Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 415 Relief
On the outskirts of the southern city of Dunan, more than a dozen camps rose from the ground, and each camp was stuffed with a large number of refugees.

After the first few days of recuperation, the strong ones among the refugees were also organized and began to carry out fortification work.After several rounds of trampling, most of Jiankang City was dilapidated, with a large number of house wreckage, mounds of earth and stones piled up in the city, some of which were remnants of the rebels, and some were barricades deliberately built by the defenders.At this time, nature needs to be cleaned up.

Once you start working, the earlier meal supply is somewhat insufficient.After the initial gratitude after being saved faded away, many complaints began to appear among the refugees, such as the soup was not thick, and the labor was too heavy. Especially the devastated capital made them see no hope for the future, and their mood became more depressed for a while. The enthusiasm for working has gradually faded.

Naturally, the guards would not be polite to these refugees. It is only polite to scold and urge them, and it is common to beat and scold at every turn: "You poor and lowly lives, you are lucky to survive. What's the use!"

A civilian man was pushed and bumped into the pile of rubble, blood was all over his face in an instant, and a guard stepped forward to beat and scold, which immediately aroused public outrage, and several strong men stepped forward to push the soldier away, unavoidably He stared and roared angrily: "The vegetable soup is weaker than clear water. You can't raise your energy. You brazen soldiers are driving people to death. Are you not afraid of the son-in-law's questioning!"

Seeing the surge of emotion, the guard retreated a little, and was still yelling: "Do you think that the meals are all free now? Although the son-in-law has benevolence and righteousness, he is also responsible for the order. If the work cannot be completed as scheduled, the son-in-law You have to take the blame and step back! When another supervisor comes over from Taichung, you will know what real hardship is!"

Hearing this, the folk husbands could not help restraining their emotions. They may not know many profound things, but they know that when the son-in-law was in the village, these refugees were just waiting to die in the capital. Only one bite to eat!
For this alone, the position of the son-in-law in their hearts is irreplaceable, and they don't want to let a person who doesn't know the suffering of ordinary people oversee the work because of their own slack.

"But, even if we have to rush to work, why do some workers eat less and eat more, but we don't have enough food and can't rest day and night?"

There are still some people who complain that people do not suffer from poverty but from inequality. They have indeed seen it with their own eyes, and the treatment of refugees in different camps is also divided into several levels.

"Those people are all skilled craftsmen. If you can do their work, you can also eat the meals in their pots and stoves? You can only blame your own incompetence, and who do you want to blame!"

Similar disputes happened occasionally, and a lot of dissatisfaction gradually spread to Shen Zhezi.

He didn't have any good solution to this, he simply hinted that the following people rushed to work for two days, and waited until various dissatisfaction spread to a certain extent in many camps, and even after the anti-work bloodshed occurred, he made people in the prison camp Here, some prisoners were proposed to change into the clothes of the dormitory guards and beheaded, and the heads were passed on to each battalion. By the way, the normal labor intensity was restored, and the dissatisfaction was relieved.

Any number, once piled up to a certain amount, will produce amazing effects.

Shen Zhezi returned to the capital in the middle of the first month, and began to deal with relief matters in the south of the capital, and only managed to sort out a general idea at the end of the first month.And the 30 Dendrobium disaster relief rice grains that arrived in Gyeonggi with him are about to run out.

But fortunately, the basic context has been sorted out, and the focus of the next thing has shifted from the relief in the early stage to the reconstruction of order after the disaster.

Shen Zhezi went back to his hometown to live in seclusion for several months. It is true that his reputation has climbed to a peak, but there are also criticisms.Especially after he returned to the capital, Taichung immediately issued a decree, and those who failed the three levies would be imprisoned forever.

This decree can be said to take away the room for each family to wait and see the current situation and wait for the time to come out. It is true that the promulgator of the decree, Wang Dao, has been criticized.As the instigator, Shen Zhezi's reputation was actually badly damaged.

But this is really not a serious matter for Shen Zhezi. In the past, he did cherish his feathers and invite fame, but that was because of his lack of strength. Now his position in the current situation has long been It is no longer determined by fame.There will never be a shortage of commentators in this world, and there will always be a need for people who can do things.

After returning to the capital, the first thing he took over was the most difficult problem at the moment, and he achieved results in a very short period of time.Now most of the areas in the south of the capital have been cleared, and the exiles are gradually returning to their hometowns, and things are finally on track.

To be able to solve the problem that had plagued Taichung for most of the cold winter in such a short period of time was naturally because Shen Zhezi had brought sufficient supplies.Shen Zhezi has been in the village for a few months, and it is not idle. The most important thing is to visit various business alliances.

Although most of these families in Wuzhong are in the business alliance, they don't need to bow down to the Shen family completely, and they all have their own independence.If Shen Zhezi can't come up with a solution that satisfies them, they can also stay out of the matter.

This is determined by the long-standing feudal customs in Wuzhong. Even the old Wusun clan who ruled Jiangdong back then was only the leader of Jiangdong.Sun Quan has launched a series of coups for many years in power, and all the plots and killings have been used, but they still cannot completely disintegrate the local power of the Jiangdong aristocratic family.

In addition to the support of the villagers, another very important reason is that Shen Zhezi has an administrative team with extremely high execution and efficiency.This set of team is based on the auditing team when he was running the family in his early years, and now the scale has reached hundreds of people, and it also cooperates with many clansmen and disciples of his family.

The reason why the wealthy family has strong rural capital is not only reflected in the land and people it owns, but also in the right to speak on local affairs.

Taking the Shen family as an example, excellent clan members like Shen Zhezi and his father Shen Chong work in foreign lands to protect the family's source of privilege.On the other hand, some clan members lived in the countryside for a long time and served as subordinate members at the county level in large numbers to ensure the implementation of privileges and transform them into real power owned by the family bit by bit.

An efficient and professional auditing team guarantees the rapid entry of information, while those clan members and disciples who have served as subordinate officials for a long time and are proficient in specific affairs operations ensure the decision and implementation of each measure.

From this point of view, like the Langya Wang family, their main source of power is the sharing of imperial power.However, a novel family like the Shen family, in addition to being able to share the imperial power, also has extensive local support!

In short, the disaster in Gyeonggi, which had troubled Dao Wang and other Taichung princes for a long time, was solved calmly by Shen Zhezi.

Shen Zhezi never believed in rewards for meritorious deeds, especially now that the imperial court had lost its credibility. Therefore, in the process of disaster relief, he had already begun to dig out profit points.

Tens of thousands of people affected by the disaster, in the eyes of others, it is a huge trouble and an unsolvable problem.In particular, these low-level people are very light-hearted. Even if they come forward to help and are grateful, it is not enough to have an immediate impact on their reputation.For many people, if they have that time, it is better to organize one or two talks and visit some famous people nowadays.

But in Shen Zhezi's view, these disaster-stricken people are a huge treasure house, an opportunity to expropriate manpower in a grandiose manner.In addition to the widely distributed strong labor force among the refugees, the most precious thing to Shen Zhezi is a large number of skilled craftsmen!

In the relatively primitive farming atmosphere of the Middle Ages, a large-scale urban population must not only rely on developed farming, but also have a rich handicraft industry!Among the affected people in Jiankang City, in addition to refugees from other areas and some farmers in the countryside, artisan households accounted for a considerable proportion!

Since ancient times, all kinds of craftsmanship in the north have been much better than those in the south, even after a few hundred years, it will still be the same.The high quality of the Shen family's handicrafts is due to Shen Zhezi bringing some skills and research and development with precise goals. It does not mean that the overall craftsmanship of the South has surpassed that of the North.

Before the rebellion, Shen Zhezi bought a property in Qu'a and was also vigorously recruiting craftsmen, but the effect was not high.Compared with the native Shen family in Wuzhong, these artisans from the south trusted the imperial court and those overseas Chinese with their old surnames more, and the imperial court was also vigorously recruiting these artisan households to settle around Jiankang City.

Coupled with the competition from those overseas Chinese families, the Shen family has never had much competitiveness, and there has always been a huge employment gap.To a certain extent, this also restricted the growth of various industries of the Shen family.Operating in a high-end market like Nanyuan, in addition to giving full play to its own technological advantages, is actually a helpless choice.

One of the prerequisites for Shen Zhezi to manage disaster relief is to have powers that are completely independent of the administrative structure of Taichung. On the one hand, he does not want to deal with those inefficient Taichung temple offices; Select craftsmen.

Artisan households with a certain skill usually have to be registered in a separate book to distinguish them from ordinary civil registration management, and the imperial court inspects them every year. If the number of artisan households decreases, the officials in charge of management will usually be punished.Therefore, even if it is a wealthy family, it cannot engulf these craftsmen as much as it hides ordinary Dingkou.

However, after the Liyang army broke through Jiankang, a large number of books were burned, including these craftsmen's books!So Shen Zhezi's current state is as if a mouse fell into a rice vat, and a large number of urban craftsmen were screened out from among the refugees, and he was free to recruit!

So when the registers of the refugees were sorted out, more than a thousand original artisan households disappeared from the registers!And quite a few of them are smelting and casting craftsmen with the strictest control by the imperial court.Once these craftsmen were selected to a certain size, they were immediately sent by boat to Shen Zhezi's Wujiang Marquis.

Nowadays, rice is expensive in China, just like a young female prostitute, the price is only between three and five dollars.However, the price of a mature craftsman who is skilled in craftsmanship is more than ten times higher.Moreover, this type of servants will never appear in the market on a large scale.

The population that Shen Zhezi is hiding is already a huge fortune in itself. If he adds other supporting investments, within a year or two, he can develop a set of military industry with huge production capacity in his Marquis!

　It's a new month, seriously ask for a guaranteed monthly pass. . .There is another update in the early morning, you can watch it tomorrow. . .

　　
　
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