When Xie Xiuwen and his party arrived at Taiyuan Mansion, they had already left Beijing for nine days.
Normally, even if there was a driver accompanying us, it would only take more than seven days to arrive, but this trip was affected by heavy snow and was quite unsatisfactory.
Especially when they were about to arrive in Taiyuan Prefecture, there was heavy snow on the road and no one was taking care of the official road. As a last resort, they had to pause and then sent people to quickly clear the road. In this way, hundreds of carriages behind could pass.
In addition to food, the car was equipped with some cotton clothes and quilts. Considering that more than 100,000 people were affected by the disaster, just these things were far from enough.
However, the incident happened suddenly, and 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.
Xie Xiuwen had already seen the miserable situation of the common people along the way, and even saw frozen corpses on the roadside, which made him very angry and very anxious.
After a great disaster, there will be a great epidemic.
If some details cannot be done well, it will bring more trouble to the court and more disasters to the people.
Xie Xiuwen and his party were engaged in busy disaster relief work, and Xie Rongzhao in the capital was not idle either.
Xie Ronlang, Cheng Jingzhou and others had been sent back to the villa to continue their studies. Xie Rongzhao followed them, but instead of just having fun in the villa, Xie Rongen took her around.
Xie Rongzhao knew very well that once there was a major disaster, the demand for materials and money would be huge, and if everything depended only on the allocation from the court, even this quantity would not be enough, not to mention the long timeline.
But Xie Rongzhao is just a child now. Even if the family has income now, that little money is nothing compared to disaster relief.
Xie Rongzhao was limited in what she could do, but she was smart and specially asked Zhao Yue for a man to come and help.
It was said to be one, but in fact it was Changfeng who brought a team of guards here to be dispatched.
Although Zhao Yue didn't know what Xie Rongzhao wanted to do specifically, he knew that she was definitely worried about Xie Xiuwen traveling far away, and he would wait and see what she did before making any plans.
When Xie Xiuwen left before, he left behind his family's food rations and took away fifteen shi of food.
Xie Rongzhao thought that under the heavy snow, the house collapsed, and even if some food could be dug out, it might not be edible anymore.
Once food becomes moldy, it is not advisable to re-eat it, otherwise you will get sick. She heard her father mention that sometimes epidemics may come from this way.
Liu Ruolan understood Xie Rongzhao's thoughts. It was just that she was a woman and it was not easy for her to be exposed in public. However, Xie Rongzhao was still a child and had someone to protect her, so she could go out and run around.
Liu Ruolan was not that short-sighted person, so she gave Fang Hu five hundred 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 shops 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, it takes several kilograms of coarse grains to get one kilogram of fine grains.
In this way, these five hundred taels of silver can do a lot.
Rice is expensive in the capital. If the quantity is large, the rice will cost fifteen cents per catty, and sorghum rice will cost eight cents per catty.
Now that Fang Hu is sent to the countryside to collect grain, the price difference will come out.
When the sorghum rice in the countryside is milled, it only costs six cents per catty at most. In some places, you can get it for five cents per catty.
If you were in the capital, five hundred taels of silver could only buy more than 33,000 jins of rice, or more than 62,000 jins of sorghum rice.
But when he went to the countryside to collect grain, Fang Hu led his people to collect grain for seven or eight days in a row. They actually got 80,000 kilograms of sorghum rice, 30,000 kilograms of sweet potatoes, and more than 10,000 kilograms of corn.
It was only after Liu Ruolan came to the capital that she learned that there was corn in the north, and that adding this corn to sweet potatoes and boiling it in winter could satisfy hunger and keep out the cold. It was a must-have for every household in the north.
After the grains were collected, they had to find a way to send them out. Liu Ruolan didn't understand this, so she had to ask Gao for help.
It was only at this time that Zhao Yue learned about Xie Rongzhao's plan, and asked Gao to wait a moment to see if Xie Rongzhao would 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 food, and we will also send someone to buy some ginger."
Mrs. Gao felt that this method was very good. Their palace had always been favored by the emperor. What could they do now to show their loyalty to the emperor?
"Your Majesty, if that's the case, why don't I think of ways to get some anti-epidemic medicinal materials?"
Zhao Yue nodded: "It's up to you to do it quickly. I'll have someone escort you all the way to Taiyuan Mansion tomorrow."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
After Gao finished speaking, he felt something was inappropriate: "What about manpower?"
Zhao Yue waved his hand and walked out as he said: "I'm going to the palace."
Mrs. Gao was just stunned for a moment, and then immediately arranged for someone to purchase the medicinal materials. It didn't have to be too good, as long as it could be used.
As soon as Zhao Yue arrived at the door of the house, he saw Changfeng coming back on horseback.
"See my lord."
Zhao Yue raised his eyebrows: "The good boy is back too?"
"Back to your lord, Miss Xie has not come back, but Xiaoxiao has brought more than a dozen carts of things and sent them to Zhuangzi outside the city for the time being. He wants to send them to Taiyuan Mansion together with the food prepared by Mrs. Xie, so Xiaoxiao is specially sent to When I come back, I will report to the adults and ask them to help make arrangements."
Only then did Zhao Yue smile. It was good that this girl knew to come to him if she had anything to do.
"Do you know what she has prepared?"
"Back to your lord, Miss Xie has obtained some old cotton and defective cloth. She has asked a large number of women to help sew in the past few days. Now she has obtained 600 pieces of cotton clothes and 120 quilts."
Zhao Yue was really surprised. This girl is so capable!
"Do you know the origin of these things?"
"Sir, the younger one has been following Miss Xie. These defective cloths were purchased from several counties below, that is, local shops. The price is already cheap. Plus, it is defective cloth, so it is not worth it. Mention it. In addition, the price of old cotton is twice as low as this year’s new cotton.”
Changfeng paused and then said: "Miss Xie also dismantled some old cotton-padded clothes that local wealthy people didn't want, and only needed the cotton wadding inside, and then used clean old cloth to sew into garments. The cost is also very low."
"Are all those old clothes white?"
"That's right. Miss Xie borrowed the power of the Marquis Mansion and made it clear about Mr. Xie's identity. She only said that they would never forget their benevolent deeds in the future, so the local squires donated food and materials."
"And there's food?"
Changfeng nodded: "Yes, but there is not much food. I only collected three carts, and the rest are cotton clothes and quilts."
"Okay, I understand. 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, I will do it immediately, little one."
Zhao Yue entered the palace to meet the Holy Spirit in a good mood. This time, there was finally something that could make the Holy Spirit show off, and the follow-up matters in Taiyuan Mansion could be regarded as having rules to follow.
(End of chapter)
