Five days later, more than a thousand warships of the Sui army took several trips and transported all the supplies from the Goryeo treasury to Yanluo Island for transit. There were many huge caves on the island. It was a natural warehouse for the Sui Dynasty naval army to store logistics supplies, which was enough to accommodate the supplies transported from Pyongyang City.

Yang Yuanqing left Shen Guang and led 5,000 soldiers to guard the island, and left 30 warships. He personally led more than a thousand sea ships full of the first batch of grain and 400,000 stones of grain, and sailed towards the Bohai Sea.

It is gradually late September, and from south to north, autumn harvests have gradually entered all over the country, but this year's harvest is particularly bleak. The worst drought in the six years of the great cause swept across the north, Henan, Hebei, Hedong, Guanzhong, Guan, and the north of the Qinling and Huaihe River.

The degree of disasters in each county was directly related to the drought resistance of the government. In the Tang Dynasty, Prince Li Jiancheng personally served as the pacification envoy, went to various counties to supervise drought resistance, and dispatched official grains from Bashu and Jingxiang to provide disaster relief, minimizing the impact of the drought.

The Sui Dynasty also attached great importance to the continuous drought in summer and autumn. Yang Yuanqing appointed Du Ruhui as the drought supervision order as early as August, and the Censorate sent 30 Censors to various counties to supervise drought resistance.

Under the strong measures of the central court, the Sui Dynasty also resisted drought effectively. Although the disaster was serious and many rivers were dry and reached the bottom, the harvests in various parts of the Sui Dynasty were able to be kept by nearly half.

In addition, the Sui Dynasty had sufficient reserves of grain, and starting from late August, hundreds of thousands of stones of grain were successively allocated to government officials in Hebei and Central Plains to provide relief to disaster victims.

Yang Yuanqing issued a strict order, if one person starved to death, from the prefect to the county magistrate, he would be dismissed on the spot, more than ten people would be starved to death, and more than one hundred people would be executed.

It was the timely allocation of grain and the strict orders of the King of Chu that made the governments in various places pay unprecedented attention to drought relief and disaster relief, so that the drought in the Sui Dynasty was the most serious. Almost the entire area was drought, but the disaster was also stable and there was no panic. Until late September, the censors in various places did not find a case of starving to death.

But Qingzhou is a different scene. The seven counties of Qingzhou: Qi County, Lu County, Langya County, Donglai County, Gaomi County, Beihai County, and Jibei County encountered unprecedented natural disasters.

The drought and military disasters attacked the land of Qingzhou together. First, there was a melee between Dou Jiande's army and Song Jingang's army. Dou Jiande defeated Song Jingang's army, and Song Jingang fled to the beach and was killed by angry fishermen.

Immediately afterwards, Liu Heita was unwilling to hand over military power, and Dou Jiande and Liu Heita's army also broke out in the Qingzhou War. The war lasted until early September. Because the Sui army stationed troops in large numbers on the north bank of the Yellow River, Dou Jiande was forced to make peace with Liu Heita and the two armies stopped fighting.

But at this time, the serious disaster was no longer able to recover. The two disasters of war, drought and drought caused most counties in Qingzhou to lose their grains, and the rice rose to tens of thousands of dollars. The hungry people were in full bloom. Hundreds of thousands of hungry people took their families and fled to the Central Plains. They fled to the north bank of the Yellow River. Wherever they passed, the grassroots were dug and the bark was stripped of food.

In Qingzhou, people from county towns fled in love, and the county town became ghost towns. The village became a desolate thousands of miles away, and there was no people at all.

From Qinghe County, Pingyuan County to Bohai County, thousands of ferries transport victims day and night, transporting victims from the south bank of the Yellow River to the north bank.

The Sui Dynasty was prepared for it. Three major relief centers were established in Chiping County, Pingyuan County, Pingyuan County, and Baihe County, Bohai County, and 14,000 tents to accommodate hungry people fleeing from Qingzhou.

For this reason, the imperial court had allocated 150,000 stones of emergency relief food in advance, and sent 300 officials to preside over the relief, mobilizing thousands of scholars from the Imperial College to assist in resettlement of the victims. Yang Yuanqing even ordered in advance to send 5,000 female guards to treat the victims' illnesses and heal their wounds.

The disaster victim resettlement site in Pingyuan County is located on the bank of the Yellow River three miles south of Pingyuan County. This is the largest of the three disaster relief sites. It consists of 8,000 tents and covers an area of ​​thousands of acres. From the tide of hungry people in early September to the late September, more than 300,000 hungry people in Qingzhou have fled here.

The entire camp was crowded with people and crowded. Two hundred officials and five thousand scholars came to resettle these victims. The Sui army sent 10,000 soldiers to maintain order in the hungry camp.

That morning, Du Ruhui, accompanied by several officials, came to the refugee camp to inspect, and General Qin Qiong also accompanied him.

In the camp, almost all the tents were filled with Qingzhou victims, and the smell was stenchy and cried everywhere, which made people feel anxious.

The official in charge of this camp was Pei Jin, the young minister of Dali Temple. His deputy was a young official. Chu Suiliang, the top scholar in the imperial examination last year, served as the chief of Mayi County. He was temporarily transferred to assist Pei Jin because of his effective resettlement of the disaster victims.

Pei Jin accompanied Du Ruhui to inspect and explained worriedly: "There are too many victims. In the 300,000 people, there were 40 people in almost every tent. It was so crowded and many problems occurred. As for the crime of adultery last night, fifty-five people had been executed for the crime of adultery. As for the fierce and powerful, bullying and good things happened frequently and were difficult to stop, and the spread of diseases were all problems."

Du Ruhui frowned, "Then why not ask the court for additional tents?"

Chu Suiliang next to him said, "It is not the reason for the tents. No matter how many tents there are, similar problems will occur. Pei Shaoqing and I both believe that the victims should be evacuated to various counties."

Du Ruhui didn't say anything. He walked into a big tent. A turbid smell came from the big tent. It was covered with sheepskin and tattered and dirty bedding, as well as various boxes, cages, bottles and jars. The sheepskin was distributed uniformly, and the bedding and other miscellaneous items were all property brought by the victims.

There were more than 20 people lying in the big tent, mostly women, children and elderly people, but no young man was seen. Du Ruhui was stunned for a moment, and Pei Jin next to him quickly explained in a low voice: "The man in this big tent had a conflict with another big tent because of a competition for food a few days ago, so he was isolated to the military camp during the day and could only come back at night."

When the women and children in the tent suddenly came in, they were so scared that they sat up and hugged the child tightly. Du Ruhui squatted down in front of an old man. The old man seemed to have suffered a calves and a female guard was changing the medicine for the wound on his leg.

"What's going on? Why are you injured?" Du Ruhui asked strangely.

The old man was scared and hesitated: "Just... fell."

"It's not that you fell, it's that you were broken by a stick." The female guard next to you corrected his explanation dissatisfiedly.

The old man's face suddenly turned red, and Chu Suiliang said: "He is the patriarch of this family. When the two families fought a few days ago, he was the commander, but his legs were broken and he could not move."

The old man became even more uneasy and sighed for a while, speechless.

Du Ruhui asked again: "Where are you from? Why do you have family conflicts? Isn't there enough food for relief?"

The old man shook his head and said, "We are from Hongguan Township, Licheng County, with the surname Liu. Our family has about 70 people. We live in two tents. It's not because there are several people from other tents who live in the Wu family. They say that when we distribute the grain, we deduct their tribesmen and ask for compensation. In fact, we did not deduct them. Everyone distributed them equally, but they didn't believe it. In the end, the more they quarreled, they became more and more fierce, and they started fighting."

Du Ruhui thought about it and asked him again, "What do you think is the biggest difficulty now?"

The old man sighed and said, "In fact, the court can provide timely disaster relief and give us a bite of food so that we will not starve to death. We also sent a piece of sheepskin to keep warm. Unlike Daye's six years, we are already grateful. This is honest, and we dare not have any other extravagant hopes."

Du Ruhui smiled, "There are always difficulties, just talk about them!"

The old man felt a little embarrassed: "If we have to say it is difficult, there is only one thing, it is that it is too crowded. It is too inconvenient for dozens of men and women to live in a large tent. We are a family, and it is a little better, but if we live in a small family, there will definitely be various conflicts."

Du Ruhui nodded silently and walked out of the tent. He didn't want to accuse Pei Jin and the others of doing something perfect. After all, there were more than 300,000 people, and it was not easy to achieve this.

He pondered for a moment and said to everyone: "The Ziwei Pavilion has also discussed the evacuation of the victims to various counties, and most of them agree, but it will only be approved by His Highness the King of Chu to implement it. Therefore, everyone should try to overcome the difficulties and adopt some temporary measures, such as separating men and women, or adding tents, etc. When His Highness comes back, I will report this to him immediately."

Qin Qiong said, "About the tent, our military can take out another five thousand tents. I will send soldiers to send them in the afternoon to help camp. In addition, I will order the soldiers to strengthen night patrols to prevent evil people from committing crimes at night."

Pei Jin and Chu Suiliang discussed it, and Pei Jin said: "The temporary plan for the separation of men and women in the prime minister can be implemented. We are planning to divide the camp into men's camp and women's camp, but this matter is cumbersome and requires the assistance of the army."

Qin Qiong nodded, "Yes, I will order 10,000 soldiers to assist the official in dispersing the victims."

After pausing, Qin Qiong asked again: "I wonder when your highness will come back?"

Du Ruhui smiled bitterly, "This question should be asked by General Qin. He broke up with you in the end. Didn't he explain it when he left?"

"He just said about a month or so, but it's almost a month now. I guess I should come back."

As soon as he finished speaking, a cavalryman rushed over from a distance and shouted loudly: "The supervisor is back, our fleet is back!"

Everyone was stunned at first, then they were overjoyed. Qin Qiong asked anxiously: "Where is the fleet?"

The cavalry turned around and pointed to the east, "On the Yellow River, it will be here soon!"

Everyone ran quickly towards the Yellow River. They ran up a mound and looked east. They saw a group of black dots appear on the Yellow River in the distance. The black dots are getting closer and closer. It was the return fleet. They saw thousands of sails like clouds, and the vast fleet of thousands of ships arrived, with a magnificent momentum.

Everyone couldn't help but cheer together.^-^^-^

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