Chapter 551 Closing the city
The auction ended, and Tianjing's Relief Hall began to be put into use.
According to the plan to take care of Qingluan and Qi Tianyou, besides Tianjing, relief halls will also be set up in other cities.
As news spread one after another, the prestige of Gu Qingluan and the royal family increased greatly.
Gu Qingluan did not go to the relief hall. After Tang Shijun stayed there for a day, he came to the Junfu to report the situation to Gu Qingluan.
"There are a lot of people coming to the relief hall today. During this period, someone pretended to be a poor person and went to the relief hall to cheat for food and drink. Fortunately, someone recognized him, otherwise I don't know how long he will hang around." Tang Shijun said Get angry about it.
"This kind of thing happens everywhere, and it will happen again in the future. Don't worry about it. It's not worth the loss if you get angry."
Gu Qingluan smiled and handed the poured tea to her.
Tang Shijun puffed up his cheeks: "The prince said the same thing, but I still can't get angry! Our relief hall is to help people who really need help, not to raise a group of lazy people! If there is any way to screen out the people who really need relief people will be fine."
Gu Qingluan said calmly: "Actually, it's not difficult."
Tang Shijun's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked: "Do you have a solution? Yes, Qingluan, you are the smartest, and you can definitely think of a solution."
"People seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. Generally, they will not do things that are not beneficial to themselves. You just need to set a rule in the relief hall: whoever reports on those who pretend to be poor will be given a certain reward, and someone will naturally be willing to report People who break the rules. Secondly, we must solve the problem from the root cause. Those who pretend to be poor and beggars to seize resources, once discovered, must be held accountable. If the punishment they receive is too much for them to bear, they will naturally dare not commit the crime again. You guys You can try to scare the chickens and monkeys, it should be able to deter those opportunists. You can discuss these details with the prince, after all, the relief hall has officials as backers, and ordinary people dare not resist."
Tang Shijun said happily: "Ah! Qingluan, you think too fast! You came up with such a good idea so quickly!"
The method sounds not difficult, the key is to be able to think it out.
She got up and wanted to hug him, but suddenly turned around and sneezed heavily.
Gu Qingluan raised her eyebrows: "Are you sick?"
"Well, I contracted a little typhoid fever. Maybe it's because of the cold weather. There have been a lot of people with typhoid fever in the past two days. Many people who came to the relief hall to see a doctor today had fever and cough."
"Then you have to be more careful, don't go to the relief hall in these two days, and go home to take care of yourself first."
"It's just a little cold, it's okay!" Tang Shijun waved his hand, not paying attention to it, "Now that the relief hall has just been established, we haven't considered many aspects thoroughly, so I should pay more attention to avoid accidents that are too late to deal with. "
Thinking about the solution Gu Qingluan just mentioned, she hurriedly consulted with the prince, and then left.
Gu Qingluan called her to stop, took out a bottle of pills from the storage space and handed it to her.
"This can strengthen your body. You have been haunting relief halls recently, so you have to protect yourself."
"Well, I got it, thank you Qingluan! When I finish working these two days, I will definitely come to drink your wedding wine!"
The next day there was news from Tang Shijun that after using her method, the effect was remarkable.
Because the wedding date was getting closer, even if Feng Tianlan made arrangements, she became busy, so she didn't pay attention to things over there.
Gu Xiaonan and Feng Yuanxi also circle around her every day, like two little bees, busy and happy.
Outside the mansion, there were coughing sounds in many corners.
At first, everyone didn't pay attention to it. They treated it as a common cold, and it passed after a while. If the condition worsened, they went to the pharmacy to get some medicine and boiled it.
Not long after, more and more people coughed around, and it was absolutely impossible to treat it as an ordinary cold.
Now the weather is getting colder, and the wind chill is the peak period of the outbreak. Many people have begun to pay attention to it, wear more clothes, and pay attention to keeping warm.
However, similar situations have occurred in many places in the city—although they have taken care to keep warm, they still contracted the wind and cold. What is even more shocking is that many patients died suddenly, and it took only a few hours for them to die from the disease.
Some people suspect that this is not ordinary typhoid fever at all, but the plague.
As the death toll increased, this suspicion quickly spread, and panic gradually fermented in the city.
Rich people began to run outside the city.
The palace had already got the news, but they didn't pay attention to it at first, and when they found something wrong, the emperor immediately ordered the city gate to be closed.
As soon as the news of the closure of the city came out, the people in Tianjing City panicked.
I didn't plan to leave Beijing, so I immediately packed my bags and left the city.
But the gates of the city have been blocked, and no one can get out.
Powerful people showed their identities and tried to use their identities to intimidate the soldiers defending the city to open the city gate, but the result was naturally shut down.
The downstairs of the city tower is full of doors, and dull coughing can be heard from time to time.
Whoever coughs now will cause tension in others.
People who coughed were immediately isolated.
Shuntian Mansion Yin, as Tianjing's parental official, was in charge of all affairs in Beijing and China. Hearing about the congestion at the gate of the city, he quickly sent people to evacuate.
Everyone was about to leave, but suddenly someone foamed at the mouth and fell to the ground.
For a moment, everyone present panicked.
When it was confirmed that the fallen person was dead, there was a "boom", and the crowd seemed to explode.
(end of this chapter)