Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 96 Gathering Refugees
A convoy with a fan flag was driving on the loess official road, and the sun above its head was shining hot.

The groom sitting on the shaft of the cart and driving the draft horse touched the sweat on the top of his head, and looked ahead with a tired face.

Now we have arrived in Shaanxi, which has not rained once since Chinese New Year.

There are countless cracks vertically and horizontally on the fields on both sides of the official road.

The wheat seedlings in the field have already been dried by the sun and stuck to the ground.

Suddenly, a group of ragged refugees with crutches appeared right in front of the convoy.

"My lord, should we drive them away?" A soldier wearing a red mandarin duck battle jacket raised his head and looked at Fan Yonghe who was walking in the front and sitting on horseback.

This Fan Yonghe is the offshoot of Jiexiu's Fan family. For convenience, the Fan family sent him to Datong Town as a soldier.

Fan Jiashe got out the money, and under the attack of the Fan family's money, he pushed a recruit who had no merit and had just entered the barracks to the general position.

Since Fan Yonghe became the general manager, he has often guarded the Fan family caravan.The Fan family has strong capital, and Fan Yonghe is willing to spend money on his servants.

In addition to more than 100 infantry, Fan Yonghe also raised [-] cavalry.These twenty cavalrymen are Fan Yonghe's servants.

For so many years, as long as Fan Yonghe was the escort, nothing happened.

The escort this time was nothing but the cement that the Fan family got from Zhao Wen.

There are more than 200 carts in the whole convoy, and about ten wooden barrels filled with cement are pulled on each cart.

The destination of the cement is Xi'an Prefecture, Shaanxi, and the Fan family has a branch in Xi'an Prefecture, so after the cement is delivered to Xi'an Prefecture, this branch will transport the cement to various places in Shaanxi for sale.

Fan Yonghe looked at the refugees and estimated that there were more than 70 of them.

"No need, these refugees are not too many, so it won't affect anything."

Fan Yonghe frowned.

The convoy moved slowly, getting closer and closer to the refugees.

When the convoy reached the refugees, the refugees automatically retreated from the official road and stood in the dry field.

The refugees watched the convoy passing in front of them blankly.

Fan Yonghe stopped suddenly. He remembered what Fan Zheng had said to him before leaving, so he stopped by the roadside with a few servants.

"Go straight to the east, and when you reach Datong, you will have a way to survive."

As soon as Fan Yonghe finished speaking, the refugees began to commotion.

"Master, is what you said true?" A young man looked at Fan Yonghe with a tired face.

"Why am I lying to you? Go all the way to the northeast. After reaching Datong, you will have a way to survive."

Fan Yonghe repeated it again.

"There is a way to survive, there is a way to survive."

"As long as you arrive in Datong, you will have a way to survive!"

The refugees watched the convoy slowly passing by with smiles on their faces.

The news that Datong had a way to survive spread across the land of Sanqin in an instant, and countless streams of refugees headed for Datong.

At this moment, those refugees had the confidence to live in their hearts, and they were no longer wandering around the land of Sanqin like walking corpses.

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Zhao Wen stood on the top of the city, looked at the refugees standing in the open space outside Longmen Fort, and said to Zhao Daniu who was standing aside: "How many refugees have come today?"

"Go back to my lord, 400 more people came today." Zhao Daniu looked at the nonchalant Zhao Wen, and couldn't help but said: "My lord, we already recruited enough people from the cement factory the day before yesterday, why do you still need to recruit?"

Zhao Daniu looked at Zhao Wen with a puzzled face, he really couldn't figure it out, why did Zhao Wen still recruit?Now there is not much food in the entire Longmen Fort, and if this continues, the entire Longmen Fort will probably be eaten up by these refugees.

Zhao Wen looked at the refugees outside Longmen Fort, and said in a low voice: "The order to recruit people will not change, keep recruiting."

In fact, Shanxi merchants have already sent enough people for the cement plant.Now these refugees all heard that there was a way to survive here, and came here upon hearing the news.

Of course, for those refugees who came later, Zhao Wen didn't need to give money to Shanxi merchants.

It is now mid-June, and there are less than ten days left before the time to provide glass mirrors to Shanxi merchants.

Zhao Wen wandered around in the glass kiln, checked the progress of the glass mirror manufacturing, and returned to the hall.

"Call Zhao Daniu and others over here, I need to find them."

Zhao Wen sat on the main seat, squinted his eyes, and said in a deep voice.

"Yes!" Li Xiaosan cupped his fists at Zhao Wen, and then left.

Two quarters of an hour later, the entire hall was full of people.

Looking at the person sitting below, Zhao Wen asked slowly, "How are the three hundred recruits trained before?"

"It's almost time to go back to my lord. They are completely different from the ones before." Song Hu stood up and said in a deep voice.

Zhao Wen nodded slightly, and continued, "How many people have come to our Longmen Fort now, besides those needed by the cement factory?"

"My lord, there are seven or eight hundred people in total, and they are all gathered outside Longmen Fort. Liu Wenzhong, Mr. Liu is in charge of this matter." Zhao Daniu stood up and said in a low voice.

Zhao Wen held his forehead with his left hand, and kept tapping on the table with his right hand.

Everyone looked at Zhao Wen who had fallen into silence, and fell silent.

"Pass my order, at sunrise tomorrow, take the recruits and go outside the city to screen these refugees. If they are in good health and want to be soldiers, they will rush into the army. If they don't want to be soldiers, they will Let them build houses about two miles outside Longmen Fort.

By the way, tell them that Longmenbao is going to build an iron factory and a clothing factory now, and see if anyone wants to go there.The farm will also be expanded to see if anyone wants to go to the farm.Tell them that the monthly salary is two taels of silver.

I will provide the materials they need to build a house, but it is not for free, and they will still have to replace it in the future.Let Liu Wenzhong be responsible for building the house. "

Liu Wenzhong led the three brothers of the Zhou family and a dozen or so soldiers from the pro-guard battalion to patrol the refugee camp non-stop.

"There are people who have the capital. As long as these people can live and work in Longmen Castle in peace and contentment, then these people will be the most solid foundation for Zhao Wen in the future." Liu Wenzhong looked at the refugees in the refugee camp, heaved a sigh of relief, and said slowly.

"Mr. Liu, Mr. Liu, my lord has an order." Li Xiaosan kept running in the refugee camp, when he suddenly saw Liu Wenzhong, he hurried towards Liu Wenzhong.

Liu Wenzhong looked at Li Xiaosan and asked, "What order?"

"Your Excellency asked you to be in charge of these refugees..." Li Xiaosan had a pretty good memory, remembering Zhao Wen's orders very accurately.

Liu Wenzhong's eyes lit up, and he said with a smile: "I really didn't see the wrong person, I really didn't see the wrong person. Hahaha!"

The next day, Zhao Daniu, Song Hu and others came to the front of the refugee camp with three hundred recruits holding long guns and a dozen accountants.

"These military masters are not going to drive us away, are they? Didn't they say that there is a way to survive here in Longmen Fort?" A woman in tattered clothes hugged a scrawny boy with big eyes and sat next to her with a worried face. said the man.

The man frowned, let out a long breath, and said, "You two stay here and don't move, I'll go and see. If there is no way out here, then we can only go back."

"Go back? I won't go if I'm beaten to death. I'd rather die here than go back. Shaanxi has started to eat people. Do you still want to go back?" The woman burst into tears when she heard that she wanted to go back.

The man comforted the woman for a while, then walked out.

"Brother, what are these military masters going to do? Are they trying to drive us away?"

The man grabbed a middle-aged man and asked in a low voice.

The middle-aged man turned his head and said with a smile on his face, "It's not to drive us away, it's to give us a way to survive."

The man's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked, "What way to survive?"

"You weren't here just now, right? Just now the military men said that if anyone among us wants to be a soldier and can be admitted, each family will be given 20 taels of silver or [-] acres of land. And Soldiers still receive five taels of silver as a military salary every month, which is not discounted.

If I hadn't been too old, I would have definitely gone back to serve as a soldier.I think you are not very old, but your body is strong. Do you have any idea of ​​becoming a soldier? "

"What else?" The man became agitated when he heard this, and ran back as fast as he could.

"What are you in a hurry for? The adults haven't finished talking. It seems that there are other policies. If you run away and don't listen, don't ask me again." The middle-aged man hurriedly pulled the man back and said slowly.

"Any other policies?" The man walked back after hearing this.Go forward.

Zhao Daniu moved a table directly in front of the refugees, stepped on the table by himself, and shouted loudly with all his strength.

Zhao Daniu's voice was so penetrating that the 700 refugees could hear it clearly.

When Zhao Daniu's last word fell, the entire refugee camp boiled.

"Live Bodhisattva, live Bodhisattva!!!"

"In the future, we must set up a longevity tablet for the garrison lord!!!"

"My God, you finally opened your eyes."

All of a sudden, countless refugees embraced each other, wept loudly, and shed tears of excitement.

　This chapter was rushed out on the train, there may be inappropriate places, I hope everyone can forgive me, and I will correct it after I get off the train.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)