As soon as he returned to Cangzhou City, Xia Fu did not delay for a moment, and handed over all the things that had been sorted out to Ye Linchen. I have to say that Xia Fu is indeed a talent that can be created, and he was buried under Zhang Qin's hands for so long before he was wronged. In terms of the methods sorted out by Xia Fu, they are all good ways to truly benefit the country and the people, and they are not empty talk.

If you want to revive the people's livelihood, you have to rack your brains, although Xia Fu's method is very good, but in Xie Yaoguang's opinion, there is always something perfect.

The three of them have been discussing in the room for almost the past few days, and they didn't leave until the third watch, although when it comes to people's livelihood, Xia Fu is still the best at it, but Ye Linchen has worked people's livelihood this year, and there is Xie Yaoguang from the side, the three of them still have the same opinion. Compared with Ye Linchen, Xie Yaoguang has been in the rivers and lakes all the year round, because of his identity as a businessman, he has contacts with the government and the public, and he also knows the people's feelings very well.

On the fifth day, Cangzhou, which had been dry for a long time, finally ushered in a rain in autumn. After a long drought and a rainy day, the people of Cangzhou are all extremely happy.

Everyone sighed that it was the emperor's kindness that moved the heavens, and the heavens took back the heavenly punishment and sent down the rain to benefit the people in the world. When this word reached the ears of Emperor Li, Emperor Li was very happy and immediately ordered to exempt the world from one year of conscription, and the surrounding countries did not need to come to offer, benefiting the world, and being happy from far and near.

None of the people who got this will were unhappy, but they did not forget Xie Yaoguang and others, and jointly wrote a letter to Min Xingji, and he submitted it to Emperor Li.

When the heavy rain came, because he was worried that the waters near Cangzhou would not be able to bear it for so many days in a row, so Ye Linchen took people to patrol near the waters almost these days, in order to minimize the loss in case the embankment could not bear it. Huang Fu Ling and the others were also sent to patrol other nearby rivers to ensure the safety of the people of Cangzhou.

I don't know if it's because Ye Linchen came to patrol the Yellow River and its tributaries before, until he saw that the embankment was safe and sound after the heavy rain that had been falling for two days in a row, and then he was relieved. Huang Fu Ling was transferred over and handed over all the things at hand, and then rushed back to Cangzhou City to discuss with Xie Yaoguang how to arrange various affairs after the disaster.

When he returned to the Assassin's Mansion, Xie Yaoguang stood at the door and looked at him with a smile in his eyes. He couldn't wait to roll over from his horse, finally taking into account the presence of outsiders next to him. After exchanging a few words of greetings, the two entered together. Xia Fu, who was busy with other things, had been waiting in the house for a long time, and saw the two of them come back and get up to greet Shi Shi.

After looking at Ye Linchen for a while, Xie Yaoguang personally poured tea and handed it over, and his tone was soft, "Your Highness, let's take a sip of tea first." "Hmm." After taking a sip of tea, Ye Linchen looked at Xia Fu and asked, "Xia Qing, what's your idea?" ”

Hearing this, Xia Fu took a stack of papers from the side and handed it over, "In the past few days of His Highness's absence, Miss Xie and I have drawn up another idea based on the method you left before, you can see if there is anything that needs to be modified." ”

The head of the jaw took the paper raft and read it carefully, and the sentence on the paper was a disaster year, the agriculture and mulberry were damaged, and the displaced people were scattered. In addition to disaster relief, how to deal with it. When he read that the drop in the bucket led to the pile of rats, Ye Linchen couldn't help but take a deep breath. "What does Your Highness think?" Xie Yaoguang held the tea and looked at Ye Linchen who was frowning on the side.

Raising his head, Ye Linchen's eyes flashed like a sharp blade, "If the sky doesn't save the people, the people should save themselves." ”

At this point, the three of them looked at each other and smiled.

In previous years, when there was a major disaster, the reason why it was easy to riot was because of the shortage of food and clothing, and the other was because of the long-standing grievances and resentment. The most important thing is that due to the disaster, the agriculture and mulberry are deserted, and there is no way to arrange spring plowing in the coming year, and the people are afraid that they will not be able to live in the next year, and the idea of rebellion will be born in despair. A light complaint from others can provoke emotions and lead to riots, so the court has always had a headache for this, and suppressing riots by force is often counterproductive. This time, the problem discussed by the three of them was how to let the people save themselves and survive the disaster safely.

Although there are many provisions in the proposed policy, it is reasonable, and it is combined with the actual situation of other state capitals, arranging for the people to run other side jobs to survive the disaster year, or to build government offices and temples, and give the people a way to live in the name of building a large number of buildings, so that they can work in exchange for food to support their families.

In order to ensure that the policy can be foolproof, Xie Yaoguang contacted Li Bi earlier, and he came forward to find the merchants who had funded the disaster relief before, hired these people to work, or bought some special products from Cangzhou, and transported them to the capital by Cao to sell.

As soon as the policy reached the Manchu Dynasty in Beijing, most people felt that this policy was really ridiculous and should be adopted, especially the Shouwang party vigorously refuted this policy and pointed out all kinds of shortcomings in the policy. Although the people who had received Ye Linchen's favor before did not clearly express their support for this matter, they still patiently explained to King Shou and Emperor Li what was good about this policy.

Although Emperor Li didn't agree with Ye Linchen's idea at first, he still gave his will later. As soon as this proposal was approved by the emperor, Ye Linchen and others immediately implemented it, and the imperial court issued an order to the Ministry of Industry, which summoned the disaster victims with great power and no skills to participate in the construction of bridges and roads, dredging rivers, repairing city walls, etc., if the surrounding wealthy merchants were interested in repairing temples, they could also summon the victims to work for relief, so that the victims had a way to live, thus reducing the cause of the riots.

In addition to Cangzhou, other states have followed their lead regardless of the severity of the disaster, and some states that do not freeze even hire victims until the beginning of next spring. Some people are worried that when there is no seed to go down in the spring ploughing of the next year, the imperial court will come forward to allocate special funds to the state capitals, and stipulate that the account books must be detailed, and those who have no land to cultivate can come to the government to report, and once verified, they can take it away, and at the same time exempt the tax for the whole year, and wait until the next year, if it is a good year, and then return it to the imperial court.

In this way, the cash-for-work method has won excellent results. Not only did the victims benefit a lot, but the imperial court exempted a lot of silver that needed relief, and the people exchanged their strength for money, even if they could not be completely self-sufficient, but it was better than waiting for the grace of heaven to come with him.

These time-varying policies, while seemingly unreliable, have been very effective since they were implemented. Not only Emperor Li praised Ye Linchen many times at court meetings, but even the courtiers privately said that King Ding was really a talent who could fight and govern when he got off the horse, and he had the shadow of Emperor Li when he was young. This disaster relief not only did not cause the state treasury to lose money, but even did a good job of purging the local officials and harming the national system.

After the matter was resolved, the three of them finally set off from Cangzhou to return to the capital.