The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 314: Checking for leaks and filling them up after the disaster

The first wave of supplies needed the army to transport, and the army was also needed to open the roads blocked by winter snow.

The second batch of supplies followed the path of the army led by Zhao An and was then transported there. Although it was a little slow, it was able to help the people of Yanzhou and enable as many people as possible to survive.

The third batch of materials can almost be transported through the canal or even the Yellow River, because it has sedimented for a month.

This section of the canal, and even the Yellow River itself, are quite tightly frozen, so there are no transportation problems.

The construction of the Yongji Canal has indeed facilitated transportation from Yecheng to areas south of the Yellow River, but it is inevitably inconvenient to use at two times of the year, one when it freezes and the other when it melts.

Basically, not long after the second batch of supplies arrived, Xi Jian had already sent a letter to inform them of the snow disaster relief situation.

At least the situation has stabilized, and it will be good to have enough cold shelter materials to help people survive the winter.

Liu Tai immediately ordered to continue dispatching supplies to Yanzhou, and also called Cao Yi over, asking him to first send people to organize corvees in Yanzhou to help the people build collective houses with central heating.

Of course, don’t feel that this thing is advanced. It is probably a relatively large fire pit. However, this fire pit boils water for a long time, so it is generally built to directly divert river water into the cauldron, while the bottom floor is used for calcination.

Therefore, this room will become a bathhouse for buying and selling boiled water and providing bathing functions.

Because the coal is internally priced, or transported directly to this room through debit, it is regarded as a government subsidy to a certain extent, and the calcined heat is used to heat a large circle of surrounding houses.

This is considered one of Liu Tai's important facilities to promote the replacement of firewood with coal, but it can only be built in areas with relatively high population density.

Because even with court subsidies, a fairly high population density is needed to support this facility.

After all, it costs a certain amount of money to sell boiled water to the people, or to allow them to enjoy baths or pedicures.

To the people in the north, this thing is a bit like infrastructure, a bit like a school or a hospital. Therefore, like schools and hospitals, this thing is still a relatively scattered residential structure that cannot be maintained.

But this time, taking advantage of the snowstorm, the people in the Yanzhou area were integrated, villages were forcibly merged, and new villages were built according to the needs of the imperial court. Not only water houses, but also hospitals and elementary schools could actually be set up along the way.

Each disaster itself is not worthy of praise, but the people who survive each disaster will develop stronger.

"So Uncle Cao, let's put the road construction aside for now, and take advantage of this snowstorm to recruit local people to build new tile-roofed houses to protect them from wind and rain!" Liu Tai said solemnly to Cao Yi.

"Leave this matter to me!" Cao Yi nodded solemnly after hearing Liu Tai's instructions.

To be honest, although Cao Yi basically only focused on engineering projects after Liu Tai came to power, only Cao Yi himself knew how much power he had.

Even though he has gradually handed over the water transportation affairs to Wang Bo and handed over his road construction to Guo Pu, even so, if he encounters any big project, he still needs to start it himself.

Especially when it comes to urban construction, only the Han Dynasty has the most experience.

Under such circumstances, Cao Yi immediately understood that Liu Tai hoped that he could guide these victims out through his work and not let the victims continue to be immersed in the disaster caused by the snow disaster.

After all, those who survive will always continue to live, and this construction is to help people re-establish contact with the world.

To be honest, for those who have experienced a catastrophic disaster, especially after everything they use has been ruthlessly destroyed or wiped out, the way to help them is not to show them mercy, but to help them reconnect with the world as much as possible. Build a connection and let them know that although they have suffered a disaster, they are not abandoned by the world.

Because people are often very fragile and sensitive when suffering disasters. For the court, if they are comforted well, they will become converts of the court. If they are not comforted well, they will become the destroyers of the entire dynasty.

The way for them to re-establish a good relationship with the world is to work, because as long as people's bodies can still survive, they will gradually break out of the quagmire of sadness, because time itself is the best antidote to pain.

And because Cao Yi has followed Liu Tai for a long time, he is also used to Liu Tai's governance style. Basically, when encountering a disaster, Liu Tai never advocates resting with the people. On the contrary, Liu Tai will mobilize a large amount of resources to get the people to take action.

Let them work, let them earn money and food, and let them truly feel that they are still alive. This is Liu Tai's way of managing disasters.

It can only be said that this method is quite Liu Tai's style. After all, this process requires a large amount of food, grass and materials to be consumed, but Liu Tai would rather save money on food and clothing, thereby squeezing out more materials and building towards the disaster area.

Of course, this was just Cao Yi's idea, so he accepted the task respectfully, and immediately recruited subordinate officials to dispatch supplies. He went to Yanzhou with the third batch of supplies, and compared with road construction, he completed the city first. construction.

Liu Tai naturally didn't know what Cao Yi was thinking. After all, money was really not a problem for Liu Tai.

After all, his salt stamps have gradually replaced the role of currency, which makes it very convenient for him to dispatch supplies.

As for the supplies themselves, although they fought a war, they did not use their own reserves. Although the duration was quite large, in reality it only lasted three to four months. Chu Hao himself could appease down.

For Liu Tai, this snowstorm had somewhat penetrated what Liu Tai thought was the entire transportation channel through the Yongji Canal to the Yellow River.

Originally, Liu Tai thought that with the emergence of a canal like the Yongji Canal, he could save on road construction first, concentrate resources to complete the unification, and then slowly think about road construction later, but now it seems that road construction must also keep up. !

But for Liu Tai himself, this snow disaster may not be all bad. At least sometimes when natural disasters come, it is an opportunity to sort out the place, especially for Liu Tai now.

After all, when he first attacked Yanzhou, he tried his best to appease the local people and accepted the surrender of Zu Yue and Huan Xuan.

Therefore, although the government military system and the military history system have been added to the grassroots level, when it comes to adjustments, it is really not much.

Under such circumstances, this sudden winter snow really helped me solve a lot of troubles.

After all, as long as they complete the work of gathering villages and merging villages for the common people, not to mention that they can completely cut off the control of the aristocratic families, but at least they have a chance to survive by relying on various basic tasks given by the court.

To say that there is any big development, it naturally depends on opportunities, but at least if you want food and clothing, if you want to survive, at least you don't need to look at the faces of aristocratic families. "Mu Yuan?" Liu Tai turned his attention to Chu Hui.

Chu Hui stopped writing because there were many things that Liu Tai had completed building the framework and Chu Hui needed to add details before handing them over to the people below. When he heard Liu Tai's words, he couldn't help but raise his head.

"I want to add something to the merit system. For example, what you do when dispatching troops to rescue and provide disaster relief in extreme situations will also be regarded as military merit and added to the military merit system!"

After hearing this, Chu Hui frowned and said:

"If this is true, it will be a good thing for the soldiers, and it will also reward the soldiers for their enthusiasm in helping the people.

But since ancient times, no one can be knighted except for military merit. If there is a loophole, I'm afraid someone will take advantage of this to make a fuss in the future.

After all, there are obvious loopholes in the system, and I think people will definitely take advantage of it! "

"Well, it is indeed worth reminding!" Liu Tai nodded in agreement when he heard Chu Hui's words, and then said,

“Everything involving emergency rescue and disaster relief is set up as a collective merit reward, and if it involves individual rewards, they must be awarded when sacrifices are made during the rescue and disaster relief process.

If the body cannot be recovered and the death cannot be confirmed, the victim will be treated as a sacrifice, but it will take one year for the body to be sealed. "

When Chu Hui heard Liu Tai's words, he nodded and said, "What is the upper limit for this?"

"The Marquis of Guannei who cannot be passed on!" Liu Tai thought for a while and said to Chu Hui.

Chu Hui nodded. With the scope planned by Liu Tai, all he had to do was embed the corresponding policies into the military merit system he had established.

Although Chu Hui felt that Liu Tai paid too much attention to the military, he thought about it. When the war ends in the future, the world is unified, and all the barbarians around him surrender, he will eventually need to find a reason for the army.

Under such circumstances, soldiers have a non-war promotion channel, especially since this can also be beneficial to the people in the disaster area, so it is naturally worth promoting.

Moreover, if a disaster does occur, as long as it is not the kind of disaster that occurs once in a century, the local military and military history system will actually play a more important role, rather than the soldiers.

Therefore, after this matter was passed, it was the grassroots soldiers who benefited more. So after thinking about it, Chu Hui didn't think there was anything wrong with allowing officers to obtain military honors during disaster relief.

On the contrary, it is a good channel for the lower-level soldiers who have difficulty in selecting soldiers due to the limited number of soldiers.

"It's just that if this is the case, the military history system will probably need more manpower. Each military history system will need at least three military historians to record the situation during disaster relief!" Chu Hui thought thoughtfully.

For Chu Hui, the system of government troops and soldiers designed by Liu Tai can only be said to be a soldier system suitable for Liu Tai's way of leading troops. But is there any problem with this system and will it be exposed in the future? To be honest Chu Hui couldn't tell.

But Chu Hui admired the military history system created by Liu Tai very much. This kind of existence as a third party actually supervises rights very well. Military history only has the right to record facts and then report them, and has no other rights.

However, this kind of record and knowledge rights has very strong supervision and deterrence on the rights themselves.

No one is guarding against this system, it is just a record.

For people who have no bottom line in their hearts, such as Jia Xu and Cheng Yu, they don't mind being known as poisonous people or ruthless people in the history books in the future. For those who are truly responsible, they are not afraid that they will be described in military history. What an ugliness.

Because for them, managing their jurisdiction well and allowing the people to get help is what they should do.

But to the vast majority of people in the officialdom, they are just ordinary people.

When they understand that their words and deeds will be recorded and then sent to the court for careful review, they will naturally become much more cautious in their conduct.

In this process, non-stick-pan officials will naturally appear, but most of them do not dare to do anything wrong to the people at the bottom, thinking that they become officials who can break laws and disciplines and cover the sky with one hand.

This is what Chu Hui appreciates about this system, because these military histories can play a very good role in educating and restricting the local area. Their existence will not affect some determined officials, but their existence does improve the officials. the lower limit.

After all, historians had always been a very respected profession before Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty insisted on reading the daily notes himself.

However, after Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty read the Daily Notes, someone took the lead, and the subsequent emperors followed suit. As a result, the later history books were published, the more people doubted the authenticity of the history books, and even needed enough unofficial history to support the official version. History books.

Naturally, the status of historians gradually declined with the decline of official history.

But now, historians are still a respected profession. Especially during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, many elite historians appeared and tried their best to record the history of the Southern and Northern Dynasties in detail.

Historiographers can give the emperor a headache. Now that historians are left to supervise officials, even frontier officials, how can they feel at ease in the face of these military histories that are only written but not told?

At least they know that when they were officials, they benefited one party. These military histories may not record their affairs clearly, but if they do something wrong, these military histories will definitely make them infamy for thousands of years.

Although military history only has a small right to record history books and report it, it does not involve any other rights at all.

But whether the top local leaders or the top leaders in the army, they are more wary of military history to some extent than anyone else.

Because they are really likely to ruin their reputation and be infamy for thousands of years. The most important thing is that they and he are not subordinate to each other.

Therefore, in Chu Hui's view, the military history system is an excellent system for long-term peace and stability in the Han Dynasty. However, the only thing that gives Chu Hui a headache is that the military history system itself requires a large number of literate talents, and this kind of talent itself is the most scarce in this society. of.

"So as the scale of military history increases, we can only look forward to the next imperial examination.

According to what the king said, it will take at least three to five years before the next imperial examination will be held! "

Chu Hui couldn't help but sigh, "Why can't talents be like leeks, which grow right after they are cut?"

(End of this chapter)