Weiyang of the Red Mansion

The news that the emperor asked Jia She to resettle the victims was only circulated in a small area, and the emperor did not issue a decree, obviously he did not have confidence in Jia She's proposal.

But when Jia She got an errand, he didn't go to the palace the next day, but walked around the south of the city with a few entourages. Before he came here, Jia She was caught by the brothers and sisters of the Liu family before he had gone far. I don't know the severity of the disaster in the south of the city. I walked around again now and found that many people froze to death in the heavy snow.

When the houses in the south of the city were crushed by the snow, it was in the middle of the night. Many people were crushed to death by the collapsed roofs in their sleep. Under the icy and snowy conditions, no one can carry the cold to dig up the buried house to find the money they left at home. I am afraid that people will freeze to death before digging out the money.Who can only shrink in the corner of the street, avoiding the wind and snow as much as possible.

However... this doesn't work at all, and many people freeze to death under such conditions.

If the heavy snow collapses the house during the day, it can also give people more time to react. In the capital city, no matter how ordinary people are, they are much richer than people in other areas. After all, they live in the city. family property.

It's a pity that these people's homes were buried by the heavy snow, otherwise they wouldn't be unable to afford a piece of clothing to keep out the cold, and could only stay in the heavy snow and endure the cold and starve.

After walking around and preparing to go back, Jia She suddenly stopped, looked at the long queue in front of him, and raised his eyebrows, "Is someone serving porridge?"

Xu Jie took a step forward, looked up, and said, "I know, it was arranged by a girl from a wealthy businessman's family in the capital. I heard that she just returned to Beijing and saw victims of disasters freezing to death on the side of the road. I couldn't bear it, so I told the government to The servants in Li are serving porridge here, but this kind of porridge is only a drop in the bucket, and it is not useful at all."

"It's better than those who have money and refuse to spend a penny." Jia She said flatly.

Xu Jie shrugged, "People earned the money themselves, and they are willing to give it out because they are kind. If they don't want to give it, they can't blame them. After all, these victims have never given them any help before."

There are always some people who like moral kidnapping, and they put a high hat on others with just a word of mouth, which is really annoying.

Jia Amnesty knew that what Xu Jie said was right, but looking at these people suffering from cold and starvation on the street, it was inevitable that they would have some thoughts about those who would do nothing to save them.

Closing his eyes, Jia Amnesty turned around and walked back, saying, "Kong Lu, I asked you to do the math when I came here, have you figured it out?"

"I figured it out," Kong Lu stepped forward and said, "there are more than [-] victims of the disaster in the capital who are still alive, among which there are more than [-] young and middle-aged people, and the rest are all old and weak women and children."

Jia She looked at the woman holding the child on the side of the street, she was shivering from the cold, and she still wrapped the child tightly in the clothes to keep out the cold. If this continues, the woman is afraid that she will die. The child was also doomed.

Looking at it, Jia She frowned.

No, his previous idea may not be implemented.

There are a lot of tenants on the Zhuangzi, and their families are not rich, and there is no spare room to spare. His idea of ​​relocating these disaster victims to the Zhuangzi is good, but he has not considered whether it is feasible.

Jia Amnesty stood in the wind and snow silently for a long time, closed his eyes, and suddenly said, "Xu Jie, I will give you a sum of money in a moment, you can go to the dentist and see how many vacant yards there are in the capital, and how many are there to buy?" How much, if you need money, come to me.”

There is no room for these people in the village, even if they are forced to settle in, it will cause countless troubles, so it is better for him to find another way to accommodate these victims.

Since it was too late to build a house, he bought a house. The capital is so big, he still can't believe that there is no empty yard to house these victims.

In the southern part of the city, there are many empty yards. Every year of the big competition, these courtyards will be rented out, and the people who live there are those Juren students who come to Beijing to participate in the big competition. In the capital, he either entered the Hanlin Academy, or was elected to a foreign class and sent out to be a county magistrate.Those who fail the exam will return to their hometown and wait for another three years.

Now there is less than a month before Chunwei, and most of the yards in the south of the city are probably rented out, and I don't know how many yards are left.

Now Jia Amnesty can only take one step at a time.

"Master, you don't want to spend your own money to support these disaster victims, do you?" Xu Jie looked at his uncle, realizing what he was thinking, and his head grew dizzy.

How much money will this cost?

"Just do what you're asked to do. Where does all this nonsense come from?" Jia She said with a cold snort.

Feng Jing followed silently, seeing that Jia She seemed to be determined to support the victims, he said, "Master, you have a good heart, but where did you get so much money? You want to buy a yard to house these victims. A yard with two or three people, crowded A crowd can accommodate a hundred people. There are 4 to 3000 people here. Don’t you want to buy three or four hundred courtyards? In the boundary of the capital, a courtyard with two or three entrances costs at least [-] taels of silver. In this way, it’s only for these victims It will cost a million taels of silver to find a place to live, and that’s not counting food and drink, sir, don’t be too fancy, the master will not open the warehouse in the house to you to help the victims.”

Jia She grinned and said, "I don't know how to use the money from the mansion. What's more, I don't intend to resettle all these disaster victims. I only resettle the helpless old, weak, women and children. After all, the total amount is about 1 yuan." There are more than [-] people, and the total cost of food, clothing, housing and transportation is less than one million taels."

Seeing Jia She refuted his words, Feng Jing laughed angrily.

The 30 taels of silver that the uncle stole from Yangzhou has been donated to His Majesty by the Lord. As for the shops in the hands of the uncle, under Xu Jie's two years of operation, they are making a lot of money every day. If you count them all, there are a few 10 taels of silver, I didn't see that their uncle was actually a person who was able to spend all his wealth for the victims of the disaster.

Jia Amnesty ignored Feng Jing, took Xu Jie and others to the other courtyard, left them in the lobby, went to the warehouse by himself, took out two boxes of silver from the space and put them in the warehouse.

When Xu Jie and the others were asked to come over again, Xu Jie's eyes almost popped out when he saw the two extra boxes of silver in the warehouse out of thin air.

"Where did this come from?"

The two large boxes were opened, and inside were white silver ingots.

Xu Jie was in business, so he could figure out at a glance that this box contained at least one million taels of silver, not much more.

Of course, Jia Amnesty would not explain where the money came from, "You don't have to worry about the origin of the money, it's not stolen or robbed, you can use these money to settle the old and weak women and children in the capital, and come back when the money is gone. Find me."

"No, no, wait." Xu Jie recovered from the large sum of money that fell from the sky, grabbed Jia Amnesty's sleeve, and said, "Master, so much money was spent on those victims? Think about it clearly, if you support them now, you can't support them at that time, if you don't give them money, what should they do if they hate us?"

"I haven't figured out how to solve this problem yet. In short, I won't do things like Sheng Mien and Dou Michou. Don't worry about that." It's just that he can't think of what these old and weak women and children can do, even if they sell themselves As slaves, there is no place to use them. People like Rongguo Mansion have families who have children, so they don't need these outsiders at all.

The corner of Xu Jie's mouth twitched, "Master, don't dig a hole and bury yourself when the time comes."

"Where are so many talking?" Jia She glared at him, then looked at Kong Lu, "Xu Jie is responsible for buying the yard, and you are responsible for placing these old and weak women and children into the yard that Xu Jie bought," he said looking To Feng Jing and Xu Feng, "Follow me."

The old, weak, women and children have been temporarily solved, but how to arrange the young and middle-aged is still a problem.

Back at Rongguo Mansion, Jia Amnesty dragged Xu Feng and Feng Jing into the study.

"More than 1 elderly, weak, women and children have temporarily been resettled, but those young and middle-aged people have not yet been resettled. Do you have any ideas?"

Feng Jing and Xu Feng don't know how to look at Jia She directly now, it's fine to spend two boxes of silver to house those old and weak women and children, but they still want to house the remaining twenty thousand young adults, their uncle Isn't it bewitched?

The two looked at each other, grinned, and said, "What can we do?"

"Don't worry about how to arrange the 1 young and middle-aged men, sir, I think the question you should think about now is how to solve the hidden dangers that will be involved in the more than [-] old and weak women and children in the future. You can't keep them forever, right?" Xu Feng frowned.

When Jia She heard Xu Feng mention these old and weak women and children, he felt a headache, and thought angrily, why did he soften his heart and want to take in all these victims?

After being silent for a long time, Jia Amnesty suddenly remembered those modern handmade necklaces and bracelets, as well as some small snacks, handmade puppets and other things.

Women should be good at female celebrities, these are not difficult for them, the old ones can't do anything, just raise them, and young women can teach them how to make these little things, is it a way out?

"I know this well. Now let me talk about how to arrange these young and middle-aged men. I have made a guarantee in front of the Holy Majesty. If it is not done well, His Majesty may not punish me, but he will not reuse me in the future. This matter Very important."

With an idea in mind, Jia Amnesty put aside the matter of these old and weak women and children for the time being, and turned to consider how to arrange these young and middle-aged people.

"Now the road is blocked by heavy snow, and there is no work. What else can these young and middle-aged people do besides supporting them? Normally, they can go to the pier to find some rough jobs to do, so that they can get enough food and clothing. Now they are not even on the street. Go up, let alone find any work." Feng Jing said.

"Looking for a job?" Jia She always felt that there was a way to accommodate these young and middle-aged men, but just now he had a flash of inspiration, but he couldn't grasp it, and he felt a little irritable for a while.

Feng Jing didn't know what Jia She was thinking, "Yeah, usually there are a lot of people moving goods at the pier, and there is always a shortage of people. Now the weather is cold, and even the river is frozen. Naturally, there are no boats coming over. With no work to do, the people who usually rely on the pier to move goods for a living don’t know where they are now.”

Jia Amnesty's eyes widened, and he sat up straight, "Relief with work?"

"Relief with work?" Xu Feng looked at Jia Amnesty suspiciously, "What is relief with work?"

Jia She got up abruptly, took a cloak and put it on his body, and hurried out, "I'm going to see the master, if you have nothing to do, go help Xu Jie and Kong Lu."

The two of Xu Feng who were thrown in the study looked at each other with thoughtful expressions.

"Master seems to have figured out a way?"

"Relief with work, does this mean that those victims of the disaster will help the court work?"

"It sounds like that."

Xu Feng was also a little confused, Jia She only said these four words, they really didn't know what Jia She was thinking.

"Forget it, let's go help your brother, Kong Lu has a lot of friends, so I'm not afraid that no one will help him."

After talking, the two left the Rongguo Mansion, and Jia She went straight to the Rongxi Hall to see the master.