Chapter five hundred and seventy fourth search for spies
As the date of the expedition approaches, Guo Song has been extremely busy these days. Pan Liao is not in Zhangye, so he is basically acting as the governor. However, seeing that the expedition is approaching, and Pan Liao will not be back until at least mid-February, Guo Song
The Song Dynasty began to hand over the trivial matters of long history to Zhang Qiu'an, who joined the army to record affairs.
Zhang Qiu'an joined the army as a recorder and was in charge of military affairs. After the separation of military and political affairs, he basically did not interfere with government affairs. But now that the three government officials have left, Guo Song can only use Zhang Qiu'an again. Fortunately, Zhang Qiu'an also
Having worked in government affairs before, Zhang Qiu'an was familiar with the process, so Zhang Qiu'an got started directly without much effort.
Guo Song also asked Du Siye to assist Zhang Qiu'an and become his deputy, and the two of them cooperated very well.
That morning, Guo Song walked into the official room and sat down. Du Siye hurried in and handed a copy of the Eagle's Letter to Guo Song, "This is the daily newspaper sent by Pan Changshi yesterday. Please let me take a look at it!"
Just because Guo Song was not in the refugee camp didn't mean that he didn't care about the refugee camp. Pan Liao had to write a daily report every day, which was sent to Zhangye by three letter eagles. He then copied it out in the Xingtai master's book and presented it to Guo Song.
After review and approval, the instructions were sent back to Huixian Daying and distributed to Zhang Qiu'an and eight ministries and departments.
Guo Song took the copy and read it carefully. Important things were marked in front. An important thing happened yesterday. Twenty thousand refugees from Jincheng County were merged into the refugee camp in Hui County. A conflict broke out between the refugees in Jincheng County and the army.
dozens of people.
Pan Liao also noted the reason for the conflict. The reason is very simple. There are not many refugees in Jincheng County, but the supplies are relatively abundant. They live in a tent of twenty people, while in Huixian County there are thirty people in a tent.
After the merger, the refugees in Jincheng County were reduced to thirty people per tent, and the extra tents were converted into medical camps. As a result, the refugees in Jincheng County were dissatisfied and rioted, which was suppressed by the army.
Guo Song frowned. He originally decided to build a refugee camp in Huixian County. On the one hand, he was afraid of encountering a snowstorm on the way. Another reason that was not stated clearly was that he did not want hundreds of thousands of refugees to come to Zhangye.
If there are people sent by Zhu Si to incite trouble, the refugee riots will be a terrible thing and will bring disaster to Zhangye.
During the Yellow Turbans uprising at the end of the Han Dynasty, millions of refugees from Hebei were organized by the three Zhang Jiao brothers. The 650,000 refugees were probably driven by Zhu Si to destroy Hexi, so Guo and Song had to take precautions.
Guo Song was silent for a moment, then took up his pen and wrote annotation on the back of the pigeon letter: 'Apply both kindness and power to resolve conflicts in a timely manner without leaving any remaining trouble!'
The refugees must be treated with a hard hand and a soft hand, with both kindness and power. If you are too soft, they will push for further, while if you are too hard, they will be provoked to resist. This time the refugees in Jincheng County are causing trouble, it is a typical case of favoring rice over rice and enmity. If you treat them too well, it will make them angry.
They think it's appropriate, and they cause trouble if they treat you a little bit poorly.
This should be because Cao Wannian did not handle this well and failed to unify with the Huixian refugee camp. Guo Song pondered for a moment, handed the Yingxin approval to Du Siye, and said to him: "Go and find Wang Yue!"
Du Siye went out, and not long after, Wang Yue hurried over, knelt down on one knee and saluted: "See you, envoy!"
Guo Song smiled and said: "Is there anything unusual in Zhangye these days?"
Wang Yue shook his head, "Not yet!"
Guo Song stood up and walked a few steps with his hands behind his back: "I want you to take a thousand brothers from the internal affairs camp to dress up as refugees and sneak into the refugee camp. You can ride camels to Huixian County. Do you understand what I mean?"
Wang Yue reacted very quickly and understood immediately, "Are you worried that there are spies in the refugee camps?"
Guo Song nodded, "Zhu Si drove these hundreds of thousands of refugees to Hexi. He probably planted spies among them to encourage the refugees to cause trouble in Hexi. Yesterday, the refugees in Jincheng County made trouble. I infer that someone was instigating it, not Pan Chang.
It's as simple as Shi thinks. After you blend in with the refugees, your task is to pick out Zhu Si's spies. As long as you find one of them, you can quickly find the people around him and find an opportunity to get rid of them silently."
"I understand, I understand. Get ready and set off today!"
Guo Song handed him a letter, "Give this letter to Pan Changshi. He will arrange for you to sneak into the refugee camp. After the spies suppress it, you will continue to stay in the refugee camp and gradually become the leader of the refugees and control them.
This is crucial.”
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Wang Yue led a thousand internal affairs soldiers to ride on camels for five days before arriving at the refugee camp in Huixian County. Wang Yue did not rush to lead his men into the camp, but sent someone to deliver a message to Chang Shi Pan Liao.
Pan Liao has been dealing with the Jincheng refugee camp incident in the past few days. He can't figure it out. He has obviously convinced the troubled refugees, and everyone has said that they must be peaceful and disciplined. After a night, they started to make trouble again and refused to accept the three.
Ten people per tent demanded restoration to the original status quo.
Of course, Pan Liao would not accept their rude request. If they were given special treatment, what would happen if more than 600,000 people here started to cause trouble?
The restlessness of the refugees really made Pan Liao feel a little exhausted.
At this moment, someone sent him a message, and Wang Yue, the commander of the internal affairs battalion, was looking for him outside the camp.
Pan Liao hurriedly rode outside the camp and saw a thousand camel cavalry in the distance.
He went up to meet him, and the person leading him was none other than Wang Yue, the commander-in-chief of the internal affairs.
"General Wang, what's going on?"
Wang Yue jumped off the camel easily and stepped forward to hand him a letter, "This is a letter from the envoy to the chief historian, please read it!"
Pan Liao opened the letter and read it, and then he realized that this was right. Someone must be instigating it, otherwise why would he keep causing trouble?
After he read the letter, Guo Song asked him to insert internal affairs soldiers, who would be responsible for finding and eradicating the spies planted by Zhu Si.
Guo Song also had a second suggestion in the letter. After all the spies were eradicated, the Internal Affairs Battalion would continue to stay in the refugee camps and become the leaders of the refugees, cooperating with the Hexi Army to stabilize the refugees from within.
Of course, this is also because the Internal Affairs Battalion is directly under Guo Song, and its trust level is equivalent to that of the personal military camp. That is why Guo Song dares to arrange it like this. No other team can do this. More than 600,000 refugees are controlled by one army. It is simply
Too dangerous.
Pan Liao was deeply convinced by these two suggestions from his lord. He looked at the sky and said to Wang Yue: "Please follow me to the military camp to eat and rest first. I will arrange for you to enter the camp in the evening."
Wang Yue shook his head, "The reason why I didn't go to the camp to find Chang Shi directly is because I wanted to do it secretly. We can't let other troops know about our arrival, and they will leak the news. Please send someone to take the camels back, and we will change our clothes."
, and went directly to the camp as a refugee at night.”
Pan Liao nodded, "That's fine, I'll let you all be wronged first, I'll go back and make arrangements now!"
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At night, Wang Yue and his men dressed up as a group of refugees with disheveled hair and ragged clothes, and were led into the camp by officials. Each soldier only brought a tattered old dagger for self-defense, just like a broken knife picked up on the roadside.
Likewise, so as not to arouse suspicion, they were placed in various camps. Among them, Wang Yue and fifty of his men were placed in the Jincheng County camp.
The refugee camp was divided into thirty camps, with more than 20,000 people in each camp, divided by states and counties. Each camp elected ten elders to serve as a temporary council of elders, responsible for calming disputes and resolving conflicts.
If it is really impossible to resolve the conflict, the military will intervene to deal with it.
Due to the large number of people and the limited number of tents, each household cannot have one big tent, so they can only live together in groups. They are divided into senior camp, women and children camp and young adults camp. On average, each camp has 30 people.
Boys over ten years old must live with their father, and each boy is given a sheepskin. This alone consumes half of the sheepskin inventory in Hexi.
The elderly camp and the women and children camp live in warm leather tents, which are relatively comfortable, while the young adults camp lives in ordinary cloth tents, which are a little colder and can be kept warm by crowding together.
In addition, there are many special small tents in the camp, with a green flag on them, trenches dug around them, and fences surrounding the camp. They are filled with pungent quicklime. These are the toilets.
The camp of more than 600,000 people is larger than a county town. It takes more than an hour to walk out. It is so cold and freezing that it is unrealistic to put the toilet outside. We can only place it inside the camp and use as much quicklime as possible.
For disinfection, there are lime mines in Liangzhou, and more than a thousand carts were used just to haul the quicklime.
Everyone has experience that the toilet is the key to preventing epidemics and cannot be careless.
The refugee camp does one thing better. Every day at noon, young and strong men can go to the women and children camp to visit their wives and children, and the whole family can be reunited for an hour.
Of course, Pan Liao tried his best to find something for everyone to do, so that everyone would not get bored and cause trouble together.
Men shoveled snow, felled trees, built camp fences, or gathered together to practice martial arts.
The women organized themselves to sew clothes and make shoes, while the children gathered together to read and write.
More than a hundred officials are busy every day. They are mainly responsible for registering and classifying people with skills. How many scholars are there, how many craftsmen are there, who want to join the army, who want to go mining, and which families want to go to Beiting.
When settling in Anxi, you must thoroughly understand these situations.