In Beiyang City, a group of sloppy people dressed in heavy cotton clothes gathered on the bleak streets, including middle-aged men, middle-aged women, children, the elderly, and so on.

Without exception, these people pushed, pulled, and dragged wooden carts, and under the leadership of the two young men, they flocked to the largest grain merchant in Beiyang City, and they delivered the grain shop nicknamed "Qian Datou".

"Big Money" is not because his head is big, but because his surname is "Qian", and he hoards countless grains, and the corn he hoards is full of grains and golden and brilliant. Like ordinary miscellaneous millet, he still disdains hoarding, so the price of corn is a little more expensive than that of other grain merchants, but the rich families of Beiyang City still order from him in an endless stream.

No way, it tastes good!

When Lao Wu Tou brought the villagers over outside the city, he almost made Li Xiangfeng want to scold his mother, what 20 simple and stocky big men, I didn't see a few at all.

Instead, he brought two or three hundred villagers over, and from these two or three hundred people, he could pick out a stocky man like Lao Wu Tou, who should be able to count it in one slap.

But Lao Wu Tou still thought that Li Xiangfeng took advantage, because Li Xiangfeng only needed 20 men, but he basically called everyone in the village, not to mention more than 200 people, but the number of people stipulated by Li Xiangfeng was more than 10 times.

"You said you want a stocky man, 1 gold coin a day, it doesn't matter, I can use the number of people here, 5 people can be used as a stocky man, it's really not good, 10 people can always top 1 stocky man, right? I don't want extra money, or 20 gold coins, what kind of work do you want to do, we are all capable of it!" After hearing Li Xiangfeng's dissatisfaction, Lao Wu Tou hurriedly explained, for fear that Li Xiangfeng would take back the task and he would not be able to earn this commission.

Staring at these villagers dressed in shabby cotton clothes, with black faces and a little sloppy, Li Xiangfeng felt all kinds of helplessness, but then he thought that after he finished buying grain, he had to cook on a fire, right? He also needed someone to distribute food to the disaster victims, right? The most important thing is that this grain needs to be guarded, right? and so on, all these problems need to be completed, and his heart has also improved slightly.

Li Xiangfeng thought about emulating the regulations of the relief victims outside Nanyang City, but after on-the-spot inspection and careful consideration, the only result he got was that it didn't work!

Not to mention that there is no place here that can accommodate and provide for these tens of thousands of disaster victims, even the disaster victims have never thought of putting down roots here.

Their current thinking is only a kind of mindset that they just want to survive here, and then sooner or later there will be a war here, and they will continue to flee to the southeast, and it is impossible to grow any food crops here in this season to provide for the victims to continue to live, and the only thing they can do is to hold on until the spring of the next year, which is not consumed.

"When you hear about the south, you can live with peace of mind!" This is already the concept of most of the victims.

But what they don't know is how many people are going to die on this thousands of kilometers away, and I'm afraid it's hard for any of them to get out that far.

As for the group of refugees outside Nanyang City, Li Xiangfeng naturally knew who was fueling the troubles, and he could complete this incredible and impossible "road to escape".

If this absurd thing is revealed to the world, it can really tear off the fig leaf of officialdom.

Since there is no way to settle the refugees here, the only thing Li Xiangfeng can do is to distribute some food supplies in order for them to settle their destiny.

"I'm not a sage! There's really no other way!" this was Li Xiangfeng's answer when answering Yu Yan's question.

And Yu Yanzi

However, if Li Xiangfeng relieved these victims, it would be impossible for these tens of thousands of victims to give some food, and they could become ordinary civilians after eating a few bites of food.

Even if all the more than 300,000 gold coins looted from the hands of those gentry in Beiyang City are used up, it can only be said to be a drop in the bucket for these tens of thousands of victims.

Yu Yan's concept is not indifferent, but very realistic, although these more than 300,000 gold coins cannot help these tens of thousands of victims, but they are enough to allow some of the victims to move to other places and live a normal life.

Why not?

But there is another question that has to be considered, that is, who to help? And not to help?

"I'm not the creator god Nuwa! I can't decide who lives and who dies, the only thing I can do is to let them all have the same hope of survival!" Li Xiangfeng settled the matter in one word.

This is the process of Li Xiangfeng and Yu Yan going to the mercenary guild to find helpers, and the old Wu Tou who took over the task obviously did not understand how bright and sacred the task he was performing, and now he is still begging Li Xiangfeng to accept these people, otherwise his mercenary mission will be regarded as a failure.

"Li Gongzi, what's the matter? How can these two hundred people be worse than 20 rough men?" Old Wu Tou tried to use his "economic" mind to persuade Li Xiangfeng to agree.

Li Xiangfeng, who had figured out what was going on for a while, finally showed some satisfaction under the hot gaze of Old Wu.

"Old Wu Tou, I can use all these people, and I can also pay some extra gold coins, but you have to ensure that these people don't steal, don't rob, don't procrastinate, and must not say tired when you should work hard, and you must obey the command! The most important thing is to be bold, don't run around in a panic?"

Listening to the employer's son-in-law chattering about "rules", why did Lao Wu Tou feel more and more wrong, how did he feel like he was going to fight with others, instead of carrying things?

In a trance, Lao Wu Tou subconsciously asked: "Li Gongzi, are you going to fight with others?" Old Wu Tou was a little embarrassed on his face, his hands stretched out to his chest and shook, his head shook like a rattle, and then said: "This is not good, this is not good, our village is full of kind and honest people like me, this fight can't be done! No matter how much gold coins are given, don't do it! Don't do it!"

"30 gold coins! Do you want to do it?" Li Xiangfeng didn't have time to listen to Lao Wu's chatter, so he casually offered a price.

"! Li Gongzi, you say, who are you going to do?" Old Wu Tou's face instantly became extremely affirmative, and there was a decisive tendency.

Come on, this old Wu Tou thought of who to fight again, Li Xiangfeng reluctantly explained again: "Old Wu Tou, I don't want you to fight anyone, but to follow me to buy food to relieve the victims, and then I have to arrange one thing for you, find me a few honest people, I have important things to arrange!"

After hearing Li Xiangfeng's tireless explanation, Lao Wu Tou was relieved, as long as he didn't fight with others!

In fact, Lao Wu Tou had already prepared for the worst, that is, to find a few villagers with harder bodies to follow him to be beaten, which could be regarded as completing the task.

This boy didn't say that he had beaten it, but he couldn't beat it, so he just went there to send a wave of heads, and as for the commission, it would naturally fall into his own hands.

The bad idea that Lao Wu Tou thought of in a flash of inspiration just now was not implemented at all, and was strangled in the cradle by Li Xiangfeng, in fact, when he heard that Li Xiangfeng did not let himself fight, Lao Wu Tou was still a little disappointed in his heart.

I should be guilty of being sorry for my clever aura.

After officially accepting these people, Li Xiang

Feng was also impressed by Lao Wutou's absolute "leadership", and had to admire his organization, action, execution, and completion.

It was only a moment of effort, under the leadership of Lao Wu Tou, these more than 200 people returned to their homes, and all the things that could transport things were pounded out to form this seemingly uneven, but actually unconventional "grain transportation brigade".

Walking on the somewhat calm streets of Beiyang City, all of them make people look sideways.

When they arrived at the door of the grain shop, they were shocked that the grain shop guys were active for a while, some ran in to report the news, and some picked up sticks to take full precautions.

Eighty percent of them regard these people as civilians who are ready to make trouble and grab food.

It has not been opened for several days, and Qian Datou, who opened early today, is sitting leisurely in the grain shop drinking tea and listening to music, very comfortably waiting for the arrival of the lord, and then he will be very "bold" to send thousands of catties of corn, without taking a penny, presumably the lord will remember his own favor.

When the time comes to be shaded.....

"Hey, hey, hey, hey!"

Just thinking about it already makes Qian Datou feel very happy.

It's not that I don't have money, but I can't find a way out, don't look at the relationship with Taishou and Garrison is so hot, in fact, Qian Datou is very spiegal in his heart, these two vicious dogs are nothing more than looking at the face of gold coins.

In my heart, I look down on a businessman like myself, even if I am willing to donate a large amount of gold coins to Taishou and want to change the position of a small official for my son, but those gold coins are like being lost, and there is no return!

No, there was a sound after the water drifted, and those gold coins couldn't even hear a sound, and this matter has been bothering Qian Datou for several years.

Today, I finally heard the sound.

Originally, I thought that Adjutant Zhang called him over, but it was nothing more than a repetition of the old trick, and on the way there, he had already decided how much he should share in the donation fee, but the displeased Qian Datou did not expect to meet a "nobleman".

That is, Lord Li Xiangfeng, the emperor's lord.

If it can be done at this time, Qian Datou has already thought about it, and he will definitely take out 500 catties of corn to cook porridge to help the victims, and it will not be in vain to waste the nobles brought by these victims to themselves.

Oooo

Because the guy in the grain store ran too quickly, he didn't keep his speed under his feet, stumbled on the door, and staged a good show of "vicious dog pooping" in front of Qian Datou!

Qian Datou, who was disturbed from his dream, was naturally a little displeased, but when he saw that it was the guy who was working outside the grain store who came in, he immediately thought that it should be the noble Lord Li who came, presumably this guy was in a hurry to inform himself that he fell here.

didn't wait for the news of Lord Li's arrival, but saw the guy raise his bruised cheek, and stammered timidly: "East, east, the owner's house, there are a lot of people outside who come to make trouble?"

In an instant, Qian Datou pulled up his face, who dared to find his own business in Beiyang City?

"Who are they, how many?" asked Qian Datou without thinking.

"A group of villagers, there are about 200 people! They are still pushing small carts, and eighty percent of them are here to grab grain!" The man finished the report in one breath, looked at Qian Datou, and waited for the order.

"Let's go! Take the guy with me! What dares to run to this realm to grab grain, there is no royal law!" Qian Datou walked out of the door with his men and summoned all the personnel in the grain store.

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