Chapter 79
Fusu visited Handan County in his previous life, but so many years have passed, and only a few blurry outlines remain in his memory.
They rushed to the road overnight and encountered many quiet and uninhabited villages along the way. I don’t know if the people are asleep or if there is really no one. Looking from a distance with the moonlight, I saw that the wilderness was deserted and the mountains in the distance were bare, which was a desolate scene where no grass grew.
Fusu and the others were not from Zhao, and they also felt that this situation was uncomfortable, let alone Li Mu, the original famous general of Zhao.
Along the way, they encountered several groups of robbers who were blocking the road. They were obviously people who were forced to become bandits. They only held hoes and kitchen knives in their hands. They relied on the courage of the people to gather around them.
Li Mu showed up to reveal his identity and explained the purpose of Fusu and his group. The bandits all knelt on the ground in tears and cried loudly: "General Li, you are back!"
The bandits no longer had the idea of making food for them, nor did they complain about how miserable life was, but they were just around the chariots and horses.
Once other "co-people" appeared, they shouted loudly that it was "General Li is back and escorted the Qin prince Fusu to deliver food to save us."
Although Li Mu was convicted of collusion with enemies and treason by King Zhao and others, Guo Kai later showed his identity as Shangqing in a high-profile manner and came back to move. However, Li Mu never received a reward from Qin State. He sorted out the lead in this result and understood everything!
It has been spread in Handan County. It is definitely not Li Mu who sold Zhao State, but Guo Kai who was named Shangqing by Qin State; it is not Li Mu who defeated Zhao State, but King Zhao was foolish and incompetent. He let the loyal ministers and generals like Li Mu not believe in it, but instead listened to Guo Kai and others' nonsense!
Now when I see Li Mu again, everyone feels that after seeing the savior, Li Mu will protect them like he was leading the army to resist the Huns and the Qin people.
Although Li Mu escorted a young man from Qin, Guo Kai came back to move, while Li Mu came back to rescue disasters. Whoever has them in his heart and who only has fame, wealth and wealth in his heart, isn’t that clear at a glance?
The carriage and horses were rushing all night, and the people of Handan County, who were behind, leaned on their heels all night. Fusu sat quietly in the car, paying attention to the movement outside, and rarely did not talk to Zhang Liang.
When it was getting dark and Handan was approaching, Fusu asked someone to stop the carriage and got off the carriage one after another.
They stopped, and the victims following behind also stopped. They were ragged and most of their shoes were worn out. Many people were walking barefoot directly, with blood stains oozing out of their feet after they were worn out.
These people did not have decent armor or decent weapons, but stood in order. After years of war, there was no peace. Most ordinary people had served in the army and even served as soldiers under Li Mu. Now they heard that Li Mu was back, so they spontaneously followed.
As long as Li Mu thinks, they can immediately follow Li Mu and die as before.
I would rather be a peaceful dog than a person in troubled times.
Fusu Li looked at the black victims behind him, then looked at Li Mu, who was standing tall behind him, and sincerely asked: "General Li, disaster relief may require a lot of people. Please bring people to register them for allocation."
Li Mu looked at the half-sized child who was less than his chest in front of him, and the gloom that had been accumulated in his heart suddenly disappeared after being captured.
He lived for most of his life, and since he was a teenager, he had fought all over the world, his hands were covered in blood, and he never felt that he was a compassionate person.
A kind heart and ruthlessness will never have anything to do with him, this is true for others and even more so for yourself.
When Zhao State was gone, Li Mu always felt that a general of Zhao State who had been in charge of Zhao State for half his life should not live in the world.
But along the way, Li Mu's persistence has been shaken most of the time. Zhao State is gone and the people of Zhao State are still there. They are all unarmed ordinary people who cannot protect the food in their hands and cannot protect their homes. When the disaster year comes, there is not even anyone who speaks for them. They can only watch their parents, wife and children starve to death.
He has already felt ashamed of many people, and at least he should take good care of their families in the future. Only when he dies is a cowardly behavior that is irresponsible.
As for the name behind him, he left it for future generations to comment, he didn't care at all!
People live in the world, but only want to be ashamed of their hearts!
Li Mu clasped his fists and replied, "I will obey the order."
After Fusu finished instructing Li Mu, he allocated a group of servants to Li Mu, and walked towards the city gate with Zhang Liang.
It was dawn at this time and the city gate was just now open. The county magistrate of Handan, who had received the letter, left the city to greet him. He just heard someone come to report that there were dark people outside the city, and there were at least a few thousand people, and maybe more than ten thousand. The county magistrate of Handan was shocked and walked out of the mansion all the way, for fear that the refugees would hurt Fusu.
There is still room for negotiation if disaster relief is not done well. When something happens to Fusu, they will lose their heads!
The governor of Handan County quickly walked out of the city and saw Fusu leading a group of people outside the city gate at first sight.
Although he had already found out about Fusu's age and suddenly saw a child younger than his youngest son, the governor of Handan still muttered in his heart: It's still so young, the king was relieved to let him go on a long trip.
When he got closer, the magistrate of Handan County immediately put away his contempt.
No wonder this eldest son was said to be a "fairy child coming to the world". His demeanor was completely different from that of ordinary children. Even if he was as beautiful as a spring mountain and his mouth was as beautiful as a pearl, he could not see anything worthy of awe on his body. Standing there, he still made people dare not have any blasphemy.
"I've seen the young master." The governor of Handan County came forward respectfully and said enthusiastically, "Young master is running all the way, so why not follow the Xiaguan to the city and have breakfast before talking about the main business."
Fusu didn't refuse and said kindly: "Okay."
Fusu and the magistrate of Handan County walked into the city together, and asked whether the magistrate of Handan County had thoroughly investigated the disaster situation these days.
The team walked slowly. If they waited for them to come before checking and releasing food, the people would not know how many more they would starve to death, so Fusu had already asked people to rush to Handan County to arrange preliminary work.
The county magistrate of Handan is still good at doing things. In the past half month, he has been working for a long night to make up for his mistakes. Even in his dream, he has been sorting out the disaster situation in each county according to Fusu's requirements. Now when Fusu asked, he easily reported which counties were particularly severely affected, which counties could barely hold on, and what remedial measures had been taken in the past half month.
In those areas where food has been out of stock for a long time, they have calculated the number of people affected by the disaster and the number of men as Fusu’s instructions, and asked them to receive food according to households.
Because they are all life-saving food and the locals themselves protect it, there is no serious looting situation, but the county that has not reached the grain is about to start.
There is no way to do this. There is only a little grain storage in Handan County, and all counties have starved to death, so we can only focus on the most serious areas first.
Fusu listened patiently, and after having breakfast, he immediately arranged for the people he brought to connect with the people from the government office, and the two teams worked together to arrange the counties in a order according to the disaster situation.
The first batch of grain must be released for disaster relief, because if many people are not released, they will starve to death. However, after releasing this batch of grain, people will have to be arranged to work, otherwise the harvest of Handan County this year will not be saved, and the court will not be able to accept such endless waste of food.
After Fusu received the disaster situation compiled into a book, he immediately began to distribute personnel and divided the accompanying professional talents according to the needs of each county.
Teams of people with food went to various counties. The villages passing by heard that the imperial court sent people to provide relief for disasters, and it seemed that they had come alive all at once. The villagers rushed to the county town, wanting to know how to distribute the food.
There are so many disaster victims in all counties, and the few people in the county government will definitely not be able to get busy. However, there are people on Li Mu, and there are more and more people.
Li Mu allocated a lot of people to each county as Fusu's instructions, and spread the court's disaster relief plan through word of mouth.
First of all, the court will no longer let everyone be hungry.
Secondly, the imperial court exempted Handan County from taxing for two years and brought grain for replanting. After receiving it, everyone should quickly replant it. No matter how hungry you are, you cannot eat the grain.
Finally, when they are full and have the energy to work, they all report their names. The court has a lot of work for everyone. As long as one person is working at home, they can get food and support the elderly and young people in the family. The widows, widows, widows, orphans who are not able to work at home will also report them, and the court will find a way to resettle them.
When people go back to pass messages, they are naturally the simplest and easy-to-understand statements. It is rare for people from Fusu to brag about it, saying that he is indeed a kind and kind little immortal. It is no wonder that the people of Qin love him so much.
People from all counties soon knew that the King of Qin asked his eldest son to come and deliver food, and General Li Mu also came back, and they were saved!
In the past, they were all scolding Qin and the King of Qin together. This time they survived the fate of life. They received food from the court and could save their family. Many people couldn't help but start to compare: Even if Zhao was still there, the King of Zhao would not send his own son to provide disaster relief; even if there was grain in the warehouse, the King of Zhao would not send them a caravan to distribute it to them, but would only let them sell land and buy it with local wealthy families.
The common people didn't understand any major issues in the country. They only saw the Qin people well trained to transport food. There were also a group of people dressed in official soldiers holding paper and pens to record their names. How many people were in their homes.
People with courage ask those servants if they are officials. They remember things so quickly that they must have written a lot, right?
When talking about this, the servants were excited and bragging: "I am not an official, I am just a minor official in the county. There are all small officials like me in our county. I am still lucky to be picked up by the young master. Not everyone has the opportunity to come out with the young master!"
When they mentioned Fusu, their faces were full of sincere admiration, and they obviously went to Yunyang Academy to receive brainwashing education.
The people of Handan County did not know that almost all the soldiers from all over the country had to go to Yunyang Academy for training before they could go to work. They were frightened and shocked when they heard them say this: Are all the people of Qin literate? There are so many capable people in Qin?
Seeing them shocked, these servants boasted to them again, saying that their court was very visionary and had put a lot of effort into building water conservancy. The counties of Qin had long been tempted by the weather and could survive even in a drought year. They also said that the new agricultural tools distributed to them were improved by their young masters and were very useful. The grains distributed to them were also selected by their young masters, and the yield was much higher than before. Finally, they praised the roads that Fusu would build this year, saying that when the roads were repaired, everyone's life would be better!
The people surrounding him couldn't help but ask: "It's so hard to build a road, aren't you afraid?"
Many of them were destroyed by road construction, some were exhausted when they went to build roads, some were taken advantage of the road construction and some were forced to "voluntarily" raise a lot of money for the county to build roads. Anyway, when they mentioned road construction, they were still scared.
"What are we afraid of? Our young master is different from others' road construction. He will take care of the food and drinks for the road construction workers. If he is well-managed, he may even pay for the money to marry a wife. Besides, the road has been repaired, but we will walk it ourselves!" The servants tried their best to encourage them, "It's a pity that you have suffered a disaster this year, otherwise you can also repair it. I heard from people that the young master is going to ask you to repair the canals first, and in the future, you can also divert water and water it in the drought year, so that so many people will not starve to death like this year."
After such exchanges, the victims were excited to bring the rations they received and talked to their families about the arrangements of the court.
Everyone actually doesn’t receive much food, it’s only enough for a family to eat for a day or two, but it’s still not enough to eat.
But this doesn't matter, what's important is that they are saved!
Not only will it be saved this year, but there will be hope in the future!
Whether it is to build roads or canals, they are willing to do it!
The author has something to say:
Lizun: We are all people who have attended the Gongzi Blowing Training Class!
Lizhu: The opportunity to perform is here, hurry up and brag about the young master!
Chapter completed!