Chapter 895: Disaster Relief and Porridge
The victims of this disaster came from Zhili Province, which is not too far from Jingshi, and there were locusts in three counties, and there was no harvest of grains. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 About 30,000 or 40,000 people poured into the capital, posing a serious threat to the security of the capital.
Emperor Kangxi ordered the opening of official warehouses to release grain, give porridge to help the victims, and arrange their accommodation. The royal palaces were responsible for boiling porridge. The Ruiwang Mansion is responsible for the victims of the Dongzhimen area.
In the Dongzhi Gate, the façade room at the south exit of the prince's underground secret room was originally a snack bar opened by Chu Darttou's family, but now it is closed for porridge, and the courtyard is where the soldiers of the house use several cauldrons to cook porridge at the same time. The servants and eunuchs were responsible for putting the porridge, and the refugee station grew a row to receive the porridge, which was orderly and not chaotic at all. Because I was afraid that someone would take the opportunity to make trouble when I received the porridge, the cauldron of the porridge was placed in the courtyard, so as to avoid the crowd surging and burning people.
These grains were all corn bought by Bing'er and Xue'er in India, and they were airlifted back to be made into cornmeal and dried in the house, and sealed in a cave in the Xing'an Mountains of Heilongjiang Province, thousands of miles away from the house. It is boiled into corn paste porridge, which is much thicker than the very thin rice porridge seen in the movie, and it is also very hungry. There is a small amount of salt in the porridge, and there is no stomach acid after drinking the porridge. The Indian corn that Bing'er Xue'er bought is not three sacks or five sacks, but more than 10,000 sacks! There are also ordinary rice and sweet potatoes grown in the house, which are all things that can quench hunger and survive.
The government not only distributed corn porridge to the refugees, but also Chinese medicine soup to prevent the plague. These prescriptions were brought back by Yun'er from a foreign land, and they were researched and developed by the Chinese medicine department when they were "non-iodine" in a foreign land, that is to say, they were inherited from the ancient Chinese pharmacopoeia and supplemented and perfected into a prescription, which can first improve the immunity of the population and prevent problems before they occur.
A dose of medicine is not expensive, but there are many people who use medicine, not only thousands, but refugees plus all the citizens, big families, and official eunuchs in the capital! These medicines and porridge are all the capital left by the Rui Wangfu after doing business, and all of them are given to the subjects of the Qing Dynasty, without taking a penny!
Several successive natural disasters, locusts, droughts, floods, mudslides, pressed to Kangxi, pressed to the Qing Dynasty, with the full economic support of Prince Rui, the young Kangxi survived one difficulty after another, there was no riot among the refugees, and the plague did not spread. Lord Rui, King Rui's Mansion, and King Xuan's Mansion have become the admiration of everyone in the capital. Now, no one talks about the existence of goblins in the Ruiwang Mansion, and when they pass by the mansion gate, they have to look inside with a little reverence.
Some of the refugees were hungry and sick on their way to flee the famine. Since they are fleeing the famine, they are poor, and they have no money in their pockets, so they can only hold on when they get sick, and they will infect others. Therefore, many refugees spend the night in dilapidated and dilapidated houses after entering the city because they have no money for medical treatment. The illness is also getting worse. The government immediately organized a temporary medical team, led by Yun'er, disguised as a male Langzhong, and took Ling Juan, Zhu Yiguan, Zhu Yan, Zhu Zheng, Yue'er, Lian'er and others to walk the streets and alleys to treat the refugees. Those with mild symptoms took Chinese medicine, and those with severe symptoms were treated with the medicines that Ling Juan bought when she came. Now Yue'er and Lian'er are already injected intravenously, and the effect of Western medicine to reduce fever and inflammation is indeed faster than that of traditional Chinese medicine.
Other royal palaces also followed the example of the Rui royal mansion to provide food, money, and medicine, although they could not be compared financially, but they also tried their best.
The prince also ordered Tian Liang and Nalan to take out the refugee clothes and beggar clothes made by the women in the house one after another for disaster relief. At the same time as hot porridge was distributed, unclothed refugees and beggars were each given a cloak. Not only can it be worn as clothes, but it is also quite good to go back to the residence and be covered as a cover.
Although the color of these clothes is not very good, they are very strong and very windy. And it's not the number of ten or eight, it's hundreds, thousands!
Emperor Kangxi often wore the clothes of the son of a large family, and took a few guards to see the situation at the disaster relief site. When he saw a cart handing out something, it didn't look like porridge or medicine, so he leaned over and saw that it was a cloak, which was specially issued to refugees and beggars who were not clothed. Children of a few years old are given one piece for two people, and one child is given for one adult. It was Tian Liang and Nalan who issued refugee uniforms, Kangxi leaned over and asked in a whisper: "Why do the women in your house make clothes so quickly?" ”
Tian Liang clasped his fists and saluted: "Back to the third master, this is not made at one time, they are usually made a few things today and a few things tomorrow, and they are used when they are saved together and used urgently." ”
Kangxi was so moved that his eyes were hot, so he quickly withdrew and went to the side to wipe his tears. He didn't know about the refugee service at all, and the prince never told him. Beggars and refugees asked, "Masters, who are you giving us clothes to wear?" ”
"If you wear it, you will wear it, and ask so much what you do?"
"We're thinking about when we'll be able to repay in the future."
"You don't need it, my lord doesn't need you to repay it."
This was reported to Wei Dongting's subordinates by Wei Dongting, and Wei Dongting told Kangxi as it was, Kangxi's emotion could not be expressed by crying.
The battle of withdrawing the feudal domain has reached the final stage, and Wu Shicong's rebels are retreating, but he still continues to dream of being an emperor in Hengyang.
Emperor Kangxi sneered: "Can there be two days in the starry sky? Can there be two kings in a country? Thinking about the old thief of Wu Sangui, it was not how loyal he was to the Qing Dynasty at that time, but to save his life and open the gate of Shanhaiguan. If you fall, you should be loyal to the Qing Dynasty, he is good, repeatedly stepping on two boats, and later set himself up as the emperor, how can this villain be the quality of a king? His grandson is not as good as him, and the Wu family is full of anger! I will never conspire with the thief in the world, so let Wu Shicong dream for a few more days. ”
Don't look at the current campaign to withdraw the feudal domain, it is also within the scope of several southern provinces. The northern provinces are all recuperating and recuperating, and the current national strength and people's living standards are better than the Taiji period of Emperor Taizong and the period of Emperor Shizuzhang, and it is really beginning to enter the prosperous era of Kangxi.
I have been in business for 18 years, and Master said that it would take about 20 or 30 years to do business, but he did not say that it would take 20 years. So there will be two years or a little longer or a little shorter time, and there will not be much difference.
However, now is the stage of relief for the victims, and the food and medicinal materials from the government are being delivered to this small courtyard in trucks, and the most urgent thing to do is to provide relief to the victims and minimize the losses.
In half a month, the disaster situation was alleviated, and the victims who had fled the disaster from their hometowns left the capital one after another to return to their homes, and the manpower transferred for disaster relief also returned to their homes to continue doing business.
In the process of disaster relief, the prince saw that it was more convenient for mobile vehicles to sell goods. Let Tian Liang and Nalan take people to assemble a cart and pull goods to the countryside to sell goods. Now it's possible to sell in a big way. The prince proposed that the previous mobile stall bed could still be insisted on, and a few more should be set up, and the pro-soldiers of the government drove to the surrounding towns to sell goods.
Just do it. Tian Liang took his subordinates to install a carriage with rubber tires, and each of the surrounding counties such as Fangshan, Miyun, Changping, Pinggu, Daxing, Yanqing, etc., was a big cart, followed by four personal soldiers and two guards. Not only the one who protects the cloth, but also the one who sells the goods.
In the underground secret room where the cloth is stored, make a space, install a few electric lights, put a few tables, cut a large roll of cloth of 100 meters into a hundred feet in size, and roll it on a wooden board suitable for rolling exotic cloth. Even though such a cloth is double-spoken, one person can move it.
The little Libu head is about to run out. At the beginning, the amount was very small, and they were all made into small fabrics such as sachets, purses, and handbags. Moreover, in addition to making clothing, genuine cloth is sold ready-made, and it is sold quickly.
Now Yun'er and Qing'er are completely friends, and all grievances are settled. Qing'er can change from a evil dragon full of evil spirits to a person who knows right from wrong now, I really don't know what kind of spiritual redemption and pain she has gone through.
Many people in the capital have already recognized the cloth of Yulong Cloth Village, including people from all walks of life. The fabrics used to make the garments designed by Fu Jin are only a small proportion of the exotic fabrics. One is that the Qing Dynasty people in that meeting could not be compared with foreign countries economically, and most of them were still women from their own families who made their own clothes, and they mainly bought ready-to-wear clothes. One is that ready-to-wear is very slow and much more expensive than cloth. People who buy ready-to-wear are looking good and fashionable in the style of ready-to-wear.
The scope of use of sewing machines is quietly expanding, and Mama Wang and Mama Song, who originally took care of the baby Beibei, although they are still taking care of the baby Beibei, will not look at them like they were as good as when they were young, because they have grown up, that is, taking care of life, changing clothes, bathing, these trivial things in life. Mrs. Chen, Mama Feng and Yang Er Liu'er have already started to use it. Mama Hong, Mama Jiang, Ke'er, and Xin'er in Fujin's room also used sewing machines. There are many places where you can use a sewing machine, in addition to making clothes, you can also embroider and repair flowers, that is, the flowers are embroidered and sold, they can be large or small, they can be used in clothes and pants, and they can also be used in various embroidery, so ready-made things are not very expensive, many large families like this kind of mending flowers, because they are too good-looking and too time-saving. In this way, the sewing machine thread is also used much faster.
All kinds of samples have been cooked, and those samples that I bought in a foreign land don't look as good as the women in the house now, but they are stepping stones. It has been sold with the finished product as the skills of the girls and grandmothers mature.
There are some things that Yun'er doesn't want to discuss with Fujin, it's that Fujin doesn't want to get involved, and always says that he doesn't know what those things are used for, but in fact, he still thinks that the things were bought with the money of Yun'er's father and daughter, and it's not good to mix them in by himself. But I can't bear to brush Yun'er's hospitality and trust, and sometimes give a small suggestion. It is to test sell it from the "domestic sales store" in the house to see if anyone buys it. Like is like, buy is buy. But as soon as he heard the price Yun'er said, he shook his head: "It's too cheap!" Can't sell like that! Fu Jin was the first to object.
"The price Yun'er said is for your reference only."
"That's pretty much it. It's not that my sister is greedy for money, she has to make money in business, and these things were brought by the master, so they can't be sold too cheaply. This is something that we don't have in the Qing Dynasty! ”
There are many bulk goods, such as soap and soap for washing supplies, laundry room, laundry detergent, hand sanitizer, etc., as well as wood carving, agate, jade, stone beads, jewelry, etc., as well as the 500 million goods that the eldest sister bought before her death, as well as those, wood carving products, acrylic thread, wool, blankets, carpets, flat glass, resin ornaments, ruyi knot braided rope, cross-stitch embroidery thread, Taiwan embroidery thread, sewing machine thread, lace, daily necessities, towel series, children's cotton wool sweater, T-shirt, scarf, children's hat, gloves, tablecloth, buttons, stainless steel products, coral jewelry, plastic supplies, toothpaste, toothbrushes, matches, cement, gorgeous boards, plywood, wallpaper, all kinds of tiles, backpacks, hot water bottles, hot water bottles, steel, wire, trolley boxes, mats, Simmons mattresses, velvet sticks, artificial flowers, spice jars, all kinds of paper, military tents, canvas gloves, raincoats, rain boots, washboards, laundry tubs, hot water bottles, warm water bags, etc., etc., etc.! In addition, Bing'er Xue'er brought back gems, spices, and Western toy knick-knacks from Yunnan......
However, the most common commodity is cloth, and all kinds of cloth have been put on the shelves of cloth and satin villages. All of a sudden, many shops in the business districts in the center of the capital, such as Dongdan, Xidan, and Zhengyangmen, were selling exotic materials, and there were also wholesalers from afar. It turned out that the citizens of the capital did not dare to buy, were unfamiliar with it, and were not accustomed to it, but now it is good, and they all know the convenience of exotic goods. The price is not more expensive than that of Daqing, and it is good-looking. In fact, the appearance of these shops has also added a lot of beautiful colors to the prosperous scene of the Qing Dynasty.
There are many materials that the prince gave to the army free of charge, such as rain boots, rubber shoes, military kettles, military shovels, military tents, canvas gloves, washboards, laundry tubs, thermoses, warm water bags, and so on.
In the 20 years since the withdrawal of the feudal feuds, the war in the south has been more severe, and the north has been much lighter, and the living standards of the common people have gradually improved with the recuperation and recuperation, and the level of purchasing power has also increased greatly. Many citizens of the capital are optimistic about exotic materials, and if they have money, they buy some and save them for their children to use in future marriages. There are also those fabrics, that is, chemical fiber cloths that are not fresh, and there were ten years from the sixteenth year of Shunzhi to the early years of Kangxi, and no one wore one out! Many people recognize its toughness and abrasion resistance. Ordinary people like to buy things at good prices and low prices. Those who have high-end goods have their own high-end taste to buy, such as Simmons mattresses, such as velvet fabrics, and fabrics for computer embroidery. Most of the things purchased by the three princes were affordable by ordinary people, and some were sold to members of the royal family and high-ranking officials.
With the continuous expansion of the sales area, some remote areas, southern cities and foreigners have also come to buy goods. There was a businessman who served the British royal family who boasted arrogantly that he would buy all the goods in the hands of the nine thousand years old. The purchasing power of foreigners is still quite strong, and their adventurous spirit is quite strong, and they want to buy any new goods when they see them. I don't even bother to ask the price, but Tian Liang, as the big shopkeeper, still has some control over the purchase of foreigners. Although those goods were bought to make money, Tian Liang was reluctant to sell them to foreigners. The focus is mainly on the common people of the Qing Dynasty.
The goods are slowly decreasing, and Yun'er is the most experienced. Many times, she deliberately gave the slightly old rags to the hands of the old, weak, sick and disabled when the soldiers went to the countryside to sell goods. Now, no one dares to say that the prince has bought people's hearts, and who dares to talk about the emperor is a great disrespect to the royal family!