Turbulent Times Chapter 1424: More than one million people

Ten days later, after ordering all the plans and launching them in an orderly manner, Wang Junlin came to Dongyang County, Donglai County in person, and was stunned by the scene in front of him outside the city. noisy.

Wei Zheng looked at the results of his busy month, and reported happily: "My lord, from July to September, as many as 100,000 refugees came to Dongyang County alone, and more than 50% of them It was Shandong and the counties of the Central Plains, and the farthest came from Guanzhong. However, although there are only two meals of porridge a day to ensure that they will not starve to death, the daily food consumption is not a small amount.”

Wang Junlin said: "People need to be raised, but we can't raise them in vain. One month is enough to change their minds, and tomorrow we will start the second stage of diversion and migration. Make it clear to them that anyone who is willing to be my cure The common people, who migrated to the overseas islands and Goguryeo's Annan Kingdom, will each have ten acres of fertile land and will be exempted from tax within three years. The imperial court is responsible for sending them safely and helping them build houses, prepare fields for farming and fishing boats Tools, and will teach them how to fish. If you want to go back to your hometown after the disaster, you will not be stopped, but from now on, you can’t live for nothing.”

After a pause, Wang Junlin then continued: "Let them use work as relief. I have already ordered Liu Ziming to build a brick factory or cement factory in each county of Dongfanyang County, Donglai County and Shanggu County. There are glass factories, and roads in some counties, towns, and villages also need to be built. If it is not possible, they can also be allowed to reclaim fertile fields in the wasteland and build water canals. All these require a lot of manpower. I have already explained to Liu Ziming and Du Ruhui , your local officials have to contact the person in charge sent by Liu Ziming to divert the refugees to work, and then they will be paid their wages. Once they get their first wages, you don’t have to worry about food, clothing, and housing.”

Wei Zheng expressed admiration and respectfully said yes. Wang Junlin nodded, recalled another matter, and said, "In addition, for every 100,000 refugees, I will send people to recruit 10,000 people to serve as soldiers. You have to cooperate well when the time comes."

Wei Zheng was startled when he heard this, and said: "Although these people are refugees, but they have moved to the land, and they can work to relieve disasters. I am afraid that few of them are willing to serve as soldiers."

Wang Junlin said: "Don't worry! The soldiers of the Far East Army are paid twice as much as those of the Sui Dynasty, and I have already made a strategy. Anyone who is willing to serve as a soldier can immediately settle his family in Dongyang County and Donglai County And Shanggu County, there is no need to migrate to the sparsely populated overseas, and the land is divided into ten acres. After these people have seen the life of the people in Fanyang County these days, there is no one who is not envious. Such treatment will surely make someone willing to serve as a soldier."

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Wang Junlin did not expect that the situation in the Sui Dynasty would deteriorate to such an extent because of Li Mi's capture of Liyang Cang.

I counted the time, although now because of him and Nie Xiaoyu

Because of the reason, history has changed a lot, but he believes that Yang Guang has been in Luoyang not long ago, and in a short time, Yang Guang will take a boat along the Grand Canal to Yangzhou and Jiangdu, and bring the Central Plains and Luoyang to Jiangdu. Guanzhong, and even the entire north of the Yangtze River, were handed over to the eldest grandson of the emperor to preside over them as the prince.

Therefore, Wang Junlin was not in a hurry to attack the four counties anymore. He ordered to select 20,000 recruits from the first batch of refugees, and sent them to Snake Island to start the basic training for enlistment. Now it is only intensive training for one month. They can be used as heavy soldiers, but the treatment of heavy soldiers is only one-third of that of combat soldiers.

Just immediately settling his family in the three counties of Fanyang, Donglai, and Shanggu, and the right to ten acres of land, he easily obtained 20,000 people from the refugees.

Compared to the inaction of the Sui court and even the expulsion of refugees, Wang Junlin's actions in Fanyang County, Donglai County and Shanggu County immediately brought great benefits to Wang Junlin and the Far East Army in a very short period of time. popularity.

Of course, it is also very attractive to all the refugees. Many refugees did not need the Sui government to send troops to drive them away, so they chose to come to the three counties. The common people of the Sui Dynasty who were not serious also transferred to the three counties.

In late August, the number of refugees reached its climax, and tens of thousands of people entered Fanyang County every day. No matter how many people came, there were thousands of overseas islands and Annan Kingdom under the sufficient preparations of the three county officials. Constantly digested and transferred, except for a very small number of people who died of illness, no one died of starvation. All the refugees were grateful to Wang Junlin, and many of them quietly erected longevity tablets for Wang Junlin.

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On this day, Wei Zheng took the county officials and more than a dozen guards to the place where the porridge was served first, and started talking with a family of refugees with children. Helping him up, he picked up another child himself, took out candy for him to eat, and the refugees gradually became less nervous, with simple smiles on their faces. This is already the second batch of refugees that Dongyang County has received. The first batch of refugees has already left according to the plan. Those who should migrate overseas have already left by boat, and those who should be diverted for work relief have already left.

The guard at the side took the opportunity and said loudly: "Fellow folks, this is Mr. Wei, the magistrate of Dongyang County, Fanyang County. Now I have something to tell you. Please listen carefully..."

The guard's words made the refugees' eyes shine, their breathing became short of breath, and a buzzing buzz arose. Wei Zheng waved his hand a few times to silence everyone, and then began to speak his carefully prepared words. He had said it many times when the first refugees came.

The two of them sang together and spoke in a hymn. While talking, Wei Zheng went to the pot to look at the porridge, and scooped it with a spoon. There were rice and coarse grains in it, and the concentration was still up to standard.

It's over

Afterwards, Wei Zheng went to check the fire prevention situation around the huts. Not long ago, another camp accidentally used fire, burning dozens of huts and killing more than a dozen people. Fire prevention is a difficult problem in this era. Cooking and Firewood and charcoal are mostly used for heating, and there are a lot of combustible materials accumulated in the house. Once a fire catches on, a large area will be burned.

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By the end of September, more than one million refugees from all over the Sui Dynasty came to the three counties. Under the condition that Wang Junlin arranged for people to be prepared, all levels of government and the army operated efficiently, and 1.44 million people were relocated to overseas islands and Annan Kingdom, of which 730,000 refugees were relocated to nearly a thousand overseas islands. . 370,000 refugees migrated to Annan State, and more than 100,000 people migrated to Yancheng to become workers. The remaining people were also organized in large numbers to build cement, red brick, glass and other workshops in the three counties and other places, build roads and schools between villages, towns, and counties, and reclaim wasteland.

In addition, Wang Junlin ordered another 80,000 troops to be recruited from among the refugees, and they were divided into various battalions, and they are hurrying up to carry out intensive training for enlistment.

In this way, 40,000 people belonged to Wang Junlin's Tiger Camp in Yuchi Jingde, 40,000 in Luo Shixin's Tornado Camp, 30,000 in Lu Han's Iron Spear Camp, and 30,000 in Guan Xiaotong's Iron Hammer Camp. The Xiongwu Battalion in charge was 20,000 people, and the Violent Bear Battalion led by Li Xuanba was supplemented with 30,000 Golden Wolf Guards. In addition, Wei Daoer's Steel Dao Battalion was 20,000 people, making a total of 210,000 Lu Battalions.

In the Annan Kingdom, there are still 100,000 Annan camps dominated by Goguryeo soldiers, led by Liu Yidong.

Navy Sea Shark Battalion, Sea Lion Battalion, and Seal Battalion were reduced in number, and the extra one hundred thousand people were stationed on each island, leaving only 20,000 people each.

In this way, not counting the second-line troops such as logistics, county soldiers for city defense, and An Nanguo's army, the land battalion and navy that can be used in the world has reached 290,000 people.

The more than one million refugees who came to the three counties only accounted for a small half of the large number of refugees that appeared in the Sui Dynasty in a short period of time.

Most of the remaining refugees are too far away from Fanyang County. On the contrary, these people are closer to Chang'an, Luoyang, or the rich places in Sichuan and Sichuan. If you arrive in Fanyang County, you will starve to death, so you still try your best to go to the Central Plains and Sichuan and Sichuan.

It is conceivable that these people were blocked by the violence of the Sui government. The direct result of this violence is that the number of rebels has also increased sharply. In addition to the local government being able to control the city, there are already bandits outside the city. And the world of thieves.

In just over a month, nearly a hundred gangs of bandits, large and small, appeared, some were absorbed and annexed by powerful bandits such as Wagangzhai, and some escaped the obstruction of the officers and soldiers of the Sui Dynasty and the engulfment of large bandits. Fleeing to Hedong, Central Plains, Sichuan and Shu and other places, they became rogue bandits with no binding force and great destructive power,

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