Chapter 4 Food shortage

Fu Deming chewed a piece of cake in his mouth. After swallowing a sip of water, he shook his head and said, "General, you don't have to worry about his inferiority. It's okay! It's just that I'm too busy these days, so sometimes I can't catch up with dinner! Thank you, General, for your hospitality today. I'm finally full! Ha ha!

What the humble position just said is the truth. After the first battle on the first day of the lunar new year, now the people everywhere in Jindi know about us, so there are a large number of people who want to enter our jurisdiction every day. In the first few days, we can still accept it, but in recent days, there have been more and more floating people. We have It can't be received!

If it goes on like this, I'm afraid that there will be the same hunger situation in our jurisdiction again! At present, food is the most critical thing. If we can't solve the food problem, I'm afraid the grass in our jurisdiction will be eaten up until next month!"

Xiao Tianjian smiled bitterly and said, "How can I not know about this matter? For this reason, I have ordered to start transporting the grain stored in several caves in the mountain, and I'm going to hand it over to you to help these exiles!

In addition, I have also ordered a reduction in part of the rations of the army and generals, so as to squeeze out some food to relieve the victims, but this amount of food can't solve the big problem, it's just a drop in the bucket! I've been having a headache these days! Originally, I wanted to lead my troops to the area around Xiezhou to get food, but He Renlong's eyes were outside the city of Xiezhou. Even if he went to Xiezhou, I'm afraid he would only provoke trouble, but he might not be able to sweep back how much food!

Now I'm also thinking about this matter. Even if you force me again, I can't give you more food at the time! It's really a headache!"

After hearing this, Fu Deming also sighed slightly and nodded and said, "The humble position also knows the general's embarrassment. At present, there are mouths everywhere to eat. It is not easy for the general to keep these hundreds of thousands of people alive, but God doesn't help! If you want to collect the food in this land, it will take at least three months to get through this famine! It seems that we really need to limit the influx of migrant people into our jurisdiction!"

Xiao Tianjian stood up and sighed, "In just over a year, although we have occupied most of the territory of the three counties, the number of exiles pouring into our territory is indeed too much. Although these disaster victims are indeed pitiful, our ability is still limited at present. It is time to control the influx of the number of exiles. That's it! Otherwise, these people alone may eat us up!"

Fu Deming nodded and said, "What the general said is that the inferior position will continue, and from now on, we will no longer accept the exile into our jurisdiction!"

"That's the only way! It's not that I'm cruel, but that our strength is limited at the time, and we really can't save more people! However, for those children in their teens among the exiles, it is better to take them back. The youth camp can arrange as much as possible. No matter how difficult it is, we can't let these orphans go. If these children are the backbone of our Xingtian Army in time, we can take in more such children. It's better to collect more as much as I can! It's better than watching them starve to death!" Xiao Tianjian sighed and nodded in agreement with Fu Deming's opinion.

However, the problem of grain has not been completely solved. Fu Deming then asked Xiao Tianjian, "So I don't know Taiyuan, can you help us raise some grain?" Even if it's a little, it's good!"

Xiao Tianjian shook his head and said, "Feng Gouzi over there has been contacted. Now the whole Shanxi is full of hunger, and the price of food in Taiyuan is also soaring. They can't raise too much food at present, so they can't help us at the time! What's more, we consume a lot during this period. After rewarding the work, the money we saved is almost bottomed out. I'm afraid we can't afford too much money to buy grain! So it doesn't work to spend money on food now! We have to find another way!"

When the two were frowning about the food, Tietou shouted outside, "General, Feng Gouzi is coming and waiting outside!"

Xiao Tianjian looked at Fu Deming and said with a smile, "It seems that you and Feng Gouzi are really predestined!" As soon as you came, Feng Gouzi also followed. Let's see what news Feng Gouzi brings back to us this time!"

After a while, Feng Gouzi hurriedly came in from the outside. After giving Xiao Tianjian a gift, he laughed as soon as he saw Fu Deming and said to Deal Deming, "Mr. Fu must have come to the general for food!"

Fu Deming nodded and said with a wry smile, "In addition to this matter, what else does Fu have to bother our general?"

Feng Gouzi nodded and said with a wry smile, "It seems that it's not a good thing to be famous. A large number of migrant people are pouring into our territory every day. This alone is enough for us to do our work!" Mr. Fu seems to be exhausted!

However, when I came to the general this time, I brought good news to the general. If something can be done, the food problem will be solved!"

"Oh? What good news? Where can I get food? Xiao Tianjian and Fu Deming immediately opened their eyes and asked Feng Gouzi.

"It's like this..." Feng Gouzi told Xiao Tianjian the original message he had just received.

After listening to Feng Gouzi's news, Xiao Tianjian did not delay a little. After arranging all the affairs of his subordinates, Xiao Tianjian took dozens of guards such as Tietou and Feng Gouzi all the way over the mountain and rushed to the ancient town of Yuanqu County.

Yan Chongxi was ordered to guard Yuanqu County after the Spring Festival, and fought fiercely with He Renlong in Yuanqu County for more than a month. Finally, he resisted the strong attack of He Renlong's department and kept Lishan Town from being lost. After He Renlong withdrew his troops, he quickly controlled the whole territory of Yuanqu County to Xing Tianjun again, even The magistrate of Yuanqu County also fled from Yuanqu County with his family. As soon as the magistrate fled, the rest of the officials of Yuanqu County would not stay in this dead land! As a result, a swarm of bees also abandoned the city and fled one after another. As a result, Xiao Tianjian had no intention of attacking Yuanqu County, but he got a city in vain.

However, this time, Xiao Tianjian did not demolish Yuanqu County as he did last demolishing Yangcheng County, but ordered Yan Chongxi to send a sentry to take over Yuanqu County, and Fu Deming set up a team in charge of civil affairs in Yuanqu County to manage the affairs around Yuanqu County.

So now that Xing Tianjun has initially had the situation that the two groups of civil and martial arts are responsible for each other. The reason why he wants to make such arrangements is that he thinks that soldiers should be more pure and not too much to interfere in civil affairs, and most of these military generals are rough. There is no problem with fighting and killing, but when dealing with civil affairs, they are careless and rude, and sometimes good things will be done by them. In this way, after Xiao Tianjian led his troops to Shanxi, he gradually began to deliberately separate general affairs and civil affairs. The generals were in charge of the army, and the civil affairs were let Fu De. Ming pulled up a group of people to take over the past, which made many things progress more quickly.

Nowadays, the civilian officials of Xing Tianjun have improved a lot compared with last year. When they first arrived here, the local scholars were very resistant to them, and they also looked down on them as rebellious people. Although Xing Tianjun had the intention to seek talent, the vast majority of them would rather stay away. I don't want to work with Xing Tianjun.

But it is true that the court raises scholars, but it also depends on who is raised. There are many scholars in the world at present, but many scholars may not be able to get a scholar in their lives. In this era, the examination is the most basic threshold, which is much lower than the admission rate of universities in later generations. If the threshold is, then even if you study to death, you are still white and can't enjoy the preferential treatment of readers at all. What you say is useless. Therefore, when you enter this era, many students who have no reputation can't even maintain their own livelihood, so eating has become a big problem.

Some scholars look down on people like the Uprising Army, but why is the problem of the stomach more important in the face of the ideal? The so-called bones are nothing in the face of hunger. They always have to eat first and live before they can talk about the ideal or unsatisfactory things, and some local scholars have gone through this year. In many times, the development of Xing Tianjun in the area of Yangcheng also gradually saw the difference between Xing Tianjun and ordinary thieves. At the same time, it was found that the government seemed to have nothing to take Xing Tianjun, so some people put down their value and took the opportunity that Xing Tianjun also needed talents like them to devote themselves to Xiao Tianjian's men. They began to do things for Xing Tianjun. As for whether they are thieves or not, now they can't take care of them, and Xing Tianjun's treatment for them is also quite good. At least there is no problem to feed them.

In this way, there are quite a lot of students in Yangcheng and the surrounding areas. Even if only a small number of people are taken, it also meets Xiao Tianjian's talent demand for civil affairs. These people also took the salary given to them by Xiao Tianjian, worked honestly under him and shared a considerable amount for Fu Deming. The work of.

Nowadays, although the Xing Tianjun in the area of Yuanqu County has not been under the control time, under the condition of Xiao Tianjian's arrangement of both the army and the people, the local situation has been completely settled down. The people have got the fields they want, and after the defeated soldiers and bandits in the jurisdiction are basically eliminated, they are all grateful to Xing Tianjun. Stay on your own land and work hard to cultivate.

So when Xiao Tianjian entered Yuanqu County again this time, the scene he saw along the way had changed significantly compared with when he led his troops to attack Yuanqu County last year.

Along this journey, the former desolation has disappeared. Along the banks of the river, the place that was still desolate last year was basically reclaimed by the local people and planted crops after only more than two months. It can be seen that as long as the people are given some conditions, the productivity that the people can burst out. It is a very terrible thing, and there are many vertical and horizontal ditches in the field. Along both sides of the river, several large watermills appear from time to time, constantly rotating slowly with the flow of the river, constantly raising the water source of the river to the canal on the bank and flowing to the farmland in all directions. Although the drought in other parts of Shanxi is very serious, it is basically impossible to see the crops and seedlings dry in the hard-tified land within the jurisdiction of Xing Tianjun, which makes people feel a scene of prosperity.

After Xiao Tianjian's journey, he was much more relieved. Although he is still facing many difficulties at present, as long as he can successfully persist and collect grain this year, he can basically solve the problem of supporting many people in his jurisdiction, and at the same time, it will also basically solve his soldiers. Food problem.