Chapter 141: ...

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After a few days, they finally arrived in Henan.

Even if Yang Guo had never been to the Shaolin Temple in Henan in his previous life, he must make up for the regrets of his previous life this time.

It's just that the scene along the way makes people feel heavy. I saw the victims who were going to escape along the way.

The drought in Henan started as early as this spring.

From summer to autumn of that year, it continued to spread until it broke out in an all-round way.

The disaster area not only involves the central, southern and eastern parts of Henan. It also expanded to southeastern Shanxi, northern Hubei and northern Anhui, which also had a major impact on the fleeing of famine in the disaster area.

As the "epicenter" of the disaster, Henan is the most serious, with dozens of counties in the province, almost all of which are not affected by the disaster.

Along the way, there are many broken bones, or the burial is too shallow, and the stench is released.

Some of those hungry victims are already selling their children.

Looking at the scorching sun, Yang Guo estimated that the drought would last for several more months.

Cheng Ying couldn't bear to see them.

In this era of constant wars, constant disasters, and all kinds of bandits, it is not an exaggeration to describe the life of the people in dire straits.

These victims are ragged, thin, and some skinny.

The child was crying from hunger, and the eyes of the victims were full of despair and helplessness.

"Sanggong and the others are really pitiful, let's help them."

"Well, I was thinking how to help."

What we have to do now is to contact the government to rescue them together, but now the imperial court is in the south, and most of the north is occupied by the Mongols, and the Mongols will not care about the lives of the people of Song Dynasty.

So this matter can only be organized by Yang Guo himself.

Yang Guo thought of the method of substituting work for relief.

Yang Guo is rich now, he has millions of taels of silver, and it would not be enough to give them all out, so this method is the most suitable.

Work-for-relief refers to a support policy in which the government invests in the construction of infrastructure projects, and the recipients of relief participate in the project construction to obtain labor rewards, thereby replacing direct relief.

The measure of substituting work for relief in times of famine has been used in many dynasties in history. According to written records, it first began in the Spring and Autumn Period when Qi Jinggong was in power, and was implemented by Yan Ying, a doctor of Qi.

During the reign of Duke Jing of Qi, there was a famine in the world, and the doctor Yan Ying advised to use millet for relief, but Jing Gong did not agree. At that time, Jing Gong planned to build a "Road Sleeping Platform" (the palace where the ancient kings handled important government affairs was called the Road Sleeper).

In the name of building a platform with his own hands, Yan Ying performed disaster relief. He ordered his subordinate officials to hire disaster victims with high salaries and lengthen the road, intentionally easing the completion date. The disaster victims get a living.

However, it is difficult to implement the method of working for relief now.

First of all, without a useful engineering project, if you want to create an irrigation system, it will be impossible to do it without the organization and scheduling of the government.

The disaster victims come from all directions and ask them to return to their respective places to reclaim the fields. This process is too time-consuming and the effect is not good.

It was difficult to organize effectively with so many victims, and Yang Guo didn't want to waste too much time on the victims.

So the most direct and rude way is to send money directly.

Yang Guo wanted to take out 200,000 taels to help the victims.

A total of 300,000 taels were obtained from this bloodbath, and it would be considered kind to take out 200,000 taels.

Yang Guo can buy some rough rice. If he replaces the rough rice with rice bran for livestock, he will get more, and then he can help more victims.

But in this way, the victims will say that he does not treat them as human beings, but only as animals, so he still pays them directly.

Yang Guo hired a group of victims to start spreading the word that Jianghu Hero Jiu Jianxian will give money to help the victims, first come, first served, until the money is exhausted.

The news spread quickly like a plague, and Yang Guo had already come to a bank to exchange for 200,000 taels of copper coins.

Now the bamboo baskets containing copper coins are piled up in a room.

Yang Guo and his four wives are protecting the money security level sss.

The next day Yang Guo began to supervise the distribution of money, and each person could receive 500 copper coins.