North of Xiangyang.

On the banks of the Qingshui River, a large group of people are helping the elderly and young to go south along the river. From the elderly in their seventies to children under ten years old, and even babies in their infancy, they stagger southward.

When Li Chao arrived in Xiangyang, vagrants began to appear in Shannan.

The autumn drought continues, and there is no rain for a long time. Many crops have died of drought, leaving only places near the river, and some places with wells are still barely maintaining, but the crops are also withering day by day.

Some families who were already poor began to think of another way when their crops died of drought and had no food in their families. Some experienced elderly people began to take their families to leave their hometown before they could reach the end of their lives, and went to other places to visit relatives and friends, preparing to leave their hometown and escape the disaster.

Some people have no relatives to join, so they can only take their families and the remaining little food to the south.

"The prime minister, Dengzhou, and Tangzhou have come to report and have found that many sporadic victims have entered the country."

Li Chao, who was handling official business, heard this, raised his head and sighed.

What is time to come is still here.

Droughts and locust plagues. No matter what kind of disaster it is, they will eventually be famine. What famine fears most are refugees. Once hungry people leave their hometown and start to flow, it is even more terrible than locust plagues.

As soon as the locust plague gathers, they eat wherever they go, eating all the crops, even the leaves and grass.

But when hungry people move, it is even more terrible, because they will not only eat wherever they go, but also easily riot. In order to eat, they will ignore all principles, ethics, and all laws and regulations.

Stealing, robbery, even killing and setting fire, changing children and eating, and extremely hungry people can do everything.

The most terrifying thing is that some places may be able to persevere, but after a large number of disaster victims pour in, they will immediately eat up one place, and then the disaster victims in that place can only be forced to go to the next place together.

When the locusts eat up all the food, the hungry people become locusts!

The already weak food reserves will definitely not withstand the saturated attacks of these hungry people. They will collapse wherever they go.

Therefore, for Li Chao, preventing the movement of hungry people has become the key among the key.

Li Chao didn't want to give some orders, but sometimes he had to give them.

Gripping his teeth, Li Chao sighed.

"I will pass on the orders of the minister to all prefectures and counties, prohibiting the people from leaving the country, setting up customs and cards, and not leaving any one!"

Famine is actually a kind of plague. If you are not isolated, it will spread to all places and people. Only after isolation can you have the opportunity to control it and minimize the losses.

Although this kind of isolation practice will be more effective, it will also be cruel. When the people are hungry, they cannot leave to look for vitality and can only be forced to stay there and wait for death. This is absolutely cruel.

But Li Chao now has to give this order and make this decision because he has to consider more people and cannot make the losses greater.

"Immediately speed up the transfer of food and let all localities start distributing disaster relief food!"

"Can I send it now?" Shangguan Yi asked in surprise.

It’s just now that autumn is coming, and the disaster has not really begun. It’s a bit early to release food now. I’ll release food now. What should I do when the disaster is really a big disaster?

"I can't wait anymore. As the local official and parents sent by His Majesty, I can't watch the people under my rule starve to death. Let the localities start registering and start releasing food now!"

If you can't wait, you can't let the hungry people leave your hometown. If you don't give food, you will really starve to death. Li Chao can't do the kind of thing that locks people up and starves to death.

After pondering for a while, Li Chao said again, "Those who come to receive relief food must all check their identities. If there is indeed no food at home, then the relief food will be distributed and the young and strong who receive relief food will be sent to Dengzhou. The women, children and elderly people will stay in the local area and organize them to catch locusts! They cannot be left idle, but they must also ensure that they have food to eat, and at least two meals a day!"

"Even if you eat locust cakes, you have to let them eat 70% full!"

Once you are full, everyone will not panic and will not be in chaos, and they will obey the government's arrangements.

The most important thing now is not to be messed up.

The construction of Hanjing is about to begin!

However, the cultivation of Hanjing is no longer the top priority now. The cultivation of Hanjing is just to concentrate the young, strong and hungry people to manage, so that they can have something to do and eat, and avoid losing control.

"Prime Minister, if we start to release food from now on, we may not have enough food in our hands." Wang Xuance also said.

"I know this, but I can't watch them starve to death."

Li Chao thought for a while, "You go and talk to the families of the grain merchants who are locked up in prison to see if they are willing to take the grain to redeem people. If they are willing, then pay the grain and then take the people home. Tell these bastards and be honest in the future. I will let them go this time, but if they do it again, don't blame me for being rude."

It is true that Li Chao is open-minded to businessmen, but there are prerequisites. If merchants make money honestly, Li Chao will certainly not mess with them. But if they dare to go against Li Chao and deliberately sing a counter-topic, Li Chao will turn his back on his face when he becomes ruthless.

Especially now, if you get angry, you will be really wrong and you won’t let go.

This time, Li Chao spared them once.

"How much is the penalty?"

"Each person is fined 100 stones of grain!" Li Chao spit out a standard, which scared Shangguan Yi. He would fine 100 stones of grain if he violated a curfew and alcohol ban? 100 stones of grain, which is a lot.

"Wang Xiaoan should not let go, continue to be locked up, seal the Hefenglou, and fined the Feng family another 3,000 stone of grain!"

Shangguan Yi asked in a low voice, "When will it be when?"

"I'm locked up until he honestly repents. If he still has that attitude, I don't mind letting him sit in prison!"

In troubled times, we should use the divination.

In the current situation, Li Chao has no time to argue with those people. Whoever dares to provoke him must be prepared to bear the consequences.

"Send orders to the military governments in various places and call some soldiers to the military government to stand by."

"Is this the Prime Minister?" After hearing this, a group of officials were shocked. Mobilizing the government troops was not an ordinary trivial matter. According to the Tang Dynasty system, the government troops were in peacetime and went on a wartime battle, and also had to take on the tasks of Shangjing Fans and the military government as the towns, and took turns to the military government to train.

Usually, there are Zhechong Duwei, the military commander Guoyi, etc., who are responsible for the management, but if the military commander mobilizes more than ten people to go to the defense, they must have a transfer order from the Ministry of War and the military command from the Military Administration. If there is no transfer order, if you dare to mobilize more than ten people, you will be regarded as a rebellion and chaos.

No one can afford such consequences.

"Just make some preparations in advance and let the military government have more staff. In the name of strengthening training, two more teams of people can be transferred to the military government for training."

A military mansion has a small amount of 800, an ordinary amount of 1,200 people, and a large amount of 1,200 people. Usually, they have to be divided into several classes, go to Beijing, guard the military mansion, train at the military mansion, and stay at home to farm, all of which come in turn.

The military mansion usually has about two groups of people, but the number is not large.

Now Li Chao asked the military mansion to summon several more teams to train, and asked the military mansion to keep at least half of the soldiers in the mansion in the mansion.

"Don't worry, I just asked them to strengthen their training, and did not transfer them out of the palace. There was no need for the imperial military order. Besides, I am not an ordinary governor. Don't forget that I am still the Xuanfu envoy. When this Xuanfu envoy left the capital, I received the expedient solution granted by His Majesty."

The expedient solution given by Li Shimin to Li Chao was that in the event of riots, rebellion, etc., the troops under the jurisdiction could be mobilized immediately without asking the court for instructions first.

There was no turmoil, and Li Chao did not have the right to mobilize troops, but it would be fine to let them go to the mansion to train. Once chaos arose, Li Chao would be able to immediately dispatch these soldiers who gathered in the mansion to train.

Li Chao has already started to prepare for both hands!

"It won't be that way, right?"
Chapter completed!