After dinner, Wei Ruo and Xiumei sorted out their things in the inn's room.

"Miss, although this Lin'an Mansion is more prosperous than Taizhou Mansion, there are a lot more displaced people along the way than Taizhou Mansion, and the number of displaced people gathered outside the city gate is about to catch up with the displaced people on the wasteland of Taizhou Mansion."

Xiumei couldn't help but sigh about what she had seen and heard in the past few days. There are not many displaced people in the city of Lin'an Prefecture, but they are all blocked out of the city gate, and those people are hungry, and many of them starve to death.

Lin'an Mansion, as the provincial capital of Zhejiang Chengxuan's political envoys, was originally the most prosperous and lively capital in the entire Zhejiang Chengxuan Political Envoys, but now there are many more ragged and yellow-skinned homeless people.

"The food situation has been bad in the past two years, and there are naturally many victims." Wei Ruodao.

"But hasn't the imperial court already sent the six princes to come to the disaster relief? Why is there still no look? Otherwise, we have to resettle these homeless people, stop them all outside the city, and watch them starve to death, how can I bear it? ”

Xiumei thought relatively simply, feeling that human life was at stake, and she had to save people first.

Therefore, after seeing so many displaced people, Xiumei was vaguely dissatisfied with the six princes who came to relieve the disaster.

"Then I don't know." Wei Ruo didn't have much of the heart to care about how the six princes planned to provide disaster relief and relief, she just had to do her own thing.

Wei Ruo was talking to Xiumei while looking at the map of Lin'an Mansion.

"We'll check on it tomorrow." Wei Ruo pointed to the northern suburbs of Lin'an Mansion and said.

"I'll go wherever Miss says." Xiumei didn't even look at it, no matter where the young lady went, she went with her.

"Then I'm going to sell you." Wei Ruo joked.

"Sell it, if the price is right, I'll run back when Miss gets the money, and then sell it to Miss." Xiumei replied with a smile.

"You're going to do business." Wei Ruo was amused by Xiumei.

"Naturally, I've been with Miss for so long, and I'm somewhat business-minded."

"My Meimei now has more brains than me, I still have a business to do, you are good, a million profits!" Wei Ruodao.

"Blue is better than blue!" Xiumei said playfully.

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Early the next morning, the four of them set off from the inn and went to the north of Lin'an Mansion.

In order to make it more convenient to move, Wei Ruo and Xiumei changed into men's clothes when they traveled today. In this way, the four and three of them all changed their clothes, and only Xiaobei was fearless with a face that was not easy to find out when he blended into the crowd.

Because he was wearing men's clothes, Wei Ruo didn't take the carriage anymore, and rode directly on horseback, which was more convenient to move.

After a few horseback riding experiences, Wei Ruo will not have a sore butt and thigh when riding a horse like before.

In addition, Wei Jin also got a special stirrup for her, which was padded with a thick layer of soft padding, which made her feel a lot more comfortable when riding.

The four of them rode out of the city gate, and the scenery on the road became desolate, and there were many villages and farmlands along the way, but they did not seem to be as prosperous as the Taizhou Mansion is now.

Looking closely, I found that the rice in the paddy field was not growing very well, the seedlings were yellow, and the situation of hanging ears was not optimistic.

"Why does this rice here in Lin'an Mansion look so bad?"

Xiao Bei, who was following Wei Jinyi and Wei Ruo, couldn't help but wonder.

Xiumei, who walked side by side with him, explained: "The weather this year is not very good, and it is not normal for rice to grow badly. ”

Xiaobei was still puzzled: "But I see that the rice in Taizhou Mansion grows quite well." ”

Xiumei said: "A large number of seedlings in Taizhou Mansion have been replaced with rice seeds promoted by my young lady, which have strong disease resistance and strong adaptability. ”

Xiaobei suddenly realized: "I see, I said, why are they all rice, the gap is so big." ”

Immediately afterwards, Xiaobei said: "The harvest in the previous two years has been bad, if this is still the case this year, isn't the disaster going to be more serious?" ”

Xiumei muttered: "Who says it's not, I still hope for a better harvest, I really don't want so many people to die." ”

Xiaobei nodded heavily: "Miss Xiumei is right!" ”

After walking for a while, the four of them saw a group of government soldiers driving a group of ragged homeless people in one direction.

Several of them still had whips in their hands, and from time to time they whipped the bodies of the homeless people, driving them forward.

Xiumei couldn't help but be annoyed: "Which family's government soldiers are these, why are they driving and beating these homeless people?" ”

Xiaobei hurriedly stopped Xiumei: "Miss Xiumei, be quiet, those who are the six princes will be in trouble if they are heard." ”

Xiumei lowered her voice and asked Xiaobei, "Why did the people of the Six Princes drive away the displaced people so violently?" ”

Wei Ruo also looked at it and had the same doubts.

Xiaobei didn't answer immediately, and glanced at Wei Jinyi hesitantly.

After Wei Jin also nodded slightly, Xiaobei continued to explain to Wei Ruo and Xiumei: "The Sixth Prince seems to have been learning the eldest lady's disaster relief method recently, arranging for the displaced people to go to the wasteland and farming. ”

Xiumei was even more confused: "Why do you want to be so kind to the homeless people when you learn from my young lady to open up wasteland and farm?" Just tell them no? Those displaced people will be happy, we have already practiced in Taizhou Prefecture. ”

Xiaobei explained in a whisper: "Because the eldest lady organized the disaster relief in Taizhou Mansion to provide shelter and food, the displaced people are naturally happy; But what the six princes did here was not arranged, it is said that they even had very little food, and in order to catch up with the schedule, they forced the homeless people to work from morning to night, which was very difficult, so naturally no one wanted to. ”

Hiding in the wild and eating tree roots and turf still has a chance to live, and being caught as a coolie may die sooner.

Wei Ruo frowned and said, "Since he has learned, why does he only learn a little fur and not all of it?" And no one forbade him to draw a scoop on a gourd. ”

This time, Wei Jin also answered for Wei Ruo: "Because he failed to persuade the people of Lin'an Mansion to contribute money and efforts, and he did not have the ability to adapt measures to local conditions." Earlier he had already tried once, but the land was not improved, and it took some time but no crops could grow on the land. ”

Wei Ruo can revitalize the cash-for-work project and let the entire Taizhou government join in it, and a very important point is that she can convince everyone that she can successfully improve the land and make everyone gain.

If this premise is not true, naturally no one will want to participate in it and contribute money and efforts.

The six princes only learned a framework for Wei Ruo's set of disaster relief methods, and failed to get through the key points, so they naturally got different results.

Xiumei couldn't help but say: "Then he can't treat the homeless people like this, they are already bitter enough, what's the use of persecuting them if they can't grow crops?" ”