Although Jia Yi motioned for these poor people to hide in the house, these people cowered, and no one dared to move for a while, which made Jia Yi feel a little embarrassed.

The only thing the villagers knew about the legendary "wizard" was from the legend, so they were so frightened that none of them dared to take the lead into the house, even though it was already very cold outside, and they were shivering with cold.

Seeing that they did not move, the Viscount made a gesture in his eyes, and the guards around him began to chase the people, pushing the paupers in behind, and only after being driven away did they move their feet, and slowly crowded into the house with some reluctance and a little urgency.

As soon as they walked in, they felt a burst of warmth, because the house had just been built, and Jiayi had just roasted it with a fire, and there was still a burst of residual heat inside.

The scale of the house is not small, but this time there are 4 or 50 people living in it, and it seems a little crowded inside.

Jia Yi said to Flower: "You have to do a good job of epidemic prevention for these people, if you accidentally have an infectious disease, it will be bad, remember to disinfect frequently, sprinkle quicklime on the wall roots, and don't dump sewage everywhere." ”

Jia Yi carefully instructed that Jia Yi had some sympathy for these poor people, but it had not yet reached the point of flooding, but since they had already lived in Jia Yi's newly started house, he didn't want them to do something bad, at least to survive this winter.

After settling these people, Jia Yi and Flower walked out of the West District, and the rest of the things should be handled by the lord, and how to relieve these people in the future is a headache for the lord.

Before leaving, Kaichi suggested to Flower: "Now that these people have suffered a disaster, it is time to carry out your plan, the West End is now a mess, and it only takes a small price to be able to take back this land, and then you can plan and wait until the snow melts to start preparing in earnest." ”

Flor's heart moved, a little moved, but then he thought, "And what about the people who still live here? You can't kick them out, right?"

If these people are still living in it, then there is no point in buying it again, and when spring comes, when the weather is warm and they have jobs again, it is impossible to say whether they will be willing to move out again.

Although they are not qualified to compete with the Lord's Mansion, it will be a troublesome matter when the time comes.

Kaichi said, "That's the second benefit I'm going to tell you. Now that the snow is falling, most of the people who live in the western district have no jobs and no savings, is the lord's mansion ready to support them for nothing? Even if they do, it will be difficult to even feed them, and it will be a trouble for them to be idle and even for the stability of the town. ”

Flower was silent for a moment, relief would definitely not give them bread to eat, it would be good to be able to cook some thin batter, if there were a few pimples in it, these people should be grateful, if it was impossible to feed them.

And semi-starvation is also easier to manage.

Flower was silent for a moment, and then asked, "And what is the best way for you to buy the place where they live? and then they will have the money to buy food? Will they survive the winter without a place to live? And there are many people who have no house here at all, they are rented, and even if they buy this place, they will not have any money on them." ”

The two stood on the outskirts of the West End, and Flower felt that Jiayi's opinion was really a bit stupid, but Jiayi was not what Flor thought, he shook his head and said, "Of course it's not, have you ever heard of cash-for-work?"

"Cash-for-work?" was the first time Flower had heard the term, but there was something that seemed to understand what it meant.

The so-called cash-for-work is to change the simple way of handout, and instead build large-scale construction to create employment opportunities, so that people who could only rely on handouts can support themselves. In this way, not only can the employment crisis be greatly alleviated in the present, but also a large amount of infrastructure can be built for the benefit of future generations.

Both Fan Zhongyan and Roosevelt used this method to relieve the famine and solve the economic crisis.

Although it is not the best time to build a large amount of construction in winter, this is not a frozen soil, and as long as the snow melts, then some basic work can still be done.

After listening to Jia Yi's explanation, Flower suddenly realized, and heard Jia Yi say: "You can buy the entire West District now, the price should not be too expensive, and then start to organize people to build new houses outside the city, which will be used to house these disaster victims, and they will definitely be careful to build houses for themselves if they want to, and when the houses over there are built and all the people are moved over, then the transformation of the West District can begin." In this way, the renovation cost of the western district will be greatly reduced, and the disaster caused by the snow disaster will be eliminated, and when the time comes to start building the new city, even skilled workers will be available. ”

Flower couldn't help but feel happy, this is indeed a good idea.

......

At this time, the knights who went out to collect grain were also divided into several squads and went to collect grain separately.

Cargill followed one of the teams to the lord's manor.

In addition to the mansions in the town, the average nobleman also has his own independent manor, which is usually built on his own farm, and most of the real nobles like Sainsbury have more than one manor.

Most of these estates were used to manage their sharecroppers, as well as to store the harvest of the farm, and some were also used for vacations, especially in the summer, when the nobles would like to choose a beautiful place to escape the heat.

Cargill and the others went to the Viscount's largest estate, which was the largest in scale, most of which was grown with wheat, so it was also the most abundant in grain storage, but it was far away from the town.

Originally, Cargill was not on this team, but the leader of this team, Hadley Jacob, saw that Cargill had brought two sturdy cows and thought that he should be able to load more things, so he forcibly asked Cargill to come over.

Cargill was originally going to go to the manor closest to the town, which was closer and more relaxed, Cargill and they were still on their way, and the nearest person was probably about to arrive at the manor.

However, Cargill, who is not the most bitter one, still has people to go down to the village below to collect grain, which is the most troublesome. If there is still some oil and water in this grain harvest, but now the situation is urgent, and it is not easy to collect grain.

Although there should be food in the villages below, if all of them are taken away, what will they eat in winter? These people who went down did not dare to go too far for a while, and if they aroused the anger of the people, they would not only have no merit but would be punished if they went to the lord's side.

The team led by the knight Yuti was going to the countryside to collect grain, and the village he went to was not close, so he was very reluctant to go, but who told him to lose the lottery, so he had to think that he was unlucky, and he was reluctant to go along the way.

In addition to collecting food, they also have to inform other knights in the territory to go to the lord's mansion in the town to meet, not all knights live in the town, some people have their own manor, and when they are not recruited, they are all in their own manor, Yuti hopes that after this time, the lord can give a knight's manor to himself.

However, he also knew that with this hard work alone, I am afraid that there would be no such opportunity.

In the evening of the next day, Yuti rushed back with the requisitioned food, and the village he went to was not wealthy, but under Yuti's threat, the village chief still managed to scrape together barely enough food to come out.

Yuti originally wanted to squeeze it again, but compared to the quantity, the viscount's side demanded more speed, so Yuti could only let the village chief go for the time being. This village has nothing to do with him, and he doesn't feel distressed when it is squeezed.

Soon, they passed by a wooded field, white snow covered the entire forest, and Yuti felt a slight stinging in his eyes, as if he had been looking at the snow for too long, and his eyes were hurting a little. The woods on both sides are completely covered with snow, and the snow is white, which looks a little dazzling.

He felt that the members of the squad behind him looked a little sluggish, and pulled the reins, slowing down the horse's pace, paused slightly, and said to the back: "Everyone hurry up, get back to the town early and rest, Lord Viscount has prepared a good wine for us, it came out of Master Flower's wine cellar, and it will be drunk by other bear cubs when it is late." ”

"Roar~"

The people behind him were all excited, the wine produced by Fflower was all in the Jiayi wine cellar, and later Fflower also learned that Jiayi made a lot of wine in it, and the wine produced in it was excellent in the entire Viefel Province.

Even the knights who lead the team in this squad don't often have the opportunity to drink.

Everyone lifted their spirits a little, and the speed was raised a little more.

Yuti turned back with satisfaction, but suddenly heard a "boom" sound breaking the air, turned his head to look, only to see a rain of arrows rushing twice, he immediately turned over and dismounted, while shouting: "Enemy attack!"

Then he lifted the shield on the horse, blocked the left and right branches, and blocked all the arrows that were shot at him.