Mu Mansion, study.
Mu Yunchao and a group of his men were discussing the recent influx of refugees into Cuicheng.
"How do you think we should deal with these refugees? There have been more and more refugees in recent days, and the people of Cuicheng have begun to feel uneasy. If these refugees are not dealt with well, big trouble will occur." Mu Yunchao rubbed his hands in distress. He frowned and asked his subordinates in a low voice.
One of the middle-aged, white-faced scholar-like staff members frowned and said: "Master, according to the reports from our spies, the heavy rain in Licheng has been falling for more than half a month. Many villages have been flooded and many people have died. . Now there is no sign of the end of the heavy rain, and the floods are getting more and more raging. There will definitely be more people fleeing in the future. If they all flock to us, the consequences will be disastrous... Therefore, my suggestion is to close the city!"
"What? Seal the city?! Are you crazy? There are so many refugees who have been displaced and narrowly escaped death before escaping to us, but we have to seal the city and not allow them to enter? Isn't this not to ignore death? Lao Liu, you are too cruel Yeah!" Another tall man said with great disapproval.
The middle-aged staff member said unhappily: "Am I cruel? Have you ever thought about the consequences of a large number of refugees pouring into our city in a short period of time? Those refugees need food, shelter, and if they can still have some money, They can barely solve the problem of food, clothing and housing, but more refugees fled here without any money. So how do they solve the problem of food, clothing and housing? Will they steal or rob when they are very hungry? When stealing and robbing, What will happen if there is a conflict between the locals? Will they kill people? There will definitely be greater conflicts between the local people and the refugees, and they may even be hostile to each other... How will the solution be solved then?!"
When the tall man heard what he said, he was quite reasonable. He didn't know how to refute it. He could only hold his neck and shouted: "But if we leave them outside the city, we won't just watch them." Are you going to die? If you enter the city, there will always be other ways, right?"
"Hmph! What will be done then? Don't I want to save more people? But we don't have the energy to save them now. Don't forget, our own soldiers are still short of food and clothing, and we can't care about other people at all... ...You say I am cruel, but I have no choice but to admit it. Who told us to only manage our own people now?" The middle-aged staff member sighed deeply and said.
"What Lao Liu said makes sense. It's not that we don't want to save people, but that we really have no spare power. The most we can do is let them set up a refugee camp outside the city, and then raise some money and food for relief. When the flood recedes, we can let them return. Township." Another younger scholar said, he was also Mu Yunchao's counselor, but he was younger than Liu's counselor, but his intelligence was no worse than him.
Mu Yunchao looked at the young counselor, sighed, and asked: "Then do you think the money and food we raised are enough to feed more and more refugees? If we help them for a few days and the money and food we raise run out, we are done. If we provide relief and let them fend for themselves outside, will they complain about us and then forcefully break through the city gate and come in?"
After hearing this, several people looked startled. Apparently they had not thought of this possibility. The young counselor blushed and said, "I took it for granted and didn't think it through."
Staff Liu coughed lightly and said, "My lord, it's my foresight."
"This won't work, and that won't work either! Then what should we do?" The tall man scratched his head and said in great distress, "Do we need to send people to drive them away and prevent them from gathering outside our city? ? No, no, this is even more unacceptable..."
Mu Yunchao didn't think of any suitable way to deal with the refugees who came from afar, but he knew that he couldn't let them flow into Cuicheng in disorder, and they had to be settled in a comprehensive way, otherwise it would be easy to cause trouble. Make trouble.
"You go back and think about it carefully. Pay close attention to the situation of refugees outside the city. If another large wave of refugees comes, I will deal with it." Mu Yunchao saw that no one had come up with a good solution, so he had to put this issue aside and discuss it instead. There are other things. As the lord, he has countless important things to deal with personally every day and cannot put all his time and energy on one thing.
He could not spare the energy to deal with the refugees for the time being, but his wife Liu Yan, who considered herself a virtuous wife, took the initiative to help her husband solve his troubles.
As a well-educated and well-educated lady, Liu Yan was of course educated by her noble lady, such as how to deal well with her husband's boss, colleagues or wives of subordinates, how to educate her children, how to manage housework, and what kind of things she could do to benefit herself or others. A husband adds to his good reputation...
Now that there are a large number of refugees in Cuicheng, isn't it a good time for her to establish a good name for herself and her husband? She immediately thought of how to raise funds and grab food from the ladies and big businessmen in the city to relieve the victims.
As Mu Yunchao's wife, she had to be the leader in raising funds, so she was very excited and discussed with her maids how to raise more money and food from the rich households in the city.
Soon, the news spread that Mrs. Mu was going to hold a flower viewing party. I heard that many people in the city were invited, not only people from the government, but also the famous restaurants, rice grain bosses and cloth shop bosses in the city. The invitation arrived.
Outsiders didn't know it, and they said that Mrs. Mu was really approachable, and she would put down her dignity to make friends with businessmen. But those who received the invitation and were more alert suddenly knew that there must be something fishy about this matter, maybe it was the Hongmen Banquet.
But it was the city lord's wife who sent the invitation. No matter how uneasy they felt, they could only attend the banquet.
Of course, except Zhou Shichu.
Zhou Shichu never expected that she would also be invited to Liu Yan's flower viewing party. She thought that after she and Li Wei reconciled, Liu Yan would not take her as Li Wei's ex-wife seriously. Unexpectedly, she actually And invite yourself to the banquet?
Zhou Shichu's first reaction was that Liu Yan was uneasy and kind to her. Maybe this flower-viewing event was planned against her. Who knew that Liu Yan would like to give others a good name and force others to do things according to her ideas? What if Liu Yan felt that it was too pitiful that she and Li Wei were divorced, and suddenly wanted to propose marriage to her?
Don't think this is impossible. With Liu Yan's brain circuit, this is very likely to happen. Although Zhou Shichu couldn't agree, she didn't want to meet Liu Yan, so there was no need to go to the flower viewing party.
Zhou Shichu really guessed wrong about the reason why Liu Yan invited her this time. Liu Yan didn't want to be a matchmaker for her this time, but just wanted to get money from her!
As Liu Yan, who was very concerned about the situation of the Li family, she soon learned about Zhou Shichu's reconciliation with Li Wei. She also knew that Zhou Shichu's restaurant did not suffer a decline in business because of the loss of Li Wei as a backer, but because of the lack of family chores. No worries, focus more on the store, and earn more.
