This year passed very quickly, and Li Tai looked at the people who were sent by Li Chunfeng one after another from Henan and were relieved.
Although these people's faces were still full of numbness and fear, they were even cautious and were a little confused after coming to Tianjin City.
To be honest, for the departure of these victims, the local families in Henan were naturally happy to see Li Tai sending people to gather these victims. Otherwise, no one would guarantee whether the victims would become bandits or not.
Some people who still have land at home may also hold their own land if they die, but more people are just tenants and they have no land.
With this flood, it was not only the direct damage caused to them at that time, but also the fact that as the flood flooded the fertile fields, all the food that was about to be harvested in autumn was naturally drowned, and they naturally had no hope.
This is a bit like a group of migrant workers from other places coming to work in big cities, and their wages are about to be settled by the end of the year.
As a result, the natural disaster came and the company was gone. I didn’t know who to collect debts from.
Those locals with fields can still rely on their own savings to continue looking for their next job, but for most workers, it will completely cut off their life.
In fact, the tenants are even more pitiful than the workers, because the workers still have the old way to return to their hometowns, but for these tenants, there is nothing left in a flood.
At this time, the conscientious landlords were merciful, and they exchanged their land for food, took their daughters to help them overcome difficulties, and even recruited several servants, which were all doing good deeds.
More landlords still hide in small buildings themselves, who cares about the lives and death of these tenants? Even if Du Ruhui wants to save them, they usually start to save them from the landlord family with land.
These tenants only maintain stability by serving porridge, keeping them from causing trouble, and allowing local noble families to restore order first to carry out disaster relief.
This is impossible, because the control of the court cannot be implemented at the grassroots level, so the people can only save officials first.
This may not be a debate between corrupt officials and honest officials. It is because a government's execution cannot be implemented at the grassroots level, so it can only cooperate with local wealthy families and aristocratic families, otherwise the grassroots people will not be able to reach the court.
Originally, once disasters arise, the local people will be cleaned up and more middle layers will slide towards the bottom layers.
The upper-class local tyrants will take advantage of this opportunity to either annex the land or raise slaves.
As for the people at the bottom of the world, it would be thankful that they could survive the winter in this disaster and last until next spring.
The Chinese people do not lack the spirit of struggle. If they really can’t survive, as long as someone raises their arms and shouts, it will be interesting.
The local family is powerful, even Du Ruhui and others, who know that they cannot really force the lower-class people into desperate situations, such as opening a porridge shed to give the people a little hope of life, so that the people will not go in a mess.
The people also know that this bowl of porridge can only survive, but cannot change their predicament.
But in feudal society, even if it is a feudal society ruled by the Tang Dynasty, can they have any other higher luxury?
For the lower-level people, there is only one way to promote, that is, as a soldier in the palace to participate in the war against foreign tribes, he relied on his life to fight from the lower-level people to the top. There was no other way.
At this time, Li Chunfeng sent people to gather the victims and head north. For the victims, it was not so much a ray of light that shone into their lives, but rather a flood that destroyed the lives of the victims. They followed the food in a daze.
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As for what Li Chunfeng promotes, he has steamed buns to eat every day and everyone has clothes to wear. Who believes this kind of thing?
For these tenants, they knew the cruelty of this world best, because Li Chunfeng was obedient, so they were just obedient.
However, Li Chunfeng was already very skilled in managing these people. He basically let these carriages that originally took four people and squeezed into twelve people to force them to Dezhou, and then loaded the ship to Tianjin City.
Don’t ask Li Chunfeng how he did it. After all, after dismantling the carriage on the top of the carriage, he could still squeeze out some space. At most, the horses who were pulling goods were a bit difficult.
This group of people is the most likely to die from Hedong to Texas, but after arriving in Texas, they have medical assistance, which has reduced the losses on the way.
The doctors sent by Li Tai were divided into two groups, one of which established medical camps in Dezhou to treat the people who went to Youzhou.
Another group followed Du Ruhui to save people in Xuzhou, the most intense flooding place. At the same time, they also began to use some methods, either to deal with corpses or to clean up debris. In short, it was to prevent plague after flooding.
It can be said that as the early October arrived, the imperial disaster relief envoy finally came down. However, even though the disaster relief envoy came with food, he could only cooperate with local wealthy families to carry out disaster relief.
However, Li Tai was very sensible and knew that his hand could not be reached directly to Henan, so he told Li Chunfeng to establish a temporary shelter in Dezhou, which was near Henan, and sent a person who gathered in Dezhou to Tianjin City.
To be honest, Li Tai is already very comfortable with handling the people who have escaped.
When they arrived in Tianjin, they immediately asked them to take a shower, change their clothes, and then organized them to build their own houses in certain places. When they moved into the houses they built, they could intuitively experience them.
When Tianjin City is able to create wealth through its own labor, it will naturally become honest.
"King Yan." Wang Zhenru came to Li Tai and spoke, "Tianjin Ferry, Tianjin City, and the chassis to Tianjin Port have been completed, and the entire chassis can be put into use!"
"Very good!" Li Tai nodded, "Next, you will continue to build roads, mainly from Tianjin City to the surrounding cities, counties, cities, walls, and villages. Build eight parallel roads and six parallel roads from Tianjin City to cities, from cities, counties, cities, and villages around Tianjin.
, four carriages in parallel, and two carriages in parallel!”
"It's going to be dead!" Wang Zhenru, who had just repaired the road in Tianjin, couldn't help but open his mouth wide.
"There's no way!" Li Tai spread his hands helplessly and said,
"These people gathered in Tianjin City in large numbers, and they always needed to give them a job opportunity to survive.
Otherwise, if they do nothing in Tianjin City, they will inevitably cause trouble over time.
But after thinking about it, you have always been short of people, so I won’t make up for this for you!
"Thank you for your concern!" Wang Zhenru heard Li Tai's words, what else could he do? He must follow the order first!
"Plan the journey of the entire Youzhou well. There is nothing left yet. When Youzhou continues to become lively, if there is any problem with the road you built, I am afraid that someone will poke the backbone and scold you to death!" Li Tai said with a smile.
"It probably won't be!" Wang Zhenru murmured when he heard Li Tai's words, but couldn't help but think of it in his heart.
But seeing the entire Tianjin city became lively at a speed visible to the naked eye. When the city was established, Tianjin city was just some corvee labor brought by the King of Yan from Gaoling.
But now the population of the entire Tianjin city has exceeded 10,000 households, which is already the number in some states!
However, Wang Zhenru quickly came back to his senses and saluted Li Tai respectfully, saying, "The official understands."
Li Tai waved his hand and asked Wang Zhenru to continue to build the road.
To be honest, it seems easy to build the entire Youzhou road, but it is actually a sinkhole.
In counties and maybe you can still struggle, but if the city walls and villages also need to be repaired, Li Tai doesn’t know if ten years are enough!
However, Li Tai didn't care too much, because asking Wang Zhenru to build roads was just a place for those people who came to Tianjin to work, and at the same time he also hoped to transform these people through the labor of building roads.
After all, it is basically unrealistic to educate the people in this era, but to some extent, it is considered the lowest cost way to transform the people through labor, so that these people can familiarize themselves with their working model.
"King, Governor Xue wrote a letter to ask when to start building roads in Cangzhou!" Bai He came to Li Tai and asked.
Li Tai shook his head and said, "We will send labor service here only after the wheat is sown and the farm work in the fields is done.
Let him promote wheat first, as for road construction, I will talk about it in winter."
Bai He was not surprised when he heard this, or he had done too much such things and had no feelings anymore.
Li Tai said, "By the way, have the various materials needed to be prepared for construction in winter been delivered to Cangzhou through the canal?
After all, it’s winter to work, if you are not careful, you will definitely not be careful!”
Bai He answered seriously to Li Tai:
“When the students from the agricultural institution were sent to teach them how to grow wheat, they built warehouses in the local area.
All kinds of materials needed for winter are reserved, especially the granaries for storing wheat, which are built according to fire prevention standards.
Now the height of the edge has been raised to avoid waste of food due to floods!”
Li Tai nodded when he heard this. In fact, the biggest function of the fire-proof granary stored underground is to avoid those who embezzle and accept bribes, and they are anxious to burn the food with a fire.
If you only destroy food, such as flooding it with water, you can still leave some residue and know how much corruption is.
But if the fire is burned, it will be gone.
"By the way, Lu Shan Chang sent an order to say that according to your order, the graduates this year have made arrangements to all counties and towns that are affected by the river to help all counties resume production as soon as possible.
These students have established agricultural society in the local area and have begun to spread agricultural knowledge from agricultural institutions nearby, so that local people can replant wheat."
"This matter is very important!" Li Tai nodded and said solemnly, "Write a letter to tell Lu Cai to ask him to take this matter up."
"No!" Bai He nodded, his expression becoming much more serious.
To be honest, this group of students would be arranged to come to Youzhou one after graduation in July and August.
After all, Tianjin City is in a mess, and there are really many places that need them. But what Bai He didn't expect was that after the flood in Henan, Li Tai directly ordered the students who had already arrived in Luoyang to send to Henan.
Rescue disasters.
When Li Chunfeng arrived, with Du Ruhui's consent, all students who assisted in disaster relief were basically appointed and removed from local agricultural officials to spread knowledge about wheat cultivation.
To be honest, for Du Ruhui, after the disaster, it is the most important thing to restore production in these areas as soon as possible.
Although the autumn harvest is gone this time, if the wheat can be harvested in spring and summer, the whole period of green and yellow will be reduced by several months. These months may be life-saving for the lower class people.
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Therefore, when Li Chunfeng came to Du Ruhui for arranging the farming officials, Du Ruhui naturally agreed.
These students who came from the Agricultural Institution became agricultural officials in various regions of Henan in a daze.
To be honest, although Li Shimin agreed to allow the colleges of these agricultural institutions to become agricultural officials, there are also differences between agricultural officials and agricultural officials. For example, agricultural officials in the border areas could be used as agricultural officials in the past.
But these prefectures and counties in Henan Road are not border areas, but the essence of the entire Tang Dynasty. Under normal circumstances, if you want to become a farmer in these places, you have to wait slowly.
Of course, you can also pass the intern’s identity, but only God knows when he will become a regular student.
Although throughout the Tang Dynasty, the things like exile officials seemed to be looked down upon by the children of aristocratic families, just like civil servants looked down on employees of down-and-out state-owned enterprises, for the lower-level people, exile officials at least entered the system.
At least for students from agricultural institutions, as long as they become exile officials, their job of making a living will be stable.
For Li Tai, he hopes to penetrate his power to the grassroots level. Um... it is wrong. The Tang Dynasty can master execution ability to the grassroots level like the Qin and Han dynasties.
Agriculture clubs represented by agricultural institutions are the first step to tentatively conduct themselves.
Under normal circumstances, these farms will basically be controlled by local families when they arrive in the local area.
However, after suffering natural disasters, although the power of the top and powerful families will be strengthened, the decline of some middle classes and the unpredictable disasters will make some space free.
Instead of being eaten by local noble families, this part of the living space is better for the students of agricultural institutions to establish a foothold, and the farming club has become an organization they contact with grassroots organizations.
Of course, such an organizational structure will definitely be slowly eaten up by the local aristocratic families when it comes to opposition to local aristocratic families.
But who lets me support them behind my back?
Especially with the decrease in population in Henan and the land is damaged and abandoned, the demand for productivity will naturally increase significantly.
Then slowly assisting the students of the agricultural institution to fight with the local wealthy families, which provides a relatively relaxed environment, which should be enough for the agricultural students to compete with the local forces for a period of time.
But whether it can truly gain a foothold depends on themselves!