Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 778
"What is that?" Wanyan Pu's slave asked in shock.

The black smoke shot straight into the sky, and even the heavy snow couldn't cover it, and there was no sound of exclamation or panic. Even the postman who was carrying the wine and food looked up without the slightest suspicion, obviously Commonplace also.

"I see that my brother is not surprised, I must know, please tell me." Pu Jianu skillfully stuffed a golden bean to the postman who was warming the wine.

The latter's face changed suddenly, and his smile was so warm. "Your Majesty is polite." With a palm, the golden bean had already fallen into the cuff.

"The black smoke is discharged from the shelter by the Sanggan River in the west, and it is only two or three miles away from the post house, so it can be seen clearly."

"Asylum?" Pu Jianu was puzzled, how do you say this?The name seems to be about relief or something.

There was a weird smile on the messenger's face, "The shelter is where the refugees from the grassland are taken in, and the place where they live now is full of savages thrown in due to the white disaster. They run rampant outside and cause a lot of trouble for nothing."

Pu Jianu didn't ask any more questions, but seeing the smallness on the policeman's face, he subconsciously felt that there was a ghost inside.

At this moment, on the banks of the Sanggan River, which is less than three miles away from the post house, small camps are connected to form a large camp covering an area of ​​[-] mu.During the period, at a small camp, unkempt grassland refugees filed into the building in the center of the camp.

Agulu and his wife clustered together, looking at the building in front of them with uneasy eyes.

"The man's side, the woman's side..." A special officer shouted in front of the building.

Agulu knew that he and his wife must be separated first, and the rules of the Han people cannot be violated, otherwise starvation is still a trivial matter, and being expelled will only lead to death.But even if they knew it, they still couldn't make the couple feel at ease.

It snows repeatedly in Yanjing, and the grasslands are even more bitterly cold in August.Agulu's parents, elder brother, and children all froze to death and starved to death in the heavy snow, and only their husband and wife were lucky enough to escape to Bei'an Prefecture.Then, because he was young, in good health, and could speak a certain amount of Chinese, he was immediately sent to Yanjing.

They suffered a lot along the way, but how could that little hardship compare with the days of starving and freezing on the grassland?
At least the husband and wife had enough to eat on the way to Yanjing, and there were tents and houses along the way to support them. Making these refugees suffer is as sweet as eating honey.The Han people didn't send them to die on purpose.

Clenching the wooden sign in his hand, this is the proof of their husband and wife. The man said that after going out from here, their husband and wife can use the wooden sign to meet in the camp specially accommodating couples.Can't people be separated from their husbands and wives? In this regard, shelters are quite humane.

Following the people in front of him into the building, he opened the thick cotton curtain, and the hot air almost knocked Agulu over.

Then what Agulu saw was the scene that hit his soul.

Really vertigo.Under the rows of trumpet-shaped water outlets, there are naked fruit bodies, and the scene of the black pig washing white is very eye-catching.

Thick cotton curtains cut off the screams in the room.Those guys who were covered in dirt and soap locusts and were difficult to clean, were held down by big and thick men in the center of the pool to defecate, waving a hard-bristled brush as if they were plucking pigs.

The sharpness of the screams and the desolation of the scene made A Gulu's legs tremble.

Especially when the 'victims' were picked up and tossed by the strong man after they were washed clean, and fell into the water with a loud plop...

On the left and right sides of the bathhouse, there are big men with sticks and whips, all of them wearing only red underpants, with their chests upright, holding sticks and whips, standing in the field, treating everyone who comes in as if they are waiting to be slaughtered.

On the other side, barbers holding willow-leaf scimitars are removing three thousand threads of trouble for the visitors at a fast speed.

Helpless, the sanitation of these grassland refugees is too worrying. The only place to go for the greasy hair and the clothes they wear is to burn them.Even though the standard hairstyle of the Khitans is bald, the Mongol haircuts are similar to those of the Khitans. They are all bald and the hair hangs down around the head and falls back, or only two locks of long hair are left on the temples.But also clean shaved.

The sole purpose of doing this is hygiene.

After coming out of the bathhouse, they will be changed into clean linen underwear and middle clothes, and thick cotton jackets on the outside.

These people are all treasures in the eyes of the elite in Yanjing.

After Agulu was sent to a camp, when he saw his wife who was also washed and cleaned, the two looked at each other, tears streaming down.

At the same time, cartloads of tattered leather clothes and sticky hair were also sent into the boiler room, billowing black smoke straight into the sky.

After Pu Jianu returned from the flower garden, he immediately sent someone to inquire about the shelter, which was not a secret in Yanjing City.There will be news feedback soon.Pu Jianu was shocked and said: "How many people are there?"

Then I thought that this method is a good way to subdue the people who lead the bow in the grassland.

A hungry wolf is the most ferocious.Only in the long and cold winter, the people at the bottom of the grassland who suffer from hunger and cold will turn into the bravest warriors in the coming year.

Because they are fearless, because they know that if they can't grab food and cloth, what kind of bad luck will they, and their families, suffer when the snowstorm comes on the prairie this year.At that moment, life and death will not be in their eyes.

Just like when a ferocious wolf dog is chasing after him, the potential of human running will be stimulated to the maximum.When the people of the Northland are forced by the cruel wind and snow, they can also exert their own power to the extreme.

Later generations have scholars who explained why the Jurchens in the late Northern Song Dynasty, the Mongols after that, and even the Manchus in the late Ming Dynasty were so fierce?The reason is that Little Ice River is forcing them.

The severe cold in the winter in the north forced them to go south to get more meat from the Han people in the warmer regions of the south to fill their stomachs.

I don't want to mention whether this statement is true or not. I just tell all the people of the Northland that the weather in winter will only get colder and colder in the future.If we want to survive this long little ice age, there are still five or six hundred years of suffering.

The bitter days of the people in the north have just begun.

But now that the Han people are taken in like this, it is tantamount to giving the people of the grassland a hope of survival at a critical moment. When the news spread throughout the grassland, Pu Jianu felt that the end of Emperor Tianzuo was coming.But if such a method falls on the Jurchens...

Pu Jianu's mind was turned upside down, and he was at a loss.

When the heavy snow stopped two days later, the Jurchen mission hurried southward.

In Yanjing City, after a gluttonous feast, porridge and side dishes were also served on the table.After all, people will not be able to bear the big fish and big meat.Although porridge and side dishes are not worth much, they can also change your appetite and clean up your stomach.

It's just that the seats on the latter's table are limited, and those who came from the prairie are not yet eligible to be seated.Even if you want to instigate the grassland nobles to hunt and trade slaves, there must be a process.If you act too hastily, you will be suspected of being deliberate, and everything is not beautiful.

What's more, there is still no shortage of manpower for Yanjing's industrial and commercial development.

After a large number of refugees and refugees were rescued, they were quickly resettled by land lease, but what about the artisans and workers in the city? The essence of the Khitan Dynasty is all in Yanyun, and the subdivision is dominated by Nanjing Road. .Even if a lot of it was lost because of the war, there are enough for the remaining people.

That is to say, in less than a year, large waterwheels were erected one after another by the banks of the Sanggan River. The role of water power in the workshops has already been known to all the soldiers and civilians in Yanjing Prefecture.

This is what the real thing does.

Didn't the examples that they saw with their own eyes arise in front of their eyes, how did the people of Yanjing know the magical effect of water power?A year ago, they had never heard of a hydraulic forging hammer, but now when it comes to hydraulic applications, they can put on a dragon's door array.

Together with the large waterwheels on the banks of the Sanggan River, there are also workshops and workshops of different sizes.Yanjing Mansion only has [-] troops in the garrison. Just talking about the military needs of so many troops, after deducting the two major categories of armor and arrows, food and clothing, an unknown number of local people have been sent home.There is also the repair of the city and the Great Wall. The latter is a particularly huge project, and it is still only a small effort.

Therefore, in the land of Qilu, especially Yidu, a large amount of funds are already pouring into Yanjing.Under the leadership of Song Gongming, they hit it off with the local family who had suffered heavy losses.

What the land of Yanjing really lacks is low-cost heavy labor. The high-quality iron mines in Miyun, Mentougou and Shijingshan, and high-quality coal in Fengtai all require a lot of labor to develop them.

Aren't these grassland refugees in the shelter an excellent source of cheap labor?Their "cost" is cheaper than importing labor from labor firms.It's just that cashmere and wool are suddenly produced, and the fate of the current batch of refugees in the shelter seems to be luckier than their predecessors.

The iron smelting plant established by the government in the west of Yanjing City only collects iron ore, coal, etc., but never cares about how the iron ore and coal are mined.The latter's interests had all been sold at the turn of spring and summer.

Emperor Lu only had gold, silver and copper in his eyes, and he didn't care about 'low-value' minerals like iron ore.Unless it is high-quality iron ore like Hengshan Iron Mine.However, it has been more than a thousand years since China entered the black iron age, and those great iron mountains in the Central Plains have long been dug up and exhausted.

Apart from the Hengshan Iron Mine, the only high-quality iron ore in Emperor Lu's memory was the Shilu Iron Mine in Qiongzhou, which was already being excavated.

In addition, the biggest reason is that Lu Qian doesn't feel that the mine needs to be hidden.The Ministry of Industry has already begun to sell iron ore in all localities, and even the Laiwu Supervision and other places are slowly retiring from officials and advancing from the people.As long as they pay their taxes on time!

And a place like Laiwu Supervisor has gradually lost its administrative flavor and transformed into a dedicated mine safety supervisor.

(End of this chapter)