Several family heads were scolded by Wen Tongzhi so that they dared not speak out. Seeing that his father-in-law was so angry, Liu Bi said: "Dad, the reputation of the county head's house is so high now, no matter what happens, what he did to her is
, the people won’t care.”
Wen Tongzhi looked at Liu Bi with a slightly better expression.
Fortunately, my son-in-law still has some brains.
"Then what do you think we should do now?" he asked.
"The charcoal incident has already happened, and there is no point in regretting it here." Liu Bi said, "What we have to do now is to restore the image in the hearts of the people."
"We haven't done anything, so what image do we need to restore?" said the head of the Qian family.
"It's because we haven't done anything that our image has been falling again and again." Liu Bi said, "Families like the Yu family and the Zhao family have followed the head of Chang'an County to help the refugees outside the city, and their reputation has been rising again and again. They
It went up but we didn’t move. For us, it means it went down.”
Only then did Xiong Da and the head of the Qian family understand.
The head of the Qian family tried to say: "Are we also going to give out porridge outside the city?"
Wen Tongzhi glared at the head of the Qian family. If the Qian family hadn't been the richest and paid the most filial piety every year, he wouldn't have tolerated such a stupid person following him!
Seeing that his father-in-law was about to get angry, Liu Bi said: "The Chang'an County Lord and the Yu family have been giving alms for so long, and their reputation among the refugees outside the city is already very high. If we go at this time, we won't even give alms."
What effect will it have? What we have to do is within the city."
"That's right." Wen Tongzhi nodded, "But fortunately, their strength is limited. They give alms to the refugees outside the city, and the people in the city can't take care of them."
Only then did Patriarch Xiong and Patriarch Qian understand.
"What's the use of the Chang'an County Lord and the Yu family focusing on the refugees outside the city? When this disaster passes, those refugees will either return to their place of origin or be assigned to the lower levels, and they will definitely not stay in the city. Those people do
No matter how much, it will be useless once these refugees disperse and leave."
"That's right. Even if those people remember their kindness and disperse in the future, can they still come to Fucheng to buy things in their stores?"
Patriarch Xiong and Patriarch Qian made a good analysis this time. Even Wen Tongzhi felt the same way.
Although the county government and the Yu family have gained fame now, it is of no use. When the drought passes later, the people who really buy things will be the people in the city.
And the people in the city will remember who saved them at this time.
The two heads of the family, Xiong Qian, were not very smart, but they were more obedient and expressed their willingness to take out the supplies and let the Liu family distribute them. Liu Bi took the list of supplies and took action immediately, and the porridge soup place was set up on the morning of the third day.
The people in the city felt that life was so promising in the past two days. The prefect taught everyone how to filter and gave them charcoal and sand for free, which solved the problem of drinking water. Only two days later, how many elders of the Liu family and the Qian family
The family teamed up to give alms.
Some people at the bottom who usually rely on government relief can have a meal of porridge.
Although the porridge is very clear, it can still be worth a meal. The people at the bottom who received the relief food from the court can only eat half full and hang on. With the relief from the Liu family, they can eat the meal in the morning.
Food is saved.
If you save some rations on days like this, you will be able to survive later.
As a result, the people in the city were even more grateful to the Liu family, the Qian family and the Xiong family.
He Yunxi didn't care after hearing about it.
"These people are good at taking advantage of loopholes." Luo Fu said, "Now the people in the city are grateful to the Liu family."
"Isn't this normal?" He Yunxi was chewing a tomato in his hand. "The Liu family gave porridge in the city and really helped the people in the city. What's wrong with the people in the city being grateful to them?"
"There seems to be nothing wrong," Luo Fu said, "but they stopped the Yu family before and didn't allow them to help the people."
"It was indeed their fault what happened before, but it cannot erase their contribution to helping the people now. One code equals one code." He Yunxi said.
"It always feels like those people are taking advantage." Luo Fu muttered.
"The Yu family will indeed suffer a bit, but this is based on the premise that the Liu family can persist to the end."
"Ma'am, what do you mean? They won't insist on it later?"
"As long as the Yu family persists outside, the Liu family will persist as long as they do." He Yunxi said, "It's just not sure whether their things at that time will still be the same as they are now."
"Yes, the Liu family, the Qian family, and the Xiong family are not willing to help the people at all, so they stopped the Yu family and refused to do it. It shows that the three of them are stingy in the first place. Now that they are asked to help the people, they will definitely be reluctant to part with those things." Luo
Fu speculated, "As time goes by, they will expose their problems."
He Yunxi nodded: "That's right."
Luo Fu was happy now: "Let them earn a good reputation in the early stage. As long as they can really help the people, it is a good thing. If they can't persist later, their previous good reputation will be ruined. However, I do hope they
It’s good to keep doing it.”
He Yunxi smiled, she hoped so too.
Nothing like reputation is as important as life. If it can save people's lives, it doesn't matter if they lose their reputation.
After she finished chewing the tomato, her eyes suddenly darkened, and the tomato handle in her hand flew out towards the roof.
Fufeng jumped in front of He Yunxi and stared at the roof together. Only then did Luo Fu realize that there was someone on the roof.
Jingwu came down from the roof with a wet tomato handle. When he saw He Yunxi, he smiled: "Madam, long time no see."
"Jing Wu?" He Yunxi was surprised, "Why is it you?"
"The emperor sent me to pick up the concubine." Jing Wu said.
"Oh. The concubine is still sleeping at this time. Will I inform you when she gets up?" He Yunxi said.
"good."
"Have you had breakfast? We cooked some breakfast, do you want to eat it?"
Jingjiu nodded: "Then I'm sorry."
He Yunxi: "..." I'm just pretending to be polite, really.
"I have steamed buns, rice porridge, soy milk and fried dough sticks for breakfast. What do you want to eat?"
Jingjiu didn't answer, but asked: "What do you want to eat?"
Seven or eight people appeared in the yard: "Madam, we can all do it."
The muscles in the corner of He Yunxi's mouth twitched, and he covered it up with a smile: "There isn't much left from breakfast, how about cooking some noodles for everyone?"
"Okay, thank you ma'am."
"Then let's do it. You can rest as you like." Jing Wu and others stood in the yard, while He Yunxi took Granny Sun and Luo Fu to make steamed noodles.
Jing Wu looked around in the yard, then came to the corridor, looked up and saw Jing Jiu squatting above.