The first thousand one hundred and ninety-ninth chapters spring vitality
The epidemic raged in the Central Plains for more than half a year, but because the imperial court responded appropriately, a large number of healthy people were transferred to safe areas. Fifteen camps were established and nearly three million people were transferred.
The villages are all deserted.
Although the spread of the disease was effectively suppressed, agricultural production was severely damaged, and the imperial court's financial burden was huge.
Guo Song made the decision in December last year to immigrate one million people from Puyang Daying to Hebei and settle nearly two million people from Chuzhou Daying in Jianghuai prefectures and counties.
But as a result, the Central Plains is basically empty, and the remaining population is less than 20% of the original population. These are people who are unwilling to leave their hometown.
Starting from February, 100,000 troops conducted military camps in Songzhou and Bianzhou. They first burned the weeds with fire, and then plowed the soil to sow. The 100,000 troops sown more than 2.5 million acres of wheat.
The disease has not disappeared, and it still occurs sporadically. It is mainly spread in the county. However, the rural population is too small for the disease to spread.
Although Songzhou was the place where the epidemic first broke out, it also disappeared the fastest. This was also because the war broke out and millions of people had already fled. So when the epidemic broke out, the entire Songzhou had no population except Songcheng County.
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But Songcheng County has been burned to the ground, and those who died of illness have been cremated. The entire population of Songzhou is less than 20,000, mainly concentrated in Chuqiu County and Shanfu County in the north. There is no rooster crow in the middle and south.
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Without the basis for population transmission, the disease temporarily disappeared in Songzhou. The endless wilderness was full of spring, flowers and trees were in bloom, colorful, flocks of birds were flying in the sky, the sound of horse hooves came from far and near, and a group of cavalry was on the official road.
Coming quickly.
This is an epidemic inspection team. It used to inspect military discipline, but now it mainly inspects epidemic prevention.
A row of more than 200 large tents appeared in front of them. They were a farming army with about 3,000 people. They cultivated 80,000 acres of land.
The captain shouted: "Go and check in the barracks!"
The cavalry sped up and soon arrived at the military camp.
It happened to be lunch time at this time, and the soldiers gathered together to eat and rest. The arrival of the inspection team made the camp commander Chen Ping quite nervous. The inspection was extremely strict. If one of the twenty epidemic prevention measures failed, it would mean that the inspection failed, and ten of them failed.
The Queen of Heaven will come back for a re-examination. If he still fails to pass the examination, the Master will immediately remove him from office.
Some of the rules are very detailed. For example, the toilet must be far away from the military camp, and the surrounding area must be covered with enough lime powder. After using the toilet, the soldiers must rub their hands with lime milk and then wash them clean.
Another example is that each fire soldier must be equipped with a marching stove, ten pounds of briquettes and fifty fire briquettes. This is to boil water for the soldiers to drink. Don't underestimate these details. These are the summary of practical experience, because when farming
It was several miles away from the military camp. The soldiers were thirsty and the water gourds were out of water. The soldiers were too lazy to come back to drink water, so they would just fill the water gourds in the river. Having a marching stove made it easier to boil water.
You must drink boiled water, which is the first rule of epidemic prevention.
General Chen Ping followed the inspection team through inspections, including randomly selecting fifty soldiers and requiring them to recite twenty epidemic prevention measures proficiently.
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This is what scares the generals the most. Although they strictly order the soldiers to remember it, what if they forget it when they are nervous?
As the last soldier stuttered through the twenty rules, the inspector checked the pass column, and Chen Ping let out a long sigh of relief.
Half an hour later, the inspection ended. The school captain said to Chen Ping: "After careful inspection, your various epidemic prevention measures have been basically implemented and there are no falsehoods. We are hereby approved!"
Chen Ping breathed a sigh of relief and quickly clasped his fists and said: "Thank you! Thank you very much! I will strengthen the management of weak points."
They did not do two things well, both of which were in the isolation camp. The isolation camp consisted of ten large tents surrounded by tent fences, which were equipped with hundreds of living bags, which were basic daily necessities.
However, the inspecting soldiers believed that the gaps in the fence of the isolation camp were too large, and patients could slip through the gaps. Secondly, it was stipulated that at least twenty large camps should be used as isolation camps, and they were short of ten large tents.
The inspection team gave a warning for the above two deficiencies, but they still passed.
The inspection team declined their lunch invitation, got on their horses and continued to gallop north...
After living in the Puyang isolation camp for a month, in December, millions of refugees began to migrate to Hebei and Ziqing areas. This was also Guo Song's decision after repeated consideration, to allow the people to integrate into the various states and rent government land.
Tax exemption and rent exemption, and then mobilize the Hebei army and government to build mud huts for them.
In this way, the government only needs to subsidize the refugees' food for one year, and once they have harvested, there will be no need to subsidize them anymore.
Otherwise, we still don’t know when the epidemic will end, and we don’t know when the court will need to subsidize them. The court cannot bear such financial pressure.
The two million refugees from Chuzhou were also resettled in Jianghuai. As for the Central Plains, they had to wait for the epidemic to completely disappear before slowly recovering.
The transformation of refugees into immigrants was the most difficult and important decision that Guo Song made last year. The Yellow Turban Uprising in the late Eastern Han Dynasty was the result of the uncontrollable epidemic and the eventual collapse of the imperial government's finances by the refugees.
In March, Hebei is full of spring and vitality. In Lihe Township, Pingyuan County, Dezhou, there are 1,500 Central Plains immigrants. They are mainly located in the northern part of Lihe Township. There are 30,000 acres of official land here, all of which are handed over.
It was given to immigrants to farm.
The locals were wary of them at first, fearing that they would bring diseases. But as time went by, they found that they were not disease-free, and began to get in touch with them. They helped them build water trucks, clear blocked irrigation canals, and build houses for them.
Abandon.
This morning, Texas Governor Shi Wanghong came to Lihe Township to inspect the immigrants in Lihe Township.
Wang Hongnian was about thirty-five or sixteen years old. He was the eldest son of Wang You, the pacification envoy of Huainan Road. He was originally the magistrate of Gaotang County. He later abandoned his official position and fled with his father. After destroying Wei Bo's army, Guo Song appointed him as the governor of Dezhou. This year, he was appointed governor of Dezhou.
It is the fourth year. If he performs well this year, he will be promoted to Texas Governor next year.
Excellent performance this year refers to the proper resettlement of immigrants. This is the biggest assessment for officials at all levels in Hebei. Dezhou has resettled a total of 6,000 households, about 30,000 people. Pingyuan County is a major resettlement county, and has resettled half of the immigrants. Lihe
It is the largest immigration point among them.
The official who accompanied Wang Hong to inspect the immigration situation was Zhou Rong, magistrate of Pingyuan County, who was about 30 years old and was a Jinshi. Pingyuan County was a famous grain-producing county with fertile land. At that time, Tian Chengsi had more than a dozen settlements in Pingyuan County.
The large manor occupied half of the arable land in the county. After the fall of Wei Bo, these manors were confiscated by the army. Some of them were returned to the landless farmers, while the other part of the unowned farmland was handed over to the local government and became official land.
It is precisely because of the vast official land that they have the ability to resettle 3,000 households of immigrants. Based on 20 acres of cultivated land per household, they have rented 60,000 acres of official land to immigrant families.
"Chang Shi, there is an immigrant village over there!" County Magistrate Zhou Rong pointed to a village two miles away.
Wang Hong saw several old farmers busy in the farmland next to them. They seemed to be very young. He walked over with a smile and said, "Excuse me for disturbing you, husbands!"
Several old men were also immigrants. They knew Magistrate Zhou, and when they saw that the magistrate actually accompanied this official, he must have a high official position, they quickly bowed and said, "Don't dare! Don't dare!"
Zhou Rong introduced them: "This is Wang Shijun, the governor of Texas. Wang Shijun is fully responsible for our immigration in Texas."
Several old farmers hurriedly saluted again, and the entourage put down a few small stools. Wang Hong invited everyone to sit down and talk.
"Where are these old men from?" Wang Hong asked with a smile.
"We are all from Chenliu County in Bianzhou. In fact, all of us immigrants from Lihe Township are from Chenliu County."
Wang Hong nodded and asked: "I'm still used to it in Pingyuan County!"
"This place is actually similar to our hometown. The climate, water and soil are almost the same, so I can adapt to it! But many habits have to be changed, such as not drinking raw water, every household must build a hut, and wash hands frequently."
"Not only do you need to change these habits, but we also need to change them locally. Diseases are transmitted through water and feces. If you change these two related bad habits, you can prevent diseases. Otherwise, you will die within a few days after contracting the disease.
, no one wants to!"
"Your Majesty is right!"
"What difficulties are there in life now?" Wang Hong asked again with a smile.
Several old men looked at each other, and one old man hesitated and said: "We have food, but the biggest difficulty is that we have no money. We can't buy many necessities, so you must be anxious!"
Another old man added: "Actually, it's not that we don't have money. Every household has some money, but they don't recognize it here. They want old money and don't recognize new money."
Wang Hong nodded, "I understand, let's do this! I'll give the court a suggestion and ask the court to exchange it for you into old money, and then find a way to find something for everyone to do and earn some money to buy daily necessities."