The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 313 Homecoming

With that said, the Han army set off towards Yanzhou. The soldiers led by Zhao An had almost no complaints. They picked up the mules and horses that stored supplies, loaded their own grain and supplies on their backs, and headed towards Yanzhou in the wind and snow. Set off.

In the wind and snow, this section of the road was not easy to walk. Compared with the biting cold wind, the most troublesome thing for the soldiers was the slippery ice and snow under their feet.

Fortunately, Liu Tai sent people early to greet the counties that Zhao An's troops would pass through, and asked the county magistrates to organize manpower to clean the streets and prepare hot soup and hot food. If they arrived in counties that needed rest, they also needed to free up enough dormitories. , so that this force can rest enough to rush to Yanzhou as quickly as possible, which requires quite strong organizational capabilities.

Liu Tai knew very well that with the arrival of the snow disaster, although Xi Jian would be caught off guard, Xi Jian himself had climbed up from the bottom step by step, so he had rich management experience. Among them, he did not need to worry about food. The food that was prepared for the soldiers to cultivate the fields next year will be put out first for emergency relief.

The real problem is heating supplies. In such an icy winter, even if the people can survive after losing their homes, such icy weather will freeze people to death. I wonder how many people can hold on until the supplies arrive!

Zu Yue said with some disbelief on his horse, "What are we going to do? Yecheng directly dispatches the army to Yanzhou to transport supplies for the winter. Am I crazy, or..."

"You didn't see that these soldiers just didn't say a word!" Li Ju said with a bit of calmness and calmness,

"The King of Han is a king who truly cares for the people. When a plague broke out around Yanqingxu, Hebei, he not only arranged for troops to go deep into the people to control the plague, but even the King of Han himself went deep into the disaster area.

Later, the prescription was worked out and shared more generously with the people of several states. It can be said that the King of Han really survived countless lives that time. "

To be honest, Li Ju can quickly accept Liu Tai, which gives him the impression that Liu Tai pays more attention to the people at the bottom.

Because although Li Ju is a powerful man, he is also a refugee who fought his way up from the bottom. Therefore, Li Ju respects Liu Tai from the bottom of his heart for a king who truly puts the people first.

Because of this, Li Ju chose to show off when facing Liu Tai. After all, Liu Tai, a big man who cared about the people at the bottom, compared with Jin Ting who didn't care about the people at the bottom, Li Ju still recognized Liu Tai more.

So Liu Tai sent people to recruit him, and Li Ju surrendered without hesitation.

After all, in the final analysis, Liu Tai was the orthodox Han Dynasty revival, why didn't he support it?

"So there is such a thing?" Huan Xuan said thoughtfully after hearing Li Ju's words.

"No wonder the people of Han didn't seem to be very resistant to the King of Han whether he was attacking Yanzhou or Xuzhou. It turned out that they were lucky enough to survive!"

"In the Central Plains, Yuzhou is probably the only one who has not received any favor from the King of Han!

It's a pity that Dai Yuan took all the soldiers from Yuzhou to send them off to Wang Dun. The Battle of Stone City was never fought, so we can't blame the King of Han for his ability to seize opportunities! "Li Ju couldn't help but sigh,

"However, now that these places are under the control of the King of Han, it may not be a bad thing. At least the King of Han will take care of them if something goes wrong. But if the Jin court has ever taken care of the life and death of the people!"

Several people looked at each other and sighed.

While the supplies were on the way, Xi Jian was even more outstanding than Liu Tai thought.

Xi Jian immediately started organizing manpower to rescue people almost as soon as the snow disaster collapsed.

Especially when there was a shortage of manpower, he immediately began to mobilize the soldiers.

Although Liu Tai did not have a very obvious division of civil and military affairs at this time, Xi Jian himself did not have the right to use military power. He could persuade Youlun, the captain of the Fubing School who now controls the Xuzhou Fubing, to take a certain degree of risk.

However, Xi Jian asked Xu Ming, who came from the military history system, to come forward and record his own words and deeds directly beside him as a third person for Liu Tai to review in the future.

Again, the function of the military history system itself is to exist as a third-person recorder.

They can have a stand, avoid taboos, and hide things in their writings, but they must record the details of the incident.

Otherwise, if there is a deliberate slander, it will be traced back to an entire school of people from top to bottom.

At the same time, after Xi Jian handles these matters, he also needs to submit a report. At that time, the Department of Internal Affairs will look at the two reports together.

In other words, as a local leader, he must be given arbitrary power at critical moments.

But the use of this power must be supervised, and you must be responsible for the decision you make.

It has to be said that, at least for Xi Jian, with military history recording his words and deeds, as long as he exercises his power with a clear conscience, he can handle disasters with the highest efficiency when facing such a crisis.

First of all, Xi Jian asked the government soldiers to rescue the people in the houses that had been crushed by the snow, and vacated the government office so that the victims could stay inside to avoid the wind and snow.

Then Xi Jian moved on the food originally prepared for the soldiers who were clearing the wasteland. He used the food to help the people first. At the same time, he also found that the people could only gather together and tremble with each other.

Xi Jian wanted to send charcoal fire, but he had just taken over Yanzhou. His first task was to complete the army system and allocate fields to the soldiers who could divide the fields, and encourage the soldiers with quotas to cultivate. Although when winter came, he had already begun to prepare for the winter. supplies, but the winter snow came so quickly that even Xi Jian was caught off guard, so he was not fully prepared.

Although Xi Jian didn't have enough charcoal fire, he immediately went to the local aristocratic family to collect dry firewood. This naturally saved a lot of firewood during the day, but at night he had to burn it to keep people warm, otherwise he might freeze to death.

At the same time, even one or two aristocratic families cannot afford to provide for so many victims. After all, there has just been a war here, and the snow fell too early. Even the landlord's family does not have much food left over during this period!

Under such circumstances, Xi Jian began to investigate the whole city. Some houses were in disrepair and had no people, especially those like the Shanshen Temple and the Land Temple. Xi Jian directly said that the Shanshen Land was such an inconvenience. They He must be willing to use his own roof to support the local people, so he directly demolished these temples outside the city and took away the wood to make firewood.

There is no other way. Placing all these disaster victims in one place can facilitate the dispatch of resources, and it can also save the operation of resources.

But even so, the entire Yanzhou's resources, especially those used for heating, are consumed very quickly.

Youlun quickly approached Xi Jian and said, "Although the snow has stopped today, the more people affected by the disaster, the more insufficient the thermal insulation materials will be. Do we need to dispatch the government soldiers to cut down the trees to make more food?" Firewood?" Xi Jian shook his head and said, "These days, the troops of the Tianfu Army must first focus on searching for people affected by the disaster. Whether it is shoveling snow or carrying heavy objects, we need strong troops to provide heating supplies. I’ll think of a solution!”

"I'm afraid I've borrowed everything that the wealthy family can. After all, no one will give you face in this situation. You have already patronized the mountain temples near Changyi. They are really bare. It's just you who can't even borrow them." All the clay elephants have been taken away!" Xu Ming said at the side.

"It's borrowing, it's borrowing. Things about gods and Buddhas naturally involve borrowing and repaying!" Xi Jian couldn't help but say,

"If I get through this difficulty this time, I will build a new temple on all the land of the mountain gods!"

"You should just pretend that I didn't say anything!" Xu Ming couldn't help but sigh at this time.

But soon, a fast horse came to Changyi first, shouting while running, "Yecheng supplies have been delivered!"

Xi Jian, who was talking to Xu Ming, couldn't help but feel happy when he heard the voice. Soon he saw the soldier coming to report to Xi Jian about Zhao An leading his headquarters to assist Xi Jian in dealing with the snow disaster.

When Xi Jian heard this, he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief, because the speed and time of Liu Tai's delivery of supplies was indeed faster than Xi Jian's expectation.

Originally, Xi Jian thought that he would be able to wait for Liu Tai's rescue in one month, and then send relief to the disaster-stricken areas in Yanzhou with tax exemptions for one year, so that the Yanzhou area could resume production.

But Xi Jian really didn't expect that after Liu Tai received the letter, he immediately asked the army to set off directly. He emptied several granaries along the way and finally arrived here.

To be honest, Liu Tai will retain this system in the future, in which the central government uses the army to quickly transport supplies to disaster areas.

This not only reflects the central government's concern for the local area, but more importantly, if there are rats in the county warehouses along the way and cannot supply food for so many armies, then basically all officials in the counties where they are located will have to go along the way. Ransomware.

After all, when executing disaster relief orders, what is being executed is military orders. If during this process, if officials do not even reserve enough food in the standing granaries, they can basically cut through the mess quickly!

Many times under normal circumstances, it is actually not very easy to remove an official. Not to mention that everyone in modern times knows that there is no need for desire, but civil servants who abide by the system are almost invincible within the system.

As long as you don't want to continue to climb up, you really don't need to look at any leader's face.

This is actually the case with the ancient bureaucracy. After all, others have toil even if they don't have credit. Unless a pure warrior is in power, everything needs procedures and rules.

When it comes to bureaucracy, there are even more procedures and rules. Only in this way can the stability and dignity of the entire bureaucracy be maintained.

When people use the threat of power to make others submit, then when your power is weakened, you will inevitably suffer backlash.

Needless to say, even the current Eagle Sauce is a typical example. When he was strong, he was the world's policeman. He could hit anyone he wanted with washing powder, but now that his strength has dropped a bit, he immediately suffered a backlash. Even if someone attacks his fleet and base with missiles, he will still avoid fighting on two fronts and choose to endure it, but everyone knows that there will be a time when he cannot bear it any longer.

The purpose of Liu Tai retaining this disaster relief system is so that when cleaning up Shuoshu in peacetime, it can be implemented according to the military system, instead of the normal court system, to verify and prove one by one.

Naturally, Xi Jian didn't know the real purpose of Liu Tai's insistence on sending troops to the disaster area to assist in treatment.

But no matter what, when Xi Jian watched Zhao An leading the troops to transport the warm materials he needed most, Xi Jian couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhao An and Xi Jian naturally knew each other. At this moment, he cupped his fists at Xi Jian and said:

"Zhao An's headquarters has been ordered by the king to send disaster relief materials to Yanzhou, and at the same time assist the governor in rescuing the disaster. If necessary, please give the governor Xi's orders."

"General Zhao, you came at the right time. I am short of the supplies you have!" Xi Jian said with a serious expression when he said this.

“I have also received reports from surrounding counties one after another. The snowstorm this time was too fast and too severe, causing considerable impact.

Two layers of these supplies were left for me. I made a list of counties and asked General Zhao to send the supplies to the counties one after another to help the local people survive this crisis! "

"Everything is easy to talk about. I am willing to obey the orders of Governor Xi!" Zhao An solemnly replied to Xi Jian.

Following these words, Zhao An soon led his troops and started running through the counties in Yanzhou.

If he saw that some people were still alive along the way, he would take them as far as possible to the county where they were located. If someone was found to have frozen to death, Zhao An would send their bodies to the local Wuzuo Temple, usually in Wuzuo. There are mass graves not far from the temple.

As for the martyrs’ cemeteries, although there are basically martyrs’ cemeteries in the counties where Liu Tai’s war took place, because the martyrs’ cemeteries are for people to enjoy incense, and officials need to come every year to pay their respects, that is not something that everyone can do. Go in.

Zhao An, on the other hand, led his own army and worked tirelessly to transport supplies, and then left some people behind to assist the local people in disaster relief work.

Until Zhao An released all the supplies and finally completed his mission, Zhao An devoted himself wholeheartedly to this disaster relief.

The most important thing is to clear the snow and open up the official roads between counties. After all, many roads can be used by the army, but it does not mean that normal communication between the two areas can be carried out.

During this process, Li Ju, Zu Yue, Huan Xuan and others chatted very enthusiastically at first. They always felt that Liu Tai was crazy and actually issued such an order. Of course, Li Ju might understand more or less. Liu Tai's order.

But at this moment, as I ran down the road in the cold weather, I saw myself delivering the supplies to the people in need, and the people kneeling in front of me, thanking me with the most sincere gesture they could imagine. I don’t know why. Li Ju and others felt that they were not so cold or tired anymore!

All in all, after they personally participated in the rescue, Li Ju, Zu Yue and Huan Xuan unconsciously felt a bit proud and identified with the identity of the Han soldiers, and began to believe that Liu Tai led the Han people to recover the Han Dynasty. , to realize the three rejuvenations of the Han Dynasty.

Yes, the King of Han, who cared so much about the people and would rather use important materials and troops to rescue the people, could not conquer the world. Who else could conquer the world!

(End of this chapter)