From ancient times to the present, whenever there is a natural disaster and the country needs to carry out disaster relief, the country will always give the lion's share, and then the rest will be handed over to the rich to shine.

Now the locust plague has led to countless victims on the land of Guanzhong, as long as the people who are walking on the road and displaced everywhere, the state has certainly sent a disaster relief commander, but Datang has only just been established for many years, and the grain stored in the treasury is not enough to keep these victims through this difficult time.

At this time, many merchants began to show their strength and extend a helping hand to those homeless, but the essence of merchants is to chase profits, so although they will take out a large amount of food, they will not do a loss-making business.

When the locust plague is over, it will be found that many people have become domestic slaves in the families of merchants, and even those who were originally waiting for relief have inexplicably become slaves.

Jia Yi never felt that he was such a noble person, but he would still do this kind of thing by eating meat and giving soup to others, and the year-long collection allowed him to store a large amount of grain, and in the current disaster period, these grains became silver money that could be spent, and some homeless people were hired to do something for themselves, and then give their families a food and clothing, this kind of thing is still very fair.

The conservatory area has to be expanded, and now it is only relying on the two acres of greenhouses, it is really difficult to supply the consumption of vegetables in all the Sifang restaurants, and the winery has to be expanded, and the output of the winery has long been unable to supply the market demand, and even the price of one-star wine has been artificially increased with a large amount of consumption.

The drawings of the riverside manor were prepared early in the morning, and they were ready to start construction when a large number of people were in place.

As Qin Huaiyu's private parts wandered around, the disaster relief food behind him became less and less, seeing that there were more and more victims, but the food was getting less and less, the young Qin Huaiyu couldn't help but feel worried, the things that the emperor explained, he didn't care if he tried to do anything to complete it properly, just looking at the hungry people in front of him who were waiting for food with big eyes, Qin Huaiyu felt that even if he sold the entire Qin Mansion, it was impossible to fill the stomachs of these hungry people.

Jia Yi's only role in being taken by Qin Huaiyu's side was to give advice at a critical time, not just encountered a little problem, and the words for help appeared in Jia Yi's ears.

"Brother Jia, help me ......"

In fact, there is no need for Qin Huaiyu to say, Jia Yi knows what is going on, although Qin Huaiyu has let a large number of laborers participate in the labor, and the roads have been repaired a lot, but the food allocated by Li Er has not been taken back in any way, only blindly consumed, and sooner or later it will be consumed one day.

Only by turning output into a new source of income can we ensure a continuous flow of food.

After listening to Qin Huaiyu's story, Jia Yi sat up directly from the chair, walked to Qin Huaiyu's side, and said softly: "The road is originally for people to walk, but since this road is built by you, then it is not too difficult to accept to charge some tolls to those who take these roads, and only collect the grain of the merchants on the road, and the ordinary people do not accept it, so that the food in your hands will not be able to flow continuously." ”

It seems that only robbers do this kind of thing, but in fact, the toll booths of later generations did not do this? Since I have repaired the roads well, and I still have to carry out the daily maintenance and correction, then I should not be a big deal to collect the tolls of some people who walk these roads.

There are also these roads can greatly shorten the time of the big guy's rush, for businessmen, time is money, if you can save a lot of time, you will be able to save a lot of money, then pay a little, it is not a big deal.

After listening to Jia Yi's story, Qin Huaiyu's eyes suddenly lit up, and he didn't bother to take care of Jia Yi, turned his head and rushed out of the room, and began to announce this matter to his many subordinates.

Qin Huaiyu had a lot of manpower at hand, but Jia Yi felt that since this idea was his own, he should get one anyway, so there was no accident, Jia Yi became the roadblocker guarding the road leading to Chang'an in Duqu County.

In fact, this kind of blatant roadblock robbery, Jia Yi also likes to do it very much, set up a gazebo in front of the road leading to Chang'an in Duqu County, get a pot of chilled grape wine, take a sip of it hot, take a sip of thirst, and the refreshing feeling can last from morning to night.

As long as someone passes by, the disaster victim Jia Yi will give them a choice, either continue to march towards Chang'an City and be stopped under the city gate, or go to his land to do things for him, and do not let these homeless people sell themselves into slavery, just help him build a riverside manor.

As long as you have a little brain, you will basically choose the latter, after all, the road in front is too difficult to walk, even if you are lucky to enter Chang'an City, you will still beg for a living in the next days, now that food is so valuable, who will be kind enough to give them too much food, and if you meet a kind person, you will give them a little cooked rice to relieve their hunger.

But who knows, all they want is a bowl of grain that can be used as seeds, and they are all farmers facing the loess with their backs to the sky, and they want cooked rice to be able to eat for a while, and they want seeds, but they can earn more grain after autumn.

If it was a businessman passing by, Jia Yi would let a few guards standing behind him stop them, Jia Yi didn't talk nonsense with them, and directly picked up the long stick at his feet, pointing to a huge sign erected behind him: "If you want to cross this road, pay a load of grain." ”

"Who are you, you dare to block the road and rob the merchants, do you know that fifty miles away from here is Chang'an City, as long as someone passes through and reports to the officers and soldiers guarding the city, you will inevitably suffer a thunderous disaster."

Jia Yi's ears were calloused when he heard this, as long as a businessman passed by here, he would say such a sentence, but he had been sitting here for three days, but he still hadn't seen an officer and soldier come to encircle and suppress him, do you know what it means to act under orders? Jia Yi still didn't speak, picked up the stick at his feet again and pointed to the signature at the bottom of the sign: "Disaster Relief Commander." ”

There's nothing to talk about, he acts as ordered, and whoever comes has to pay it, so Shang Jia had to get a load of grain from his truck, put it in front of Jia Yi, arch his hand at Jia Yi, and continue to march in the direction of Chang'an City.

The year of the catastrophe is naturally a natural disaster full of suffering for ordinary people, but for businessmen, it may be an opportunity to make a fortune, after all, people who make a fortune have existed since ancient times, and Datang has never had any exceptions.

Jia Yi sat in the pavilion on the edge of the road for three days, and collected thousands of loads of grain, this is just his way, you must know that in the entire Guanzhong, the number of roads can be hundreds, Jia Yi believes that after the locust plague is over, the food in Qin Huaiyu's hands will not only not be reduced, but may increase a lot.

The enthusiasm of the victims for a bite of food is terrifying, and in just three months, Jia Yi's riverside manor has taken shape, and with only half a month's effort, the infrastructure can be completed, and the first guests will be able to visit in the autumn.

The greenhouse has also been changed from the first two acres of land to forty acres by the vast number of disaster victims, and the output of these forty acres is still insufficient to supply all the Sifang restaurants in Guanzhong, but the summer and autumn seasons are the time when vegetables grow wildly, and forty acres is more than enough to throw away these two seasons.

The brewery has also rebuilt a larger factory near the conservatory, and the monthly output has increased tenfold, which is far beyond the market demand at the current consumption level of the masses.

The salt factory was also expanded a lot under the instruction of Li Er, and the 800 acres of river beach land soon became salt under the hard work of many big soldiers, and hundreds of thousands of catties of salt were enough to support the consumption of Datang for a long time.

Regardless of whether they are willing or not, when those farmers who have finished their work want to go home and serve the fields, Jia Yi has no reason to refuse, the era of agriculture is like this, even if they can earn more money by working outside, so that life will be better, but these farmers are still willing to return to their fields to serve the seedlings, maybe in their hearts they feel that only when their own fields have output, can their hearts really settle down.

All the peasants who worked here in Jia Yi, after three months, all earned enough food, and completed all the work here in Jia Yi, after saying goodbye to Jia Yi, they began to march towards their fields, in this regard, Jia Yi did not have any obstacles, just told them that if life is not good, they can come back here to find work.

Three months to make the disaster in Guanzhong has been greatly alleviated, the seedlings planted again are growing very gratifying, perhaps God also thinks that these farmers are too hard, the drizzle without any sparing drifted down from the sky, the growth of the seedlings has become better.

Qin Huaiyu, the disaster relief commander, finally completed his work successfully, returned to Chang'an City with a large amount of food and handed over his duties to Li Er, seeing tens of thousands of loads of food, Li Er happily directly gave Qin Huaiyu an official position on the seventh rank of the captain of the fruit, as for Jia Yi, who was an idea and a contributor in the entire disaster relief process, but he did not get any benefits, and the title that was said to be good was like Li Er had forgotten, and it was not sealed for a long time.

"What about the title?" Lying on the specially made chaise longue in the newly built manor, Jia Yi looked at the blue sky, full of doubts.