Chapter Seventy-Five: Refugees
The so-called golden autumn is the harvest season.
For farmers who make a living in the fields, this is the most joyful time of the year.
But for those refugees outside Yao County, they did not have the slightest joy, and what appeared on their faces was sadness, confusion, and despair.
The gates were closed, and they lived in rotten huts outside the city, and they prayed for two alms of soup from the government every day, even if the porridge was crystal clear, with only a few grains of rice and sorghum, but in their eyes it was a life-saving delicacy.
Fu Xiaoguan and his entourage had already arrived in Yao County, and they went to the city first, and what they saw was this scene.
Yu Wenyun and Dong Shulan were extremely shocked, the Yu Dynasty had a famine almost every year, and the imperial court was also providing disaster relief every year, they always thought that even if the disaster victims lived in a bad place, at least this bite of food was guaranteed.
They had never imagined that the life of the victims would be like this, with crumbling shacks, tattered clothes, and clear soup that could be drunk in one sip.
There are children who are so hungry that they cry, and then they are tired of crying, and they fall asleep, and maybe they will not wake up from this sleep.
Some old men turned around and gave the gruel they had gotten to their children, hoping that their children would live.
There were also people who drank water by the river, and they were so hungry that they swallowed the water with the bark of the grass roots.
Yu Wenyun almost gritted his silver teeth, "This dog official! I'll do it! ”
Fu Xiaoguan grabbed her, shook his head, and said, "Don't be impulsive, we don't know the situation here, there are some things...... It's more complicated than you think. ”
"But the imperial court allocates a lot of disaster relief food every year! If you don't believe it, ask Shulan, Shulan knows. ”
Dong Shulan nodded, the disaster relief materials are all allocated through the household department, and her father often handles this matter, and she knows a little about it.
According to the household disaster relief regulations, the victims can get four taels of coarse grain and one tael of fine grain every day.
"This matter, let's go back to Xishan to talk about it, now we will go to Yu County Order, as for the problem, it is not appropriate for you to participate, you can send someone to investigate."
Fu Xiaoguan didn't say that even if he checked it, it would be closed in the end.
Yu Wenyun took a deep breath, her face was still covered with frost, she listened to Fu Xiaoguan's opinion, because to investigate this kind of thing, it was not her status as a princess.
The group went down to the city tower, got into the carriage, and went directly to the county office.
Fu Xiaoguan handed over his name post, and the porter led them to the backyard.
Yu Lian was quite surprised that Fu Xiaoguan came to visit, the Fu family is the largest landlord in the entire Linjiang, and most of the fields in Yao County belong to his Fu family, so it seems that taxes will be collected, what does Fu Daguan mean if he doesn't come to let his son come?
According to Master Tang, Fu Xiaoguan may not come for taxes, but why didn't the two of them scratch their heads, and in the end, they had to meet each other.
Fu Xiaoguan and his subordinates moved two boxes of Xishan Tianol into the backyard, and Yu Wenyun and Dong Shulan stayed in the carriage.
The two women are too special to show up in such a place.
"I have heard the name of Yu County for a long time, and I have admired it for a long time in my later life, but I have been entangled in mundane things and have been delayed until now, and I hope that Yu County will forgive my sins." Fu Xiaoguan smiled and shook his fist at Yu Xianling.
"Haha, the official didn't expect the virtuous nephew to come today, last year, the official went to Linjiang to run the office, and got the hospitality of the Fu family, I heard that the Fu family master mentioned you, but now the virtuous nephew has become famous all over the world, the tiger father has no dogs, and the hero is a young man!"
"The prefectural order is a prize! Wansheng came from Xiacun without any gifts, these two boxes of Xishan Tianol were brewed by Wansheng himself, and he also asked Yuxian Ling to smile. ”
"This is not good, the virtuous nephew is famous, the poems and books are spread all over the world, you can come and see the old man, let the old man get a little bit of the first talent in Linjiang, it is already giving the old man a big face, this wine, the old man must not accept it!"
Fu Xiaoguan suddenly looked left and right, and said in a low voice: "Yu County Order, I think that the victims outside these days must have made you very sad, and the late life is actually very worried, in case those refugees go to rob my family's food, it will not be beautiful, fortunately, under your leadership, those refugees did not make a mess, so you must accept this wine, this is the gratitude of the late life!" ”
"Ah, haha, those refugees are quite honest, the official sent people to give porridge every day and also sent the catchers of the patrol house to patrol, fortunately there was no chaos."
Yu Lian poured tea for Fu Xiaoguan, and said: "The virtuous nephew doesn't know the trouble here, so far, there are 33,670 refugees outside, and this situation will increase in the future, this official is only more than 100,000 people in Yao County, if there is chaos, the official will not be happy." ”
"But if they don't leave, it's not a way to freeze like this."
Yu Lian stroked his goatee and sighed, "Refugees can't be expelled, this official is thinking these days, if this increases, Yao County can't afford it, so he can only ask the state capital for help." ”
"The virtuous nephew has thought of a way, Yu County makes you see if it is feasible or not."
In Yu Lian's mind, this Fu family is estimated to be going to give porridge for disaster relief.
The Fu family must be worried that these refugees will have a mess, so the first to bear the brunt of it are the tenants of the Fu family, and now although the rice has been put into the warehouse, the rice has not yet been handed over to the Fu government, nor has it been handed over to the government.
If there is chaos at this moment, and the refugees rob these tenants by themselves, even if the state government sends a sergeant to suppress it, the loss of the Fu government will definitely be great.
In this way, it is better to take out a little food to give to these refugees, as long as they have a bite to eat, they will not make trouble, and the Fu family can take out food for disaster relief, which is naturally a good thing for Yao County.
But what Fu Xiaoguan said next scared Yu Lian!
"If I come to receive these refugees, what does Yu Xianling think?"
"What?" Yu Yao was taken aback.
"What refugees are you going to take? Do you know that there are tens of thousands of refugees, and although your family has a lot of food, your family's land has already been divided, how do you provide for them? Have you ever calculated how much food they can eat in a day? Do you know how many shantytowns are needed to house them? Twenty percent of those refugees are old, sick, and disabled, and they are tired and weak along the way, and many are sick, and you know how much it will cost to cure them? ”
Yu Lian asked several times, this is out of his own heart, this kind of thing is nerve-wracking even for the imperial court, not to mention that you are just a landlord!
Fu Xiaoguan listened to him quietly, and said with a smile: "What Yu Xian Ling said is true. It's just that the late life hopes to solve the danger of this Yao County, so that they don't harm others. As for the placement of them, there are some ways to deal with them, and you don't need to worry, it depends on whether you are accurate or not. ”