle and ordered: "Form a formation!" ”

Dozens of soldiers lined up in a horizontal line, blocking in front of the porridge shed, and assumed a posture to meet the enemy. Su knew that if these two groups of hungry people got out of control, a platoon of infantry would not be able to stop the tide of people, and if necessary, they would need to kill people to deter these hungry people.

Seeing that the situation was about to get out of control, the leading man was a little anxious, and shouted loudly: "Everyone has a share in the soup kitchen, don't worry!" ”

But the two hungry people only had hot porridge in their eyes, for fear that they would be snatched away by the people next to them if they were one step slower, and the chaos had appeared, and they couldn't stop it with just a few words. The young man with good physical strength rushed to the front, behind him were the old and weak, women and children, and nearly a thousand hungry people rolled up the dust and ran towards the porridge shed, as if they were an army attacking the city.

Su raised his hand and signaled to be ready for battle, and the soldiers leveled their rifles, and the bayonets reflected a dazzling cold light in the sun, which was a signal representing killing. But the hungry, who outnumbered them nearly ten times as much, did not take the dozens of infantry lightly, and in their opinion, the rolling flow of people was enough to trample the soldiers into pulp.