Chapter 19: Self-Measurement (1)

The next day, Lu Yao continued his original inspection to inspect the reorganization of Wang Jun's old department.

At present, it is not wartime, so the army is not concentrated, but is stationed in various military villages as a unit. This "army" is not the six armies of Henghai, Duliao, Woye, Pingshuo, Yingyang, and Dingbian that Lu Yao intends to re-establish, but the old units. On the one hand, due to the 'chaos' and 'chaos' brought about by the continuous operations of the Daijun Army, and on the other hand, because the reorganization work had just begun, the number of each army varied, ranging from 2,000 to 8,900, of which the proportion of Wang Jun's old troops also ranged from 30 to 50 percent. ”

On the left side of Jicheng, there were fourteen corps scattered and stationed. Of the fourteen military camps, Lu Yao had already run five a few days ago, and yesterday Xue Tong inspected two on behalf of Lu Yao, and there were seven more to be reviewed one by one. This work is already detailed and complicated, Lu Yao's requirements are strict, and in the process, it is also necessary to invest considerable 'fine' efforts to communicate and 'communicate' with the soldiers at the grassroots level, so the speed of proofreading is not fast. It took three hours from midnight to early noon, and it was only one place that He Yun was responsible for.

According to the itinerary, the next military village to go to is located in Quanzhou, southeast of Guangyang, which is not close.

Quanzhou is named because there are many clear springs around the county, and the spring water is sweet and drinkable, and it was the "Quanzhou capital" of the Yan State during the Warring States Period, and the county was established in the early Han Dynasty. To the north of Quanzhou is the Yongnu Serval that stretches for dozens of miles; It is bounded by the Juma River in the south and adjacent to Dongpingshu County in Zhangwuguo, Jizhou, and there are many ferries on the river to serve the busy trade routes; To the east is the sea. In the fourth year of the former Han Dynasty, there was a salt official here, and it was one of the 38 counties with salt officials in the country. To this day, the salt works left over from the Han Dynasty are still in use, and most of the salt used by the people of Youzhou comes from here.

If the weather is warm, Lu Yao can return to Jixian County first, and then take a boat to go south along the Qingquan River and the line of Zhigou, and he will be able to arrive soon. But now in the harsh winter, the river is either frozen, or the water is shallow and difficult to sail, Lu Yao and others can only quickly walk along the main road, across Anci County to Quanzhou.

Because Jizhou was within the reach of the military disaster, the vitality of the eastern coastal counties was greatly damaged, so there were few business travelers on the road, and there were many unkempt and unkempt homeless people. They braved the bitterly cold wind and staggered barefoot through the snow. Seeing Lu Yao's and his entourage passing by, most of the homeless people just looked at it with a dull expression, and occasionally a little clever, and hurriedly knelt down to the side of the road, muttering and kowtowing to pray.

It's not the first time Lu Yao has seen such a miserable scene, even if he doesn't say that the heart of exercise is like iron and stone, at least he has seen a lot of it. But when he put his hand on the pergola and looked into the distance, he saw the sparse line of displaced people stretching to the horizon in the distance, and he couldn't help frowning: "Shulun Gong of Jizhou is a contemporary capable official, how can he let the people under his rule go so far......"

Huang Yi, the civil servant who accompanied Lu Yao today, was born in a practical household, and he had a good set of various matters to appease the homeless, so he had already sent a horse to inquire in the ranks of the homeless. Hearing Lu Yao's complaints, he responded respectfully: "This year, the Central Plains has experienced a blizzard, and the poor people in the land of Sanwei are forced to freeze and go into exile in Jizhou. However, Jizhou has been fighting fiercely for many years, and the treasury is empty, so it is very difficult for Ding Tingshi to deal with it. But these people in front of him are not the low-class people under the rule of Ding Thorn Shi, but from the Bohai Sea, the plains, Leling and other places where the Shi Le thieves were originally entrenched. ”

"Oh?"

"When the Shile thieves were there, they broke through the local prefectures and counties, destroyed the city treasury, plundered the grain and materials, and wrapped all the strong into the army, forcing them to die as a front, leaving only the old, weak, sick and disabled to wait for death. These old and infirm had no food or clothing, and could only struggle and wail, and hundreds of thousands died of starvation; Due to the cold this winter, hundreds of thousands of people have frozen to death. What the lord saw was just a lucky person who flowed into Youzhou. ”

"What do you mean by calling them flukes?"

"After all, Youzhou has not been directly affected by the military disaster, and both the state capital and the local wealthy families still barely have the spare resources to help and resettle them. I heard that a few days ago, the ancestors summoned the wealthy clans of the county and asked them to contribute their own food and be responsible for the resettlement of the displaced people in one place on the condition of reducing the land rent for one year. However, those who are well resettled and do not allow the displaced people to cross the border and sweep away, they can also obtain the title deed of the land where the displaced people have reclaimed, and include it in the 'private' family department. The general asked to look south, there was a simple camp there, which was built by the Tian family. Prominent chiefs among the homeless people, as well as those who were able to work and had skills, could live there temporarily, and then be sent to the farms owned by the Tian clan in batches. In this case, after all, a considerable part of it can survive, so it is considered a fluke. ”

These homeless people were originally the old and weak left after Shi Le's coercion of the strong men, and the proportion of those who could work and had a skill would not be very high. This part of the people can be stocked in the farms of the local tycoons, while the rest of the people will undoubtedly die of starvation.

Lu Yao sighed and said, "In the matter of helping refugees, not only will the Assassin Mansion come forward, but we will also try our best to help." You go back and draw up a constitution, and among these selected remainders, you try to settle as many children and young women as you can. Well...... The children set up a battalion on their own, and let Ma Rui be responsible for selecting a few personal guards and Fang Qinzhi to find a few scholars and teach them to practice literature and martial arts; 'Women' and 'women' can be married to the soldiers, and if they don't want to marry, they can also set up a separate camp and let them do some miscellaneous things such as washing and sewing. ”

With the strength of the military government, it is not easy to feed tens of thousands of troops; It is even more unrealistic to compete with the state capital and the clan for the right to resettle the displaced people. That's all Lu Yao can do

Huang Yigong received the order, and the group did not delay and continued to move forward.

After a while, seeing that the camp Huang Yi said was not far away, Lu Yao suddenly remembered something again: "Tian's? Did you say that the one who built the camp in front of him was the Tian clan? ”

"Exactly. Yan Guotian has a wide range of manors and Tianlian Qianmo in Luxian, Yongnu and other places, and the nearest dock wall is only twenty or thirty miles away from Quanzhou. It is fitting that they should be in charge of the displaced people who come up this road. ”

A few days ago, when Lu Yao convened the soldiers to compete, he killed Tian Min, a powerful disciple of the Yan Guotian clan, on the charge of 'private' fighting in the army, thus deterring many wealthy families in one fell swoop. After this incident, it is said that the people of the Tian clan have filed a complaint with the Assassin Mansion, but Zu Ti has not yet reacted to this. I didn't expect to bump into them again today.

Lu Yao and his entourage had a cavalry of about 100 people, with fresh clothes and angry horses, iron hooves moving the ground, and the momentum was quite impressive.

The people in Tian's camp saw it from a long distance, and knew that it must be a noble person passing by, so they hurriedly went to call the person in charge of the camp. Immediately, two men in high-crowned costumes came out of the camp in a hurry, waiting to greet each other, as if someone was saying something. So they immediately stopped, and their eyes became unkind. Needless to say, there must be someone in the entourage who recognized Lu Yao and pointed it out to them.

These two must be powerful people among the Tian family's disciples. Lu Yao knew very well that except for a small number of people with wealthy surnames who were really talented, the rest were just silverfish who gained a foothold by exploiting the poor people, as long as the time was right, it was easy to destroy. Therefore, he ignored the two men at all, only slowed down his horse slightly, and passed directly through the many homeless people who were sitting or lying.

But he never thought that there were many reckless men among the children of the Yan Guotian clan who didn't know whether they were alive or dead. One of the two men in fancy clothes saw Lu Yao reining in his horse, and he actually strode up to catch up, wanting to grab the reins in Lu Yao's hand.

"Bold!" Ma Rui was dumbfounded, and stepped forward to stop the comer, a cold light flashed in his palm, and the head knife was already half unsheathed.

Ma Rui is a brave warrior, who has been on the battlefield for a long time, and his actions are 'exposed', and he has a terrifying and murderous aura. How can a man in fancy clothes deserve it? The anger instantly turned into ice water and poured down from the top 'door', and his 'legs' went limp, and he immediately sat down on the ground.

Lu Yao didn't bother to pay attention to such ant-like figures, glanced at this person coldly, shook the reins and continued to move forward.

After everyone was far away, Ma Rui snorted disdainfully, put away his sword and sheathed it to chase after the team.

Only then did another older man dare to step forward and help the person who was sitting on the ground in shock: "Alas, it's fine, why are you doing this idleness?" ”

"What do you mean by idleness? It was this thief who killed my brother! The man in the Chinese costume shook off the old man's arm holding him, and said angrily: "It's a pity that hundreds of our Tian clan's disciples are here, and no one dares to move forward with me!" With only three or five guts, I can finally punch this guy and let out a bad breath! ”

This man in gorgeous clothes is the brother of Tian Min who was 'shot' to death by He Yun's arrow, and the old man is Tian Min's uncle.

Fen Mingshi was stunned to the ground at a glance, and at this time he thought that he could provoke the Xiong Hu division by relying on hundreds of good thugs? Is this madness or what? Tian Min's uncle sighed repeatedly: "What kind of person are you, dare to fight General Pingbei?" This Lu Yao is a character killed in the sea of blood in the corpse mountain, and he killed Qiao Xi, the leading brave general of the Xiongnu and Han Kingdoms, when he merged the state; When he was in Yecheng, he once killed the giant Kou Jisang who was rampant in Hebei among the ten thousand armies; After that, he pacified Daijun, waved his army to the grassland, and killed the Hu people...... How many famous generals and chieftains could not hurt him by half a point, but died under his hands. Today is one more ...... No, it's just hundreds of 'lives' that we have here, do you care about him? ”

The man in Chinese clothes was speechless for a while, gritted his teeth for a long time, and suddenly stomped his feet and scolded: "My Yan Guotian clan is the champion of Northern Xinjiang, the clan is strong, and there are countless vains, and there are two generations of Wei and Jin, and the crown is endless!" In the past, when Wang Pengzu was there, he was polite to us. What kind of thing is this Lu Yao? A mere island remnant and a vulgar martial artist dared to slander my brother in public, which made my Tian clan people laugh at the state and county! Vain, hateful! Hateful! ”

The origin of Lu Yao's subordinates is complicated, but except for a few officials who have been recruited recently, most of them are low-status people, either as soldiers in the state, or as descendants of the Jisang thieves, or as herdsmen and horse thieves in the land and grassland. These people follow the trend of being upright and light in the army, and they will only see Lu Yao's heroism, and they will only rejoice in Lu Yao's rising clouds. But the eyes and angles of the family's right look at people are very different from them. In the eyes of most wealthy families in Youzhou, the background of Lu Yao's Dongwu remnants is not pride, but a stain that can never be erased. Not to mention his martial arts background, what is it to kill enemies on the battlefield? No matter how brave a soldier is, he is just a thug raised by the high-ranking 'gate' world, to put it too far, a dog raised to bite people! How can a child of a noble official family tolerate a lost dog crawling on the head of his master?

The man in the fancy costume said this, which suddenly made the old man feel related. He sighed and comforted the man in Huafu and said: "Among the wealthy families in Youzhou, those who are willing to 'befriend' Lu Mou, after all, there are only a few generals led by the Xian Yu clan, so don't be too annoyed." Let me tell you, the clan leader has secretly contacted the rest of the powerful clans, and used the old relationship of the 'door' to write to the center of the court, denouncing Lu's domineering and tyrannical behavior! Hehe, when the time comes, the imperial court will issue a decree, which will definitely make this martial artist suffer! ”

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Sweat...... This chapter is made up for yesterday!.