Lay to win!Cannon fodder, he has become the chief assistant

Chapter 207 Preparation
When Xie Xiuwen and his party arrived at Taiyuan Mansion, they had already left Beijing for nine days.

As usual, even with a car, it would take more than seven days to arrive, but this trip was affected by the heavy snow, which was quite unsatisfactory.

Especially when they were about to arrive at Taiyuan Mansion, the road was covered with heavy snow, and there was no one to take care of the official roads. As a last resort, they had to stop, and then sent someone to quickly clear the road, so that hundreds of carriages behind could pass.

In addition to food, the car was equipped with some cotton clothes and quilts. Thinking that more than [-] people were affected by the disaster, these things are not enough.

However, when the incident happened suddenly, Emperor Jingwen also sent the household department to step up preparations, and only waited for them to arrive at Taiyuan Mansion before sending out the second batch of supplies.

Along the way, Xie Xiuwen has seen the miserable conditions of the common people, and even saw frozen corpses on the side of the road, which made him very annoyed and anxious.

After the great disaster, there must be a great epidemic.

If some details cannot be done well, the follow-up will bring more troubles to the court and even more disasters to the common people.

Xie Xiuwen and his team devoted themselves to the busy disaster relief work, and Xie Rongzhao in the capital was not idle either.

Xie Ronglang, Cheng Jingzhou and the others had already been sent back to the villa to continue their studies, and Xie Rongzhao went with them, but it was not for idle fun in the villa, but for Xie Rongen to take her around.

Xie Rongzhao knew very well that once a catastrophe happened, the demand for materials and money would not be one star and a half, and if everything was only allocated by the court, not to mention the long timeline, even the quantity would be far from enough.

But Xie Rongzhao is just a child now, even if the family has income now, that little money is nothing compared to disaster relief.

What Xie Rongzhao could do was limited, but she was smart, so she deliberately asked Zhao Yue for someone to help.

Said it was one, but in fact Changfeng brought a team of guards to wait for orders.

Although Zhao Yue didn't know exactly what Xie Rongzhao wanted to do, he knew that she was definitely worried about Xie Xiuwen's journey, and he would see what she did before making plans.

When Xie Xiuwen left, he set aside his family's rations and took away fifteen shi of grain.

Xie Rongzhao thought that under the heavy snow cover, the houses collapsed, and even if some grains could be dug out, they might not be able to be eaten again.

Once the food is moldy, it is not suitable to import it again, otherwise you will get sick. She heard her father mention that sometimes the epidemic may come like this.

Liu Ruolan understood Xie Rongzhao's thoughts, but she was a woman, so it was difficult for her to show her face, and Xie Rongzhao was still a child with someone to protect her, so she could run around outside.

Liu Ruolan was not the kind of short-sighted person who gave Fang Hu 500 taels of silver and asked him to go to the countryside to collect grain.

It's not that there is no grain in the capital, but that the grain in the grain shop in the capital is too expensive, and Liu Ruolan means to collect more coarse grains, such as sorghum rice or sweet potatoes.

In the countryside, a few catties of coarse grains can be exchanged for a catty of fine grains.

In this way, there are many things that can be done with the 500 taels of silver.

Rice is expensive in the capital, and if you want a large quantity, the rice will cost fifteen renminbi a catty, and the sorghum rice will cost eight renminbi a catty.

Now that Fang Hu is sent to the countryside to collect grain, the price difference will come out.

The sorghum rice in the countryside is milled, at most it costs six renminbi a catty, and in some places you can charge a catty for five renminbi.

If it is in the capital, 500 taels of silver can only buy more than 3000 catties of rice, or more than 6 catties of sorghum rice.

But when he went to collect grain in the countryside, Fang Hu led his people to harvest for seven or eight days in a row, and they got 1 catties of sorghum rice, [-] catties of sweet potatoes, and more than [-] catties of corn.

It was only after Liu Ruolan came to the capital that she realized that there is corn in the north, and adding this kind of corn to sweet potatoes to cook in winter can satisfy hunger and keep out the cold.

After the food was collected, they had to find a way to send it out. Liu Ruolan didn't understand this, so she had to ask Gao for help.

It was also at this time that Zhao Yue learned of Xie Rongzhao's plan, and asked Gao to wait for a while, to see that Xie Rongzhao should have some more supplies to send to Taiyuan Mansion.

Zhao Yue thought for a while, and simply ordered: "Our family will also donate a thousand shi of grain, and we will send someone to buy some ginger and send it along."

Mrs. Gao thought this method was very good, their Hou Mansion has always been favored by the emperor, what can they do now, so that the Holy Majesty can see their loyalty.

"My lord, since this is the case, why don't I try to find some medicinal materials to drive away the epidemic?"

Zhao Yue nodded: "You can figure it out, hurry up. Tomorrow I will be escorted all the way to Taiyuan Mansion."

"Yes, son."

After Gao's words fell, he felt that something was wrong: "What about the manpower?"

Zhao Yue waved his hand and walked out while talking: "I'll go into the palace."

Gao Shi was only slightly stunned, and then immediately arranged for people to purchase medicinal materials, not too good, as long as they can be used.

As soon as Zhao Yue arrived at the gate of the mansion, he saw Changfeng coming back on horseback.

"See your lord."

Zhao Yue raised his eyebrows: "Baby is back too?"

"Returning to my lord, Miss Xie didn't come back, but I took a dozen carts of things and sent them to the Zhuangzi outside the city for the time being. I wanted to send them to Taiyuan Mansion together with the food Mrs. Xie prepared. Come back and report to the adults, and ask the adults to help arrange."

Only then did Zhao Yue laugh. It's good that the girl knows to find herself if she has something to do.

"Do you know what she has prepared?"

"My lord, Miss Xie got some old cotton and defective cloth. In the past few days, I have asked a large number of women to help with sewing. Now I have 120 cotton clothes and [-] quilts."

Zhao Yue was really surprised, this girl is so capable!

"Do you know the origin of these things?"

"Returning to my lord, the young one has been following Miss Xie. These defective cloths are purchased from several counties below, which are local shops. The price is already cheap, and the defective cloth is even more worthless." A mention. In addition, the price of this old cotton is twice as low as this year's new cotton."

Changfeng paused, and then said: "Miss Xie also dismantled some old cotton clothes that were not needed by the local rich people. They only need the cotton wool inside, and then sew clothes with clean old cloth. These costs are also very low."

"Are those old clothes for free?"

"Forget it, Miss Xie borrowed the power of the Marquis Mansion, and made clear the identity of Mr. Xie, only saying that they will never forget their benevolent deeds in the future, so there are food and material donations from the local gentry."

"Is there still food?"

Chang Feng nodded: "Yes, but there is not much food, only three carts, and the rest are cotton-padded clothes and quilts."

"Succeed, Master understands, you go to Xie's mansion first, and tell me that I will arrange for people to deliver food and medicine tomorrow, and ask Mrs. Xie how many cars there are."

"Yes, the little one will do it right away."

Zhao Yue was in a good mood and went to the palace to face the saint. This time, there was finally something that could make the saint show his face, and there were regulations to follow in the follow-up of Taiyuan Mansion.

(End of this chapter)