Blissful Days After Widowhood Chapter 61: Replacement of refugees

Let's talk about Jun Qianyu's order to resettle the refugees. In fact, this kind of thing happens every few years, on a large or small scale. Back then, both the first prince and the second prince were ordered to do such errands.

But whether it was the first prince's appeasement or the second prince's direct force suppression, he felt that it was too extreme, and there were many problems left behind. This time he wanted to try another method, but he didn't know if it was feasible. , so still hesitant.

Seeing that Ningxi was concerned about this matter, she could not help but ask her on a whim, "In your opinion, what should be done with these refugees?"

Ning Xi said: "I heard that the government has already started arresting people, and even the prison is almost full? But the security in the capital still seems to have not been fundamentally relieved!"

Jun Qianyu nodded: "Yes, a checkpoint has also been set up at the city gate to limit the number of refugees entering the city every day, but the number of refugees who pour into the suburbs of the capital every day is too large, and they all gather outside the city gate. These people Without food and clothing, I'm afraid that I won't be able to settle down for a long time, and trouble will soon occur."

"Since the refugees have no food and clothing, does the court not provide relief?"

Jun Qianyu snorted: "You are so courageous, you dare to arbitrarily argue the right and wrong of the imperial court, there is naturally some relief, but there are too many porridges for monks, and the porridge that can be received every day can only be maintained so as not to starve to death. That's all, and it's not a long-term solution, if these people can't find a way to make a living, the court will not be able to support them for the rest of their lives."

Ning Xi said: "In fact, living in a foreign land is always a last resort. If possible, they still hope to be able to return to their hometown. The reason why these people come back to the capital is because the capital is rich and easy to eat. It's just, if there is any work for them to do here, who wouldn't want to make money to live properly? As long as these few months have passed, when the disaster in their hometown subsides, they will naturally go back slowly."

Jun Qianyu nodded: "That's true, but there are so many victims, it's really not easy to find so many jobs for them to do out of thin air!" He suddenly looked at Ning Xi with a half-smile, "What about you? Do you also want to go back to your hometown?"

Ning Xi smiled calmly: "Without worries, naturally there is nothing to think about."

Jun Qianyu stood up: "I think of a way to resettle the refugees, I don't know if it is feasible, go try it out, let's go!"

Ningxi hurriedly delivered it to the door: "Five masters, walk slowly, come back next time."

The refugees in the capital were quickly resettled. After a few days, the beggars in ragged clothes were rarely seen on the streets. The number of ordinary people was increasing day by day, and the business of various shops was getting better and better. The capital began to slowly recover.

Ningxi heard that these refugees were arranged to go to the imperial mausoleum to build the tomb. Everyone said that this was a great good thing, but Ningxi didn't quite understand it. Later, he was a well-informed Rong It was all explained to her.

It turns out that the emperor started to build the mausoleum since he ascended the throne, but the migrant workers who went to repair the tomb were not paid for, but were apportioned as corvée. within the scope of this apportionment.

Simply put, every family in the capital, for example, must send a male every year to take turns to the imperial mausoleum to participate in voluntary labor for a month, and the imperial court does not need to pay a penny in wages except for food.

Ning Xi was very surprised when she heard this: "This is also possible? Then are you all willing?"

Rong Daquan didn't care: "What's the matter, anyway, you have to pay taxes. If you serve corvée, you can get tax exemption. In fact, it's still the same."

“Does everyone have to pay taxes?”

"Naturally, living in the capital has a head tax, and in the countryside there is also a tax on land, and one month's corvée can be exempted from the tax for one year. In fact, many people are still happy."

Ning Xi bit her fingers, it seems that the few of them have been in the capital for so long and haven't paid the tax. Could it be that they accidentally evaded tax? Will I be caught and put in jail, or else it will be very miserable to be caught and serve corvée!

Rong Daquan seemed to see her worry and comforted her: "You have to live for more than a year before you have to pay taxes. You have only been here for a few months. It is normal that you have not paid taxes. At the end of the year, there will be officials coming Tax collectors, you will pay them when the time comes."

Ning Xi then nodded reassuringly: "But I don't usually see anyone who would go to corvée? You don't seem to be there either?"

"What I do in corvée is drudgery. I'm talking about people who are happy to be poor people in the countryside. They go to corvage when they are slack. They don't delay the family's farm work, and they save a month's rations. People who are not too poor are generally unwilling to endure this hardship, and most of them pay someone to serve in their place.”

"So that's the case, then why do you say that letting the refugees build the imperial mausoleum is a good thing that everyone appreciates?" Ning Xi was still a little confused.

"The imperial court ordered that the citizens of the capital be exempted from corvéry for one year, and the difference will be replaced by the refugees. Do you think this is a good thing? Moreover, the imperial court also converted all the money that was going to be used to relieve the disaster victims this time into construction. The wages of the refugees in the imperial mausoleum, as long as these refugees have worked for one year, they can receive a lump sum of wages before they leave, and can take them back to their hometowns to rebuild their homes. Isn’t this a great joy?”

Ning Xi clapped his hands and said, "This method is really good! No wonder our restaurant business is getting better again these days!" I just don't know if this method was proposed by Fifth Master Jun. It seems that although he is greedy for pleasure, Personal life is a bit extravagant, but still quite conscientious!

The two were talking vigorously, but saw Meng Shuangshuang holding a plate of small fried pork in one hand and a few large steamed buns in the other hand, walking hurriedly past them.

Ningxi stopped her: "Shuangshuang, where are you going?"

Meng Shuangshuang didn't look back: "I'm in a hurry to save people, I'll talk about it later."

Ningxi followed out uneasy, only to see her handing the food in her hand to a woman with a child squatting in the corner outside the door: "Hurry up and eat!"

The clothes on the woman and the child were extremely tattered, but the head and face were still clean. The little boy was only about four or five years old. When he saw a stranger, he went straight to his mother's arms.

The woman took the food from Meng Shuang's hands with great gratitude, and the two of them grabbed the food with their hands and ate it in large gulps. It was obvious that she had not eaten for a long time and was starving.

"What's going on here?" Ning Xi came over and asked.

The woman was startled, for fear that she would **** the food back, she ate harder, suddenly choked and coughed a few times, Meng Shuangshuang comforted her: "Don't worry, eat slowly , no one robbed you." Then he turned around and explained to Ningxi, "Just now they fainted from hunger in front of the restaurant outside, so I brought something out for them to eat, don't you mind?"

Ning Xi frowned: "How can you give them these if you are hungry!"

"Ah?" Meng Shuangshuang didn't understand, "Ning Xi, aren't you always the most generous?"

"They haven't eaten for a long time, and their stomachs are extremely weak. So many things are stuffed all at once, and their stomachs will definitely not be able to bear it. You should give them a bowl of meat porridge first and slowly adjust the stomachs!"

Meng Shuangshuang smiled embarrassedly: "I didn't expect it, hey, don't eat this for now, wait a moment, I'll go get some porridge."

"Forget it, let's go in and talk about it. It's like squatting here to eat." Ning Xi said.

"But they're so dirty, they'll scare our diners away."

"Then enter through the back door and let them wash well, I'm afraid they haven't washed in a few days!" After speaking, Ning Xi squatted down and said to the woman, "Eldest sister, go to our house and rest for a while. Eat something! It's right behind."

The woman stood bewildered: "This, this is not good!"

Meng Shuangshuang grabbed her and left: "It's okay, I'll say our Dong family is the best. By the way, you're not from the capital, right, where did you come from? Well, I think we just arrived in the capital. At the time, he was penniless, and if it weren't for the help of kind-hearted people, he wouldn't be in such a good situation today."

Take the two back to the backyard, boiled hot water for the mother and son to wash their bodies, and ate a full meal, the woman suddenly knelt down to Ningxi: "I beg girl, have mercy on our mother and son. Living on the streets, homeless, please take care of our mother and son with kindness, I can do a lot of work, and I am not afraid of hardships, I will do whatever you ask me to do, I just want a place to live."

Ningxi quickly pulled her up: "Don't, don't, don't kneel, I'm most afraid of others kneeling on me. Can you tell me what's going on with you first?"

The woman told Ning Xi that she was also a refugee from the disaster. Her man drowned in the flood, and all the property in the house was swept away by the flood. Only their mother and son escaped and escaped with the village. The team came to the capital together.

After I came to the capital, I originally stayed with the people in the village. The men in the village sometimes found a little hard work, and occasionally they earned some food to share with the mother and son, although they never had a full meal. , after all, it can still survive.

Later all the men who could work in the same village went to work in the imperial mausoleum, and their women also followed and lived nearby. The rest of the people without a man like her could not go to the imperial mausoleum, so they had to I continued to stay in the capital to beg for a living. I was unlucky for the past two days, and I didn't get anything. When I walked to the door of Sungai Tower, I smelled the aroma of food wafting from it, and I fell down with hunger. land.

The guy who greeted the guests at the entrance of Shuangxi Tower saw it, and immediately told Meng Shuangshuang, and this was the scene behind.

Ning Xi sighed: "I don't know how many people in the capital like you are. How many people can I take in my little Shuangxi Tower even if I want to take it in?"