choke element

Chapter 159

Guo Ning and Yira Chucai bragged together, and Aluhan was delighted to hear that.

There is plenty of food, but there is still a shortage of people who serve with the army!

According to this statement, so many people inside and outside Haicang Town have a way out?

Aluhan held on to the case, and was about to say something, when he saw Monk Luo rubbing his scalp beside him, with a dazed expression on his face.Although he was down and out, he traveled all over the world and had some knowledge, so he suddenly remembered that just now he coordinated the arrangement of the fleet to enter the port, and he didn't see many heavy-load ships transporting grain and fodder, nor did he see much grain and fodder being transported. ashore.

Guo Ning sat at the top and was overjoyed to see Aluhan first, then his eyes flickered again.

This guy is a shrewd one!It is estimated that he has been dealing with the tank boats for a long time, and he has developed his eyesight... He really should not have been asked to help out just now, so it is quite difficult to be deceived at this moment.

Fortunately, Guo Ning has figured out how to deal with it.

This matter can't be done deliberately, it has to be put on a pretext.

So he said in a deep voice: "However, I never expected that inside and outside Haicang Town, there is no preparation for welcoming the Jiedu envoy and supporting the army! For the past two days, everyone has to sit here and wait for the subsequent grain ship to arrive... How embarrassing the situation is! Aluhan Muke, you have to give me an explanation."

"This……"

Aluhan was still talking, but Yira Chucai, who was sitting beside him, laughed out loud: "Jie Shuai, just now Commander Ma has occupied the fortress. From what he said, the fortress in Haicang Town is like being washed by water." It's just like that, mice can starve to death...how do you want Aluhan Muke to explain?"

"Yeah, yeah..." Aluhan nodded his head, and said with bitterness on his face: "Jieshuai, we Muke in the corner are really not like the nobles in the capital. Yan Sala's large-scale conscripts and military signings really took away all the money he had to live...""

Guo Ning's face darkened slightly: "Didn't you just say that I'm short of people here! If you don't have food and supplies, you can use people to pay for it! Aluhan Mouk, I want you to send the young men of Ben Moke to the port immediately. Repair the trestle bridge, fill the road, and expand the dock camp! Starting tomorrow, you are limited to three days to complete the work, and make the port look good!"

"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, everyone can't ask for it, so the facilities are dilapidated.It takes three days to complete the repairs, but two or three hundred people cannot do it. If we really need to carefully calculate the workload, two or three thousand people can be used as much as possible.

"Jieshuai, we don't have anyone available... Seeing that there is going to be a war, most of the young and able-bodied people who are available have signed to Yidu..."

Ai Aidi defended Aluhan with a few words, and Guo Ning was obviously impatient: "The trestle bridge and road are so damaged, what should we do if we delay the arrival of the grain ship later? Tens of thousands of shi of grain are floating on the sea, what if something goes wrong? At that time, Hu Ben under my tent was hungry, so I arrested you, stewed meat and bones, and two-legged sheep, did you eat it?"

Or Yira Chucai mediating on the sidelines: "In short, Aluhan Muke, you try to use as many people as you can. By the way, see if there are any people around who can be recruited. , 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 by Ni Yi and cast a lot of winks, and now he understood.

He snorted and finished the food in front of him, yelling for more rice, and put the soup bowl heavily: "Aruhan, if you fail, we will go to your boss and transfer other people around...you Don't be ungrateful!"

Aluhan thought for a while with a sad face, then kowtowed: "Forget it, Jie Shuai, I will try my best to find a way!"

After a meal, Aruhan left with a heavy heart.

He quickly left the port and went straight to his home Tunbao.When they arrived at Tunpu, they bent over and stalked Mabao for a long time at the door, and then returned to their courtyard.

A lot of the houses in Tunpu had collapsed, but his house was built with slabs of stone and leaned against the wall on the north side.

Hearing footsteps at the door, the door of the room in the yard opened with a creak, and a half-baked child, a four or five-year-old, rushed out.Both children were very thin, with dark faces, barefoot, shirtless, and a pair of trousers hanging on their hips.

The trousers are of the Jurchen style with pedal straps, which are convenient for riding.But the straps are worn out, and there are several layers of patches on the knees and butt.The cloth used is even worse, and the color cannot be seen.

Aruhan walked up quickly, took out three wet pieces of meat from his sleeve, and said in a low voice, "One piece of yours, one piece of yours, and one piece for your mother... don't steal this piece!"

While talking, someone called out from the courtyard: "Brother Aluhan! Brother Aluhan, have you come back! How is my child?"

Aluhan pushed the children hard, let them go back to the house, grabbed a handful of soil from the ground, and rubbed his hands before coming out.

Dozens of people had already gathered outside the courtyard, all of them looked terrified.Seeing Aruhan coming out, they asked questions one after another.

Someone paid attention to the dozen or so young men who followed Aruhan to the port, and asked them why they hadn't come back yet?Dead or alive?

Someone asked, which route is the soldiers and horses occupying the Tunbao at this moment, and why are they so vicious?Just now, the stupid son of the Tulu family blocked him at the door, his face was distorted from the beating, and his facial features were gurgling and bleeding, what should we do?That army occupied more than half of the fortress and drove out several families including Shujia's family and Nv Xilie's family. How should they be resettled?

Aruhan did not rush, and answered one by one.

He told everyone that the young and strong were working and eating at the pier; the soldiers and horses who came to Tunbao were under the command of the new Jiedushi; The members of Nv Xi Lie's family don't complain, anyway, there is nothing valuable in the house, so just find an empty room to make do with.

After everyone nodded and dispersed, Aruhan ordered a few more people to follow him to the yard.

Several people came in, and he said to each other: "This new Jiedu envoy can't figure out the situation, our chance has come!"

"What did the elder brother say?"

"This Guo Jieshuai led the army to the south, probably because he had something to do with the nobles in Laizhou, so no one came forward to flatter him, and no one provided supplies. There are soldiers and food, so he doesn't care at all. He directly ordered me to come forward and lead people to repair the port facilities within three days, so that a large number of food ships will berth later..."

"How can this be done? There are only 35 households left in our Tunbao, 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.

"You think, according to the books in the hands of the Commanding Army Division and the General Manager's Mansion in the early years, here in Laizhou, there is a Lugu who will be assassinated, and the first fifteen or six mukes will be taken away, right?"

"According to the 15th year of Dading, there are seventeen mukes."

"That's seventeen...don't interrupt! It was like this in the early years, but what about now?"

Aluhan asked: "Now in Laizhou, how many people have the title of pro-guan Meng'an? How many people have the title of pro-guan Muke?"

"There have been too many signings in the past two years, and the imperial court did not reward them with money. They just threw down official positions that don't cost money. When a cat or a dog joins the army, he has to take down his official status. Even those who only work in the fields are often Give me a Meng'an Mouke. I estimate that there may not be twenty or thirty Meng'an in Laizhou City at this moment, and two or three hundred people in charge of Mouke. If the sons in the army in Yidu are released, Meng There are more than a dozen more for An, and more than a hundred more for Mouk.”

"That's right!" Aluhan raised his right hand, put his index finger and thumb together: "So, our Mouk actually has no status. I am in charge of Muke, ahem, and I am also a poor man, and my status is even worse. Worse than ants!"

"Everyone is poor, brother Aluhan, you may not be poorer. But, so what?"

"We know what's going on. This Guo Jieshuai has just arrived, but he doesn't understand the situation in Laizhou. He probably only looks at me according to the old year's book, and regards me as the kind of mugger with real power in his hands... That's why he gave the order , let me come forward to recruit people to build the port for him."

"Isn't that over? Where did we get the manpower? If we can't do it in three days, don't we want to beheaded?"

Aluhan sighed a long time: "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!"

Aluhan patted his chest and said, "That is to say, I have the final say on who has food or not! In this world, who doesn't want to have something to eat? Taking this opportunity, you Say, can we call back the householders Qimin and the exorcists who have fled to various places?"

The companions all smiled happily: "So that's the case! Good, good!"

Aruhan patted his thigh heavily: "Then go to work separately! Go now, don't delay!"

He stood up and pointed at his subordinates one by one: "You go to Haicang Salt Field, you go to Purification Town, you go to Bochang Town, you have been to the township side! Just say, the new Jiedu envoy sent me, Chief Aluhan Mouk repaired the port roads and was responsible for distributing rations! I want 1000 strong men, and the people of Ben Moke are the priority! You guys, each is responsible for 250 strong men, let them tomorrow morning, no, at last Well, let’s all come to Haicang Town tonight!”

After the imperial court moved Jurchen to the Central Plains and Shandong, many poor people even bought their wives and sold cattle to make up for the shortage of war horses in the army.

Therefore, in Japan, Emperor Sejong ordered many times to sign the adult members of Meng'an Mouke households into military registration, give money and rice to support them, and let them do some things to repair bridges and roads.

Aruhan's subordinates are no strangers to this.At the moment, everyone was joyful and excitedly went their separate ways.

(End of this chapter)