Chapter 857: Knocking on Chang’an (5)


    ?This road was originally a wide road with hundreds of steps, and in its heyday there was even special maintenance. There were wooden boards in the middle of the road to facilitate the rapid horse transfer between the stations. Under the Qin Dynasty''s exquisite craftsmanship system, even the position between each wooden board was exactly the distance between the four hooves of the horse.


    But such a delicate and great project also disappeared along with the Qin Dynasty in the long river of history.


    Nowadays, this Qin Dynasty straight road has been destroyed in parts, and some intersections were dug out to form deep trenches in order to defend against the barbarians who were constantly invading southward under Heng Emperor and Ling Emperor.


    There are too many people in Sanfu Land now.


    To a terrifying degree.


    Li Ru drove all the people from Henan Yin to Sanfu. Before he could start the relief and resettlement work, he suddenly suffered from violent inflation, which caused many measures to be completely shut down for a while, leaving these ordinary people completely devastated. Became a refugee.


    The ancient city of Chang''an is no longer a place to protect the Han people, but has become a disaster place. In order to prevent the dignitaries in the government and the public from being given the impression of refugees, the city gate captain has strengthened inspections. No one without a place of residence in Chang''an was allowed to enter Chang''an City, causing many people from Yin, Henan, to live outside the city.


    Those who were a little smarter took advantage of the time when there were fewer people and began to build straw huts in the mountains, or dig a nest on the sunny side of the wind as a place to stay, and then thought about how to make a living. Go down, and those who came later, as there was no better ground around Chang''an, they were forced to go further and further. Some entered the Sichuan from the Xie Valley, some went northwest towards the Hexi Corridor, and the other part went It''s all the way north along the Qinzhi Road...


    “Go north! Go north!”


    “Everyone, let’s go north! Work harder and hold on a little longer. We’ll be fine when we reach the end of the field!”


    A large group of ragged refugees supported each other and staggered toward the north. They didn''t know what their future would be like, and they didn''t know whether they would be able to see the sun tomorrow. They just heard that there was an official in the north who was willing to take them in. They would be given fields and a place to shelter from the wind and rain, so they teamed up with each other and pulled each other all the way north.


    As they walked, several elderly and frail people began to feel exhausted. They staggered and sat down leaning against the stripped and dead tree trunks beside the road. They smiled and said to their families: " …You guys go forward, all go forward... I’ll just take a break, and I’ll catch up with you after just a little break…”


    After saying that, he pushed the young man next to him and urged him to quickly follow the large group of refugees. Then he smiled and waved to him, and then stared at the familiar figure slowly disappearing from the field of vision, and then like this He slowly raised his head, looked at the withered branches without any leaves, took one last look at the sky, and then closed his eyes like this...


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    "Zhonglang!" Xu Shu couldn''t help being shocked after hearing Fei Qian''s words, and said, "This...if we really do this, how much food and grass will it cost!"


    ?Starting from Diaoyin, small camps were built every fifty miles, and three chiefs were sent to lead their troops to garrison, and this continued all the way to Yinshan Mountain! This is simply a bottomless pit!


    It''s not that he doesn''t care about the people, or that Xu Shu is hard-hearted, but Fei Qian has just completed a large-scale battle here. On the one hand, he has to replenish his soldiers, and on the other hand, he has to continue production. How can he fill this place with all the food reserves? In the pit?


    Before the Han Dynasty, the imperial court also carried out disaster relief and other things, and also allocated a huge amount of grain and grass. However, such a large amount of grain and grass was still not enough. Besides, how could the grain and grass in Fei Qian''s hands be enough?


    ?That time when there was a disaster relief operation where there were no corpses littering the fields?


    ?That time there were no robbers among the refugees?


    ?If these refugees are not under control and start causing chaos midway, wouldn’t they just set themselves on fire?


    But Fei Qian had been thinking about this issue for a long time, which was also a very important factor in why he came to carve the shadow in person. Because including Xu Shu, and even most people in the Han Dynasty, even Fei Qian was only half-informed when it came to understanding and dealing with refugees, but he was still much better.


    “Yuan Zhi, what are refugees?”


    “Guanzi said in the fourth period of his reign, and in the fifth period of Beizheng, ‘it is forbidden to move, stop refugees, and separate the communities’. Therefore, those who died in the land due to disasters are called refugees.” Xu Shu replied.


    Fei Qian nodded, and then asked: "Since the beginning of the Han Dynasty, how have we mostly dealt with refugees when we encountered them?" Xu Shu thought for a moment and said, "In the ninth year of Yanxi, there was a drought, the grain was damaged, and the people moved... Ji Yuli We set up strongholds in the border areas, gathered the refugees, most of them were sent back, and many of them went into the mountains to be trapped by thieves..."


    In fact, in the Han Dynasty, the refugee problem occurred not once or twice, but many times. And because the productivity of the Han Dynasty was still relatively low, once it snowballed, it would be very scary. Sometimes they would interact with each other, causing the production and living structure of an entire region to change. It was completely destroyed, causing a large number of people to become refugees.


    The imperial court and local county governments in the Han Dynasty basically used restrictions, suppression and repatriation to deal with refugees, using county soldiers to control and appease them. The better ones were naturalized in the new land, and the middle ones used work as a substitute. Relief, using measures such as building cities and setting up counties and counties to resettle the refugees; and the worst thing is to force them to return to their hometown regardless of...


    ?Hence, every time a refugee occurs, most of the refugees end up dying, becoming slaves, being recruited as soldiers, living in the mountains and forests, or eventually becoming bandits.


    "Why can bandits survive? But refugees can''t?" Fei Qian suddenly asked.


    "This..." Xu Shu didn''t expect that Fei Qian would suddenly ask this question, so he subconsciously said, "Bandits often do robberies. This, um..." As soon as he said these words, Xu Shu felt something was wrong and frowned. Thinking about it.


    ?Fei Qian didn''t push him, and just let Xu Shu think about it by himself.


    There is nothing wrong with the bandits looting, but like what Xu Shu just said about the drought in Qingxu in the ninth year of Yanxi, it was also a drought area. There was no grain everywhere. Even many local nobles were forced to wander and enter the country. Where will those who are thieves go to plunder?


    Eat humans?


    It’s the same for refugees and bandits, this kind of thing is inevitable and they all do it. However, facing the same harsh environment, why do most of the people who flocked to become bandits managed to survive in the end, while those refugees often failed to survive?


    “…The refugees are disorderly, while the bandits…have a leader…” After a moment, Xu Shu came up with an answer that was closer to the correct answer.


    ?Fei Qian nodded and said: "In addition, we need tools...to teach them how to fish, so that they can last for a long time..."


    In fact, the answer is very simple. Even bandits, when they are not plundering, still carry out life production in an organized manner, and will gradually accumulate the remaining materials, thus ensuring the continuation of most lives. For the refugees, they eat all the way without having anything in their hands. Once they get something, they want to eat it all. After a few poops and peeing, it is all gone, and they are always facing hunger.


    Therefore, to deal with the refugees, relying solely on suppression or providing work-for-relief services will only treat the symptoms but not the root cause. Such treatment methods require a large amount of food and grass, and will also bring great pressure on the civil affairs in the gathering areas. The most labor-saving way is to After the initial appeasement, the refugees were immediately organized to resume self-rescue, evacuated, and re-established production and living patterns. With today’s food, they also knew where to go tomorrow and what to do, so that they would have food. , people''s hearts will naturally settle down, thus ensuring the establishment of order and the survival of personnel to the greatest extent.


    From Diaoyin to Yinshan Mountain, there are rivers such as Luoshui along the way. Naturally, there are fish, shrimps and shellfish. There are also large forests on the surrounding hills, and there is certainly no shortage of wild fruits, birds and beasts.


    To take a step back, even if you can''t catch any living things, now that spring has arrived, everything is growing. This road was originally sparsely populated, and the plants grew wildly at will. Therefore, many of the sprouts of these plants can be collected and eaten, so as long as you dive It provides them with the tools for production and life and tells them the goal of progress. When these people who are accustomed to suffering see hope for the future, they will naturally struggle to find ways to survive.


    ??What Feiqian and the others need to do is just to provide some food and grass at the beginning, calm them down and reorganize them from a mess into a small production team...


    In fact, in history, Fei Qian knew that even without his organization, the people in Chang''an fled to Jingxiang, the Western Regions, and Bashu in the south to avoid the military disaster, and some even went to Jiaozhou. Compared with that kind of trek across thousands of mountains and rivers, what does the hundreds of miles from Diaoyin to Yinshan mean?


    (End of this chapter)