Seeing Shen Yuyu, County Magistrate Sun came over with a smile: "Girl Shen? I heard that you went to the Western Regions? How is the situation there?'
"The grassland is barren, there is no green at all, and the cattle and sheep are all starving to death." Shen Yuyu replied, and then added, "The locusts counterattacked more than ten days ago, but now the weather is getting colder and colder, and the locusts are It will probably freeze to death. Without the locusts, we can still grow crops."
"Planting crops? It's too late." Magistrate Sun shook his head helplessly, "Even if you plant radish and cabbage, it will take a month to harvest. What will everyone eat during this time?"
After a pause, he continued, "The only option is to flee to neighboring countries. We estimate that there will be more and more refugees in Wantian County."
"That's right." Master Li sighed beside him, "I heard that there is more chaos in Luozhou City. Many refugees from the Western Regions form gangs and become bandits, robbing homes and houses everywhere.'
"I heard about it too." A merchant who was also invited to discuss countermeasures answered, "Didn't my cousin get robbed when he came back from Luozhou City? Not only did he rob money, but he also robbed women. He was very vicious.'
After hearing this, everyone started talking.
"There are hundreds of gangsters in this group and they are growing rapidly.'
"I heard that they were very cunning. The government sent five people to clear them out, but they couldn't even find their lair. They were trapped in the mountains and lost most of their troops.'
"Now the gates of Luozhou City are not dared to be opened. It is pitiful for the people outside the city. They are robbing them of food and women~~these unjust beasts.
Someone said angrily: "In this case, why should we care about the life and death of these people from the Western Regions? Let them die."
"That's right. Stop giving them porridge and tell them to get out of Dazhou.'
Magistrate Sun originally invited these merchants to discuss refugee resettlement strategies, but unexpectedly, he did not say a few words and everyone was filled with indignation.
He hurriedly reassured: "Everyone, calm down. Those who fled to our Wantian County are all women and children. As long as they are properly settled,"
"Resettlement? Why should we resettle them? Maybe their men are robbing families and homes in Luozhou City. We are still raising wives and children here for those gangsters. Are we stupid?"
"Yes, Sun Juling, if you want to encourage us to donate money or materials, I won't donate a penny."
"I won't donate, so why should I help them?"
Magistrate Sun was also extremely helpless. At this time, Shen Yuyu said loudly: "Everyone, please be quiet and listen to what I have to say."
Everyone knows Shen Yuyu, the owner of Fengming Restaurant, Baohe Hall, and Nichang Pavilion. He later became the owner of Tianxia Trading Company and revitalized all the shops in Lingzhou City that were unable to survive.
All in all, Shen Yuxi became famous during this period, and everyone respected and admired her.
"Dear bosses and shopkeepers, I have just returned from the Western Regions. The reason why I went to the Western Regions is to deliver a batch of grain to Lishui Village."
"Why should I send them food? Is it because our world business likes to be such a bad person? Of course not."
"Do you still remember the locust plague in the eighth year of Qi Heng? How many people went to the Western Regions to seek a way to survive? Have any of them received help from people in the Western Regions?
"I don't know about other people, but in short, our Shenjia Village has received the favor of two hundred sheep from Lishui Village. These two hundred sheep saved the lives of the entire Shenjia Village.
"Bad people are everywhere, and good people are everywhere. How can you kill a whole boatload of people with one shot?"
After hearing Shen Yuyu's words, many women from the Western Regions also gathered around and knelt down.
"This girl is right. I remember that there was a locust plague in the Zhou Kingdom seven years ago, and my family once took in a family of five."
"My family also took her in."
"And my home~~
In this regard, many people have mentioned that they took in the victims of the Zhou Dynasty who fled the disaster seven years ago.
The merchants stopped talking now, and everyone is not a hard-hearted person.
Seeing that they were wavering, Shen Yuyu spoke passionately: "In recent years, no matter how the diplomacy between the Zhou Dynasty and the Western Regions has been, at least the villages and towns bordering Wantian County and the Western Regions have always been friendly. It is not clear about Luozhou City. Maybe it's because of generations of evil that have caused gangsters to be rampant today. If there is no good cause, where can the good results come from?'
"Look at the refugees who came to our Wantian County. They are all old people, young women, and children. No men have come. Think about it, why?'
After hearing Shen Yuyu's words, everyone turned their attention to the people kneeling on the ground. They were all women, old people and children, and they all seemed to understand something.
Shen Yuyu said loudly: "Did all the men there starve to death? Of course not, but the men were afraid of flooding into Wantian County and causing chaos here, so they only asked the women and children at home to find a way to survive. ."
"Let's just say that in the Lishui Village I visited, every household was so hungry that they ate grass roots, but they never came to Wantian County to grab a grain of rice~~~" Shen Yuyu said with red eyes, and the eyes of everyone listening were also red.
"I will donate fifty taels of silver." The merchant who was the most angry just now spoke first.
"I will donate thirty taels."
"I will donate rice for one stone and potatoes for one stone."
"I'll donate three stones of potatoes."
After the situation was resolved, almost all merchants present began to donate money and food. The victims of the Western Region disasters who were kneeling on the ground all burst into tears and shouted gratitude.
After receiving a donation of money and food, how to arrange their residence? This became another problem.
