Chapter 290

After Xijiang water retreated, Duanzhou was in a mess.

When Hua Ni and Qin Yan came out, they saw a group of people going to Yamen.

When we arrived at the gate of Duanzhou yamen, we saw a long line of men, women, old and young, all holding rice bags and waiting for rice.

Bao Zheng, dressed in a cloth shirt, looked at those people with worried eyes and eyebrows.

Qin inkstone arched his hand forward, "Lord Bao!"

"Mr. Qin!"

Qin Yan looked at the people who got the rice leaving one by one and asked, "has Lord Bao opened an official warehouse to release grain?"

"Well." Bao Zheng nodded heavily, "it's a pity that there isn't much grain in the official warehouse."

Qin Yan knew what Bao Zheng meant. When Mr. Li left, all the grain, silver and other things that could be looted were looted. He left a destitute Duanzhou Prefecture for Bao Zheng. When Bao Zheng came, he asked for money, but no money, and no one wanted to buy rice.

This official is hard to handle because he is short of money!

Just say, that hair grain of Yamen way, "today did not, tomorrow again."

After a lot of people heard this, they immediately yelled, "what can I do if I don't have it? We haven't got them yet? "

Bao Zheng came forward and asked, "what's the matter?"

Zhang Long stepped forward and said, "my Lord, the official warehouse is empty. The grain transferred from other counties can only be transported tomorrow."

Those people who couldn't get it immediately surrounded Bao Zheng, "Mr. Bao, what should I do? Lord Bao, please give me a stutterer

Bao Zheng twisted his eyebrows and thought for a moment. He swept the people's eager eyes. "With my salary, I'll go to the rice shop and buy some more. Let's go on!"

"My Lord, your salary was used to dig wells and cure pestilence a few days ago. It's already..."

Zhang Long's admonition was interrupted by Bao Zheng, "stop talking, go quickly!"

Zhang long had no choice but to turn around and go, but the people were still worried.

"Lord Bao, today is over. What can we do in the future?"

"Yes, Lord Bao, you have to help us?"

As soon as Bao Zheng reached out his hand, the crowd stopped the noise. He said in a deep voice, "please rest assured that Bao Zheng has reported this matter to the imperial court. The imperial court will send people to bring silver and grain relief in the near future. We will stick to it for a few more days."

After hearing this, all the people felt relieved and expressed their gratitude to Bao Zheng.

Qin Yan turned to Hua Ni, "you see, as long as the imperial court brought silver grain, it's OK. You can rest assured now."

Hua Ni nodded, but she was still depressed. Qin Yan took her hand and said, "it's a natural and man-made disaster. It can't be changed by human power. No one can expect it. You see, even the imperial court is so considerate, instead of blaming Lord Bao for it. Who are you? Are you better than Mr. Bao? You're just an ordinary person. How can you take it on yourself? "

Flower Ni Zheng Zheng of looking at Qin Yan half ring, just eyebrow stretch a smile, these days the heart of the knot is finally open some.

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The Duanzhou yamen put food every day. At first, it was one person and two bowls, then one bowl, and then half a bowl. But unexpectedly, the people didn't make any trouble. They all pointed to the silver grain for disaster relief. They thought that as soon as the people of the imperial court arrived, they would have a hard time.

Waiting for the man to arrive, something happened in Duanzhou.

A rice shop came back from selling dozens of stone rice from other places, but outside Duanzhou City, it was robbed by bandits. However, the bandits were not ordinary bandits, but they could not be easily suppressed.

According to historical records, in 1039 ad, more than 300 people fought against the Song Dynasty in Guangzhou. In 1040, the first year of Kangding, Bao Zheng was transferred from Tianchang county to Duanzhou Prefecture. The plague, flood, Gongyan and other things he met were not mentioned. There were also bandits' nests of these 300 people.

Duanzhou belongs to the southern barbarian region of Baiyue. The first thing for a general official to take office is to prepare for the bandits, that is, to deal with the native liliao people who came out of the valley and did not obey the rule of the imperial court. In the early Northern Song Dynasty, the remnant forces of the former liliao and qushuai in Xijiang area, although they superficially submitted to the imperial court, still retained the hereditary serfdom and witch doctor system, which is the predecessor of the so-called anti song bandits' nest.

In fact, it's not bad for these people not to obey the control of the imperial court, to form their own faction in the mountains, to work and cultivate in the mountains, and to be self-sufficient. But the problem is that these people are barbarians. If they don't obey the control of the Han people, they don't like the Han people in their heart. If the Han people enter the mountains, they will either be captured or robbed, and they will occupy a lot of land in the long run Mountain, although not like bandits in general, but also for the disaster world that!

But they can't move casually. Because these are also ethnic minorities, and there are many people, it's certainly not possible to eliminate them in a unified way. We can only recruit them!

Therefore, every state official has to go to the mountains to talk with them and talk with them about the harmony. It's the Han people who make the world. You also have to go down to the mountains to live in harmony with the Han people.

But it's no use. You can't reason with the natives.

When Bao Zheng came to Duanzhou, he also went to talk about it, but he didn't get along with it. When the former governors went to Duanzhou, they all took cloth, grain, gold, silver and jewelry with them. When Bao Zheng went there empty handed, they didn't see him and sent him directly.In fact, Bao Zheng wanted to send troops to exterminate them, but there were more than 300 people in his family. They didn't just beat them. They were familiar in the mountains and belonged to local operations. Besides, there were also witch doctors. If they gave you any poison, you would stop. So they couldn't fight and couldn't talk about it, so they put it down.

Generally, these bandits are the rules. As long as the Han people don't go to their territory, naturally they won't take the initiative to provoke. They belong to the well water and don't violate the river water. But now they take the initiative to go down the mountain and grab food.

Bao Zheng was puzzled. "They didn't go down the mountain to rob. Why did they suddenly do so?"

The owner of the rice shop cried and said, "my Lord, this is not the rainstorm. Did they come down the mountain to rob them when they had nothing to eat..."

Bao Zheng also thought that the mountain must have been badly affected, so it was possible for the bandits to go down the mountain.

Putong, the owner of the rice shop, knelt down and asked Lord Bao to get my food back for me

Bao Zheng

Bao Zheng is in a dilemma. It's very difficult to have a fight with the bandits when they want something. You say it's very difficult to send troops to suppress them. Now the officers and soldiers are all strengthening the dykes on the front line of flood fighting. There are really no hands, and even if there are hands, they may not be able to win.

The forces of the Song Dynasty were divided into forbidden army, Xiang army and local army, which meant that the local army was the weakest in strength, and its combat effectiveness was relatively weak. It mainly did the hard work of building walls and weapons.

So Bao Zheng didn't directly say that I sent troops to destroy them. He could only pacify them and go back first. Anyway, now we have to pass the disaster relief before we talk about the bandits.

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A few days later, the one hundred thousand Liang silver and one hundred thousand stone rice allocated by the imperial court arrived today. Everyone felt that the day of eating bran and swallowing vegetables had finally come to an end. Not only the people of Duanzhou yamen, but all the people of Duanzhou gathered at the gate of the city, waiting for the officials of the imperial court.

Qin Yan and Hua Ni also went, standing on the side of the road, waiting to see the excitement.

After all, Duanzhou is located in a remote area. It's not easy to be a senior official in the capital. Besides, it's still a way to send money and food. Naturally, people want to see it.

In the noisy days of gongs and drums, the official entered the city gate in a sedan chair with great style, followed by dozens of soldiers. As soon as Duanzhou people came, they clapped their hands to welcome him and called for him.

"Stop!"

When the man in the sedan chair raised his voice, he was from the capital, and even stopped shouting with great momentum.

But Hua Ni just felt that the voice was a little familiar.

When the sedan chair fell to the ground, as soon as the curtain of the sedan chair was lifted, the people inside were short and got out of the sedan chair.

Flower Ni a see, in the heart clap Deng for a while, not good!