Chapter 0330 Food! (Some personal matters to deal with tonight
"After three days, there will be results..."
Kou Ji said with a smile without any unnecessary explanation.
Cao Yi and Liu Heng didn't know what was going on and wanted to get to the bottom of it, but Kou Ji ignored them and got into bed to sleep.
Seeing this, Cao Yi and Liu Heng looked at each other, and each climbed onto the bed with questions in their hearts.
The next day.
After getting up, Kou Ji went to the craftsmen to discuss building a roof.
Cao Yi and Liu Heng led the people from the Criminal Department and the Imperial City Department to assist Chen Jing, Wang Tiansheng and others in controlling the refugees.
The refugees were divided into several groups in units of 10,000 people, and on this basis, they were subdivided into dozens of small groups in units of 1,000 people.
Each group of refugees, led by village elders, clan elders, and government servants, occupied a separate place.
Some people continued to work, and some assisted the government officials in resettling the refugees.
Just as Cao Yi and Liu Heng said, after the story of Kou Ji's handling of fights and troubles among the refugees spread, more and more people started fighting and making troubles among the refugees.
One day.
Cao Yi and Liu Heng captured more than a hundred refugees who were making trouble.
According to the management regulations formulated by Kou Ji, they were all imprisoned.
Kou Ji had people step up work to build the houses where the troublemaking refugees were imprisoned.
Not only did the house have no windows, it didn't even have a decent roof.
The walls of the house are made of logs driven into the soil and connected in a row.
The same goes for roofs.
Like a square box.
Both sides of the wall were plastered smooth with mud.
It looks very neat.
If Cao Yi hadn't stopped him, Liu Heng would have wanted to go in and give it a try.
"The houses that have not been aired are very damp inside. If you don't want to spend your days sitting on a bandit's bus, don't go in."
Cao Yi warned carefully.
Liu Heng imagined how he would be riding on the Kou bus and couldn't help but shudder.
"Then I'd better not go in..."
Liu Heng didn't plan to go in, but the troublemaking refugees seemed to like these square houses very much.
When they were caught in front of the Sifang House, they were all very happy, as if they had received some huge reward.
They don't need anyone to drive them away or escort them. They will take the initiative to walk into the square room, lie down on the bare bed board in the room, and happily let the government officials lock the door for them.
The troubled refugees were handed over to Liu Heng. After Cao Yi dealt with it, Kou Ji never paid attention to the matter again. He had more important things to do.
Three days in a row.
The number of refugees taken in by Kou Ji has exceeded 50,000.
The food sent by the imperial court and the materials sent by Mu and Chong were decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Mu Chong sent someone to tell Kou Ji that the second batch of supplies would arrive outside the north gate of Bianjing City in the evening.
The third batch, which is the largest batch of supplies, will be delivered outside the north gate of Bianjing City tomorrow morning.
In fact, the second batch of supplies and the third batch of supplies are the same batch of supplies.
Mu Chong and the others were afraid that the supplies would arrive slowly and delay Kou Ji's resettlement of the refugees, so they asked the boss and others of some of the ships transporting the supplies to speed up.
Mu Chong and the others made no mistakes in the transportation of materials, and they even did many small details that Kou Ji didn't ask for.
In comparison, the court's efficiency was somewhat poor.
The second batch of grain has not yet been delivered to Kou Ji.
Kou Ji had no choice but to rush to the south gate in person to find Li Di.
When Kou Ji arrived at the south city gate and found Li Di, Li Di was killing people.
Li Di personally held a sword and hacked to death a tall man with a beard who was kneeling on the ground.
Not far from him, dozens of people were kneeling.
The soldiers of the Forbidden Army stood behind these people with swords in their hands.
He raised the knife and dropped it.
The big heads rolled to the ground.
Blood spurted out from his neck, splashing all over the Forbidden Army soldiers.
A man wearing a general's armor knelt down in front of Li Di with a thud and wailed loudly, "Prime Minister Li, you have to make the decision for the humble officials and others."
Li Di held the long sword dripping with blood and roared: "You deserve to die too!"
"Li Xiangruo..."
"Poof!"
The long sword pierced the general.
The general's shouts suddenly stopped.
Li Di drew out his long sword, still lying on the ground, and yelled at the officials around him: "Go and give orders to the Japanese army, asking them to mobilize two battalions of soldiers and horses, and then they can attack and patrol the entire Kaifeng Mansion."
"Inner court documents..."
"The inner court documents will be filled in later!"
"..."
After asking the accompanying officials to deliver the order, Li Di wiped the blood on his hands and walked up to Kou Ji with a gloomy face.
He had seen Kou Ji a long time ago, but he was busy just now, so he didn't rush over.
Li Di walked up to Kou Ji, and Kou Ji suddenly had a bad feeling. He asked tentatively: "Something happened?"
Li Di gritted his teeth and said unwillingly: "The second batch of grain shipped from Changping warehouse... was robbed..."
Kou Ji's eyes widened in astonishment and he said in disbelief: "The people escorting the grain and grass transportation include grain inspectors, grain guarding captains, and grain guarding soldiers. Who can snatch the grain away from them?"
"A guy named Sai Mengchang..."
Li Di said contemptuously.
Kou Ji said in astonishment: "Is there such a person?"
Li Di yelled and cursed: "That bullshit guy... he's just a bandit leader who incites the refugees to take the opportunity to cause trouble."
Kou Ji asked: "Have you caught him?"
Li Di pointed to the man not far away who was beheaded by his sword, "I just chopped him down."
Li Di was furious when he saw the man's body.
He gritted his teeth and said: "If he took the refugees to grab some life-saving food, I could still tolerate him. But he should never, absolutely should not, should not set those food and grass on fire when I sent people to encircle and suppress him.
Less.
If I hadn't been busy relocating the refugees, I would have killed him with a thousand knives."
Kou Ji's face darkened and he asked, "All the food and grass are gone?"
Tens of thousands of refugees gathered outside the north gate of Bianjing City.
No one can say what they would do if they ran out of food.
Li Di nodded gloomily and said: "The second batch of food was all burned... I have sent documents to the inner court, and the inner court has sent people to rush for the third batch of food."
Kou Ji said in a deep voice: "When will the third batch of food arrive?"
Li Di whispered: "Three days!"
Kou Ji's eyes widened and he lost his voice: "Three days?"
Li Di nodded stiffly.
Kou Ji gritted his teeth and said: "I only have enough food to last until tomorrow. The largest group of refugees will arrive the day after tomorrow. By then, the number of refugees will exceed 100,000.
By then, more than 100,000 refugees without food or water will cause trouble."
"I know! I have already sent people to the city to raise food."
Li Di said in a deep voice.
Kou Ji frowned and said, "How much grain can be raised in the city? If the city can raise grain, the imperial court will not transfer grain from Changping Granary."
Li Di said with an ugly expression: "I can raise some, yes..."
Li Di looked at Kou Ji and said: "Try every means to survive these three days. If it doesn't work, you can ask the merchants to help, and the court will give you a reward when the time comes."
Hearing Li Di's words, Kou Ji's mind fell to the bottom.
Li Di was obviously not sure about raising food, so he asked Kou Ji to rely on merchants.
Seeing Kou Ji's gloomy expression, Li Di gritted his teeth and said, "Go back first and appease the refugees. I will try to get you a batch of food."
Kou Ji nodded helplessly and left the south gate of Bianjing City.
As soon as Kou Ji left, Li Di ordered the attendant beside him and said in a deep voice: "Go and send all the food in the house to the refugee camp."
Governor Li then lamented: "Master, the food in the house was distributed to the refugees a few days ago. Now there is no food in the house."
Li Di stared, "Then use the money from the house to buy food!"
Governor Li said with a bitter look on his face: "Since the Prime Minister collected the grain from all the grain merchants in Bianjing City and distributed it to the people in the city, those grain merchants have no grain in their hands. Even if they have grain in their hands,
They are also hoarding it without selling it, preparing to make profits from it.
The lady couldn't buy food, so she took the young men to live in Daxiangguo Temple.
With the sesame oil money donated, I exchanged it for a bite of food from the Daxiangguo Temple."
Li Di sighed and said: "Take people to the Kou Mansion, the Prince's Mansion, and the Xiang Mansion to borrow food. Especially Xiang Mansion. Xiang Mansion has the habit of storing food. There must be a lot of food in the Mansion."
Governor Li then agreed and rushed back to Bianjing City.
Li Di stared at the beheaded thieves and said viciously: "A bunch of damned ones... If people are killed because of you, I will throw your bodies out and let wild dogs eat them."
Kou Ji frowned and returned to the north gate.
Liu Heng and Cao Yi came forward and asked, "Where is the food?"
Kou Ji glanced at the two of them and said nothing.
Liu Heng and Cao Yi were stunned at first.
The two of them looked at each other and told Kou Ji this.
From Kou Ji's expression, they had already guessed that there might be something wrong with the food.
What they can do now is to return to the mansion, take out the food in the mansion, and help Kou Ji.
After Liu Heng and Cao Yi left.
Chen Jing and Wang Tiansheng also approached Kou Ji.
Chen Jing saw Kou Ji and said happily: "Kou Ministry of Industry, the first batch of houses have been built. Do you want to go and take a look?"
Kou Ji didn't show any flaws in front of the two of them. He nodded with a smile and followed the two of them to see the first batch of completed houses.
The house was designed by Kou Ji, and it looked the same whether he saw it or not, but Chen Jing and Wang Tiansheng couldn't resist their warm invitation.
Kou Ji followed them to the house.
In order to build the house quickly and resettle the refugees quickly, the houses are made of civil engineering.
The wall was made of rammed earth, topped with wood, covered with a layer of hay, smeared with a layer of crushed grass mud, and then covered with two layers of hay.
Originally, the grass slurry should have been covered with tiles.
But Kou Ji couldn't get so many tiles at the same time, so he used hay instead.
Even so, the refugees looked at the houses with eager eyes.
For them, having a place to settle down when they have nothing is great.
The houses are lined up in a row, like barracks.
The door of the house is open to facilitate ventilation inside the house and let it dry quickly.
The width of the house increased by five feet, and the length increased by three feet.
There is a very eye-catching pillar in the house.
On both sides of the pillar, there are two rows of beds.
Kou Ji's eyes were a little confused when he saw the wooden canopy bed.
Chen Jing and others looked at the canopy bed and sighed: "I have lived for so long, but I have never seen a bed that can sleep people on both the upper and lower floors. Originally, this room could only sleep ten people.
, with this bed, it can accommodate twenty people.
With this thing, we need to build twice as many houses."
Kou Ji heard the praise from Chen Jing and others, and said lightly: "It's just an ordinary thing... The Yamen of the Ministry of Industry is in charge of the construction of the court, and there are many capable people in it. Being able to make such a thing is within my expectation.
"
Chen Jing and others all knew what was going on in the Ministry of Industry Yamen.
Hearing Kou Ji's words, they all spoke in admiration: "Kou's Ministry of Industry is still in charge well."
Kou Ji smiled lightly and said nothing.
After he accompanied Chen Jing and others to inspect the houses built by No. 1 Phi.
Let Chen Jing and others watch the resettlement of the refugees move in.
Although the house is damp, it is not suitable for human habitation.
But it's better than sleeping in the wilderness.
Those 8,000 tents cannot accommodate 50,000 refugees.
There were many refugees sleeping in haystacks last night.
After the matter of resettling the refugees was handed over to Chen Jing and others, Kou Ji urged the craftsmen to build the second and third batch of houses as soon as possible.
In fact, after the walls of the first batch of houses were completed.
The foundations of the second and third batch of houses have been laid.
After the first batch of houses were completed, the walls of the second and third batches of houses had already taken shape.
After all, with more than 20,000 young people working together, the construction speed is very fast.
After urging the craftsmen.
Liu Heng, Cao Yi and others escorted a batch of grain to the place where the refugees were resettled.
Cao Ji felt ashamed and said to Kou Ji: "There is not much food. This is the limit that the two of us can raise. Now no one in Bianjing sells food, and we can't buy food with money."
Kou Ji nodded and said: "It's not easy for you to use the rations of the people in the house to help the refugees."
Kou Ji asked people to carry the grain back to the granary.
After Liu Heng carried all the grain into the granary, he seemed to think of something.
He said to Kou Ji: "Fourth brother, when we were collecting food, we saw that people from the Li family were also collecting food."
Kou Ji pondered for a moment.
He waved to Liu Heng and Cao Yi, "Come here."
The two of them came forward.
Kou Ji whispered something in their ears.
Liu Heng and Cao Yi opened their eyes in shock.
Liu Heng lost his voice and said: "Is this still possible?"
Kou Ji smiled bitterly and said, "This is the last resort..."
Liu Heng and Cao Yi nodded.
"We'll do it right away."
While talking, the two of them left the place where the refugees were resettled and returned to Bianjing City.
The next day.
Liu Heng and Cao Yi, accompanied by the steward of the Li Mansion, escorted a large amount of grain to the place where the refugees were resettled.
The refugees saw such a large amount of food being transported into the place where the food was piled.
I feel a little more energetic when I work.
Some of them were knowledgeable and thought about it.
He said that the food was enough to feed 50,000 of them for half a month.
This news spread like a gust of wind to the ears of every refugee.