Three Kingdoms: My Wife Is Diao Chan

Chapter 259 Seventy Thousand Refugees
Chapter 260 Seventy Thousand Refugees
Fortunately, Ling Tong's bad luck came to an end at this time. As soon as County Magistrate Liu entered the ground of Luhun County, he met the magistrate of Luhun County.

The magistrate of Luhun County happened to come to wipe out these bandits, and he was about to sort out Luhun County before the summer harvest!

When Magistrate Liu went to ask for help, the bandits also began to feel that something was wrong.

Didn't it mean that Yichuan county magistrate is a softie? Isn't there no one under him? Why are these more than 100 people so strong? I have three or four hundred brothers, and I can't take him down for a while!

Ling Tong is still depressed, it's the second time!Surrounded by bandits for the second time, what a shame!If it wasn't for the large gap in manpower and the great loss of the forced charge, how dare these thieves dare to show off their power in front of themselves?
Fortunately, the reinforcements from Luhun County came in a timely manner. Although the combat effectiveness of Luhun county magistrate's servants, policemen, and civilians recruited temporarily was weak, there were still so many of them! There are more than 300 people!
In fact, the county magistrate Lu Hun was also taken aback. Didn't he say that there were only more than 100 bandits?So many people?

Now County Magistrate Lu Hun and Ling Tong helped each other, and with the assistance of County Magistrate Liu, they defeated the bandits in one fell swoop.

After Ling Tong rested for a while, he started to help County Magistrate Lu Hun chase down the bandits who were fleeing everywhere. It took another few days before most of the bandits were arrested.

As for those refugees?There were no refugees anymore, the moment they joined bandits, there were no more refugees, a few were chopped off by Ling Tong, and the rest were taken back to Luoyang, what a short bandit career!
After listening to the report of County Magistrate Liu and Ling Tong, Cao Chong's evaluation was: To catch a few refugees, it took hundreds of people from three counties to work, and it took more than ten days. You are very capable!

Ling Tong and County Magistrate Liu went back separately, and Cao Chong didn't blame them. Bad luck happens to everyone.

The next day, after a full rest, Cao Chong came to the county government to hear about the various situations in Luoyang in the past ten days.

"Young master, everything is fine on the construction site, and the first building will be completed on schedule before the summer harvest!" Xia Houshang's report was the simplest, and he watched the play quietly after the report.

"Are the refugees still gathering in Luoyang?" This is what Cao Chong is most concerned about.

"It's already much less. There were only more than 200 people who came yesterday. It is estimated that it will gradually decrease in the future, and it will gradually stop before the summer harvest." Cao Chong breathed a sigh of relief.

"But now there are nearly 7 people! Young master, it is best to prepare rations for 5000 to [-] people." Pang Tong continued.

Between me, Cao Chong wanted to scold me, it's only been a few days?More than 3 came again!
"Our arable land reserves are insufficient, and we can only provide arable land for 3 people at most," Liu Jing continued.

"Isn't that right? The old city of Luoyang alone can accommodate a hundred thousand people." Cao Chong questioned Liu Jing.

"Forgive me, young master. This subordinate used the wrong words. What this subordinate said is that it can be cultivated directly, and there will be ripe land for harvest this autumn."

"People's livelihood is dying now, and there is a lot of abandoned land, but the cultivated land has been abandoned for many years, covered by weeds, and water conservancy facilities have also been damaged. Even if we start cleaning up now, if we want to have a harvest, most of them will have to wait until next autumn. "Pang Tong explained for Liu Jing.

"Oh, just follow the steps. There is no rush for farming. How is the statistics from the household department? How much grain do we have now?"

"The Ministry of Household Affairs has collected the food purchased by the school office in various places. It is about 4 shi. When it is transported to Luoyang, there are at most [-] shi left. According to the ration you give to each person, it is only enough for [-] people to eat until the autumn harvest." Wen Jiao replied.

Transportation is also a big trouble these days. People eat horse chews along the way, which consumes a lot of money. It is the status quo of this era not to sell woodcutters for hundreds of miles, and not to sell goods for thousands of miles.

"Young master, isn't the ration of one and a half catties too much for this day? This is the amount of strong laborers. There are many women and children among the refugees, so we can't count them all according to this." Liu Ba asked.

"It's not too much. A catty and a half is not enough for heavy physical labor. Although there are many women and children among the refugees, they are all young people. They have a small appetite, and the bastards below are counting the number of people." In order to save trouble, those under the age of ten are not counted!"

As Cao Chong spoke, he glared at Cao Tai. The Ministry of Household Affairs was too busy, and the refugees were special. The Ministry of Punishment helped to count the population.

"Young master, this population statistics has always been like this. You just hand it over to the household department, and they will give you the same statistics." Cao Tai called Qu.

"Hmph! Forget it this time. After the situation is stabilized, the Ministry of Households will re-statize. Not only will men and women be counted separately, but also the age of each person will be counted in detail, and each age group will be counted separately."

Cao Chong has long been dissatisfied with the statistics of this era. It was indeed inconvenient to use wooden and bamboo slips in the past, but now there are paper and pens, and he has not improved at all!

"Okay, let's not talk about this, are the refugees safe recently, and is there anyone taking the lead in making trouble?"

"It's not lawful at all. There are people making troubles in every resettlement site, and the No. 14 resettlement site has rioted twice." When Cao Tai heard this, he became even more confused.

"Huh? So serious! How did the investigation of those who took the lead in trouble?" Cao Chong continued to ask.

"There is no big progress. Some of them seem to have some connections, but they are divided into several groups. They don't seem to know each other. Moreover, these people are diehards. They don't cooperate very much and haven't found a breakthrough yet." Cao Tai answered truthfully. .

"Oh, by the way, the guy named Zheng Yuan was found, the one the bandits were looking for. He took the lead in making trouble at the No. [-] settlement in the south, and he has been taken down." Cao Tai added.

"That person is useless. The bandit should have been instructed by someone to help him stir up refugees. Fortunately, we had already prepared to divide him to the south. The bandit couldn't find him at the No. 12 settlement."

"However, the leader of the bandits is dead, and most of his subordinates, big and small, were also killed in battle. This clue is broken." Cao Chong regretted.

Everyone frowned when they heard this, it seems that the suppression of bandits is not going well this time!
"These bandits are different from what we expected. They probably regret it too. We'll talk about it later, but this time we found nearly ten thousand stones of food and a large amount of gold, silver and jewels in the den of thieves. It's an unexpected harvest."

"Nearly ten thousand stones of grain? How many bandits are there?" Liu Jing asked.

"About 1000 people."

"It's quite a lot!"

"A lot of what? There are only a thousand thieves in a den of thieves with ten thousand stones of food?" Pang Tong didn't believe it.

"Mang Mountain is just that big. I'm surprised that there are a thousand thieves. How much more do you want? If there were more, Luoyang would have already been theirs. How many people?" Cao Chong looked at Pang Tong.

"A den of thieves with 1000 people actually has tens of thousands of stones of grain, which is quite rich!"

Cao Chongxin said: "What is this little food? Compared with those gold, silver and jewels, it is nothing!"
But how much of these gold and silver can be left by oneself is not certain?Lao Cao has always had a big appetite, so he can't hide this matter from him.

(End of this chapter)