As soon as they heard that the grain reserves before the autumn harvest were to be calculated, the villages quickly cried out for poverty, fearing that the yamen would ask them for grain.

As a result, the county magistrate asked them to report the number to see how much was missing. The Yamen will start the "Grain Bureau Emergency Reserve Plan before the Autumn Harvest", which mainly includes the following aspects...

The villages sitting below were dumbfounded: What?! Someone is donating food to us?

If it's not enough, can we also "group buy" ourselves?

"Do you understand what I mean?" A person turned around and asked the person next to him, a little confused.

Fortunately, the person next to him is relatively close to Qingyuan County. He visits the county from time to time to visit relatives and friends, so he knows more information than he does.

Therefore, the man told him: "You don't know about this, do you? I've heard about this 'group buying' a long time ago. Let me tell you..."

A relative of his family learned how to make rice tofu from the county magistrate's mother, and the rice tofu he made was delicious.

However, the best thing about rice tofu is the sauce.

The sauce is a good thing that cannot be bought in Qingyuan County. It is shipped all the way from other places. It is said that it is the hometown of the county magistrate.

The county magistrate knew that it was not easy for the people, so she came up with a way for them, that is, those who wanted to purchase would sign up with her, give a cost price, and she would arrange a caravan to help them transport the materials.

"This is 'group buying', which is much cheaper than buying it alone. Think about it, if you buy it alone, it costs travel expenses, labor costs, etc... But if you buy it with a group of people, the travel costs are still the same. How much?

If you share it one by one, won’t it become less?”

The man asked again: "Is your hometown so powerful?"

"Isn't that right? The cement for road construction in our county is imported from there. I heard that it was made by the county magistrate's own family. After paying the 'patent fee', we will give you the cement recipe."

"What is 'royalty'?"

…

Huang Lizheng, who was relatively far away from Qingyuan County, felt that he had suffered a huge loss. He had not been to the county for just a few months, so why were there so many new gadgets?

Fortunately, this time the county government came to hold a meeting to popularize these new things. Otherwise, when he comes to the county again next year, their village will be far behind other villages.

At first, everyone was afraid that the county government would ask for food and complain that they were poor. When they really wanted to register and reported how much food they were short of, they did not dare to make false reports. They estimated the difference from previous years and reported it honestly.

While counting, Cao Xian Cheng reminded them: "It should be as much as it should be. Don't report randomly. If you report too much, you will be sent to jail when it is found out. If you report too little, there won't be enough to eat by then. It's better not to starve to death."

If someone starves to death, you will be held accountable."

"Yes, yes, sir, don't worry, the county magistrate, the common people are all reporting honestly. The difference we had last year was this amount."

"So are we."

…

After counting the emergency food reserves before the autumn harvest, Cao County Magistrate began to count the number of households in each village and asked each village about their measures to keep warm.

What measures can be taken to keep warm these days? If the conditions at home are good, buy more clothes, dig a hole, and burn more firewood; if the conditions are not good, make a fire pit, or curl up in bed to die.

Magistrate Cao also counted what the houses in each village were made of to see how many households could meet the conditions for building a fire pit. If not, he would see if they could build a new house before winter.

You don’t have to finish the building, at least build a house that can build a fire pit so that you can keep warm when the time comes.

"That's it..." When he heard about the kind of families with only old people or only children, Cao Xian Cheng paused and said, "How many such people are there in each of your villages? Are they related to each other? Let's see if we can get along with any of them.

"Squeeze. There is a good way to help everyone survive the winter. If we can squeeze, everyone will not suffer from the cold this winter like in previous years."

"What can I do?"

"Fire pit."

"What is a fire pit?"

"That's it..." Cao Xiancheng thought of the sample fire pit he had seen before and briefly said it. He also said that after the meeting later, he would show everyone around.

Then each village will arrange for several young people to come to the county government to learn how to build fire pits, and they will build them after they return.

They also need to make a plan to ensure that every household can enjoy it before winter.

"Fuck (a kind of grass)! This thing can really keep you warm?!"

When a gang member who was following the Yamen servant saw the fire pit, they were extremely shocked.

If it hadn't been for the yamen servant's explanation, they wouldn't have been able to figure out that this boxy thing could keep warm. They couldn't figure out how it could keep warm.

Therefore, this thing is connected to the stove. When the stove heats up, the smoke will run into it, and then...

It just so happened that when Cao Xian Cheng was in a meeting, someone heated up the kang. When the people in the room touched it, it was really warm.

"This is amazing!"

"Yeah, it's amazing. It's actually warm. Did you see it? It's made of stone."

"You see, this is not a stone. This is called brick. It is made of mud. Did you see that the thing between the bricks is called cement..."

…

The knowledgeable people explained it to others, and everyone was amazed.

This broadens your horizons, and this trip was not in vain.

Then, the county government treated them to a meal of sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn rice, and a bowl of pumpkin soup.

Li Zhengmen said: There are only a few grains of rice, and there are other things inside. But how come these things are so filling?!

What?!

Is this the food that the county magistrate’s hometown wants to donate to them?

Suddenly, the Li Zhengs were envious. They were both farming, so why was there such a big difference?

Although they don’t have rice for every meal, they do have sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn mixed with them, which can still satisfy people.

Unlike them, they eat their food carefully throughout the year, for fear that if they eat too much, it will be gone before the autumn harvest. Some people eat porridge and gruel all year round. That's it, and it's already gone before the autumn harvest.

At the bottom of the tank, I had to search all over the mountains and fields for food.

Borrow from someone else?

That also requires someone else’s family to have food.

If someone had it, they would lend it to a relative first, but why would they lend it to an outsider?

In this way, there are so many old people and children who are as skinny as bamboo poles in the village. There is nothing we can do. The young and middle-aged people in each household are the main work force. They cannot go hungry, and no one will work when they are hungry.

So those who couldn't work, whether voluntarily or forced, had no choice but to eat less and survive until the autumn harvest.

If you can't make it through, it's your fate.

Cao Xiancheng said: "Don't worry, a batch of donated food is coming soon, and you will be notified in a few days to come and collect the food. With your household registration, each household can only receive one portion, and you can come and collect it when the following ones arrive."

Such good news almost made everyone revel.

Many villagers who heard the news repeatedly checked with Li Zheng in their own village.

"Really? Did the Yamen really say that food will be distributed in a few days?!"

"Really, this is the meeting I went to this time. You have your household registration ready. When the time comes, you will be notified. I will take your household registration to get it."

With so many people in each village, it is naturally impossible for them all to come to the county government, especially those that are relatively far away, and the trip is quite tiring.

Therefore, at that time, each village will bring their household registration to the yamen to collect it on their behalf, and then each village will distribute it to the villagers in each village.

Originally, this kind of thing did not require the villagers to bring their household registrations. As a villager, who doesn't know how many household registrations there are in his village? But this is not the first time this operation has been done. In order to facilitate the record, the Yamen left evidence.

, when the time comes, a piece of paper will be attached to the back of the household registration and covered with the yamen cover to show that the household registration has been obtained.

In this way, when doing liquidation or random inspection in the future, you only need to look at the stamp on the back of the household registration to know how much things the household has received, and he himself can also confirm whether he has received these things based on the stamp on it.
Chapter completed!