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500,000 stone of grain, this is not a small number, save a little, and even feed 300,000 people a year. But this is the first request made by Li Jing since taking over Dengzhou, which makes all families have to think carefully.

However, Dengzhou is not as good as the mainland of the Central Plains, and Dengzhou is an important port in the north. Every year, a large amount of grain from the south of the Yangtze River is transported to Dengzhou by sea, and then into the Central Plains and the north, and even Silla and Dongying have grain to be transported. Compared to the Grand Canal, the grain transported from the south is almost the same. Therefore, the price of grain in Dengzhou has always been cheaper than that in the Central Plains, and even cheaper than in Guanzhong.

When the price of grain was the cheapest, Guanzhong had four or five yuan for rice, while Dengzhou only had two yuan. Dengzhou does not produce much grain, but Dengzhou Port hoards a lot of grain.

As Li Jing expected, this request he put forward was finally accepted by the families. 500,000 stone of grain, which was shared by large and small families in Dengzhou, drew up the figure on the second day, and then on the third day, each family successively sent grain to the warehouse in Dengzhou.

Seeing this result, Li Jing was very satisfied, which shows that Dengzhou recognized and supported him to take over Dengzhou. To be honest, in fact, Li Jing has spent more than half a year buying a large number of people and exchanging commodities for food, and he is not really short of food. Although he gave Song Wei a lot last time, in fact, Li Jing built a warehouse city on Da Xie Nan Island, and all the granaries in it were one with a volume of 8,000 stones, and Li Jing had 300 such granaries. And there are more than 150 full of grain, and there are more than 1.2 million stone of grain, and they are in Beisha and Qingni City. There are also three cities in the town of Shamen. Li Jing had 300,000 stone of grain. In total, Li Jing has 2.1 million stone of grain. Now, with the million stones he just received, Li Jing has three million stones, enough for one million people to eat for a year.

However, Li Jing did not plan to use these grains for this time, and after two consecutive years of famine, everyone would think that if they persisted until next summer, they would be able to survive the food shortage. But what they don't know is that they will only be more scarce in the future than they are now. Li Jing has gotten the news. Wang Xianzhi has already rebelled, and led ten commanders to gather 3,000 people in Changyuan, and has already broken through Changyuan County. This news has not yet reached Dengzhou, and even if it does, I am afraid that not many people really care about this group of people now, and they will only think that it is a small rebellion.

But Li Jing understands that troubled times have finally come. And from now on, food will also be more expensive.

Da Xie Yan's 1.2 million stone grain stockpile, this is war reserve grain, which Li Jing will not use unless it is absolutely necessary. And just received a million stone of grain. The grain of 500,000 stone will also be deposited in the warehouse city.

With 1.6 million stone of grain in stock, Li Jing can truly not be barren in his heart. This time since. The goods produced in Shamen Town are basically traded for grain, a small amount of materials, and very little money. In this way, through trading and banditry, etc., this batch of grain was saved.

Now there are 1.6 million war reserve grain, plus 900,000 stone of grain, which is enough to supply the Zhendong army. As for the earthquake disaster, now there is also a million stone of grain, which is completely sufficient.

Food has been received, and the disaster will begin on a large scale.

However, Li Jing was not ready to send these grains down so simply, Li Jing summoned the civil and military forces of the Zhendong Army, as well as the officials of Sanshangzuo and Liucao on the Dengzhou side. On the side of the state city, there are only twenty-three people with grades, and there are only a few officials with grades in the county towns below.

In the lobby, the civilian and battalion-level generals on the side of the Zhendong Army combined up to nearly 100 people, which was obviously more powerful than the state and county side where there were only more than 20 people. In addition, many representatives of the clan in Dengzhou attended today's meeting.

This time, all the wealthy families have shed a little blood, and Li Jing naturally reciprocated to them. Many families asked for some young children in the family to join Li Jing's Zhendong Army, and Li Jing accepted them all after a brief assessment. In order to show the importance attached to these families, Li Jing organized the children of these families into a new battalion, imitating the establishment of the officer's guard battalion, and the children of the new families were awarded the rank of corporal, instead of starting from the inferior soldiers.

In addition, for some scholars in the family, Li Jing was also preferentially appointed, hired according to talent, and arranged to enter the yamen of one state and four counties in Dengzhou.

For Li Jing's arrangement, all families are obviously very satisfied. Only by sharing benefits can we truly achieve the unity of the alliance.

"What are your plans for this earthquake?" Li Jing asked.

"Open warehouses and release grain, and distribute rations according to the household population." Long history Han Anmin said. In his opinion, with enough food, it could not be easier to wake up the disaster.

Everyone else thought the same way, Li Jing shook his head when he saw it, and said, "If you just send the grain down, it's not a good idea." Have you ever thought that in the current situation, it is difficult to plant summer seeds? Then the people will have nothing to do, which is not only easy to cause accidents, but also a waste of manpower. ”

"Then what Li Yuanjun means, how to shake this disaster?" Xiao Dingbang asked.

"Work for Vibration!" Li Jing said directly.

Li Jing's plan is actually very simple, and in the current situation, the land cannot be planted. If it was just to distribute food, then the people would have nothing else to do. If this person is idle, it will not be good, and if hundreds of thousands of people are idle, it will be easier for accidents. And for Li Jing, hundreds of thousands of people take food for nothing and don't do anything, which is really a waste.

To replace the revitalization with work is not to distribute food in vain, but to take advantage of the current opportunity to organize these people. For example, you can repair city walls, dredge rivers and ditches, build dams and reservoirs, etc., in addition to mining, fishing, workshop work, and so on. The people participated in these labors, and the government distributed food according to the work. In this way, the people can have food, and the government has completed many projects that require a lot of manpower.

As soon as Li Jing's proposal came out, many people immediately understood it and nodded their heads.

"Right now, it's a good time to dredge rivers and ditches and build dams and reservoirs, and this year's harvest is gone, but if we get these water conservancy things right now, we will have a good harvest next year." In addition, it can also organize people to build bridges and pave roads. Repair the city walls. Go to the sea to fish and so on. In the past, these things were also requisitioned and issued, but now they are taking advantage of the people's time to work together to revitalize. In this way, everyone has food and food, and everyone is saved from having nothing to do. ”

Everyone agreed with this, and finally unanimously agreed to the plan of replacing vibration with work. The next thing is much simpler, work out some of the big projects that are needed, such as which roads to be built. Which bridges need to be repaired, and which city walls need to be repaired, the most important thing is to dredge the rivers in the counties and townships, build storage dams, repair reservoirs and other water conservancy facilities. According to the counties and townships, the manpower of the projects to be planned is calculated, and then the grain is pulled.

When the people participate in these projects, they can get food. However, because the purpose was to relieve the disaster, all the young men had to participate in the labor. Even the women have to get mobilized to work together. In addition, the elderly and children do not need to work. Kexin was directly given rations.

"Since it is a substitute for work, the rations cannot be reduced. Young men and women participating in the work. At least one liter of rice is given a day, and pickles are also given. As for the old and young who are unable to participate in the work, half a liter of rice per person per day. ”

There is no objection to this. Simply distributing food to revitalize disasters is not the same as replacing them with work.

On the same day, after the meeting, Li Jing sent people to post notices around the state and county, announcing the decision of the state capital. And sent a lot of cavalry, and all over the territory of Dengzhou notified the displaced people, suspending the collection of previous arrears, and exempting them from the two taxes for this year.

And let the people everywhere immediately return to their homes and go to Dengzhou in their hometowns. The young and strong participate in the projects in the counties and townships, and the old and young can also be given relief rations according to the checked list.

The rations for the earthquake are issued once every 10 days, one liter per day for each person in the young and strong, and half a liter per day for each person in the old and young. In addition, young men and women who participate in labor will be paid according to their performance. Of course, because it is a disaster work, the wage is only symbolic, only 20 yuan per day. 600 yuan a month, you can also exchange it for 10 catties of rice at the end of the month.

As soon as the notice was posted, at first the displaced people could not believe that it was real. They are already very happy that the government can open a porridge shed and put two bowls of porridge every day, and now when they return to their hometowns, they can still receive food according to the head of the person. If you work hard, you can even get ten catties of rice in January. Such a good thing has never been encountered before. Last year was also a severe drought, but the government only opened a porridge shack.

Many of the displaced people thought that the government only wanted to trick them into returning to their hometowns, so they refused to leave.

The matter was reported to Li Jing, and after Li Jing thought about it, he personally went out of the city to the south outside the city, looking at the people who gathered together with black crows, all of them were yellow, hungry and thin.

"Zhang Lushi, give ten catties of food to every villager here, so that everyone can return home with peace of mind." Li Jing knew that in the face of such a group of hungry people, it was superfluous to say anything big, and directly asked Zhang Hong to distribute food at the moment. Many people have fled from their homes all the way here, and now even if they can get food from their hometowns, they will be troubled along the way. Only when the real grain is distributed to them can they trust the government's arrangements and return home.

Zhang Hong immediately led people to take a cart of grain from the warehouse, and those people were in a commotion when they saw the bags of grain, if it weren't for the soldiers of a battalion of the Zhendong Army to maintain order on the spot, this group of hungry people who didn't know how long they hadn't eaten in the road would probably rush up and rob them.

When the first old man with white hair took the bag containing ten catties of grain from the hand of the official, and looked at the yellow corn in the bag, the old man burst into tears with excitement. While crying, the old man knelt down directly at Li Jing and knocked his head with a bang.

"The benevolence, righteousness and virtue of Li Envoy County, the virtue of regeneration, and the grass people will never be forgotten!"

One after another, the displaced people believed the words of the government at this time, and Zhilu Dao finally met a great good official. They all knelt down and kowtowed to Li Jing.

Li Jing hurriedly stepped forward to help people up one by one, but he helped one up, and the other knelt down again. Ordinary Shengdou small people, although they have their ignorant and narrow side, but they are all the most simple, Li Jing's action of revitalizing the disaster, it is really for the good of the people, they are clearly distinguished.

Li Zhen stood behind Li Jing, stroking his long beard and nodding frequently, the hearts of the people in Dengzhou, after this incident, are already facing Li Jing. (To be continued......)