Take the space supermarket to farm

Chapter 254 Refugees
The construction of the city wall was not progressing particularly smoothly, because it had been raining for some reason three or four days after the start of construction.

Fortunately, the rain is not too heavy.

And during the day, it often stops for most of the day, leaving one or two sunny hours.

But the night is different, every night, it is raining.

Not long after the sun set, the sound of rain started.

In the middle of the night, I got up and went to the latrine, and the sound of the rain was so loud that I couldn't sleep anymore.

It seems that every night is accompanied by the sound of rain.

However, County Magistrate Yang's persistence in building the city wall was quite unexpected.

Although it rained every day, he still insisted on repairing the city wall, and not only to repair the city wall, but also increased the project of digging canals.

Even if the civilian husband has complaints in his heart, he dare not speak out.

The county magistrate Yang also proposed that they should be paid wages because of the bad weather.

The enthusiasm of the peasants was immediately stimulated.

Xia Daohua's mung bean soup stand was also set up. Every day when the weather is the hottest, if it doesn't rain, she puts the mung bean soup stand at the gate of the county government office.

Then the guards in the county government will bring the folk husbands and pick up a few buckets to hold the mung bean soup.

Every time Xia Daohua boils two big pots, always keep mung beans in the pot and enough water, from the first time the water boils, keep it for half an hour, and then remove it when the time comes.

By persisting in this way day by day, many guards recognized Xia Daohua.

Many folks also recognize Xia Daohua.

Later, Xia Daohua realized that she was becoming more and more famous, so she handed over the stall to Erlang and Saburo, and she rarely showed up.

The times are different, let’s do as the Romans do.

When the city wall construction project came to an end and the canal dredging and deep excavation project entered the middle stage, refugees began to appear in Jixiang County one after another.

At the beginning, the number of refugees was small, and they were all concentrated in the suburbs of the outer city.

Later, there were more refugees in the suburbs, and they slowly began to enter the outer city of Jixiang County.

Xia Daohua found that the beggar opposite her store, who was always basking in the sun and didn't work hard, also became vigilant.

With the increasing number of refugees, the dental clinics in Jixiang County began to be full.

Those who sell their sons and daughters, and even sell their wives and mothers, have appeared.

Xia Daohua's acquaintance Yaren also recommended a group of servant girls to her, allowing her to take advantage of the cheap price to buy a few servants, and at the same time remind her to stock up on some rice noodles.

It was only then that Xia Daohua discovered that several grain shops in the market had begun to hide and cover their hands, limiting the amount they sold each day.

Xia Daohua was not short of grain, but she also went to the grain shop a few times, and bought grain once or twice in each grain shop.I bought some coarse grains, fine grains, beans, shelled, skinned, and ground.

In fact, this was just to find an excuse for the food she took out from the space.

Xia Daohua asked the boys in the store to inquire about the news, and she also found the naughty boy in Yangji Teahouse, Xia Dalang also sent her a letter, and even the beggar opposite who always basked in the sun leisurely , and reminded Xia Daohua——

Most of these refugees came from Zhongzhou County on the bank of the Yellow River.

As soon as it entered the rainy season there, it encountered floods.

In many villages, entire villages were submerged by the flooded rivers. Not to mention food crops, even the houses and the people living there were all swept away.

Those who were able to escape famine were basically those who lived in high-lying villages far away from the river.

As far as Zhongzhou County is concerned, it is really hit by disasters almost every year.

It's just that sometimes it is drought, sometimes it is flood, and it has never been easy.

But the people of Zhongzhou County, for some reason, are still willing to live in Zhongzhou.

Moreover, when they ran out after the disaster, it seemed that they all ran out of experience, and even developed some fixed traditions of fleeing from famine—for example, the people who ran out from each of their villages must disperse and run in all directions. Instead of going to one place.

Also thanks to them for having this tradition.

Otherwise, if they only came from one village to another in the direction of Ping'an County, even if the territory of Jixiang County was doubled, it would not be able to accommodate so many refugees!

With more and more refugees, Wang called the wealthy families and merchants in the county to get together and called on everyone to set up porridge sheds.

Xia Daohua listened, pondered for a long time, and finally decided that she had something to say.

Whether magistrate Yang and his wife Wang can do it is another matter.

If I think about it but don't say it, I can't get past this test in my heart.

However, before Xia Daohua could say what she thought was a good idea—"relief with work", she heard Wang mention the experience of County Magistrate Yang:
"Our master once encountered a similar situation when he was in Hongshi County. The former county magistrate mishandled the situation, and as a result, refugees caused trouble in the city. The county magistrate was killed and several big households in the city were robbed. "

Speaking of this, some women's family members moved uncomfortably, presumably starting to worry about their own safety.

Mrs. Wang smiled slightly, but her face showed a bit of melancholy:
"At that time, our master was ordered in the face of danger, and it took more than a month to put down the chaotic party.

It's just that at that time, seventy to eighty percent of the big households in the county had already suffered from the scourge of refugees, and there were less than ten households that survived unscathed..."

Mrs. Wang laid the groundwork for a cup of tea. Seeing that everyone's emotions were a little tense, she revealed the trick:

"Our master is making efforts to provide relief with work, I think we, the housewives, can't just watch like this.

Anyway, I have to do something, I can't let the men fight alone in the front! "

All the women's relatives nodded in agreement, and said that there is no difference between what Wang refers to and what they fight.

Mrs. Wang smiled, looked around at the people present, and waited until everything was silent and everyone's eyes focused on her, then said slowly:

"I was thinking, how many soup sheds need to be built.

The porridge should not be too thin, lest people starve to death, and good things will turn out to be bad; but it should not be too thick, because eating too much, and people idle, will easily cause trouble..."

Mrs. Wang said a lot, and all the female relatives agreed to go back and open a porridge shed.

The big guys negotiated and set a general scope, stipulating which part of the porridge shed can be opened.

To avoid uneven distribution, there are too many porridge sheds in one place, but none in the other.

After that, Wang proposed to buy part of the grain at a fair price, because it is necessary to ask the superior for instructions to open the official warehouse to release grain.Although the capital is not very far away, but this time, it will delay the time to go out for several days.

A few days of hard work are enough to starve to death among the refugees.

So Wang decided to let the County Magistrate Yang send servants to the capital to ask for the order, and at the same time pay for it out of his own pocket, buy some grain from several grain shops, and deliver it first.

Of course, the price is too expensive.

The female relatives of several grain shops did not dare to say a word, and their expressions suddenly became extremely pale.

　Good night, sweet dreams, see you tomorrow.Love you, (づ￣ 3￣)づ

　　
　
(End of this chapter)