The Prodigal Son of Zhenguan

Building a house for the people is different from building a mansion for Li Fu on the farm.

For a house, after the foundation is laid, the walls are built, and finally the beams are put up, and the roof is covered with straw. In this way, a simple house is built.

It can be lived in, which is much better than the shabby sheds outside now.

Moreover, even in the past, ordinary people lived in this kind of house.

This kind of house is cheap because the materials can be found everywhere.

Soil, straw, and the most important thing is the wood used for beams, which can also be cut in the woods with an axe.

If someone in the village wants to build a house, just call the villagers to help, and the cut trees can be transported back. Just run a few more times, and it will be done.

In this day and age, who doesn't have some skills in their hands to make a living? Even if the skills can't make a living, at least it's more than enough to take care of their own family and work for their own family.

There are no such high requirements.

The next morning, Li Fu and Yan Lide came to the disaster victims with the boxes for drawing lots.

The matter had been discussed with the village head, and the village head agreed with Li Fu's statement.

One person from each family came out and drew lots to determine the order of moving into the house.

Some were lucky, with the whole family surviving, and some were unlucky, with only women and children left.

Some, their wives and children died, and they were all single.

Whether there were several people in a family or only one person in a family, the order was determined by the drawing of lots, and no one should say anything extra.

If the order was behind, it could only mean that you had bad luck, and you couldn't blame others.

After drawing lots, Li Fu asked Wu Liangye to watch the statistics here, and let the village head and others do it.

The village head was the most respected among these people, and they had to listen to what he said.

The house started to be built on the first day. After all, more people meant higher efficiency. Several houses were built together, and six houses were built in three days.

But after the new house is built, it needs to be aired for a few days before people can move in.

There are no doors, windows, or furniture.

It's just a house.

But even so, it's much better than living in a shed.

People can move in when they have nothing to do, and as for other things, they can slowly buy them later.

Amid the joy and excitement of everyone, the first group of people moved into the house.

There were no beds, so Li Fu asked people to build a kang in the room, which was connected to the stove in the main room.

At night, Li Fu and others gathered in the tent.

"Now that we can see the results, it is a good thing for us and the people outside." Li Fu smiled and said, "After working so hard until today, I can finally breathe a sigh of relief."

The main reason is that the people's emotions have settled down, and everything is developing step by step.

Moreover, a letter was sent from Chang'an City, and the food dispatched here will arrive soon.

Li Fu will not face the current situation of running out of food and being unable to continue.

"Yes, I can breathe a sigh of relief." Yan Lide said, "These people look very different now, and they are full of life."

When we first came here, the victims here were pale and thin, eating tree bark and grass roots to fill their stomachs.

If someone's child died earlier, they had to find a place to deal with and bury him.

The people around looked at the dead children with green eyes. If they didn't deal with them, who knows what would happen.

Not to mention the dead children, even if they were alive, if they were eaten by the children, they would be a pile of meat in the pot.

If the food didn't arrive, Li Fu had no doubt that the child of Mrs. Luo would be put into the pot that night.

Let alone meat, these victims haven't seen oil for a long time.

"We have to continue." Li Fu said: "The food issue is the top priority, and we can't just focus on the present and ignore the long-term."

"The court can send food for emergency use, but in the long run, these foods are far from enough." Li Fu said: "The season is just right now, and winter wheat must be planted."

"But now the fields are destroyed. If you want to plant the land, you need to clear the original fields. But now, we haven't even built a house." Yan Lide said.

"So many days have passed, how is the river bank?" Li Fu looked at Jiang Que: "If there is nothing important over there, I wonder if we can withdraw a group of people first."

Jiang Que thought about it.

"You can withdraw two-thirds of the people, and I will lead the rest to do the work slowly." Jiang Que said: "From now on, I have observed that there will be no more heavy rains, and the Ying River will naturally not have any problems. In addition, the dredging and repair of the river bank in recent days will not cause any more dike breaches."

"Well, then we will first withdraw some of the manpower and concentrate on, build all the houses and settle the victims thoroughly first, so that they can feel more at ease and devote themselves to farming. "Li Fu said.

"Those women who can work, and the men who were not in good health before and have almost recovered, can be asked to go to the fields first." Yan Lide said: "As much as they can do."

Building houses is a very strenuous job, and there are not many places where women can be used. Most of them just make adobe bricks and step on the mud.

The rest is easier for men to do.

Li Fu nodded.

"Okay. ”

After the discussion, the arrangements can be made the next day.

After everyone left, Li Fu began to write a report to Li Shimin, mainly about the disaster relief situation here.

He also borrowed a lot of things from the surrounding government offices, and Li Shimin had to take care of the repayment of this debt.

As for how to repay, Li Fu didn't care, he just borrowed.

In Chang'an City, Li Shimin received Li Fu's report, and after reading it, he handed it to Changsun Wuji beside him.

"Look, this kid, let him do the work, let him get the credit, and in the end, the account was all on my head!" Li Shimin said unhappily.

"Originally, I thought that the matter of Linying was tricky, but after His Royal Highness Prince Jingyang brought people over, there was no trouble, so the inappropriateness in it was fine. "Changsun Wuji laughed.

"Yes, the flood left everything. He was thinking about rebuilding Linying, so he was not short of anything. He was smart and knew to borrow from the surrounding government offices.

He even borrowed in my name and asked me to pay him back."

Li Shimin sighed.

It was him who was so bold.

If it were another official, who would dare to put all these accounts on the emperor?

He must have found a way himself.

Just like Gao Shilian, although he also mobilized materials in the surrounding areas in the name of the court.

But he didn't use the emperor's name so blatantly.