Even though she knew that the extreme cold mini ice age would come as scheduled, when it really came, even though Li Mengyue had made a lot of preparations in advance, she was still caught off guard.

As soon as the construction of the water conservancy project was completed, Li Mengyue took out 5 million jin of grain and distributed it to various market towns in Qingshan Prefecture. On average, each market town could get 300,000 jin.

At the beginning, not many people bought, because since the market was opened, it would be held every five days, and everyone would have half a day to purchase.

It has been more than two months since the market opened. Basically, the market is open on time, and I can buy low-priced grain at the market every time.

Since both refugees and local people worked and got paid every day, they were all willing to buy food at the market. After more than two months, every household had surplus food, planning to eat it all and buy more food later.

Li Mengyue saw that no one was interested in the food she had distributed, and few people were buying it. She knew that the people and refugees were not short of food at the moment.

But even though there is no shortage of food now, it doesn't mean that there will be enough food at home in three months. The reason why she took out 5 million kilograms of food in one go and put it on the market all at once was to encourage everyone to save more, preferably enough to last for three months.

It's just that she knew that the extreme cold mini ice age was coming, but ordinary people and refugees didn't know.

Even though the weather suddenly turned cold, no one cared. I think this year's winter came earlier and was colder than in previous years.

If this were true, she wouldn't have to worry so much. In fact, the sudden drop in cold weather was just a warning before the arrival of the extreme ice age, giving everyone some time to prepare for winter.

But now she has already taken out 5 million kilograms of grain, but the people and refugees don't understand what she means.

However, it didn't matter to the common people and refugees. She just spread the news that even if the gate would not be opened again for the next three months, there would be no food for sale.

As soon as the news came out, not only the local people but even the refugees panicked and took out their money to buy food. Not only did they want to buy enough food for three months, but they also bought food for an extra month.

This meant that five million kilograms of grain was not enough for the people and refugees in Qingshan Prefecture. Many people did not buy any, and many people bought less, not enough to last for three months.

For this purpose, Li Mengyue took out another 3 million kilograms of grain from the space, temporarily solving the problem of buying food for the people and refugees.

Eight million kilograms of grain were sold out, and every household of the people and refugees in Qingshan Prefecture had enough food to last for three months, and some families even had enough food to last for four to five months.

However, there is not only Qingshan Prefecture in the north of the Great Zhou Dynasty. There are more than a dozen prefectures that are larger than Qingshan Prefecture. Li Mengyue did not favor one over the other. She had already asked merchants to transport grain to various prefectures for sale. It can be said that she does not have to worry at all that the people will have no food to eat after the arrival of the extreme cold mini ice age.

Of course, there are exceptions to everything. Some people are stubborn and insist on holding on to their money and not using it to buy food. Some even look down on the low-priced food brought by merchants.

They said that since the price was so low, there must be something wrong with the food, so they couldn’t buy it and had to go to the grain store to buy expensive food.

However, the price of grain in the grain store is too high. Ordinary families cannot afford to buy enough food for three months. At most, they can buy enough food for ten days or half a month, and then buy more when they have finished eating.