Chapter 162： that's life saving money

Chapter 162 That's life-saving money

The imperial court really didn’t do anything, she shook her head and walked towards the refugees nearby.

Seeing someone approaching, the refugees’ eyes were green. Qiao Mai understood that they hoped for the stars and the moon, and for someone to give them a hand.

"Girl, do you have anything to eat? Come on, we're starving."

"Isn't there a porridge every day?"

"There are more wolves and less meat, it's not enough at all, just a pot of porridge, and they leave after giving it away."

Qiao Mai looked at their skinny faces and sighed, "It's not a solution to always point to the court for relief, you have to find a way yourself."

"Then you have to have money in your hands. When you settle in a village, you can't build a place to live? You can't buy two acres of land? You can't fill the old family first?"

"Isn't it possible to work in the city?"

"How can there be so many jobs? We've sold everything we can. We've been here for two months, but the imperial court has been refusing to arrange for us. We can't live any longer."

Qiao Mai sighed, took out two steamed buns from his backpack and gave them to the man.

"Let's eat. I'm the granddaughter of Mrs. Pang in Bichunyuan, Beijing. She sent me to help everyone. Don't panic. After a while, line up to receive the relief. Everyone has a share?"

"Really?"

Qiao Mai nodded, "Really, the guy from the grain store will come over soon."

"Thank you, little lady, thank you Mrs. Pang!"

The man knelt down for him while eating steamed buns. This movement was quickly discovered by other refugees. When they found out that relief food was about to be distributed, they all knelt in front of Qiao Mai happily.

She yelled loudly, for fear of a riot or something, which would misunderstand the court and bring disaster to these refugees.

"If you want to live, each family will send one to the gate of the city. No looting, no rioting. Every family has a share. Listen carefully, every family has a share. If anyone dares to receive more, next time the relief is distributed, there will be no such family." portion."

She used her internal strength to emit breath sounds, and the refugees all shouted after hearing it clearly.

"As long as we all have a share, we line up, don't grab, don't grab!"

Qiao Mai looked back at the city gate, and a carriage full of grain was driving towards her.

"Guest, my shopkeeper asked me to bring it. This is twenty bags of fifty catties of cornmeal, ten Wen per catty, ten taels of silver."

Qiao Mai flipped a piece of silver and put it in the hand of the clerk, "Go back and send a few more cars to deliver."

"Yes, guest!"

Qiao Mai stood in front of the carriage, "Come on, pick them up one by one, and go home and cook as soon as you finish."

The refugees lined up and received food one by one. Each family received a bag of 50 catties of cornmeal, and Qiao Mai gave each family two ingots of ten taels of silver.

Twenty bags per car is enough for twenty refugee families, but there are thousands of refugee families outside the city gate.

In this way, the horse-drawn carriages kept transporting food outside the city, and the refugees saw that every family had a share, so they stopped tossing and obediently lined up to lead them.

At first they thought that there was only food, but they didn’t expect that the family would receive twenty taels of silver, and tears flowed down their faces.

"Which Mrs. Pang is it?"

"It's the younger sister of the current Grand Master Pang. She just returned to the capital. When she heard that you are suffering, she immediately sold the jewelry and sent me to help everyone."

"Big sister, go back and thank her old man for us, thank you!"

"My grandmother usually can't see people suffering. Her old man is old and can't come, so she sent me here. You guys, take advantage of the food and money in your hands, arrange your life as soon as possible, don't always stay at the city gate Guarded."

"Ai, ai, after we have a full meal, we will go to the surrounding villages to search."

For a whole day, Qiao Mai spent the whole day outside the south gate of the capital. When a carriage of grain arrived, she settled the bill for the carriage. She watched the refugees take away the grain, and then she distributed a certain amount of relief funds.

One carriage is worth a thousand catties of grain, and ten carts is worth ten thousand catties. She almost wrapped up all the white flour and cornmeal in that grain store.

Before dark, the people outside the south of the city had a family of fifty catties of grain and ten taels of silver.

They started cooking on the spot, with smoke rising from the cooking. Seeing this, Qiao Mai smiled gratifiedly.

Minger is the north of the city. There are not many refugees in the north of the city. A few cars are enough, because the capital does not allow refugees to enter unless they have money. Some refugees want to go to the north, so they will go out through the north gate.

They were all waiting to see if the imperial court would make arrangements, so some of them stayed at the gate of the city.

After returning home, Qiao Mai took a sip of the teapot.

The old lady waited for her to drink and asked, "Out of town all day?"

"Well, there are the most disasters in the south of the city, and the court doesn't make arrangements."

"How much food did you buy?"

"I don't know. I came to settle a cart by cart. There were stick noodles and white noodles. I pulled dozens of carts of grain. I gave each family twenty taels of silver. With these, I hope they can make arrangements soon. Winter will be here in a month."

"Are you still going tomorrow?"

"Go to the north of the city to see, there are still some disaster victims there, much less than in the south of the city"

"I follow you?"

"You can rest at home, there are too many refugees, you can't stand those."

Mr. Wang also came to see her, "Girl, you have done a good job. When you are rich, you think about the people. It's not like they are rich and unkind."

"I made a lot of money yesterday, and I want to spend it too much."

"Haha, you!"

The kitchen brought food, and the old lady was so distressed that she put the food aside.

"Did you spend a lot today?"

"Not much, maybe tens of thousands of taels, compared to what you earn, it's just drizzle."

"Are you going to spend all of yesterday's money?"

"Ah, I wanted to give more, but I was afraid that if I gave too much, the thieves would worry about it, so I gave the family twenty taels of silver, plus food, and the amount paid today is about 60,000 taels."

"The imperial court doesn't even want to come up with this. Those people would rather spend tens of thousands of taels on a useless hair accessory than help these disaster victims, alas~"

"Let's just do our own thing."

"Uh-huh!"

In this way, Qiao Mai rested for one night, and went to the grain store the next day. The grain store was empty, so he went to another grain store.

Because she bought it all at once yesterday, the price of grain in the capital has risen today. Stick noodles are fifteen yuan a catty, and white noodles are forty yuan a catty.

Gritting her teeth, Qiao Mai first went to the north of the city to have a look, and counted the number of victims. It was estimated that there were about a hundred families. She bought six carts of stick noodles from another grain store and distributed them among the victims. Ten taels of silver.

It’s much easier today than yesterday, but there are many impoverished families living in the north of the city, which is called a slum. When they heard that the refugees in the north of the city were rescued by the nobles, they all came here with the mentality of giving it a try.

Qiao Mai saw the pitiful appearance of these people, since he could save those outside, he should also save those in the north of the city.

Another ten carts of grain were pulled from the grain store. The people in the city were the same as those outside the city. The family had fifty catties of grain and twenty taels of silver.

The twenty taels of silver, for the rich, means buying snacks and eating a meal, but for the poor, it is life-saving money.

The matter of Mrs. Pang of the Wang family helping the victims of the disaster soon spread in the capital.

Those who bought the hair accessories felt a little regretful. It turned out that Mrs. Pang did this to raise money.

This comparison shows how indifferent they are.

One sells jewelry to help disaster victims, and the other buys jewelry at a high price for their own beauty. Those who bought jewelry dare not go out. This is shameful.

Even the one in the palace knew about this. Why is it the Wang family again? The Wang family opened workshops to collect sweet potatoes and sesame seeds, so that the common people could earn more. extreme.

In fact, the emperor did not help the victims. The emperor also had his own difficulties. When the south was hit by a disaster, he allocated food funds, but it was far from enough.

Now the national treasury is empty, just waiting for the wave of grain taxes for the autumn harvest.

(end of this chapter)