Volume 1 Chapter 204 Building a Settlement House
"Not yet, I was supposed to leave in the afternoon, but I didn't expect Grandpa Guo to come, and Little Twelve is still on standby at home."
"Then let Little Twelve come to me."
After Xu Yunjin finished speaking, she went back to the house to write a letter, and on the way here, she was thinking about why there was no coal mine in Daqi.
Later, when Xiao Yi found out, he told her that when he passed through Anyi County, he had tested the conditions for the formation of coal mines nearby.
It's just that it was low-level at the time, and it's not clear which place it was.
Originally, Xu Yunjin wanted to take someone to look for it near Anyi County, but now he can't.
I have to ask Yuan Xuan to send some people to help find it together, and the ghost knows if this thief will come up with some moths next year.
In order to prevent He Xiang from having the opportunity to take advantage of disasters and use the people as fellers.
Xu Yunjin thought that the imperial court should have a set of emergency disaster handling measures and policies.
Then she had to prepare for the storage of grain, medicinal herbs, shelters, wintering materials, etc., and she has only done this in terms of food so far.
She doesn't have to worry too much about the medicinal materials such as the Han family and the medicine gate, but the wintering materials are not easy to handle, whether it is burning materials for heating or clothing.
Xu Yunjin has no clue, she doesn't know what to do with down jackets, so far everyone only uses cotton to make clothes for warmth.
But it would be nice if you could find coal and make honeycomb coal that the countryside liked to use for heating in the previous life, and storing it in large quantities would work at a critical time.
Xu Yunjin thought about it for a long time in the room after writing the letter, and what she had learned and seen in her previous life about emergency disaster handling measures were applicable to Daqi.
"County Lord, you're looking for me."
Soon there was a knock at the door.
"Come in."
Yuan Xiaoxi pushed the door open and entered the room.
"Brother Twelve, you personally deliver this letter to Senior Brother's hands, and you must not let others see the contents of the letter."
Xu Yunjin took out a letter and handed it to Xiao Twelve, who was ordered to go out to prepare something to deliver the letter.
There is a place in the letter written by Xu Yunjin that there may be a coal mine, I hope Yuan Xuan's acceptance will give some strength!
On the second day, with the efforts of Xu Yunjin and others, most of the people at the city gate recovered.
At least in the past two days, there have been no more people who have frozen, starved, or died of disease.
Because of the timely disaster relief in Yuen Long, the city donated a lot of materials, and Han Shaozhi also lived up to expectations, occupying the name of the Han family and buying 8,000 taels of silver from the merchants in the city at a low price.
Because the people felt that they were expected to spend this winter safely, they did not make trouble in the past few days, but obediently waited for the county government to "feed".
On the third day, there was no need to revisit those patients, Xu Yunjin finally slept a whole night, woke up and went to the county office.
After entering the county office, Xu Yunjin and Xia Zhengbo sat together and talked about the current construction of the resettlement center.
"Settlement house?"
Xia Zhengbo heard this new word for the first time and was very interested.
"Yes, even though the snow has been light in the past two days, we don't know if it will be the same as before.
There is at least a month and a half left before the winter in the north has passed, and the people cannot live in tents for a long time.
So I think we can pay for a temporary resettlement house first, and it doesn't have to be very good, but if it is bigger, it will be built like this."
Xu Yunjin took out a drawing from her arms, which she drew after reading the book recommended by Xiaoyi yesterday for an afternoon.
"The county lord's house looks good, but now the county government is short of manpower."
Xia Zhengbo said with some bitterness that in recent days, with the help of Xu Yunjin and others, he finally got away and went to understand the situation in other villages in person.
The villages closer to the county seat and town fared better than the rest of the country, after all, the people in these places were slightly wealthier.
Like the city gate, these are under the mountains, and the snow disaster didn't last long before they came to the county for help.
But even so, the situation in those villages is not optimistic.
Xu Yunjin also knew, so tomorrow they would also divide into two teams to go to a nearby village for medical treatment.
"My lord thinks I said that the county government should be used to build a resettlement center?"
Xu Yunjin was shocked by Xia Zhengbo's words, her idea was never to let the county government contribute.
"What does the county lord mean? The people themselves do their part?"
Xia Zhengbo was also silent, it seems that it is not impossible, although in the past, such natural disasters were funded by the government.
But now in this situation, it is obvious that we can only rely on them.
"Yes, the resettlement house is not for the government, it is for them to live in, if they don't want to build it, let them stay in the snow.
When the food and medicinal materials are not enough, even if the saint comes up, he will not be able to save them.
Then tell them that the shelter will wait until the snow is over and they can choose to live in the shelter until they have built their own house.
In addition, the construction of resettlement houses does not give them no benefits at all, although there is not much food in the county now, it is still possible to move some surplus rations every day to the people who build houses.
The timber needed to build a house can be found by the officers and soldiers at the point where they are tired, as long as Lord Xia does not treat them badly."
Xu Yunjin proposed that if he gave himself a house to live in, he should be so careful.
They are really hopeless, and it is not their fault that they have been displaced by the snow disaster, but if they blindly wait for the help of the state.
That Xu Yunjin didn't know how much the country's financial revenue had to be able to take it all over.
If it is not timely, there will be violence and chaos, but now various conditions have limited the speed of rescue.
Even in the event of a disaster in a previous life, the state could not teleport the rescue team to the place where the disaster occurred.
At any time, the state can only be said to play a better role in resource scheduling, and the people should also have a sense of self-help.
If you still need the help of the people of the yamen to help you solve something like this, it is really hopeless.
"The county lord has a point, I'll go tell them now."
Xia Zhengbo also feels that sometimes it is better to rely on others than on oneself.
"I'll go with Lord Xia, it's just that we are going to the countryside tomorrow, and I'll see those seriously ill people today."
Xu Yunjin also wanted to see the attitude of the people, and she felt that the people would not object.
Although the house was owned by the government after the snowstorm, no one would live in it unless it was a special case.
The result was indeed as Xu Yunjin expected, and the people heard that the government took the lead, and there were subsidies, and they all asked to participate in the construction of the resettlement center.
There are also some masters who specialize in helping people build houses take the initiative to ask to see the drawings of the house, and Xu Yunjin and Xia Zhengbo naturally will not refuse.
"The county lord, my lord, the little old man has a proposal, there are many young and middle-aged people in the team, let them go up the mountain to find timber together.
We don't want to be paid, just give them more food every day, I don't know what the lord and the adults think?"
Old lady Fu thought about it and said, those young men also felt that it was no problem.
After all, there are only dozens of officials in the county government, and there are not many officers and soldiers stationed there, and there are other tasks, so there are not many people.
"You have a heart, and this county order can't be unkind, it's much harder to go up the mountain to cut wood than to build a house here.
In this way, the old lady will find fifty strong men and go up the mountain with the officers and soldiers, and the wages will be paid."
Xia Zhengbo promised with a wave of his hand happily, and Xu Yunjin snickered twice on the side.
Lord Xia hasn't gotten the disaster relief money yet, and if the prefect who picks the door doesn't buy it, Lord Xia will have to pay out of his own pocket.
So in the afternoon of the same day, the big guys began to discuss the construction of the house in full swing.
Fifty people from the county went up to the mountains to look for timber.