The official was still hesitant, Zhang Lu said: "The matter is urgent. I hope the doctor will report back soon. After today, the food from the east of the river will not arrive!"

Seeing Zhang Lu's categorical statement, Dr. Gong didn't know what kind of news Zheng Anping had received last night, and what kind of instructions he had received. He was suspicious. However, the five hundred stones of food every day were not transported from the camp, but from Pi Shi.

, if Zhang Lu said not to do it, then he really couldn't do it. In desperation, he had to make arrangements, resigned from everyone, and crossed the river to Fushi to report to the county governor.

After the official left, Zhang Lu found Zheng Anping again and had a secret discussion with him. He also found Chen Si and Mang Wei and had a discussion. Then, Zhang Lu asked Zheng Anping to return to Puban to recuperate and visit the pregnant woman.

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The next day, Zheng Anping came back and brought a recruitment list made by Pu Ling and set it up on the construction site. Zhang Lu called the doctors at all levels and ordered the doctors to announce it to the soldiers below. He also announced that all those who are willing to immigrate will be

Doctors at all levels report it and summarize it here.

From that day on, recruitment lists were placed on the construction site, and moved forward step by step as the construction site moved forward. After camping, Mang Wei went down to each camp to ask if anyone had signed up to immigrate, and also took the opportunity to chat with the soldiers.

They chatted for a few words and verbally agreed to some preferential policies: "The governor of Hedong took pity on the disaster in Shangjun. He said that if any of the people who have made meritorious deeds have moved to Hedong, they can return immediately and move to their homes temporarily to eat."

One after another, doctors reported the soldiers who were willing to immigrate. Zhang Lu immediately made five buckets of fried millet and wrote a letter on the Jiefu. The reason written in the Jiefu was "The meritorious people moved their families to the east of the river to eat." They did not have to work that day.

We returned to the camp to prepare our luggage and have our normal meals. The next day, we gathered everyone together and crossed the river at Puban to go home to pick up their families.

In this way, people were crossing the river from Puban every day, and the number was increasing. After ten days, more than a thousand people had left.

After the official came back, he reported to Zhang Lu that the governor of Shang County agreed to suspend the transportation of grain to Shang County and wait for the road construction to be completed to make up for the remaining grain. Zhang Lu showed him the recruitment list and told him that more than a thousand people had returned home.

migrant.

The official was shocked and said hurriedly: "This matter has not been approved by the governor, so An De acted recklessly!"

Zhang Lu said: "This order has been issued for a long time, but the counties have done nothing. Zheng Cheng went to Xianyang to ask for the order, and was punished for being unable to do it. He was beaten twenty times."

Dr. Gong thought for a while and vaguely remembered that Zheng Anping seemed a little strange after he came back, and was then taken to a dark place. Judging from his actions, it seemed that he had been beaten. Could it be that Zheng Anping came back in a hurry just to implement the immigration to Hedong? Dr. Gong was uneasy.

Think about it. If this is the case, it would be a bit troublesome for Zhang Lu to focus on the ten or twenty thousand people in Shangjun. There are still one hundred thousand people behind the ten or twenty thousand families. If they leave, Shangjun will be empty.

Just when he was worried, he heard Zhang Lu say the words he least wanted to hear: "I have erected the list at the entrance and ordered the officials to spread it widely, and be sure to keep it in the east of the river! If you don't keep it, the king will

When the matter is over, send them all!"

The disaster in Shang County shows no sign of easing, and this year's harvest is likely to be poor. In view of this, the arrogant Shang County Governor bowed his head and allowed Hedong not to transport food. He was about to argue with reason, but Zhang Lu then

Another sentence made him hesitate again: "I heard that the disaster in Shangjun is serious and the people are in dire straits. Anyone who wants to move is ordered to live in the east of the river. Don't wait for his orders: you want to live among the people."

The public official knew the seriousness of the disaster. Not to mention that Qin law did not allow disaster relief, even if the warehouse door was opened to provide relief, there would not be enough food. There were hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children in the county. It is estimated that all the stocks could be eaten up in a month; even if they support those in the county

The burden on the strong men serving in the army is also very heavy. Moreover, there is a drought in Shangjun. Not only is there no food, but all plants do not grow well. It is difficult to dig wild vegetables. If there is no food supply, many people will starve to death. In the county

The plan you kept is going to leave a big stain.

If immigrants immigrate to Hedong... Dr. Gong suddenly had an inspiration: If support for immigrants to Hedong is included in the above plan, then there will be a reason for the decrease in the population of Shangjun, and there will be no need to report that all of them died of starvation due to disasters.

Thinking of this, the official said to Zhang Lu: "Thousands of households were moved to the east of Hedong, and Shangjun moved thousands of households. I was afraid that when Hedong was first built, there would be insufficient food and crops, and all the industries were unprepared, so I didn't dare to move them all. Now Hedong is doing it myself, and Shangjun dares to help.

Yes! I would like to inform Yu Shou to help him."

Zhang Lu said: "The official has just returned, so how can we leave again? The civilian army may return or not, and the number of camps may be lacking. We still need the official to make good arrangements and not to waste his work."

When the official heard this, he had no choice but to respond: "I'm very sincere!"

In the following days, more than a hundred people still left every day. Then the first immigrant family came back by boat. By this time, the army building the road had also reached Puban County. Pu Ling had already received guidance from Pi Wan, and more

The family was settled smoothly: they found a place with abundant water and grass, and asked the road construction workers to help build a straw shed to live temporarily; the workers went to work as usual, got food, and lived with their families mixed with wild vegetables-at least there were still things around.

You can dig wild vegetables! Seeing the miserable situation of this family, everyone in the village shed tears and sighed. The man said: "In the early days, there are still grass left to dig, but if it is too late, it may not be safe!"

The arrival of this family caused a huge stir. Almost all the migrant workers who saw this situation that day applied to go home to pick up their families. Mang Wei said: "There are too many people, and I'm afraid there won't be enough rice."

This group of people said: "How can we save people from fire and water? How can we stir up millet?" Mang Lai did not have time to register his name, so he only registered "xx people under a certain doctor", and the festival talisman was only issued to the countryside "xx people who worked in the east of the river in a certain area have meritorious service and moved their families."

Eat in Hedong”

With the arrival of families one after another, the seriousness of the disaster in Shangjun quickly spread among the migrant workers. Driven by a herd mentality, almost everyone could not wait to take their family members out, as if they did not do so, they would starve.

Death. At first, the official wanted to stand by and watch, but when he saw that almost the entire camp was asking to leave, he finally became anxious and went to Zhang Lu and said, "If this is the case, there will be no one left in our village!"

Zhang Lu comforted him and said: "If the doctor had gone out to the east of the river during the first disaster, how could his people have been waiting to die like this? If you look at the four thousand households of the Pi family, even though they are all old and weak, how many people would have died of starvation?"

He died of illness."

Since there were too many people to leave, it was impossible to register, nor to issue festival signs on time, and there were not enough boats, so the number of people was suppressed: only 500 people per day, and the work of road construction continued.

Five hundred people leave every day, but only a few people come every day. Most of them have long distances to travel or encounter other obstacles, making it difficult to come back for a while.

Pubanei went all out to stir up millet, and almost all women who could stir up millet were recruited, including women from newly arrived families who were still able to work. Wei County no longer transported grain here, so Zhang Lu borrowed the methods of the salt merchants.

, let merchants from the four old counties transport grain here and pay with salt. Generally speaking, one stone of salt can buy five stones of millet - in Jie County, one stone of salt cannot even buy one stone of millet.

The first batch of people from Shangjun who entered Pishi were mostly old and weak. Pi Wan asked some of them to be led by Pishi's merchants and lead their animals to transport salt and grain. The scope of their business was not limited to Hedong, and they also entered Fen.

The water traveled to South Korea's territory. The grain purchased was private grain and did not affect the government's inventory. Pi Wan also bought a large number of young livestock and gave them to these immigrant households to raise. Few of these immigrants were engaged in business or animal husbandry, and Pi Wan

Wan could only be taken by officials, merchants and Yu people in the name of serving.

Since the Pishi-Fenyin line is currently in an urgent position, and a large number of people have to cross the river back to Shangjun every day, Zhang Lu decided to build a road along the Yellow River through the Fenyin-Puban line first, so as to facilitate access to Pishi and Fenyin.

provided food and made it easier for migrant workers to cross the river and return home.

For twenty days, the road was built from Puban to Fenyin. At this time, more and more families gathered in Xia Yangjin to cross the river. Zhang Lu decisively stopped building the road and mobilized all the boats to transport their families across the river.

People set up simple straw huts near the road to accommodate these people. Although due to the large number of households, every ten households could only share one pot of gruel after crossing the river, but everyone's face had a look of surviving a disaster.

Fortunately, Zhang Lu and Dr. Gong led Zheng Anping and others past the fires one by one, talked to them one by one, comforted them, and told them that they had been hungry for many days and could not eat enough. They could only drink some porridge.

Especially children, parents must control them and not allow them to eat violently. Everyone climbed down and kowtowed, saying some words of gratitude. Zhang Lu pointed at the official and said: "This is the official of your county, not this person. You

How can we get to this point!" These people kowtowed to the Duke together. The Duke thought to himself, I have taken the blame!

From Puban to Pishi via Fenyin, it is more than 200 miles along the bank of the Yellow River. In just ten days, tens of thousands of thatched huts have been densely built to temporarily accommodate immigrants from Shangjun. And in these ten days,

, another five thousand people crossed the Yellow River and went to Shangjun to pick up their families. Zhang Lu asked the magistrates of the three counties to quickly measure the land and resettle the immigrants. Pi Wan was responsible for the resettlement work. He led the remaining three thousand

Migrant workers continue to build roads. - Anyone with family members who go to Hedong can be exempted from hard labor and organized into townships according to the arrangements of each county. They can choose a place to live; they can cultivate wasteland, raise livestock, or sell goods; women can work in each county or

There were so many people pounding, weaving, frying millet, or picking. Suddenly there were so many people, and the three counties along the river immediately became prosperous.

With only more than 3,000 migrant workers left, road construction was relatively slow. They could not build more than two miles in a day. From Puban to Yishi, it was more than 150 miles up the Su River. Zhang Lu refused the official.

He requested to recruit the migrant workers from Shangjun and insisted that they settle down in Hedong first, as if building roads was not his main business.

A few days later, among the migrant workers who came back, some of their families had starved to death in the city or on the road. As time went by, there were more and more such tragedies. The heart-rending pain of the latecomers was overcome by the huts and straw huts that had been built first.

Comforted by the warm millet porridge. The surrounding families are all immigrants from Shangjun. Whether they know each other or not, everyone has similar pain and can comfort each other. I see that the earlier immigrants have gathered together to form a town, and they have formed a town.

The township was allocated farmland - although it was a barren area, everyone was full of hope.
Chapter completed!