Chapter 1094 It is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish
In a place that is really short of water, people here will not have to spend manpower and material resources to get water elsewhere.
After getting it back, drinking a small bowl of water a day is a luxury.
Even for food, almost all are dry pancakes. As long as it can fill your stomach, don't dream about it. If you want to drink porridge, water is more expensive than food!
When Xiangtao heard what she said, she looked around and fell silent.
In this inn, she and Sister Shiqing were the only guests. No one wanted to come here, and no one would spend money to stay.
In the past few days, she had heard a lot of news from the innkeeper.
Most of the people staying here are old, weak, sick and disabled, and a few are strong young people.
Most of the young people left behind are poor. They often have to go out and carry water back to far away places in exchange for some food to feed their families.
There are also people here who have very swollen necks. Sister Shiqing said they are lacking some iodine, which means they need to eat salt.
But the people can live well, and there is no money left to buy salt.
Besides, they didn't even have to sell salt here. They had to go to a city on the way here to get it. But the price was prohibitively high.
Yan Shiqing looked out the window and forgot for a long time, then turned around and said: "Taozi, actually you don't have to follow me here to suffer. If you want to go back now, it's still too late!"
If Yan Shiqing wanted to come here before to prevent Chu Ximo from finding her, then now she really wants to do something for the people here.
She and Huo Yiyi had said before that they should let the people here grow sea buckthorn and wolfberry. First, it is to prevent desertification, and second, these are cash crops. When they grow up and bear fruit, they can be sold for money and can bring income to the people.
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But she was completely unsure about the current situation.
She wanted to stay, even if she didn't go to Antelope City, she could do something for the people of this town.
Leaving aside those old people, let's just say that the children left here are all still young and there is no need to live such a miserable life.
These are all her subjects of Da Chu!
"No, Sister Shiqing, I won't go back. I will be wherever you are. You can stay, why can't I? Just Sister Shiqing, what do you want to do, but do you need my help?"
"That's what you said. If you don't leave this time, you won't be able to leave within three years! Wait, if it continues to snow tomorrow, let's go to the Yamen. That's what I wanted to do here.
The people here have a better life, but I can't do it alone. The county here is a good person, and he always needs to be involved in these things."
"Okay! Then if we stay here and don't go to Antelope City, do we have to buy a house and always live in this inn? It's not the same thing!"
"I still have to go to Antelope City, but I estimate that the situation there is worse than here, and the population should be smaller. I'm thinking that if there are less than a hundred people there, let them all move here. Wait here
Once the development is done, let it slowly develop over there. Just like Ruanjiakeng, only when Ruanjiakeng is good will it start to drive Yangjiacun. The people here now don’t have a doctor to see a doctor. They are deficient in iodine and have some birth defects.
It is also a troublesome thing that the official salt outside is so high and cannot be eaten. I will think of ways to get some kelp from the Hongwu Kingdom. Then I will waste some water and boil a big pot every day.
, it will be good if everyone drinks."
Yan Shiqing said this, but she thought about it in her heart. If she wanted kelp, she would have to find someone to give it to her secretly.
Kelp is not expensive, but there is a lot of it, and since it all comes in this direction, it is a bit difficult without attracting people's attention.
I don’t know where Xiaowa is now, so I’ll contact you secretly and check.
As for buying saplings, planting sea buckthorn and wolfberry all cost money.
The local county government does not seem to be rich at first glance, and it will be difficult for them to come up with money. yyls
Now we need to solve the problem of money first. Once we have money and there is no shortage of water for the time being, we can let people look for those two kinds of saplings.
It's just that if she pays for this money, if she buys land and saplings and asks people here to help plant them, all the money she earns in the future will be hers. The people here are like her long-term workers, which is not a good thing after all.
It is better to lend money to the government and let the government buy trees, which is equivalent to lending it to the people and ordering them to plant it.
Finally, after the seeds were harvested, she asked people to collect them, and the money they got back was returned to the county government. Finally, she recovered the original capital.
Teaching a man to fish is worse than teaching him to fish, the same principle applies!
It's just that when she came out, she didn't have much silver in her purse, and she didn't have the habit of putting too much money on her body. She only brought a few pieces of jewelry, which could be pawned.
Another point is that even though it is so dry here and there are so few people, the canals that need to be dug still have to be dug.
Even though it is harder now, for the sake of future generations, it is still good to dig.
All the way here, she didn't see anyone digging a canal, and there was no trace of digging.
Presumably they thought it would be useless to dig them up, and there were so few people there, mostly old, weak, women and children.
Xiangtao is very convinced of Yan Shiqing. In her eyes, everything Shiqing says is right.
Although she said that the situation here is not good and very bad.
But she, Xiangtao, inexplicably believed that as long as Sister Shiqing was given a few years, this place might become another Ruan family pit.
Thinking of settling down here, Xiangtao looked at the town from a distance, and finally pointed to the place near the Yamen and said: "Sister Shiqing, do you think it is feasible for us to buy a house there? It is close to the Yamen. For us,
It’s always safer.”
"Well, go and ask around and see what the prices are. There are few people in this town now, and most of the houses are empty and unoccupied. In the future, that won't be the case. We can't just find a place to live.
After all, it’s better to go through the yamen. As long as the land deed is still with the original owner, that’s all!”
"Okay, I'll go check with the shopkeeper first!"
After Xiang Tao said this, she walked away with a slight brisk pace.
For her, there is really no need to worry about running out of water. Even if Sister Shiqing does not admit that she is a lucky star, so what?
It is clear that no one can change it.
The people here are suffering because of the lack of water and food. But if there is water, they can farm next year. When the time comes, they can plant the tree that Sister Shiqing said. When it grows up, it will bear fruit in the future, so there is no need to worry about not having a good life.
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I think back then, the life of the people in Ruanjiakeng was not much better than that of the people here.
But what about now? Every household is living a comfortable life, even Jifeng Town is famous for being comfortable.
I just don’t know if Sister Shiqing’s departure will affect the business of the chili sauce shop, but I hope it won’t.
Brother-in-law, please do me a favor for the sake of Sister Shiqing.