Datang Library

Chapter 152
In June of the first year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty, a once-in-a-century drought swept across the entire northern land of the Tang Dynasty. None of Longyou Road, Guannei Road, Hebei Road, and Hedong Road were spared!

In the palace, Li Er has been in a hurry to get angry for the past few days. Seeing the drought broke out, rumors spread everywhere, and refugees in twos and threes have appeared in some particularly poor places!

Call all civil and military personnel and prepare to allocate places to carry out disaster relief operations!
"Where did the Jiangnan grain transportation team go? How many days will it take to reach the Northland?" Li Er asked in a deep voice in the Palace of Political Affairs.

Changsun Wuji replied, "There are three ways to go north for disaster relief food in the south of the Yangtze River. The fastest way is the waterway, and you can reach Youzhou in two days, and the slowest way has already reached Luoyang!
But so far, the most serious disaster is the junction of Hedong Road and Hebei Road. Judging from the current speed of the grain transportation team, it will take ten days to arrive! "

ten days?There have already been refugees, and if it takes another ten days, the number of refugees will increase exponentially!
Frowning tightly, Li Er asked, "Aiqing, do you have a good strategy? You must know that once refugees spread everywhere, the situation will be difficult to control and chaos will easily arise!"

Everyone didn't speak for a while!
As the saying goes, a clever woman can't cook without rice!At present, it takes ten days for the grain and grass in the distance to be transported there. The nearby official warehouses have long been empty, and there is no food available. We can only watch helplessly as the people start to flee the famine!

Gao Shilian said, "Your Majesty, the harvest has not been good in recent years, and there have been frequent disasters, so the local government warehouses have no food at all. We think it is impossible to do disaster relief on the spot. This matter, I am incompetent!"

Li Er sighed, "Hey! Forget it, I know this in my heart!"

Bai Fan, who was sitting at the bottom, asked, "Lord Gao, do you know if there is food in other places besides the official warehouse? If there is no food in the people's homes, and there is no food in the official warehouse, then all the people should go out to flee the famine." !"

Gao Shilian smiled and explained to Bai Fan, "No, no, there are also rich and poor families among the people. The rich and noble families will naturally accumulate food reserves from the disaster, so in the end, at most [-]% of the people flee, and the rest Thirty percent should be able to withstand the catastrophe!"

"Then since there is food in the local area, our imperial court can pay to buy their food for disaster relief! It doesn't matter if the price is higher! After these few days, when the food from the south arrives, everyone will be fine. ?”

Changsun Wuji smiled and said, "How can there be such a good thing? In the face of a catastrophe, everyone knows that food is more useful than money. If the court says that food has arrived, how many people can believe it?

In case someone took out the food and the court couldn't transport the new food in the end, wouldn't the wealthy family also suffer from starvation? "

Fang Xuanling continued, "It's not that there are brave and kind-hearted people who come forward to help the disaster, but who can afford food for so many people?
The people who are hungry don't care about this, as long as there is someone to help the disaster, everyone will flock to it, and the people who come forward to help the disaster will not be able to bear it. If you don't do it for a few days, the food will be consumed by the refugees, and you will become a refugee yourself.

Therefore, over time, when encountering such a thing again, it is better for everyone to close the door and turn a blind eye. After all, the people will not break the door and rob it until the time of life and death! "

Bai Fan nodded, this is indeed the truth!

Is there really no other way?For a while, Bai Fan fell into deep thought, because he thought of an event that happened a few days ago!

A few days ago, Qinghe Cui Clan, the patriarch Cui Junchuo was discussing something with a group of clan elders!
"Patriarch, think of a way! If this continues, our Cui family's medicine business will be over, and now [-]% of the business has been taken away by those beggars. It is estimated that we will really have no business in a month at most!" A person in charge The elder of the medicinal material business said.

Cui Junchuo frowned, and said in a deep voice, "Those beggars are so bold, dare to provoke us? Are they not afraid of the government? Have you sent someone to give them a long memory?
Since ancient times, the people have not fought against the officials, our Cui family has officials in various places, can't we deal with them? "

I saw another person said, "Everyone knows that Bai Fan took action against our Cui family this time. With Bai Fan's identity, there is a hot-handed King Jin behind him, so except for our real power officials who can intervene, other places Officials with no real power are useless at all, and no local officials want to mess with King Jin!"

The clan elder who was in charge of medicinal materials said with a bitter face, "The key is that these beggars are not easy to mess with. We once sent people to smash their stores. Who knew that on that day, all the beggars in the city went. We can pull out a team of thousands of people casually, and we, Cui Shi, can't help it if we come hard!

What's even more hateful is that this group of people do everything they can. In order to tarnish the reputation of our Cui family, they even sent people to do things in various pharmacies of our Cui family. Almost every one of them would die suddenly after eating Cui's medicinal materials People like this, if it is spread like this, the reputation of our Cui family medicinal materials will plummet in a short time!

Those people are simply lunatics, in order to compete with us for business, they even want their lives!

After a long time, except for our own people and old customers, basically no one comes to buy our medicinal materials! "

Cui Junchuo was a little impatient for a while. Although his Cui family has a big business, but he is fighting for his life with a group of beggars and beggars?Really can't fight!

If Liu Busy, the shopkeeper of the beggar gang, would definitely laugh at his ignorance, our gang leader is a benevolent hand, how could he really make the brothers desperate, it is just a pill to hold your breath, and it will easily crush you !
If Bai Fan heard what he said, he would definitely spit out a mouthful of old blood in an instant!

I gave Liu Mang a classic case of business warfare, some of which were carefully selected by myself. I wanted Liu Mang to use clever means to win Cui's medicinal materials business with an overwhelming advantage!
But the bad thing is in this book. Just in case, Bai Fan wrote many cases to prevent malicious competition from the other party, such as waiting for black hands, smashing, looting, fraudulent death and bad reputation, etc.!

Who knew that shopkeeper Liu wanted to avenge the guild leader earlier, and used all kinds of tricks, no matter good or bad. Seeing this kind of shady trick was faster and less laborious, and it was vigorously promoted in various places, so it took less than three months. Taken [-]% of Cui's business!
In Cui's mansion, everyone discussed for a long time but there is no countermeasure and result!

Cui Jun, the eldest grandson of Cui Junchuo, said, "Grandpa! Why don't we send someone to make peace with that gang of beggars? Our Cui family has a great cause, and it is not so easy to bring it down!

The beggar gang will not fight us to the death, rather than hurting both sides, it is better to take a step back! "

At this time, other people below said that this plan is feasible!

Cui Junchuo said coldly, "Peace? Is Mrs. Cui going to bow to a group of beggars? You don't know that our mortal enemy Bai Fan is the leader of the Beggars' Gang. Will he let us go? They are here for our medicine business. of!

The two families have always been in an endless relationship, and it is impossible to make peace! "

Seeing the determination on the patriarch's face, one of the clan elders couldn't help but said, "All the troubles of the Cui family now come from this one named Bai Fan, why didn't other aristocratic families have enmity with Bai Fan, and we are the mortal enemies?

From the old man's point of view, it's not that our Cui family and that Bai Fan are enemies, it's just you, the patriarch, that's all!

The patriarch is high above, and may not know what the sons below are talking about. The medicinal material business has lost [-]%, and many sons of the Cui family are facing livelihood problems, and everyone has already complained!
Everyone is saying that the Cui family is here today because Cui Jian provoked Bai Fan! "

Cui Junchuo was instantly furious. As the patriarch, he was accused in court?
"Shut up! Bai Fan has ulterior motives, he is the enemy of our family, what has he got to do with Jian'er? Jian'er died in court for the Cui family's loyalty, do you want to insult the deceased?"

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