Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 857 Kowtow to Chang'an (5)

   This road was originally a wide road of hundreds of steps, and in its heyday, some people even maintained it specially. There are wooden boards in the middle of the road to facilitate the fast horse passing between post stations. Under the fine craftsman system of the Qin Dynasty, even the position between each piece of wood is exactly the distance between the four hooves of a horse.

  But such a fine and great project was also wiped out along with the Qin Dynasty in the long river of history.

  Now this Qin Dynasty straight road has been destroyed in sevens and eights, and some intersections have been dug up in order to defend against the barbarians who continue to invade the south from Emperor Heng and Emperor Ling, forming a deep ditch...

  There are too many people in Sansuke Land now.

   It's scary.

At the beginning, Li Ru drove all the people from Henan Yin to Sanfu. Before the comfort and resettlement work was carried out, he suddenly suffered from severe inflation, which caused many measures to be melted down for a while, and these ordinary people were completely out of control. became refugees.

The ancient city of Chang'an is no longer a place to shelter the people of the big men, but has become a place where disasters occur. In order to prevent the dignitaries in the government and the opposition from being impressed by refugees, the captain of the city gate has strengthened the inspection. People who have no experience in Chang'an are not allowed to enter Chang'an City, causing many people from Yin, Henan to live outside the city.

Those who were a little more clever started building thatched huts in the mountains when there were fewer people, or digging a nest on the sunny side of the leeward wind as a place to stay, and then thought about doing something to make a living. Go down, and those who came later, as long as there is no better ground around Chang'an, they can only be forced to go further and further. Some enter the Sichuan from the inclined valley, some go northwest to the Hexi Corridor, and the other part goes It is going north along Qinzhi Road...

   "Go North! Go North!"

   "Everyone go north! Work harder and persevere, and you will be fine when you reach the ground!"

A large group of ragged refugees supported each other and staggered towards the north. They didn't know what their future would be like, and they didn't know whether they could see the sun tomorrow. They just heard that there was an official in the north who was willing to take them in. They will be given fields, and they will have a place to shelter from the wind and rain, so they accompany each other and pull each other all the way north.

As they walked, a few elderly and frail people were exhausted. They staggered and sat down on the stripped and dead tree trunk beside the road, and said to their family members with a smile: " ...You all go forward, all go forward... I will rest for a while, and I will catch up with you after a short rest..."

After finishing speaking, he pushed the half-sized boy beside him, urging him to quickly follow the large army of refugees, then smiled and waved to him, and then stared at the familiar figure slowly disappearing from the field of vision, and then just like this Slowly raised his head, looked at the withered branches without any leaves, took a last look at the big man's sky, and then closed his eyes like this...

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   "Zhonglang!" Xu Shu couldn't help being taken aback after hearing Fei Qian's words, and said, "This...if you really do this, how much food and grass will it cost!"

  Starting from Diaoyin, a small camp was built every 50 miles, and three chief troops were sent to garrison it, and it went all the way to Yinshan! This is simply a bottomless pit!

It's not that he doesn't care about the people, nor is it that Xu Shu is hard-hearted, but that Fei Qian has just finished a large-scale battle here. On the one hand, he needs to replenish soldiers, and on the other hand, he must continue to produce. How can he fill all the food and grass in reserve here pit?

  Before the Great Han Dynasty, there were imperial courts that implemented disaster relief and so on, and they also allocated a sky-high amount of food and grass, but such a large amount of food and grass was still not enough. Besides, how could the food and grass in Fei Qian’s hands be enough?

  Which disaster relief rescued refugees without corpses strewn all over the field?

   That time the refugees didn't have any thieves who made trouble?

  If these refugees get out of control and make chaos halfway, wouldn't that be a fire?

   But regarding this issue, Fei Qian has already considered it for a long time, which is also a very important factor why he came to Diao Yin himself. Because including Xu Shu, and even the vast majority of people in the Han Dynasty, even Fei Qian was only half-baked in terms of understanding and dealing with refugees, but he was still much better.

   "Yuanzhi, what are refugees?"

   "Guanzi said at four o'clock, the fifth of the Northern Government, 'Prohibit migration, stop refugees, and divide and divide', so those who die on the ground due to disasters are called refugees." Xu Shu replied.

  Fei Qian nodded, and then asked: "Since the Han Dynasty, when encountering refugees, how do you deal with them?"

  Xu Shu thought for a while, and said: "In the ninth year of Yanxi, the Qing Dynasty was severely drought, the crops were damaged, and the people moved... Hebei established a stronghold in the border, gathered the refugees, most of them were repatriated, and most of them went to the mountains as bandits..."

In fact, in the Han Dynasty, the refugee problem was not once or twice, but many times, and because the productivity of the Han Dynasty was still relatively low, once it snowballed, it was very scary, and sometimes interacted with each other, resulting in the production and living structure of the entire area. Totally devastated, leaving massive populations displaced.

However, the imperial court and local county governments in the Han Dynasty basically adopted restrictions, suppression and repatriation to refugees, and used county soldiers to control and appease them. Relief, using measures such as building cities and setting up prefectures and counties to resettle refugees; and the worst thing is to force them to return to their hometown regardless...

  So every time there is a refugee, the death of the population, becoming a slave, being taken as a soldier, living in the mountains or eventually becoming a bandit is the end of most refugees.

   "Why are bandits able to live? But refugees can't?" Fei Qian asked suddenly.

"This..." Xu Shu didn't expect Fei Qian to ask this question suddenly, and subconsciously said, "Bandits do a lot of looting, this, um..." As soon as the words came out, Xu Shu felt something was wrong, and frowned. I thought about it.

  Fei Qian didn't urge him, but let Xu Shu think for himself.

There is nothing wrong with the looting of bandits, but just like what Xu Shu said just now about the Yanxi nine-year-old Xu Yan drought, it is also a dry area. There is no grain and food everywhere. Where do the mountain thieves go to plunder?

eat human?

  Refugees and bandits are the same, this kind of thing is inevitable, they both do it. But facing the same harsh environment, why do most of those people who clustered into bandits survive in the end, while those refugees are often rare?

   "...The refugees are disorderly, while the bandits...have a leader..." After a while, Xu Shu came up with an answer that was closer to the correct one.

   Feiqian nodded and said: "Besides, you need tools...Teach them how to fish, so that they can last for a long time..."

  In fact, the answer is very simple. Even bandits, when there is no looting, still carry out life and production in an organized manner, and gradually accumulate the remaining materials, which can ensure the continuation of most lives. As for the refugees, they walked all the way to eat, and they had nothing in their hands. Once they got something, they wanted to eat it all. After a few poops, they were all gone, and they were always facing hunger.

Therefore, to deal with refugees, just relying on gathering and suppressing them, or using work as a substitute for relief, will only treat the symptoms but not the root cause. This kind of treatment requires a lot of food and grass, and it will also bring great civil pressure to the gathering places. The most labor-saving way, After the initial appeasement, the refugees were immediately organized to restore self-help, evacuated, and re-established the mode of production and life. With today's food, and knowing where to go tomorrow, what to do can have food. , people's hearts will naturally settle down, so that the establishment of order and the survival of personnel can be guaranteed to the greatest extent.

  From Diaoyin to Yinshan, there are rivers such as Luoshui along the way. Naturally, there are fish, shrimp and shellfish. There are also large forests on the surrounding hills, and there must be no shortage of wild fruits, birds and animals.

Taking a step back, even if you can’t catch any living things, now that spring is here, everything grows. This road was originally sparsely populated, and the plants grow wildly at will, so there are many sprouts of these plants that can be collected and eaten. Therefore, as long as Fei Qian They are provided with tools for production and life, and told their goals. These people who are accustomed to suffering, see the hope of the future, and naturally struggle to find ways to survive.

   What Feiqian and the others need to do is to take out some food and grass at the very beginning, appease them and reorganize them from a mess to a small production team...

In fact, in history, Fei Qian knew that even without his organization, these people in Chang'an, in order to avoid the military disaster, fled to Jingxiang, fled to the Western Regions, and went south to Bashu, all of them, and some even went to Jiaozhou. Compared with the trek through thousands of mountains and rivers, what is the hundreds of miles from Diaoyin to Yinshan?

  (end of this chapter)