Most of the large families in Lin'an County fled to Fucheng or other areas. Lin'an County has limited grain reserves and relief grain, not only in Lin'an County, but also in all counties in the disaster-stricken areas, especially in the hard-hit areas. The food is provided by the imperial court, but what about the water. The county order had no choice but to ask Zhang Cheng to convey the current situation in Lin'an County on his behalf, hoping that Li Qing could help.

Li Qing heard Zhang Cheng talk about the refugees and wrote a letter to the county magistrate of Lin'an County.

The content of the letter is: He only cares about the original promise, and manages the food and drink of everyone in the yamen; He was powerless for the rest of the people. But he had a suggestion, which was to let the county order make public the grain stored in the county and the grain distributed by the government for disaster relief. Li Qing's land boundary now takes out 100 quintals of grain and 100 quintals of water to sell, refugees can take their household registration to the county government office to register, and anyone who has a land deed can exchange the house deed for a certain amount of grain and water.

You can also use the deed of land as collateral to borrow grain and water, but the mortgage will be exchanged for relatively little, and the mortgage is risky, if it is not repaid within a year, the mortgage will belong to Li Qing. Those who have household registration and do not have a house or land can sell their bodies, as long as they are in the prime of life over the age of eight or forty.

They can also sell their bodies in exchange for food and water for their families. If a family member is in the prime of life and does not want to be separated from his family and wants to sell his body, he can use the house deed and title deed, or food and money to buy a 'quota for selling his body', and a quota for selling his body is counted as one old and one young. It can also be that you sell your body yourself, and you don't need any money or food after you sell it, and a person who sells himself can take one old and one young. Sell one get two free, don't sell your body for money.

When the county magistrate of Lin'an County saw Li Qing's letter, he was in a daze for half a cup of tea. The county magistrate of Lin'an County said: "Li Qing Xiaoyou is worthy of being the person who can establish Li Qing's territory."

When Li Qing wrote the letter, Zhang Chengcheng was on the side, and he persuaded Li Qing not to do this, wouldn't this take advantage of the people. How good it would be for them to set up a porridge shed and be a good person, Li Qing didn't explain to Zhang Cheng, so he asked him to do it. Zhang Cheng didn't expect the county magistrate to agree.

Can the county order disagree, now it seems that Li Qing took advantage, but how long will this drought pass, how long can Li Qing be able to relieve the disaster, and why should he keep relieving them. If Li Qing suddenly stopped the relief, would the refugees rebel and make trouble? When a person is about to die, he does not care what is right and what is wrong. In doing so, Li Qing increased his financial and manpower resources, and ensured the food of the victims in Lin'an County, which was a double win.

The county order of Lin'an County issued an order and posted it at the city gate, and let people read it to everyone from time to time. The poor people were dying of hunger and thirst, and when they heard that someone was willing to buy them back, they went to the county government with their household registration.

The county government office checked the household registration, and there was no problem, so according to what Li Qing said, he issued a certificate to those people and wrote down the information of the family. The people who sold the good ones lived in the county government first, and when there were ten people, Zhang Chengcheng sent people to drive them back to the territory of Li Qing with a carriage.

Those who are unwilling to sell themselves will exchange the silver title deed for food and water, and Li Qing's family wealth will increase without limit.

Wang Wensheng strictly checked the certificates of these people at the gate of Li Qing's land boundary, and then arranged their residences. It turned out that the people in the village lived in the mountains. The only people living in the village now are the militia regiments, and the people who are guarding the various sentry posts live nearby. The rest of the houses were requisitioned by Li Qing and given to the newly bought people. The people who were bought were more relieved to see that they were treated so well.

The eight families who were unwilling to cooperate with Li Qing began to make trouble again, and they had no water. Li Qing cut off the water source when the upstream river dried up. Patriarch Zhang searched for two days, and Li Qingdu blocked him back on the grounds that the upstream water source was exhausted, and asked them to go upstream to check. The water Li Qing uses now is all private, and it is the water stored in his own home. Every house has a store of water, but more or less.

Patriarch Zhang and the others regretted it, but what Li Qing said clearly at the beginning was that he would not care about them in the future. And people also said that all the people involved in the construction project, even the older ones are at home to take care of the children of the young people or cook for the adults. Why don't they dare to do anything, they just want to be taken care of, Li Qing never raises idlers.

Patriarch Zhang and the others all stopped, and this time seeing Li Qing helping so many refugees, the patriarch of the Zhang family took people to find Li Qing again. It means that you have even helped outsiders, and our two villages are considered relatives, so why don't you care.

Li Qing said, "They are sold by the whole family, and there are requirements, if you don't believe it, you can go to the city gate to have a look, it was issued by the county magistrate." I will relax the treaty, and if you are willing to sell your whole family to me, I will take care of you, or you can take the title deed in exchange for food and water. And you only have this one chance, I can only buy 200 households, and I can't afford to raise too many people, so think about it. After Li Qing finished speaking, he asked them to leave.

Of the eight families in Li Qing's land, except for the Zhang patriarch's family and Li Xing's family, who exchanged the deed for grain and water, the other six families all sold themselves to Li Qing. They felt that it was better to sell themselves than to die of thirst for the whole family.

Patriarch Zhang and Li Xing escaped from the county with food and water, thinking that it would be enough to escape from Xuzhou Mansion. What they don't know is that this drought has spread to more than 70 prefectures in Henan Province and Huainan Province, where is it as simple as they imagined.

Li Qing bought two hundred subordinates, and all of them were handed over to Li Gui for management. All the people had to go through Wu Tian's training first, and those who passed the training were those over eight years old to participate in the defense, and the children under the age of eight and the elderly were sent up the mountain. The children entered the juvenile militia regiment and guarded the entrance of the mountain, and the adults guarded the boundary of Li Qing. The old man took care of the mountain in the mountains, did laundry and cooked.

These elderly people went up the mountain to see a green mountain forest, and there was food planted in the field. All of them were mostly covered with yellow oiled paper, no wonder they didn't find them in the village. Large sheets of oiled paper tied to tree branches, fields. The moisture from the tree will drip down the oil paper into the bucket under the tree, and what drip outside will be absorbed by the land. There are also rows of small ditches covered with oiled paper on the mountain, and the most surprising thing is that there is still water in the ditches covered with oiled paper.

On the top of the cottage where they lived, there was also a Zhuangzi, which was the tightest place in the mountain covered with oiled paper, and they guessed that the water should be there, but it was not allowed to go there, and if someone went there without permission, the whole family would be driven out of Li Qing's territory.

Before they went up the mountain, they knew that this place belonged to Master Li Qing. Although they had never seen Master Li Qing, they also knew that Master Li Qing was a great and kind person. As long as the villagers mention Li Qing, they can feel their respect for him.