The people around Li Changfeng immediately shouted loudly.
"Your Highness the Ninth Prince is here!"
The officers and soldiers were shocked and hurriedly knelt on the ground to worship.
"Meet Your Highness the Ninth Prince!"
The refugees were overjoyed and knelt on the ground and moved, and kowtowed in a hurry.
"Meet Your Highness the Ninth Prince!"
"Your Highness, save us!"
"We really can't survive!"
"It's okay if I die, but my child is only six years old, so he can't die!"
The refugees cried bitterly, as if they had grabbed a life-saving straw, and their eyes were full of begging and expectation when they looked at Li Changfeng.
The ninth prince of Dagan's great reputation spread all over the world, and they all hope that Li Changfeng could help them.
Li Changfeng quickly stepped forward and said quickly: "Get up quickly, get up quickly, the ground is cold!"
The refugees stood up.
When Li Changfeng saw that all the soldiers and horse officials in the Five Cities had also stood up, his face immediately darkened and he said coldly: "Who asked you to get up? Kneel down for this prince!"
The officers and soldiers were startled and knelt on the ground, lowered their heads and did not dare to look at Li Changfeng, and they were frightened.
They knew that what they had just said made Li Changfeng hear and annoyed Li Changfeng.
Li Changfeng didn't have time to pay attention to these officers and soldiers, and immediately ordered: "Premove the stove in my prince's carriage, find some firewood nearby, and start the fire, hurry up!"
The people around Li Changfeng were still very efficient. Soon several bonfires began to burn, and refugees quickly surrounded and roasted the fire.
"Where did you come from? Why did you become refugees?" Li Changfeng was a little confused.
Emperor Gan Wu was a wise ruler who attached great importance to people's livelihood. In recent years, he has also implemented the national policy of lightening corvee and lightening tax burdens and resting. This year, in addition to the large floods in Shangzhou, the harvest in other places has been reduced, the harvest in other places is also good.
In theory, there shouldn't be so many refugees.
An old man with white hair and thin hair bowed to Li Changfeng tremblingly and bowed, "Your Highness, we are from Zhili Prefecture. The snow is too heavy this year. The house collapsed and the livestock were frozen to death, and the food was stored. If most of the destruction is destroyed, you can only become a refugee and come to the capital to ask for food!"
"Snow disaster?" Li Changfeng frowned slightly, "All you know is the disaster in those places?"
Next, the old man reported to Li Changfeng the details he knew.
As the saying goes, auspicious snow indicates a good harvest, but it is indeed beneficial to the harvest in the coming year.
But most of the houses of ordinary people are adobe thatched houses. If the snow is too heavy and there is no time to clean it, it will easily collapse.
Many areas in the north have been affected by disasters, and many people have become refugees.
Li Changfeng glanced at the refugees, both men, women, young and old, and said loudly: "This prince can provide you with a mining job to ensure that you can eat and wear warmly, and you can get the wages. Do you want to?"
Now that the sales of honeycomb coal have skyrocketed, coal mine production is a bit short of money, these people can just dig coal to create value.
Work-for-relief is much better than providing them with food directly and can last for a long time.
Hearing this, the refugees were overjoyed and kowtowed to thank them.
"Thank you, Your Highness!"
"Your Highness, you are our savior!"
"Young people are just a cow and a horse, and you will repay your kindness!"
These refugees never expected that His Highness the Ninth Prince not only wanted to give them food and shelter, but also paid them wages.
This is something they didn't dare to think about before. You should know that their request was just to survive.
After a long period of gratitude, a refugee begged cautiously: "Your Highness, I still have a three-year-old child in my family. Please let the young man take him with me. The young man can do nothing but wages, just give the child food.
Don't worry, your highness, we eat very little!"
As soon as this was said, many refugees with family members also begged.
"Your Highness, my old mother eats very little. Please let the young one take her with you. The young one can also not have wages, and the young one can not leave her mother alone!"
"Your Highness, my old father..."
Li Changfeng sighed secretly and waved his hand, "I want all the princes who are with him! Those who are old enough to dig mines can do odd jobs and help the kitchen. The children also brought them all, let them eat.
Your salary is indispensable! This prince promises to bring meat at least one meal a day!”
How much can elderly and children eat?
This little money is not even a drop in the bucket for Li Changfeng.
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone was filled with joy and praise Li Changfeng for his virtuousness and kindness.
Li Changfeng thought for a while and ordered the people around him: "Send someone to search for it. All the real refugees, how many princes accept, will be sent to major coal mines to dig coal. Remember, who dares to be greedy for them.
The wages, I will cut them down!”
With the popularization and promotion of honeycomb coal to the surrounding areas and the invention of steam engines, the amount of coal will definitely increase explosively.
Even if you can't use so much coal now, you will use it in the future. It doesn't hurt to store more.
After arranging these, Li Changfeng was about to leave. A little boy who was as thin as firewood clothes and was about seven or eight years old came to Li Changfeng timidly, knelt on the ground and said carefully: "Your Highness, my parents are frozen to death, you
Can I go to mining too? If it really doesn't work, I can go to help the kitchen. Your Highness don't worry, I'm very capable, I can do it."
Li Changfeng felt sad, sighed secretly, showed a gentle smile on his face, and touched the little boy's head.
"Okay, then you can go and help the kitchen."
"Thank you, thank you!"
The little boy was overjoyed and kept kowtowing and making a sound.
At this time, Li Changfeng noticed the things in the little boy's hand and became interested.
"Can you show the toy in your hand for this prince?"
"sure."
The little boy stretched out his hand, his face full of confusion.
He didn't understand how the prince was interested in a child's toy.
This is a wood-like thing with a groove in the middle and a long rope tied, which is very similar to the yo-yo that Li Changfeng played in his previous life.
Li Changfeng skillfully wrapped the string in the middle groove, raised his hand and swung it gently, and the wooden wheels quickly turned.
The little boy was quite surprised: "Your Highness, you can play too!"
Li Changfeng smiled.
Not just know how to play?
He was a master back then and had many tricks.
Li Changfeng didn't say much, handed over the toy and said casually: "It was your father who made it for you?"
However, the little boy shook his head.
"No, I did it myself."
"Oh? Did you do it?" Li Changfeng became interested immediately, "How did you think of doing such a thing?"
"Observe! I observed my father's tool to drill a rope around the rope, and made myself such a toy."