Mingjingtang planned to wait until everyone came back before organizing a recruitment exam for the Sinong Institute to recruit some useful talents.
The land can be distributed according to household registration first.
Wooden signs with numbers were inserted next to all the fields. Those who were illiterate could claim the land with the same sign, and everyone could get a share of the land.
The people were overjoyed. After receiving their respective fields, they went out contentedly to continue transporting supplies.
Just as the fort was getting ready for winter and everything was going well, the rest of the area was not doing so well.
Shangjun, Bingzhou, Guangyan County.
The situation in the county town is not optimistic.
During the dry season, there is an extreme shortage of water and food.
Wei Xiyao led the people and walked a long way before finding a water source, but they had a conflict with the other survivors.
The survivors were led by two local aristocratic families. Although Wei Xiyao was the first to find the water source, a group of people claimed that it was on their territory, so the water source should belong to them.
Not only did he not allow Wei Xiyao to get water, he also attacked and injured her.
If Uncle Dong had not brought his men to the scene in time, he would have even wanted to detain Wei Xiyao and the others and force them to do hard labor.
Wei Xirou has been a noble lady all her life. She was protected by her family in the first half of her life, and after getting married, she was protected by her husband's family and lived in the inner house.
She has perseverance and responsibility, but she only has a vague understanding of many things.
In the early stage, organizing the people to resist the zombies relied on a desperate spirit, while in the later stage of governance, they groped forward while reading various books to supplement their knowledge.
She studied hard, promoted talents, and governed the county.
He was busy during the day, and after returning in the evening he had to read various military strategies, agricultural strategies, and how to govern his subordinates.
The whole person has lost a lot of weight visibly.
Dong Zhiyao shook his head and had no choice but to step forward to help his two cousins take charge of the situation.
Under his training, the militia began to carry out various physical and martial arts exercises, and then went out in batches to find food and water.
But before the disaster, Shangjun had suffered severe damage and had very little food.
It was Dong Zhiyao who took the risk and led his men to the next county town, broke into a grain store, and found some uncontaminated old grain.
After that, Wei Xiyao searched for many days and finally found a water source somewhere else.
This is how we finally survived the dry summer.
But winter is coming, and there is not enough food stored to survive the winter.
Bingzhou had no granaries and not enough water to grow crops, and Guangyan County did not have enough militia to compete with others for the remaining food and grass.
No matter how capable you are, there is nothing you can do about the food problem.
The sisters Wei Xirou and Wei Xiyao were so worried that their mouths were covered with blisters. They were anxiously trying every possible way to find food every day.
Worse things happened.
When the people in the city saw that they had no food, they began to make a fuss. Some militiamen refused to be controlled by the two women and openly made trouble and attacked the Song Mansion.
Two other members of the Song clan wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to seize power.
In the Song family's territory, the family and the county are controlled by a niece-in-law. In the summer, the zombies become weaker and no longer pose a threat, and the Song family members are in turmoil.
They planned to kidnap the two children and force Wei Xirou to give up her power and go back to the backyard.
Wei Wenyang has grown up and recovered his health after coming to Guangyan County and recuperating over time.
Seeing that something was wrong, he took the servants who came with his dowry and hid away with his little cousin.
It was Dong Zhiyao who stepped forward again and was the first to discover the clues. He killed the two Song clan members who were trying to seize power and the militia who led the riot, thus calming down the farce.
"I really owed you guys in my past life."
Wei Xirou and Wei Xiyao were filled with shame. "I'm sorry for causing trouble for Uncle Dong. I will never forget your kindness."
The two sisters said this countless times.
Dong Zhiyao's ears were almost callused. "Don't you understand? If you want to manage Guangyan County well, it's not enough to just use a conciliatory policy. You have to be ruthless at the right time. You must not be soft-hearted when it's time to kill, otherwise they will think you two are easy to bully."
Some people with ulterior motives did not dare to cause trouble at first because of the power of the Song and Wei families.
After all, they saw with their own eyes that the Qinghe Wei army had come here.
But the disaster had already occurred for a year, and no rescue from the imperial court had arrived. Even a fool could tell that something was wrong.
The imperial court was gone and order collapsed.
Most of the male members of the Song family have died, and none of the direct descendants are at home, so the family is currently in decline.
The Wei family was far away in Yizhou.
The people below had evil intentions and completely forgot Wei Xirou's life-saving grace.
Dong Zhiyao's eyes were deep. "You are all a bunch of ungrateful people. You don't recognize your relatives when you have nothing to eat. You are all doing good for the people of this city, but you don't realize that others don't appreciate it at all."
A good cook cannot cook without rice.
Wei Xirou is a young bride with a shallow foundation in the Song family. She has no military power and no confidants around her. She only has a few maids and servants who are still alive. She is unable to control the people below her.
She is perseverant and resilient, can endure hardships, is willing to work hard to learn, and can understand many things at a glance.
As long as you give it enough time, you will definitely grow.
However, the collateral descendants of the Song family who rushed back later did not obey her, and the militia and civilians in the city were also unreliable.
The foundation is unstable.
All... is because of her identity as a woman.
Women have always been the weaker party since ancient times.
As Wei Xirou is a woman, those people are prejudiced against her. No matter how well she performs, without an iron-blooded approach and sufficient troops to suppress it, Guangyan County will sooner or later be in chaos.
"Uncle Dong is right!"
Wei Xiyao advised, "Big cousin, let's go back to Yizhou. Third uncle has brought the army back, and the fortress will definitely be safe."
Wei Xiyao has no feelings for this place and stays here only because of her eldest cousin.
The two sisters worked hard and did so much for Guangyan County, but got nothing in return.
It would be a lie to say that I'm not heartbroken.
What she couldn't tolerate the most was that those people dared to target her nephew.
This is Wei Xiyao's Achilles' heel. Even if Uncle Dong didn't kill the two Song clan members, she would still go find someone to fight her to the death.
I really don't want to stay in the Song family for a moment.
Since the Song family members want power so much, just throw this hot potato to them.
Wei Xirou looked up when she heard that. "We're so far apart, how can that be easy?"
Wei Xiyao, however, looked determined. "My third uncle was even farther away than us, but he still managed to rush back. If they could do it, why can't we?"
She thought her eldest cousin was thinking of their past and preparing a drastic measure. "Does it have to take action against the two children again before she faces reality?"
Wei Xirou was silent for a moment, "Okay, let's go back."
She is not a person who is indecisive.
The reason they stayed was, firstly, that a married woman was already part of her husband's family, and since her husband's family was in trouble, it was not logical or moral for her to just leave; secondly, their son was only a few months old at the time and was unable to travel.
Three... She was originally looking forward to her husband's return.
She did everything she had to do.
“Oh no!”
A maidservant came running in in a panic, "Young Madam, a group of people from the Song clan have come, demanding that Master Dong be handed over as compensation for the lives of the two deceased Song clan members!"
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