After all, no matter where you are, when there are a lot of people, everyone is idle and has nothing to do every day, just waiting to get two meals of porridge every day, so friction is inevitable.

For example, he stipulated that porridge could only be distributed twice a day, and each person could only receive one bowl each time. Although there was a shortage of food, he did not treat the refugees harshly and did not have the porridge cooked to be sticky and thick.

But it does not mean that everyone has the same appetite. Some young and strong children have a larger appetite and a bowl of porridge is not enough to make them full, while some children have a smaller appetite and cannot finish a bowl of porridge.

If they can’t finish the food, they will say that their family can eat it, but overall, most people still don’t have enough to eat.

People are not able to eat enough every day, and with so many people gathered together, some people with bad intentions will come up with some crooked ideas and snatch the porridge from others.

But people's greed is endless. Once you give something, you will give it to them a second time, and a third time. Once someone can't stand the resistance, they will be beaten with fists.

Ever since the refugees arrived in Wuning County, during the time he was distributing porridge, people had been fighting over food every day. At first, they were just minor fights, but now they are getting more and more intense, and more and more people are getting involved.

Even if he asked the yamen runners to take turns guarding the refugee area, the number of yamen runners in the county was limited and they could not mobilize many people to take care of everyone.

Today, a gangster beat up an old man. Although the old man's injuries were not fatal, he suffered a lot.

In response to these situations, he issued a death order, and anyone who provoked them would be taken directly to the county jail.

But he knew that this would not fundamentally solve the problem, because some restless refugees did not dare to confront him openly, and he had no idea what would happen in private.

But even though he didn't know about these situations, he tried his best to deal with them, but with little success.

What's more, there is a more important problem, that is, more and more refugees are pouring into the county town, and as a result, more and more food is consumed in the daily porridge distribution.

But the county government has limited food, and at the current rate of consumption, it can only last for half a month at most.

In other words, in half a month, the food in the county government's granary will be used up. If we still haven't gotten any food by then, there will definitely be a big mess.

Once the refugees riot and the county's military is unable to resist, the refugees will completely abandon morality and do anything as long as they can survive and get food.

Even if he wanted to stop it, he was powerless. The refugees just wanted food.

But this seemingly simplest task is the most difficult for Wuning County and even the entire Qingshan Prefecture, unless enough food can be raised at once to give the government enough time to resettle the victims.

Only in this way can we avoid riots and prevent the situation from becoming unmanageable.

Another point is that he got the news about Jing Qi, and when he first heard the news, he was a little bit unbelievable.

He could never have imagined that the emperor would issue such an edict, which was that as long as Prince Chen resettled the disaster victims, he would hold a ceremony to enthrone him as the crown prince upon his return to the capital.

In his impression, the emperor loved his son, the third prince, very much, so how could he let the third prince fall into danger?

He didn't believe that the emperor didn't know the danger this imperial edict would bring to the third prince.