Mengyue finally arrived at Xinghua Village before dark.
Walking along the country path, I saw some farmers holding nets and small bamboo baskets, tirelessly catching locusts.
Since water was brought down from the mountain using bamboo pipes and a water wheel was built, the speed of watering has been directly increased.
In just two or three days, almost all the fields in the village were watered.
Now, the elderly and children in the village are busy catching locusts in the fields every day, and the able-bodied laborers have been asked by the village chief to dig ponds and clear rivers.
With the support of the pulley system, the young and middle-aged people worked very quickly. It was estimated that within a few days, all the large water storage ponds in the other six villages could be dug.
Looking at this quiet picture of time before my eyes, the fatigue brought to my body by running around for days seemed to be washed away in an instant, and my whole body and mind were filled with joy.
Just thinking of the refugees fleeing famine on the road, Meng Yue's eyes became very deep.
It seems that the floods in the south are indeed severe, causing countless people to lose their homes and have to flee north with their families to escape the famine.
She didn't know exactly how many people were fleeing north.
But there was one thing she was very clear about, that is, Anqing Prefecture was located in the middle area of the Great Zhou.
There are more mountains than plains. At that time, people were backward in thinking and did not know how to make a living from the mountains. They only relied on farming to make a living.
Therefore, people in the Anqing Prefecture area did not live a rich life, and Wuning County was the poorest among them.
The key point is that the refugees would not want to stay in the impoverished Anqing Prefecture, let alone in Wuning County.
However, if refugees wanted to go north to the capital, Wuning County was the only way they had to pass through.
So many refugees passed through Wuning County. They had not had enough food for a long time. When people were extremely hungry, anything could happen.
Throughout history, there have been many cases of man-made disasters following natural disasters.
With so many disaster victims gathered together, if someone incites them, there will definitely be large-scale civil unrest and riots.
If that time really comes, I'm afraid Wuning County will be in danger.
We cannot count on the imperial court to provide disaster relief. After all, if the imperial court really wanted to help the victims, it would not have allowed so many victims to flee famine.
They will definitely make a proper resettlement plan and send people to provide disaster relief.
Even if she was wrong, the court had already implemented disaster relief measures.
However, the economic level of the Great Zhou Dynasty was really backward and the national strength was not strong. It was impossible for it to be like the later generations.
When the nest is overturned, all the eggs will be broken. If Wuning County cannot be saved, the villages and towns within its jurisdiction will naturally suffer as a result.
After being in Xinghua Village for more than two months, she saw with her own eyes how hard the villagers' lives were. She could even cry tears of joy when eating a piece of meat.
Although many villagers expressed their incomprehension about her collecting locusts.
However, as they could make real money from the sales, everyone was very motivated and worked hard, starting work before dawn every day, not afraid of hardship or fatigue.
There was also drought in the fields, so she proposed to bring water from the mountains. Although some people raised doubts, most people supported her, which made her feel what it felt like to be trusted.
In fact, as a woman, she would not be surprised even if the villagers did not believe her and did not take her words seriously.
It was just that the villagers of Xinghua Village trusted her, and later the other six villages followed her footsteps and did whatever she asked them to do.
She didn't know when it started, but she had already put these lovely villagers in her heart and wanted to lead them to live a happy life.
At first, she wanted to do things for the villagers for the sake of gratitude points. Only by doing enough things could she collect enough gratitude points to ensure that she and Tuanzi could survive here.
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