Chapter 307: Disaster Relief

The snow began to light again that night, and the next morning the snow finally stopped. The imperial court ordered the military and civilians to begin removing the snow.

Li Shen's Ji Wangfu also dispatched guards and people from Huangzhuang to clear the cement road from Huangzhuang to Chang'an.

He also organized people to go to the villages near Huangzhuang to carry out rescue and disaster relief activities.

This time, the villages around Chang'an were indeed seriously damaged, and Li Shen went to check a Zhuangzi near Huangzhuang,

There are more than 200 households in the village, and half of the houses have been crushed by the snow, and Li Shen heard that some of them collapsed because of the night, so many people were crushed to death.

In the afternoon, there was finally news that some areas of Guannei Road, Hedong Road, Hebei Road, and Longyou Road were affected by heavy snow to varying degrees.

In particular, Kannai Province is the most serious, and the counties have reported serious house collapses, and some people can go to relatives' houses to spend the night.

But some of them are really homeless.

In the Liangyi Hall that day, Li Shimin frowned after listening to the situation reported by the fast horses from all over the country.

The losses are somewhat beyond imagination, Henan and Hebei Longyou are okay, the snow is not so big, but there is a phenomenon of people and livestock freezing to death,

As for Kannai, it is so big, with 30% of the houses collapsed, and it is estimated that there will be at least 100,000 homeless people.

"It was decreed that all prefectures and counties should distribute food every day to ensure food supply, and if people starved to death, the local prefectures and counties would be decided.

For the homeless, states and counties have made every effort to arrange and build temporary shelters. Li Shimin thought about it, and the only way to do it in front of him was that grain transportation also took time, and he could only rely on the grain of each state and county to hold the point first.

Even if the snow clears, the horses can run, but the carriage may not be able to pass.

"Your Majesty, the grain in the states and counties should be able to survive for a while, but fortunately, the Quyuan plough of the king of the year last year has increased the grain production, otherwise it is really hard to say." Fang Xuanling sighed.

"Your Majesty, it is Guannei Road that is seriously affected now, because it is close to Chang'an, and there is Yicang, so there is not much food in the states and counties.

Now it will take a while to clear the snow on the road, and there is no time to transport food, and I am afraid that a large number of refugees will go south and come to Chang'an City. Eldest Sun Wuji said, and his worries were not unreasonable.

This is the norm, as long as it is a disaster year, the people love to run to the capital, as for what the reason is, no one knows.

Now the specific number of victims is not determined, but it is known that there are at least 100,000 people, which is very dangerous for Chang'an.

If someone instigates another uprising, it will be much worse than a snowstorm.

"The minister thinks it's better to take precautions as soon as possible, especially at the city gate to strictly check the displaced people who have no road guide," Gao Shilian also suggested.

"Okay, Yiguo Gong" Li Shimin thought about it and agreed.

"The minister is here" Qin Qiong stood up

"Order your 30,000 soldiers to be on standby at all times, and if there is an accident, you can ask for orders first."

This kind of thing can only be treated by the older generation to act first and then ask for orders, Li Shimin is still very confident in his personality charm,

Now these old generals are absolutely loyal to themselves.

"The minister commands."

"We must open up roads in various places as soon as possible, transport food and materials, and report any changes to me in time."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Li Shen has already started disaster relief activities, and the passages of more than a dozen Zhuangzi near Huangzhuang have basically been opened.

Three to four thousand people were homeless, with their houses collapsed. Li Shen immediately arranged these people to the school in Huangzhuang.

After Wang Hongfu's expansion, it can accommodate 3,000 students, all of whom are his food guards, as well as the children of craftsmen in the workshop.

Now that the heavy snow has stopped classes, it is just used to resettle the victims, although it is a little crowded, but it is better than being frozen outside.

There is a stove in every classroom in the school.

Li Shen also put the elderly, pregnant women, or babies with swaddling children. Distributed to the food house.

Li Shen has a total of four Zhuangzi, all of which are brick houses. And it is very neatly planned, it is a two-acre house.

Many families have empty rooms, and Shiyi is obedient to Li Shen's arrangement, and they are grateful to Li Shen in their hearts.

Now the wealth of life is given by Li Shen, and if it weren't for the house built by Li Shen this time, they would have froze to death like these victims.

Many of the four Zhuangzi families secretly set up immortal signs for Li Shen, so they did whatever Li Shen said.

A total of hundreds of people were arranged to be sent to the food and food homes, and some pregnant women or women who needed to breastfeed, Li Shen also specially arranged to send more meat.

In fact, Li Shen himself feels that he is a good person, and he will help if he can, and there will often be difficulties in the future generations.

Within a few days, as the eldest grandson Wuji expected, relatively recent victims began to appear in Chang'an, from the first hundreds, to thousands, and then tens of thousands, gathering more and more victims.

In the past few days, temporary shacks have also begun to be erected outside Chang'an City, and the princes and nobles have also begun to take out food to give porridge outside the city.

Li Shen's house is no exception, Lu Dingniang and Wu Meiniang pull a few carts of grain and a few cauldrons to the east gate every day, set up a cauldron and start to give porridge.

However, as time passed, more and more people were affected, and the crowd of forty or fifty thousand people had gathered, which made the ministers of the court start to worry again.

At night, Li Shen hugged Lu Dingniang and prepared to fall asleep,

"Lang Jun, the victims outside are so pitiful, today I heard that more than a dozen people froze to death in the east of the city. And today there are still fights for porridge,

If it weren't for Wu Wei's timely arrival, they might have died. Lu Dingniang told Li Shen about today's events,

Li Shen wanted to say something, but he didn't know what to say.

"Don't worry, the imperial court will definitely come up with a way, and now they won't starve to death." Li Shen can only say this.

"Your Majesty, it is estimated that there are as many as 50,000 people outside the city, and people are still coming, and now there is chaos outside the city.

There are fights and troubles every day, and there are people who freeze to death every day. The minister felt that it should be controlled, otherwise he was afraid that there would be a bigger mess. At the court meeting, the eldest grandson Wuji raised the previous question again.

"Decree, Zuo Wuwei scattered outside the city gates to maintain order, and those who disturbed the order were directly sentenced to two years of hard labor."

"Minister, obey the order." Qin Qiong led the order.

Li Shen had nothing to do today and followed Lu Dingniang to the east gate to give porridge, there are a total of three gates in the east of Chang'an City, and they give porridge every day is the Yanxing Gate closest to the palace.

This is also the gate with the largest number of victims in the east of the city, and the reason is very simple, because the soup kitchen team of King Ji is the largest, and there is also a lot of food. The digression is that Li Shen has more than 200,000 acres of fertile land.

That's why a lot of people are here.

When Li Shen arrived, the Guogong family had already started to give porridge, and the people under Li Shen's side also began to set up pots.

Li Shen took people to the disaster area to have a look, and three words can describe the dirty mess. Urine and defecation are everywhere.

Although it doesn't smell in winter, it's disgusting to look at.

Li Shen went to the other two doors and looked at the same. Li Shen was not in the mood to look at it, and returned to Yanxingmen to start soup porridge.