Faced with Zhu Su's unrealistic statement, Wei Guan hurriedly said: "Your Highness can't!" ”

"At this time, it is easy to allocate grain and grass to feed the victims."

"But there is only so much grain and grass in the house. It is necessary to know that fine water can flow for a long time, if His Highness really does this, what is the difference between fishing and exhaustion? ”

"And not to be few, but to be uneven...... If you give it thick porridge now, you will replace it with thin porridge when there is not enough grain and grass in the future...... How can the people be willing? At that time, if any ill-intentioned person rises up and shouts, there will be a riot in the city! ”

Why wait until then? The team of disaster victims who were originally empty-eyed, with Zhu Su's loud order, had begun to make a slight noise at this time. When Wei Guan's objection came out, the victims became even more agitated, and the victims who should have been quite grateful to Wei Guan and Ru Taisu were actually glaring at Wei Guan angrily at this time.

"Didn't Governor Wei say that there is actually enough grain and grass in the city?" Facing Wei Guan, who was anxious, Zhu Su was still unmoved.

"That's it. Since there is an abundance of grain and grass, why can't the people eat freely? ”

"Only when you have enough food can you do things and fight against this natural disaster."

"If you can't even have a hungry stomach, and you can only starve and resign yourself to your fate in that shack all day long, how many people will die at that time?"

"This ...... There is enough food and grass in the city, but it is not in our hands! "The old prefect was so anxious that he jumped a little." Your Highness doesn't know how hard it is to get food out of those people's mouths! Ru Yushi threw away his official reputation, I don't know how many people he offended, and he only raised enough food to ......"

"Ru Taisu is Ru Taisu, and this king is this king. Those rich people, don't they dare to do it against this king? Zhu Su is still very confident.

"Besides......," he said to Wei Guan, and Nunu mouthed behind him.

"This king's words have already been spoken, if there is no porridge that cannot be broken today, these people, I am afraid that they will complain today, and tomorrow they will attack your prefect."

"For the sake of the people's scheming at this time, Lord Wei should also be as good as the stream, right?"

Wei Guan looked back, and saw that there were many people behind him who were glaring at him, and his heart sank, it didn't matter if he was shocked or not, the prince of the Fifth Highness was now in the midst of the disaster, if there was a good one, his small body of the Suzhou prefect could not afford it.

After hesitating again and again, he could only stomp his feet and let the servants go to the treasury to allocate grain and grass.

"Whoa!!"

The victims of the disaster spread ten, ten, hundreds, and heard that they could have a full meal today, and they all cheered.

Zhu Su looked at these people and nodded silently: This is called popularity.

As before, although he was alive, he was like a walking corpse.

How can such a spirit be used?

"Your Highness, alas, Your Highness!" Seeing that the victims were excited, Wei Guan couldn't say anything after all. He only approached Zhu Su and complained in a low voice:

"Your Highness's move is arbitrary! It's not that the old minister doesn't want the people to have enough to eat......"

"It's really not your Royal Highness's home, I don't know the value of firewood and rice!"

"And Your Highness can't forget the Taihu Lake bandits...... On that day, it was the group of water bandits who mixed in with these victims and instigated them to storm the prefectures and counties. ”

"If the victims of the disaster are well fed and drunk, how can they be willing to live in a corner of the city?"

"Your Highness's decision...... Yes, yes, it's going to make a big mess! ”

Wei Guan beat his chest and complained. Fang Cai also felt that this Fifth Highness was quite polite to him, and he could listen to his opinions if he wanted to.

But I didn't think that it didn't take long for this Fifth Highness to poke a big hole in the disaster relief situation in Suzhou Mansion!

The point is, it is still said out loud in the midst of the victims without consultation.

In disguise, he coerced himself with public opinion, and the prefect had to agree!

Sure enough, this prefect Lao Wei is not simply a good old man, not letting the victims eat enough, and sure enough, there are also factors that worry that the victims will be fed all day long and have nothing to do, and will be used by Zhang Shicheng's remnants.

Once bitten by a snake, he was afraid of the well rope for ten years. For these refugees, the Suzhou government is indeed not just a well-intentioned resettlement. I am afraid that if they are placed in the city, there will also be a nearby control, and I am afraid that they will be used by the rebels again.

"Governor Wei, uh, don't worry......" Seeing this old Wei jumping his feet in a hurry, Zhu Su scratched his head.

"What you're worried about is that there is not enough food in the Suzhou treasury."

"Don't worry, don't forget, the Shen family, the biggest merchant in Suzhou, is under the command of this king."

"Can this king still be able to handle the rich merchants who hoard strange things in this city?"

"Besides, as you said, I am worried about the disaster victims being fed and living, and this king has also thought of a way." Zhu Su found a pestle and sat down, and said to him.

"Isn't Suzhou Mansion short of labor now?"

"Why did you let these victims stand by here, but didn't think about making good use of them?"

"If these tens of thousands of people can move, why worry about the floods of Taihu Lake and Kunshan that cannot be controlled?"

"Governor Wei, have you ever heard of 'cash-for-work'?"

Zhu Su was confident and threw out these four words with full weight.

"Work...... Cash? Wei Guan was stunned for a moment, and a glint flashed in his eyes.

But after thinking about it, I shook my head again:

"Cash-for-work is a good way to provide disaster relief since ancient times. How could the old minister not know? ”

"It's just that Your Highness knows, why all dynasties and dynasties know that there is such a good prescription, but they always abandon it?"

"Uh...... Was cash-for-work available in ancient times? Zhu Su, who was originally full of confidence, was dumbfounded.

"No, there was such a good prescription in ancient times, but it couldn't be popularized in the world, for no other reason."

"It's really the money and food that this method needs to consume, it's too expensive!"

"In the disaster year, everything is in short supply, but the money and food consumed by work for relief are several times what is needed on weekdays!"

"Alas! I'm the Suzhou Mansion, where to raise so much money and food! Wei Guan shook his head and sighed, a little disheartened.

"How much money is spent?" Zhu Su scratched his head a little embarrassed.

He originally thought that cash-for-work was a good way to provide disaster relief for later generations. In the many crossings seen in the previous life, as soon as the protagonist who is a traverser says the words "work for relief", he can often immediately win a shock, which makes countless court bigwigs, emperors and princes exclaim, "There is such a great talent in the world".

It is really one of the supreme weapons for the protagonist to pretend to bluff people in the court.

But Wei Guan said that cash-for-work has existed since ancient times, and it is not feasible?

looked at Yao Guangxiao with puzzled eyes, Yao Guangxiao immediately bowed slightly, and answered for Zhu Su:

"Your Highness, what Governor Wei said is good."

"According to "Yanzi Spring and Autumn", when Qi Jinggong was in power, Yanzi once practiced the method of 'work for relief'. The results have been very fruitful. ”

"It's just that the money and food consumed by this method are indeed huge. After going through the dynasties, only those who were as wealthy as the Song Dynasty had practiced the method of work for relief many times. ”

"Even so, what the Song Dynasty did could not be regarded as a real 'work for relief', but an army formed by the disaster victims, and there was the danger of 'redundant soldiers'."

"If we want to make the victims work for relief, we need to have far more food and grass than usual, and we need to allocate manpower to manage the actions of the victims and resettle them to settle their bodies and minds."

"Even to care for the old and weak, to diagnose and treat diseases, and to burn the dead. The piles and piles are equivalent to contracting tens of thousands of people who are out of work during this period. ”

"It's a huge cost. These tens of thousands of victims are indeed not something that can be borne by the power of one government. ”

(End of chapter)