When Chen Mo was studying in the past,
his teacher once told them that ancient disaster relief methods were mostly as follows.
First is the direct distribution of silver coins for the disaster victims to buy grain themselves.
There is also an implicit form of relief by recruiting hungry people to construct hydraulic projects, called work relief, which both aids the disaster victims and alleviates the burden on the state.
Once the disaster situation stabilizes, the state would conditionally lend seeds, tools, and even fields to the victims to help them resume production and become self-sufficient, often exempting taxes for several years in the affected areas.
However, this is what the teacher said, but how it was implemented in practice was not taught to him.
Chen Mo also did not understand this.
Therefore, he thought of recruiting some people with government experience. Since they had been in officialdom, they knew a little and could help him manage.
