Chapter 184

Although the whole Xuzhou City did not search all the grain, it still got 80000 stone coarse and fine grain.

In a big state city, this grain is not much. It can be seen that Henan has really had a hard time in recent years, and even large households don't have much surplus grain.

80000 stone is also close to ten million kilograms, and more than 400000 refugees, on average, each person is more than 20 kilograms. If you save more, you can eat it for more than two months at most.

Because there are no bark and wild vegetables to eat in Henan, the locust disaster in the first two months did too much harm. The overwhelming locusts left no grass everywhere, which is more terrible than drought and flood.

So the refugees also have only two meals a day. A bowl of porridge in the morning and a mixture of coarse and fine grain with a child's fist in the evening can barely hang their lives.

King Qin finally understood why the eight kings were so stingy at the beginning, because once the number exceeded 100000, it was very terrible to sit and eat every day.

Then, the Chinese army began to attack everywhere. All the counties, towns and fortresses suffered. In just ten days, the territory of Xuzhou was swept away, more than 70000 stones of coarse and fine grain and countless animal quilts.

Qin Huan also followed the model of Xuzhou City. As for how the big families would spend the winter this year without quilts and how to farm the next year without animals, Qin Huan would not care. They thought of a way by themselves.

The best brocade quilt of the big family is naturally used by the Chinese army. The young soldiers of the rear camp are preferred, followed by the infantry, engineers, and finally the war soldiers. The same is true of cotton clothes and fur.

The second-hand goods eliminated by the Chinese army are distributed to the families of newly recruited members, and the surplus will be distributed to ordinary refugees.

Although Qin Huan wanted to recruit orphans, or young men and women whose parents and children were starved to death, they all said they were orphans and bachelors, so they couldn't distinguish between them.

So many people actually have families, and those families also understand that the rebel army can't always give porridge. If they want to live, they have to join the rebel army to let their sons and husbands join the army, leaving them alone.

Qin Huan was also very helpless. He had to be a little better in cotton padded clothes and food. His family was a little bigger at night.

As for being included in the rear camp and enjoying the treatment of the Chinese army, it is impossible. It is even more direct dismissal to secretly hide daily meals and bring them to their families.

Since the Chinese army began to spread porridge under the city of Xuzhou, more than 100000 refugees came from all over the country in the past ten days, reaching a terrible 500000.

As the weather became colder and colder, thousands of people were frozen to death every day. Qin Huan could only cut more trees and burn charcoal to keep warm. However, there were not many trees in the plain.

Finally, the empty houses of some large families were simply demolished, and the people's houses could be demolished and burned long ago.

However, almost all those who freeze to death are frail elders.

As for babies and children under the age of seven, they have almost disappeared. Obviously, they are the first ones to die. This winter is the old man, and next spring, it will be the turn of young men and women.

By the middle of November, Qin Huan didn't want to delay in Xuzhou. He planned to divide his troops into three ways. He ransacked the whole Kaifeng mansion years ago and then entered Henan mansion for disaster relief years later.

Because Kaifeng Prefecture and Henan Prefecture suffered the most serious disasters, runing Prefecture can also escape to Jianghuai and Nanyang Prefecture to Huguang.

But Kaifeng, the second government of Henan Province, has nowhere to go. It goes too far south and North. Whether it's the northeast of the mountain, North Zhili and Shanxi, it's not much to go. The northwest is a place of death.

Yes, King Qin is fighting the banner of disaster relief this time.

This time, the red warbler and Niu Er didn't have to fight. They had to take charge of their own affairs. Now there are too many soldiers and horses, so Qin Huan had to consider the training of senior generals, even to the point of urgency.

One route, Niu Er led two combat battalions, one infantry battalion, and a small number of Engineering women soldiers. There were about 14000 people. Qin tie was the Deputy Supervisor. He first went to Linying and Yicheng in the south, then Xihua, Shangshui, Chenzhou and Taikang in the East, until Shangqiu, guidefu City, and finally Kaifeng in the north.

On the first route, Hong Ying led two combat battalions, an infantry battalion and a thousand women soldiers, as well as a small number of engineers, pro guards, Qian bin and Qin Wu as deputies, went directly to the East, Yanling and Fugou, and then went north to Tongxu, Qi county and Chen Liu to Kaifeng City.

Qin Huan himself led a large army. He first went north to Changge, Xinzheng, Yichuan and Zhengzhou, and then went east to Kaifeng.

More than a month's time is enough for three passers-by to clean Kaifeng house and meet in Kaifeng City before the end of the year.

On the third day after the two armies left, Qin Yucai led the army north. After all, there were a lot of things, and 500000 refugees followed with the old and the young.

Qin Huan wanted to give everyone dozens of kilograms of food, and then go back to their homes to find their mothers. But in order to compete for food, I'm afraid more than half of the refugees will be killed.

It is also unrealistic to keep some troops and send them food every day. If more troops are left, they are too scattered, and if less, they are prone to unrest.

Now the king's soldiers and horses in the south are going north, so Suo Xing took them all away.

Seeing that the rebels and the refugees had finally left, the big families in the city wept with joy. Immediately, they began to worry about their livelihood.

Accustomed to refined grain and fine salt, how can they get used to the current coarse grain and inferior salt?

The surplus refined grain, fine salt, cotton cloth and cotton of the small businessmen in the city were also bought by the Chinese army. Fortunately, the silver money anti thief at home took only a small half, and the servants were still in charge. So they formed a team to send people to Huguang Jianghuai to buy new year materials.

Although these big families scolded the anti thieves, they all felt that these anti thieves were good and talked about some rules.

Yes, I'm afraid of comparison. After the anti thief broke the city, I not only saved the lives of my wife and children, but also didn't suffer harassment and insult. Even less than half of my money was lost. This is definitely a blessing accumulated by my ancestors.

Almost all the big families in the whole Xuzhou feel this way, so they surprisingly don't have much resentment against the Chinese army and are complacent!

After all, if the servant girls and concubines are gone, you can buy them again. If the money is gone, you can earn them again, and if the food is gone, you can plant them again. As long as you and your family are all right, you can get all the others back in three or five years.

At the same time, sun chuanting also received the imperial edict of Chongzhen, and immediately rushed to Luoyang by boat with two thousand standard camps.

The reason why he was in such a hurry was that Hong Chengchou didn't wait for him to take office in Liaodong first.

He doesn't know anything about Wang Xiaohua and his men, but it's not easy to rely on his achievements alone.

As the saying goes, knowing yourself and the enemy is invincible in a hundred battles, so he must ask Hong Chengchou how he lost?

Hong Chengchou has indeed been waiting for sun chuanting in Luoyang. After all, he dumped the mess to others. At least he has to explain and remind them.

In fact, he is not optimistic about sun chuanting, because even he has lost. I'm afraid sun chuanting's end will be no better.

Yes, Hong Laogou doesn't think he will be worse than sun chuanting. On the contrary, he thinks he will be slightly better in military affairs. Moreover, the soldiers and horses in sun chuanting's hands are far inferior to him at the beginning.