Aspiring to the Ten Kingdoms

Chapter 25 The Yellow River Bursting
In November of the first year of Xiande, the Yellow River burst its embankment, and the floods rushed straight to the border of Yunzhou, and the surrounding Puzhou and Yanzhou suffered from it.

Luo Youdu sat on the court, looked at the five thieves who were beaten and had no strength to get up, and sighed, this world is inherently difficult, and God actually joined in the fun.

The five thieves escaped from Puzhou.

Because he was very hungry, he stole and killed the people's pigs in the suburbs, beat the villagers, and sent them to the officials.

In the face of this situation, Luo Youdu can only choose to put the thief in prison. He will have at least one bite to eat in the prison. If he leaves it outside, he will either starve to death or continue to commit crimes. He may be beaten to death, and he may lose his life for the crime of homicide due to resistance. .

Regarding the loss of livestock, Luo Youdu once again developed his skills as a peacemaker: "You see they beat you like this, and if they are more ruthless, they will kill people. If they are wrong, they will not lie first, and they will not die in the end. , you're not too sorry, aren't you? I don't think it's enough to accompany the pigs even if they remove their covering clothes. Otherwise, when they come out of prison, they will be punished to do hard work for you?"

All the people who reported to the officials looked at me, and finally fell on an old man.

He is the old man in the village.

The old man's parent sighed and said, "Forget it, it's all hard-working people, that's it. Official, Xiaomin retire."

Not long after Luo Youdu returned to his office, the voice of Gao Ze, the official of Kaifeng House, came.

"Brother Luo, I'm sorry to be promoted."

The powers of the Kaifeng government push officials are to maintain local public order and arrest thieves.

If they catch thieves, or catch people who are fighting, they will hand it over to Luo Youdu, the law officer, to join the army for trial.

Due to the long-term contact, the relationship between them is quite harmonious.

Luo Youdu stood up again and asked, "What's the situation?"

Gao Ze said: "Two groups of beggars fought on West Street, disrupting a lot of stalls. The exact reason will only be known after Brother Luo's trial.

Luo Youdu greeted and walked to the Kaifeng Mansion Court.

"Snapped!"

With the sound of Luo Youdu's gavel, more than ten beggars in ragged clothes entered the court under the escort of the yamen.

Luo Youdu glanced down the hall and found that more than ten beggars were divided into two waves, one wave was relaxed and did not have any fear.The other wave was shrunk, obviously afraid of him as an official.

It has been a month since this Kaifeng law officer joined the army, and he has encountered a lot of occupations such as "beggars".

Most of them are slackers, and they have a clear organization. They usually live on charity, and do some petty things from time to time.

This kind of person is not afraid of being caught, the whole prison is a free canteen collective dormitory.

Live hob meat.

They didn't realize the terrible accumulation of criminal records, they just thought that it was just a long time, and they didn't care about a little more criminal stains on their already crappy household registration books.

Luo Youdu asked the group of beggars who shrank their heads and said, "What's going on? Why are you fighting in the street?"

The group of beggars flinched for a while because they couldn't answer for fear.

It was a beggar from another group who said, "They robbed our territory..."

"Snapped!"

As soon as the gavel rang, Luo Youdu said: "Disturb the court, hit me with twenty sticks!"

He really despised such beggars.

There is no shame in begging for a living, people will always encounter difficulties.In this troubled world, being able to survive is not ashamed of your ability.But when you have hands, feet and strength, it is hateful to treat beggars as a profession to survive.

Twenty burning fire sticks a dozen, and the wave of beggars who were like hob meat immediately persuaded.

"We came from Yanzhou and just wanted to beg for food."

Luo Youdu looked at the beggar who had the courage to speak, his face changed suddenly, realized a problem, and hurriedly said: "How many of you are there, what is the situation in Yanzhou now?"

"I don't know, the flood flooded our village, and it's not clear if anyone came out. We only escaped the disaster by going into the mountains to collect herbs. Thinking that there is something to eat here in Bianjing, we will come first. already."

Luo Youdu didn't bother to ask any further. Obviously, the group of refugees who had fled and this group of beggars who regarded West Street as their own territory had a conflict in the city, and they directly asked the yamen to detain them temporarily.

He hurriedly returned to the office and found an old Tang territory map from the bookshelf in the room.

I read a lot of this military book, and I also spent some time studying the map.

He didn't bother to find the latest map, but just randomly got an old Tang map. The map was from the Li Zhi period, and the territory was drawn to Central Asia.

Soon he found Puzhou and Yanzhou on the map, they were not far from Bianzhou on the map.

Bianzhou is the name of Kaifeng in the Tang Dynasty, so Kaifeng is also called Bianjing.

"Zhang Jin, you have an acquaintance at the Kaifeng wharf. Go and investigate whether there are many refugees mixed in in the city recently. And whether there are refugees gathering on both sides of the waterway to and from Kaifeng."

Zhang Jin has already joined the head of the Kaifeng government yamen.

The Twenty Burning Sticks that beat the beggars before were his hands.

At this moment, I was ordered to leave immediately.

Zhang Jin's hands and feet are neat, but he has returned in half an hour.

Luo Youdu also got the expected answer and strode to Cui Yan's office.

Cui Yan has been living a very pleasant life recently.

Luo Youdu has tried all the cases that can be tried. He has nothing to do as the number one person. With a high salary, he tastes tea and reads books every day, and he is happy.

"Cui Daizhi, I suspect that there will be tens of thousands of refugees coming from Kaifeng. We have to prepare in advance. Otherwise, they will have conflicts with the local residents, which will lead to troubles for a long time. Today, Xiguan has already tried two cases because of refugees. And the derived cases. This should be the first wave, some people with fast legs and no family drag. The second wave is dragged by their families, and the third wave is behind. The old and weak women and children are behind. I looked at the map near the disaster. , there is no particularly big city, Kaifeng is the only and most promising place for refugees to get food. They will definitely come..."

Cui Yan looked shocked, and said in a loss: "No way! Luo Shenjun, don't be alarmist! The imperial court has sent Li Xiang to Yunzhou to supervise the construction of the river embankment to help the victims."

Luo Youdu said anxiously: "This is not an alarmist. After the disaster spread to Kaifeng, the official family planned to send officials to rescue the disaster. It has been a long time since they came and went. It is impossible for the victims to stay in place and wait for rescue, so there is only a dead end. One, there is only one chance of survival if you are scattered around for food. Kaifeng is definitely the first choice for all the victims of the disaster.

"When the second group and the third group of victims arrive, it will be a mess, and we must make first-hand preparations as soon as possible... Cui Daizhi, disaster relief has nothing to do with our Kaifeng House, but the Kaifeng House has the power to manage all people's livelihoods in Kaifeng. Trivial matters, the gathering of refugees will bring immeasurable harm to people's livelihood. We are obliged to meet the officials in Kaifeng and let the officials prepare early."

(End of this chapter)