Chapter 422 In this life, it's better not to meet again
Zhao Huanyu walked over and was about to praise the prefect of Suizhou for his good performance, when he saw a familiar face.
Well, it's Chen Yong and his group.
Chen Yong stood in the porridge shed, hurriedly directing the group of girls around him to give porridge to the refugees.
Only then did Zhao Huanyu remember that Hongyue and Chen Yong were both from Suizhou.
When Chen Yong left before, she thought that there would never be a chance to see each other again in this life. This was good. She and Chen Yong were not really a beautiful encounter. It was difficult to even be friends.
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Although she did not deny that she was in a bad mood at that time and did not have much patience with Chen Yong, but even now, she still could not accept Chen Yong's self-righteous temper, even though she knew that he might not have done it on purpose.
But it was hard to change after a while, and she no longer wanted to have anything to do with him.
But I didn't expect to meet him again so soon. He was really doing his part for the people as he said.
Seeing her stop, Ji Mingxuan also stopped and watched with her.
"let's go."
Zhao Huanyu didn't want to go up and say hello to avoid unnecessary trouble.
Chen Yong always felt that someone had been looking at him, but when he raised his head, he only saw a group of unfamiliar faces and a few leaving figures.
He felt that the figure looked familiar, and subconsciously thought it was Zhao Huanyu, but he quickly denied it, no, she would not come to Suizhou, after all, she hated him so much.
Thinking of this, he sighed with some disappointment. It was best not to meet each other again in this life, otherwise he was afraid that he would not be able to control his longing for her and would hang out in front of her every day. In that case, he would really be in her heart.
It's full of bad things.
"Master, what's wrong with you?"
A maid saw him in a daze and came forward to show concern.
He shook his head: "It's okay, keep going."
The maid was a little suspicious, but she didn't say anything more and went back to her own business.
Ji Mingxuan accompanied her to visit other streets. After a while, Fu Yuan came with the prefect of Suizhou and respectfully invited them to sit in the government office.
When it came to the issue of refugees, Ji Mingxuan did not refuse. As soon as he sat down, the prefect of Suizhou knelt down in front of Ji Mingxuan.
"I don't know if you are coming from a distance, I hope you will forgive me."
Ji Mingxuan said: "I didn't reveal any information at all. I don't blame you for this. Get up and talk about the disaster relief."
Hearing this, the prefect looked at Zhao Huanyu with some embarrassment, and Ji Mingxuan said: "There is no need to be taboo, it's okay to just say it."
The prefect told the matter without any scruples: "Your Excellency, Xiaguan has been providing disaster relief, but we are not very rich, and all the food reserves have been used up, so it has not been of much use to the refugees. Xiaguan mobilized the wealthy people in the city to donate food.
, but the effect is very little, treating the symptoms but not the root cause. Moreover, there is no better land in Suizhou. Even if the refugees are given new residences, there is no way to ensure that they will not starve, so they continue to beg on the streets.
All the official can do now is to ask the people in the city not to exclude them too much and let them beg for food in the city, and the rest will depend on their own destiny!"
The prefect shook his head helplessly. It was not that he refused to resettle the refugees, but that he was really powerless.
At the beginning, he did resettlement, but he didn't have much money on hand. He couldn't provide everyone with silver or food, so he could only resettle them in the village and return the land to them, but they had nothing to eat.
, they had no choice but to steal other people's food, which intensified the conflict. The indigenous villagers in the village refused to let them continue to live and directly drove them out.
Zhao Huanyu knew that it was not appropriate for him to speak in such a serious occasion, so he just speculated in his heart about what the prefect said. If what he said was true, then the disaster relief issue was not as simple as it seemed. No matter how much food was given to them, it would not be able to treat the symptoms.
Treat the root cause.
They can now provide food to the refugees, but if they are unwilling to work hard and can only wait for others to help, it will be a bottomless pit that cannot be filled no matter how much food they have.
Ji Mingxuan also thought of this and said: "Have you never thought of arranging things for the refugees to do? Let them obtain food through their own labor, instead of being able to eat without doing anything. You give them a share
Let them open up wasteland and cultivate their own land. During this period, the government can subsidize each family with some food to ensure that they will not starve to death and they will not steal other people's things."
The prefect of Suizhou said with a distressed look on his face: "Your Excellency, I am confused! Now I have neither silver nor food. Even if I have a solution, I can't implement it properly!"
He had never thought of this method before. He just tried his best to use food for disaster relief, and then used his abundant money to buy food for disaster relief. By the time he discovered that it was a bottomless pit, it was already too late.
Ji Mingxuan was speechless. The prefect was a good man and at least he knew how to provide disaster relief. But his failure to solve the problem was all his fault. This was equivalent to a waste of money and food and nothing had been done.
Normally, he would have gotten angry a long time ago, but today with Zhao Huanyu by his side, he tried his best to hold back his anger and said, "Just do it like this, and someone will be sent to get the food later."
When the prefect heard that there was food, he immediately became happy. It turned out that food was brought to him. No wonder he asked about disaster relief, so that there would not be so many beggars on the streets in the future.
"Thank you, sir!"
Ji Mingxuan stood up, pulled Zhao Huanyu and left, ignoring the magistrate behind him. After coming out, Ji Mingxuan ordered: "First check whether what he said is true."
"yes."
Fuyuan arranged for someone to do it, and he continued to follow them around.
Suizhou City is quite big, and I couldn’t finish it in a short while. After Fat Ya bought a few gadgets, she went back to the ship.
At this time, the people sent out came back and reported: "What the prefect said is true."
The people sent by the prefect had been waiting on the dock for a long time. Ji Mingxuan nodded and asked people to take them to carry the food.
After unloading most of the grain in Suizhou, the group continued on their way back to Chuanzhou. After two more days of traveling by water, they could then travel by land.
It felt long when going there, but the return journey felt very fast. Thinking that she would see her family soon, Zhao Huanyu became more and more excited.
She had long regarded the original owner's family as her own, and now she wanted to return home, and it was for them.
Having said that, Zhao Huanyu suddenly remembered that there was something she hadn't told Ji Mingxuan yet, so she took the initiative to mention that she was going to do business with Duan Kuo.
"Did you know that Li Zhong belongs to the third prince?"
Ji Mingxuan nodded and asked, "What's wrong?"
Zhao Huanyu was confused by his calm tone and blinked: "You know?"