Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 461
In Cangzhou City, Song Jiang, Chen Guan and other officials accompanied Xiaoxuanfeng Chai Jinqi to the porridge market outside the city.

"This wind, this snow..." Chen Guan, who is from Yangzhou, suddenly came to the Northland. He was dressed in furs and wrapped in a military coat, but he still felt bitingly cold all over.

In comparison, Hei Saburo was much better, wrapped in a thick cotton coat, even the wind and snow could not dampen the enthusiasm in his heart.

Ask this family if the hut is strong, and ask the refugee whether two bowls of porridge a day can satisfy their hunger?Before a large number of refugees came to Cangzhou, he first ordered the construction of porridge fields and refugee camps outside the city, and organized the maintenance and supervision of the young and strong in Cangzhou City.

Although these huts are only made of reeds, dry grass and mud, they are surrounded by cold water. The reeds are spread on the latter, and after a while, they freeze, and then they are covered with snow and poured with cold water. The huts are not only It can shelter from wind and snow, and it is firm and warm.At least, Cangzhou Prefecture no longer has to worry about where the refugees live until the ice and snow melt.

However, this black guy was in a state of desperation and remembered that in the Three Kingdoms script, Cao Cao's strategy of splashing water to freeze the sand and erecting an ice city was really successful.Then ask the young and strong soldiers to stand up and wait, as a deterrent.Therefore, although there are many refugees who have poured in these days, they are orderly and orderly without any confusion.This is all Cangzhou's preparations are sufficient.

According to statistics, the number of refugees gathered in the city has exceeded 2, and the number is still increasing.Although these people temporarily have a place to shelter from the wind and snow, but the population is crowded, and the follow-up refugees will not notice it. This is by no means a long-term solution.

Chai Jin traveled all the way to the city, and naturally knew that Cangzhou was relatively peaceful. There were porridge farms in every county, and even in towns and villages. Therefore, despite the influx of tens of thousands of refugees, the social order was still strong. .

"Chai Jin has traveled all the way, and the counties and towns in Cangzhou have not seen a trace of chaos. This is due to the two of you." Chai Jin bowed to Song Jiang and Chen Guan. Hugh said now is the time.Chai Jin spent half his life in Cangzhou, so he naturally didn't want to see Cangzhou fall into chaos.

"The high officials are polite. As the officials of our place, how can we not fulfill our duties as parents. I only lament the hardships of the people, and how difficult life is for the people." Song Jiang's official reputation in Cangzhou is very good, not only because of his personal ability , and a better way of being a human being.For example, half of the monthly salary is donated to shantangs and schools, and they are obtained in turn.

Nashantang is the general name of charitable organizations under Liang Shanjun's rule. Its subordinates include nursing home-orphanage, Yoyingtang-orphanage, Yizhuang-cemetery, which was established this spring and has been spread all over under Lu Qian's rule by summer.

The school is the collective name of county schools and prefectural schools.

Song Jiang is now the prefect of Cangzhou, with a monthly salary of 150 yuan.Compared with the officials at the same level under Zhao Song, it would be inferior. After all, Zhao Song handed over the interest on public money and the income from his job to the department heads for expenditure, and distributed it regularly to the officials, which also became their income. part.When officials are on a business trip or assigned to an appointment, they can use the "grant certificate" issued by the court to eat and live for free in the local area, and even receive food and clothing.However, under the official salary of Lu Qian, there was never any complicated things such as grain, cloth, tea, wine, cooking materials, fuel, mugwort, charcoal, salt, fodder for horses, etc.It’s always been straightforward money.Only the money you get.

Hei Saburo is now a fourth-rank official, so he can get a monthly salary of 150 guan, which is quite a lot.We must know that in the Qing Dynasty in the official history, after having the money to support honesty, the annual legitimate income of the magistrate officials was only 500 taels.

Chai Jin is a first-class rich man. After the Liang Shan army invaded the Cangzhou Mansion, naturally they would not touch the Chai family's property.Then he asked about the cost of the refugees.

Song Jiang said: "According to the instructions above, an adult is provided with two bowls of vegetable porridge every day, regardless of gender. Children under three feet will be halved, and the mother will add an extra bowl every day for swaddling babies. Combine five spoonfuls of coarse grains of brown rice, and add some vegetables." The so-called three-in-five spoonfuls is [-]/[-] of a stone.He and spoon are both ancient units of measurement.One stone, ten buckets, one hundred liters, one thousand pots, ten thousand spoons.

Converted into the measurement unit of later generations, it is about 210 grams, which can only ensure that the refugees will not starve to death.

"So little?" Chai Jin exclaimed.As far as he knows, it is not uncommon for a soldier in the army to experience two solar eclipses.Song Jiang laughed, this high official really doesn't know the sufferings of the common people, "A lot, a lot." At least he can feed them.You know, even with such a standard, the more than [-] refugees in the city of Cangzhou would consume more than [-] shi of food and rice every day, and the entire Cangzhou would consume no less than [-] shi of food for the refugees.For the young and strong labor force recruited together, the cost is less than two hundred stones.

And this is just the beginning, it's only October, and the days ahead will be long.

Moreover, if the people in Hebei and Gyeonggi and the Liangshan Army are helping, then the people in Nanjing and Zhongjing in the Liao Kingdom in the north are truly horrible.

After a heavy snowfall, there are starved and frozen corpses everywhere in the wilderness town.As for whether anyone has done some horrible things under extreme starvation, this is beyond the knowledge of outsiders.A heavy snow covers up too many sins.

Guo Yaoshi's department was driven out of Nanjing Road before the heavy snow came, and returned to the front line of Jinzhou again.The howling snowstorm and severe cold weather almost cut off the traffic, and the Khitan huddled in the warm city of Jinzhou, ignoring the resentful troops outside the city.

If you don't feed all the officials up and down, if you want to see the food and fodder distributed, then there will be ghosts.

All the latter can do is hold together for warmth.

It was only the eight battalions of resentful troops at the beginning, but now there are only four left.That is to say, Guo Yaoshi, Zhang Linghui, Liu Shunren, and Zhen Wuchen were ordered to receive it.They were the ones who were on the right team when the resentment army rebelled.

Right now, Dong Clown, Luo Qinghan, Dong Zhongsun, etc. have been beheaded by Yelu Yujian and Hui Libao. Guo Yaoshi, who stood in the right position, also got a share of the inheritance of the previous day's partner, but today, the four The strength of a person has already been judged.

The weakest among them is Zhen Wuchen, followed by Zhang Linghui and Liu Shunren.There are less than 7000 people in the three-person army, and there are less than 5000 people in Guo's pharmacist department alone.As for the armored soldiers and elite cavalry, the three of them together would be better than Guo Yaoshi. However, one side lacks food and clothing, and the other side can at least feed themselves. In comparison, it is difficult to compare their combat prowess with that of Guo Yaoshi.

When the wind and snow were blowing, a 200-man cavalry ran towards Huseng Mountain in the Jinxi Corridor against the wind and snow.

Guo Yaoshi's department is stationed here. They don't have a city to camp in. The best ideal place for them in winter is to hide in a mountain nest. One can avoid the wind and snow, and the other can collect chestnuts and pine nuts in the mountains. Feed.

Moreover, Huseng Mountain is the first peak of the Jinxi Corridor, and it is not blocked.

Zhen Wuchen and Liu Shunren saw Guo Yaoshi's banner from a long distance away, a general's flag stood facing the wind in the white snow field, at this moment, who else could it be but Guo Yaoshi.

The people in that hut heard the sound of horseshoes and hurried out, the leader is Guo Yaoshi's relatives, they have met Zhen Wuchen and Liu Shunren, and they are waiting here specially today.

The sentries on duty hurriedly pulled up the war horses. The coats of the fat and healthy war horses were shining. Compared with the horses under Zhen Wuchen and Liu Shunren, they looked no worse in appearance.

But Zhen and Liu didn't take it seriously, they thought it was a war horse specially fed by Guo Yaoshi to support the facade.

Don't bother talking, the group of people made a little politeness, and rode their horses towards the mountain.

After traveling for more than half a mile, I saw a group of people and horses coming from the depths of the forest in the distance.Everyone is tough, everyone is a hero.Dozens of horses neigh in the wind, and two or three embroidered flags make the sun shine.In the flying fish bag, there is a thin and light bow painted with gorse; in the lion pot, there are arrows with emerald green eagle feathers.Then lead a few roe deer dogs, and pick up a few pairs of rabbits and goshawks.

When Zhen Wuchen and Liu Shunren saw it, their first reaction was that they had met a Khitan nobleman who came to Huseng Mountain to hunt.However, the group of people's words were blown by the wind, but they didn't seem to be familiar, and the accents in their words were not right.

Jin Baozi was proud of being praised by the golden retriever dog. When he was laughing, he saw a group of hundreds of cavalry coming in front of him, and immediately knew who he had bumped into.

Seeing Yang Lin's group, Guo Xu's face was very enthusiastic. This is the most honored guest in their army.That was whipping the horse, speeding up to meet him, the enthusiasm and respect rippling all over his body was higher than when he greeted Zhen Wuchen and Liu Shunren just now.

After chatting with each other for a while, Yang Lin didn't go to make out with Zhen Wuchen and Liu Shunren, he just waved his hands and clasped his fists as a salute, then threw his horse's head away, and the group of people beat their horses and ran away first.

Guo Xu turned around and said to Zhen and Liu, "don't blame the two generals, but it's not easy for Mr. Yang to come to see you. Let's go to the camp first. When we see our general, we can have our own opinions."

Zhen Wuchen and Liu Shunren looked at each other, but that's not the case.After seeing Yaoshi Guo, everything became clear.

It's just that seeing the team in front of them throwing them farther and farther away, the two of them looked a little ugly, and even murmured in their hearts.Who is this official Yang?A group of horses are still being raised by Guo Yaoshi with such good physical strength at this time. If dozens of war horses are intensively raised, the fine ingredients used can fill the stomachs of a hundred people.

With such questions in mind, the two led their guards to Guo Yaoshi's camp.Before arriving at the gate of the village, a smell of meat came everywhere.So much so that the two subconsciously ignored that Guo Yaoshi was not greeted in person in front of the camp.

The war horse went straight to Guo Yaoshi's big tent, and saw ten cauldrons lined up in front of the tent, the matches below were burning, and the big sheep's head, ox's head, spare ribs, and meat pieces in the pot were churning, and a basket A basket of white flour pot cakes was piled up at the door.

Guo Yaoshi was wearing a brocade satin jacket and a bear cloak, standing in front of the big tent in a state of desperation.

Zhen Wuchen picked off the horse, without saying a word, first scooped up a leg of lamb, whether it was raw or cooked, he began to bite it. "Guo Er, have you lost your mind and gone crazy, or are you just thinking about it?" Since Da Dong Xiaoclown was killed, he hadn't seen such a rich scene for a long time.

However, Liu Shunren was more thoughtful. He jumped off his horse to greet Master Guo first, then pointed at the iron pot in the fire and shouted, "I have never seen such a big iron pot. Where did Brother Yao come from?" "

Iron pot, a blockbuster product in China's foreign trade market in the Song Dynasty, is not a joke.The iron pots made by Liang Shanjun using windmills and hydraulic forging hammers are better in quality and larger in size. Whether they are sold domestically or sold to Jiangnan, Liao, Jurchen and Korea, they are all first-class and sought-after.

Guo Yaoshi didn't say a word, "Brothers, don't talk too much in front of the tent, and get into the tent." He didn't see Zhen Wuchen's joke, didn't he himself eat three cans of canned whale meat back then.To be honest, it didn't taste very good—now, but then it was a delicacy.

Entering the warm tent, Zhen and Liu saw a rough log table in the middle, with wine, meat, and vegetables, but there were five sets of bowls and chopsticks on the table.

Both of them thought of that "Yang Daguan".

At this moment, Yang Lin's voice sounded outside the tent: "Haha, you are one step late, all the generals make atonement." Zhen Wuchen and Liu Shunren turned their heads, and saw a person walking in with strides.

But I saw that the visitor was wearing a green gauze scarf with corners on his head, and two white jade circles on the back of his head with beaded temple rings.He is wearing a brocade robe with a single green collar and tufted flowers, and a silver belt with a turtle back and double tails tied around his waist.Wearing a pair of soap boots with knocked melon heads, holding a gold-painted stove in his hand.

Yang Lin was dressed in neat clothes, his head scarf was fresh, and his shoes and socks were clean.This is normal, but in this place and at this moment, this ordinary outfit has become the most unusual.

(End of this chapter)