Li Qing consulted with Jiang Craftsman the next morning, and he wanted to divide the craftsmen into two batches.

A group of people studied the plan, Li Qing did an experiment for Jiang craftsmen, that is, take a pot and fill it with water, light a fire around it, and then the water in the pot evaporated, Li Qing buckled a small umbrella on it, the water vapor evaporated to the umbrella, and the water droplets fell into the bowl on the side of the pot along the umbrella.

Li Qing wanted to make an umbrella on top of the above-ground reservoir to reduce the evaporation of the reservoir. Jiang Craftsman understands, but this thing is simple to think, but it is actually difficult to do, Jiang Craftsman knows Li Qing's intentions, and said that he will do his best to do it.

Another group of craftsmen was in charge of the construction work, and Li Qing explained that if the refugees broke out, knowing that there was water and food in Li Qing's territory, the consequences would be unimaginable. Therefore, Li Qing wants to build a place similar to a cottage on the boundary of Li Qing's territory. Build a fortress against the surrounding mountains and terrain, and build hidden towers and bunkers on the surrounding hills. The river should also be built, and when the river dries up, the river will be the most dangerous road to the mountain. Li Qing was afraid that Jiang Jiangren would not know the importance of this, so as long as he thought of it, he would explain it one by one.

Jiang Jiangren knew that the owner was careful because he was afraid that he would not understand the importance. He had experienced a drought, and although it was not a major drought, he also knew the severity of the revolt. Discuss and play with Li Qing here, and immediately gather the apprentices to start working.

After noon, Li Ren, Wu Tian and Zhang Cheng reported to Li Qing with the list. All the members of Wujia Village participated in all the things in Li Qing's land and supported them unconditionally, and even Li Zheng's whole family joined.

Because of the guarantee of the old patriarch of Li, the old patriarch of Li guaranteed that Li Qing would not hold a grudge against them, as long as they listened to the orders, they would definitely treat them equally. Although the other three families were afraid, they all agreed to listen to Li Qing's orders. Although the three of them thought that even if there was a drought, it should be nothing wrong with their family's current situation, they did not dare to gamble with their families' lives, so they simply agreed. The last one is Li Xing's family, Li Xing and Li Shan have a grudge, and Li Xing and Li Qing were on the same page when Li Shan buried them. He said that he was unwilling to attach himself to Li Qing now, no matter what his grandson Li Zhao said, Li Xing just didn't agree.

Zhangjia Village is even more troublesome, Zhangjia Village has the head of the Zhang family taking the lead, and there are a total of eleven households who are unwilling to be with Li Qing. Li Qing said that he would let them go, and then asked them to write down their names, and if they still didn't want to do so two days later, they would announce it. Let everyone know that Li Qing will no longer care about these people in the future.

After dealing with the problem of people, Li Qing began to arrange drought fighting.

Li Qing asked Wang Wensheng to prepare money, and asked Sanwang, Sixi, Li Geng, Zheng Lin, and Wu Shi to lead a team to buy a large amount of oil paper, grain, soybean seeds, alfalfa, chickens, ducks, and frogs in five areas around Hebei Province, Hedong Province, Guannei Province, Shannan Province, and Huainan Province. Li Gui took Zhao Xing to take charge of the acquisition of Henan Province. No matter how much is purchased, it must be returned within three months, that is, before the spring planting.

The chickens and ducks that were bought back were raised directly in the village on the mountain, and the frogs were raised by the reservoir on the mountain. The oiled paper was given to Jiang craftsmen for the construction of reservoir shelters. At the beginning of spring ploughing, the land in Li Qing's land boundary was planted with grain. All the torches on the mountain were collected by the children and kept as spare food. Wang Wensheng was in charge of all incoming and outgoing money transactions, and Zhao Fa kept accounts. All expenses were signed by Wu Tian, Li Ren, and Zhang Cheng at the same time before they could go to Wang Wensheng to withdraw them.

From today, only two of the six gates of the dam will be opened. Li Ren is responsible for the arrangement and dispatch of all the villagers in the village. Wu Tian was in charge of the training of the elderly and children, and Li Qing asked everyone to react when they heard the drums and gongs. In particular, the people of Lijia Village and Zhangjia Village must be trained, and the people of Wujia Village have already received such training.

Zhang Cheng was responsible for leading people to open a ditch in the middle of the mountain, and the edge of the forest in the middle of the mountain blocked everything from the mountain, dug a long and short ditch, intercepted the water flowing from the river into the ditch, and then built a village at the ditch, and the river water flowed through the village and into the channel of the underground waterway. The water in the underground river should nourish the mountains and forests, and Li Qing asked people to block the outlet of the underground reservoir and the outlet of the underground river.

The people in the village who followed Li Qing to prevent drought were all sent to various posts. The entire Li Qing realm is busy with work. In the last three days, four of the twelve families decided to follow Li Qing, eight were unwilling, and Li Xing was the only one in Lijia Village. The other seven households were led by the head of Zhangjia Village in opposing Li Qing's organization. Li Qing was very dissatisfied with these eight families, and in order to prevent these families, he also asked people to take the Li family as the boundary at the foot of the mountain, and built a second line of defense, and the Li family used the headquarters to split part of Xinwu Village and Lijia Village.

The opposition of the Li people, under the suppression of the old patriarch Li and Li Qing, was invalid. Two secret posts were built along the river, one on the hill across the river and the other in front of the farm in Lijia Village. The walls of the Li family were built high and wide, and people could stand guard on them. Therefore, Li Qing regarded the Li family as the focus of the second line of defense.

Li Qing arranged everything, and by the time all the people had entered the orderly construction, it was already a month later. Li Qing drove the carriage to the county seat. He was going to say hello to the prefectural order.

Li Qing saw the county order and talked about the drought, focusing on prevention in advance. He also said that he had begun to buy grain in large quantities in various places. Li Qing promised that in the event of a drought, he would unconditionally provide food and drink for all the people in the county government office free of charge. But others hope that the prefectural magistrate will be accommodating.

The county magistrate's heart kept sinking when he heard it, and he also hoped that the rumors of the drought were just an oolong. But Li Qing is not a person without a purpose, if there is no sign, he will definitely not do these things. Moreover, since the beginning of winter, there have been rumors of a major drought, and some Fukuhu are already preparing to go to other places to cross the east.

The county magistrate of Lin'an County agreed with Li Qing's approach, expressed support for his purchase of grain, and also said that his power was limited, and he would write to the imperial court and wait for the imperial court's will.

When Li Qing returned to Li Qing's mansion, he received a letter from Xue Dongwei, a thick dozen pieces of paper, explaining the drought situation in the previous year. Xue Dongwei searched for the information of the past dynasties in detail, and Li Qing took it back to study it and made arrangements for the next step. And wrote a reply letter expressing gratitude.

Xue Dongwei was very happy to receive Li Qing's letter, and when he saw the content, he felt that the matter was very important, so he gave the letter to his grandfather and his father. What his father means is that there is a Qin Tianjian in the imperial court, and this kind of prediction is difficult for others to say, at least wait for a little sign before he can speak, in case it is unnecessary, it is not good.

Xue Yu didn't think like this, the people of Li Min were the most important thing in his heart. Before the emperor left, he entrusted the emperor and the country to him, and he must do a good job. What's more, now that the emperor is out to lead the army, although the prince is in charge of the country, the prince is only fifteen years old. He is the prime minister of a country, and he doesn't know what he can do.

Xue Yu immediately asked the imperial historians to investigate and report the situation in various places. Ten days later, the concerts of the state capitals in various places fell into Xue Yu's hands, and Xue Yu angrily smashed two teacups and scolded the supervising imperial historians for being waste, such a big thing, since he knew it from his grandson.

Xue Yu handed over the excerpt to Zhongshu Province, which drew up a plan of measures. The four sets of plans drawn up by Zhongshu Province in three days were all rejected by Menxia Province. Xue Yu had no choice but to discuss with the important ministers in the court, and the discussion was fruitless for two days.