Liu Yan and they were busy, Chen Wenhui was not idle, she and Hu Mingzhu devoted themselves to disaster relief as soon as they arrived in Heyang City.

First, a porridge shed should be set up on the edge of Heyang City, and then a free medical point should be set up. After finishing their work in Heyang City, they went to several prefectures where the disaster was more severe to set up porridge sheds and free medical centers. In the midst of the chaos, a friend of Chen Wenhui, Lan Caiyu, came.

Lan Caiyu came as the daughter-in-law of the Wang family and her husband Wang Zhicheng. The Wang family's bank was the main force in this disaster relief, and Liu Yan and Bai Jiayuan worked together to provide insurance, loans, and roads and canals in several hard-hit states, and recruited people affected by the disaster to provide relief through work.

This is a lot of work, and the Wang family naturally sent their eldest son Wang Zhicheng to deal with it. Lan Caiyu pestered her husband and came over. After coming to Heyang, Lan Caiyu found that Wen Hui Mingzhu did not stay in Heyang City, but went to the hardest-hit states, so she rushed over with her husband. Wang Zhicheng was busy signing contracts with the officials, while Lan Caiyu directly joined Wen Hui Mingzhu to devote himself to disaster relief.

Wen Hui and Mingzhu were very happy, but they didn't expect their favorite eldest sister Caiyu to get closer to them after getting married.

The three friends are very capable, set up porridge sheds, give free medical treatment to the victims, and deal with them in an orderly manner. As for the food needed, it was continuously transported by Zhao Chongyi, anyway, Zhao Chongyi got a lot of food from his family.

After a few days of busyness, porridge sheds and free clinics were set up in several important places, and Hu stayed in the disaster area to provide free medical treatment to the patients. Wen Hui, Mingzhu and Caiyu returned to Heyang City. At this time, Zhao Chongyi also finished raiding his house and came to Heyang City with the remaining part of the money and grain. Wang Zhicheng also handed over all the silver, signed the contract, and returned to Heyang City.

Several boys and girls gathered together, and each of them spoke about the work they had done during the time they had been apart.

Liu Yan has been listening. There is an episode in this, although Lan Caiyu, who saw Liu Yan for the first time, told her repeatedly before that Wen Hui and Mingzhu had repeatedly told her that the fourth prince was very handsome, so she must be calm when she saw it. can't be ugly, but Lan Caiyu was still captured by Liu Yan's glamorous light, and of course, her husband Wang Zhicheng was as unproductive as her.

After all, Wang Zhicheng traveled north and south to help his father take care of his business, and he was more knowledgeable, so he quickly reacted and hurriedly pulled his wife, who was still stunned, to make amends to Liu Yan. Caiyu was pulled by her husband to kneel down, and only then did she react, and she was shy and scared for a while. The shy thing is that she is a woman who has a husband, and she has been reminded again and again by her friends before. It's so rude. What a shame. She was scared because her family was just a silk merchant. The in-laws are just a wealthy businessman, so they are out-and-out commoners, but the four princes are nobles and treat others so rudely. If the four princes turn their faces, it will be miserable, not only will they be unlucky, but they will also bring the two mothers-in-law and mother-in-law.

Fortunately, Liu Yan gently asked them to get up and said, "Don't take this little thing to heart, you can quickly talk about the loan." ”

Lan Caiyu and Wang Zhicheng's hearts were finally put back in their stomachs. Wang Zhicheng was grateful, and hurriedly talked about the loan.

In total, there were four provinces that were severely affected, all of which were in the northwest. A few states in the south-east are fine. Because there are several large rivers and a few rains, the disaster is not severe, and some provinces are not affected by drought at all. But the victims are universal, because this disaster is mostly man-made. Food prices have soared, and more and more people have been affected.

Therefore, the matter of disaster relief has become easier, first of all, in the holy decree, those corrupt officials and grain merchants have been beheaded and confiscated, so the price of grain has been flattened, and all the money and grain obtained from the raid have been used for disaster relief, which has solved part of the problem of money and grain, and there is no need to apportionment to the people. Therefore, as long as the key prefectures are picked, the provinces that are really suffering from the drought will be appeased, and the disaster relief will be done.

There is only one good official in these four prefectures, so although this prefecture was severely affected by the disaster, there were very few people who died, because this prefect had already asked his superiors to open the official warehouse for disaster relief, so this prefecture only lost some money and food, but it did not hurt the root.

The other three prefectures are not good, they were originally affected by the disaster and there is no harvest, but now they have encountered corrupt officials and raised food prices, so many people have died, and more people have fled the famine in order to survive. Of course, some people fled to Deqing, after all, Deqing is close to Heyang Prefecture.

Now the Wang family's bank is mainly to lend money to these four prefectures, these four prefectures began to envelop the victims of the province to work for relief, began to build roads, the four prefectures began to build a total of 11 roads at the same time, the road from the four prefectures to the provincial capital Heyang City, and the road from each county in the prefecture to the prefecture. These eleven roads cost a total of more than 800,000 taels of silver, all of which were loaned to the government by the royal family's bank.

At the same time, the people of the Lan family, Lan Caiyu's elder brother, also went to the four mansions and reached an agreement with the officials in the mansion that the Lan family would provide vegetable seeds that can be planted now, as well as wheat seeds planted in autumn, and cotton seeds planted next spring, all of which were provided by the Lan family for free, on the condition that the cotton grown by these people would be sold to the Lan family.

In this way, these victims can make money while building roads, buying food, drinking, and using, and at the same time take the seeds of the Lan family and plant them in their own fields, so that they will be able to survive these few months safely, and when the vegetables grow up, they will be able to solve part of the food problem, and then wait until next year's wheat harvest, even if they survive the disaster year, it is estimated that the road will be repaired by that time.

Many of these victims are sick, some of them eat indiscriminately because of hunger, and some even eat Guanyin soil, these people are treated free of charge by the doctors of the free clinic, in the process of preparing for road construction, the victims have not yet worked, so they go to the free porridge shed set up by Chen Wenhui every day to eat some porridge, so as to save their lives.

Of course, the free clinic consumes a large number of pills every day, which are provided by the pharmacy, and the porridge shed also consumes a large amount of food. A large part of this grain is obtained from the family, and some of it is to be bought, and the money for this and the pills are paid for by the government.

These are the unified adjustments made by the history of thorns. First of all, I used the money I got from the house, which was really a lot, and I filled most of the gap at once. A small half of it will come from the donations of the wealthy merchants.

Hearing this, Liu Yan said: "We also received a lot of donations this time, but in fact, they were all beyond our expectations, and we got a total of more than 20,000 taels of silver." But there's still some way to go. ”

When Chen Wenhui heard this, she had an idea and said, "I have an idea to let these rich businessmen take the initiative to take out some silver." ”

Everyone looked at Chen Wenhui in surprise, and Chen Wenhui said with a smile: "We can set up a merit monument to commemorate these wealthy businessmen who generously donated money, and this monument is erected in the most central place of Heyang City." If the person who donated a lot of money donates, not only his name will be engraved on the tablet, but also the name of his shop. Even more was donated, and even the name of him and his shop was engraved. It doesn't matter if you donate less, just engrave it ordinarily. This is also to express the court's gratitude to these wealthy merchants who are kind and generous. Also, the first place, you can wait for the stele to be erected, and participate in the unveiling ceremony with the four princes and the history of the assassin, and unveil the stele together. ”

All the people were attracted to the idea. In fact, there are many monuments like this in this era, but without exception they are all used in religion, such as Taoism, Buddhism often accepts donations, so they build a stone monument like this for fundraisers. But no one has used this for disaster relief yet.

Think about it, this is also a merit, and it is normal to carve a stone tablet to commemorate it. Many people in this era carved stone tablets, and the literati gathered and wrote a good poem to engrave the monument as a suspension. Such a great merit and helping the victims of the disaster is so full of positive energy, and it should be engraved as a memorial.

While the people present were still thinking from the perspective of politics, Wang Zhicheng, as a businessman, had already seen a huge opportunity from it.

Wang Zhicheng was the first to say: "If this is the case, our bank also wants to donate, and we will take out 10,000 taels of silver." We are now preparing to set up a semicolon in those four prefectures, Heyang City already has our semicolon, but the scale is a little smaller, and we plan to expand the semicolon in the future, this time Lord Assassin Shi also expressed his support for our bank, so our bank is ready to expand the semicolon to every prefecture in Heyang Prefecture has a semicolon. We donated 10,000 taels of silver, hoping to engrave the name of our bank. ”

At this point, everyone understood what this meant to those merchants.

This is a huge billboard, and it is permanent, the material is stone, and all of them are not afraid of wind and rain. Because this is a donation for disaster relief, it can be recognized by the people, and what advertisement can compare to this.

Everyone seems to have seen the scene of countless businessmen rushing to donate.

Sure enough, what happened later was the same as everyone imagined. Thorn Shi agreed with this method, so he and Liu Yan held a meeting with the merchants again and told them about this matter, but the enthusiasm of these merchants was too high, and everyone rushed to donate, wanting to leave the name of the shop on the stele.

In the end, everyone competed fiercely, and the Wang family's donation of 10,000 taels was originally the highest, but someone soon caught up. Wang Zhicheng was very courageous, and added 10,000 taels on the spot, so that he could keep the first place. The businessmen present hurriedly donated, some 1,000 taels, some 5,000 taels, and finally Bai Jiayuan saw that it was too messy, so he made the decision, saying that as long as it was more than 5,000 taels, the name of the shop was engraved. In this way, everyone donated more than 5,000 taels.

Those who can come to the banquet are all big merchants, and those who are small and small are not qualified, so the number of people is not large, less than 30, but the money donated is not a lot at all, and in the end there are more than 360,000 taels of silver. Liu Yan also showed a rare smile.

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