Ancient natural disasters: The whole family traveled through time and was almost wiped out

Chapter 189

"How about giving him a 20% discount?" Jiang Yipei felt that Zhao Sheng's expression was a little strange and asked.

"Okay!" Zhao Sheng nodded hurriedly. That was great. "I'll listen to you, big brother!"

Not to mention giving a 20% discount, even 30% or 40% will be no problem!

Phew—I was so scared. I thought I was going to lose everything!

"And..." Jiang Yipei said, "Do you have people who can make clothes in your cloth shop? Do you have any embroiderers who can cooperate with you? It's fine as long as the stitches are dense and the clothes are sturdy. The style doesn't matter - ah!"

Oh my god!

Jiang Yipei suddenly looked annoyed, and Jiang Liang asked with concern: "What's wrong?"

Jiang Yipei said, “I forgot about Tailor Jiang when I picked up Kong Qing and the others!”

Isn't it a matter of tailoring and making clothes? And the two little girls in his family! Aren't they laborers?

We don’t care whether it’s child labor or not, we just use whatever can be used!

"Then let Dafu go back again." Dafu was the new coachman of the old Jiang family, the eldest son of the fat cook. Jiang Liang said to him, "Go back and tell my father to take over Tailor Jiang and other skilled people like Sister Lianhua as well."

Dafu bowed his head: "Yes, Auntie! Anything else you need, Master?"

Jiang Yipei thought about it and said a few words, and Dafu put on his hat and left.

"elder brother."

Seeing that there was no one else in the room, Jiang Liang asked Jiang Yipei in a low voice: "You want so many embroiderers to make clothes... Did County Magistrate Chen ask you to be in charge of disaster relief in the town?"

"Yes." Jiang Yipei glanced at her and nodded: "Since you are all here, don't leave, stay and help me. I have sent people to various villages to check the disaster situation. It won't be long before there is a reply. It's just that the villages are too scattered, and we don't have enough manpower, especially doctors."

It is unrealistic to ask doctors like Jiang Suying to go from village to village, but if the patient's condition is really serious, it will be too late to send him to the town.

Therefore, according to the current situation, we can only assign one doctor to be responsible for one area so that patients can receive treatment as much as possible.

If it really is...

Then Jiang Yipei could only say that he had tried his best.

"Okay!"

Jiang Liang was very happy to hear that Jiang Yipei needed his help: "What do you need me to do?"

"I will give you a batch of cotton. You will be responsible for arranging people to make a batch of ready-made clothes as soon as possible. We need them urgently."

"After the flood, the embroiderers who made ready-made clothes never came back. As for the other embroiderers who bought fabrics and made ready-made clothes for consignment, we haven't contacted them either, and we don't know if we can get in touch with them."

"Is that so? Then don't bother yourself. Let's see if there are any aunties or ladies you know in this town who can take on this job! It's not embroidery, just a simple cotton-padded jacket. It should be easy to recruit, right?"

The only people who can afford to buy ready-made clothes at a clothing store are those who have some money, unless they are in urgent need. Ordinary people buy fabrics and make them themselves at home. Every household has three or four such craftsmen.

"That's no problem." It was easy to find a woman who didn't have any extra requirements, so he wrote a note to his father at home and had someone send it back.

"Brother, are you going to give cotton clothes to the disaster victims?"

Seeing that the two of them had finished talking, Jiang Liang frowned and said, "How many do you need? Brother, let me say something. With such a heavy snow, there must be a lot of people affected in the town. Even if we want to give each victim a cotton-padded jacket, let alone how much it costs, we don't even have enough cotton and linen!"

"This is an emergency preparation for disaster victims who have no warm clothes at all. And it's not completely for them, it's just to keep them warm temporarily."

Jiang Liang: “???”

What does that mean? She seems... not to understand.

She understood every word, but the meaning... was it what she understood?

"In a nutshell, I'll just lend them the clothes temporarily. When their condition improves or they have family members to take care of them, they'll have to return the clothes. But I'll prepare some cloth and cotton for them to make their own clothes. But it's not free. You have to spend money on it. But because of the county government subsidy, the price is definitely quite cheap compared to the market."

In ancient times, cloth was a high-end commodity that could be exchanged for other goods. Its circulation value was actually almost the same as real gold and silver. Jiang Yipei originally wanted to let Jiang Xiubai buy it at the mall, but it would be even better if Zhao Sheng had it. Then it wouldn't be too conspicuous if Jiang Xiubai added some.

But Jiang Xiubai must buy the cotton, because he really couldn't afford the ancient cotton, and there was not enough grain.

"Then why not just sell the clothes the victims have worn to them at a low price?"

Zhao Sheng felt that this was inappropriate. After all, it was okay to let the clothes, which had been worn once or twice, be worn by the third or fourth person. But if they were worn by thirty or forty people, they would become extremely dirty!

"Fool!" Jiang Liang patted her husband and said, "Your idea is indeed fine from our business point of view, but we are doing disaster relief, and we don't have enough manpower. If we make one piece and sell one piece, then won't we never finish making clothes? Just make clothes and don't do anything else?!"

Jiang Yipei nodded. This is also a waste of manpower and material resources. What is most lacking is people who can do the work. Disaster victims are also human resources. If you can do what you can, then you must do it. You can't just do nothing because you are a disaster victim and wait for the food, right?

Throughout history, there has never been a time when disaster victims lived so comfortably.

Although Jiang Yipei's modern idea is to take care of the victims as much as possible, it is not to provide for them.

He is here to provide disaster relief, not to do charity. If he prepares everything for the victims, so that they have everything they need, how much money would he have to spend? Not to mention how big a team would he have to have behind him to support such a kind heart?

This is not China, we have PLA soldiers here.

The PLA uncles of this era were busy serving dignitaries and royal relatives, so they had no time to care about ordinary people.

Because the capital city is located in the north, the snow falls more heavily than in Jiangjia Village, and the temperature has now dropped to minus thirty degrees Celsius.

Under such circumstances, the imperial city was the only place in the entire Dasheng Kingdom that was not affected by the disaster.

In addition, even the noble families such as the Duke's Mansion and the Marquis' Mansion had one or two uninhabited courtyards collapsed by the snow, not to mention the ordinary houses in the capital.

The entire capital city was in motion, including the imperial palace guards and the Jingzhao Yin's men.

The funniest thing is that the Crown Prince and the eldest prince were originally responsible for preparing disaster relief for Liangzhou and Yingzhou outside the capital, which were the worst hit. They had been preparing for nearly ten days and were finally ready a few days ago. However, the temperature dropped suddenly, a snowstorm came suddenly, and the road out of the capital was blocked.

The Queen and the Imperial Concubine were both worried that it would be unsafe for their sons to provide disaster relief in such weather, so they only sent their subordinates to provide disaster relief, and the two of them stayed in the capital, saying that the disaster in the capital was also serious and they were needed to stay to provide disaster relief.

As for how to provide relief and what to use for relief, it is really difficult to tell at a glance.

They were reluctant to give this and that - after all, everything was used up at this time and was temporarily non-renewable. It would be a waste to give it to these lowly people. But they had already said it, and if they didn't fulfill it, they would lose face for the royal family. The crown prince and the eldest prince didn't care about it anymore, and left it all to their subordinates. In the end, there was an unprecedented disaster relief -

In a simple and crude shed, clear porridge was being served, which was clear enough to reflect one’s face.

In the capital, people were given porridge. Unless they were starving to death, no one would ask for a bowl of porridge.

The soldiers in charge of distributing alms were so idle that they just sat there with their hands folded. It was noon, and every now and then a man came, then every now and then a man came, and then no one came for a long time.

The porridge soon got cold in this cold weather, but they couldn't leave and still stayed with the clear porridge that they themselves didn't like to drink.

On the other hand, Nanxiang Town had summoned many women to Zhaojia Cloth Shop, under the management of tailor Jiang, who arranged for them to make clothes in a hurry. After a day and a night of rushing, they had made 500 sets of clothes.

Jiang Suying and her team also came back. She provided emergency training to the three generations of the Jiang family. Although Dr. Jiang and her team also had their own ways of dealing with frostbite, using Jiang Suying's method would save time, effort, and medicinal materials.

"Do you understand everything?" Jiang Suying asked.

The three replied: "We all understand."

"Okay, then you guys go - Dad, come back! Didn't we agree that you stay in Baicaotang and I'll go!" Seeing that Jiang's father was trying to sneak away, Jiang Suying quickly ran up and held him down.

Father Jiang cried, "Mother Ying, the road to the countryside is difficult, let Dad go!"

"No! You haven't fully recovered yet, why are you making trouble? Be obedient and don't make trouble. We are all very busy."

"Oh, you just said that if there is a case that cannot be cured at the moment, send it to the town. I... I... I am not very smart and have forgotten a lot of medical skills. I am afraid that I will make the patient worse. Please let me go to the countryside and take Fang Hai with me. You can rest assured now, right?"

Jiang Suying: "...Aren't you afraid that you might cause harm to people in the countryside?"

"If there's something wrong with him in the country, he can be sent to town. You can come and give him some help!"

Jiang Suying: “…”

What a strong logic!

She couldn't tell for a moment whether her father was really stupid or just pretending to be stupid.

Finally, Doctor Jiang, Jiang's father and Jiang Ji were responsible for an area respectively. Jiang Yipei had already asked County Magistrate Chen to stamp his official seal on a number of white papers.

When Doctor Jiang and his team arrived in the village, they needed to ask the local headman or village chief for cooperation, which was all written down. Moreover, when the people he sent to the village to understand the situation, they had already found the headman or village chief, and some of them remained in the village.

Besides, they are going there to provide disaster relief and save lives, not to do anything bad. No one should be so stupid as to make things difficult for them!

Doctor Jiang is old, so Jiang Suying asked Kong Qing to stay with him.

Jiang Ji was followed by Jiang Xuan.

As for Jiang's father, in addition to Fang Hai, they also brought Jiang Hu. Although he looks like an ordinary person now and can eat and drink, he has been seriously injured after all. If there was no manpower, Jiang Yipei and Jiang Suying would not let him go to the countryside even if he repeatedly requested. Even if he went, they asked Fang Hai to bring a lot of first aid pills.

After sending everyone to the carriage, Jiang Suying returned to Baicaotang. At that time, there were already many patients in Baicaotang, and the assistants had been taken away by the three generations of the Jiang family, so Jiang Xiaomi and Jiang Xiumian once again acted as apprentices, running around when Jiang Suying was seeing patients, and Jiang Yipei would come over to help after he was done.

There were more and more patients, and a few people were too busy to handle it, so Jiang Suying began to arrange for the patients' families to do some small things, such as cleaning Baicaotang, boiling medicine, and even cooking - there were so many people, so when they were in front of others, they drank the semi-thick porridge, and when they were behind others, they had to eat and make meat.

"I'm so tired all day long. If I only have half a bowl of porridge for three meals a day, I will just lie down and do nothing." Jiang Xiaomi viciously bit the salt-baked pistol leg that was half the size of her face.

"After all, it's free. Half a bowl of porridge is already pretty good." Jiang Yipei opened his mouth wide and took a bite of beef. He asked Jiang Suying incoherently, "Wife, do these patients have to pay for medical treatment? Have you considered it?"

"Let's just charge money." Jiang Suying munched on a large salt-baked chicken wing. "If County Magistrate Chen sets such a high standard from the beginning, and makes everything free, there will be no room for improvement in the future. The people will get used to it. If something like this happens again in the future, and you don't do as well the second time as the first time, then... don't you think so?"

"Indeed, then let's take the original price and give it a 30% discount? Let's not count the labor costs of our family. We can't lose money on the medicinal materials. We bought them with money, even though they are a bit cheap."

"Why can't the labor be counted?" Jiang Xiumian refused to agree: "How can the labor we worked so hard to achieve not be counted as money? Dad, you only help out occasionally, do you know how tiring it is?!"

"Girl, are you tired?"

"Me?" Jiang Xiaomi looked at her brother, who looked at her with a dark face: "I'm so tired, I'm almost dying of exhaustion!"

Jiang Yipei looked at the two of them and ignored them. He threw away the wrapper of the braised beef and put his hands on his hips: "Wife, I have arranged everything I can think of, but I have never been an official, and I have never been a leader. This is the first time I have handled such a large-scale matter. I always feel that no matter how I arrange it, it is not perfect!"

"No way, you've done a great job already, don't put so much pressure on yourself." Jiang Suying patted him on the shoulder.

"I hope to do better, not only to save more people, but also to take advantage of this snowstorm to build momentum for Chen Nuo. If something really happens in the future, there will always be some people in this town and this county who will support him."

"You're thinking too far ahead."

"Long term? I don't think it will be too long!"

Jiang Suying: “…”

"Doctor Jiang, someone come here, Doctor Jiang!"

"Here it comes!" Jiang Suying wiped her mouth and ran out quickly. Jiang Xiaomi also stuffed the last bite into her mouth. As soon as she walked outside, she heard her mother's voice: "Look at this place and this place, they are already two very obvious colors. Touch it, it's frozen hard. This leg is useless."

Jiang Xiaomi walked over: "Mom?"

Jiang Suying shook her head: "The best way to deal with it is to amputate the leg and try to save his life."