Chapter 503: Chapter Four Hundred and Ninety-nine:

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Favorable Impression

How many commoners are there on Red Cloud Mountain?

Before the relief effort, people were scattered across various peaks, living in cave dwellings akin to beehives. Everywhere you looked, all the small peaks were dotted with clusters of dark spots. There must have been more than a million.

Everyone could make such an easy estimate, but no one could define the exact number.

Xiling has one million six hundred thousand free people, so-called free people are the residents of Xiling who have homes. Those without houses are not free people, they are vagrants or migrant workers.

As recorded in Tang Clan’s Wind Media Department, the total number of free people was one million six hundred thousand, about over three hundred thousand households. As for how many vagrants, beggars, or newly arrived workers in Xiling, no one knew for sure.

Based on past experiences with natural disasters, even a flood of little magnitude has caused countless deaths among the civilians, let alone a catastrophic flood like the one happening today.

Natural disaster equals death, major natural disaster equals many deaths.

With this understanding, all the scholars, including Tang Luo, believed that if three-quarters of the one million six hundred thousand free people survived, it would be a monumental achievement.

However, in reality, on the Red Cloud Mountain range, besides a large number of free people, there were also countless unregistered vagrants. These wanderers, who live under the sky and on the land, adapt even better to natural disasters and the harsh conditions of Red Cloud Mountain than ordinary civilians.

The people of Xiling, who have long been accustomed to buying grain from the market, have forgotten how to forage for food in the wild. Besides simply chopping firewood to cook, they probably only retained the skills of fishing and hunting.

Two months of unrestrained floods, these vagrants, despite not having food, somehow found edible things from the strangest of places, maintaining a survival rate higher than ordinary civilians in Xiling.

Luo planned to recruit followers and provide relief, this group

civilians back to square one, and it was impossible to distinguish the “veteran”

before he left that

when the relief targets increased from over one million people to over one million eight hundred thousand people, it also meant that the cost of disaster

council hall, desperately trying to figure out how to sustain five days with one million grains of

frowned, “Since the construction of the city has started, it will not stop. However, it is true that the consumption of food by the construction workers is too high. Therefore, from today onwards, their food expenses will be supported by my Ou Clan,

Yu stood up to leave. At the door, he suddenly thought of something and turned to

said to everyone, “Gentlemen, I must excuse myself. Please don’t take

Nian Bo apologized for his impulsive words, but the responses were still sparse. Apart from Shen Dafa, who looked like an old farmer comforting Nian Bo,

snubbed. He hung his

atmosphere in the council hall lifted a bit after the two of them left. Although Ou Yu

will return to the city soon, we cannot mess up the things he entrusted to us. Let me put it this way, I have some food stored at home, I will take it all out as relief, just to get

were ranks among the scholars, and Shen Dafa was undoubtedly one of the most respectable among the scholars of Xiling. With his pioneering statement, it was predictable that others

on behalf of the

is nothing, really

relief, based on Shen family’s resources, providing a million kilograms of grain was already impressive. Compared to Tang Luo’s generosity of casually handing over ten million kilograms of grain to

Ou Yu and Shen Dafa, other Xiling scholars also

escorts are all good swimmers. The flood has shown signs of subsiding these days, and I may be able to organize them to

up the mountain this time, we hardly have any grain left. Nevertheless, I am willing to donate

the Ruan family are big eaters, but Ruan Tao is not

kilograms, eighty thousand kilograms, fifty thousand

grain, gritted their teeth and donated the remaining grain from their family. As they all believed in the gilt-edged reputation of

were clearly distributed from their hands to Sun Jinfang, and Tang Clan did not even send a single clerical manager, showing such openness and trust, which made these Xiling scholars

would be solved when Tang

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