Volume 1 Burning Chapter 104 Resettlement of Refugees (2)
The heavy responsibility of being fully responsible for the purchase of materials and the disposal of money was pressed on Qin Tianxin, and in a moment of hard work, Qin Tianxin made a long list, the amount of which was as high as tens of thousands of gold coins, which almost made Li Xiangfeng stare out of his eyes.
The cold-hearted Yu Yan saw that Qin Tianxin had listed the list of supplies and also shook his head with a chuckle, and no longer spoke.
The hundreds of refugees brought into the city have changed into clean cloth clothes, Wang Li is one of the refugees, because of his burly figure, plus he has served in the military, he was selected by Zhao Wu and appointed as the captain, responsible for the action of their line of 100 people, and the command of the operation to purchase materials is also commanded by Zhao Wu, Li Xiangfeng wants to command thousands of troops and horses like a general, but only a hundred people made Li Xiangfeng's command a mess, and Zhao Wu, who couldn't stand it, took away the "military power"!
However, what makes Li Xiangfeng happy is that he is still the deputy commander, and the commander-in-chief is Zhao Wu himself, and it is also Li Xiangfeng's wounded soul that he has received a little comfort.
After learning the items in the list of supplies listed by the county lord, Wang Li made a big gift gratefully, and said: "Thank you for the county lord's concern, the grass people don't ask for so many items, they just need to have a hot meal to eat when they are hungry, and a grass house to shelter from the rain when it rains.
Wang Li's meaning is also Zhao Wu's meaning, and Li Xiangfeng's meaning, thousands of refugees, the cost is unlimited, the gold coins are limited, you have to smash the limited gold coins on the unlimited expenses, this matter is doomed to fail before it is done.
Qin Tianxin, who was puzzled, blinked and looked at Li Xiangfeng, and only after Li Xiangfeng said it in the vernacular in his ear did Qin Tianxin have an epiphany.
This time the list is much more monotonous, but these supplies are temporary relief for the refugees.
In Qin Tianxin's list, the number of refugees is based on 10,000 people to purchase supplies.
Each person needs 2,000 pieces of coarse cloth clothes, and the purchase of wear-resistant coarse cloth is 1.2 gold coins per horse, and the total amount is required: 2,400 gold coins.
It is necessary to prepare seven days of grain, among the 10,000 people, men, women, and children buy an average of 1 pound of grain per day, and 10,000 people need 70,000 catties of grain for seven days, and the market price of a kilogram of grain is now 8 copper coins, and 560,000 copper coins are needed, and the total amount is needed: 5,600 gold coins.
Pickles and pickles are what Qin Tianxin must ask for, because there was an item of "greens" in Qin Tianxin's list before, but after Li Xiangfeng's explanation, Qin Tianxin also gave up, but compared to the pickles and pickles eaten by ordinary people, Qin Tianxin resisted to add them in with a strong struggle, and the reason was also very sufficient, eating these dry foods every day, and within a few days, individual people would get sick.
In Qin Tianxin's opinion, is it cost-effective to spend a small amount of money to buy these pickles and kimchi, or is it cost-effective to spend a lot of money to hire a doctor and buy medicinal materials?
This point of view immediately convinced Li Xiangfeng, Yu Yan, and Zhao Wu, and was unanimously praised by the three! Wang Li was grateful and saluted again, but this time he was kicked by Zhao Wu.
"Brother Wang, there is no need to be so polite in the future, we will all be a group in the future, why bother to see outside?" Li Xiangfeng also took the opportunity to show his shining side.
Wang Li knelt down on one knee in front of Li Xiangfeng with surprise on his face.
"Captain Xie took in, I, Wang Li, have never seen such a heroic man as the head of the regiment in the past thirty years, I am willing to join the brave mercenary group and implement the spirit of the glory of the regiment leader, and I hope the regiment commander agrees!" Wang Li hugged his fists after speaking.
Among the hundreds of people who followed, dozens of people also looked like they were learning Wang Li's movements and bowed on one knee, and the purpose was also obvious, to join the brave mercenary group, which was regarded as a "local tyrant mercenary group and relationship mercenary group" in the hearts of everyone, which also had to make everyone think so, and they would drop hundreds of thousands of gold coins at every turn to help them these refugees, and I heard that there were also county lords working in the mercenary group and being housekeepers. The captain of the personal soldiers beside the prince is the commander. This is what everyone has seen with their own eyes, such a big tree is undoubtedly unattainable for them refugees, and now that the head of the regiment is a group, if he doesn't seize the opportunity, he will be kicked in the back of the head by a donkey.
This is embarrassing, Li Xiangfeng really didn't know that it would become like this, it was different from what he planned!
It is true that he took on this task to help the refugees, although the resettlement of refugees was released as a mercenary task, and this matter was somewhat mixed in, but this was not for the purpose of rehousing the refugees? Otherwise, if the Taishou were really driven away, this would not have to force the refugees to a dead end, so that at least they could get help from the Taishou with 50,000 gold coins, plus their own gold coins that "came from the wrong way", they could also help the refugees get through this crisis first.
He also plans to attract the children of the refugees under the age of 16 to the mercenary group, and establish a base for the brave mercenary group among the refugees, which can also provide a steady stream of members for the mercenary group.
Zhao Wu saw that Li Xiangfeng's face was embarrassed, so he greeted everyone, and after whispering in Li Xiangfeng's ear, a happy expression appeared on Li Xiangfeng's face.
In this way, Wang Li and other 100-member teams were incorporated into the escort team of the refugee camp, and Wang Li served as the captain, whose duties were to maintain the normal order of the refugees' lives, protect the safety of the refugees themselves, and uniformly divide the distribution of materials.
After this little episode, Qin Tianxin began to put pickles and kimchi on the bill again. Don't look at pickles and kimchi, which are dispensable foods for refugees, but you need to prepare 10,000 gold coins for seven days.
The amount quoted really frightened Wang Li, this is not as cost-effective as buying food, at least you can have a full stomach, and now what they refugees need most is food, as long as they can eat enough, those clothes, accommodation and everything can be relieved.
However, under Qin Tianxin's persistence, they still bought the materials they needed most now according to Qin Tianxin's list.
Li Xiangfeng looked at the gold coins like flowing water, and he was also heartbroken. In the evening, a total of about 20,000 gold coins were spent, which was still under the pressure of Zhao Wu, and those grain stores, vegetable shops and cloth shops did not succeed in raising the price, otherwise these traders who took advantage of the fire to rob would have to knock on a sum again.
Originally, Qin Tianxin was not good-looking at his father's practice of suppressing the traders and imposing agricultural taxes on the commercial tax, but after this incident, he felt that he was superficial.
More than a dozen mule carts were hired, escorted by these hundred men, and set out outside the city.
Li Xiangfeng and Yu Yan did not leave with the convoy, because they still had more important things to deal with, the materials transported in the past were just to maintain the food and clothing of the refugees, if they wanted to settle down on the wasteland, they also needed more tools and craftsmen to build houses, and it was not impossible for the refugees to build their own houses, but after all, no professional thought through, this is not a matter of living for so many months, if the refugees really let them do it themselves, Li Xiangfeng is really not at ease.
Also in order to prevent unnecessary accidents, at Li Xiangfeng's request, Zhao Wu arranged for two capable soldiers to follow the convoy to chase the refugees walking in the direction of Mount Mianlun.
Building houses on wasteland that could hold thousands of people is no easy task, timber can encourage refugees to cut down the forests on the outskirts of the Myanlen Mountains, and other materials have to be bought.
However, the exact number of houses needed to be built had to wait for Wang Li to count the exact number of refugees before it was convenient to buy terracotta tiles and the tools needed to make mortar and linoleum.
Li Xiangfeng definitely doesn't understand these things, but there must be knowledge of these aspects among those refugees. Under Zhao Wu's instructions, Wang Li had two things to do when he went back this time, one was to count the population, and the other was to find some people who knew how to build houses and dig wells to come over and buy the tools he needed.
The sky had completely darkened, and under the distribution of Li Xiangfeng and Yu Yan, Qin Tianxin, Xiaoru, and Qingyang Lanruo reluctantly returned to the palace, and Zhao Wu and several other guards said goodbye to Li Xiangfeng and returned to the palace.
At night, Nanyang City is not like some cities with curfews, and there are still pedestrians shuttling through the brightly lit streets.
"Yu Yan, what do you think of what we did today?" Walking on the street, Li Xiangfeng suddenly asked this sentence.
Yu Yan's face still didn't have any waves at this time, and he replied lightly: "How can there be so many opinions, if we don't do it, someone will definitely do it!" Li Xiangfeng didn't fully understand what Yu Yan meant by this, now they were hungry, and they were staring at both sides of the street, as long as they saw a restaurant that could solve their hunger, they planned to rush in.
After Li Xiangfeng was swept away by the hot wind, the pedestrians on the street were already very scarce, and at this time, the evening breeze was blowing, blowing on the face of Li Xiangfeng, who was full of food, and he felt extremely comfortable.
"This is really a murderous night with a dark and windy moon!" Li Xiangfeng said jokingly to Yu Yan.
Some things are really like this, you were bumped into unintentionally, just when Li Xiangfeng finished saying this, two teams of people rushed out from both sides of the street, all wearing uniform night clothes, staring at Li Xiangfeng and Yu Yan with fierce eyes, and the short knife in his hand refracted a chilling knife light in the moonlight.
"This can't be the legendary crow's mouth!" Li Xiangfeng glanced at Yu Yan helplessly.
Yu Yan didn't speak, his long sword was unsheathed, and he stood in the middle of the street with his sword, staring at the black-clothed people around him with cold eyes.
Boom!
A flaming crescent moon rushed towards the man in black, Li Xiangfeng followed closely and rushed towards the man in black opposite, since the person who came was not good, why did he need to say more?
Li Xiangfeng's approach is very much in line with Yu Yan's thoughts, since people are coming to the door, you can ask some more questions, "Who are you? What enmity do I have with you? Who sent you here?" and so on, these useless words are also in vain, it is better to strike first, at least let yourself occupy some initiative.
A white shadow and black shadow intertwined and shot at the man in black on the opposite side, and the man in black didn't expect that the two young people who were surrounded by so many people of themselves reacted so quickly, and they didn't say what their employer said, so they did it.
In a hurry, the man in black swung his knife to meet him, and became entangled with Li Xiangfeng and Yu Yan.