Chapter 88: Asking for Money
While Li Wei was studying countermeasures, the Ye family was also thinking of a way.
Bai Feng had already told Ye Chen about the situation over there, and Ye Chen also knew the limit of Bai Feng's side, it was obviously impossible to accept so many victims, but he couldn't just give up.
"Young family master, what is the best way, if the victims come to us, there will definitely be no way to receive so much." Wu Xian said worriedly.
Bai Feng had already written to him and asked him to summarize the information on both sides and report to Ye Chen.
"Alas, you have to accept it no matter what, and those who don't get to Liaodong can't just ignore it."
This was Ye Chen's first thought, although he knew that this might crush the Ye family, more than 100,000 people, just eating alone could make the Ye family poor, and the food that the Ye family had finally hoarded millions of stones might also be consumed.
But Ye Chen couldn't watch how many victims of the disaster had no way to live, if no one cared about it, most of them would starve to death, and then some of them would become bandits.
"Okay, let's try to settle it as much as possible, but I estimate that according to the current situation, our Ye family's money can last for 20 days at most, and the food is enough for the time being, but these victims will have to be raised for a year, and the investment in the future will not be small."
Twenty days, Ye Chen had a headache when he heard it, where did he go to get a sum of money in twenty days.
"Wu Xian, you can't ignore the victims, you go to build some temporary resettlement sites first, just build them with straw huts, and then take care of two meals of porridge a day, to ensure that you can eat enough, I estimate that Zimo's side is also under great pressure, and when his side has the ability to accept more victims, we will send people over, otherwise he will rush to his side all of a sudden, and he can't manage it."
Wu Xian knew that Ye Chen was determined to take care of this matter, and he had no choice but to agree, and did his best to help.
"Young master, the Taishou Mansion sent a prayer post." When Ye Chen was talking to Wu Xian in the study, there was a knock on the door outside the study, and at this time, only the maid Dongxue would knock on the door, and there was something more important that would come to Ye Chen.
"Taishou Mansion?" Ye Chen frowned, this Wuhuan people have been beaten back for several days, and they haven't seen any movement in the Taishou Mansion, and I don't know what to do when I send a post at this time.
"Wu Xian, what do you mean by this Taishou Mansion, I used to go to see Taishou, but this time it's good, Taishou personally came to Yejiabao to see me." Ye Chen held the greeting post in his hand and asked puzzledly.
"If you come in person, you must have something to ask for, and now the people who are bothering the Taishou Mansion are probably the homeless."
Ye Chen suddenly brightened, now the entire Youzhou is plagued by a large number of displaced people, in the past, Liaodong was the lightest and the best to solve, but now a large number of displaced people are pouring into Liaodong, and this Liaodong has suddenly become the most headache.
"In this way, Tai Shoulai is going to let our Ye family accept these homeless people."
"I'm afraid so."
"Wu Xian, accompany me to perform at night and get some money to survive the crisis." Ye Chen's face was sad for a long time, and finally showed a smile, but Wu Xian looked at how this smile was so treacherous.
In the evening, Taishou Li Wei came to Yejiabao with gifts, and Old Man Ye and Ye Chen were both present, and at the same time, Old Manager Wu also attended to accompany him.
"It's too polite, please come in, please come in." Ye Chen welcomed Li Wei in. Originally, with Li Wei's high position, Old Man Ye should have come out to greet him personally, but Old Man Ye wanted to show that he didn't care about anything and fully supported Ye Chen, so even at the risk of Li Wei's opinion, Ye Chen was asked to greet him.
Li Wei didn't care if Old Man Ye came out to greet him, he should have cared, but he knew that it was Ye Chen who was in charge of the Ye family now, and Ye Chen's coming to greet him showed that Ye Chen valued him, so Li Wei didn't care too much.
During the banquet, Li Wei mentioned the matter of the displaced people several times, but Ye Chen just didn't accept the invitation and led the topic to other places, which made Li Wei very anxious, this time it was to solve the refugee matter.
It wasn't until after the banquet that Ye Chen said to Li Wei: "Lord Taishou, it's not that I don't know the purpose of your trip, it's just that my Ye family is really difficult now."
Otherwise, please go to the study for a while. ”
Ye Chen led Li Wei to Ye Chen's study, which was very messy, with bamboo slips everywhere.
"Ye Xiaoyou, can the Ye family accept so many refugees?" As soon as he sat down, Li Wei couldn't help but ask.
"Alas, Lord Taishou, it's not that I don't want to accept those refugees, it's just that you don't know the loss of our Ye family this time, our Ye family is in trouble now." Ye Chen said with a sad face.
"The Ye family really lost a lot this time?" Li Wei was not suspicious, but wanted to determine how big the loss of the Xia Ye family was.
Of course, Wuhuan came to attack, and the tall cities of Xiangping City suffered such heavy losses, not to mention Yejiabao.
"I'm going to ask Manager Wu to come over, he's been counting for the past few days, and he hasn't counted it yet."
Soon, Wu Xian was found by Ye Chen.
"Chief Wu, you tell Lord Taishou about it and see how many refugees we can accept."
Li Wei looked at Wu Xian with a blank eye, this time the relationship was very important, and it was related to his official position, which had to make him nervous.
"Young family master, where is our Ye family still capable of accepting the victims now, and now our Ye family can't open the pot." Wu Xian said.
Ye Chen got up from the chair in fright and said, "Can't it, Manager Wu, how can we not open the pot?" ”
"Young family master, do you want to listen to some of the things I have counted in the past two days."
"Say it, say it."
Before Ye Chen could speak, Li Wei said in a hurry.
"Lord Taishou, young family master, this time in the battle with Wu Huan, our Ye family has more than 31,000 casualties, of which more than 18,000 were killed in the battle, more than 4,000 houses were destroyed, and all the warehouses in the farm were looted, not to mention others, our Ye family can't afford the medical expenses and pensions for the dead and wounded alone.
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"Ah, how serious." Ye Chen deliberately exclaimed.
"Also, the entire Youzhou was looted by Wuhuan, and our future business will be greatly affected, and we will not be able to recover within half a year, not only that, but the goods we lost this time are as high as 1.2 billion."
Ye Chen's face changed when he heard this, and he stammered: "Then how much money and how much grain do we have in the Ye family now." ”
"Young family master, this money is gone, there is still some food, but it is not much, it is all placed in the Yejiabao warehouse and has not been looted by the Wuhuan people."
"There's no money, there's no money, how can there be no money." Ye Chen said dumbfoundedly.
"Yes, young family master, we have no money, so I suggest that we stop recruiting homeless people immediately, otherwise they will eat up our Ye family."
As soon as Li Wei heard where to sit, he hurriedly said: "No, you can't stop recruiting homeless people." ”
If this stops recruiting homeless people, the biggest pressure is that he is too guarded.
"Lord Taishou, I also want to help everyone, but the Ye family is also unsustainable now." Ye Chen said in embarrassment.
"Ye Xiaoyou, you can't think of more ways, think more of ways to give these refugees to the next." Li Wei said anxiously.
"Lord Taishou, this, our Ye family is really difficult."
"No, no matter what, the Ye family has to take on the responsibility of recruiting displaced people, otherwise they will survive."
"Wu Xian, why don't you see where you can squeeze out some of the funds and continue to recruit displaced people." Ye Chen deliberately embarrassed and said to Wu Xian.
"Young family master, now it is difficult for our Ye family to even maintain normal operation, how can we recruit homeless people, I think they will be left to fend for themselves."
"Nope." Ye Chen said loudly angrily, and then felt that it was inappropriate, and softened his tone and said, "Then you estimate that our Ye family can tighten its belts and recruit many more homeless people." ”
Originally, Li Wei on the side wanted to say something, but Ye Chen said so, and asked the Ye family to tighten his belt, what else could he say, so he had to listen quietly on the side.
Wu Xian was very embarrassed to calculate on the side, and it took a long time before he said: "Young family master, we can still settle up to three thousand displaced people, and if there are more, our Ye family will go bankrupt." ”
"What, it's only 3,000 people, no, no." Li Wei on the side was still a little expectant, but when he heard that there were only 3,000 people, if this was the case, then he would be miserable, how many homeless people were in the entire Liaodong alone, not to mention the homeless people in the entire Youzhou were rushed here.
Ye Chen looked at Li Wei very embarrassed, saying that he couldn't help it.
"Ye Xiaoyou, or you're trying to figure out a way."
"Alas, Lord Taishou, at most, at most I am responsible for half of the displaced people in Liaodong, and I am really powerless for the rest." After speaking, Ye Chen made a very painful expression, indicating that this had reached the limit.
"Ye Xiaoyou, can this be the case, our government will contribute part of its efforts, and then the Ye family will contribute part of its efforts to settle these displaced people."
"It costs a lot of money in the early stage of the resettlement of this displaced people, and more importantly, it costs a year to support them in the later stage, this year is a huge cost, if Lord Taishou is willing to give out the initial money, then it is not impossible for our Ye family to raise them for a year, but it is limited to the victims in Liaodong, and the rest of our Ye family does not care."
Ye Chen thought for a while and replied to Li Wei, and he also briefly analyzed how the homeless people spent their money.
Li Wei listened to it and groaned, there were not many Qian Guanfu, but he could find a way, but Ye Chen only promised the homeless people in Liaodong, which made him very embarrassed.
"Ye Xiaoyou, I don't know how much it costs to settle in the initial stage."
Ye Chen didn't answer him, but looked at Wu Xian.
After thinking for a while, Wu Xian said: "The initial resettlement of the entire Liaodong will cost about 8 million, and the later stage will cost 30 million. ”
In fact, the Ye family spent far more money than this, but Ye Chen asked Wu Xian to report low, otherwise he would scare people away, and he didn't even have a penny, and the Ye family had to do it.
Li Wei was still frightened when he heard this, and said with wide eyes: "So much." ”
Wu Xian hurriedly explained: "This is still low, there are estimated 40,000 displaced people in Liaodong, and each person is only 200 big money, which is really nothing." ”
As soon as Wu Xian said this, Li Wei had nothing to say, this refugee wanted a house, food, and some uses, and the total added up was only two hundred yuan, which was indeed not much, and Li Wei had no reason to refute it.
"Lord Taishou, these eight million are indeed not much, aren't there many counties in Liaodong?"
Ye Chen said this deliberately, the purpose was to remind Li Wei that you don't have to pay this money alone, you can share it with the counties below, and one million from one county is enough, as for how to get money below, he doesn't have to care.