Chapter 108: Second Master Zhao, the pillar of the country

Since the beginning of the year, the huge square outside the Baiyun Temple has become a large porridge factory.

After the first few days of improvement and adjustment, Zhao Shouzheng and the stewards sent by the eldest princess's mansion divided the porridge factory into two places for men and women, and another place for the old, weak, sick and disabled, each of which was fenced with a wooden fence.

In the porridge factory, there are a total of 36 cauldrons, and the porridge is cooked on the fifth watch. When the morning dawned, he knocked on the gate to open the gate and let a group of homeless people enter to eat porridge.

Although more than 100,000 homeless people enter and leave the porridge factory every day, the scene is orderly, and there is almost no scramble and shoving. The officials of Wanping County, who were worried all day long, fearing a riot, were surprised.

The mystery lies in the fact that Zhao Shouzheng had people use bamboo chips to make more than 100,000 wooden cards the size of leaves, and then used a brush to point on different numbers of points to distribute the homeless people 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 cards.

As soon as the hour passed, the person holding a little bit entered the room to eat porridge; In the middle of the hour, the person holding the two points enters the room to eat porridge; At the beginning of noon, admission at three o'clock; At noon, the entrance at four o'clock eats porridge, and so on, until it gets dark and the fire goes out.

In this way, no more than 10,000 people enter each time, and they are scattered among the three porridge factories, which is naturally much easier to manage.

And after the first few days of not figuring out what time to eat, the displaced people clearly knew when they should come to eat porridge. So you can have a meal in advance, and you don't have to queue for half a day...... It was freezing on this day, and the homeless people were dressed in rags, so they let them stand in the cold wind for most of the day as before, and I don't know how many people would freeze to death.

Zhao Shouzheng also asked people to build a large reed canopy in the porridge factory to prevent snow and wind for the homeless people who eat porridge; and the establishment of toilet sheds for women; Drugs are given to people who are sick. The homeless people are not impatient, and they are treated as adults, so they will naturally not cause trouble to the porridge factory, but will take the initiative to reprimand the people who want to make trouble.

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In the more than 20 days since the opening of the porridge factory, more than 100,000 people have entered and left the porridge factory every day, but not a single person has died in the factory.

In the eyes of officials in Wanping County and Shuntianfu, this is simply a miracle of disaster relief. They have praised Zhao Erye's ability, and he will be an official in the future, and he will be a great capable official!

Whenever he hears this kind of praise, Zhao Shouzheng will humbly say that he didn't do anything, and the method was also thought up by others.

However, the officials respected him more and more, believing that he was not arrogant in his achievements, had high moral character, and had a modest demeanor of a clear stream.

As everyone knows, what Zhao Erye said is the truth at all......

The method of dividing the victims with wooden signs was taught to him by his son; The idea of dividing the victims into three categories: men, women, and the elderly and sick, and giving porridge separately was put forward by Wuyang when he came to help.

As for those who are in charge, and those who cook porridge, and who divide porridge, and who maintain order...... They are all idle slaves in the eldest princess Zhuangzi, they have been dependent on the royal family for generations, and they are naturally worried about ruining the reputation of their masters and the two mothers, so they all do their best and dare not make a slight mistake.

And Zhao Erye, who was originally not familiar with popular affairs, was actually in a state of not knowing everything for a long time, and he had to learn everything, until the Chinese New Year, he gradually touched the doorway and began to look decent.

If you point at him from the beginning, the victims will have to mess up.

can't stand the life of Second Master Zhao.

Whether it is the eldest princess or Zhao Hao, they are all happy to see that others will take the credit of the party and count it on Zhao Shouzheng.

Moreover, the eldest princess also specially instructed a group of stewards to maintain absolute respect for Zhao Shouzheng, and whoever dared to provoke him would be sent to dig ginseng outside the gate.

In the same year, they originally sweated for Big Brother, for fear that he would not be able to control this group of brocade-clothed slaves. Who knows, but saw that Zhao Shouzheng cleaned them up properly, and they were all as well-behaved as kittens......

This made the same people completely convinced of Big Brother, thinking that he was not only rich, but also had great skills.

The officials in Shuntianfu and Wanping County, and the joint efforts of this year's Juzi boasted that Zhao Shouzheng had not yet been promoted to the Jinshi, but he had gained a lot of fame in Shilin.

Yes, the rich and powerful Zhao family is the stupidest way, and it can also brush up its reputation.

Of course, if the officials knew that Zhao Erye was still the initiator of the disaster, it is estimated that they would not have praised them like this......

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On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, just after dawn, the first group of displaced people to enter came to Baiyun Temple with their families to line up, waiting for the life-sustaining porridge.

Before the hour arrived, porridge was still cooking in the porridge factory, and the gate was naturally closed.

When they were bored of waiting, the homeless people were attracted by the signs posted everywhere on the fence.

"What's this about?" The blind men asked curiously.

"Recruitment notice - the existing Lugouqiao coal yard plans to recruit 2,000 strong men, with a daily salary of 40 yuan, and provide two breakfasts and lunches, meat and vegetarian, and big buns. Interested parties consult the managers of the porridge factory. ”

Then there was the literate who read aloud this, a straightforward and easy-to-understand job posting.

"Wow, that sounds good!"

"Forty wen a day, who will calculate how much is a month?"

"Mother, I want to eat meat......"

The homeless people began to talk about it.

Displaced people are also called unemployed peasants.

Like the unemployed in later generations, they certainly longed to be able to earn money to support their families through their own labor.

After all, who wants to come here like a beggar all day long and wait in line for alms? And it's just the kind that doesn't starve to death and never gets enough to eat......

But there are so few job opportunities outside of the capital.

Xishan Coal Kiln was originally the main recruiter, but the recruitment season has passed, and the coal bosses are basically full of manpower and no longer recruit people.

Only a very small number of people were employed by the squire's house, coal transporters, brick factories, etc., and earned less than a tael of silver a month from exhaustion. But it has still become the envy of the homeless.

Can you imagine how excited the displaced people are when so many job opportunities appear in front of their eyes.

Besides, the monthly salary is enough for one or two pieces of silver, and it can be taken care of two meals!

The homeless people with rich working experience automatically erased the wages on the notice, and ignored the nonsense that there were meat dishes and that there were enough steamed buns.

In these years, people's hearts have been broken.

When the proprietors recruited workers, they blew the sky one by one, but in the end, those who could get a 20% discount on wages and make people have a full meal were all bodhisattvas with good hearts......

So after the porridge factory opened, the homeless people first lined up to make the porridge, and then drank the porridge while holding the porridge bowl, while asking about the people in charge.

"Steward Zhang, are you in charge of recruitment?"

"Well, this transaction has something to do with our house, the owner is His Highness's god, otherwise who can work for us to help?"

As soon as they heard that it had something to do with the Eldest Princess's Mansion, the homeless people immediately had all their doubts. Her Royal Highness the eldest princess is in their hearts, and she is a bodhisattva who saves suffering.

Everyone's lives were given by her old man, can His Highness still pit us?

So they all enthusiastically said, "I'll go!" Work for His Royal Highness, don't give money, just take care of food! ”

"I'll go, I'll go!"

"Don't be in a hurry, when you finish eating, someone will naturally take you over." The steward couldn't help but smile and said: "Count your fate, these two thousand places are not much, but I am afraid that the next wave of people who will come to eat porridge will not be able to get it even if they want to." ”

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