If you ask eunuchs to lead troops in war, they don't have the ability, but if you ask them to train a person, they are better than anyone else.
On the same day, the emperor Li Shi heard some gossip in the palace, which made Li Shi a little angry and immediately called Song Chaofeng.
Li Shi said with a cold face: "I don't want some random rumors to appear in the palace. You have to investigate carefully for me. Where do these rumors come from?"
"Reporting to Your Majesty, I have actually heard some rumors in the past two days and are investigating the source of these rumors."
"Has the investigation produced any results?"
"The old slave already knows the source. It was brought back by some eunuchs who were on duty outside the palace, but the specific source has not yet been found."
Li Shi was startled, "What do you mean by this? Are there rumors outside?"
Song Chaofeng sighed, "It has been spread outside for a long time. In fact, the ministers are also talking about it. I just don't want to spoil His Majesty's mood, so I didn't tell Your Majesty."
"What are you talking about?"
"This..." Song Chaofeng hesitated.
Li Shi glared at him fiercely and said, "Speak!"
Song Chaofeng had no choice but to say: "The main reason is that Li Sheng dismissed local officials and appointed new officials without going through the Ministry of Personnel. He also did not get the approval of the Ministry of War to kill Da Xi Baohui. Especially the killing of Li Yuanjin, everyone talked a lot, thinking that there was something else inside.
Hidden secrets.”
"What's the secret?"
"Your Majesty, when Li Xilie sent troops to cause rebellion in Suizhou and Tangzhou, Li Yuanjin was the first local official to write to the court. In addition, he has always had a good official reputation and was a disciple of Yan Zhenqing. Everyone thought that he could not be loyal to Li Xilie.
Li Sheng must have hidden reasons for killing him."
Seeing Li Shi's silence, Song Chaofeng said again: "Sending a supervisory army has been the most effective measure since ancient times. Especially when the disaster in the current vassal town became more and more serious, the importance of the supervisory army became even more prominent. Your Majesty followed the prince's advice and did not
Although the starting point of sending a supervisory army to Li Sheng was to trust him, it might end up harming him. After all, the prince was young and did not have rich experience, so he could not see through many things.
Your Majesty, I believe that there is a seed of ambition in the hearts of all generals. If you don’t give it a chance, it will not sprout, but if you indulge it, it will definitely come out. I am very worried that Li Sheng will become the second Guo Song!"
Li Shi was shocked. Guo Song's lessons suddenly appeared in front of him. How Guo Song turned into a vassal town step by step. He knew very well that withdrawing the Hexi Supervisory Army was probably his biggest mistake.
Li Shi nodded, "You are right, I should indeed send supervisory troops to Shannan East Road, and we cannot repeat the mistakes of Hexi."
"Your Majesty, Holy Ming!"
Li Shi immediately appointed the eunuch Wang Fazhong as the supervisor of the Shannan East Road and set off on the same day. At the same time, he ordered the Ministry of Punishment and the Ministry of Personnel to send people to Tangzhou to investigate the cause of Li Jinyuan's death.
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After the wheat harvest was finished, Longyou began to resettle refugees on a large scale in Longyou. The resettlement areas were mainly concentrated in Shanzhou, Lanzhou and Weizhou. Two hundred thousand young refugees were busy building villages and houses.
At the same time, batches of women, children and the elderly moved from Zhangye to Longyou through Dadou Bugu and were resettled in counties and villages.
Guo Song was still in Longyou at this time. In a village fifty miles east of Shanzhou City, Guo Song and a dozen officials were inspecting the construction of the village.
The village is called Linjiacun. It has existed since the Sui Dynasty. However, during the Anshi Rebellion, the Tuyuhun people invaded and a large number of people fled. These villages were gradually abandoned because no one lived in them. There are tens of thousands of similar abandoned villages in Longyou.
They are all in good locations. Most of them live near water, close to woods or hills. These villages formed by history are very suitable for becoming new villages.
Two hundred thousand young and strong men were divided into two hundred construction teams and worked hard to build new houses and complete the construction of various settlements before winter.
"This is our newly built house, please take a look at it!"
Guo Song stood in front of a newly built house. This is a new house with a unified design. It is simple and practical, with low investment. Each household covers an area of about one acre and has three and a half rooms of mud and thatched houses. The yard is very large, and yard stakes are laid around it.
, the fence is built by the house owners themselves, leaving them room to build and expand their own houses.
"Is the house leaking?" Guo Song asked, looking at the roof.
An official quickly said: "The roof trusses are covered with a layer of white mud and are covered with thick wheat straw. It will definitely not leak and can withstand the weight of heavy snow. We are afraid of blizzards after winter, but everyone has experience.
When winter comes, big stones will be used to pack the wheat straw on the roof."
Guo Song nodded and said to the surrounding officials: "We need to think more carefully. We all know that snow must be shoveled in time after it snows, otherwise the heavy snow will collapse the house. But most of these refugees are from the Central Plains and have never experienced the Hexi Corridor.
They may not know about the Blizzard in Longyou, so we need to remind them as early as possible. I am just making an analogy, and I mean you have to consider the details."
Everyone hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, you have thought carefully and remember your humble duty!"
Guo Song went to check other houses. There were about two hundred households in Linjia Village. It was close to the Xiaoyu River, a tributary of the Yellow River. Apart from a large forest, there were endless wheat fields.
Guo Song then asked the resettlement envoy Cao Wannian: "How should the houses be allocated specifically?"
Cao Wannian hurriedly said: "I am going to adopt Fengzhou's method. There are two kinds of lottery, one is red lottery and the other is white lottery. The red lottery is for living in the city, and the white lottery is for living in the countryside. But there is no choice.
We will number all the houses, in fact we have almost done so, and the first lottery will be held in five days, with about 10,000 families participating."
"How to select these 10,000 households?" Guo Song asked again.
"We make decisions based on the order of registration. The first 10,000 households will be drawn first. We have told everyone that it does not mean that you will get a good house if you draw first. It depends entirely on your own luck."
Guo Song asked with a smile: "What if many families want to live together?"
Cao Wannian smiled and said: "Have you forgotten our experience in Fengzhou? We will set up an exchange venue at the lottery place, and special officials will be responsible for this. They will provide information and let the people negotiate the exchange themselves."
Guo Song remembered it. This was the method he had come up with back then, but he had actually forgotten it.
"Okay! I'll come and see your draw in five days."
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The first batch of house selection was held in Shanxian, which is the second largest county in Shanzhou. Most of the people fled to Hexi, and not many came back. They exchanged their houses in Longyou for houses in Hexi.
The county is almost an empty county. All large houses with more than three acres in the city have been bought by the government and will be used as official residences or as government assets for rent, while other houses have been divided into small courtyards, almost every household
There is half an acre of homestead land.
Although the first batch of house selection is held in Shanxian, it does not mean that they can choose houses in Shanxian. They are all randomly drawn. However, they can choose to live in the city or in the countryside. The rural houses have large areas and can be used for land reclamation and farming.
Vegetables, raising chickens and ducks, and living in the city can find things to do and earn money to support the family. Each has its own advantages. Basically, those who originally lived in the country will choose the country, and those who originally lived in the city will choose the city.
Thousands of large tents were set up outside Shanxian City, and ten thousand families had gathered here. The lottery point was just outside the camp. Each family sent one person to participate in the lottery. Due to sufficient publicity in advance, everyone knew what the rules were.
It all depends on luck, and the first person to go up may not be able to draw a good lot. Everyone is not in a hurry and waits patiently for the moment of drawing.
In the early morning, tens of thousands of people gathered in the wilderness. Everyone was whispering and talking about their upcoming new home. Everyone's eyes were full of longing and longing for a new life in the future.
"Watch your number plate, the first thousand people come and line up!" several soldiers shouted in unison.
The first batch of draws began, and the people who came up were basically men. They were the heads of the family. With the coordination of the soldiers, a thousand people quickly formed a long queue. Some people who were too excited and got the wrong number also left.
go back.
Two large tables were placed on the high platform. There were two large cardboard boxes on the table, one red and one white. The red represented the countryside and the white represented the county. The first group of twenty people came on stage. The leader was a thirty-year-old man.
A sturdy man of more than 10 years old, with a red number plate in his hand, he and a dozen other men quickly came to the big red cardboard box. The official said to them: "Pick out a piece of paper and then get off the stage!"
The leading man took a deep breath, reached out and took out a folded note from underneath, and quickly walked off the stage. He was illiterate, so he quickly handed the note to an official, who looked at it and said with a smile: "Shanzhou
Room No. 23, Qingwa Village, Dongxiang County, County."
"But where is Qingwa Village?" The man was still confused.
The official pointed to the back, "There is a map behind, you can check it!"
At this time, his wife ran over with their two children and asked nervously: "Da Lang, where are you?"
"It's Qingwa Village, Dongxiang, Shanzhou County. Let's go look at the map!"