Chapter 380: Xianggong, your trick is high
Chapter 380 Xianggong, your trick is high
It is true that nearly 1,000 victims flocked to Hecheng County, but many of them were brought by their families. After a thorough investigation, it was found that there were actually only more than 300 households, and there were 50,000 taels of Wang Youbao. Recruitment to build villages for disaster victims in three vacant lots in Hecheng County.
There are more than 100 households in each place, and each household builds three very ordinary farmhouses.
Two months later, all the victims in Hecheng County moved into their new homes, and the Hecheng County magistrate gave each household 22 taels of silver, a basket of potatoes and 30 catties of miscellaneous grains, a total of 3,000 taels of silver. .
During these two months, the Hecheng County magistrate also asked the yamen to buy rice, grain, potatoes, sweet potatoes, coarse clothes, quilts, etc. to the victims to help the victims who lived in the streets and alleys of Hecheng County survive. , probably spent nearly 40,000 taels of silver.
During the period, the disaster victims who were able to contribute also helped to build houses. This was to build their new home. Everyone was enthusiastic and full of motivation.
In the end, the 50,000 taels of silver from Wang Youbao still had a few thousand taels left, and the county magistrate made the decision. All the money was bought with the government, and each household of the disaster victims was allocated one mu of land.
Since then, the victims of the disasters in Jingtian County who poured into Hecheng County have found a place to live, and every family can survive for at least a year.
However, none of the victims who poured into Hecheng County were starved to death and frozen to death, and even these victims had a place to live. The emperor was delighted, and when he praised the county magistrate, he personally wrote the word "good" in his pen. Treasure for the Wang family.
The victims who poured into other counties suffered much. No wealthy owner was willing to give so much money for relief. At most, they only showed a little meaning, which caused many victims to starve to death and freeze to death. After the food came down, the victims were resettled.
When the wealthy lords from other counties and Hecheng County who poured into the disaster victims in Jingtian Village learned that Wang Youbao was actually given a good character by the imperial family, it was a jealousy and regret.
The great opportunity to honor the ancestors was in front of them, but they missed it so much.
As early as a month ago in Jingtian County, food and silver for disaster relief had been distributed, and the water in Jingtian County had been cured. Xibeijing left their hometown and still sticks to Jingtian County. In the end, these people and the government rebuild their homes in Jingtian County.
But everyone dare not build their homes too close to the Shihe River, for fear that the dams of the Shihe River will break again and destroy their homes, leaving them starving, freezing, and dying.
On the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, the county magistrate sent the character 'good' inscribed by the imperial pen to the Wang family.
Wang Youbao had been notified in advance, and he had cleaned the inside and outside of the house and prepared the incense case. Before the county magistrate arrived, he had already changed into the best and most solemn clothes, and brought all the servants in the family. Respectfully greeted at the gate.
Wang Youbao's clansmen, except Wang Ershu's family, all came, all dressed in their own best clothes, each with a straight waist and proud.
In the past, because Wang Youbao was born from a concubine, the people of the Wang family actually looked down on Wang Youbao in their hearts, but now Wang Youbao has been given a good character by the imperial family. Wang Youbao.
There were many people watching.
An Jing and Xiao Changyi were among the onlookers.
"Xianggong, your trick is high." Quiet lowered his voice and praised Xiao Changyi with a smile.
(end of this chapter)