Chapter 72: Refugees, Bean Sprouts

In the palace.

Concubine Yang wore a brand new cotton coat for Li Shimin, and Li Shimin was letting Concubine Yang do it like a doll.

After a while, Concubine Yang smoothed every wrinkle, buttoned every button, took two steps back and looked at Li Shimin, and nodded with satisfaction.

"Master, how do you feel? Does the cotton coat I made fit?"

Li Shimin curiously pinched the thick and soft clothes on his body, walked for two steps, and said, "The clothes seem thick, but they are actually light and soft, and extremely warm. It seems that I have to let those small Western countries pay more tribute to these white flowers every year."

Seeing that Li Shimin was satisfied, Yang Fei suddenly seemed to think of something, her face turned slightly red, and she took Li Shimin's big hand and walked towards the inner bedroom.

"Master, touch this."

Li Shimin reached out to touch the brand new quilt, and inexplicably felt the urge to pounce on it.

"The Lord, and here are the same."

Concubine Yang lifted the quilt and exposed the cotton pad below.

Li Shimin looked at the brand new bed, then the seductive Concubine Yang, and picked up Concubine Yang and threw it on the soft bed, and he fitted himself and pounced on it.

Only the sound of Yang Fei screamed, "Ah~~"

"Your Majesty also asks you to be merciful, but you haven't been here for a long time."

"Ah~~ The Lord..."

At the same time, everyone in heaven and earth was assigned two sets of cotton coats, quilts and cotton gloves.

A group of people hugged the quilt, hoping to bury their entire faces into the quilt and feel the unique softness of the cotton.

Yi Fan looked at a group of people holding their own things and couldn't wait to run to his room, and he felt funny, a group of ancient people who had never seen the world.

Yi Fan sat at the door of heaven and earth, looked at the snowflakes falling from the sky, and said to himself: "The New Year will be in ten days."

The time has entered the 20th day of the 12th lunar month. Although it is snowing during this period, it has never caused any disaster.

The Weiyuan Escort Agency, which was originally idle, also received a lot of work, which was to help others clean up the snow on the roof. For this reason, Yi Fan also gave each of them at least a pair of cotton gloves to prevent frostbite.

As long as there is no danger of house collapse, it is quite easy for the people in Chang'an City to spend this winter.

Because anyone who has eaten hot pot at a hot pot restaurant knows how to make a stove. With the stove, people will discard heating tools such as charcoal pots that are likely to cause carbon monoxide poisoning.

Li Ke took a lot of this batch of cotton stuff and went to give it to someone. The remaining ones were left by Yi Fan's home and the newly adopted group of orphans outside the city.

In this way, I had to complain about the great men of the escort agency. Yi Fan put the few cotton products as rewards on the escort agency, and whoever made meritorious service would be rewarded.

Just when Yi Fan and everyone thought they could have a safe and sound New Year, a large number of refugees poured into Chang'an City.

Li Like hurriedly brought his twin maids, braved the wind and snow, and stepped on nearly two feet of snow, and once again came to heaven and earth.

Seeing Yi Fan dazed at the door, he hurriedly pulled him into the stove inside the house.

"Ping An, big things are not going well. A large number of refugees outside the city have entered Chang'an City. I wonder if Ping An can have a solution to this?"

Yi Fan was shocked at first and thought, "Hasn't the problem been solved by himself and Li Ke? Why are there still refugees?"

When Li Ke said that he came in outside Chang'an City, Yi Fan understood that a few days ago, they only stared at Chang'an City, but ignored the people outside the city.

Yi Fan asked in confusion: "Didn't any of the big bosses in the court think of the people outside the city in advance?"

Li Ke sighed and said, "Hey, how could you not have expected that when a snow disaster occurred in Chang'an City, Fang Xiang wrote a letter to my father. He should use these disaster relief and disaster prevention methods in Chang'an City to form documents and issue them to various prefectures and counties.

However, the road was blocked with heavy snow, and the news only reached several prefectures and counties near Chang'an City. No matter how far it was, it was powerless."

Yi Fan decided to go and see these refugees. So Li Ke brought the twin maids, Yi Fan brought Yi Yun and Jing Li to the central axis of Chang'an City, Zhuque Street.

Yi Fan saw at first glance that the entire street was covered with various straw sheds, wooden sheds and a small number of tents.

Walking in the middle of Zhuque Street, there were refugees on both sides with dull faces and numb expressions.

Yi Fan saw the family surrounded the two children in the middle and snuggled up to each other to keep warm.

From time to time, a cart passed by Yi Fan and the others. Yi Fan curiously stopped a cart and lifted the rotten straw mat on the cart. Yi Fan saw an old man naked, curled up in a ball, covered with white frost. It was obvious that the old man had frozen to death.

He hurriedly covered the straw mat, waved his hand, and the cart continued to move forward. After a trip to Zhongnan Mountain, Yi Fan was not so afraid of the dead, but was inexplicably panicked.

Yi Fan took a deep breath of the cold air that pierced his throat and said to Yi Yun: "You go to these refugees to pick some strong people, take them to our heaven and earth, and bring all our hot boilers over to keep them warm."

Yi Yun opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say it out loud. He silently turned around and went to do his business.

Yi Fan looked at Li Ke with a slight look of anger and said, "Did your government have no measures?"

Li Ke said helplessly: "How can you not deal with it? What the government can do now is to open a warehouse and release porridge to ensure that these refugees have two meals of porridge a day."

Yi Fan said angrily: "Why can't you put more rice and flour when it comes to two meals of porridge?"

Seeing Yi Fan's mood unstable, Li Ke said, "Ping An, calm down. This is just the beginning. You must know that there will be more refugees coming in later. What should we do then?"

Yi Fan knew that he was a little bit over the top, but after all, there was not enough food. Since the business in heaven and earth was not very good during this period, there were some food stored, but compared to the numerous refugees, it was just a drop in the bucket.

If you want to resettle these refugees well, food is the primary issue.

When he came back to heaven and earth, Wu Meiniang and the others had already prepared the meal, just waiting for Yi Fan and the others.

Yi Fan looked at the food on the table, a little boring.

When Li Ke saw a plate of tender white sprouts on the table, his eyes lit up and he started eating without hesitation.

He said vaguely: "Well, peace, what is this? Why have I never seen it before? I never thought that you could eat green vegetables in the middle of winter. Could it be that you also built a greenhouse?"

Yi Fan looked at Li Ke in surprise and asked, "You can't already build a greenhouse, right?"

Li Ke took the handkerchief handed over by Bao Qin, wiped the corner of his mouth, and said, "I don't know what you said about the greenhouse, but I know there is a greenhouse in the palace.

There are a small amount of green vegetables produced in it every winter. Every year during the Chinese New Year, my father will reward some green vegetables produced in it to all princes and ministers.”

Yi Fan's eyes lit up. He was no longer worried about whether the ancients would build greenhouses. Instead, he asked Li Ke: "You said that there is only a little green vegetable in the entire Tang Dynasty, right?"

Li Ke nodded and said, "It's almost the same! Only a very small number of people can know this skill."

"Then do you say I will exchange these bean sprouts for those rich merchants and families for food?"

Li Ke said uncertainly: "It should be, it will."
Chapter completed!