Guo Ning and Yi La Chucai boasted one after another, and Aruhan felt happy when he heard that.
There is plenty of food, but there is still a shortage of people to serve with the army!
According to this statement, so many people inside and outside Haicang Town have a way to survive?
Aruhan was holding his desk, and when he was about to speak, he saw Monk Luo rustling his scalp beside him, with a confused look on his face. Although he was a poor schemer, he had traveled all over the country and had quite a lot of experience. So he suddenly remembered that just now he coordinated the arrangement of the fleet to enter the port, and he did not see many heavy-loaded ships transporting grain, nor did he see much grain and materials being moved. Go ashore.
Guo Ning was sitting at the top. When he saw Aruhan, he was happy at first, and then his eyes flickered again.
This guy is quite shrewd! It is estimated that he has developed his discernment by dealing with ships for a long time... He really shouldn't have been asked to come out to help just now, so now it is quite difficult to deceive him.
Fortunately, Guo Ning had figured out how to deal with it.
This matter cannot be done deliberately, it must be done with a reason.
So he said in a deep voice: "However, I never expected that there was no preparation inside or outside Haicang Town to welcome the Jiedushi and support the army! In the past two days, everyone had to sit here and wait for the subsequent grain ships to arrive... The situation is so embarrassing! Aruhan Muke, you must give me an explanation."
"this……"
Aruhan was still talking, and Yi La Chucai, who was sitting next to him, had already laughed out loud: "Jie Shuai, just now Commander Ma has occupied the fort. From what he said, the fort in Haicang Town is like being washed with water. It seems like even a mouse can starve to death... How do you want Aluhammuke to explain?"
"Yes, yes..." Aruhan nodded his head, and said with a bitter look on his face: "Commander, we are the nooks and crannies, we are really not like the nobles in the capital. Not long ago, the commander-in-chief finished his mission. Yan Sala went on a large-scale to recruit and sign troops, which really took away all the money he had to make a living...""
Guo Ning's face darkened slightly: "Didn't I just say that I am short of people here! If you don't have food and supplies, just use people to pay for it! Aruhan Muke, I want you to immediately dispatch the strong men of this Moke to the port. Repair the trestles, fill the roads, and expand the campsite at the dock! Starting tomorrow, you have three days to complete the work and put the port in order!"
"Three...three days?"
The wharf in Haicang Town has been used more as a private port in recent years. Since it is a private port, no one can ask for it, so the facilities are extremely dilapidated. It takes three days to complete the repairs, which cannot be accomplished by two to three hundred people. If the workload is carefully calculated, two to three thousand people can be used as much as possible.
"Jie Shuai, we don't have anyone available... We are about to go to war. Most of the young and capable people have signed up to go to Yidu..."
Aruhan defended himself for a while, but Guo Ning was obviously impatient: "The trestle and road are so damaged, what if it delays the arrival of the grain ship later? Tens of thousands of stones of grain are floating on the sea, what if something goes wrong? Arrival?" At that time, the tigers under my tent were hungry, so I captured you, stewed them with rotten bones and two-legged sheep, and ate them in one meal?"
He still moved Chu Cai to mediate: "In short, Aruhan Muke, you try to use all the people you want to conquer. By the way, take a look to see if there are any people around who can be recruited. No matter how many people there are or how few people there are, , as long as you are willing to come and work hard, we will take care of a meal, how about it?"
Monk Luo next to him was winked at by Ni Yi and cast many glances, and now he understood.
He finished the food in front of him with a slurp, shouted for more rice, and put down the soup bowl: "Aluhan, if you can't do it, we will go to your boss and transfer other people around... You Don’t be ignorant of praise!”
Aruhan thought for a long time with a frown on his face and kowtowed: "Forget it, Commander-in-Chief, I'll try my best to find a solution!"
After finishing the meal, Aruhan left with a heavy heart.
He quickly left the port and went straight to his home camp. When I arrived at Tunpu, I hunched over the horse and leopard at the door for a long time, and then returned to my yard.
Many of the houses in Tunpu collapsed, but his residence was built with pieces of stone and leaned against the north wall. Compared with other ordinary households, it was pretty good.
Hearing the footsteps at the door, the door of the house in the courtyard opened with a creak, and a half-child and a little kid of four or five years old rushed out. Both children were very thin, with dark faces, bare feet and shirtless, and each had a pair of pants hanging on their hips.
The trousers are the Jurchen style with pedal straps, which are convenient for riding horses. However, the straps have long been worn out, and there are several layers of patches on the knees and buttocks. The cloth used was so poor that the color could not be seen.
Aruhan quickly walked up, took out three wet pieces of meat from his sleeve, and whispered: "One piece is yours, one piece is yours, and one piece is for your mother... Don't eat this piece secretly!"
Just as he was talking, someone called from outside the courtyard: "Brother Aluhan! Brother Aluhan, are you back! How is my child?"
Aruhan pushed the children hard and asked them to go back to the house. He grabbed a handful of soil from the ground and rubbed his hands before coming out.
Dozens of people had gathered outside the courtyard, all of them looking frightened. Seeing Aruhan coming out, they all asked questions.
Someone paid attention to the dozen or so young men who followed Aruhan to the port and asked them why they didn't come back. Dead or alive?
Someone asked, which side did the soldiers and horses occupying the fort now belong to, and why were they so vicious? Just now, the stupid son of the Tulu family blocked him at the door. He was beaten until his face was distorted, and his facial features were bleeding. What should he do? That army of soldiers and horses occupied most of the fort, and drove out several families including Shujia's family and Nu Xilie's family. How will they be resettled next?
Aruhan took his time and answered them one by one.
He told everyone that the young and strong were working and eating at the dock; the soldiers and horses coming to the fort were under the command of the new Jiedushi; the foolish son of the Tulu family committed suicide, and he would die if he could not be saved; the Shujia family and People from the female Xilie family should not complain. There is nothing valuable at home anyway, so they can just find an empty house and make do with it.
When everyone nodded and dispersed, Aruhan nodded to a few more people and asked them to follow him to the courtyard.
When several people came in, he said to each other: "This new Jiedu envoy has caused confusion. Our opportunity has come!"
"What did brother say?"
"Shuai Guo led his army to the south. He must have something to do with the nobles in Laizhou, so no one came forward to flatter him, and no one provided supplies. However, this Guo is a dragon with a head across the river, and in his hands We have soldiers and food, so we don't care at all. He directly issued an order and asked me to come forward and lead people to repair the port facilities within three days to prepare for the berthing of a large number of subsequent food ships..."
"How can this be accomplished? There are only thirty-five households left in our camp, and most of them are old, weak, sick, and disabled. Not to mention three days, even three years..."
"Stupid!" Aruhan slapped the man hard on the back of the head.
"Do you think, according to the books in the hands of the General Administration of Military Affairs and the General Manager of the Military and Horse Command in the early years, there was a Lugu Bila Meng'an here in Laizhou, and he took fifteen or six other assassins with him, right?"
"According to the saying of the fifteenth year of Dading, seventeen attempts will defeat the enemy."
"Then seventeen...don't interrupt! It was like this in the early years, but what about now?"
Aruhan asked: "How many people in Laizhou are now entitled to be in charge of Meng'an? How many are in charge of Muke?"
"There have been too many military sign-ups in the past two years, and the court has not given any financial rewards, but only given free official positions to attract people. When cats and dogs join the army, they have to secure their official positions, and even those who only work in the local areas often take advantage of them. Give me Meng'an Muke. I estimate that there are not twenty or thirty Meng'an in Laizhou City at this time, and two to three hundred people will be in charge of Muke. If some of the men in the army in Yidu are released, Meng'an will be better. An will have a dozen more, and Mou Ke will have more than a hundred."
"That's right!" Aruhan raised his right hand and touched his index finger with his thumb: "So, our Mou Ke actually has no status. I, the person in charge of Mou Ke, ahem, am also a poor man, and my status is even less. Worse than ants!"
"Everyone is poor, and it doesn't necessarily mean that you, Aruhan, are poorer. But so what?"
"We know what's going on. This Guo Jieshuai has just arrived, but he didn't understand the situation in Laizhou. He probably only relied on the books from the past year and regarded me as the kind of conspiracy with real power in his hands... That's why he ordered , let me come forward to recruit people to build a port for him."
"Isn't that the end? Where are we going to get the manpower? If we can't do it in three days, won't we have to be beheaded?"
Aruhan sighed longly: "Guo Jieshuai said that everyone who goes to work, no matter how many people, will have a full meal!"
"What?"
"Go to work and have a full meal! Even if there are thousands of people! And this matter... Guo Jieshuai left it to me!"
Aruhan patted his chest and made a thumping sound: "In other words, I have the final say whether there is food to eat and who has food to eat! In this world, who doesn't want to have food to eat? Taking this opportunity, you Tell me, can we bring back the people who have been reorganized into households and the evictions who have fled to various places?"
The companions all smiled happily: "That's it! Okay, okay!"
Aruhan patted his thigh heavily: "Then let's go and do our own things! Go now, don't delay!"
He stood up and pointed at his subordinates one by one: "You go to the Haicang Saltworks, you go to Chunchen Town, you go to Bochang Town, you go to the countryside! Just say, the new Jiedu Envoy sent me, Commander-in-Chief Aruhan Muke is repairing the port roads and is responsible for distributing rations! I want a thousand strong men, and those who are here will be given priority! Each of you will be responsible for 250 strong men, and let them have them tomorrow morning , No, it’s best to all come to Haicang Town tonight!”
After the imperial court moved the Jurchens to the Central Plains and Shandong, there were many poor people, some even married their wives and sold their cattle to make up for the lack of military registration and horses.
Therefore, when Emperor Sejong was in Japan, he ordered many times that the adults in the Meng'an Muke household be signed into the military, and they were given money and rice every month to support them, so that they could do some work in building bridges and roads.
Aruhan's subordinates are no strangers to this routine. At that moment, everyone was happy and went their separate ways happily.
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