Although the money for building the reservoir and digging the canal was borrowed from Li Mengyue, she would return it to Li Mengyue when she made money in the future.
But when it comes to buying food, he believes that as long as the seven village chiefs, Li Mengyue, asks, Li Mengyue will definitely buy on credit and give them food first.
But Li Mengyue was willing, and they had to understand that the money needed to build the reservoir was too much. Even if they took out all the money in the village, it would only be a drop in the bucket and would not solve much of the problem.
On the contrary, it will make the lives of the villagers in the seven villages more difficult. After weighing the pros and cons, they decided to use the money to buy food.
But the situation of each village was different, and the amount of food they could buy also varied. Xinghua Village, Lianhua Village, and Guihua Village all asked for 20,000 catties, while his Taohua Village asked for a little less, 15,000 catties.
The food was nominally intended to form patrols and serve as compensation for patrol members, but they were all ignorant of the matter.
Each village selects fifty people to join the patrol team, and each person is given ten kilograms of food every month, which means one thousand kilograms of food per month.
The purpose of forming a patrol team is to prevent refugees from coming to the village to rob. Once the refugees are resettled by the government, the patrol team will disband and no longer need to be given food.
Although more and more refugees are coming to Wuning County now, they have also heard that the government has taken action and opened the granaries to release grain. The refugees can get free porridge every day and can survive for the time being.
In this way, the refugees will not come to the village to steal food because they are too hungry.
And according to the current situation, I believe it won’t take too long for the government to resettle the refugees.
To put it another way, even if it takes half a year, so what? The village only needs to give the patrol team 6,000 kilograms of food, and the village office will still have a lot of food left.
These grains are life-saving food in times of crisis, and they value them more than their lives.
Ever since Li Mengyue said she would sell the grain to the villagers at a low price, they have kept this in mind and wonder every day whether Li Mengyue has prepared the grain.
Until two days ago, Li Mengyue said that the grain was stored in the town and asked them to take time to bring it back, and the village was immediately in an uproar.
No one had the heart to work anymore and just wanted to go to the town to get food, but they were stopped by the village chief.
On the one hand, the construction of the reservoir cannot be stopped, and on the other hand, many villagers go to the town to collect grain, which will definitely attract other people's attention.
Nowadays, families with food will find ways to store it. Why would they show off like this? Isn't this bringing disaster to the village?
So the seven villages decided to transport the grain at night, but as soon as the grain was brought back, someone took advantage of it and came to the village to force the sale.
Not to mention that Taohua Village was unwilling, even other villages were the same. No one would be willing to sell their grain, even if they were offered silver.
What's more, with these grains in the village, the villagers feel much more at ease and are no longer so worried.
Everyone thinks that as long as they work hard to make money, they don’t have to worry about not being able to buy food.
Because their Li Mengyue can get food, they just need to buy it with silver.
Where can I make money? I am working hard to build a reservoir. I get ten cents a day and get a meal. Where can I find such a good job? If I don’t cherish it, I will be struck by lightning.
But when they were concentrating on their work, they attracted people with bad intentions and stole their food. How could this be allowed?
But they are just ordinary people, how dare they go against the king? Since the food is for the king, even if they are unwilling, they cannot say no.
However, this incident may bring disaster to the village.
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