This road was originally a wide road with hundreds of paces, and in its heyday there was even special maintenance. There were wooden boards in the middle of the road to facilitate the transfer of fast horses between stations. Under the Qin Dynasty's sophisticated craftsmanship system, even every day
The position between a piece of wood is exactly the distance where the horse's hooves fall.
However, such a delicate and great project also disappeared along with the Qin Dynasty in the long river of history.
Nowadays, this straight road from the Qin Dynasty has been destroyed in various ways. In order to defend against the Hu people who were constantly invading southward under the Heng Emperor and the Ling Emperor, some intersections were dug up and deep ravines were formed...
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There are too many people in Sanfu Land now.
So much that it's terrifying.
Li Ru drove all the people from Henan Yin to Sanfu. Before he could start the relief and resettlement work, he suddenly suffered from violent inflation, which caused many measures to be shut down for a while, leaving these ordinary people completely devastated.
Became a refugee.
The ancient city of Chang'an is no longer a place to shelter the Han people, but has become a place where disasters occur. In order to prevent the dignitaries in the government and the public from being given the impression of refugees, the city gate captain has strengthened inspections.
No one without a place of residence in Chang'an was allowed to enter Chang'an City, causing many people from Yin, Henan to live outside the city.
Those who were a little smarter took advantage of the time when there were fewer people and began to build straw huts in the mountains, or dig a nest on the sunny side of the wind as a place to stay, and then thought about how to make a living.
Go down, and those who came later, as there was no better ground around Chang'an, they were forced to go further and further. Some entered the Sichuan from the Xie Valley, some went northwest towards the Hexi Corridor, and the other part went
It's all the way north along Qinzhi Road...
"Go north! Go north!"
"Everyone, let's go north! Work harder and hold on a little longer. You'll be fine when you reach the end of the field!"
A large group of ragged refugees supported each other and staggered toward the north. They didn't know what their future would be like, and they didn't know whether they would be able to see the sun tomorrow. They just heard that there was an official in the north who was willing to take them in.
They would be given fields and a place to shelter from the wind and rain, so they teamed up with each other and pulled each other all the way north.
As they walked, several elderly and frail people began to feel a little exhausted. They staggered and sat down leaning against the stripped and dead tree trunks beside the road. They smiled and said to their families: "
...You guys go forward, all go forward... I'll just take a break, I'll catch up with you after just a little break..."
After saying that, he pushed the young man next to him, urging him to quickly follow the large group of refugees, then smiled and waved to him, and then stared at the familiar figure slowly disappearing from the field of vision, and then like this
He slowly raised his head, looked at the withered branches without any leaves, took one last look at the sky, and then closed his eyes like this...
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"Zhonglang!" Xu Shu couldn't help being shocked after hearing Fei Qian's words, and said, "This... if we really do this, how much food and grass will it cost!"
Starting from Diaoyin, small camps were built every fifty miles, and three commanders were sent to lead their troops to garrison, and this continued all the way to Yinshan Mountain! This was simply a bottomless pit!
It's not that he doesn't care about the people, or that Xu Shu is hard-hearted, but Fei Qian has just completed a large-scale battle here. On the one hand, he has to replenish his soldiers, and on the other hand, he has to continue production. How can he fill this place with all the food reserves?
In the pit?
Before the Han Dynasty, the imperial court carried out disaster relief and so on, and also allocated a huge amount of food and grass. However, 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?
In that disaster relief operation, there were no corpses littering the fields of refugees?
That time there were no thieves among the refugees?
If these refugees get out of control and start causing trouble midway, wouldn't they just set themselves on fire?
But Fei Qian has been thinking about this issue for a long time, which is also a very important factor why he came to carve the shadows in person. Because including Xu Shu, even the vast majority of people in the Han Dynasty had a very different understanding of refugees.
When it comes to Zhihe's handling of this problem, even Fei Qian is only a half-baked person, but he is still much stronger.
"Yuanzhi, what are refugees?"
"Guanzi said in the fourth period of the Northern Dynasty and in the fifth period of Beizheng, 'Migration is forbidden, refugees are stopped, and the communities are separated', so those who died in the land due to disasters are called refugees." Xu Shu replied.
Fei Qian nodded, and then asked: "Since the beginning of the Han Dynasty, when you encounter refugees, how do you usually deal with them?"
Xu Shu thought for a while and said: "In the ninth year of Yanxi, there was a severe drought in Qingxu, the grains were damaged, and the people moved away... Hebei and Yu established strongholds on the border to collect the refugees, most of whom were repatriated, and many of whom went into the mountains to become thieves..."
In fact, in the Han Dynasty, the refugee problem occurred not once or twice, but many times. And because the productivity of the Han Dynasty was still relatively low, once it snowballed, it would be very scary. Sometimes they would interact with each other, causing the production and living structure of an entire region to deteriorate.
It was completely destroyed, causing a large number of people to become refugees.
The imperial court and local county governments of the Han Dynasty basically used restrictions, suppression and repatriation in dealing with refugees, using county soldiers to control and appease them. The better ones were naturalized in the new land, and the middle ones used work as a substitute.
Relief, using measures such as building cities and setting up counties and counties to resettle the refugees; and the worst thing is to force them to return to their hometown regardless of...
Therefore, every time a refugee occurs, the population dies, becomes a slave, is recruited as a soldier, lives in the mountains or eventually becomes a bandit, which is the outcome of most refugees.
"Why do most bandits survive? But refugees cannot survive?" Fei Qian suddenly asked.
"This..." Xu Shu didn't expect that Fei Qian would suddenly ask this question, so he subconsciously said, "Bandits often do plunder, this, um..." As soon as he said the words, Xu Shu felt something was wrong and frowned.
He frowned and started thinking.
Fei Qian didn't push him, and just let Xu Shu think about it by himself.
There is nothing wrong with the bandits looting, but like what Xu Shu just said about the drought in the ninth year of Yanxi, it was also a drought area. There was no grain everywhere. Even many local nobles were forced to wander and enter the country.
Where will those who are thieves go to plunder?
eat human?
Refugees and bandits are the same. It is inevitable that they both do this kind of thing. However, facing the same harsh environment, why do most of the people who flock to become bandits survive in the end, while those refugees are often hundreds of thousands of people?
Not one?
"...The refugees are disorderly, but the bandits...have leaders..." After a moment, Xu Shu came up with an answer that was closer to the correct answer.
Fei Qian nodded and said: "In addition, we need tools...to teach them how to fish, so that they can survive for a long time..."
In fact, the answer is very simple. Even bandits, when they are not plundering, still carry out life production in an organized manner, and will gradually accumulate the remaining supplies, thus ensuring the continuation of most lives. And
For the refugees, they eat all the time without having anything in their hands. Once they get something, they want to eat it all. They poop and urinate a few times, and then it's all gone. They are always facing hunger.
Therefore, to deal with the refugees, relying only on suppression or providing work-for-relief services will only treat the symptoms but not the root cause. Such treatment methods require a large amount of food and grass, and will also bring great pressure on the civil affairs in the gathering areas. The most labor-saving method is to
After the initial appeasement, the refugees were immediately organized to resume self-rescue, evacuated, and re-established production and living patterns. With today’s food, they also knew where to go tomorrow and what to do, so that they would have food.
, people's hearts will naturally settle down, thus ensuring the establishment of order and the survival of personnel to the greatest extent.
From Diaoyin to Yinshan Mountain, there are rivers such as Luoshui along the way. Naturally, there are fish, shrimps and shellfish. There are also large forests on the surrounding hills, and there is certainly no shortage of wild fruits, birds and animals.
To take a step back, even if you can't catch any living things, now that spring has arrived, everything is growing. This road was originally sparsely populated, and the plants grew wildly at will. Therefore, there are many sprouts of these plants that can be collected and eaten, so as long as you dive
It provides them with the tools for production and life, and tells them the goal of progress. When these people who are accustomed to suffering see hope for the future, they will naturally struggle to find ways to survive.
And what Fei Qian and the others need to do is just to provide some food and grass at the beginning, calm them down and reorganize them from a piece of loose sand into a small production team...
In fact, in history, Fei Qian knew that even without his organization, the people in Chang'an fled to Jingxiang, the Western Regions, and Bashu in the south to avoid the military disaster, and some even went to Jiaozhou.
Compared with that kind of trek across thousands of mountains and rivers, what does the hundreds of miles from Diaoyin to Yinshan mean?
