The daily life of Dali Siqing

Chapter 142 Disaster Relief Strategy
Wang Mu brought the inventory lists of large and small grain merchants in Pingshan County, with a total of [-] shi of grain.

Although not, the meaning is already obvious. They fully cooperated with the imperial court in disaster relief, and a group of grain merchants even collected 1 taels of silver to donate to assist the imperial court in disaster relief.

I originally wanted to take advantage of the snow disaster to make a fortune, but I didn't expect to lose a lot of money in the end.

The per capita donation of 1000 taels of silver is not a small amount for these grain merchants.

But in the eyes of the grain merchants, it was money for life. Yang Qingyuan's action of capturing Chen Bing really scared the grain merchants, and Wang Mu's information provided a divine assist.

The image of a bureaucrat who is ruthless, decisive, and simple in the emperor's heart arises spontaneously.

Even people with deep roots in the capital like An Shigeng fell into the hands of Prefect Yang. They little shrimps, why don't they try to find a way to save themselves?
This 1 taels of donation contains the full desire of the grain merchants to survive.

If there was a donation, Yang Qingyuan would naturally not refuse, and accepted the 1 taels of silver. Although he could not buy food now, the taels of silver had other functions.

The next day, Pingshan County posted a notice stating that all people in Pingshan County will buy grain with a limit from that day on.

Now the imperial court's food delivery has not arrived. Although Yang Qingyuan has nearly [-] shi of grain on hand, the amount of grain is not enough compared to the population of Pingshan County.

Pingshan County has eight counties under its jurisdiction, with a registered population of more than 3407 million. Counting unregistered black households, there are at least 80 million.

Even if each person only eats half a catty of rice per day, it will consume nearly [-] shi of grain a day.

Therefore, after Yang Qingyuan confiscated all the private grains in the hands of the grain merchants, he immediately chose to limit the purchase.

What about the overall food shortage?
Planned economy, macro-control.

All the people registered in the register buy grain with their household registration, and each person is limited to eight catties of grain for ten days, and the same household can send people to buy together.

Yang Qingyuan set up four grain sales outlets in Pingshan County and eight grain sales outlets outside the city.

In this way, the food consumption rate can be quantified in Yang Qingyuan's eyes.

At the same time, Yang Qingyuan sent people to transport [-] shi of grain to Lingshou and Shiyi counties, which are currently the most food-deficient.

At present, because most people still have some food in their hands, there is no food crisis.

But according to Zhao Jianfeng, the number of people who come to the porridge shed to receive rice soup every day has been increasing.

Yesterday there were only 11 people, today it is close to [-], and the registered victims are only [-]. This shows that as time goes by, more and more people are short of food.

In order to prevent ordinary people from mixing with the victims, the government specially boiled the rice soup to be thin and tasteless. Anyone who stutters at home would not want to drink this rice soup.

Not only food, but housing is also a big problem now.

The [-] victims could only huddle together in simple shacks to keep warm, and some people froze to death every day.

Yang Qingyuan transferred [-] tents from the city defense army, but it was only a drop in the bucket to face the [-] victims.

After thinking about it for a while, Yang Qingyuan found Zhao Jianfeng, the county magistrate.

"Zhao Juncheng, go find a way to find some craftsmen who can build wooden houses!"

Zhao Jianfeng was a little confused, so, "Wooden house?! Carpenter? What does your lord mean?"

"If things go on like this, even if there is enough food, the victims will freeze to death. They must have a house to keep out the cold. Building a new house is not only expensive, but also extremely slow. Building a wooden house is the fastest and most economical! Hurry up and put up a notice, everyone Two silvers, a reward for craftsmen who are good at building wooden houses."

"My lord, but the yamen has no manpower to build wooden houses."

"The victims of the disaster are human hands, and they use work as relief. Anyone in their prime, after being registered with the government office, can participate in the construction of wooden houses, eat rice porridge, and get ten coins a day."

Yang Qingyuan is already thinking about resettling the victims after the disaster. Building houses and paying wages are all preparations for post-disaster reconstruction.

After the relief food from the imperial court arrives and the food shortage is overcome, Yang Qingyuan will also find a way to arrange work for the elderly, women and children.

If there is something to rely on for the old, something to use for the strong, and something to support the young, then the world will be peaceful.

"My lord, I'll do it now!" Zhao Jianfeng also understood what Yang Qingyuan meant.

Not only must the disaster victims have food and housing, but they must also have something to do.

After Zhao Jianfeng understood, he immediately went to post the notice and at the same time rang the gong along the street.

Under the heavy reward, there must be something.

Soon, three people came to apply.

Yang Qingyuan didn't choose, and directly asked the three of them to lead a team of disaster victims to build houses the next day, and select the best ones.

Practice brings true knowledge.

Yang Qingyuan's plan has the nature of work-for-relief, but it is not friendly to the elderly, children, women and children.

But the important thing now is to let more people live, and Yang Qingyuan's approach is currently the most effective.

In three days, three hundred wooden houses have been built outside Pingshan County.

These wooden houses are simple in structure, fast in construction, and can keep warm and keep out the cold. This is a craft that one of the craftsmen learned from the land of Mobei when they followed the caravan.

It will take about five more days for all the wooden houses to be built.

Then Yang Qingyuan turned his attention to food. Now it is the middle of winter, it is definitely unrealistic to plant it. The wild animals have reduced their activities, so the easiest way to get food is only the river.

There is a river outside the city of Pingshan County, which is a tributary of the Yellow River.

Although the surface of the river is frozen, there are still fish activities below, and after a year of growth, the winter fish at this moment is called plump. If it is used to make fish soup, it is perfect, and it can alleviate the problem of food shortage. Dilemma, but also to supplement nutrition.

So, Yang Qingyuan found a few old fishermen who had fished in the Yellow River, and asked them to be the bosses and start fishing.

At the same time, the women among the victims also had jobs, such as killing fish, deboning, and cooking soup, which are all women can do, and the food of the victims has also improved visibly.

In addition, Yang Qingyuan spent 3000 taels to purchase a large amount of cotton wool from the county, and asked a group of experienced female workers to lead the women among the victims to start making cotton clothes and quilts.

If the snow disaster is over, maybe a group of skilled female workers can be trained to open a cotton-padded clothes and quilt workshop here.

Everything seemed to be going in a good direction until the arrival of an official document from the county seat.

"What?! The grain brought in from the capital was robbed!!? Who is so bold to grab the relief food?!"

Zhao Jianfeng handed the official document in his hand to Yang Qingyuan. As soon as he received Yecheng's reply, Zhao Jianfeng notified Yang Qingyuan who was organizing disaster relief outside the city.

According to the official document, the grain transported from the capital took a waterway detour to Jingxian County, Jizhou, and was transferred to the counties of Jizhou after landing in Jingxian County.

The grain transported to Pingshan County was robbed by a group of local bandits headed by Tian Hu in Zhending County.

The Jizhou Preparatory Army, which was in charge of escorting grain and grass, was completely annihilated in the case of a sneak attack, and the first batch of 15 shi of grain that was transferred was all robbed.

Li Xunhuan, governor of Jizhou, immediately sent a message to Yang Qingyuan after learning about the incident.

At this time, the Jizhou military preparation army was either transporting food, or was stationed in Shanggu along with the main force of Tiance's army. They couldn't spare any troops to suppress the bandits, so they could only hand it over to Yang Qingyuan to solve the matter.

(End of this chapter)