Destiny Phoenix

Chapter 423 On Disaster Relief Methods
Two days later, Zhan Ying and others arrived.They brought silver and food.

According to the plan agreed by Mo Zhanhua and Feng Qingyao, they did not directly distribute relief money to the people, but took out the food and grass of the soldiers.Lizhou was already short of food, and after this disaster, the granaries had already bottomed out.Even if the people were given silver taels, they would have nowhere to buy rice, and sooner or later they would starve to death.It would be better to cook rice porridge directly and distribute it to the people to alleviate the famine.

The problem is, they don't have enough food.

He has sent a fast horse back to the court to report the disaster situation, and asked the emperor to send relief money and food.But it will take at least half a month to go back and forth. By the time the food arrives, there will be a break here.

If there is no food in the post station, the victims will continue to go south, which will not only affect the current situation, but also affect the reconstruction of the disaster area in the future.

Standing on the second floor of the inn, Mo Zhanhua's eyes as deep as a cold pool looked through the window sill to a large forest in the distance.At the beginning of March, the branches were newly green. It was the season to go to the fields for farming, but the people were forced to leave their homes due to a plague.

Sigh lightly.

If this spring plowing is missed, the food shortage will continue until autumn.At that time, the people will be displaced even more.The soldiers guarding the border have no supply of food and grass, and the city will collapse without attacking. At that time, the border will be in danger.

Such a cycle, I don't know how much harm it will bring.

But how can the people stay?

"I have an idea." A light suddenly flashed in Feng Qingyao's eyes.

"Oh?" Mo Zhanhua's gaze that was originally looking out of the window was retracted, and it settled on the handsome face she deliberately painted, "What's Yao'er's idea, tell me."

Although this little woman sometimes doesn't follow the routine, she has some ideas that are feasible.

"Although we have no food, we have silver!" Feng Qingyao reminded that when they set off, the emperor's authorized household department allocated 1 taels of silver. At this time, the 1 taels of silver are in the warehouse set up by the station yesterday .

"Miss Feng," Zhan Ying frowned once again when she heard her say this, "This is not Tanzhou City, no matter how much money we have in our hands, it's useless if no one sells us food."

Mo Zhanhua looked at her calmly, as if waiting for her answer.

Feng Qingyao smiled, and said: "The people in Lizhou do not have any surplus food to sell to us, but Jingnan, which is separated from Lizhou by a wall, has plenty of food and the people are rich, so they will not have no food to sell to us."

Zhanying still doesn't understand.

Although there is only a wall between Jingnan and Lizhou, due to the hostile relationship, there has never been any trade.What's more, they wished Lizhou was short of food so that the soldiers in Lizhou would be defeated without a fight.At this time, how could it be possible to sell the grain?
Zhan Ying didn't understand, but Mo Zhanhua understood.

"It's a good idea." He praised, some of them have money, so worry about not being able to exchange Jingnan's rice and white noodles?
After careful consideration, he distributed the ten thousand taels of silver in the treasury to a thousand soldiers on average, and asked them to pretend to be civilians or businessmen, sneak into Jingnan territory, and bring them back in exchange for rice noodles.

Of the remaining 900 people, 1000 people were stationed in dozens of post stations, distributing food to the people and maintaining order. 2000 people went deep into the disaster area to check the casualties and clean up the remains.

The remaining 900 people are on standby at any time.

In this way, the food shortage crisis was temporarily alleviated, and the corpses were cleaned up at the same time.

(End of this chapter)