The laborers moved from noon until evening before they finished moving all the things.
During this period, Kou Ji, Liu Heng and others were also busy.
Kou Ji led the craftsmen at home to clear a place in the mud, covered it with wooden boards, and began to build a large stove for boiling water.
Liu Heng led his men to tear down the wall of Ruisheng Garden and used the bricks and stones on the wall to build a huge pool.
Li Di arrived outside the North City Gate in the evening and saw Kou Ji and his people building a large stove and a pool. He approached him in confusion and asked, "What's the use of repairing these things?"
Kou Ji casually handed the mud cake in his hand to a craftsman in the house, rubbed the mud on his hand, and said: "Boil the water and give the refugees a soak to get rid of the cold air on their bodies and wash them clean."
Keep it filthy, so that plague will be less likely to occur."
When Li Di heard that the large stoves and pools were built for the refugees and to prevent the plague, he urged: "Then more should be built. Since you have ripped off the west wall of Ruisheng Garden, then
Just tear down the other three walls.
The bricks and stones above are enough for you to build several large pools."
"The court won't blame? The officials won't impeach?"
Kou Ji stared at Li Di doubtfully.
Destroying the royal gardens is a serious crime.
If Liu Heng hadn't already taken action on Ruisheng Garden before he arrived outside the North City Gate, he would definitely not have touched anything in Ruisheng Garden.
Li Di stared and shouted: "Why not lend a corner of the royal family to provide shelter for the refugees? If you are really worried about impeachment by the officials, you can just blame this matter on me, and I will bear the full responsibility."
Kou Ji quickly waved his hand and said, "That's not necessary..."
The reason why Kou Ji chased Li Di to ask about this matter was because he was afraid that Liu Heng would get into trouble for privately destroying the royal garden.
Now that Li Di said this, it means that during special periods, the crime of demolishing the royal gardens is not serious.
If that's the case, then he doesn't need to worry anymore.
Li Di snorted and shouted a few words to Liu Heng who was leading his men to remove the wall not far away, asking Liu Heng to call more people to remove the wall quickly and build the pool and stove quickly.
When Kou Ji saw Li Di urging Liu Heng anxiously, he noticed something. He approached Li Di and asked in a low voice: "Are the refugees coming?"
Li Di had a gloomy face and nodded: "The scouts who went to investigate have returned, and the first batch of refugees have arrived ten miles outside Bianjing City. Some people may come overnight, but a large number of refugees should arrive tomorrow
Arrive at Bianjing City."
Kou Ji nodded solemnly and asked, "The food hasn't arrived yet?"
When it came to food, Li Di's face turned even darker, "Those damned ones deserve to die... It's been almost three days since the documents from the imperial court were sent, and their food hasn't arrived yet.
They have no idea that if they delay for even a moment, a refugee will die."
While Li Di was gnashing his teeth and cursing, Mu Chong wiped the sweat from his forehead, panted and walked up to Kou Ji, cupped his hands, and said: "Kou Ministry of Industry, the first batch of things has been unloaded.
The three of us won’t stay here any longer, we have to go back to rush for the second and third batches.”
Kou Ji quickly returned the courtesy and said, "Thank you for your work..."
Without saying anything, Mu Chong bowed his hand to Kou Ji, bowed his hand to Li Di, and left outside the north gate of Bianjing City with his men.
Li Di looked at the retreating figures of Mu Chong and others and frowned: "Are you using the power of merchants to help you resettle the refugees?"
The Mu family's business was large enough and they were royal merchants, so officials in the court had an impression of the Mu family.
Mu Chong has been lingering in Bianjing City recently because he is busy with Jiaozi Pu. Li Di has met him once, so he knows his identity and background.
Kou Ji nodded and said, "That's right..."
Li Di reminded in a deep voice: "Businessmen are cunning and value profits over righteousness. If you cooperate with them, be careful not to leave any bones or dregs behind."
Kou Ji smiled calmly and said: "But they work very quickly. I asked them for some things, and they delivered them to me very quickly."
Li Di pondered for a moment and then told Kou Ji: "Take me to have a look..."
Kou Ji nodded and led Li Di around the newly built pool and the stove, to the place where the other party's goods were not far away from them.
The first thing that catches the eye is the neatly stacked wood, which is tied up with soaked cowhide rope and piled up in piles.
Behind the wood were square piles wrapped in leather blankets.
There are hundreds of neat square piles.
Li Di looked at these things and was stunned again and again. He turned around and asked Kou Ji in confusion, "What's in it?"
Kou Ji stared at the square piles and said: "Medicinal materials, lime, stones and other materials are wrapped in cattle and sheepskin blankets to prevent moisture... They were afraid that I would not be able to help the refugees build a place to live, so one family even added three thousand tents.
.”
"Medicine? Tent? Lime? Stone?"
Li Di repeated these four things blankly.
Of the four things, any one is more difficult to collect than food.
Li Di glanced at the square piles with a complicated expression, put his hands behind his back, and left without saying a word.
After returning to the military tent at the south city gate, Li Di drafted a document and threw it into the palace.
The palace quickly gave its approval.
Dutingyi's eight hundred miles rushed to deliver the documents approved by the imperial court overnight to the grain inspectors who escorted grain and grass everywhere.
The content on the document is very simple.
Within the deadline, at five o'clock tomorrow, grain transportation teams will be dispatched from various places to transport the grain outside Bianjing City.
An hour later, the grain officer will be beheaded.
Two hours later, the general guarding the food supply was killed.
Three hours later, all heads will be beheaded, and all heads will be beheaded.
…
Five hours later, they were killed in one piece.
After the five-cut order was issued to all the grain transport teams, the grain supervisors who escorted the grain and grass were finally panicked. They did not dare to delay on the road any longer. They held torches all night and escorted the grain to Bianjing City.
When floods blocked the road or mud blocked the road, they simply carried food on their shoulders.
…
Li Di was stimulated at the North City Gate, and when he returned, he issued the five-kill order, but Kou Ji did not know about it.
After Li Di left.
Kou Ji found the craftsmen sent by Meng Weizhong, and together with the craftsmen from the Kou Mansion, Cao Mansion, Liu Mansion, and Li Mansion, they started planning and building a house in the open space at the north city gate overnight.
Since the number of refugees to be resettled is large, it is impossible to pile them all together, and it is impossible to build houses for them on a per-capita basis.
So Kou Ji planned several areas and planned to place them separately.
The first thing to be erected was the tent. Before the houses were built, the tent was a temporary place for the refugees.
The construction of the houses cannot begin until the refugees arrive and the young ones are selected.
But Kou Ji must plan the area first to avoid chaos.
In addition to setting up tents, pools, and stoves overnight, the craftsmen also used clay embryos to create several grain cycle places.
Kou Ji and the craftsmen were busy until the next morning, when the sun was rising.
Li Di sent someone to tell Kou Ji that the first batch of refugees had arrived, and asked Kou Ji to prepare early.
Refugees from the south, east, and west would drink a bowl of hot porridge at the east, south, and west city gates to warm their stomachs before being sent to the north gate where Kou Ji was.
Refugees from the north will be directly absorbed by Kou Ji.
There is also a porridge shed at the north city gate, which is under the direct jurisdiction of Kou Ji.
The southwest was probably the place that suffered the most serious damage from floods, so the first people to arrive in Bianjing were the refugees from the southwest.
After the refugees asked for a bite of food at the West City Gate and South City Gate, they were taken to the North City Gate.
When the first batch of refugees arrived outside the Beicheng Gate, some people in Bianjing City who were waiting to see Kou Ji's joke, including Mr. Wang and Sun, gathered outside the Beicheng Gate one by one and stopped to watch.
Some princes and grandsons also rode horses and ran back and forth on both sides of the refugee team, as if they were watching something novel.
Kou Ji ordered Liu Heng to take the people from the Imperial City Division and capture them all.
The refugee team, led by an official, arrived in front of Kou Ji.
Kou Ji looked at the refugees with mixed feelings in his heart.
There were not many of them in rags, and most of them had nothing. They only had pots and pans, some carried burdens with children sitting on them, and three or two people pushed wheelbarrows with people on them.
Wife, children and mother.
Perhaps it was because they had had hot porridge at the gate of Nancheng before, so their faces were rosy, but a little dirty.
They were like frightened rabbits, looking frightened when they saw everyone.
He didn't say anything, he just stared at you with his eyes wide open.
The only thing that people can remember at a glance is their blank eyes without any emotion.
Under the gaze of the refugees, Kou Ji walked up to them and said loudly: "I, Kou Ji, will be in charge of the official affairs of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, and will be responsible for your future food, clothing, housing and transportation."
After Kou Ji finished speaking, the refugees still looked at him blankly, and no one said anything.
Kou Jiwei could only continue: "When you arrive at the place under my jurisdiction, I hope you can abide by my rules."
The refugees still looked at him and said nothing.
Kou Ji stared at them and said, "Are there any clan elders or village elders among you?"
After hearing Kou Ji asking the clan elders, there was some reaction among the refugees.
Two elderly men, surrounded by refugees, appeared in Kou Ji's eyes.
When the two old men saw Kou Ji, they saluted together.
One of the old men introduced: "The little old man from the Ministry of Industry of the Kou is Chen Jing, the elder of the Chen clan in Xiaowang Township, Xiangfu County, under the rule of Kaifeng Prefecture."
Chen Jing pointed to the refugees behind him and introduced him to Kou Ji: "Many of these people are from my Xiaowang Township."
Another old man introduced: "The student from the Ministry of Industry is under the rule of Kaifeng Prefecture, Xiangfu County, Li Wangxiang Township Lao Wang Tiansheng."
Wang Tiansheng pointed to the refugees behind him and said: "Most of these people are the people who were affected by the disaster in my hometown, King Li."
After listening to the two introductions, Kou Ji nodded thoughtfully.
He looked at Wang Tiansheng and asked, "In front of me, you call yourself a student, but do you have a reputation?"
Wang Tiansheng looked arrogant, but said humbly: "It's not about any fame. During the Chunhua period, Emperor Taizong opened Enke to recruit scholars, and the student was lucky enough to be selected in the autumn of Kaifeng Mansion."
Hearing this, Kou Ji nodded slowly.
He told Chen Jing and Wang Tiansheng: "Since many of the victims are from the villages where you two live, you two should cooperate with me and resettle them."
"Little old man (student) obeys the order."
Kou Ji explained the refugee resettlement process to Chen Jing and Wang Tiansheng.
After the two of them listened, they roughly repeated it to the refugees in extremely rough language.
The refugees just liked to hear their rough language.
After the two of them explained clearly to the refugees what Kou Ji did and what he wanted to do to help the refugees, the refugees looked at Kou Ji with more conviction.
Therefore, whether Koji threw them into a pool of lime or a hot pool, they did not complain.
After the refugees washed themselves, Koji gave them some clean clothes to change into, and then designated a tent for them to rest temporarily.
Those who contracted diseases during the journey were sent to the tents where the doctors were stationed for treatment.
After each of the young and strong men and women, who were free from illness and disaster, drank a bowl of medicine to prevent diseases, they were sent to work by Kou Ji.
The young and strong men followed the craftsmen to clear the wood and ram the earth into a wall (tie them up with wooden pillars, leave a certain distance, fill them with wet earth, then beat them manually, and raise them little by little to become a wall).
Young and strong women were assigned to cut hay and pick up dead branches, dead trees and other objects washed down by the flood.
There were also some women who were assigned to a pool to wash the clothes that the refugees had changed. After they were dried, they were sewn and mended before being given to the next batch of refugees to wear.
Kou Ji discovered that with the cooperation of Chen Jing and Wang Tiansheng, the refugees were surprisingly docile, and there were very few who made trouble, gossiped, or complained.
Occasionally there would be one or two gossipers, and before Kou Ji could speak, Chen Jing and Wang Tiansheng would rush forward and give them a kick, and then tear out their eighteen generations of ancestors and scold them so hard that they couldn't hold their heads up.
Kou Ji asked Liu Heng and Cao Yi to bring the manpower to suppress the troublemakers among the refugees, but they were of no use.
Li Di came over once when Kou Ji was resettling the refugees.
He escorted a batch of grain and handed it over to Kou Ji.
After telling Kou Ji how long the food would last for the refugees, he left.
In fact, it was a lie that he escorted the grain here.
Come and see how Kou Ji resettles the refugees, that's the truth.
Seeing that Kou Ji used the village elders and clan elders among the refugees to properly resettle the refugees, he did not say another word.
Because in his eyes, what Kou Ji did was far better than any previous disaster relief work done by the court.
He was convinced.
He just reminded Kou Ji in a low voice before leaving, "The first batch of refugees who came over were okay, they didn't go hungry for too long, so they were easy to control. But the refugees who came later were not so easy to control."