After Mingcheng and they left, the Ming family and the Yu family added a porridge shed in the eastern suburbs of the county.

As the number of displaced people continues to increase, the original three-mouth cauldron can no longer satisfy the strong thirst for food of the displaced people.

The women hired by the Ming family and the Yu family to cook porridge had already changed from cooking porridge for one morning every day to cooking porridge for one day every day as early as a month ago.

But even so, in recent days, not all of those displaced people have been able to receive the multigrain porridge or coarse grain porridge given by their two families.

Fortunately, there are other families in the county who are also giving porridge, and those homeless people will not be hungry all day long because they can't get the Ming family's porridge.

The reason why the Ming family and the Yu family rushed to cook porridge at the same time before the autumn harvest was because four or five hundred new displaced people poured in from Fuxing County yesterday and the day before yesterday.

The displaced people spoke with obvious foreign accents, and apparently they were not from Fuxing County, and some of them were not even from other counties around Fuxing County.

According to some locals who have traveled north and south to become merchants, at least 30 percent of these displaced people come from Jinping Province, which is next door to their Jingtai province.

Like Jingtai Province, there are several prefectures and counties that have basically not had rain this year, but Jinping Province is not as good as Jingtai Province, that is, there are not many rivers and lakes in Jinping Province for farmers to get water for irrigation.

In this way, as long as God refuses to appreciate the rain, the farmers in Jinping Mansion who rely on the sky for food will not even have the opportunity for spring ploughing.

They can only eat the stored grain at home and the wild vegetables in the mountains, then eat the grass roots, tree bark, and Guanyin soil, and finally leave their hometowns to ask for food, just for a chance to live.

It's just that the villages they go to are basically the same as their own villages before, because of the drought, the villagers can only leave the village and go to other places to seek a chance of survival, although the towns are inhabited by rich families, but people will not take out their own food in vain to help the victims.

Without him, it is really too many people to eat, even if they don't eat or drink themselves, the little food they have saved, these victims can eat it in a few days.

What's more, they themselves can't live by eating and drinking, the old and the young in the family, which one of them doesn't have a mouth, and they have to eat every meal?

At a time when even themselves and their families are at risk of starvation, the rich are reluctant to give their life-saving food to the displaced people who have more locusts than locusts.

Although their behavior is self-serving, others are not qualified to jump out and accuse them, because first, they themselves have to eat every day to survive, and second, they are afraid that they will bring disaster back to their families if they take food out with good intentions.

There is a saying that "Cangli actually knows etiquette, and if you have enough food and clothing, you know honor and disgrace", you can't expect those disaster victims who are already hungry and red-eyed, everyone knows gratitude, and will use law and morality to restrain themselves.

There have always been both good and bad people in this world, and some people will be grateful to the soup giver because they are about to starve to death, and someone else will give him a bowl of life-saving porridge, then naturally there will be someone who will take revenge, you give porridge and save his life, but he will rob all the food of your family after he has the strength, and even kill all the people in your family by the way.

This is not for the rich to worry about, there are countless similar events in history.

People are prepared for danger at home and have a sense of distress, which is really not a violation of morality or the law.

Mingyue asked herself, feeling that if it was for her and Yu Jiayan, or for the Ming family, they would never do anything good if they couldn't protect themselves.

This is also why the Ming family and the Yu family chose to give porridge in the county seat instead of in their hometown Wulitun.

In Wulitun, they only have some subordinates and long-term workers available, and they can't resist the hungry and crazy homeless people at all.

In the county seat, they can rely on the dart masters, the officials, and the garrison, there are their own hired dart masters, there are the officials sent by Guzhi County, and there is an army stationed about fifty miles away from the county seat, and it is not so easy for those homeless people to do things even if they want to.

After the three cauldrons of the second porridge shed also came in handy, the Ming family and the Yu family began to harvest autumn.

The first thing the two families packed was sweet potatoes, artichokes, jade wheat and other things in Nakata and Xiatian, and they had already planned to use all of these things to help the victims.

Opening a porridge shed to give porridge is an important channel for disaster relief, but more often the Ming and Yu families have chosen to let those displaced people exchange their labor for food as a reward.

They first selected some displaced people to build thatched houses on the wasteland in the eastern suburbs of the county, and when the thatched houses built were enough for everyone to live temporarily, the Ming family and the Yu family hired some displaced people to help reclaim the wasteland.

The two families did not reclaim the wasteland for themselves, although they hired the food for the people, but the two families did not plan to include the wasteland in their own names.

They have already discussed, and as soon as the drought is over, they will hand over all these fields to Gu Zhi County for disposal, whether he is used to resettle the victims or sell them in the name of the government, in short, the Ming family and the Yu family will not get involved in this matter.

In any case, they just wanted to help the victims, not take advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune.

The two families are busy with the autumn harvest and disaster relief, and the other wealthy families in the county are not far behind - who doesn't want a good reputation?

So everyone responded to the disaster relief call of Guzhi County, and a large group of squire wealthy families led by the Wu family, the Jiang family, the Qi family, the Wang family and other veteran squires, followed by the Ming family and the Yu family, and also donated the sweet potatoes, artichokes, and jade wheat in their own fields.

Gu Zhixian treated everyone equally, and did not treat them differently because he had a better relationship with the Ming family and the Yu family.

All the squires and wealthy families who responded to his call, Gu Zhixian gave them great respect and trust.

By the time Master Wei, who had brought the prefect's yamen official letter on approving the release of grain for disaster relief, rushed back to Fuxing County from Fucheng, Fuxing County's disaster relief work was also on the right track.

On the eastern outskirts of the county, on the wasteland that was originally covered with rubble, rows and rows of small thatched huts made of mud and thatch had already been built, and a large number of victims had already been inhabited.

Except for the elderly over 60 years old and children under the age of 12, other victims, both men and women, as long as their limbs are able-bodied, must use their own hands to fight for a bowl of rice for themselves and their families.

Under the supervision of the servants and the squires sent by the gentry, the strong laborers of the victims either reclaimed wasteland, built thatched huts, or helped the county government to build water conservancy, while the remaining women and half-grown children helped the families cook, distribute, and maintain order.