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.

and provide relief, this group of unaccounted Xiling vagrants emerged, shocking all the scholars of

was impossible to distinguish the

the scholars could only provide help to all. After all, Tang Luo had instructed before he left that the targets of the disaster

increased from over one million people to over one million eight hundred thousand people, it also meant that the cost

Xiling scholars could only wait in the council hall, desperately trying to figure

sitting in the meeting room without a solution and frowned, “Since the construction of the city has started, it will not stop. However, it is true that the

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

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

words, but the responses were still sparse. Apart from Shen Dafa, who

hung his

a bit after the two of them left. Although Ou Yu only said one sentence throughout the whole meeting, he gave everyone a

this way, I have some food stored at home, I will take it all out as relief, just to get through these five days. Master

ranks among the scholars, and Shen Dafa was undoubtedly one of the most respectable among the scholars of Xiling.

gratitude, “Generous Shen, on behalf of

grain is nothing, really nothing,” Shen Dafa waved his

a million kilograms of grain was already impressive. Compared to Tang Luo’s generosity of casually handing over ten million kilograms

Ou Yu and Shen Dafa, other Xiling scholars also

armed escorts are all good swimmers. The flood has shown signs of subsiding these days, and

any grain left. Nevertheless, I am willing to donate one hundred thousand kilograms for

folks of the Ruan family are big eaters, but Ruan Tao is not stingy. Let’s donate two hundred thousand

kilograms, eighty thousand

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

of provisions 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 have a deep appreciation

solved when Tang Luo returned, although they still did not

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