To The Land of Nevernight

At the end of the first month, it is cold in spring.

It is rare to have such severe cold weather in the south. The cold wind blows cruelly on the face, as if cutting the skin with a knife.The air was so cold that it had a deathly paleness, and the sky was overcast, but snowflakes began to fall after a while.The snow was not heavy, and the ground was quickly wet when it fell, and everyone disappeared after stepping on it.

As soon as Tang Shen and Yao San went out, the snow started to fall.Aunt Yao gave them umbrellas.

Yao San: "Little Master, I heard that there are many refugees in the west of the city, and they all surround the city gate. Why don't we go through the north gate."

Tang Shen said: "Okay, the teacher just came back from the north."

That's right, Tang Shen went out of the city to pick up Liang Chan today.

Liang Bowen hadn't been back for a whole month since he left Gusu Mansion in the twelfth lunar month, and even spent the New Year outside.Yesterday, the steward of the Liang Mansion found Tang Shen and said that the husband came back today.Tang Shen didn't see his teacher for many days, and it happened that the weather was too cold and Ziyang Academy was on holiday, so he came here to pick up the teacher.

Tang Shen wore two thick cotton coats, held an umbrella and waited in the cold wind, but was still terribly cold.

After waiting for half an hour, I saw Liang Song's carriage in the distance.Tang Shen and Yao San walked up, Liang Song opened the curtain of the car and asked in surprise, "Why are you here?"

Tang Shen: "Come to pick up sir. Mr. hasn't come back for a month, so of course the students will come to greet him."

Liang Song: "Come in first."

Tang Shen bowed and got into the carriage.The car was much warmer, Liang Song put the small heater that he had been covering all the time into Tang Shen's hand.Tang Shen rubbed against the stove for a long time, finally warming his hands. "Mister, why have you been away for so long and haven't returned to Gusu Mansion for a month?"

Liang Song: "Do some private business. Why didn't you go to the academy to study today?"

"The weather is bad, the academy is on holiday."

Liang Song was silent, and said: "I came back for this reason." Then, he lifted the curtain of the car: "Go to Ximen to have a look."

A few people did not enter Fucheng, but changed their way to Ximen.

Before seeing the city gate, Tang Shen saw many refugees advancing along the road.They took the official road, which was muddy because of the snow.Normally, no one would walk around in this bad weather, but there are too many refugees.Dressed in rags, with purple frostbite on their bodies, they walked along the official road to the west gate of Gusu Mansion.

Tang Shen opened the curtains to have a look, then closed the curtains unwillingly.

Liang Song kept looking at these refugees quietly, and said, "I heard that these people are all from Chuzhou and Wuzhou. This year, the snow was too heavy, and the four southern provinces were in a hurry. The imperial court also allocated money to relieve the disaster. It just didn’t work out.”

It didn't take long to see a few soup kitchens.

Liang Song is not in Gusu Mansion, but the affairs of Gusu Mansion are not neglected.Three days ago, the government set up a soup shop outside the city to provide relief to the victims every day.In addition, wealthy businessmen in the city also donated generously and opened some private porridge shops.Mrs. Tang opened a porridge shop.

However, these are far from enough.

The weather was so cold that these refugees were not fully clothed.The stock of food in the soup kitchen is getting less and less, and more and more refugees are coming to Gusu Mansion from all directions.

Tang Shen asked, "What do you want to do, Mister?"

Liang Song: "What should I do? Although Gusu Mansion is rich, it can't help so many refugees. The weather won't be cold for too long, and spring will start in another month, and everything should be much better. As long as we get through this The month is right. It is said that the auspicious snow heralds a good year, but it is a pity that the snow is so heavy that the soil has been frozen. I don’t know if these refugees will have a good harvest in the coming year after returning home, otherwise the court will have a bad debt. Cleared."

Tang Shen: "Will it last a month? Sir, I'm afraid they will freeze to death outside the city."

How could Liang Song not know, maybe after a month, half of these refugees would survive.They were not starved to death, but frozen to death.Even if the government set up tents and provided a place to keep warm, there are too many refugees, and Gusu Mansion can only do so much.Even if they survived, they might have to experience a famine when they returned to their hometown next year.

Liang Song let out a long sigh.

"Natural disasters are always more ruthless than man-made disasters. Let's go, get out of the car and have a look."

The two got out of the car together.

The number of refugees was far greater than Tang Shen expected. They huddled under the city wall, trying to cover their bodies with whatever they could find.Not for shame, but for survival.Grass roots, bark, even soil, try to cover yourself.

It's cold, but you don't have to worry about the plague, it's hard to spread.But it was cold, and there was no way to replace it.

The person who came to the porridge shop to receive porridge the day before may never see him again the next day.

Tang Shen followed behind Liang Song, watching this shocking scene, his heart was severely shocked.

Born in a modern society, although his family is not considered wealthy, he is also well-off, and he has never been hungry or cold since he was a child.He had never seen so many wailing people, nor had he seen so many bony people.Even if he traveled through time, he would go directly to the affluent Gusu Mansion. He had never seen such a scene of hell before.

Gusu Mansion is rich, but Gusu Mansion cannot support these tens of thousands of people for nothing.No matter how kind the merchants show their kindness, the number of refugees they can help is still limited.

Liang Song: "Let's go!" After a while, he found that his students didn't move. "Tang Shen?"

The handsome Xiao Erlang turned around with a pensive look on his face.After a while, Tang Shen said: "Sir, I have an idea, I don't know if it will be successful. But this method may save many refugees, it just needs the help of sir."

Liang Song: "Let's talk about the last one."

Tang Shen said seriously: "I want to hire them!"

In the Tang family's Treasure Pavilion, soaps and essential oils were selling very well. Even if soaps hadn't started selling, Tang Shen still had a generous dividend in his hands.He had inspected several of the busiest commercial streets in Gusu Mansion for a few days before, but he couldn't find any suitable items to sell.

In today's world, the most profitable business is salt and wine, but these two things are firmly controlled by the imperial court.So what else can he do?

Tang Shen: "Logistics!"

Yao San was stunned for a moment, and said in confusion, "My little boss, I've never heard of logistics."

Tang Shen: "Brother Yao, let me ask you, which is the best restaurant in Gusu Mansion."

"Of course it's the Qianqiu Building on Suijin Street."

"Yes, Qianqiulou is the best restaurant in Gusu Mansion. You should have heard that Qianqiulou can come to cook. Sun Yue's family is a classmate of mine, and his family invited Qianqiulou for the New Year's Eve banquet last month. The chef here specially went to his house and cooked a good meal."

Yao San: "There are still such things."

Tang Shen: "Of course. People in Gusu Mansion are very rich. Why do you think Gusu Mansion is richer than that of Jinling? The richest man in the south of the Yangtze River is from Jinling, but Gusu Mansion is richer than Jinling, because everyone in Gusu Mansion It’s all good! It’s never a certain person or a few people who are rich in Gusu Mansion. Yes, there may not be as many wealthy businessmen in Gusu Mansion as Jinling’s, and not as rich as Jinling’s, but the people in Gusu Mansion are all happy and happy. More than every year. So for them..."

Yao San: "What to them?"

Tang Shen smiled slightly: "For them, it's really too expensive to invite the chef from Qianqiu Building to cook at home, and they can't afford it. They can ask others to run errands for them, send and receive express delivery for them, such a small amount of money, people from Gusu Mansion Everyone has it!"

That's right, Tang Shen wanted to be the first person to eat crabs in Gusu Mansion.

From the very beginning, he fell into a strange circle: Gusu Mansion lacks nothing!Merchants from all over the world gathered here through the Grand Canal.Jewelry, brocade and silk, gourmet delicacies...everything you can think of, Gusu Mansion has done it very maturely.Since it is difficult to get involved in these industries, why not simply serve these industries directly?

Tang Shen: "Brother Yao, you go to the west city to buy a yard. You don't need to be very good, but it needs to be large, at least it can accommodate a hundred people. Then go outside the city and pick fifty refugees first. You weigh it and pick those who look honest. point, regardless of gender."

Yao San trusted Tang Shen unconditionally: "Okay!"

Tang Shen soon went to the Liang Mansion again.

He had told Liang Song of his idea of ​​doing logistics a long time ago. Liang Song thought for a long time, and when he saw Tang Shen came to the door again, he asked straight to the point: "Do you know that you may not benefit at all from doing this, and the initial investment is so much?" If there are so many, it is very likely to lose everything!"

Tang Shen smiled and said, "Sir, it's not like you don't know that the most popular soap and golden strands in Gusu Mansion are sold by the Tang family. Even if you lose money now, you won't starve to death on the street." Going to the show.

Liang Song: "Forget it, if you want to do it, then do it. It is better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish. It would be very difficult for those refugees to survive after returning. It would be a good thing if they could take this opportunity to settle down in Gusu Mansion." .What do you need, speak to the steward."

"It doesn't need to be so troublesome, the boy only needs ten clever catchers, and a word from Mr."

"Oh, what?"

"If a refugee commits a crime in the Gusu Mansion, no matter how big or small the case is, they will be expelled from the mansion, and no porridge shop will be allowed to give them food!"

Yao San placed the refugees in a large courtyard that had been empty for a long time.Most of these refugees are strong men, but they are a little weaker.Yao San didn't know Tang Shen's intentions, but he thought to himself that since the boss wanted to hire people, the stronger the better, so he deliberately picked out those who looked stronger.

Tang Shen came to the yard to recognize these fifty people, and then gave them food, hot water and clothes.

The refugees were dumbfounded and called Tang Shen the reincarnation of a living Bodhisattva.They wolfed it down, took a hot bath, changed into new clothes, and finally looked human.Tang Shen didn't ask them to work directly, but asked Yao San to guide them to familiarize themselves with the terrain of Gusu Mansion.

Three days later, these refugees were already familiar with the terrain of Gusu Prefecture.

Tang Shen asked Yao San to post notices on the streets with the most people in Gusu Mansion, and asked Lin Accountant to post notices in several neighborhoods where common people lived in the prefecture.After a while, many people looked at the notice, and those who could read read the words written on it.

"Tang's logistics... Hey, what is logistics?"

After the man finished reading the above words, someone asked, "Brother, what does this mean?"

"He said that from the 28th of the first month, which is tomorrow, this Tang's logistics will deliver goods for one day free of charge. All the people in the street wearing red linen short jackets are the guys of Tang's logistics, just call them, and they will Come here. You can ask him to help deliver things, help you buy things, and you can also ask him to bring letters. As long as he is in Gusu Mansion, he can deliver it anywhere."

"There is such a thing?"

"No, it's a miracle."

In the courtyard of the Tang family, the accountant Lin calculated the recent accounts, frowning: "Little boss, we have already spent a lot of money to feed and drink the fifty refugees. Your logistics is actually free delivery, which is a good deal." Pay back the cost?"

Yao San: "I trust Xiaodong."

Tang Shen said, "I don't believe in myself this time."

"Huh? Could it be that no one will use our buddy tomorrow?"

Tang Shen: "You mean tomorrow?"

Yao San: "Yes, tomorrow."

"Definitely not tomorrow."

"..."

Yao San panicked: "My little boss, this..."

Tang Shen narrowed his eyes and said with a smile: "There will definitely not be tomorrow, but whether there will be in the future depends on how rich the people in Gusu Mansion are and how stable their lives are. How can we not take risks in business? It’s a losing business, but this business has already been told by a few seniors named Shun, Yuan, and Shen... that it’s feasible!"

The author has something to say: Xiao Tanglang: Today I will start eating crabs!