Compared to Chen Jing, he saw more and cared more.
"You plan to go back to farming in spring?"
Kou Ji stared at Wang Tiansheng, while Chen Jing and Chen Jing had doubts on their faces.
Wang Tiansheng and Chen Jing looked at each other and shook their heads.
Kou Ji said with some surprise: "They say food is the most important thing for the people, but you don't want to go back to farming?"
Chen Jing rubbed his hands, his wrinkled face scrunched up, and said with a wry smile: "Of course I know that food is the most important thing for the people, and I also know that farming is what ordinary people like us should do.
However, a flood left us bankrupt.
Even if spring comes and the court allows us to go back to farming, we will have to wait until autumn before we can harvest.
But from spring to autumn, there is nothing we can do in between."
Chen Jing looked back at the tent not far behind him and sighed: "I don't know how many people will have to sell their sons and daughters to get a ration of food. If they are not guaranteed, there will be..."
At this point, Chen Jing couldn't talk any more.
Wang Tiansheng added with a heavy face: "Eating tree bark, chewing tree roots, chewing Guanyin soil...eating human flesh..."
Chen Jing sighed, an ugly smile appeared on his old cheeks, and said to Kou Ji: "Our Song Dynasty is much stronger than the Zhou Dynasty..."
Kou Ji was stunned for a moment, not understanding what Chen Jing meant.
Wang Tiansheng frowned and said to Chen Jing: "Those words of compliment to the imperial court do not need to be said in front of the Ministry of Industry.
The Ministry of Industry and Commerce is different from other officials."
Chen Jing was stunned for a moment, smiled dryly, and nodded.
Only then did Kou Ji realize that what Chen Jing said just now was just for the occasion.
Kou Ji smiled calmly and said: "In front of me, there is no need to be reserved or complimentary."
Chen Jing cupped his hands and said, "What the Kou Ministry of Industry taught us is..."
Kou Ji nodded and continued: "According to the wishes of the imperial court, I will give you a ration to support you until next spring."
Upon hearing this, Chen Jing and Wang Tiansheng's expressions changed.
Kou Ji smiled and said: "But you don't need to worry, I have already taken you from the imperial court."
Chen Jing and Wang Tiansheng were stunned when they heard this, and looked at Kou Ji in astonishment.
Chen Jing asked cautiously: "After spring, the Ministry of Industry and Industry plans to support us?"
Before Kou Ji could speak, Wang Tiansheng glared at Chen Jing with his mouth twitching, but did not speak.
He felt that Chen Jing was a little whimsical.
With the financial resources of the imperial court, they are only willing to support them until next spring.
Can Kou Ji be richer than the imperial court?
Can you support them for more than half a year?
Chen Jing was glared at by Wang Tiansheng, and realized that he had said the wrong thing, with an unnatural look on his face.
Kou Ji didn't care, but said with a smile: "It's not impossible to support you."
Chen Jing and Wang Tiansheng's eyes widened for a moment, as if they heard something unbelievable.
Wang Tiansheng reminded in a deep voice: "Among us, there are more old, weak, women and children than young and strong..."
Wang Tiansheng was reminding Kou Ji that more than half of the refugees among them were unable to do anything to help Kou Ji.
Kou Ji laughed in a low voice: "It doesn't matter..."
Chen Jing and Wang Tiansheng looked at each other with shock on their faces.
The two of them pondered for a long time, suppressed the shock in their hearts, and said to Kou Ji: "Since the Kou Works Department is willing to support all of us, then we will naturally listen to the Kou Works Department."
Kou Ji pretended to be joking and said, "I'm afraid that after I've supported you for more than half a year, when I need you, you'll have to go back to farm."
Chen Jing and Wang Tiansheng looked very ugly when they heard what Kou Ji said.
Kou Ji's worries are not unreasonable.
The vast majority of the refugees have made a living by farming for generations.
The cultivation of farmland has penetrated into their bones. In the hearts of many of them, farming life is far more practical than any other life.
Chen Jing gritted his teeth and said: "As long as the Ministry of Industry and Commerce can give us a long-term livelihood, I will definitely try my best to let more people stay."
Wang Tiansheng did not promise anything, he just said, "The students will also try their best to persuade the people to stay..."
Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit heavy, Kou Ji grinned and said, "It's too early to talk about this now. We haven't resettled all the victims yet. We will talk about this issue after we have resettled all the victims first."
Chen Jing and Wang Tiansheng seemed to be relieved, their faces became much more natural, and they nodded in unison.
Kou Ji waved his hand, "Go back and rest... We will accept more victims tomorrow."
Chen Jing and Wang Tiansheng agreed and went back to their respective tents to sleep.
Kou Ji ordered the government officials to lead the selected young men and do patrol work well.
Then, he took Cao Yi back to the place where the grain and grass were piled.
In the next few days, as refugees continue to arrive, food will become the focus of the refugees, and will also become the focus of Kou Ji and others.
The food distributed by the imperial court was limited, which could only allow the refugees to eat two meals a day and drink a bowl of gruel with each meal.
There will definitely be many people who don't have enough to eat, and they will be thinking about these grains when the time comes.
Therefore, Kou Ji must guard these grains.
In the corner where the food was piled, there was a tent with three beds placed in it.
One piece belongs to Kou Ji, one piece belongs to Liu Heng, and one piece belongs to Cao Yi.
After entering the tent, Cao Yi sat down on his bed, stretched out, and curiously asked Kou Ji, "Fourth brother, why did you say those words to Chen Jing and Wang Tiansheng just now?"
"Those words?"
"That's what the victims said about running back to farm. You yourself said that it's too early to discuss that issue, so why are we still discussing it?"
Cao Yi had a look of doubt on his face.
Kou Ji sat on the bed, took off his boots, shook the dirt on his boots, and said with a smile: "I just told them in advance. Let them think about this in their minds, and then help me."
Do this.
I have to make the victims think of me and think of doing things for me.
Otherwise, after the spring of next year, if the court asks them to return to their hometowns to farm, won’t they all run away?
By then, won’t my work be in vain?”
Cao Yan praised: "Fourth brother is really thinking long-term... At present, the victims have not been properly resettled, and fourth brother, you have thought about the issue of where the victims will stay in the future."
Kou Ji took off his coat, lifted the quilt on the bed, and lay down in it.
After covering himself with the quilt, he said to Cao Yi: "Go to bed quickly... Starting from tomorrow, we will probably be very busy. It will not be easy to have a good sleep then."
Cao Yi agreed, followed Kou Ji's example, took off his boots and coat, and lay down on the bed.
After lying down, Cao Yi called the government servant who was standing guard outside the door to come in and blew out the candles in the tent.
In the middle of the night.
Liu Heng came back from Bianjing City, went into the tent, lay on the bed, and fell asleep snoring.
The next day.
It's still dark.
Li Di sent someone to send a group of refugees.
Kou Ji and the other three got up, rubbed their faces, woke everyone up, and began to resettle the refugees.
With the help of clan elders such as Chen Jing and Wang Tiansheng, and the help of village elders, and the leadership of yesterday's first batch of refugees, Kou Ji and others did not need to do anything. The refugees consciously began to wash up, drink medicine, and work.
The walls made of wet soil are rising at a speed visible to the naked eye.
By the evening of the second day, the walls of the first batch of houses had taken shape.
The firewood and hay collected by the women have been piled into hills.
The clothes washed by the women were arranged in rows and rows.
Some people who were waiting to see Kou Ji's joke, after sending people to observe the resettlement of the refugees, left the gate of Beicheng disappointed.
Kou Ji not only made no mistakes in resettling the refugees, but actually did it better than ever before.
At least, among the many examples of resettling refugees since the founding of the Song Dynasty, none can be compared with Kou Ji.
After nightfall.
There was a dispute.
The cause was that two women had a dispute over a wooden bowl, which eventually led to the husbands behind both sides attacking each other and injuring one person.
Kou Ji and others rushed to the scene immediately.
Chen Jing, Wang Tiansheng and others unanimously decided to kick the two families out of the place where the refugees were staying.
But Kou Ji didn't do that.
He first comforted the two quarreling women and the crying child who was hiding aside, and then asked the doctor to treat the injuries of the two men who made the move.
Finally, Liu Heng sent the two of them to a windowless house to recuperate.
Since the injuries of both of them were not serious, we planned to let them rest in the house for three days.
The refugees were very convinced and approved of Kou Ji's verdict.
As a result, three or five fist fights occurred one after another that night.
Kou Jijing adopted the initial treatment method and sent them to recuperate.
In the minds of some victims who like to cheat and cheat, Kou Ji's approach is not only not punishing them, but also providing them with opportunities to be lazy in disguise.
Chen Jing, Wang Tiansheng and others gave many advices, but Kou Ji did not accept them.
After a fight occurs, people are still dealt with in this way.
After returning to the tent at night.
Liu Heng asked Kou Ji incomprehensively, "Fourth brother, what you do is not punishing people at all. Those victims will only regard this as a way to escape from work and use it to be lazy."
Kou Ji glanced at Liu Heng and said calmly: "When have you ever seen me do something useless?"
Cao Yan asked curiously: "Fourth brother, do you have other intentions for doing this?"
Kou Ji asked Liu Heng to move a brazier and put it in the tent, and then said calmly: "Why is it that a small country with few people is far easier to control than a big country? It's because the more people there are, the more things will happen, the more troubles, and the more friction.
The number of disaster victims resettled here has exceeded 30,000.
When 30,000 disaster victims gather together, it is natural for them to have verbal conflicts and fights and troubles are inevitable.
So this kind of thing cannot be prevented at all.
Even if you drag them all out and beat them, they will be bloody.
If they recover from their injuries, they will still cause trouble."
Liu Heng said fiercely: "Then cut them all off!"
Kou Ji and Cao Yi looked at him in astonishment.
Liu Heng snorted: "Am I wrong? I don't believe it yet. How can they not be afraid of death?"
Cao Yan added a piece of charcoal to the brazier and said disdainfully: "Do you think those victims are servants of your Liu Mansion, and you can kill them if you want?"
Kou Ji reminded: "Outside Bianjing City, at the feet of the Emperor, they are all farmers. They are protected by the laws of the imperial court, and the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty are watching. As long as they don't kill anyone, you can't kill them."
Cao Ji took over Kou Ji's words and said: "If a murder occurs in any place, the local officials are not qualified to execute the prisoner without authorization. The prisoner needs to be taken to Bianjing City. After being reviewed by Bianjing City, he can only be executed in the autumn."
During this period, if the prisoner complains of injustice, the court must send the case back for retrial.
A murderer, on the other hand, can cry out for injustice twice during the review period.
The imperial court treats death row criminals like this, let alone ordinary people.
If you really want to kill them when they have not committed any murder.
The censors will definitely impeach you."
Liu Heng glared and said, "They disturbed the resettlement of the victims, shouldn't they be killed?"
Cao Ji spread his hands and said: "Although Duke Kou said in the Chui Gong Hall that those who disrupt the resettlement of the victims can be killed first and then punished. But the documents from the inner court were not issued to us. They were in the hands of Duke Li.
In other words, the only person who can kill first and then show off is Duke Li."
Liu Heng shouted: "So many lives have been stuffed into the Jinshui River, and the court has not seen any investigation."
Cao Yi shut his mouth and stopped talking.
Kou Ji didn't say anything to help Liu Heng clear up his doubts.
There were so many lives choked in the Jinshui River because the identities of the people who choked the river were different, and the identities of the people who rushed to choke the people in the Jinshui River were also different.
Although the imperial court has always advocated people-centeredness, it has also formulated a series of people-centered laws.
But it doesn't bind everyone.
For example, some officials in the court believed that riding in sedan chairs was treating humans and animals and should be banned, but they themselves did not give up riding in sedan chairs.
Liu Heng lowered his head and thought angrily for a while, trying to figure out the connection.
He raised his head, stared at Kou Ji and said, "Are we just going to let those thorny heads make trouble? As long as they interfere, will the victims be okay?"
Kou Ji shook his head and said with a smile: "That's not true... most of the victims are still very good. As long as they are given a mouthful of food to eat, they will do whatever they are asked to do. Those thornheads are only a small group of people.
Now, it's time for you two to contribute."
Kou Ji stood up, walked around the brazier in front of him, walked to the table in the tent, took out two pages of paper, and handed them to Liu Heng and Cao Yi.
"These are the regulations I have drawn up in accordance with the laws of the imperial court to manage the victims. Tomorrow, you two will dispatch your yamen servants to work with the village elders and clan elders to manage the victims.
Whenever you encounter trouble, you will handle it the same way I handled it before."
Liu Heng read the order on the paper and frowned: "Fourth brother, you just locked them up and didn't teach them a lesson. Isn't this a disguised form of encouraging them to cause trouble?"
Cao Yan took the paper and nodded: "The heaviest punishment is only fifteen days. If they want to be lazy, they only need to make trouble and have a fight, and then they can go to the house and stay comfortably. Change