Originally, Cheng Yu and the others were going to leave Jiangyuan City directly, but after something like this happened, Cheng Yu and the others did not plan to leave for the time being.
At least we have to wait until the guards of Jiangyuan City get the food and distribute it to these refugees.
It's just that it takes some time to prepare so much food at once, even if it is available in the city.
"They are so pitiful!" Seeing these people still crowding outside, wanting to rush into the city, but seeing someone being killed, everyone was a little scared and did not dare to get close.
Seeing their longing eyes, Coco felt really uncomfortable.
"The world is in chaos and the people are suffering. These people originally lived a stable life, but because of the war, they were displaced and became refugees fleeing everywhere!" Xinyao also sighed with a look on her face.
Seeing so many refugees in ragged clothes makes me feel uncomfortable.
"I don't know when we will be able to stop these refugees from fleeing and live a stable life!" Lin Yuhan said.
"Only now do I know that the refugees in our Cheng family are so happy. I thought all refugees were like this!" Coco said.
"How is this possible? How much effort did your brother put in and how much money he spent to resettle those refugees.
Such a high price is nothing to our Cheng family, but for other places, it is impossible to pay such a high price to resettle these refugees! Yang Ruoxue said.
"Brother, can we let them all come to our Cheng family?" Coco asked with overflowing sympathy.
"Keke, I can understand your feelings, but the world is in chaos and there are refugees everywhere. Even if our Cheng family has some strength, it is impossible to accept and resettle all the refugees in the world." Cheng Yu shrugged helplessly and said .
"What should we do? If these refugees can't get a good arrangement, even if you distribute some food to them today, they will eventually die!" Coco said worriedly.
Obviously, she has slowly understood.
This little help alone is just a drop in the bucket, and there is no way for them to survive forever.
"At least we have done what we can now, and they can go elsewhere with the food. Jiangyuan City cannot accept so many refugees, but it does not mean that other places cannot accept them.
In the past, many cities hoped to attract more people, because only with the population could the city prosper.
Now that the world is in chaos, people around the world have begun to move around, and many cities are willing to accept refugees. "Cheng Yu explained.
He didn't mean to be perfunctory with Coco, because it was indeed the truth.
Just like when the Cheng family's reputation was gradually rising, a large number of people in the world of cultivation flowed into the Cheng family. As a result, many cities were unsustainable and their populations decreased significantly, so various policies were issued to attract the outside population.
Because if any city does not have enough population, it will be difficult to develop and grow.
The world of cultivation has a large population, but no matter how large the population base is, there are always some places that are short of people. After all, for every place, the local population can only maintain the current development status.
If a place wants to grow and develop, it must absorb more people.
Therefore, during times of war, there are indeed many cities that are willing to accept these refugees, but each place has limited capabilities and the number of refugees they accept is also different.
There is no place in the world that can accept all the population without limit, even if the Cheng family is so rich, that is not possible.
Only when a large number of cities are accepting refugees can the problem of large numbers of refugees fleeing can be solved. It is impossible for the Cheng family alone.
"I hope this food can help them find a place willing to accept them!" Coco also understood his brother's difficulty and knew that he could not resettle all the refugees he saw.
This may be the best result. At least the spiritual stones given by my brother should be able to obtain a certain amount of food for them. It must be enough to get to the next city.
"Yes, your brother has brought out so many spirit stones, which is enough to prevent them from going hungry for a long time." Yao Na comforted them.
"But why have these people been here for so long and they still haven't sent the food? Hey, your men won't take the money and run away, right?" After waiting for several hours, Keke became impatient and turned to the guard. shouted.
"Xia Xia, wait a minute. It will definitely take time to prepare so much food. How dare he take the money and run away!" The guard trembled in fright when he heard Coco speak.
He had long guessed that this woman was not simple, but he didn't expect to know as soon as he made a move that this woman was not hiding her cultivation, but that her cultivation was indeed very strong. How could he dare to offend her.
It was just that Cheng Yu took out the spirit stones in the morning, but it was not until the time of the afternoon that the guard prepared the food.
But looking at the grain pulled by these carriages, Cheng Yu suddenly frowned.
"Why is there only so much food?" Cheng Yu asked.
According to the market price, a low-grade spiritual stone can be exchanged for almost ten taels of gold, which is one hundred taels of silver.
The price of rice on the market is one tael of silver per stone. Generally, a bag is worth one stone, totaling one hundred and twenty kilograms. A carriage can only hold about fifteen bags of rice.
Calculated in this way, one low-grade spiritual stone can buy one hundred bags of rice, which is almost seven carriages.
But the spiritual stones he gave were at least 100 yuan. Even if it was 100 yuan, it would still take 700 carriages to pull it all.
But there were only seventy carriages pulled here in total, and he counted that there were only about fifteen bags on each carriage.
This is a ten-fold difference. Even if there is war now and the price of rice has risen, is there a ten-fold difference?
Cheng Yu suddenly became angry!
"Sir, this is a time of war. The price of rice has increased several times. A bag of rice costs ten taels of silver." The guard said.
"Ten taels of silver for a bag of rice? Do you think we are fools? There are so many people in your city. With such expensive rice, won't the people starve to death?" Xinyao also felt that the price was too outrageous.
With such a high rice price, not to mention refugees coming from other places, even their local people will become refugees.
"Miss Young Master, I really didn't lie to you. The rice shop owner shouted this price, and there's nothing I can do about it!" the guard said helplessly.
"Hmph! I want to see which rice shop owner dares to take my lady's money. Lead me the way and see if I don't demolish their shop." When Coco heard that someone dared to take their money, she immediately became angry.
"This..." The guard was trembling, not knowing what to do.
"Xia Xia, why don't we forget it? There are so many people outside waiting for food!" The guard knew it was bad when he heard the rice price and quickly comforted him.
He knew that the price of rice in Jiangyuan City had indeed increased compared to before. After all, there was a war outside, and it was normal for food to be a little tight.
But even if the price of food increased, it did not increase by ten times, so Mipu must have swallowed their money.
And it seems that these people are not easy to mess with. Once the matter gets bigger, it will be difficult to end. I am afraid that even the city lord's palace will be implicated.
Because the biggest rice shop owner in Jiangyuan City is Jiang Heng, the city lord’s brother-in-law.
The guard just went to Jiang Heng to buy rice, but he reminded the guard to make it clear to Jiang Heng that the price of rice should not be too outrageous.
It's a pity that Jiang Heng is too greedy. He may have a lot of money when he sees that he can give out so many spiritual stones to help the poor at once.
Now I just hope that these people will stop worrying about this matter, otherwise it will really not be over.
"Forget it? I've warned you a long time ago, don't try to be clever in front of me. A bag of rice costs ten taels of silver, let alone an ordinary person, even a monk like me can't afford it.
If I don't kill this profiteer who eats human blood steamed buns today, I will be sorry for my aunt's cultivation! "Coco was already furious.
Seeing these refugees who couldn't even eat, but there was nothing they could do to help them, she already felt very sad.
Now they are willing to pay to temporarily help these refugees tide over this crisis and at least fill their stomachs.
Just like her brother said, with this food, they might be able to find cities in other places that are willing to take them in.
But these profiteers are still making illegal money without conscience at this time, how can she bear it!
"Little sister, let's forget it! Let's distribute the food to these refugees first. They have been hungry all day!" Yang Ruoxue grabbed Coco and said.
Now that everyone has changed their identities, naturally they cannot use their real names in front of outsiders.
"No, I have tolerated everything else, but I absolutely cannot tolerate this matter. These profiteers can't make any money, but they can even make this kind of money. If I don't kill him, it will be difficult to understand the hatred in my heart!" Coco But he had no intention of letting it go.
After all, when she lived in the Cheng family, she only saw people living happily, and most people were very kind to each other.
But I didn't expect that there would be such a vicious person in this place, swallowing so much money from them in one go.
The current amount of food is not enough to distribute to tens of thousands of people.
"What should we do? Why didn't you hold her back?" Seeing Coco mention the guard and leave, Yao Na was worried.
"Give me all this food fairly. If you try to find trouble for me again, I guarantee you won't see the sun tomorrow!" After Cheng Yu said to the guard, he took a few women to chase Coco. .
He wasn't worried about what would happen to Coco, he was just worried that this silly girl would be too serious and not involve innocent people.
"Who do they think they are? Are they the city lord? Why should we listen to him?" A guard said very dissatisfied after seeing Cheng Yu and the others leaving.
"If you had the strength, you wouldn't be a guard here. Hurry up and distribute the food!" The guard saw it very clearly and said.
