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- Since years ago, the huge square outside Baiyun Temple has turned into a big porridge factory.
After the first few days of perfect adjustments, Zhao Shouzheng and the stewards sent by the Princess Royal Palace divided the porridge factory into two areas for men and women, and another area for the elderly, weak, sick and disabled, and each area was surrounded by wooden fences.
There are a total of thirty-six large pots in the porridge factory, and the fire is set up to cook porridge at the fifth watch. When it gets daybreak, they knock on the clapper to open the gate and let a group of refugees in to eat porridge.
Although there are more than 100,000 refugees entering and leaving the porridge factory every day, the scene is orderly, with almost no fighting or shoving. Wanping County officials, who had been worried about riots all day, were surprised.
The secret is that Zhao Shouzheng had people use bamboo and wood chips to make more than 100,000 wooden plaques the size of leaf plaques, and then used a brush to point out different numbers of dots and distribute them to the refugees who came to eat porridge.
The next day, the porridge factory opened the door once every half an hour and released people according to the points on the wooden sign.
As soon as Mao hour passes, those holding one dot enter to eat porridge; at mid-day, those holding two dots enter to eat porridge; at the beginning of noon, those holding three dots enter to eat porridge; at noon, those holding four dots enter to eat porridge, and so on, Turn off the flames until dark.
In this way, there will be no more than 10,000 people entering each time and they will be scattered among three porridge factories, which will naturally be much easier to manage.
And after being clueless for the first few days, the refugees knew exactly when they should come to eat porridge. So just arrive early for a meal, and you don¡¯t have to wait in line for a long time It¡¯s a cold day, and the refugees are in ragged clothes, so they have to stand in the cold wind for a long time like before, not knowing how to freeze. How many people died.
Zhao Shouzheng also asked people to build a large canopy in the porridge factory to protect the refugees who were eating porridge from snow and wind; he also built toilet sheds for women and gave medicine to the sick. The refugees are not impatient and are treated as adults. Naturally, they will not cause trouble to the porridge factory. Instead, they will actively scold those who want to cause trouble.
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Therefore, in the more than 20 days since the porridge factory was opened, more than 100,000 people came in and out of the porridge factory every day, but not a single person died in the factory.
In the eyes of officials from Wanping County and Shuntian Prefecture, this is simply a miracle of disaster relief. They all praised Mr. Zhao for his ability. He will definitely be a very capable official when he becomes an official in the court in the future!
Whenever he hears such praise, Zhao Shouzheng will humbly say that he has done nothing and that others have come up with the solution.
But the officials respected him more and more, thinking that he took credit without being arrogant, had high moral character, and had a clean and humble demeanor.
¡°As everyone knows, what Mr. Zhao Er said is simply the truth
The method of using wooden signs to separate the victims was taught to him by his son; the idea of ??dividing the victims into male, female, old and sick categories and giving porridge separately was proposed by Wuyang when he came to help.
As for those in charge, those who cook porridge, those who divide porridge, and those who maintain order they are all farm slaves in the eldest princess's village. They have been dependent on the royal family for generations, so they are naturally worried about ruining the reputation of their master and the two empresses. , so we try our best and don¡¯t dare to make any mistakes.
????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? by Mr. Zhao, Erye Zhao, has been in a state of not knowing everything and having to learn everything for a long time. It wasn't until the New Year that he gradually figured out the ropes and started to act like a decent person.
"If we point at him from the beginning, the victims will be in chaos.
"But I can't stand it. Mr. Zhao has a good life."
Both the eldest princess and Zhao Hao are happy to see that Zhao Shouzheng will be credited with the credit for managing the situation.
¡° Moreover, the eldest princess also specifically ordered all those in charge to maintain absolute respect for Zhao Shouzheng. Anyone who dares to offend him will be sent to dig ginseng outside the customs.
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????:????????????????????????????????????????????????? Originally, the people in the same year were worried about Big Brother, fearing that he would not be able to control this group of rich slaves in rich clothes. Unexpectedly, Zhao Shouzheng took care of them, and they were all as well-behaved as kittens
This made fellow students completely convinced of Big Brother, thinking that he was not only rich, but also had great abilities.
Officials in Shuntian Prefecture and Wanping County, together with the current examination, boasted that Zhao Shouzheng had gained quite a reputation among scholars even before he was awarded the Jinshi title.
Yes, the rich and powerful Zhao family can increase their reputation even with the stupidest methods.
Of course, if the officials knew that Mr. Zhao was the initiator of leaving behind the victims, they probably wouldn¡¯t be so complimentary
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On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, at dawn, the first batch of refugees came to Baiyun Temple with their families to queue up, waiting for a mouthful of life-saving porridge.
It¡¯s not yet midnight, porridge is still being cooked in the porridge factory, and the gate is naturally closed.
While waiting boredly, the refugees were attracted by the notices posted everywhere on the fence.
¡°What is written here?¡± the blind people asked curiously.
"Recruitment Notice - The existing Lugouqiao Coal Yard is planning to recruit two thousand men. The daily wages will be forty cents, and two breakfast and lunch meals will be provided, including meat and vegetables, as well as large steamed buns. Interested parties can contact the porridge factory. Take care of things.¡±
Then there was the literate man who read out loud this recruitment notice, which was straightforward and easy to understand.
"Wow, that sounds good!"
"Forty coins a day, who can calculate how much it costs per month?"
"Mom, I want to eat meat"
The refugees started talking about it one after another.
Refugees are also called unemployed farmers.
Just like the unemployed in later generations, of course they are eager to make money through their own labor to support their families.
After all, who wants to be like a beggar, waiting in line here for alms all day long unless they have no choice? And it¡¯s just the kind that is hungry and never full
But there are too few job opportunities outside the capital.
Xishan Coal Kiln was originally the main employer of workers, but the recruitment season has passed, and all coal bosses have basically full manpower and are no longer hiring.
Only a handful of people are employed by squire families, coal merchants, brick factories, etc., and they work hard and earn less than a tael of silver every month. But he still became the envy of the refugees.
It can be imagined how excited the refugees were when so many job opportunities appeared in front of them.
¡°Besides, the monthly salary is one tael of silver, and you still have to take care of two meals!
The refugees with rich experience in working took the initiative to write off the wages on the notices, and ignored the nonsense that there were meat dishes for every meal and that there were not enough big steamed buns.
These days, people¡¯s hearts are broken.
??When employers recruit workers, they all make wild claims, but in the end, those who can get a 20% discount on wages and can make people eat well are all Bodhisattvas with great kindness
So when the porridge factory opened, the refugees lined up to prepare the porridge, and then sipped the porridge from the porridge bowl while asking the people in charge.
"Manager Zhang, are you always in charge of recruiting workers?"
"Well, this business has something to do with our family. The owner is His Highness's boss. Otherwise, who can help us?"
As soon as they heard that it was related to the Princess's Mansion, the refugees immediately lost all doubts. In their hearts, Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess is the Bodhisattva Empress who saves those in need.
¡°Everyone¡¯s lives were given by her, how can His Highness trick us?¡±
So they all said enthusiastically: "I'll go! I'll work for His Highness. I won't pay you, just take care of the food!"
¡°I¡¯m going, I¡¯m going too!¡±
"Don't be in a hurry. Someone will naturally take you there after you finish your meal." The manager couldn't help but smile and said: "Look at your luck. The two thousand places are not enough. I'm afraid the next wave will come to eat porridge. Yeah, even if someone wants to, they can¡¯t get it.¡±
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