Chapter 49: Taolin Civil Affairs (1)
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Food is the most important thing for people.
Starting today, the vigorous wheat busyness is about to begin. It takes about a month to harvest the winter wheat, remove the ears, dry it, store it, and then turn the ground and plant millet. This wheat busyness is barely over! In the future, there will be hoeing, clearing grass, irrigation, etc.
The boundaries of Jizhou are mostly ripe twice a year, and winter wheat and spring millet are cultivated in turn, such as Pingji County, Luancheng County, Gaoyi County, etc., but when you go north, you can only ripen once a year near Guangchang County, Zhongshan and Lingshou County, Changshan.
After breakfast, Wen Chou thought that he should go to the territory of Taolin Township and take a look at the work of comforting the refugees. After all, they are like Shahe villagers in the future, and they are all under his jurisdiction. This is the basis for his rise. We must not favor one or the other!
"Mr. Wang, is it okay to appease the refugees in recent days?" Wen Chou asked Wang Chong, the village master who stood beside him.
"It was notified according to your wishes, Wenjun. Overall, it was quite smooth. Maybe it was because of your bravery and courage, etc. that played a certain deterrent role, but there was not much trouble." Wang Chong said in detail.
"Oh, there is still this?" Wen Zhaoyan smiled.
"Not that? Most of the refugees came to join you after hearing your reputation, so they were naturally at peace." A servant said with a flattering smile.
"Ahem, there is no need to compliment me. Let's go to Taolinsai to take a look." Wen Chou coughed awkwardly and changed the subject.
"No." Everyone answered.
Wen Chou walked to the gate of the official temple. A Er and a group of village soldiers led the horse out. Wen Chou laughed and said a few words to A Er before he turned over the horse.
The group said that there were not many people, and that there were not many people. There were more than a dozen people! Except for Wen Chou, Wang Chong and two or three village officials, Yan Liang and Wen Ba, the rest were Liu Zhong, Tie Qian, Dong Jiang and others. - Tie Qian, Dong Jiang arrived that night in the township.
Wen Chou and Wang Chong rode slowly in front of him. At first, they talked about some political affairs in the village, but later they were all kinds of rumors and anecdotes in the village. When they were over, they laughed a few times from time to time.
Yan Liang, Wenba and Liu Zhong and other gentlemen had similar temperaments and gathered behind and had a lot of fun talks. There was a burst of laughter, but I don’t know what interesting thing the gentlemen said!
Everything was done, everyone let go of their hearts and chatted casually, sweeping away the depressed and urgent atmosphere of nearly a month!
Soon Wen Chou and others came to the official road, and there were large fields of wheat on both sides of the official road.
The year is good, with abundant winter snow and abundant spring rain. The winter wheat in the field is full of ears and grains. When the wind blows, the yellow wheat seedlings are undulating, and a fragrance mixed with heat comes. When you walk to the official road, you can see a group of land slaves wearing calves and working barely. There are also good households who are busy drinking and drinking in the fields!
Wen Chou and his group were walking on the road, and many farmers recognized Wen Chou and came forward to greet him.
"What are you doing in Wenjun?" A farmer patted the wheat he had just cut, and then Gongjin asked.
"Oh, it's you? How about it? It seems that the harvest is good!" This Wen Chou recognized that it was the middle-aged man who led people to report to Wen Chou that day. Wen Chou glanced at the piles of wheat in the field and said with a smile.
"Haha, I ask Wenjun, you are blessed. Otherwise, I dare not imagine, I dare not imagine." The man smiled and thought to himself: "Wenjun actually remembers me", and hurriedly bowed his hands and said respectfully. This is respect from the heart! It was Wen Chou that gave him a good harvest year and avoided the disaster of the bandits.
"Oh, we plan to go to Taolin to see. Not most of the new villagers are arranged there." Wen Chou also smiled. Being able to win the respect of the villagers means that he is more successful in his order. He has no worries and suffering.
"Oh, that's the case, then the people will not disturb Wenjun. I hope you will have a smooth trip." The middle-aged man said with a smile.
"Haha, I also wish my fellow villagers a good harvest!" Wen Chou also said.
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"Tsk tsk, Wenjun is really a rare good official!" The middle-aged man sighed as he saw Wen Chou and his party who had been walking along the way and stopped talking to the villagers in the fields from time to time.
And this is not just his voice, but mostly people say that the voices of the villagers! The image of literary ugliness and people-friendly has spread among the people, and the name of "benevolence, righteousness, filial piety and filial piety" is even more popular.
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It was already noon when the group arrived at the porridge shed temporarily built by Taolin. Sixty or seventy villagers were busy giving porridge to the hungry people.
This porridge shed is built for more than a month, and a meal of porridge at noon every day has never stopped. I don’t know how many hungry people have helped, and how many Guizhou heads that have destroyed their heart fire have rekindled the fire of hope!
A meal of porridge cannot help these desperate refugees, but it can hold their vitality. As long as this vitality is still there, they have hope of a new life. Most of the refugees who have been rescued have joined Shahe Township and worked hard to do something to restore their lives!
The people are simple and kind-hearted, and as a result, Taolin has entered a virtuous cycle.
The arrival of Wen Chou and his group caused quite a stir.
"Who is that tall horse?"
"Didn't you see Zhang Tou greet him respectfully? Could it be the rumored Youzhi Wenjun?"
"Isn't it just the disaster food he raised for us?"
"I heard that he is a powerful general!"
"Shh, just say less. Don't be ill of a noble person!"
"It's okay, Wen Jun is kind and righteous! How can he understand the common people like us?"
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There were about two or three thousand people at the scene, divided into five or six settlements, and many people came in the distance with wooden bowls. I think they had just returned from the construction site in the village.
Most of the refugees who decided to settle here chose a place to build houses near Shahe Township. Although they were all wooden houses and thatched houses, they were much better than sleeping in the wild.
There were seven or eight large pots in the shed, and the porridge was being cooked. From time to time, the cooked ones were carried by the villagers to a wooden barrel not far away, where the refugees were receiving the porridge.
"How long can the grain last?" Wen Chou dismounted and asked Zhang Tou, the manager who rushed over.
"Mr. Wen, the porridge shed is almost impossible to maintain. Fortunately, if the thousand stones of refined grain were saved a little a few days ago, the increase in refugees would be less than 20 years old." Zhang Tougongjin said.
"Thousands of stones of fine grain, tens of thousands of people need to eat. Can they last for more than 20 years?" Wen Chou asked question.
"If it is normal, it is definitely not possible. Generally speaking, one stone of food is enough for 40 people a day, and a thousand stone is just 40,000 people a day. If ten thousand people have enough food, they can last for four or five days." Zhang Tou saw Wen Chou frowned and said Gong Jin.
"Extend four or five days to twenty or thirty days, this is a chaotic world! If you can't eat, the corpse will be exposed to the wilderness." Wen Chou was even more worried and sighed.
"In theory, they are still lucky. When you meet Wen Jun, you will have a porridge of food every day. Otherwise, there will be many people who are hungry in the wild!" Zhang Tou sighed.
"So how are you doing in building a house?" Wen Chou was unwilling to talk more about this miserable topic. He thought about all the ways to think about it. The grain had been raised by the wealthy families in the village, and he even took out more than half of his own wealth! Wen Chou thought to himself: "I hope that after this good harvest, I can raise some more."
"This has been basically built. Although it is all wooden houses and thatched huts, it can also shelter from wind and rain!" Zhang Touyan said. After thinking about it, he said: "Mr. Wen, now you can sow spring millet, but this millet is just the millet..."
"Well, that's good, that's good." Wen Chou nodded and frowned for a moment and said, "I have prepared some millet planting issues, which is about five or six hundred households to sow seeds, but I didn't expect that more than 10,000 people came! I will find another way to do this."
"Mr. Wen is kind and kind! The great blessing of the people!" Zhang Tou bowed down and bowed down when he heard this.
Seeing this, the refugees looked at each other and asked what happened. Zhang Tou talked with the man for a little while, and then he bent down to say something. Soon, the news that Wen Chou promised to bring up the grain crop spread. The people all felt the virtue! They bowed one after another and shouted, "Parents!"
"When the villagers are unable to eat, my Wen Chou is already ashamed of himself. I think every day, I hope the villagers will forgive me. I will make the people rich and seed millet. I have the responsibility of order. How can I accept the rituals of you?" Wen Chou hurriedly shouted loudly when he saw this. Then he bowed and helped him up and signaled the refugees to get up! (The novel "Wen Chou in the late Han Dynasty" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there is also a 100% lottery gift for everyone! Open WeChat now, click the "+" sign in the upper right to "Add Friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up!)
Chapter completed!