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Yang Jun followed Chang Sheng to visit the camp commander and came out with a face full of approval. He looked at the tents spreading to the left and right and asked, "How many tents like this are there?"

"When I return to Your Highness, these are the supplies provided by the government's army. There are a hundred of them in total, and they are all occupied now."

"General Youfu has done a great job..."

Commander Liao on the side hurriedly came out to salute, "I have written to Your Highness the Prince on behalf of the general. The general is in charge of border affairs and does not dare to leave his post without permission, but he cares about the people of Longzhou. He has sent a subordinate to lead a team of sergeants to assist the young prince here."

"Master."

Yang Jun nodded and said loudly: "The army and the people are united as one, so why not worry about getting through the difficulties together. Let's go and have a look in the kitchen."

After everyone walked for a while, they smelled the aroma wafting from the front. Yang Jun walked a few steps and came to a large thatched shed.

A dozen cooks who were preparing dinner saw a large group of officials approaching in a hurry, and they all quickly put down their work and stood up.

Yang Jun ignored their gazes and walked to the stove. He saw a mountain-high pile of sweet potatoes on the huge chopping board, baskets of wild vegetables, corn, unknown beans, and wild fruits on the ground...

He looked here and there, and suddenly curiously picked up a wild fruit from the underground frame and took a bite. Unexpectedly, the wild fruit was sour and unpalatable. After chewing it twice, he couldn't help but vomit.

come out.

"What is this?" His Highness the Prince's face wrinkled up.

A cook on the side was anxious and couldn't help shouting: "You, don't throw up even if you don't eat..."

"How outrageous! This is the Imperial Envoy, His Highness the Fifth Prince. What's wrong with eating a wild fruit? Why don't you get out of here quickly!" Chang Sheng pretended to be angry and secretly gestured towards the cook.

When the cook heard this, she stepped back with a stern look on her face and muttered: "What a waste."

Yang Jun didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He looked at the fruit he had taken a bite of. He couldn't throw it away or not throw it away. He could only say embarrassedly: "I know it's wrong for me to eat without anyone's consent. But this

The wild fruit is really hard to swallow, so let me take the blame for this fruit. If I eat one of you, I will pay for your car!"

After saying that, he turned around and said to an old slave behind him: "Remember to buy a cart of fruit for me at the market and pay it to the young master."

He raised his body and clasped his fists and bowed, not even daring to say anything.

Yang Jun smiled and waved his hand, threw the wild fruits aside, and continued to ask, "Is this what you eat every day?"

Changsheng nodded: "Yes, I mainly eat sweet potatoes, corn and some whole grains every day." Some of these grains are relief grains just allocated by the state government, and some are bought from the market with money earned from gambling.

Yang Jun was surprised after hearing this and said, "That's right. The refugees like you can still eat coarse grains? When I was inspecting several counties in the North, they didn't talk about grains. It would be good if they had wild vegetables to eat. And

The people are even chewing the bark of the trees."

"Your Majesty, after the great disaster there will be a great epidemic. After this locust plague, the farmers have worked hard for a year, but in the end there is no harvest. If the family has no savings, then they are not allowed to eat weeds and gnaw tree bark. I am a shelter

Most of the people are like this."

"How much food should I eat every day?"

"Currently, there are about 2,100 people in the camp, and they consume 1,500 kilograms of grain, 50 kilograms of fresh vegetables, and 200 kilograms of wild vegetables and fruits every day. This is based on two meals a day. Even so,

If there are no more people, we can only hold on for another ten days and a half at most."

Yang Jun took a breath of cold air: "That's almost two thousand kilograms of food in one day. My dear nephew, my dear nephew, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't believe it. Do you know how much the Liang family can get per kilogram now?

What?" After Chen Liang inspected many places, he had no idea about two thousand catties. Many county government offices did not have two thousand catties in their inventory.

Changsheng smiled bitterly and said: "Back to your highness, for these people, my nephew can only grit his teeth and persevere. I have to thank all the adults for your full support. Without the food money they allocated, I would never be able to survive now."

After hearing Changsheng's introduction, Yang Jun sighed: "My dear nephew, you really love the people like a son."

Changsheng felt strange when he heard him praise himself for "loving the people like a son".

I thought in my heart that I am not the parent and official here, so it is my turn to love the people like my own son.

But it was not easy to refute, so he could only bite the bullet and say: "My nephew's wish is very simple. I hope that the people here can eat and be free from the pain of hunger and disease. If there is a chance, I hope that they can all return to

Return to your hometown alive."

As soon as he finished speaking, several cooks fell to their knees and shouted: "Master, don't drive us back. We petition to stay here. It doesn't matter how miserable it is."

Yang Jun was surprised and asked them why.

After asking, they learned that these people had fled thousands of miles from Longxi County in the west. Along the way, they had witnessed horrific scenes of killing flesh and blood and exchanging children for food. In their opinion, the past

My hometown is now like a purgatory on earth. Just thinking about it makes me tremble all over.

Everyone was silent after hearing this.

After a long time, Yang Jun said in a low voice: "If you are a good person, you will get a lot of help, but if you are a bad person, you will get little help. You are truly popular among the people. But since they don't want to go back, just live here well. It's just going to be hard on you."

"Your Highness is very grateful. Since my nephew has taken them in, he will definitely work hard and be responsible to the end. Fifty acres of farmland have been reclaimed in the camp in the past few days. Do you want to take a look, Your Highness?"

"And cultivated farmland?" Yang Jun was even more surprised, "How much relief money did the master of Zhou Mu give you?"

"Back to Your Highness, there are a total of two thousand five hundred taels, of which I won five hundred taels through a bet."

"Bet five hundred taels...? Please tell me." Yang Jun was very curious when he heard this.

Changsheng told the story from beginning to end about how he made a bet with Master Chen, how he took in these people, how he organized everyone to go to the mountains to collect herbs, resume production, and reclaim wasteland, and how he and Master Wang won five hundred taels.

once.

After hearing this, Yang Jun sighed, "You spend money to buy refugees in the human market. You are putting a heavy burden on yourself. In the past few years, when the nobles of Daxing encountered refugees who were fleeing, they just gave away some rice and porridge.

That's all, you'd better not only take care of food and housing, you'll have to take care of it for the rest of your life."

"After all, money is an external possession, not as good as the rice and flour in people's bowls." Changsheng said, cupping his fists.

They were also victims of natural disasters, and they were all citizens of Longzhou. Along the way, Yang Jun saw that the people under the rule were like beggars, "... In the north, Anding spends tens of thousands of taels of relief food every year.

Where have you gone?"

Yang Jun thought to himself what His Majesty said when he came.

Chang Sheng, who was standing aside, thought to himself: It is indeed as expected.

The idea I gave to the adults in the state capital was to do the opposite. The imperial court did not allocate any relief to us in Fufeng County. The livelihood of more than 2,000 people was solved with more than 2,000 taels of silver from the state capital. If it were allocated

If Longzhou's money is given to Fufeng County and Changsheng, isn't the efficiency ten times or a hundred times that of others?

Yang Jun raised his head and slapped his hands suddenly, "Let's go and see the fields you have cultivated."

After looking at the fields, Changsheng took Yang Jun to see the fishing, hunting and medicinal collection work.

"After I asked them to collect these herbs, they would clean them up and pack them directly, and send them to the drug store designated by the government office. Then there would be a dedicated person to brew them into medicines and then distribute them to the counties. The rest of the medicinal materials would be exchanged for some valuable money.

Come back and earn more than ten taels a day."

While Yang Jun was watching the process of collecting herbs with great interest, he asked casually: "Huh? Why aren't the collected medicinal materials or prepared medicines sold to other states and counties? I heard that there is a cure in Beidi.

The medicine for the epidemic can now be sold for thirty taels of silver."

"Your Highness Mingjian, if my nephew wants to make money, he can just make the medicine and sell it to the local wealthy businessmen. You can easily earn twenty taels of silver from a single medicine, and you can even sell it for more if you buy it from other counties.

, but I don’t want to do that.”

Yang Jun was curious: "Why? Aren't you short of money? If you sell medicinal materials and use the money to buy food, wouldn't you be able to feed more people?"

"Your Highness has a good question. I have also discussed this matter with Mr. Sun. He said that this medicine is for the common people. If all the medicinal materials are sold to pharmacists and medicines are provided to wealthy businessmen in order to make money, then they will be poor in the first place.

How can the people of the country get the medicine? The epidemic will inevitably spread beyond control by then, so this must not be done." Changsheng thought of Sun Simiao, became excited again, and his voice became high-pitched:

"Mr. Sun once said: 'Human life is as big as the sky.' Mr. Sun is willing to risk his life for the sake of the people. How can I care about this mere money? Even if I need to pay for this herb out of my own pocket, I will not even think about using it."

This medicine makes a penny."

Yang Jun stared at the impassioned young man in front of him, nodded again, and suddenly said loudly: "Good nephew, I want to reward you personally!"

Changsheng was stunned for a moment, then he quickly bowed his hands and said, "In this barren mountain and wilderness, Your Highness has nowhere to spend the money you have given me, so why not do my nephew a small favor?"
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