Chapter 12 Cash-for-Work

"A few days ago, I built a small building not far from the pier outside the city." Basically everyone knows about this, and many people secretly scold Changsun Tang for being a fool behind his back.

"In addition to the craftsmen, a large number of victims were hired when building the building, and these victims worked very hard just for the elderly and children who needed to be supported at home." The eldest grandson was a little emotional, and perhaps none of us could understand what it was like to be hungry.

"Go on, your thoughts are interesting." Wang Jue seemed to understand what the eldest grandson meant, and put away his careful thoughts. We can't be great, but that doesn't stop us from honoring those who are great. Tang Chu's four-phase bearing is far greater than you and I can imagine.

"That's right, if we can take advantage of this disaster relief opportunity to organize people who were originally not well organized, repair the farmland and water conservancy that have long been in disrepair, and the roads connecting Jingzhou to various places, and also renovate the wharf." These thoughts have been lingering in Changsun Tang's mind for a long time, and they are quite smooth to say.

"The idea is good, but I don't know how effective the implementation is?" Wang Qi is obviously asking about the effect of disaster relief, but in fact, he means that there may be many unexpected difficulties in this, and who is responsible for this problem.

"Wang Shizhong, this eldest grandson joined the army means that he has tested it first, and there should be no major problems, and this problem is counted on my head." The samurai spoke up, not knowing if it was a good intention to do something bad, or if he wanted to put the responsibility on the head of the eldest grandson.

"Yes, Lord Squire, I have tried it first, and I will take care of any problems." In fact, as long as the food arrives, it is impossible for the victims to have a large-scale riot, everything is basically under control, and if something goes wrong, at most pay more wages, but this kind of being used as a gun makes people feel really uncomfortable.

"Since the virtuous nephew said so, then I will discuss the disaster relief matters in Gangneung City and the surrounding counties with Lord Guogong, and I may leave it to you." Wang Jue said lightly, when the eldest grandson said those words, Wang Jue's attitude towards the eldest grandson has changed fundamentally, and he used to think that the eldest grandson was just the abandoned son of the eldest grandson family, these are just compensation, and now it seems that this eldest grandson does have its merits, to this point, Wang Jue is official, and this attitude has changed.

"Thank you, Lord Squire."

"The idea is good, but it still needs to depend on the actual situation, I can give you 20% of the Jingzhou disaster relief money, but the ugly words are in front, this is a problem, you need to make up for the deficit here." Wang Jue is not too much for himself, there is no need to kill all the juniors, otherwise no one will dare to work under him in the future.

Perhaps the Chinese way of solving problems at the wine table was to bring their own skills, and such a big matter as disaster relief set the tone at this banquet, and Changsun Shu was actually in charge of disaster relief in Gangneung City as a Sihu member of the army, and this Gangneung County Commander was deprived of this responsibility as a herdsman official.

As the chief officer of disaster relief, Changsun Tang knew that the stakes here were very large, but he did not do a big job, and the first step was to mobilize the local government soldiers of the Ochong Prefecture in the name of the Governor's Office, which scared the samurai Tong a lot, no matter when, the transfer of this army is definitely a political event.

Wu Shi Tong repeatedly asked about the usefulness of these government soldiers of Changsun Tang, and then sent his henchmen to take the government soldiers to listen to Changsun Tang's dispatch.

Three days later, Changsun Tang's disaster relief in Gangneung officially began.

The first thing to do was not to build a water conservancy, but to build a house.

The house built here is made of loess rammed, so a village is a place to take soil, and a small team of government soldiers supervises, the loess mixed straw is rammed with wooden planks, and the trees are used as beams, at the same time, the kilns where the green tiles are fired in five places also begin to smoke, which is what Changsun Tang has prepared early in the morning, even if there is no disaster relief materials from the imperial court, it is also to be done.

In just ten days, the house was almost built.

At this time, the role of the government soldiers arranged by Changsun Tang was reflected, and the role of these government soldiers was mainly two, one was to prevent troublemakers from making trouble, and the other was to find out the specific situation around Jiangling City.

After the house was built, the eldest grandson planned to build the road and build the bridge first, at this time, a bad news came, a few days ago there was a news from Liujia Town, the burning of cement was a failure, which made the eldest grandson a little disappointed, if the cement was successful, the road would be much simpler, but when the kiln of Liujia Town to burn lime was idle, the eldest grandson arranged for people to try to burn cement, but so far it has not been successful.

The eldest grandson knew that this was not something that could be done well in a while, so he had already prepared for it.

As the saying goes, if you want to get rich, you must first build the road, and the first thing to build is the road between Lian Pain Wharf and Gangneung City, and the roadbed is rammed with loess first, and the bluestone slab is paved in the middle, so the amount of work is large.

Of course, there are people who are diligent in order to receive daily rations, and there are naturally lazy scoundrels.

"Join the army, there is a big incident on this construction site, last night the people who took care of the construction site were attacked by a group of gangsters, the equipment on the construction site was basically destroyed, and the food stored on the construction site for tomorrow was also swept away." The eldest grandson, who received the report, rushed to the construction site of the incident.

This kind of thing is not big, it is not small, the person who does this must have accomplices, no matter what era this kind of person also exists, which is also the reason why Changsun Tang wants to borrow government soldiers.

If it's only once, it's not a big problem if it's not pursued, but it's clear that it's just the beginning, and it's a very bad beginning. Therefore, Changsun Tang decided to investigate to the end, the problem is that since he dares to do it, it means that he is fully prepared, and it will be very troublesome to trace.

"Join the army, what should I do?"

"First of all, make proper arrangements for the injured, you quickly take a team of people to the warehouse to receive today's rations and the food to be distributed to the laborers, arrange today's things first, and continue to repair the road, this cannot be stopped." The eldest grandson ordered a member of the Zhichong Mansion to be corrected.

"Whoa." This team's surname is Li Chengwei, and he can be regarded as the captain of Sun Tang's personal soldiers in this disaster relief.

Li Chengwei returned to the city with half of his men, and the eldest grandson continued to supervise the process of road construction at the construction site.

Fortunately, everyone was basically not affected by last night's incident, but a few people secretly discussed this matter in private, and Changsun Tang only paid a little attention to it.