Wu Chao: Take the whole family to escape the famine

Seeing Shen Yuan, County Magistrate Sun hurriedly came over with a smile: "Miss Shen? I heard you went to the Western Regions? How is the situation over there?"
"The grassland is barren, there is no green at all, and the cattle and sheep are all starving to death." Shen Yuan replied, and then added, "Ten days ago, the locusts counterattacked, but the weather is getting colder and colder now, and the locusts are probably going to die." I have to freeze to death, and without the locusts, I can grow crops.”

"Planting crops? It's too late." County Magistrate Sun shook his head helplessly, "Even if we grow radishes and cabbages, it will take a month or so to harvest. What do you eat during this time?"
After a pause, he continued, "I can only flee to neighboring countries. We estimate that there will be more and more refugees in Wantian County."

"That's right." Master Li also sighed beside him, "I heard that there is more chaos in Luozhou City, and many refugees from the Western Regions formed gangs and became bandits, robbing houses everywhere.'

"I've heard about it too." A merchant who was also invited to discuss countermeasures answered, "Didn't my cousin get robbed when he came back from defeating Luozhou City? Not only robbed money, but also robbed women, which was very fierce."

After hearing this, everyone discussed.

"The group of bandits numbered in the hundreds and is growing rapidly.'

"I heard that it was very cunning. The government sent five people to clean it up, but they couldn't even find the family's lair. They blocked most of the people in the mountains."

"The gates of Luozhou City are not dared to open now, the people outside the city are pitiful, food is also robbed, women are also robbed~~ these unreasonable beasts.

Someone said angrily: "Since this is the case, why do we care about the lives of these people from the Western Regions? Let them die."

"That's right, don't give them porridge, let them get out of Dazhou."

The county magistrate Sun originally invited these merchants to discuss refugee resettlement countermeasures. Unexpectedly, he didn't say a few words, and everyone was filled with righteous indignation.

He hurriedly comforted him: "Everyone calm down, those who fled to our Wantian County are all women and children, as long as they are settled properly"

"Replacement? Why resettle them? Maybe their men are robbing their homes in Luozhou City, and we are still here to raise wives and children for those gangsters, are you stupid?"

"Yes, Sun Juling, if you want to encourage us to donate money and goods, I won't donate a penny."

"I don't donate either, so why should I help them?"

The county magistrate Sun was also extremely helpless, at this moment Shen Yuan said loudly: "Everyone be quiet, listen to me."

Everyone knows Shen Yuan, the owner of Fengming Restaurant, Baohetang, and Nishang Pavilion, and later became the big owner of Tianxia Commercial Bank, revitalizing all the unsustainable shops in Lingzhou City.
In short, during this period of time, Shen Yu'an became famous, and everyone respected and admired her.

"Everyone, shopkeepers, I just came back from the Western Regions. The reason why I went to the Western Regions was to send a batch of grain to Lishui Village."

"Why should I send food to them? Is it because our Tianxia Commercial Bank likes to be such a bad person? Of course not."

"Do you all still remember the locust plague in the eighth year of Qiheng? How many people went to the Western Regions to seek a way out? Did they receive help from the people of the Western Regions?
"I don't know about the others. In short, our Shenjia Village has received the favor of [-] sheep from Lishui Village. These [-] sheep saved the lives of the entire Shenjia Village.
"There are bad guys everywhere, and there are good guys everywhere. How can you kill a boatload of people with one shot?"

After hearing Shen Yu'an's words, many women from the Western Regions also gathered around and knelt down.

"This girl is right. I remember that there was a locust plague in the Great Zhou Kingdom seven years ago, and my family took in a family of five."

"My family also took them in."

"And my home~~
With this statement, many people mentioned that they had taken in the victims of the Great Zhou Kingdom who had fled the disaster seven years ago.

Now those merchants stopped talking, and everyone is not hard-hearted.

Seeing that they were wavering, Shen Yuan said emotionally: "Over the years, regardless of the diplomacy between Da Zhou and the Western Regions, at least the villages and towns bordering on Wantian County and the Western Regions have always been friendly. I don't know about Luozhou City, maybe it is Generations of evil have resulted in rampant bandits today. If there is no good cause, how can there be good results?'
"Look at the refugees who came to our Wantian County? They are all old and young, women and children, and no man came. Why do you think about it?"

After hearing Shen Yu'an's words, everyone turned their attention to those kneeling on the ground. They were all women, old people and children, and they seemed to understand something.

Shen Yuan said loudly: "Did all the men there starve to death? Of course not, but the men are afraid of flooding into Wantian County and causing chaos here, so they only let the women and children in the family come to seek a way out."

"Just say that in the Lishui village I have been to, every family was so hungry that they ate grass roots, but why did they come to Wantian County to grab a grain of rice~~~" Shen Yu'an's eyes were red as he said, and the eyes of the people who listened were also red.

"I donate 50 taels of silver." The merchant who was the most angry just now spoke first.

"I donate 30 taels."

"I donate rice for a stone and potatoes for a stone."

"I donate three stones of potatoes."

After the situation opened, almost all the merchants present began to donate money and food, and the victims of the disaster in the Western Regions kneeling on the ground burst into tears and shouted gratitude.

After receiving a batch of money and food donations, how to arrange their residences next? This has become a difficult problem again.