After a few days, they finally arrived in Henan.

Yang Guo had never been to the Shaolin Temple in Henan even in his previous life, and this time he must make up for the regrets of his previous life.

It's just that the scene along the way makes people feel heavy, and they see the victims who are going to be difficult to escape along the way.

The drought in Henan began as early as this spring.

From the summer of that year until the fall, it continued to spread until a full-blown outbreak.

The disaster area not only involves the central, southern and eastern parts of Henan. It has also expanded to the southeast of Shanxi, northern Hubei and northern Anhui, which has also had a significant impact on the escape from famine in the disaster area.

Henan, the "epicenter" of the disaster, is the most serious, and there are almost no counties in dozens of counties in the province that are free from disasters.

Along the way, you can see violent bones, or burials that are too shallow, and the stench spreads.

Some of the hungry victims are already selling their sons and daughters.

Yang Guo looked at the scorching sun and estimated that the drought would last for a few months.

Cheng Ying couldn't bear to see them.

In this era, there are constant wars, disasters, all kinds of bandits, and it is not an exaggeration to describe the people's lives as dire and miserable.

The victims were ragged and thin, and some of them were skinny.

The children were crying with hunger, and the eyes of the victims were full of despair and helplessness.

"Xianggong is so pitiful, let's help them."

"Well, I'm thinking about how I can help."

What we have to do now is to contact the government to rescue together, but now the imperial court is in the south, and most of the north is occupied by the Mongol Tatars, and the Mongol Tatars will not care about the life or death of the people of the Great Song Dynasty.

So this matter can only be organized by Yang Guo himself.

Yang Guo thought of the method of cash-for-work.

Yang Guo is rich now, he has millions of taels of silver, and if he takes it all out, it will not be enough, so this method is the most suitable.

Cash-for-work refers to a kind of support policy in which the government invests in the construction of infrastructure projects, and the recipients participate in the construction of the projects to receive remuneration for labor services, so as to replace direct relief.

According to written records, it first began in the Spring and Autumn Period of Qi Jinggong, and was implemented for Yan Ying, the doctor of Qi.

During the reign of Qi Jinggong, there was a famine in the world, and the doctor Yan Ying advised Lun Su to provide relief, but Jing Gong did not agree, and Jing Cheng planned to build a "road bed" (the palace room where the ancient king dealt with important government affairs was called Lu Bed).

Yan Ying built a platform with his hands in the name of disaster relief. He ordered his subordinate officials to hire the victims at high salaries, and to lengthen the roads, deliberately delaying the completion date, and building the roads tall and magnificent, and after three years, the platforms of the roads were built and the victims were able to live.

However, the cash-for-work method is now difficult to implement.

First of all, without a useful engineering project, if we want to create a irrigation system, it will not be possible without the organization and dispatch of the government.

Victims come from far and wide to return to their places where they live to reclaim their fields, a time-consuming and ineffective process.

With so many victims, it was difficult to organize effectively, and Yang Guo didn't want to waste too much time on the victims.

Therefore, the most direct and crude way is to send money directly.

Yang Guo wanted to take out 200,000 taels to relieve the victims.

This time, the Blood Knife Gate received a total of 300,000 taels, and it is also kind to take out 200,000 taels.

Yang Guo can buy some coarse rice, and if he replaces coarse rice for rice bran for livestock, he will get more of it, and he can help more victims when the time comes.

But in this way, the victims will say that he does not treat them as human beings, but only as animals, so he still pays them directly.

Yang Guo hired a group of disaster victims to start spreading the word that the heroes of the rivers and lakes, Jiu Jian Xian, were going to send money to help the victims, first come, first served, until the money ran out.

The news spread as quickly as a plague, and Yang Guo had already come to a money shop to exchange for 200,000 taels of copper coins.

Now bamboo baskets filled with copper coins are piled up all over the room.

Yang Guo and his four wives protect the money security level SSS.

The next day, Yang Guo began to supervise the distribution of money, and each person could receive 500 copper coins.

Under normal circumstances, 1 tael of silver can be exchanged for about 1000~1500 copper coins, and in ancient times, it was usually said that 1 guan money or 1 hanging money was 1000 yuan; 1 tael of gold = 10 taels of silver = 10 copper coins = 10,000 copper coins.

And Yang Guo exchanged one or two silver for 1,200 copper coins.

How many copper coins can be exchanged for 200,000 copper coins, Yang Guo is too lazy to calculate a lot anyway.

How can each victim who has received relief prevent double payment?

Yang Guo's practice is to burn his arm with incense, and the hot position is uniform.

It won't hurt a little bit, and a little pain shouldn't raise the level of morality and ethics.

Once it is found that the duplicate collection is confiscated, the money given before will be confiscated, and you will be beaten severely, and you should be beaten if you are not honest.

After several lessons, the victims are now honest.

They had a long queue under the organization of the staff.

There are four long dragons in total, so the efficiency will be much higher.

Yang Guo and several wives were on guard at the scene all day, and there could be no riots, otherwise a good thing would become a bad thing.

From noon to evening, 50,000 people were affected.

There are still rooms full of copper coins.

It looks like it's going to be sent for a few days in a row.

These people with money finally have money to buy food, and the money is not very much, so they can only save money.

More people came the next day.

On the third day, there were still many of them, and they all came from all over the world.

A total of five days of money were distributed, and all 200,000 taels were distributed.

In total, almost 400,000 people received the money.

Five hundred copper coins per person, if the family has a large population, it is also a lot of income.

Yang Guo has done everything he can, and as for what will happen to the victims in the future, it is not for him to consider.

As the saying goes, if you are not in his position, he does not seek his own government, this dog emperor does not care about the people's livelihood, how did he do it alone.

Now it is very good that he can come up with 200,000 taels to come out for disaster relief.

As for not taking more money out, please let him support his family Hukou too.

He will not stop doing good deeds, but he will also do what he can to do good deeds.

They continued their journey towards the Shaolin Temple.

The victims he saw along the road were grateful to him.

Some of these victims helped him publicize, and it won't be long before his nickname of "Wine Sword Fairy" will be famous all over the world.

Yang Guo spent these ill-gotten gains, and he didn't feel distressed at all.

"Xianggong, don't you still have a lot of money, why do you only take out 200,000 yuan."

Yang Guo looked at the stupid Guo Fu.

"The emperor can't save so many victims, I can only do what I can, let me go bankrupt to help the victims, do you think you are the Holy Mother."

"Oh."

"Don't blame Xianggong, it's already good that he can come up with so much money, you've seen anyone who has come up with so much money to help people."

"Hmm."

This is not false at all, whether it is to eliminate harm for the people, or to donate money to build bridges, to restore the dignity of the Great Song Dynasty, and to relieve the victims, Yang Guo can already be called a saint.

It would be too much to ask for more.

The weather was a bit hot, so they decided to find a place to escape the heat during the day and go out at night.

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