Chapter 36 Cash-for-Work
Li Baiyi raised his eyebrows, and said in disbelief: "You are not the person in charge of disaster relief now, what are you doing in such a hurry, it is the Eighth Prince who is in charge now, even if you work hard, the credit is also that of the Eighth Prince." ”
The crown prince Wang Lang shook his head, and said with an indifferent look: "This is nothing, as long as it can benefit those disaster victims, no more people can die." ”
"It's only been a few days, and more than 200 people have died because of the various conflicts that have broken out, not counting those who starved to death on the road."
"The homeless people can't help it, otherwise they wouldn't risk killing their heads."
Li Baiyi sighed and said, "Even if ordinary homeless people have no choice, they will not do evil at will, and there are still people who instigate them. ”
"Ordinary people can always find a few families at random, and they can always help."
"We are in Gyeonggi again, and the people are more prosperous, so that all the victims will not go hungry."
When the prince heard this, he was silent for a while, and continued: "Let's not talk about this for a while, let's talk about how to solve these problems, the displaced people continue to make trouble, and the people are also miserable." ”
Li Baiyi thought for a while and said: "Of course, it is necessary to solve the problem of eating for these disaster victims, if they are full and not hungry, even if someone forces them to make trouble, they may not follow suit, what do you say?" ”
The prince nodded and said, "That's right, but how to solve it?" Just rely on the money we used to buy them food? ”
Li Baiyi shook his head: "This is not a long-term solution, it can only be used for emergency relief, so that these displaced people can stabilize first." ”
The prince thought for a while: "What about the back?" ”
Li Baiyi's eyes burst out with a flash of brilliance, and said, "Later, of course, I want to snatch the homeless people from the hands of the Eighth Prince." ”
"The Eighth Prince went to disaster relief, which is nothing more than gilding, walking the catwalk in front of the victims and giving a speech, as for whether he is working hard to provide disaster relief, no one knows."
"But if we want to help the victims, we must help them, and we can't let people make trouble, otherwise it will only lead to fire."
"By the way, prince, I heard that you have a villa near Xian County, and there is a hot spring coming down from the mountain, right?"
Wang Lang nodded in a trance and said, "Yes, there is a villa, what's wrong?" It was given to me by my father before. ”
"When my father came out to play when he was young, he ordered someone to build a separate garden there, and it has been more than ten years, and the palace has been there a few times."
Li Baiyi's eyes lit up, and he said, "Doesn't that mean that this garden is in disrepair and the interior is negligent in cleaning?" ”
Wang Lang nodded and said, "What do you want to do?" You're going to let the victims live in? The palace doesn't have any opinions, but I'm afraid that my father will complain about the palace if he finds out, and even if there are all the upper homeless people living there, there won't be many people. ”
Li Baiyi shook his head and said, "Of course, it's not as simple as letting them live in it, I'm going to ask these people to help you build a larger, more luxurious, and more functional garden." ”
"When the time comes, it is not impossible to build another city with your villa as the center."
When Wang Lang heard this, his eyes widened suddenly, and he shook his head again and again: "Big brother, what are you doing, this is not good, if my father knows that I have built a city for pleasure, and I must not be skinned?" ”
Li Baiyi was stunned for a moment, glared at him and said, "What do you want?" Where is it so easy to build a city, this is all later. ”
"By the way, isn't it difficult to walk on the way to your garden, so you don't go often?"
Wang Lang nodded: "Yes, it is easy to accumulate water on the road after rain, and there is also water coming down from the mountain." ”
"It's easy for people to slip and fall when walking, and it's easy for horse-drawn carriages to get stuck in it."
"There were two other cases where horse-drawn carriages got stuck in the road before, delaying pedestrians for several hours."
Li Baiyi nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, in addition to repairing the garden for you, let these victims open the way from the capital to the garden for you, which will consume at least 10,000 people's labor, and it may not be able to finish it for a few months." ”
When Wang Lang heard this, he immediately said with a worried face: "Big brother, these things you said are not so urgent, do you want to stop slowing down?" ”
"These victims are starving one by one, where do they have the strength to work?"
"To put it mildly, it is squeezing the people's power, and it is easy to provoke the people's rebellion."
Li Baiyi rolled his eyes and said, "What do you know, I will do what I tell you to do." ”
"Of course, if you don't believe me, I can not go."
When Wang Lang heard this, he hurriedly pulled Li Baiyi's arm and said, "Big brother, I believe you, I just don't understand the things here, so I'm a little confused." ”
Li Baiyi patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, brother, this matter is wrapped up in the eldest brother, and it will be done for you." ”
"After a year, you will gain more prestige because of this disaster relief, and those victims will return to normal life, and they will be able to eat and drink well every day for a year, and they will still have money to earn."
The prince barely showed a smile on his face and said, "If that's the case, then it's great." ”
said so, but there was still lingering worry in his eyes, can disaster relief really be so easy to handle?
After only half an hour, the sound outside the carriage gradually became noisy, and the prince lifted the curtains and saw that homeless people appeared outside from time to time, and the worry in his eyes was even greater.
"Big brother, this hasn't reached the county seat yet, there are so many displaced people."
Li Baiyi got up and looked at it, nodded and said, "It's okay, these homeless people will be resettled at that time." ”
"Big brother, look, upstairs at the city gate, isn't that the eighth child, he has already arrived."
"There are so many people downstairs at the city gate, what are you doing here?"
The prince looked confused.
Li Baiyi glanced at it and said with a smile: "Maybe the Eighth Prince is lecturing now, and we will watch how the Eighth Prince performs in a while." ”
Soon, the prince's carriage came to the city gate tower, and the two walked up to the city gate tower together.
"Yo, brother, you're here, I'm about to talk to you, and I've gathered a lot of homeless people."
"This time, brother, I robbed your messenger, don't blame me, I can't be idle."
The Eighth Prince looked at the two people who came over, and said with a smile on his face.
When Wang Lang heard this, he hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Of course I won't be angry, as long as you really want to help those victims." ”
"What this palace wants is to let these victims stop starving and cold, and don't care about anything else."
Wang Lang said what he said in his heart, and Li Baiyi on the side couldn't help but shake his head, feeling very helpless.
You kid doesn't care, but people do, and they don't care if you're real or not.
As long as you lose power, people can kick you away at any time, and then make up charges against you, and never be soft.