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"Miss, I wonder what's going on these past few days. There are more and more people with cold weather in the city." Li Da hurried back to the Ji Mansion from the Medicine Pavilion and reported to Ji Zhen. From the moment they started to collect the medicinal ingredients, Ji Zhen had Li Da pay attention to the situation in the city.

Hearing Li Da's words, Ji Zhen was stunned, it had only been a few days, in the end, the day had still come! Ji Zhen was not anxious at all. After all, most of the herbs in the city had already been collected by her, and it was just the beginning. He was afraid that in another two days, the streets would be filled with complaints.

Actually, Ji Zhen did not know where this plague came from either. It was just that in her previous life, she had heard that because of the heavy snow, it caused many people to freeze to death by the side of the road.

But looking at it, although winter was falling and the snow was falling, the weather could not be considered cold. Furthermore, in this Hanzhou City was considered rich, there were not many families that could not even prepare for winter, and there were even more so people who froze to death by the side of the road. Ji Zhen felt that there was something fishy about this place, but she was still unable to make sense of it.

But when the calamity befell the second day became even more severe, Ji Zhen finally understood why the, who was originally rich, could be crushed by the disaster that year. The reason was because there was a heavy snowfall on the second day, and this snowfall seemed to only fall on the Hanzhou City.

"Miss, I heard from the people in the manor that there are many houses that have been crushed by the snow. It's getting colder and colder by the day, I wonder how many people will die from this snow disaster." Ever since Li Da had been in charge of purchasing in the Sunflower House, the entire manor had been handed over to him to handle. He naturally knew about the situation in the manor.

"Did something happen to our family's manor as well?" When Ji Zhen heard this, she suddenly remembered that there were a few large villas scattered all over the outskirts of Hanzhou City.

"Of course there are, but Old Ancestor has already sent people over to deliver the money and food, as well as a batch of cotton-padded blankets. In addition, most of the houses in our villa were built using bricks and tiles, which are much tougher than thatched cottages. This year, the two rooms that were originally built were made with straw and grass, I have already arranged accommodations for them, waiting for spring to warm up before they can be rebuilt."

Regardless of whether it was the tenants or the villager, they were all rich and affluent places with poor citizens. What about them, since the weather was cold, they would probably freeze to death everywhere by the roadside. The place that Ji Zhen remembered the most clearly in her previous life was the bitter cold lands of the northwest along with Xuan Hao.

"The imperial government will naturally open a warehouse to provide relief!" Ji Zhen couldn't help but exclaim as she looked at the person standing right next to the wall outside of Ji Mansion.

As expected, Ji Zhen remembered that it was not wrong. Originally, many people had died from the snow disaster and this corpse could not be dealt with in time.

This plague was different from the snowstorm. The house was sturdy and the house was warm, so it was not affected by the snowstorm. However, this plague was different.

When the Imperial City received the news, the Emperor and Emperor immediately ordered the officials to bring a large amount of silver to the Hanzhou City to relieve the disaster, and the people who provided the relief were actually the Second and Third Princes. It was just that this year was an emergency, so the border guards and soldiers were also waiting for the supplies to go through the winter.

Emperor and Emperor could only think of a way, but he was afraid that after going down the ranks, there would only be a few people left who could actually reach the victims.

In their opinion, only by entering the city would they have a higher chance of surviving. However, they did not expect that the more people there were, the faster the plague would spread.

Normally, the city security check was just a matter of carelessness, but it was different now. If these tens of thousands of victims were to have a bad heart and did not have an army stationed here, it was very possible for them to overthrow the entire Hanzhou City.

In the end, the Pingbei Mansion received his decree, and even all of the officials in the entire Hanzhou City received it. Before the relief teams even reached the Hanzhou City, some of the officials would organize the disaster relief groups, with the Pingbei Mansion as the leader.

After Ji Quan received the imperial edict, he immediately set up shelters for the homeless people in the empty lands to the west and east of the city. He would make porridge and provide food every day to prevent their hearts from getting unstable and causing chaos.

Just at that moment, similar situations appeared in all the medicine stores in the city. They raised the price of all the medicinal ingredients by ten times for nothing. All the citizens could not afford the medicine and even the eunuchs' houses felt that their money was tight.

Pingbei Ji Quan invited the owners of all the medicine stores in the city over to the Pingbei Mansion. He wanted to grab some medicinal ingredients from them, but he realized that these people were too hasty, even if it was the Shangguan Family they could not forcefully collect their items, Ji Quan was helpless, and asked them what price they could use to transfer the medicinal ingredients, but he was angered by the price they had reported. They actually offered a price five times higher than usual, and said that it was a contribution made to relieve the calamity, and a reward from the imperial government.

When Ji Zhen heard of this news, she secretly sent someone to bless Ji Quan for being patient.

No matter how expensive the medicine was, someone would buy it. Even if the medicine stores were willing to increase the price at the same time, it still wouldn't be enough to stop anyone's fear of death. In less than a day, all the shopkeepers in Hanzhou City received a notification from their shopkeepers saying that there was a shortage of medicinal herbs in the pharmacy, causing everyone to be stunned. Such a good opportunity to get rich, there was actually a shortage of medicinal herbs!

These people hurriedly sent their subordinates to investigate, only then did they discover that all the medicinal ingredients for treating the cold had been sold out. But these medicinal ingredients had all gone? However, at that time, no one had thought about it. Upon hearing this news, the owners of a few medicine stores were unexpectedly furious, and immediately fell ill. This time, however, they could not even catch the medicine in their own medicine stores.

Just when everyone heard that there was a shortage of medicinal ingredients and wanted to buy them from outside, Ji Zhen's Medicine Pavilion opened. There was even a price list at the door, and when everyone took a closer look, it was actually much cheaper than before the disaster!

In a short period of time, Ji Zhen's Medicine Pavilion was crowded with people who came to buy medicine.