Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 1059

Chapter 1069
Especially the official roads. In addition to the main roads built by the government, there are also a large number of branch roads. These roads have not been uniformly planned by the imperial court. Although the roads are of different widths and specifications, at least most of the countryside has good road connection.Especially on the official road, in addition to the official inn, many private restaurants and inns were built, and even hospitals appeared.

When you are away from home, no one can guarantee that you will not suffer from a headache. It is okay in the city, and there is always a chance to find a hospital, but once you are in the wilderness, it will be extremely troublesome.However, in the Jingxiang area, Ran Tan discovered this small hospital.

With Ran's in-depth understanding, Ran's also found that there are often people like Xiangyong and Zhuang Ding conducting drills or inspections among the townships and villages in the Jingxiang area, but there is nothing to be seen here. Robbers and traders of all kinds can pass through with road guides specially issued by the government.

Of course Ran Ting knew that this happened mainly because Jingxiang's law and order was very good.

Ran Bin didn't know that the Eastern Jin Dynasty was in the southeast, and the Southern Song Dynasty was also in the southeast, but Nanyang had no chance to rule the river with the Manming. The fundamental reason was that the Nanming lost the Jingxiang area and did not have enough financial support.The Eastern Jin Dynasty was able to persevere because Huan Wen used Jingxiang's money and food to feed his Anxi Army and defended half of the country for the Eastern Jin Dynasty.However, what Huan Wen did would hurt the people of Jingxiang, and Ran Ming reduced the burden of the people, which made the people support the rule of Wei State very much. Even though Jingxiang is the place where Tuan Wen started his family, there is no place for Huan Wen here. land.

In fact, to put it bluntly, Wei's agricultural tax was not much lower than that of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. After all, the Eastern Jin Dynasty only supported officials.However, the state of Wei even distributed salaries to officials. As a result, the operating costs of the court in Wei state were much higher than those in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.It's just that there are no petty officials in the state of Wei to extort violently, and there are no various miscellaneous servants. This is the bulk of the people's burden.

When Ran Ting entered the territory of Dangyang, he encountered a strange thing.Ran Yan sent a guard to find out the situation, and after a long time, the guard came back and said: "Young Master, I have already figured out the humble position, and now Shiqiao Town is going to change, and now the mayor of the town is being elected, and now this Shiqiao There are three candidates in the town, and they are lobbying door to door!"

"What is an elected mayor?" Ran Tan asked in confusion.

"Nowadays, our Wei Dynasty adopts the three levels of prefecture, county, and county. Below the county level, ten households are one Jia, and ten Jia are one fort. Ten Forts are one town, and there is a mayor. The mayor enjoys from eight The treatment of high-ranking officials is not selected by the imperial court, but by the selection of the chiefs of the castles. To become a chief, you must first obtain the consent of more than half of the ten households. To become the chief of the castle, you also need Half of them agree." In fact, not all the bodyguards that Ran Ming sent to the princes were military soldiers, and this time when Ran Tan and Ran Yun were traveling, the bodyguards around them were all talented in civil and military affairs.

Ran Tan vaguely remembered that Ran Ming had told him that throughout the dynasties, the imperial power did not leave the county. In fact, this was very wrong.The grassroots is also very important. If the people below distort the policies of the imperial court, it will cause very bad reactions.At this time, Ran Ming also slowly carried out a series of reforms, but Ran Ming's reforms did not come to a sudden decision.Instead, it lists a number of regions for experimentation, and then promotes it after success. Of course, during the trial process, if problems are found, they will be corrected and various systems will be improved.

Ran Tan laughed and said, "How do they lobby?"

"This... basically means that if he becomes the mayor, he will definitely benefit the villagers. He promised everyone that he will build a road, Baobaotong, so that everyone can travel in rainy days without stepping on mud."

Ran Yan was also very interested in this novelty, so he walked to the edge of a rice field in a village and heard a middle-aged man in his 40s say: "No matter how hard it is, the children cannot be miserable, and no matter how poor they are, education cannot be poor. Well, our generation suffers from illiteracy. If someone is elected mayor of the town, I will do my best to promote the construction of the town's primary school. By then, everyone's children in Shiqiao Town will be able to go to primary school. If you want your child to stand out and shine in the family, please vote this river grass for him!"

This middle-aged man's eloquence is very good, and the people are all simple people, how can he stand up to his words?They were all very excited by what he said.In particular, the candidate surnamed Xing said loudly: "If Xing is elected as the mayor of the town, the 180 mu of land on the edge of the Hewan official road will be lost to build the town primary school. I have lost my family and property, and I have to go to Xiangyang to invite a great Confucian to come back as a teacher!"

Hearing this, the surrounding people applauded fiercely.When Ran Ting heard this, he said, "This man is really talented!"

Ran Yi went all the way from Luoyang to Xiangyang, then passed through Dangyang and Jiangling all the way, and then went upstream. After entering Yizhou, Ran Bin went to some remote mountain villages, but after entering Yizhou, the customs changed drastically.However, the situation in Yizhou at this time is not as good as that in Jingzhou. Although they still wear tattered clothes, their faces are full of blood, and a lot of food is missing, which shows that they can basically have enough food and clothing in their lives here. Be content with the life you have now.

However, when Ran Ting entered Nan'an County, Ran Ting heard that the Jinkou Grand Canyon in Nan'an was charming, so he took his guards to the Jinkou Grand Canyon.The so-called Jinkou Grand Canyon has strange peaks and dangerous rocks on both sides of the canyon, forming various pictographic landscapes, resembling humans and animals, lifelike, overlapping mountains, green trees, waterfalls, and various mountain flowers and wild grasses. , Forming a series of gorgeous scenery, the natural charm is elegant and extraordinary.There are many small ravines along the coast of the canyon, which are well-arranged. The most famous one is the line of sky. The cliffs on both sides of the ravine are close to each other. You can only look at the sky when you look up. Follow it into Laochanggou in the center of the canyon. This section is a few kilometers long. The road is even more amazing, with ravines and cliffs, gurgling streams, singing birds and beasts, and trails, all of which are the perfect display of nature's "maliciousness".

Came to this Jinkou Grand Canyon, which made Ran Bin linger, but something happened.When they came to the Jinkou Grand Canyon, Ran Lin and his party encountered an iron-eating beast. (Today's National Treasure Big Bear) Ran Bin has never seen this kind of animal. Looking at the cute giant panda, Ran Bin wanted to catch it back and give it to Ran Ming.Even if you can't capture it, you can still hunt a bear skin and give it to Ran Ming.

When the guards saw that Ran Bin wanted to flatter Ran Ming, they were also very excited.Dozens of people in this group began to chase after them.However, what Ran Ting didn't expect was that although the iron-eating beast looked fat and clumsy, when it started to run, its speed was astonishingly fast. The dozens of experts chased it for a long time but lost the trace of the iron-eating beast .Ran Bin is a resolute person. To put it mildly, he is a bit guilty. It doesn't matter if he is twisted, but something happened.

There was heavy rain in most of Yizhou, and Qianwei County was the hardest hit area. Ran Lin and others camped on an unnamed mountain in the Jinkou Grand Canyon. As a result, due to the heavy rain, a large-scale mudslide formed, and the road down the mountain was washed away. .However, the dry food they carried was only ten days old.Trapped on a mountain, those guards paid the price of more than a dozen casualties before spreading the news.

Luo Chong, the prefect of Qianwei County, was frightened to death. If something happened to the dignified prince under his rule, he would die.Luo Chong didn't dare to stop for a moment, and immediately organized the young and strong to enter the Jinkou Grand Canyon for rescue. However, although the torrential rain had weakened at this time, floods and mudslides were rampant. How easy is it to enter the most dangerous Jinkou Grand Canyon to rescue people?

In the Jinkou Grand Canyon, the most dangerous thing for Ran Tan and others is not the rainstorm, mudslides and floods, but the lack of food.On a small hill with an area of ​​less than one square kilometer, facing the surrounding floods, Ran Lin was a little desperate.Looking at the seemingly moderate flood, there were whirlpools everywhere, and half of the guards were sent to break out to report the news, but more than a dozen people were swallowed by the flood.

"My lord, eat some!" Xu Qian, the Ouchi guard, carried the fried batter in the lunch box and handed it to Ran Yan.Because of inner panic, sometimes it is much more terrifying than real hunger.Once morale collapses, it is useless to have enough water.After getting through that difficulty safely, after the guards have accepted this fact, the next is the day, that is, endure, endure, endure.However, the accident eventually happened.Just when the guards broke out and scrapped at noon the next day, an open coffin floated down from the upper reaches of the canyon. The coffin, which was uncontrolled, finally hit a huge boulder at the foot of the mountain and tore apart. It looked like it was swallowed by the flood.

Ran Tin shouted loudly: "Save people, go and save people!"

The guards had no choice but to untie their belts, tie them into a rope, and then went into the water to rescue the three people in the flood.After the hard work of the guards, a tragedy finally happened. Of the three people who were urgently put down in the coffin by the upper reaches, only one was rescued, and the other two children could not be found.

At the very beginning of Ran Ting's rescue, he caused a lot of trouble. It turned out that although there were not many families in the Jinkou Grand Canyon, there were dozens of Orion households living here.When the mudslide disaster occurred, this small village composed of hunters and herbal gatherers was directly submerged by the mudslide.Fortunately, people in the mountains have a deep understanding of mudslides. When the rainstorm just started, they realized that mudslides might occur, so they left the village in advance to take refuge in the mountains.However, due to the haste of leaving, the food they carried was limited, and they ran out of food in a few days.Knowing that they would starve to death on the mountain, these villagers decided to go down the mountain desperately.

Ran Bin rescued one of the villagers, and another 40 to [-] people were rescued in just three days. At this time, there were only [-] guards left around Ran Bin, and the dry food could last for half a month.However, with the addition of thirty or forty mouths to eat, Ran Bin's food was not enough.Xu Qian used the harshest means to keep everyone from starving to death, but Ran Tan was also short of food at this time.

Now Ran Bin and the rescued villagers still have dry food that can last for seven or eight days, but the problem is, who knows when the government's reinforcements will arrive and when the court's relief will arrive.Now all the official roads have been destroyed, and it is difficult for people to even walk. Even if the government has food, who dares to send the food.

The current situation, according to Xu Qian's intention, is to let the soldiers and civilians of Nan'an County fend for themselves. Of course, the local government and the imperial court will think of some solutions, but it will be of no avail.In times of famine, any grain of grain is life-saving, but Ran Tin actually wants everyone to distribute grain to save people, how can this be done?
Xu Qian said: "My lord, although we have some dry food, but... we can't save all the people affected by the disaster."

"Of course I know that we can't save everyone. If we can save one person, it's only one person!" Ran Tan said, "I can't wait to die. These are the people of Great Wei. How can I watch them starve to death?"

Xu Qian was also helpless, so he could only obey Ran Bin's orders, but Ran Bin also knew that food was not easy, so he changed from three meals a day to one meal, and only drank half a bowl of fried batter each time. It can guarantee that people will not starve to death.

Fortunately, there is no unparalleled road. On the third day, the flood began to recede slowly, and the flood slowly receded below the chest. Although it was still dangerous at this time, Ran Bin did not dare to wait any longer. He took the guards and used ropes to tie everyone into a string, and then, under the leadership of the strong guards, began to walk slowly down the mountain.

After walking for a whole day, the team of dozens of people only walked three small hills, and it was more than 70 miles away from Nan'an County. Seeing that it was getting dark, Ran Yan and the others camped on a slightly larger hill. , All the guards checked and found that there were more than [-] victims on the mountain.However, everyone does not distinguish between each other, and the property may be returned, and the food is basically gone.

In the middle of the night, Ran Bin was suddenly awakened by a burst of crying, and there were bursts of crying among the refugees not far away. Although Ran Bin was not deeply involved in the world, he also knew that the crying meant either rape or death.

Chaos suddenly broke out in the group of refugees not far away, the flames shot up into the sky, and there were cries for help and wanton laughter everywhere.Ran Yan also stayed up all night, and dozens of people in the entire team couldn't sleep all night.

Ran Tan frowned, came to find Xu Qian and said, "Guard Xu, should we send someone..."

In Xu Qian's clear eyes, it looked like a deep ancient well, and said: "We can't go, we have too few people, and this small number of people is like sand entering the sea. In fact, I have heard that natural disasters are not terrible. , the most likely is a man-made disaster. We have seen natural disasters before, and now it is a man-made disaster. If we didn’t have nine knives and a few crossbows, those disaster victims would have come to rob us.”

Xu Qian raised his eyes and took a deep look at Ran Bin: "Young Master, you must hold your breath. If you go out rashly tonight, where are we going to suppress people? Maybe the thieves will take advantage of it, so don't say yes." Safety is critical, even the dozens of people we rescued may not be able to survive. Young Master, please sleep peacefully, we will talk about it tomorrow."

Ran Yan sighed, he was deeply shocked by this meeting.Food is the most important thing for people, if there is no food in the stomach, the king of heaven and Lao Tzu will not be able to take care of it.

(End of this chapter)