This winter was particularly cold, and the caravan that the Ye family had gone out had all returned a few days ago.

But those who went to the south to buy grain have not yet returned, and they will not come back until next spring, and the grain they bought will first find a place to store it.

The earth was covered with white snow.

"Young master, the house has been re-inspected and reinforced, and things like this will not happen again." Wu slanted the snow on his body and said.

It turned out that two nights ago, the university had crushed the houses of several people and several people died.

After Ye Chen found out, he organized people to clean up the snow on the house and reinforce the house.

"I don't know how many more people will die this winter." Ye Chen didn't answer Wu Xian's words, but stood alone and said.

Of course, he is not referring to the Ye family, the Ye family has already taken measures, the farmers have food at home, there are things to protect from the cold, and there will be no large-scale deaths, except for a few cases.

In the winter, many of the Ye family's activities have stopped, and Ye Chen and Wu Xian are a lot free.

"Wu Xian, what's the news these days?" Ye Chen asked a wide range of questions, any news.

"Young master, I heard that the blizzard in the past two days has frozen to death many people, and the Zhuangzi below us are okay, many Zhuangzi have frozen to death more than a dozen people overnight." Wu Xian said in a heavier tone.

Natural disasters do not kill many people, these deaths are man-made disasters, and these peasants would not have frozen to death in the winter if they were not exploited and had nothing.

On this day, not only Ye Chen received the news, but some people received more comprehensive and serious disaster news.

"What, how many people have died in the blizzard in the past two days?" Liaodong Taishou Li Wei said in surprise to the person who reported the news.

It snowed for two days, and as soon as the snow stopped, the next day the statistics reported to him that hundreds of people had died, and there were still many places that had not been reported.

Although no matter how many people die, it has nothing to do with themselves, and it will not affect them much, although they don't have to worry about the court being held accountable, but those Qingliu will spray themselves to death, if they don't do it, then the road ahead will be somewhat unsmooth.

Li Wei has been very sad in the past few days, and in just these few days, thousands of people have died in Liaodong. He wanted to help the disaster, but the treasury was empty, and he couldn't come up with any money.

So Li Wei wanted to ask the major families for money for disaster relief.

After all, it is Taishou, and the major families have to give money to some extent, but it is only symbolic, each family gives dozens of loads of grain and 10,000 yuan, which is enough for the entire Liaodong.

Just talking about these grains, it is only enough to open a porridge shed for two days, Li Wei also went to the Ye family, and the Ye family gave a hundred loads of grain and 20,000 yuan in addition to a sentence.

"Lord Taishou can use Liaodong's taxes as collateral, and my Ye family's money village can borrow a large amount of money and grain to Lord Taishou."

Li Wei read Ye Chen's reply, he didn't know what to say, people gave money and food, twice as much as other families, and if he wanted it, he would have to pay the price.

People said that they could come and borrow, as long as there was a mortgage, they could have as much as they wanted.

Li Wei can't help it, this loan is easy, when the time comes, use taxes as collateral, if the tax handed over to the court in the coming year is not enough, then you have to pay out of your own pocket, or wait for the court to be held accountable.

If you don't do disaster relief effectively, the court will basically not hold you accountable, and if you can't collect taxes, then the court will definitely trouble you.

So Li Wei didn't want to provide disaster relief, so he used the money and grain donated by the major families to set up a porridge shed for a few days, and distributed some cotton clothes, which were very thin, just a thin layer of cotton, and it is estimated that he didn't know who embezzled them.

Then Li Wei reported the disaster here, and incidentally said how he did it, and gave credit to him, and the matter passed.

"What, the disaster is so serious." Assassin Shifu, Guo Xun said in surprise.

"Yes, my lord, this is from the county newspapers below."

Guo Xun rubbed his eyebrows and said, "There is disaster relief below." ”

"Liaodong Taishou said that he gave porridge to the shacks, but there were too many victims and not enough supplies."

"The Taishou of Liaoxi County reported that he had ordered all counties to open warehouses to release grain and asked the county government to organize strong men to clear the snow." Guo Xun frowned when he heard Zou Zou, this opening warehouse and releasing grain is also good, not to mention how many things can reach the hands of the victims, just say how many grains of rice are still in the warehouses of each county?

......

The official of the Assassin's Mansion reported a lot of things to Guo Xun, but he knew that there were almost no really useful ones, but this did not prevent him from doing what he had to do next.

Guo Xun reported to the imperial court, saying that although the disaster in Youzhou was serious, Youzhou responded in a timely manner, and reported the following measures, whether it was useful or not, the imperial court read his report, and if he did not send someone down to investigate in detail, no one could say that he did not act.

As for sending someone down to investigate, it will be a month later, and then something can be investigated.

Guo Xun has been an official for many years, and he knows the twists and turns inside, as long as there is no major incident, then basically no one will trouble him, as for if something really happens, then he must know how to be a man, work well up and down, and make mistakes.

When reporting the disaster, Guo Xun also deliberately said that due to the seriousness of the disaster, a lot of materials were consumed, and a list was made, and only he knew where the things on the list would end up.

"Hey, the people down here really don't know how to do things, and report these disasters, isn't this a blockage for Your Majesty?" A man in a Chinese costume with a male duck voice looked at a pile of bamboo slips and said.

And when he had finished speaking, he ordered his men to burn them all.

"Master Zhang, this is really no problem." The same male duck said in his voice.

"I said Zhao Zhong Zhao, what can happen here."

It turned out that it was Zhang Rang, one of the ten permanent attendants, who spoke, and the other turned out to be Zhao Zhong.

"Also, Recently, Your Majesty has been obsessed with Du Kang wine, as long as there is enough Du Kang wine, Your Majesty has never asked about anything in the court." Zhao Zhongyin said with a smile.

"I said that this Du Kang wine is really a good thing, and the stir-fried dishes, I originally wanted to find some beautiful women from all over the country for His Majesty to enjoy, but now I have good food and wine, which saves a lot of trouble." Zhang Rang wiped a jade artifact in his hand and said.

"Well, this Ye family's Du Kang wine is really a good thing. I heard that this Ye family Du Kang wine is sold by others, and what agency fee do you have to pay..."

Zhao Zhong said this, and looked at Zhang Rang with a smile on his face.

"Hehe, don't worry, don't worry, it's ours that he can't run, didn't that kid of the Ye family just be raised as filial piety by Youzhou Assassin History, I believe it won't take long to come to Luoyang to report, and then he won't be able to bypass our brothers."

"Haha..."

After speaking, the two laughed, these two people have a lot of cooperation in the court, of course they know what they are talking about each other.

In this way, the large-scale disasters in the north went up layer by layer, and when they arrived at the imperial court, there was no sound.

Those court officials and Qingliu only knew how to talk all day long, and they didn't know that the entire northern country was suffering.

Even if someone receives some news, they all think that it is not a matter, and the death of a few people is not attractive to them, even if they want to attack the ten permanent servants, it is obviously not level.

Neither Qingliu nor the officials were indifferent to the death of ordinary people, and the emperor of the Han Dynasty, drunk and dreaming all day long, did not care that his country had been flooded.

Ye Chen, who was in Liaodong, was actually very concerned about this disaster, and several people died in the Ye family two days ago, and it didn't happen again after that.

However, this did not make Ye Chen happy, from Liu Qi and Wang Tianhammer, he knew that the entire north was seriously affected, although this had nothing to do with Ye Chen, he didn't have to bear any responsibility, but his mood was very heavy.

However, this heavy snow also saved Ye Chen some trouble, originally according to the agreement with Guo Xun, he was about to send troops to suppress the bandits, but the heavy snow closed the road, and the bandits did not come out to make trouble.

Because there are too many things in Yuxian County, if the troops are sent to suppress the bandits now, it is inevitable to transfer the original 3,000 guard battalions, and the new 2,000 guard battalions have not yet been trained, so it is not for them to defend, nor is it for them to go to suppress bandits, so Ye Chen does not plan to suppress bandits at this time.

If you suppress bandits, then you must let the newly trained 2,000 soldiers and horses be dispatched, how can this recruit not see blood, only after the baptism of iron and blood can he become an elite soldier.

The bandits are the best choice, first of all, they are unorganized, their combat effectiveness is poor, and they can't do much damage to themselves, and they can capture something.

Moreover, Ye Chen is building weapons and equipment, these will take a long time, and the training will not have too many casualties, so Ye Chen will try to use the best weapons and equipment for them to reduce casualties.

"Young family master, it has been observed that there will be heavy snow in two days." Wu Xian ran over and said to Ye Chen worriedly.

"Oh my God." Ye Chen scolded.

He didn't have much to do about it, it was impossible to change the weather.

"Let the Zhuangzi below check it well, and let them prepare sufficient materials, if they don't have money, just ask us for it, and just pay it back next year."

This didn't cost much money for Ye Chen, but it could allow them to survive the winter safely, and they could also gain the hearts of the people.

Although the tenants of the Ye family did not suffer much damage, many people died in the entire north, especially those homeless, if they did not find a place to take shelter from the cold, then it was inevitable to freeze to death.

Ye Chen was powerless to change all this, and could only reduce the death within the scope of his control.