When Emperor Tianyou officially issued a decree and hungry people infected with the epidemic gathered in Taowu, the Xinchang Hou Mansion sent a group of people to set up a porridge restaurant in the Qiuhu Mountain Villa in the name of the third prince Yang Yuanpu to help the hungry people. However, Han Qian was After gathering the hungry people, it was the first time he returned to the villa.
Fan Xicheng, Lin Haizheng and Han Laoshan, along with nearly fifty of their own soldiers, including Guo Nuer, Lin Zongjing and others, had been sent to the villa by Han Qian and his father. At this time, it was approaching dusk. At the porridge farm in the south wing of the farm, a simple gate was being opened to let the hungry people in to eat.
However, there is only one porridge place at the mountain pass on the south side of the farm. The place is small and 30,000 to 40,000 hungry people flock here, making it a mess. Han Qian and Shen Yang managed to squeeze into the porridge place with great difficulty.
Feng Yi and Kong Xirong had already shown great courage by abandoning the ship and going ashore. At this time, they did not dare to follow Han Qian and Shen Yang and squeezed directly into the crowd of people affected by the epidemic. They would rather climb the eastern mountains and climb through the woods. Go to the villa.
Even if the vast majority of the hungry people are not critically ill, they are still skinny and weak from hunger. Otherwise, looking at their eagerness and greed for food, and relying only on the few manpower in the villa to maintain order, there will be chaos.
What's more, most of the domestic soldiers still dare not come into contact with the infected and hungry people.
The porridge was additionally separated by a wooden fence, and there were more than a dozen iron pots set up inside. The soldiers from Hanzhai and Xinchanghou Mansion, or the slaves in the village, mixed bags of rice into the roots and cooked it with rice. The wild vegetables with soil are boiled together into porridge, and then poured into a large vat outside the wooden fence wall for the hungry people to share.
Most of the family soldiers, including those sent by the Xinchang Hou Mansion, were behind the fence. Only Guo Nuer, who was adopted into the Han family after remarrying with his mother, and more than 20 hungry young men, followed Fan Xicheng and Fan Da. In the dark, Lin Haizheng stood outside the wooden fence, barely maintaining order with his thin body.
It is not difficult to imagine the chaos of the scene.
As for the hundreds of veterans of the Dragon Bird Army who were sent over, none of them were here in the rice field. Han Qian estimated that they would be responsible for setting up gates on both sides of the lake beach.
Han Qian walked over with a dark face, kicked a row of wooden fences to the ground, stared at the stunned Fan Xicheng and asked: "The porridge place is in chaos, why are so many people huddled in it?"
Fan Xicheng did not expect that Han Qian would be so angry just after he came over, so he explained:
"The poison is so strong that the soldiers are afraid, so they help cook porridge in front of the fence, but they can barely survive."
Fan Xicheng, Fan Dahei, Lin Haizheng, Zhao Kuo, and Zhao Wuji knew the contents of "Epidemic Water Dredging". Han Qian also repeatedly explained to them the key points of isolating the source of infection and their own prevention of water poisonous plague, but even so, in their hearts Just like playing drums, one has no idea whether he will be infected by the disease, not to mention other soldiers who are completely in the dark and just passively accept orders, who are as afraid of the disease as a tiger.
Furthermore, in the view of Fan Xicheng and others, the Han family had done their best to do this for these hungry people, so they did not force the soldiers who were afraid of the epidemic to stand outside the wooden fence wall and come into direct contact with the infected and hungry people.
"Idiot, you are living like a dog at your age? They are all soldiers of my Han family. Is it possible that in the future, when faced with fierce swords on the battlefield, they will have to hide behind the wooden fence to rely on these thin Young man, will you block the flying swords for them?" Han Qian scolded Fan Xicheng unceremoniously.
Fan Xicheng's face turned red, but he had no way to defend himself.
Han Qian took off the sword from his waist and held it in his hand. He turned around and stared at the soldiers behind the wooden fence for a while, and then said to Fan Xicheng, "Rescuing the epidemic is like killing the enemy. If there are people on the battlefield to kill the enemy, If you dare not advance in fear of the enemy and disobey orders, Fan Xicheng, what should you do?"
"Behead." Fan Xicheng said in a low voice.
"Okay, Mr. Shen Yang, the chief minister, is here. I can't control the others. I can't control them. But Fan Xicheng, your eyes are wide open for me. Who are these Han family soldiers who are temporarily borrowed to listen to Mr. Shen Yang's tent?" Anyone who dares to be afraid and refuses to obey orders will be stabbed to death by me with a fucking knife. Our Han family will not raise such trash!" Han Qian stared at the many family soldiers and children huddled behind the wooden fence wall and scolded him angrily. road.
The method of isolating the epidemic water is simple to say, but the 30,000 to 40,000 epidemic-infected and hungry people are so weak that they have completely lost the ability to organize themselves. The soldiers do not dare to have in-depth contact with these epidemic-infected and hungry people. How to keep them from coming into contact with the epidemic water? , how to make them strictly refrain from drinking only well water, how to make them change their previous bad habits, go to the toilet together, and further process feces and other filth, and how to organize them to catch up before the spring water floods. , build a mud embankment along the beach?
If these things are not done, the epidemic will not be controlled, and the hungry people affected by the epidemic will always be drowned. There will be no hope for subsequent farming and training.
Han Qian still hoped to see the Dragon Bird Army take shape before An Ning Palace came to its senses. This would make An Ning Palace and the Crown Prince more cautious and restrain themselves, and he and his father would be more likely to escape. The revenge of Ning Ning Palace.
More importantly, Han Qian still felt that his father had treated these soldiers too leniently in the past and made their life too comfortable. Now he just took this opportunity to re-establish some rules.
If everyone is raised as a goddamn uncle, and something happens to the Han family, it would be damning if they could have even the slightest bit of loyalty.
Having said this, Han Qian raised his hands to the two stewards who came on behalf of the Xinchanghou Mansion and said: "I can't get involved in the Xinchanghou Mansion. I ask the two stewards to take care of it."
Han Qian, Shen Yang and others squeezed into the porridge from the crowd of hungry people affected by the epidemic. They dared to do this, which is more effective than saying it a hundred times.
Besides, everyone knows that the young master is far less easy to serve than the master of the house, and the weight of the young master's words in the Han family is getting more and more important. Seeing Han Qian's temper, the soldiers in the villa did not dare to tremble anymore and moved Muzha. The wall was removed and people walked out to maintain order.
Han Qian also knew that if things here improved slightly, Li Pu, the Marquis of Xinchang, might drive out his men and ensure that the training and leadership of the troops would be under his control and that of Wanhonglou, but Han Qian did not Because of this, they choose to sit back and watch.
Han Qian allowed his family soldiers and his sons to have close contact with the infected and starving people, and even inherited the most chaotic situation in the early stage. This does not mean that he, his father, and Shen Yang have the same compassion for heaven and earth.
He is still trying every possible means to think about how he can successfully survive until the seventeenth year of Emperor Tianyou. If he wants to show mercy to God and others, others should show mercy to him.
In fact, in Han Qian's view, the more chaotic the situation in the early stage, the more complete the training will be if the family soldiers and the disciples are involved.
Shen Yang is a famous Confucian who knows how to manage the world and apply it. Even if Han Qian is lazy and lets young people like Fan Xicheng, Fan Dahei, Lin Haizheng, Zhao Wuji, Guo Nuer, and Lin Zongjing work with Shen Yang, he can still learn it. How to sort out the chaotic situation bit by bit.
This is something they study hard behind closed doors and find it difficult to understand.
Two to three hundred people dispersed, and the scene was finally not as ugly as before. Han Qian invited Shen Yang to come into the village to talk.
Although Fan Xicheng was scolded by Han Qian in public, he still had many things to report. Seeing that there was Lin Haizheng in the porridge restaurant, it was enough for Fan Dahei to cooperate with the steward of the Xinchang Hou Mansion. He roped in Han Laoshan and forced himself to talk to Han. Qian, Shen Yang and the others walked to the east courtyard.
"How much food has been consumed in the villa?" Han Qian asked Shen Yang to sit in the hall, and called Fan Xicheng and Han Laoshan over to ask questions.
Fan Xicheng was slightly startled, but when he saw Han Qian's eyes asking him to tell the truth, he said: "The 120,000 kilograms of grain prepared in the villa have been consumed in three days. At most, it can last for one meal before lunch tomorrow. ."
Han Qian had previously given Fan Xicheng hundreds of cakes of gold to prepare for relief, but with thirty to forty thousand hungry people gathered here, one hundred cakes of gold could be said to be a drop in the bucket. Not to mention other supplies, the grain purchased could only barely make ends meet. It only lasts for three or four days.
The imperial court said that it would allocate 20 million yuan in military funds every year, but even if Anning Palace did not interfere and the corresponding money and materials could be allocated quickly and smoothly, it would only be able to last for two or three months.
Obviously, without the strong financial resources of Xinchanghoufu and Wanhonglou to support this kind of thing, even if Han Qian's bones were removed and bought, it would not be able to support it for a few more days.
Han Qian said to Fan Xicheng: "How much food is consumed in the villa, how many people are invested every day, and how much wages are converted into wages. Fan Xicheng, please make a detailed list and report it to Lord Shen Yang every ten days. Don't mix public and private matters..."
Han Qian was not so selfless as to use his own private money to raise troops for the third prince Yang Yuanpu and Li Pu. Not only the food and other materials invested in the early stages had to be accounted for clearly, but also how many manpower the Han family invested in the whole process, and the labor wages had to be calculated.
Shen Yang didn't take it seriously. The imperial court originally strictly prohibited private large-scale relief for the hungry to prevent local wealthy families from buying people with the intention of causing trouble.
Even though other prefectures and counties could not control that much, in the capital city of Jinling, Shen Yang absolutely did not want anyone to blur this bottom line. And even if the Xinchang Hou Mansion took out money and food, it must be allocated in the name of the third prince, Linjiang Marquis.
After all, the hungry people collected by the Tunying Military Mansion were theoretically the military households under the name of the third prince, Linjiang Marquis Yang Yuanpu. In the future, the soldiers and generals of the Longque Army would all be recruited from the military households under the jurisdiction of the Tunying Military Mansion.
Han Qian could take the initiative to mention this, but Shen Yang thought that he knew what was right, and even wanted to keep him by his side to serve, instead of thinking that Han Qian was actually reluctant to part with these money and things.
