The number of people is enough, Li Yi said: "Then I ask you, do you have any plans for the future?"

This question made Liu He stunned for a moment. They had only thought about surviving well before, but as for their plans, they never had time to think about it and dared not think about it.

"Little benefactor, we brothers are all rough people and have no ability. How can we calculate far?" Liu He said with shame.

Li Yi shook his head gently, looked at the refugees who were secretly looking at him in the distance, and said, "I have a way for you here. There are some risks in it, I don't know if you are willing to do it."

When Liu He heard that Li Yi had found a way out for them, he showed joy on his face and said, "Thank you, my brothers, I will do my best."

Before I figured out what kind of work it was, I was so anxious and seemed reckless, but in fact it was a helpless move.

Li Yi looked around and said, "There are as many as a thousand refugees in the city. Apart from the elderly, weak, women and children, most of them are young and strong. Now with our help, we can survive, but this is not a long-term solution..."

"Little benefactor, you mean..." Liu He seemed to understand something about Li Yi's meaning.

"Don't panic." Li Yi smiled, "I will always provide relief to the refugees and let them live well. However, it is better to teach people how to fish than to teach people how to fish. Relying on helping them live like this is not a solution, so helping them find something to do as soon as possible is the right way."

Liu He was a little solemn when he heard this, and looked at Li Yi with a bright look, saying, "I don't know what my beloved wants us to do?"

In this era, scholars liked brilliant words, but rarely spoke profitably. Li Yi's few words did not conform to the practice of scholars, which made Liu He's vigilance that had just dissipated again.

Of course Li Yi could see this. He chuckled and patted Liu He on the shoulder and said, "It's not that I want you to wait for something, but I will open a few shops in Gaoyang next time, and the guys and others want to choose among the refugees. At that time, there is a salary to get, and it is also necessary to take care of food and accommodation. It's not more comfortable than staying here? I, Li Yi, live here today, just treat you as my own person. Shouldn't such a good thing be given to you?"

"So that's it." Liu He smiled with a hideous scar face, ashamed of his cautious suspicion, and said: "It's still the little benefactor who thinks carefully. Let us all have a job and hope for such a day. At that time, the little benefactor just comes to select. I, Liu He, still have some face in everyone's eyes, and I, will be customized as the guarantor."

What Li Yi wants is this guarantor.

Although I have done so many things, I can only dispel the xenophobia and suspicion of refugees. If I want to do something, I need to guarantee it to myself.

Whether it is Liu He or Liu He's father, they have some reputation among the refugees. If they can trust themselves, guarantee themselves, and then manage these refugees, they will be able to achieve twice the result with half the effort.

Li Yi bowed and replied, "thank you, thank you."

When Liu He saw Li Yi saluting him, he hurriedly replied, "What Xiao Eng-in-law did is for everyone's good. Liu He can see clearly. It's just that Xiao Eng-in-law, Brother Hu used to control this place and relied on the support of Yaxing in the west of the city. Now that Brother Hu is dead, I'm afraid that the Yaxing people will not give up. You have to be careful."

Yaxing is a business or middle-man who explains the relationship between buyers and sellers in the market, introduces transactions, and takes commissions. The middle-man in the market in the Han Dynasty was called "Zhenghui" (or "生"). From the Han Dynasty to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, middle-man was granted monopoly power by the government, and thus obtained the name "Yayi". It was called "Yayi" after the Song Dynasty, and later also called "Yayi", "Yaji", "Yazi", and "Ya Shang".

At this time, the business of the fangs must be approved by the government and paid taxes. The fangs play a role in "evaluating prices", "communications" and controlling the market and managing business on behalf of the government, so it is also called the fangs. The fangs operate a fangs is a feudal privilege. The fangs rely on their privileges to introduce their business scope from inter-businesses between buyers and sellers to buy and sell goods on behalf of merchants, pay and store money on behalf of merchants, transport goods on behalf of merchants, set up warehouses to store goods, collect commercial taxes on behalf of the government, etc. In the city, the fangs are in charge, and the wholesale transactions of most commodities must be handled by the fangs. After the Song Dynasty, the fangs operated fangs must have a certain amount of assets, approved by the government and issued to practice certificates and books.

In other words, these people who are good at taking office are licensed, are the products of privilege, and have the government as their backers.

At this time, most of the gangs were cows, organized by Yashang and some casinos. The west of the city was originally a place of poor people, with many coolies and stealing people. At the same time, there were the largest market in the city, which was reasonable for Yashang people to control.

After Liu He's story, Li Yi finally understood the depth of this tooth row.

Since Yashang is a middleman in the transaction, the division of labor is detailed and disciplined. The person who actually trades is only the bottom, and the backbone is mainly to collect debts. Their leader is Deng Yutang. He has dozens of thugs and a group of spies who pretend to be professions. He specializes in making friends with merchants who come to Gaoyang to do business in various places. He tries to obtain private information such as their hometown, surnames, ancestors, and fathers. He then forged the documents that their ancestors borrowed from Deng Yutang when they came to Gaoyang in a certain month, and then came to collect debts. The merchants saw these loan documents.

Most of them are difficult to distinguish between true and false. At this time, the Deng gang's gang went out one after another, some were threatening and threatening to use force, some were lobbying and analyzing the interests, and merchants in foreign lands thought they could not resist the power. Some were those who saw the flaws and refused to submit, and these villains rushed forward and locked them up in Deng's water prison. The merchants were afraid of dying in the bandit cave and were forced to pay their debts to redeem themselves. What surprised the victims the most was that they were obviously a group of beasts that were greedy and cunning, and their leader Deng Yutang would actually be a prison student who moved around the officialdom to form officials.

These are interesting. A tooth shop can actually make these merchants feel so uneasy.

Since Brother Hu is from Yaxing, he was killed by himself this time. The person from Yaxing will not sit still and wait for death, either for the loyalty of his buddies or for his own face. From this point of view, he will definitely come to cause trouble in the future.

Li Yi thought about it, but felt that it was an opportunity.

You should know that there are many refugees. What I originally thought was to use the matter of opening a shop to sell soap and take the opportunity to install more refugees to settle them down. But no matter how many arrangements were made, they could only have dozens of people at most. If you lead the refugees to steal the business of the Yashang and make them a gray force in Gaoyang, your power in the city will not only increase a lot at once, but also have a market that can be controlled freely.

Thinking of this, Li Yi said, "It seems that the people from Yashang will definitely come to you."

Liu He also looked worried and said, "They are extremely rampant, but unfortunately the government and they are in the same nest of snakes and rats, so we can't do anything about it. My benefactor, what should we do now?"

Li Yi was waiting for this sentence and said immediately: "Liu He, you already have five brothers. I will hand over the evil men under Brother Hu to you now. If you take good care of them, there will be more than a dozen people. When they come to the door, they will be able to compete for a while."

Liu He nodded, and there is only this one that can be done right now.

One night passed, Li Yi still had morning class today, so he went back early.

His body is different from that of ordinary people. Although he has not slept all night, he is still in good spirits. He even reads a good book at dawn.

When he walked into the courtyard where he lived, Xiaoyu had carefully made hot water and wiped the cloth with her face wet, and then he took it to Li Yi.

To be honest, having such a gentle and considerate girl cares for her is much more comfortable than being alone. Li Yi reached out and grabbed the slender little hand with a naughty smile on his lips. Then he took the towel over, but it also made Xiaoyu's cheeks turn pink and she gave him a strange look.

After wiping, Li Yi sat down to eat. The cooked millet porridge and two dishes of side dishes were just right.

While eating, he asked, "Xiaoyu, did Sun Ce send the letter to Baiyangdian yesterday?"

Xiaoyu nodded when she heard this and said angrily: "It was too late yesterday and I didn't send it out early this morning. Why? I haven't seen Sister Chen for only a few days, so you just miss her like this."

"What a big vinegar smell, it means the vinegar jar has been overturned."

Li Yi laughed and smelled it with his nose.

In this way, Xiaoyu's cheeks turned red with shame. He added rice porridge to Li Yi, slapped it on the table viciously, and said angrily: "The vinegar jar is fine, put away your dog's nose."

Seeing Xiaoyu being really angry, Li Yi quickly retracted his head, smiled and said, "I'm Hongyan here because I have something to ask her to help. Gaoyang's refugees have a hard time making a living, and they still live in muddy and broken straw sheds, living a life of being incompetent and not eating. How can this be done?"

"Natural disasters, this is unhelpful. We were the same at the beginning." Xiao Yu'er also sighed and looked at Li Yi deeply. If this young man hadn't led everyone to settle down in Anxin, they would probably be the same as the other refugees now.

"It would be fine if I had no choice but to say that I had no choice but to take over these refugees now, I can't let them go like this." Li Yi stared at Xiaoyu and said, "We are refugees, and although we have settled down now, we can't forget our roots. So I plan to let Hongyan come and gather some people from the Momen to help me manage the refugees and build houses. As for you, you have to have something to do."

"I..." Xiaoyu pointed at herself and looked at Li Yi with confusion.

"Yes, you." Li Yi smiled and reached out to scrape Xiaoyu's nose, saying, "Today Sun Ce will raise food and distribute it to refugees. I hope you will personally lead the labor among refugees to distribute it and settle the elderly, weak, women and children."

Although Li Yi told himself that he would do a lot of things when he came, Xiaoyu still couldn't accept it for a while.

If the ethics are strict, a woman will show up in public, although she is doing good deeds, many boring people will definitely jump out and gossip.

Looking at Li Yi who had worked hard all night and had a meal, Xiaoyu's hesitation dissipated a little bit. In her opinion, even if she could share some things for Li Yi, she would not retreat even if she faced the criticism of the world.
Chapter completed!