After the Qian family's grain store was raided by the three largest grain stores in Yangcheng County, they immediately took out all the grain and sold it to Sun Quanbin at 30% lower than the current market price.
For a time, there was thunderous joy in Yangcheng County, and the people saw the carts of grain being transported to the Changping warehouse in the county seat, and being inspected and stored in the warehouse under the records of the subordinate officials.
The amount of food was so unbelievable that it took Sun Quanbin and the You Xiaojie Army three full days to transport all the food, a total of 15,672 dan!
Such a quantity is enough to provide relief to the victims in Yangcheng County and Henan Prefecture for a period of time.
The people were cheering, but Wang Wen's face became increasingly ugly. This was just the food stocked by four grain merchants. There were also several small grain stores in Yangcheng County, and they had now begun selling grain.
With grain in Changping's warehouse, Wang Wen would not hesitate to throw a stick in the court and ask these small merchants, who had previously tried to avoid it, to come to the county government to negotiate the price of grain.
Wang Wen had been rejected by them many times before. When the famine came, all the grain merchants, big and small, united as one. Even if Wang Wen came to visit in person, these people would avoid seeing him.
Now that there are more than 10,000 stones of grain in the Changping warehouse, these people immediately become available at your call.
The locusts have already disappeared on the earth, leaving only many eggs buried deep in the ground. These eggs must be dealt with, otherwise the locust plague will happen again in the coming year when there is a drought.
Of course, the locusts did not appear in Yangcheng County. Even if they did come, they would only be in small numbers. The tall and majestic Songshan Mountains blocked the locusts from moving eastward. A mere tens of thousands of locusts would be insignificant in the vast land, but what they produced
The number of insect eggs cannot be underestimated.
Work-for-relief is always the most scientific method of disaster relief, and the victims are very happy because they not only have food, but also a certain amount of money.
The most useless money brought by Sun Quanbin has become a kind of hope. Who doesn't hope to have some income after surviving the famine?
The crisis was temporarily lifted, but looking at the empty Changping warehouse, the uncles and nephews Wang Wen and Wang Yuan prepared to work together to "strangle" Ye An who was inspecting the land and warehouse several times!
All the grain in the Changping warehouse was taken away by Sun Quanbin overnight without leaving a grain of grain. No one in the county knew about it.
Therefore, those small grain merchants are still selling grain, and both disaster victims and ordinary people are working hard to use their services in exchange for the wages provided by the county government.
These are all methods that Ye An came up with, and they are also methods that are impossible to solve.
Sun Quanbin wanted to take away the 15,672 shi of grain in Changping Granary. Of course Wang Wen and Wang Yuan strongly opposed it, but Ye An thought that Sun Quanbin should be allowed to take it away.
Although he, Ye An, was a white man and did not even have a first-level education as a teacher, he could always make surprising remarks and give quite appropriate reasons.
Luoyang, Xijing, naturally needed support, otherwise why would Sun Quanbin be sent to promote disaster relief in Henan Province?
The method Ye An gave is very simple. There is no need for Wang Wen to collect the remaining grain from the grain merchants as a county official, because there is not a lot of it. It is better to sell in a centralized manner than to sell in a decentralized manner, creating a sense of security that there is food everywhere.
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It doesn’t matter if we didn’t have more than 10,000 kilograms of grain in Changpingcang before. Now that we have it, people’s minds will be stable and grain prices will naturally not skyrocket. Once grain prices stabilize, other things can begin gradually.
Manpower is needed to eliminate locust eggs in the fields, repair the water supply in Yangcheng County, recruit disaster victims to reclaim the surrounding barren land, and even recruit rural soldiers to maintain law and order, etc.!
The most indispensable thing in Yangcheng County now is people. The city is occupied by some disaster victims, and there are more than 10,000 disaster victims outside the city. The small Yangcheng County has reached its capacity limit.
Only Wang Wen, Wang Yuan and Ye An knew this, so when Sun Quanbin was about to leave, Ye An gave the best way and asked Sun Quanbin to leave a large amount of copper coins.
Sun Quanbin brought very little food from Tokyo, but he brought a lot of money and silk. The purpose was to buy food all the way to Luoyang, Xijing, instead of transporting money to Luoyang!
In years of famine, the least valuable thing is money! But in Ye An's eyes, what is copper coin? It is the basis of economic activities!
Using economic methods to provide disaster relief, stimulate consumption, and provide work-for-relief services is the most complete rescue plan and a good means.
As for integrating the victims into the Xiang army?
Don’t Xiangjun want to eat?
People with tattoos on their faces will have a hard time getting over in this life. Some people who originally had land and property became Xiang soldiers. The original purpose was to turn them into laborers in exchange for work, but it also wiped out their future hopes.
So Ye An worked hard at the county government all night and wrote the "Book of Saving Famines and Living the People". This thing should have appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty, but Ye An revised and summarized it and presented it to Wang Yuan.
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Wang Wen and Wang Yuan were impressed by the various theories and scientific disaster relief methods in Ye An's book. Ye An saw the Song people's enthusiasm in disaster relief, which he had never seen before.
For Ye An, there will basically be no such large-scale natural disasters in future generations. Even if an earthquake occurs, the government can deliver the needed materials and personnel to the required places as quickly as possible.
But the Song Dynasty was different. Most relied on local self-rescue, and the only thing the court could do was to make up for the lack of local self-rescue.
In terms of self-rescue during production, Wang Wen, the county magistrate, has done what he should do to the extreme. Because of his positivity and responsibility, before Sun Quanbin arrived, his head was still firmly on his shoulders.
"Book of Saving Famines and Living the People" was regarded as a treasure by Wang Wen, and Wang Yuan copied a copy as quickly as possible and sent it to Tokyo City in the name of Yangcheng County to present to the Queen Mother and officials.
Wang Yuan looked at Ye An with an increasingly different look. How much more capable is this kid?
But now everything in Yangcheng County is operating normally, the victims and people are actively mobilized, and grain merchants are also selling the grain they have hoarded before.
But a key problem appeared in front of Wang Wen and Wang Yuan. Changping warehouse was empty. Although Yangcheng County was not affected by the disaster, the water level dropped a lot, which also caused the county's irrigation schedule to be delayed.
Autumn crops are planted in May and harvested in September, which may be later this year.
It's only about July now, how can we last more than three months?
After turning around countless times in the huge Chang Ping Cang, the Sanhe soil on the ground had been stepped out of the circle by Wang Wen and Wang Yuan.
The entire Henan Prefecture was affected by the disaster, and the surrounding areas of Yangcheng County were not much better than here. In comparison, Yangcheng County was lucky because Sun Quanbin's team passed here...
"My dear nephew! The victims of the disaster and the common people have opened up thousands of acres of wasteland in Yangcheng County. Naturally, these lands can grow food. By the time the food in these lands grows, people will have already died of hunger!"
Wang Yuan's name for Ye An has become more affectionate, but the anxiety and urgency on his face have not disappeared.
Relief through work is a good method, and most of the methods in Ye An's "Book of Relieving Famines and Living the People" are also effective, but one thing is unavoidable. Everything must have food to proceed smoothly!
Ye An looked in the direction of Songshan Mountain, frowned and said, "Sir, how long can the food in Yangcheng County last?"
"A month and a half at most!"
Ye An gritted his teeth and said: "Two months, we must hold on for another two months!"