"I believe that everyone here has the people in their hearts, and they don't want the people to starve to death, and they are willing to do their best to lend a hand." After Ye Houde finished speaking, he took out a stack of silver tickets from his sleeve pocket and put it on the table and said: "This construction was proposed by the official, and the official took the lead and donated 10,000 taels of silver first." ”

After finishing speaking, he looked at the big and small officials present, and each one did not miss anything, waiting for their reactions.

This 10,000 taels of silver is not much in the eyes of rich people, but it is really a lot.

Let's just say that this Ye Houde, who has been an official for so many years, his salary is all added up, and there is not so much, if it weren't for the successive purchase of some fields, the purchase of some shops, and then the younger brother Ye Houcai to do some business, he would not even be able to take out this ten thousand taels.

"Lord Ye is right, as the parent officials in the northwest, we can't watch them starve to death, we must always do our part, although the junior official's family does not have much money, he is willing to donate two thousand taels of silver, but he has no money today, but the junior official will definitely send it tomorrow." The first to speak was Zhou Tongzhi, that is, Zhou Wanyun's father.

"Hehe, hehe, Lord Ye's idea is good, although the official has suffered a lot of losses this year, but for the sake of the people in the northwest, and even more to share the emperor's worries, the official is also willing to donate five thousand taels of silver." Under Ye Houde's gaze, Meng Fucheng's treacherous eyes rolled a few times, and then he smiled at him and said.

"In addition, I can also donate a hundred stone of grain from there to meet the emergency for the time being." When Meng Fucheng spoke, he looked like he was concerned about the people and anxious about the people's anxieties.

But only he knew what kind of grain he was talking about for a hundred stones. It's all damp and moldy old rice, and even pigs don't like to eat it.

The other officials, big and small, saw that the two biggest officials had taken the lead, so naturally they couldn't say that they didn't want to donate money because they had no money, and they all donated a certain amount of silver taels. There are a thousand taels, and there are a few hundred taels.

However, the total amount donated by so many people is less than 100,000 taels, and if this money is used to buy food, how much food can be bought and how many people can be saved?

Compared to the entire Northwest, this is really just a drop in the bucket.

But. Something is better than nothing!

Besides, it was only donated by those here. If we can mobilize the rich people in the entire northwest to donate money and materials, and add them up, we can save many people.

"On behalf of the people of the Northwest, I would like to thank you for your generosity, tomorrow. I would like to make this list of donors public. Then organize the manpower. Call on the whole city to donate money, food and materials, I don't know what you have to do? Looking at the list of donors presented, Ye Houde still frowned. But soon, he asked with a forced smile.

"It would be a good thing to call on the people of the whole city to donate money and materials together, and the petty officials felt that it would be better if they could write down the names of all the donors and post them to the public for commendation." Zhou Tongzhi thought for a moment and said.

Next, the other officials also said their own construction, and after a few hours, they finally discussed the specific charter and designated a special person to be responsible.

It's just that Ye Houde knows that what he does is just doing his best to obey the destiny of heaven, if the emperor really doesn't send people to bring food to relieve the disaster, then what awaits him is that a large number of people leave their hometowns and become displaced people, or go to other places to seek a way out, or be starved to death, and even more strictly gather people to start an incident!

After a tiring day, when Ye Houde returned to Ye's mansion, it was already the end of the unitary period, and he learned from the porter that there was a messenger from Shahe Town looking for him.

guessed that he did not go to the mansion to look for him, but came to the Ye Mansion, and must have been entrusted by his wife or daughter to have a private message to him.

I was excited, I didn't care about eating, so I immediately recruited the person to come over and asked about Yejiazhuang carefully.

This tolerance is also a clever one, otherwise, He Guangqing would not have sent him to deliver the letter, and immediately told Ye Houde what he knew.

"That's very good, thank you for your hard work, you can rest in the house for one night today, and go back tomorrow." Hearing that his wife's health had improved greatly since his daughter passed, Ye Houde was sincerely happy.

Although he was worried about his wife and daughter when he heard that some people gathered to Yejiazhuang to make trouble, he was relieved to learn that the matter was resolved satisfactorily and Yejiazhuang was still building the courtyard wall, and he was glad that he agreed to his daughter's request and let her go to Yejiazhuang.

Otherwise, his wife's illness will not improve, not to mention, if someone goes there to make trouble, with a few guards, I don't know if I can protect my wife thoroughly.

Let the good students be entertained, Ye Houde entered the study alone, and after taking care that no one was allowed to enter, he opened the envelope that was sealed with fire paint.

took out the letter paper and saw the font of his daughter Juanxiu's own style, Ye Houde felt very pleased.

When he saw what was written in his daughter's letter, Ye Houde was immediately shocked, and the more he looked at it, the more excited he became, and even unconsciously stood up, took the letter paper, approached the candle flame, and read it word by word, for fear that he had read it wrong.

It wasn't until I read it back and forth many times that I laughed and said, "The sky will not die, and I will not die in the northwest!" ”

I thought that my daughter told him in a letter, saying that she had already moved Jin Han, the young owner of Liangqu Villa, and that Jin Han had promised her that she would buy 50,000 taels of gold grain and transport it to the northwest.

The thought of transporting 50,000 taels of gold grain to the northwest made Ye Houde's heart unable to calm down for a long time.

Calculate, these 50,000 taels of gold are 5 million taels of silver, 1,000 copper plates of 1,000 taels of silver, and the ordinary coarse grain is only 20 copper plates and a catty, and there is no rice in the northwest, and the price of this polished rice will not exceed 500 copper plates.

Now that there is a shortage of grain, the price of grain has risen, that is, it has risen tenfold, and the coarse grain can be sold for 200 copper coins a catty, and the one tael of silver can buy at least five catties of coarse grain, and if it costs five million taels of silver, it can buy 20 or 30 million catties of grain. If there is really so much grain transported to the northwest, then each of the 200,000 people in the northwest can get about one or two hundred catties of grain equally.

Even if you plan for the worst, even if you have one or two pounds of silver and one pound of grain, you can buy back five million catties of grain, and those five million catties of grain can still play a lot of roles.

What's more, no matter how expensive the grain is, it is less than one tael of silver and a pound of coarse grain.

Ye Houde wanted to know how his daughter persuaded the young owner of Liangqu Villa, but his daughter did not say it explicitly in the letter.

Knowing that this matter is very important, and it must not be known by outsiders.

It's just that he is very puzzled that his daughter actually takes care of him, if Jin Han transports grain to the northwest, the pricing of grain and the disposal of grain can be decided by him, and the money recovered from buying grain can also be used by him.

You can continue to buy food or use it for other purposes!

(To be continued.) )