Chapter 23: Foresight

If they don't make it until dawn, those refugees will have problems the next day if they rain overnight.

At this time, Li Xie secretly blamed himself for his lack of experience, most of Li Xie's previous arrangements only solved the civil affairs, but did not solve the people's livelihood at all.

Li Xie laid down a lot of rules for these refugees, and let them run and live according to the rules. They didn't make trouble, but they never thought about how they could live better.

Because fundamentally, Li Xie didn't think that the group of refugees outside the city would stay here for a long time, so the things arranged could barely survive the current difficulties.

Now that he is awake, since he can't sleep, and he clearly realizes his shortcomings, Li Xie also began to draft the things to be done overnight.

First of all, the refugee area must be built, not to mention how well it will be built, but at least it must withstand the wind and sun.

The most important thing in building a refugee area is only a building sketch, and the rest is to arrange where people go to get materials and where to construct, which is absolutely not much more difficult.

So by the time it was almost dawn, Li Xie had basically planned everything he was going to do. At this time, it was still raining, but it was already much smaller, Li Xie said hello to the people in Liu Zuxiang's mansion, took an umbrella and walked towards the Xicheng refugee area.

At this time, the refugee area was far better than the worst-case scenario Li Xie imagined, although a small number of sheds collapsed, but not many of them.

Coupled with the rational management methods for several months, everyone ate and lived together, and had to work together, and a little friendship was established between the refugees.

The refugees whose sheds collapsed were also brought in by the nearest people, so there were no people who were exposed to the rain overnight.

When the sky was bright, although it was still raining and the sun could not be seen, the temperature began to rise.

Although most of the refugee sheds did not collapse, no one was sure when the rain would stop.

Now, of course, it is impossible to build any straw sheds, so Li Xie is building an earthen building. For these, although Li Xie is not a professional, as long as someone is professional. There are a lot of construction talents in the Ministry of Industry, Li Xie found Hu Guoshi and mentioned it, and he was sent down the next day.

After the professionals came, Li Xie was relieved that professional things would be done by professional people, and he became the shopkeeper again, and he had time to hang out in the library.

Because the bag is really shy, the three meals a day are basically solved at Liu Zuxiang's house. For Liu Zuxiang's family to have one more person to eat, it is actually a matter of having one more pair of chopsticks. In addition, Liu Zuxiang and Li Xie can also talk quite well, and Li Xie is happy to disturb him every day.

Such a leisurely day, a half a month, this half a month, the rain has not stopped, every day is heavy rain to moderate rain, moderate rain to light rain, this turn down 15 days have not seen the sun.

Li Xie's fears finally became a reality, except for Xicheng, most of the shanty towns in the refugee areas at the gates of the city had collapsed due to the lack of timely construction of houses.

The rain has been raining for months, and the temperature is really low at night, so many refugees have already suffered from wind chills. Hunger, coupled with the infection of wind and cold, caused the people to complain, and Li Xie heard that the imperial court had begun to arrange troops to garrison.

But these are not the worst things, the worst thing is that the heavy rain for months is not only in Luotianfu, I heard that there have been waterlogging in many places in the lower reaches of the Dragon River.

The occurrence of floods means that there is another disaster, and the occurrence of a disaster means that there is another disaster relief, and if you want to provide disaster relief, you must distribute food.

Although there are no signs of these now, and the food on it is still being sent normally, Li Xie has already begun to think about how to save food.

In half a month, the houses in the refugee area had been almost built, and the rain kept falling, and Li Xie did not dare to arrange for these refugees to go out to work.

After a few days, these people already showed signs of excess energy, and Li Xie wondered if he should reduce his daily rations.

Reducing food rations for no reason will definitely make people complain, and maybe even arouse public anger, so everything needs a reason.

Li Xie was thinking about it, Hu Guoshi finally walked in hurriedly from outside, and before anyone sat down, he greeted politely first: "Xiao Xie, idle!" ”

Usually it is the boy who shouts, but suddenly he changed his name, and Li Xie, who was called, was quite uncomfortable.

As soon as Li Xie saw Hu Guoshi's appearance, he knew that there must be something to help him: "Don't shiver at me, you old man, you can just say something." ”

"You see, you are more prescient, you built the house early, and now the other three city gates are also in a hurry, but the manpower, after all, there are only so manpower, but this rain keeps falling, so I thought if I could arrange some people to settle down at your west gate first?"

Because it has been said before, Li Xie manages a city gate by himself, which was set by Li Zhanji himself. Although Hu Guoshi is now nominally Li Xie's superior, because of the law set by Li Zhanji at that time, he actually can't control Li Xie's head.

"I don't have much spare space here, so if you can't do it, you can just lead those people into the city." Although Li Xie also wanted to help, he really couldn't do it.

Although there are houses built in advance, there are really not many built, and now the people in Xicheng are still one house at a time, and the few people are not very crowded.

But for those who drag their families with their families, it's really too crowded, and if you squeeze some more people in, it's really hard to manage.

"I went to take a look at Xicheng, there is still room for the crowd, I don't want much, you just have to vacate a building for me. The main thing is this ghost weather, those old people and children really can't stand it. ”

If it weren't for Li Zhanji's previous verbal order, Hu Guoshi would have no need to come to Li Xie to discuss, and he could directly send someone to do it.

"It's not impossible, but I have one condition." Li Xie pondered for a moment, although most of the refugees dragged their families with their families, there were always singles. Moving these people can actually free up the position, but in this way, the management will definitely be problematic.

But it's not that it can't be overcome, so it's up to Li Xie to do this. In fact, Hu Guoshi said yes again, when he pressed the old man and the child, Li Xie was already going to agree.

But Li Xie is now in charge of thousands of people, and he must not be emotional, so the conditions that should be mentioned must still be mentioned.