Datang: Let you supervise the country and become an emperor through the ages

Chapter 369 Labor
"Everyone, I am Li Fu. From now on, I will take care of your board and lodging." Li Fu said to the victims.

When those victims heard this, they all burst into tears, thinking that they were finally saved.

"We're hungry now!"

"Yes, can you let us have a meal first!"

After hearing Li Fu's words, some more courageous victims shouted.

"Don't worry, listen to me." Li Fu waved his hand and continued, "I can provide you with board and lodging, but these are conditional."

"You all have hands and feet, and you have to pay corresponding labor in exchange for corresponding rewards."

"To put it simply, you have to work in exchange for board and lodging!"

Li Fu's voice echoed in the sky.

"If you are unwilling to work, then you can leave, and the imperial court will give you some assistance."

After speaking, the victims fell silent instantly.

Li Fu continued: "There are two thousand of you in total, and everyone has hands and feet. It's reasonable to exchange your labor for food, isn't it?"

"I can't guarantee anything else, I can only guarantee that as long as you work hard, you will definitely get the corresponding food!"

Lao Lu saw that the victims did not respond, so he stood up and said, "Everyone is content, our son will never harm you."

"I was also a disaster victim before, and it was the young master who took me in and saved my old life!"

Hearing what Lao Lu said, some older people among the victims unconsciously took a step forward, expressing their willingness to follow Li Fu.

"My old man doesn't have any skills, but he still has some strength. If you have any strength to do in the future, you can leave it to me."

"That's right, as long as we have food and clothing, a place to live, and a place to live, let alone work, I'm willing to work hard!"

Afterwards, more and more victims came out, and then Li Fu ordered someone to take them to register.

Soon, more disaster victims registered.

They were all farmers in the past, and it was no problem to do some hard work.

Now that they are disaster victims, as long as they can survive, they definitely don't care about working hard.

What they are afraid of is that they may be deceived by others. When the time comes, they will not get the food they deserve.

Now that there are so many people taking the lead, other hesitant victims don't care about that many, they all join the big team and go to register together.

In the end, among the victims, only a dozen or so young people with fair skin and thin bodies remained.

These dozen or so people looked like rich young masters who had never done hard work, but for some reason became disaster victims.

Letting them go to work at this time is like killing them directly.

They discussed with each other, and instead of staying with Li Fu, they turned around and went back to the relief camp of the imperial court.

There, they could barely drink porridge to ensure that they would not starve to death or freeze to death.

Li Fu didn't want to force them, so he didn't care, and took the rest of the registered people back to the place prepared in advance.

This place was arranged by Li Fu before, and it was completely enough for them to stay.

Li Fu asked Lao Lu to manage here to avoid any trouble.

"Everyone come to eat first. When we are full, we will start working." Lao Lu greeted everyone to eat.

There are only some simple thatched houses here at present, and if you want to live for a long time, you have to build some wooden houses.

Li Fu thought, the first thing is to let everyone build a house.

However, the most important thing at the moment is to give them a full meal and a decent dress.

Li Fu had already prepared these things.

Seeing the thick white porridge, the fragrant steamed buns, and the broth being cooked, the victims almost shed tears.

"Young Master Li is really a good man!"

"Yeah, I haven't smelled meat for a long time!"

"Don't talk about the taste of meat, I haven't tasted this white steamed bun for a long time."

The victims all lamented that they hadn't had a decent meal for a long time.

Seeing steamed buns and broth now, everyone seems to have lived a new life.

Seeing the happy faces of the victims, Li Fu was also very pleased.

After eating, the victims were divided into several groups under the leadership of Lao Lu, ready to start working.

The men felled the trees, and the women washed and gathered them.

The entire camp quickly entered the state, and everyone was busy.

On the other side, the dozen or so young people who did not follow Li Fu and returned to the relief camp were stopped when they entered the camp.

It was the head of the Shen family, Shen Ku, who stopped them.

Seeing that all the victims had disappeared and only these few people had returned, he stepped forward to inquire.

After asking clearly, Shen Ku was furious.

He originally heard that there were disaster victims here, so he wanted to take them back and use them as labor for himself.

Anyway, the victims just need some food, and they bring back a few thousand laborers, and they only need to pay some rice porridge.

This is a surefire deal.

However, I didn't expect that I came a step late, and those victims were all taken away by this Li Fu.

"Damn it, you dare to rob someone from me!" Shen Ku said angrily, feeling hatred towards Li Fu.

After returning to Shen's residence, as soon as Shen Ku entered the door, he saw a pile of silver placed in the yard.

Just as he was wondering, his two sons came out happily.

"Where did all this money come from?" Shen Ku asked as soon as he saw his son.

He has some influence here, so his first reaction was that someone came to ask him to do something, and the money was to honor him.

Shen Lian hurriedly invited his father into the house, and then told Shen Ku everything about Yanshan.

After listening to his son's words, Shen Ku slapped his thigh and said with a smile: "Hahaha, there are such stupid people in the world who bought an abandoned salt mountain for 2000 taels of silver!"

"Okay, okay, what you did in this business is really beautiful!"

Shen Ku was very satisfied, and the bad mood just now had almost recovered.

At this time, Shen Lian also asked: "By the way, Dad, what you said about Li Fu robbing you just now, what exactly is going on?"

Mentioning this matter, Shen Ku became furious.

"Hmph, this matter really pissed me off. I thought I could get thousands of people to work for our family, but he snatched them away!"

Shen Lian thought for a while, then said, "Don't worry, Dad, let's find a way to make those victims lose their trust in Li Fu, and it won't be long."

"At that time, let's give some benefits to those victims. Have they come to our side soon?"

(End of this chapter)