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Chapter 184 Controlling the Snow Disaster
The scope of the snowstorm was not very wide, but in the area near the imperial capital, there were no problems inside the imperial capital, the buildings were solid, and the streets were cleaned up, so there was no loss.

Mainly counties, towns and even villages around the imperial capital.

Because of the remote location and poor economic level, many houses collapsed. The former sheriff and mayor also made some simple solutions.

Gather the people together, dig out the food in the houses, and give them the original address of the class.

It's just that the most are like this, don't even think about the condolence money.

Chen Yi knew that the first thing to do was to resettle these people, and secondly, to help them rebuild their homes. Chen Yi arranged for Zhang Xiwen, the leader of the Imperial City Division, to arrange for the people, count the disaster-stricken people and gather them together for resettlement.

Wang Qizheng took people to help repair the house and clear the snow.

Chen Yi himself went to buy food, and the three of them separated first. Chen Yi was very fast. When he arrived at the surrounding cities and counties with the food, Zhang Xiwen had already made almost the same arrangements.

This time the money was in place, so the work efficiency was very fast. In addition to buying food, Chen Yi also bought some warm bedding, and by the way brought over the sitting doctors from several famous pharmacies in the imperial capital.

Chen Yi's sitting doctors immediately went to work, checking the health of the people.

When the people were almost resettled, Chen Yi left a team in place, found the village chief of each village where the trees were planted, and asked him to take them to clear the snow from the houses.

In the shortest possible time, the affected houses will be cleared out for repairs.

The lightly damaged houses should be built as much as possible, and the collapsed houses cannot be repaired. Naturally, those whose families are very poor, there is no need to continue to repair them.

After Chen Yi counted these people, he directly distributed money to these victims, and asked them to find craftsmen and rebuild their houses. Of course, this season is not suitable for building houses.

I can only simply build one and live in it first, or I can go to relatives myself.

The money has already been distributed, and it is enough, so it is up to them to make arrangements.

In addition, Chen Yi asked Zhang Xiwen to organize manpower to remove all the snow from people's objects, and at the same time purchase a large amount of coarse salt and coal slag.

Charcoal slag is easy to deal with, especially Huangcheng Secretary.

People around the imperial city are basically responsible for the disposal of carbon residues and garbage in the imperial capital.

These things can only be processed on a regular basis, so they are usually piled up in a specific place. Zhang Xiwen was very surprised when he heard that Chen Yi wanted coal cinders.

Later, when I found out that this thing could remove snow, I was even more surprised, not to mention Wang Chizheng.

But fortunately, Zhang Xiwen's work efficiency was very fast. After being surprised, in a blink of an eye, it was as if all the coal slag collected from the imperial capital had been transported.

This is also thanks to the good timing, because during this period of time there are continuous universities, so in order to keep warm, the amount of ammunition used in the imperial capital is also very considerable.

In addition, due to various reasons, the spying was not carried out for more than half a month.

Otherwise, Zhang Xiwen really wouldn't be able to collect such a large amount for a while, but even so, it's not enough, after all, it was scattered on the road.

The area is spread out, so one can imagine how much it needs.

Chen Yi can only ask people to buy some coarse salt, the cheapest price, and the lowest quality salt.

Fortunately, everyone knows that Chen Yi is powerful this time. Didn't even the empress compromise in the end?
Therefore, there were no salt merchants in the imperial capital, and they tried to cooperate as much as possible to trip Chen Yi. After all, these lowest-level Yans were not of much value.

And Chen Yi is also very good at life.

Any salt merchants who could sell to him had someone write a red list, listing their names, and standing it at the head of each village, which was equivalent to advertising the salt merchants.

This is the most common sponsorship in later generations, of course they don't understand it now.

But these businessmen are not fools, so they can naturally see the value in it. It's not that the salt is free of money. As long as they sell the salt to Chen Yi, they can get such benefits. Why not do it?
There are also those who are more active, and they provide it for free directly. At the same time, they approached Chen Yi, planning to provide coarse salt for free every year in the future.

The condition is that every time I use my eyes in the future, the name of their business can be reflected.

Chen Yi naturally did not disagree. They may not have known that coarse salt was acceptable before, but now they know it. It's not just a year, and it will definitely snow tomorrow.

Therefore, the two sides reached a consensus, which is a win-win situation. Naturally, Chen Yi would not push this benefit to the common people.

Chen Yi was also very shrewd, which gave him three spots.

Of course, the first person who proposes such a plan directly owns one.

As soon as the news came out, the salt merchants were all excited. This is a rare opportunity, and there is no such shop in this village.

The grain merchants in Daoxiang City had already enjoyed this kind of treatment before. Although they were far away from here, they were very regretful at that time because they were businessmen and the news circulated.

There is only envy, but now such an opportunity has come down to them.

Only a fool wouldn't catch it, and that's exactly what happened. These merchants seemed to be crazy, transporting coarse salt to Fuhuangchengsi.

You must know that these vulgar words can't be sold when they are ordinary, that is, the common people will only buy some vegetables when they are pickled. In normal times, few people will buy them to eat.

Therefore, the price for acting is very low, and it doesn’t hold much oil and water.

Using such low-priced, low-cost products in exchange for a good reputation is simply pie in the sky.

Zhang Xiwen looked at the cartloads of coarse salt in surprise, his admiration for Chen Yi was like a torrent of water, and it was out of control. When he planned to arrest the second prince, he felt that Chen Yi was unusual.

After learning about it in detail, Chen Yi admired what Chen Yi had done.

Until this matter, Chen Yi's status in Zhang Xiwen's heart was raised again, and he directly identified the person he admired the most, the person who was willing to follow in this life. It can be said that Zhang Xiwen regarded Chen Yi as his idol.

Everything was going on in an orderly manner, and no one thought about it.

It only took Chen Yi about ten days to solve the snow disaster, and because the road was covered with coal slag and coarse salt, there was no need to worry when it snowed, because there was already a way.

The common people are more grateful to Chen Yi, and Chen Yi seems to be different in the hearts of the businessmen.

In the past, in the perception of all businessmen, there were people in the imperial court who were easy to handle.

In order to maintain the relationship with the officials, it is necessary to continuously provide confessions and give them benefits, so that this relationship can be maintained for a long time, and it is guaranteed not to be stumbling behind others.

(End of this chapter)