Lord of the House: Chapter 32 Boiled frog

"Refugees are a double-edged sword. One edge cuts others, and the other cuts themselves. If they are settled well, they are productive forces and combat power; Up, Lin Fu looked at the Huai River in the distance, the flowing water turned white in the cold season, "There are hundreds of thousands of households in Huaidong, and the wasteland along the Crane City and the seawall are all used, and they are only used. It will take two to three years to settle so many people, and to resettle more displaced households, in addition to rice grain, salt, iron, livestock and animal power, land is needed!"

Song Jia looked at Lin Bing's profile, as cold as a rock exposed in the cold air, with sharp edges and corners. His eyes were staring at the Huai Si land on the other side of the Huai River, shrouded in a light mist.

Even Suining and Suyu counties between Bian and Sishui are nominally under the jurisdiction of Xuzhou. county. Whether it was Liu Tingzhou or Yue Lengqiu, obviously they did not dare to let Sun Zhuang, who harbored dissent, lead his troops to the south bank of the Huaihe River, and they could only let Chen Hansan swallow this loss.

Liu Tingzhou's accusation is not wrong at all. Lin Fu just wants to let the bandits flee east. If Sun Zhuang didn't open his mouth on purpose, how could 400,000 or 500,000 refugees come to the east through the Bian River?

If 400,000 or 500,000 starving people are not allowed to cross the Bian River to the east, how can Lin Fu get their hands on them?

But how to get involved is even more of a headache.

The Red Jacket Army led by Liu Miaozhen, Ma Lantou and others was the core of this group of refugees. Because of Liu An'er's death, Huaidong couldn't get rid of the relationship. As Liu Miaozhen and Ma Lantou, as close relatives, obviously they would not easily accept Huaidong's consolation.

Either exterminate it completely, force it to surrender, or drive it away—it is not easy to exterminate it or force it to surrender. At first, Qin Chengzu, Cao Ziang, Lin Mengde and others all advocated releasing the exiles eastward and expelling Liu Miaozhen, Ma Lantou and others.

As long as Liu Miaozhen's group is expelled, there will be 300,000 to 400,000 starving people left, and it will be easy to appease them.

The serious problem is that Huaidong also does not have enough land to accommodate such a large number of hungry people.

Evicting Liu Miaozhen and others, although it was easier to appease them, they were placed in Suining, Suyu, Huaiyang and other places to the north of the Huai River, not only in Huaidong, but also in Xuzhou Chen Hansan in the north and Chen Zhinan in Henan in the west. , and even Hao Si Tao Chun in the southwest can reach out to meddle, and the situation will become extremely complicated.

As far as the jurisdiction is concerned, Huaiyang belongs to Haozhou Prefecture, and Suining and Suyu belong to Xuzhou Prefecture—Tao Chun or Yue Lengqiu and Chen Hansan behind Tao Chun are unlikely to watch Huaidong by recruiting the hungry people and bringing these three. The land was completely incorporated into Huaidong's jurisdiction.

"If I can't get it, don't even think about it." "If I can't do it, don't even think about it." This is the most common and true state of mind in the world. Therefore, expelling Liu Miaozhen's troops from Huaisi will not make the situation in Huaisi better, nor will Huaidong effectively control the situation in Huaisi.

"I read a miscellaneous book when I was young, and the book told a story about boiled frogs. I'll tell you," Lin Bie said, with Cao Zi'ang, Liang Wenzhan, Song Jia and others beside him, behind him If a frog is thrown into a pot of hot boiling water, the frog is likely to jump out; It's time to start a family. At this time, you can slowly add wood and fire under the pot, and when the frog feels hot, the body is already cooked - this story is too complicated. It's all the same thing!"

Song Jia glanced at Lin Fu, thinking where did he make up this ghost story? Cao Zi'ang and the others laughed.

Liang Wenzhan echoed, "Your Excellency's plan is to use Huai Si as a pot, and slowly cook the red-jacketed woman's chicken field chicken with cold water!"

Lin Fu smiled and said: "Li Wei recruited people to reclaim wasteland in Suining and Suyu counties. He is diligent and diligent, and has a very high reputation in the countryside. He is familiar with the Huaisi area, and when it is difficult to recruit people, he will leave the county. The people have selected a group of capable officials - Liu Miaozhen wants to stabilize the situation in Huaisi. It is difficult for them to do this with their own strength. If Siyang wants to send people to help, they must also send people to help, I think It is very suitable for Li Wei to take charge of the matter."

Zhang Gou and Li Wei hadn't returned from Suyu yet. Yesterday, they sent someone back to deliver a letter saying they were going to Huaiyang to see Liu Miaozhen.

What can be negotiated, there is no final result. However, the red jacket army that entered Suyu and Suining counties in the early stage began to restrain, and temporarily stopped sending people out of the city to force food and grass, which was also an expression of sincerity to talk.

Don't say that the conditions proposed by Huaidong are not harsh, even if they are ten times harsher, facing the temptation of 40,000 stone grains of rice per month, what choice can the desperate refugee army have?

"It's not easy," Cao Zi'ang said with a slight sigh, "one is that the land provided by Suining and Suyu counties is limited; the other is that there are as many as four local county residents in Suining and Suyu counties who have returned to their hometowns for resettlement. More than 10,000 people. The influx of a large number of hungry people, and the conflict with the local competition for land and land will be extremely prominent in the future... In particular, the refugee army is the most in short supply in this area, neither experienced nor unmanned. Even if most Commander Qu, a general of the army, is willing to give up his military power and release his soldiers to return to the farmers, but his arrogant temperament is difficult to tame, and it will cause great hidden dangers to local security, and it is even more difficult to alleviate the conflict!"

"No matter how difficult things are, we must work hard to do them," Lin Fu said. "Some conditions must be discussed with Liu Miaozhen, Ma Lantou and other Liu Shuai. They can retain 30,000 to 40,000 independent elite combat power, occupy Huaiyang, Suyu, The three cities of Suining can also be used, but in terms of recruiting refugees, restoring production and maintaining local order, it is necessary to recruit as many people as possible from the local area, and it must also be supervised by people from Siyang. They keep a quarter of the army to support the army; the rest, it is best to distribute relief through the villages in the villages. Don't let the hungry people gather in the city, they should be scattered in the countryside... To resettle the displaced households, it is necessary to create as many as possible. Surround the house and build more earthen enclosures!"

Building more enclosures and more earthen enclosures is to prepare for future restrictions on the penetration of the eastern cavalry into the Huaisi area.

Perhaps the fortified city will not be so easily lost, but the Donglu cavalry scattered, bypassing the fortified city to infiltrate the attack, it will be difficult to prevent offense.

Several boats came from Feixiaji, where Siyang City Walled on the other side, and soon moored at the wharf outside the north gate of Shanyang County. Lin Fu had just returned to his front foot when Zhang Gou and Li Wei brought Ma Lantou into the city.

Lin Fu immediately met Ma Lantou at the Xingyuan Hall.

During the Huaisi War, Lin Fu and Ma Lantou had seen each other from a distance, and hardly left any impression. After all, the two sides were too far apart.

The fact that Ma Lantou was able to cross Huai'i, showed that the refugee army had indeed reached the point of exhaustion, and could not refuse the temptation of Huaidong. It was Ma Lan who came over, not Liu Miaozhen himself, it was impossible for them to give up their vigilance against Huaidong.

Under the current circumstances, Liu Miaozhen, Ma Lantou and others had to accept Huaidong's secret funding, and there was no room for conditions. Besides, Liu Miaozhen, Ma Lantou and the others attached the most importance to military power. As long as Lin Fu did not ask them to give up military power completely, they would not be so sensitive to other conditions.

In fact, Liu Miaozhen, Ma Lantou and others were even more unlikely to refuse the food rations mentioned by Lin Fu.

On the contrary, from more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, it was reduced to 30,000, and 10,000 stone of rice could be provided to support the army every month. Almost every soldier could have more than 30 catties of rations per month, which would ensure sufficient combat effectiveness. The combat power is definitely stronger than the more than 100,000 troops who can only eat half full.

There are about 400,000 other people, each of whom can get seven catties of rations per month. It is difficult to eat half full, but it is not a problem to survive.

As for how to transport such a large amount of grain, there will be some problems, but Siyang and Shukou are both military areas under the Huaidong Army. Even if some news will reach the ears of Liu Tingzhou and Yue Lengqiu, as long as they are not arrested Hold the handle, there is no big problem.

Even in Jiangning and in the imperial court, there were many officials who advocated appeasement.

The collapse of the Yanbei line of defense is almost to be expected, even if someone grabs the handle, so what?

When Lin Fu met Ma Lantou in the official hall, Song Jia came in with a letter, which was in the form of a letter from the imperial court to the locality. She walked up to Lin Fu and said, "The imperial court has resumed Zhou Zongxian as the Minister of War!"

Zhou Zongxian was the Minister of the Ministry of War when Donglu broke through the border for the first time. Later, because of this incident, he was cut from his post to serve the people. Since then, Li Zhuo has been serving as the Minister of War. When Li Zhuo was in charge of Ji Town, the court did not appoint a new Minister of War. Wang Jiyuan, the left servant, was always in charge of the affairs of the Ministry of War. At this time, Zhou Zongxian was suddenly appointed, which was actually the first step in changing the frontier army.

Li Zhuo would definitely not be stingy with his personal reputation if he could delay in the Songshan front line until after the spring, but he asked Gao Zongting to send a blood letter to Huaidong, just because he expected that he would not be able to delay it. The imperial court will seize his military power, send others or directly let the supervisory envoy Hao Zongcheng to take his place, and lead the border army of Ji Town to fight Liaoyang - this is the biggest hurdle that cannot be overcome in the northern front.

Lin Fu had expected this, but when the news really came, it still made it difficult for him to accept it. He said, "It's only been a few days, and the imperial court doesn't even have this patience?"

Ma Lan glanced at Zhang Gou. He had no idea about Zhou Zongxian's appointment as Minister of War. The vision of the generals of the refugee army is very narrow. Even a general like Ma Lantou who is considered very strategic in the refugee army, his vision is limited to the Hehuai or Jianghuai regions, and he has little knowledge of the war in the north.

Zhang Gou's vision really opened only after he arrived in Huaidong. Zhou Zongxian's appointment as the Minister of War may mean the first step in the collapse of the Yanbei line of defense.

Lin Fu seemed to calmly threw the letter that Song Jia brought to him on the corner of the table, and said to Ma Lantou, "It's almost like this, I also hope that the two soldiers will meet, and life will be ruined... You go back , If you think the conditions here are acceptable, send someone to Siyang to get the first batch of rice after three days! After that, I will send Zhang Gou and Li Gong to supervise the implementation of your side..."

After sending off Ma Lantou, Lin Fu returned to the official hall, immediately signed the order to select Jianyong from the labor camp to expand the Changshan Camp, and sent someone to ride back to Chongzhou... My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter