In June, Guangnan East Road ushered in the harvest season amidst the chirping of cicadas.

Under the scorching sun, people rush to harvest rice and dry the rice regardless of the heat. This is the rainy season. If there is a heavy rain, it will add a discordant syllable to the harvest season.

Zhang Heng knew this very well, so as early as the end of May, Zhang Heng began to organize the refugees who had just moved south from the north to help with the autumn harvest. Of course, this was not unpaid labor. Farmers who needed workers paid for it. This kind of labor made the refugees who had just moved south to help with the autumn harvest.

Refugees have income opportunities that can help them survive.

Of course, the state government will not make it difficult for them to survive. As soon as these refugees arrive on Guangnan East Road, the government will immediately take them in, allocate them fields and homesteads, help them build houses, and find temporary temporary housing for them.

The job can help them get through this new embarrassment.

In June, more and more refugees were sent from the north, because the farmers on the East-West Road in Hebei Province were no longer able to survive. They had no harvest this year and the drought continued. They had to choose to leave their hometowns and sell their crops.

In the farm house, together with the old women and children, we took a boat to go south.

Since May, more than a dozen ships full of people have arrived at Guangnan East Road almost every day. Zhang Heng ordered the prefecture and county government to shift their focus to accepting refugees.

But at the same time, the government still had to organize the autumn harvest, and the Changping warehouse on Guangnan East Road also had to collect grain as soon as possible. The Changping warehouse had been empty for a long time and needed to be filled urgently.

For Guangnan East Road, this year's food security is a very serious year. Now there are millions of mouths in Guangnan East Road that need to be fed. In the future, at least one million people will go south and arrive at Guangnan East Road.

, even if the drought on Hebei's East-West Road is really as remembered, then it is not impossible that two million people will flood into Guangnan East Road in a short period of time!

After all, if the people on East and West Road in Hebei cannot survive, they will have to find a way to survive. If they go to other places, they will become refugees, but when they come to Guangnan East Road, they can continue to become homesteaders. How to choose? Isn't it simple?

Therefore, Zhang Heng was extremely busy.

In fact, there is more to it than just the autumn harvest, collecting grain, and helping the homeless. The entire Guangdong South Road is undergoing drastic changes, and the layout of heavy industry led by Lin'an Commercial Bank has already begun.

Tong Boding said: "We have initially achieved the training goals of the first phase, and we are basically able to implement orders and prohibitions."

Xi Wenyan was also stunned: "I know... I haven't said it yet. Why do you say that you have something good going on here?"

Therefore, although the imperial court discourages and disallows it, the feudal officials will still be friends with their staff, but they are not called their staff's followers to the outside world, but are mostly called friends.

As soon as June passed, the number of refugees on the East-West Road in Hebei Province suddenly increased. According to reports from boat operators, Haizhou had become a huge refugee camp, and a whole refugee area was formed here waiting for refugees to go south. This number may have already

Reached the level of 100,000.

Zhang Heng was a little surprised: "Why are there so many?"

For the first time, Zhang Heng felt that he couldn't cope with the energy. There were so many things and so many things. He had to work nearly fifteen or six hours a day, but he still couldn't handle them all. Xi Wenyan saw this

In this situation, it is recommended that Zhang Heng recruit staff to assist in the work.

This time Zhang Heng's selection of subordinate officials is not limited to the original local people. As long as they are northern refugees who have settled down and meet the selection conditions, they can participate in the selection.

When Zhang Heng heard about this, he summoned Tong Boding to ask about the embankment team.

Zhang Heng said happily when he heard this: "Eight million stones is enough to feed 1.5 million people for a whole year, and this is only the output of the Xijiang Delta. Adding in the food from other states, it can solve the food problem of about two million people."

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Compared to when we were in the household, the affairs along the way seemed much easier.

Zhang Heng poured Xi Wenyan a cup of tea and said with a smile, "Sit down and have a rest."

In addition, Zhang Heng asked the ships heading north to carry a large amount of food to Haizhou for disaster relief. With so many people gathering in Haizhou, the food supply in Haizhou must be insufficient. If you don't have enough food, you will eat people.

It's a simple truth.

The refugees moving south are full of insecurity, so they have to compete for land, homesteads, opportunities to make money, and everything, so it is extremely difficult to manage.

Zhang Heng couldn't sit still after hearing this, and immediately wrote a letter asking the imperial court to send troops to Haizhou to maintain discipline to avoid incitement by people with ulterior motives. If there is another civil uprising, it will be a catastrophic disaster.

So when Xi Wenyan came in, he saw Zhang Heng leisurely drinking tea. Xi Wenyan couldn't help but feel jealous: "Everyone is so busy that they want to split themselves in half and serve as two people, but you are so free. This is too much."

Is it too much?"

The imperial court did not encourage staff, and the management of staff was very strict.

Tong Boding said: "Before the autumn harvest, all personnel have been recruited, but during this time, they will be back to work on the autumn harvest."

Zhang Heng asked curiously: "How do you calculate it?"

Xi Wenyan smiled and said: "The statistics are out, from 20,000 hectares of fields, a total of 8 million shi have been harvested!"

Therefore, we must prepare early. If any of these things are not as good as our budget, it will be a catastrophe! We have to be prepared!"

As the brains of the state government, Zhang Heng handles these affairs in a streamlined and fast manner, which makes the various affairs move forward extremely quickly. Therefore, even if the affairs are very busy, Zhang Heng still seems to be able to handle them with ease.

Zhang Heng asked: "How about discipline training?"

Zhang Heng is very concerned about the selection of subordinate officials. He not only presides over it himself, but also takes time to conduct interviews. He wants to promote these subordinate officials himself, so that he will be more able to control the entire Guangnan East Road in the future. Of course, the more important purpose is

It is still necessary to select capable and conscientious people to do things.

This measure is naturally intended to break the local people's control over the subordinate staff system and allow more people to enter the system. Breaking this limitation is also a good thing for the local area. Moreover, the northern population in various states and counties will be increasing. If the southern people are allowed to

Too many subordinate staff may cause a lot of conflicts, which is not conducive to maintaining stability.

Xi Wenyan had a smile on his face: "...congratulations to Caoshuai, congratulations to Caoshuai!"

The reason is that while the Song Dynasty took back the military power of Jiezhen, it changed the power of the royal government at all levels to recruit staff on their own to central appointment. This is also the reason why a large number of staff entered the country's official system, which is similar to signing a letter to judge official affairs.

Secretary of Jieduzhang, recording events and joining the army.

Zhang Heng nodded and said: "People have less oil and less meat. It is normal to eat two kilograms of rice a day."

Cement factories, brick factories, steel mills, shipbuilding companies, various mines and other heavy industries appear on the land of Guangnan East Road like ground-breaking developments.

Xi Wenyan and Zhang Heng reported that officials in various states and counties are now very critical of this, and the influx of large numbers of refugees has left states and counties struggling to cope.

But still busy.

Some refugees entered local people's homes with knives and killed eight people in a row, causing a massacre and putting the locals in danger for a while.

The imperial court was happy to see the results, but state and county officials on Guangnan East Road complained a lot about it.

Zhang Heng thought for a while and said: "According to previous statistics, the seven counties in the Xijiang Delta have a total of about 40,000 hectares of fields. Rice cultivation is about 20,000 hectares. Two million acres of land. Each mu of land produces about three shi. That means

, six million stones of food?”

After Zhang Heng was overjoyed, he immediately issued an order: "The plan to purchase grain from Guangnan West Road remains unchanged, and we will increase the purchase to ensure at least enough food for three million people!"

In other words, Guangnan East Road will become the fifth road with one million households!

With such a huge influx of people, any other road might be a huge disaster, but under Zhang Heng's management, Guangnan East Road already has basic carrying conditions.

Xi Wenyan smiled and said: "It seems that Commander Cao has something good. Please tell me quickly so that I can also be happy."

The overall demand can be determined, but the details must be done better. If not done well, such a huge influx of people will still lead to huge bitter consequences.

Although Zhang Heng does not have a deep understanding of these things, many technological breakthroughs are breakthroughs in thinking. Just piercing a piece of paper is enough to trigger a technological revolution in the industry.

Xi Wenyan wiped his sweat, lifted up his soaked summer clothes, and said with a wry smile: "You'd better give me a big glass of cold water, it's ridiculously hot out here."

Population is wealth, and no one understands this truth better than Zhang Heng.

Therefore, Zhang Heng expanded the team of subordinate staff in various states and counties. The original states and counties could not afford more subordinate staff because the population was too small and there was no need. But now there is an urgent need for more people to do things. If there is no expansion,

, there is simply no way to meet the demand.

Another example is a shipbuilding company. Zhang Heng will inspect the shipyard and propose improvements to the shipbuilding process inside, such as watertight cabins and other similar technologies. He will also inform managers of the principles of the assembly line and ask them to use similar methods to improve efficiency.

Then there are also suggestions for technology on the dock and so on.

Xi Wenyan shook his head and said: "People don't dare to eat like this. For an adult man, one pound or three meters is enough for a day. And this is a strong labor force. There are more women and children. They can only eat one pound a day. As for the need for

Don’t count a whole year…”

The main thing is that I don’t know how many people will come from Hebei East-West Road this time, and I don’t know whether there will be floods in this year’s rainy season and whether our embankments will be washed away.

Although these industries do not require Zhang Heng to keep an eye on them, worry is unavoidable.

But these staff officers also have their own affairs, and the chief officer still has to deal with a lot of things, especially when it comes to transfer envoys and strategic envoys. They have a large area under their jurisdiction, and their daily routine work is

If you want to handle it all by yourself, you will have to put in a lot of effort and may not even be able to accomplish it.

Zhang Heng shook his head and said with a smile: "It's all just a false name. The mission remains the same. As it was before, it will be the same in the future. Why, what's the good news for you?"

Tong Boding took the order and left.

When the refugees went south to Guangnan East Road, for other people, it would have been like the sky was falling, but for Zhang Heng, it was a rare opportunity to seize it.

Zhang Heng was delighted when he heard this: "How do you say that?"

Zhang Heng thought about it carefully and felt that in this case it was indeed necessary to recruit some staff to assist. Otherwise, he would always be stuck in such routine work and would be unable to maintain a macro judgment.

Xi Wenyan smiled bitterly and said: "Are you based on two kilograms of rice per person per day, and then based on the amount for one year?"

Zhang Heng requested the imperial court for establishment, and on the other hand, he started the selection first. Guangnan East Road is too far from Bianjing, and the time has passed long ago, so he will be able to cope with the selection and training first.

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Zhang Heng chuckled and said: "I know, but what I want is the ability to withstand risks. Count on the breadth, so that the people can have enough to eat.

Massive grain reserves, vast undeveloped land, booming industry, and fast-track commerce are all like children waiting to be fed, eager for a large population.

In addition, Huizhou, Chaozhou, and Meizhou, places that accept a large number of refugees, each state can recruit a thousand security teams, which are under the management of the berm team. Instructors will also be sent from your side. Training must be accelerated to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible.

The number of refugees heading south has exceeded expectations, and more berm teams are needed for security management!"

For example, in the steelmaking plant, Zhang Hengde provided some basic knowledge about steelmaking ideas for future generations, such as raising the temperature of the blast furnace. Although it seems simple, it can create steel with better performance.
To be continued...