Chapter 229: After the Disaster (1)
In the aftermath of the disaster, all that remains is a ruin of ruins and countless displaced victims.
For a time, although the city of Deira was not full of mourning, the faces of the people walking on the streets were more or less sad that could not be concealed.
Many people searched the ruins of what was once their home, trying to see if they could clean up some of the remaining supplies, at least a few pieces of torn clothing, and then use their fabrics to piece together a rudimentary tent that would not shiver in the cold wind of the night.
It would be nice if the surviving food could be cleared, and the gruel used by the town hall for disaster relief will always be so thin that it can barely make ends meet at best.
The dead are gone, but the living are still thinking about tomorrow.
Soon, the disaster relief decisions made in advance by the three principals of the noble council, Barry, Hodge and Atro, were translated into specific decrees issued by the town hall.
The precedents and clerks who had survived the disaster had not had time to congratulate themselves on their survival, and they had to start working quickly under the orders of their superiors.
They each took a small group of city guards and carried the decree with the large seal of the city hall to the various refugee gathering points, and read aloud the decree of the city hall to these refugees, who may not know a single big word, but still have the ability to work.
There are a lot of written decrees, but in a nutshell – cash for work!
The first is the rough registration of refugee information on a family-by-family basis, followed by the daily distribution of barely subsistence food to each family.
Accordingly, these refugees must participate in the work of the town hall organization.
There are many kinds of work.
Those who have a craft can choose a craft job, craftsmen always have one more way to make a living than ordinary people, and people with a good craft will not suffer anywhere.
It doesn't matter if most of the people don't have any skills, they can do coolie work, and the hard work of cleaning up the rubble is also in urgent need of a lot of manpower.
It didn't take long for the clerks, who had broken their legs, to get the refugees involved in all kinds of work.
Refugees don't get much money a day, up to 10 coppers, but usually 10 copper can buy half a bag of enough food to eat for a few days, and even if the price of food rises now, it is enough to exchange for a small bag of wheat.
Coupled with the small amount of food distributed every day, many refugees have found that they can save a little bit of food for their whole family, and after a few days of accumulation, the income from a certain day's work can be exchanged for a piece of linen that is not long, and then add a piece of clothing.
It has to be said that although most of the aristocracy has varying degrees of decay, they are also an indispensable part of maintaining this society in a dominant position, they enjoy a higher status, control the power to rule, and have outstanding wealth, but they must also bear the responsibilities that come with it.
People accept the rule of the aristocracy, and the nobility naturally needs to maintain their rule, and in the face of foreign invaders, it is naturally these nobles who bear the brunt.
And the same is true of the nobles who leave their posts and fail to act in the midst of the disaster, as Barry says!
The aristocracy may not know a lot about how to provide disaster relief, but when they receive an aristocratic education, there will always be some involvement in this aspect.
The only question is whether the nobles are willing to bear the huge expenses for disaster relief, after all, this is not only the expenditure of a large amount of food, but also the wages of the refugees for work, the construction materials used for reconstruction, etc., which means a huge financial expenditure.
But when Barry, Hodge, and Atro, the three nobles in charge, nodded their heads, and it all came naturally.
The organized hordes began to search and rescue the wounded, clear the rubble, repair the houses, and renovate the walls.
When a large number of refugees are involved in the reconstruction work, it not only stabilizes the law and order environment, but also accelerates the rehabilitation of the city.
For these refugees, who were mostly low-class civilians, they do not need much, and they can be satisfied with working hard to feed their families.
As for the occasional murderous crowd of knights and soldiers, and then the shouts, clashing, and howls of the nobles, and then a faint smell of blood and burnt flesh in the air, these refugees, who were busy with all kinds of work, did not care.
That's not something they can care about.
After the disaster, it was also a reshuffle of various established rules and a reshuffle of various forces.
Whether or not they can snatch a fat piece of meat from it depends on their respective strengths and means.
There is no doubt that in such a reshuffle, the Curtis family is the most supportive one, and the Deere family and the Newton family have also taken the opportunity to expand their own power.
Thanks to the swallowing of many of the property and fiefs of the purged nobles, the nobles of Deira, led by the Curtis family, also recovered quickly for a while, and after making up for the losses of the disaster, they still have the financial resources to support this large-scale reconstruction.
Taking the most important food to stabilize people's hearts, all nobles basically have the habit of storing a large amount of grain in their cellars, at least enough food to eat for more than two years when their families are besieged in the city!
And the grain that was copied from the homes of the purged nobles, plus a batch of grain released at a low price by the Dill family, who was in charge of the grain cloth business, at least supported until the ruined port area was simply repaired, and the merchant ships transporting grain could dock to unload and import grain.
But it is clear that no matter what you do, it will not be smooth sailing.
In just the first day of the city's intense operation after the disaster, several nobles were already assassinated in public while traveling!
At first, the nobles were very calm about this, and in their minds, this was just a desperate counterattack and a dying struggle of the purged nobles, and they had seen a lot of this kind of means of losing and sacrificing in the struggle to die together.
But soon, the nobles of Deira City frowned at the news that, according to those who had witnessed the assassins, were all dark elves!
And then a nobleman who was assassinated, but the Guardian next to him killed the assassin, proved these testimonies, and the assassin who wanted to assassinate him was the Dark Elves!
Immediately afterward, a piece of news spread quickly through the city of Deira!
"The disaster suffered this time was caused by the nobles within Deira's city who took the initiative to collude with the Death Aspirations Sect in order to achieve their own ulterior purposes!