Chapter 20 So I will write the Spring and Autumn Period (Part 2)
"What does it mean that it can't be accommodated?" The person who asked the question was Lou Gui, and the location was Kangting, the governor of Fanyang City in the south of Zhuo County. The person being questioned was the trembling Fanyang County Magistrate. "In just over a year, Youzhou has
Is there no shortage of people?”
Magistrate Fan Yang did not reply directly, but carefully took a peek at Gongsun Xun who was riding on the horse.
"What does Fan Yangling want to see me for?" Gongsun Xun asked with a smile upon seeing this. "Uncle Zi asked you, if you have any questions, just tell him directly."
"Junhou!"
Seeing Gongsun Xun speak, Fan Yangling immediately breathed a sigh of relief, then bowed and saluted, then turned around and hurriedly told Lou Gui the reason.
It turns out that according to this Fanyang County Magistrate, who has been in office for two years, Fanyang and even Zhuo County can no longer accommodate any more refugees.
The reasons are very simple, just two:
First of all, there are too many refugees from south to north. Not only is Jizhou completely out of order this year, in fact, as early as last year during the Yellow Turban Rebellion, people from Jizhou began to flee to Youzhou in large numbers;
Secondly, there is the geographical factor. Zhuojun is located at the junction of Jizhou and Youzhou. It is considered the gateway to Youzhou. Refugees always have to go here to go to Youzhou.
In other words, Fan Yang, and even Zhuo County as a whole, have long lost interest in the refugees in Jizhou.
"What you said makes sense." Gongsun Xun said thoughtfully. "At least these two items are always irrefutable... but is that really all there is to it?"
"My subordinates will never dare to lie!" Fan Yangling knelt down helplessly to plead guilty. "What he said is all true. In fact, not only did the local government no longer have any idle wild land to hand over to the refugees for reclamation and resettlement, but also the former Yellow Turban
Guangyang, which was in chaos during the uprising, had already assigned all the unowned land to the refugees from the south long before the spring plowing this year... In the hands of the government, there is really no land left for resettlement."
"What about the local powerful people?" Gongsun Xun dismounted and came to the other party, asking with an increasingly serious look. "Even if the government is unable to accommodate them, what about the local powerful people? Don't they want to take in the population for their own use?"
Fan Yangling was speechless for a moment.
"I'm asking you something!" Wei Yue asked impatiently, pulling on his riding crop.
But Gongsun Xun and Lou Gui actually did not restrain him.
"Junhou." Fan Yangling said helplessly, raising his head on the ground. "With your wisdom and martial prowess, I also know that there are some things that I cannot hide from you..."
Gongsun Xun, who stood in front of the other party with his hands behind his back, was almost amused by the other person: "Who did you learn this from? You have something to say."
"Yes!" Fan Yangling quickly answered. "If Hao You wants to accept it, there are two important points. One is that Hao You himself is picky. If it is a pure young man, regardless of whether he is a man or a woman, they will naturally grab it.
They thought that they were very enthusiastic about the previous sale of Quyang prisoners of war by their monarchs. However, those who had to wait until now to escape were mostly with their families, including women, children, old and weak... In such a situation, there are several tycoons.
Are you willing to accept it?"
Gongsun Xun turned around and looked at the team following him, with a rare sneer: "In this case, I understand what they mean... Anyway, women, children, old and weak cannot hold on. If more time is spent, only the young and strong will be left, and even more will be wasted.
Only when you gain ambition can you take him home and become a slave."
"That's roughly what it means." Fan Yangling sighed helplessly on the ground. "But for this kind of thing, the consumption of women, children, the elderly and the weak cannot be blamed on them, right? It's just taking advantage of the situation, that's all natural... In the final analysis, the world is gradually changing.
Well, if there are no young people who are willing to be slaves without ambition, who is willing to waste food for no reason and take in the old and the weak?"
"Anything else?" Gongsun Xun put away his sneer, neither happy nor angry, and continued to ask.
"Another thing to say is that the current Fang Bo of Youzhou, Tao Gong." After all, Fan Yangling was more in awe of Gongsun Xun, so he was happy. "Does the prince know who Tao Gong is?"
"Tao Qian and Tao Gongzu, naturally I have heard about it a little bit... Is this person like this?"
"This man is different from Mr. Guo, who is both soft and strong, lenient and strict. He is extremely strong." Fan Yangling's words made people feel a little "refreshing". "Early before the spring plowing, he took office for only two months, and he met the state face to face.
Several of the middlemen were publicly embarrassed with two thousand stones, and showed no mercy... Cui Gong, the prefect of this county (Zhuojun), was humiliated as incompetent by him because there were powerful men in the county raising private soldiers; Liu Gong, the prefect of Guangyang, because there was no one in the county
The main land was invaded by powerful people, and he scolded him for being weak in public; Zonggong, the captain of Wuhuan School, before he was transferred to Luoyang due to his meritorious service, he once accepted bribes from Wuhuantou people in Shanggu, and he also stopped his car and searched it in public, and then directly submitted a letter
Impeachment...there are countless of them."
"The current situation is turbulent, and it is normal for these powerful people to act. The governor is too harsh." Lou Gui couldn't help but ask. "But for the exiled people, shouldn't this be a good thing?"
"Uncle Zi, you think too much." The person who interrupted at this time was Xi Zhong, who had been riding in the car because of laziness. He probably entered Youzhou for the first time and came to the famous place of Dukang, so it was rare for him to think about activities.
But unexpectedly, he encountered this scene.
"I'm really not as good as Zhicai about this kind of thing, so I might as well say it bluntly." Lou Gui actually slightly cupped his hands.
When Xi Zhong saw this, he didn't want to show off, and immediately explained: "In fact, it is not necessarily good to be vigorous and vigorous in politics, especially when Tao Gongzu, an outsider, came to Youzhou and did such things before his foundation was stable. It would be alienating and intimidating...
...As I expected, the governor of Youzhou must have given relevant orders, and Hao You is not allowed to recruit young people to go too far!"
Fan Yangling nodded quickly.
"Monitoring the powerful is the basic duty of the governor. If the governor had such strict orders before, so that the county did not dare to let the powerful and accept the refugees, it would be understandable." Lou Gui sighed. "But now it is different from what it was like during the spring plowing. Jizhou's
The number of refugees has reached this point, and the government has no good land left without owners. Can’t the county and the state be accommodating?"
"This is the result of disunity." Xi Zhong sneered. "How could the county and prefecture not know that the situation has changed? It's just that Tao Gong in prefecture is so strong, and he is a man who can't afford to lose face.
You, Liang Qianshi, have been bullied by him many times, but you simply did not say anything, and even used his banner to strictly enforce the law, obstructing Hao You from accepting the refugees, in order to embarrass that Lord Tao! Zibo, this situation is what it is.
The norm in officialdom.”
Lou Gui was speechless for a moment.
"It's exactly what this gentleman said." Fan Yangling looked at Gongsun Xun and admitted helplessly. "There is discord between the prefectures and counties, and the government is inevitably stiff on whether to allow the powerful to recruit the refugees... I am a subordinate,
I don’t dare to disobey orders privately and let go of the ban without authorization!”
"Get up." Gongsun Xun was neither happy nor angry, but sighed slightly. "Things in the world have already gone bad to this extent, and they are still doing this kind of thing..."
"Your Majesty, our current plan is to consider where and how to resettle the refugees." Xi Zhongzheng said with his hands raised. "With your majesty and virtue, you can definitely write a letter to impeach Tao Gongzu. I want to give you two thousand stones from the state."
There have been complaints and actions in Luozhong for a long time, and things will definitely happen! However, this will take time... At this time, as soon as Junhou returned home, he used his jobless body to confront a governor with such a fierce personality.
Even if I can suppress it, I'm afraid it will cause a lot of trouble."
"Then what do you think we should do?" Gongsun Xun turned around and asked with a frown. "Everyone has worked hard to get here, and the food around us has been exhausted, so we must settle down quickly."
"In my opinion, it is better to move these ten thousand people to Liaodong or follow us to western Liaoning." Xi Zhong seemed to have been prepared. "As for the long journey... Your Majesty might as well organize the refugees into groups here in Dukang immediately for convenience.
control; then select the young and strong according to the establishment, distribute simple swords, bows and wooden sticks to serve as guards, and also set up camps along the way as a military force; of course, it is inevitable to ask the monarch to spend money to purchase some tents, sticks and axes in Youzhou with private property
Wait for regular utensils to be prepared, and buy grain from the houses of big families along the way to distribute and support them uniformly."
"That's all we can do." Lou Gui frowned and said. "The powerful rightists from all over Youzhou along the way felt that the situation was unstable and they had to gather their own food. They didn't dare to bargain with the princes, right?
There are local government officials who only provide food and salary assistance, and allow them to be stationed there, so they will not fail to give face to the princes."
"If this is the case, it can definitely be done!" Even Fan Yangling couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief. "If there are only ten thousand people in the countryside with the power of the monarch, no one will say anything, and no one will be able to say anything along the way.
It’s going to be eventful.”
Gongsun Xun nodded slightly, but couldn't help but frown even more tightly.
In this way, the refugee team that entered Youzhou but still had nowhere to stay rested and organized in Dukang Pavilion for a while, and then naturally the Amway, which had made a comeback after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, delivered supplies such as tents and sticks and axes - Xi Zhong finally
Because they don’t understand the strength of Aunt Gongsun and the Gongsun family who have been operating in Youzhou for so long. Where can I buy these things?
As for food, there is really nothing we can do about it. We must know that since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, disasters have occurred, turmoil has continued, and people's hearts are unstable. Many right-wingers want to store food to protect themselves. Although the Amway has some strategic reserves, most of them are in Liaodong.
, there really isn’t much stock in this place within Luronsai.
Of course, Gongsun Xun led his private soldiers back to Youzhou as a guard general and Jihou. At least I witnessed him easily quelling the Yellow Turbans of Guangyang and forcing Zhang Bao back from Zhuo County. No fool dared to do so.
Refuse Amway’s flat buy and sell!
In fact, when they heard that Gongsun Xun was here, except for the local magistrate who came to Dukang Pavilion to look after him as soon as he heard the news, the rest of Zhuo County's noble families, nobles, old officials, and village elders all followed him.
Within a few days, many people came to visit him... even Cui Min, the governor of Zhuo County, actually came to greet him in person.
Even after Gongsun Xun organized the refugees and set out on the road, the governors of the other three nearby counties of Guangyang, Yuyang, and Shanggu also sent envoys to greet them.
However, it is worth mentioning that only Tao Qian, Tao Gongzu, the governor of Youzhou, has been staying in Ji County, Guangyang County, which is close to his seat, which is also the feudal state of Gongsun Xun.
They sent out envoys, but there was no news... Considering that he was so strong, when he saw these county guards going to visit Gongsun Xun, he was already preconceived and resentful. However, after all, he was hindered by Gongsun Xun's rank and reputation.
, it’s not good to take the initiative to find trouble.
Of course, Gongsun Xun was not thinking about these unnecessary things. While comforting the refugees along the way, he had many thoughts. How could he have the mind to think about Tao Qian, who had such a bad character? Moreover, the further north Gongsun Xun went, the more he became more and more confused.
His mind was heavy and unbearable. When he led the crowd slowly through Liangxiang into Guangyang County, before arriving at Jixian County (later Kyoto), and was about to cross Qishui (later Sanggan River, Yongding River) to continue westward, this man
However, General Wei couldn't bear it at all, so he called the prestigious old men, young men of good family, local officials, and the steward of the Amway ship in front of him.
"Let me ask you something." Gongsun Xun asked the leader of the refugees seriously in front of the river beach. "If you hadn't met me this time, how would you have dealt with yourself?"
The leaders of the refugees looked at each other in confusion and shook their heads... Obviously, they only came to Youzhou according to the tradition of escaping from the famine in central Jizhou. Just as people from western Jizhou would flee to the Taihang Mountains, while people from Qingzhou and Bohai County would cross the sea to Liaodong.
Generally, it is just word of mouth, and there may be a way to survive in Zhuojun and Guangyang in the north.
"What about the people before?" Gongsun Xun frowned more and more, and turned back to ask the local township officials in Jixian County and the stewards of the Amway. "You are here, have you ever participated in the resettlement?
Do you know their final destination?"
These people also cared about each other, but they didn't dare not answer.
"Report to my young master." A younger local steward of the Amway immediately answered with his hands raised. "Although our Amway has a ready-made system ordered by the old mistress, it is specifically designed to lead them to western Liaoning, and then make a ferry to Liaodong... But
After all, we are just businessmen, and Liaodong is too far away. Not to mention our lack of ability, even these refugees may not completely believe us. How could they just let us go to a place where they don't even know where we are just talking.
Therefore, the number of people we saved is actually not many, and we cannot compare with the actions of the young master."
"As for their final fate, as far as I know, it's not very good." Another elderly steward said helplessly. "The young master of the refugees also saw it this time. If you hadn't arrived in Zhuojun, the big family wouldn't have dared not sell it.
If the government did not dare not come forward to help them with food, then these people would have no food and clothing in Zhuo County! Then, like blind men approaching a deep pond in the middle of the night, they walked north in panic. Countless women and children died along the way, but in the end only a few young people were left.
Dingkou barely survived, and then he was either taken in by a local wealthy family, or fled into the mountains to the north, and ended up living outside the Great Wall..."
"Beyond the Great Wall?" Gongsun Xun was immediately startled and couldn't help but interrupt him.
"It is indeed outside the Great Wall!" A local pavilion chief quickly explained. "The princes don't know that the junior officials are here. I often see refugees who are at a loss after crossing the river here. Some people continue to walk eastward in confusion.
If you go to the right place, you can be taken in by big families from various places. But nearly half of them turn north, pass through Dagu River and Yuyang, leave the fortress, go to Xianbei, Wuhuan, or simply find a valley in the mountains.
, half farming and half hunting, living together in groups.”
"Go to Xianbei, Wuhuan?" Gongsun Xun laughed angrily. "Xianbei has been divided and fighting since the death of Tan Shihuai... A group of Han people, unable to survive at home, fled to the land under Han rule, but no one took them in.
The Xianbei people who want to become savages in the mountains, or even defect to Zuojin? And the Wuhuan people? The Wuhuan people in the north, what are they?"
"Young Master." An elderly store manager reminded carefully. "This is also a helpless matter. What we are talking about is still after the epidemic. During the period of refugees before the epidemic subsided, even our Amway did not
If you dare to accept it easily, you can only let them wander..."
Gongsun Xun's smile continued to grow.
"Young master, I have something to say." The steward who spoke before saw that it was not good, so he could only try to persuade him. "My old mistress is in Liaodong, and most of our Gongsun family's power has also been divided into Liaodong, and the remaining
To some extent, we can only maintain a situation in western Liaoning. As for us, a group of merchants, although we are able to travel unimpeded in Youzhou because of Gongsun's reputation and Shaodong's mighty virtue, both of them were not in Lulong fortress before, so how can we let them go?
Where are the hands and feet?"
Gongsun Xun couldn't stop smiling, but waved his hand and said: "I don't mean to blame you... I just want to ask you one more thing. On the other side of the river to the north of Ji County, where is that place?"
"This is Changping County!" Everyone knows this.
"I also remember that it was Changping." Gongsun Xun was still smiling. "And if I remember correctly, those who went to the mountains, beyond the fortress, to find Xianbei and Wuhuan were the ones who transferred from Changping to the east to fish.
Yang County, Anle County, and then go upstream along the Dagu River there to get out of the fortress calmly, right?"
"yes!"
"That's right."
"There are two roads out of the fortress, one is here and the other is in Daijun. These are the main ones."
"Changping and Anle counties cover a very large area. I remember that there should be a lot of wasteland where people could be accommodated?" Gongsun Xun continued to ask.
"No!" A local villager immediately shook his head. "You don't know, Jixian to the north, be it Changping or Anle, there are more mountains than plains, and the land is slightly acidic. It is a famous bad land, making it difficult to do farming.
Qiang.”
"That's right." The old steward of the Amway Company next to him couldn't help but interjected. "Even our Amway Company usually collects some chestnuts and dates there... Yanshan chestnuts are our specialty at the Amway Company, but we never
I collected grain there."
"Can you grow chestnuts?" Gongsun Xun laughed again. "I remember that most of the chestnuts I ate when I was a child were from Changping and Anlelai?"
"good."
"I understand." Gongsun Xun suddenly looked solemn. "You can go and do your own business. After crossing the river, go to Changping and camp there!"
Everyone didn't know why, but they could only say yes, and then dispersed.
After a while, only Gongsun Xun, the silent Han Dang, and the hesitant Lou Gui were left standing on the river beach, looking at the water in front of them thoughtfully.
"Wen Qi." After waiting for those people to return to the team and issue new orders, a moment later, Lu Fan and Xi Zhong came to ask. "Why do you want to turn to Changping? Didn't you say that you won't enter Jixian County?
All the way east to Liaoxi?"
"I'm not going!" Gongsun Xun responded loudly without turning his head, looking directly at the river with his hands behind his back.
Lou Gui next to him let out a long sigh, but was speechless in the end.
"What do you mean if you don't go?" Lu Fan and Xi Zhong were still at a loss.
It should be known that according to their previous thoughts and the plan informed by Gongsun Xun's letter to his mother, their trip was to go to western Liaoning - the reason is very simple, Lulongsai is there! Connecting the Liaodong Plain and the Hebei Plain
The only passage is also there!
After all, sea transportation is limited these days. At least until now, it is difficult for Gongsun Xun to imagine transporting his army by sea. At this time, more than half of Qinhuangdao, which will be the Shanhaiguan Passage in later generations, is underwater, and the remaining half is still under water.
It is often flooded by sea water and is completely impassable; at the same time, at the junction of eastern Liaoning and western Liaoning, in the lower reaches of the Liaohe River, there is a swamp that has disappeared in later generations but is now difficult to access, that is, Liaoze...
In other words, as Gongsun Xun and Lou Gui discussed many years ago, the only way between Liaodong and Hebei that can really connect the army is through Yangle-Liucheng-Guanzicheng-Lulongsai. This road is five hundred miles long.
!If it only occupies one end, it means that Liaodong is destined to be isolated from the overall situation.
Although Gongsun Xun's return to the north was due to Liu Kuan's sudden death and his suicide note, it was ultimately planned for his personal ambitions. And what he and his confidants had planned was very clear. In the past few years, he was going to have sex with his mother.
Let's work together from both ends, use the five hundred miles of Lulong Road as the basis of management, connect Liaodong, and then extend our power to the Hebei Plain. In this way, once chaos breaks out, the five hundred miles of Lulong Road is under control, and he can calmly move forward
The people from Liaodong merged with those from western Liaoning, and the forces from Beiping moved to the south in a big way!
However, when Gongsun Xun came here, he suddenly couldn't say anything anymore... What does this mean?
"Junhou?" Xi Zhong was also confused. "What do you mean if you don't go?"
"If I don't go, I mean I won't go." Gongsun Xun faced him solemnly. "I want to stay in Changping and live in seclusion."
"Why?" Lu Fan was so anxious that he was sweating profusely. The actor couldn't help but look at Lou Gui and asked, but the latter silently responded.
"This is the teacher's last wish." Gongsun Xun said seriously. "Master Liu asked me to leave it here in his suicide note..."
"How could Mr. Liu make such an arrangement?" Lu Fan became increasingly speechless. "What happened?"
"Master Liu said to me in his posthumous letter that if the sky is moving vigorously, a gentleman should strive for self-improvement; if the terrain is weak, a gentleman should be virtuous... Without both of these, the sea cannot be stabilized." Gongsun Xun sighed quietly. "O Zi Heng, I
If we go back to western Liaoning and the place is remote, wouldn't we just sit back and watch the refugees lose their way in Changping, and then be reduced to the point where they are used as cattle and horses by the foreigners? Then how can we still have the honor to be called virtuous? You said, stay in Changping, and then
I am a refugee in Jizhou. Isn't it in line with Master Liu's expectations for me in his last wish?"
"Isn't the place in Changping not enough?" Although he was still a little confused, Lu Fan probably understood Gongsun Xun's determination, but he could only persuade him bravely. "If you want to calm the people, why not change to a better place?"
"Although the world is huge, where can I find a good place to raise people in a short time?" Gongsun Xun suddenly threw away his hand and crossed the river. "No matter how bad Changping is, you can still grow chestnuts... We are in Changping!"
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————I am the dividing line between eating chestnuts————
"Taizu brought the refugees to Changping, Guangyang, and will return to western Liaoning. The old people in the left and right villages said that in the past, the refugees had nothing to rely on, and they often separated here, or hid in the Yanshan Mountains, or returned to the Hu species outside the Great Wall, and few of them could live in Yanland. Taizu
When the ancestors heard about it, they sighed greatly and stopped. They led the people to settle down at the Changping road crossing and personally cultivated date chestnuts in Yanshan Mountain to feed the people and block the Hu Road. Every few years, millions of people came and went. Or it can be said: "Yanwu Zhizhi"
Virtue has existed since then.'" - "Xin Yan Shu". Volume 1. The Chronicles of Emperor Taizu Wu
