Qi Jingxing naturally didn't believe it, but when he arrived at the granary, his face couldn't help but become ugly.

The huge granary contains less than one percent of the grain stored in it, and it looks empty, and the rest of the grain is only enough for the victims of this county town to eat for two or three days.

"How can it be so little!"

He was furious and looked at the county magistrate, "How did you become a magistrate? Why is there so little food in stock?!"

"This, it's true that the harvest has not been good in the past few years, and besides, the emperor ordered a reduction in taxes a few years ago, so the grain collected is even less," the county order was hesitant, his face full of embarrassment, "The granary has never been full, I have already opened a warehouse once in the past two days, and now there are only these left."

"No matter how small the harvest is, it won't end there!"

Qi Jingxing glanced at him coldly, "Don't mention this in advance, I need manpower, there will always be manpower."

"Yes, yes!" The county commander immediately flattered and spoke, "All the manpower of the lower officials is at your disposal!"

"Report to me carefully about the damage first."

"Yes."

After coming out of the county magistrate's mansion, Qi Jingxing took people to check on the surroundings by himself, and it was not until the evening that he slowly came back, he shook off the wind and snow, and said to the county magistrate who came to greet him: "Prepare a hundred craftsmen and go to Xishan tomorrow." There are a few shelters to the south of the West Mountain, and I need you to build a shelter camp there as quickly as possible."

Hearing this, the county commander was stunned, and said with some hesitation: "But if all the victims are gathered, they must prepare food and firewood, and now neither the lower officials nor the adults can take out so many things."

As he spoke, he advised, "Speaking from the experience of the lower officials, once such a centralized shelter is established, there will be more trouble later, and once the food becomes scarce, a large-scale conflict will break out at that time, which will lead to greater losses, so, my lord—"

"No more."

Qi Jingxing waved his hand and frowned, "I have made up my mind, you just need to find a craftsman."

"That'll do."

The county magistrate smiled and said, "Today, I specially prepared a beautiful meal for adults, and we have the best singer here to accompany you, do you want to have a drink?"

Qi Jingxing showed a hint of disgust on his face, and was about to leave, when he suddenly thought of something, turned around, and said; "Prepare a banquet for tomorrow night, and bring me all the greatest grain merchants here, and say that I have something to discuss with them."

Hearing this, the county commander was stunned and quickly nodded.

"Yes, sir."

Waiting for Qi Jingxing to leave, a very contemptuous smile appeared on the county commander's face.

"Hehe, what a young man......

The next day, the grain merchants were all invited to the county office.

Qi Jingxing watched these guys walk in, his eyebrows were cold, he didn't say a word, only occasionally picked up the teacup and took a sip gently, his posture was profound, and then he continued to look at them.

Below, the big grain merchants were all dressed in gray clothes, and several of them even had patches on their bodies, and each of them was wearing thick clothes, like grizzly bears, looking really embarrassed.

Several grain merchants glanced at each other, a hint of irrepressible laughter flashed in their eyes, and they quickly lowered their heads, and their bodies twitched twice, as if they were a little unbearable from the cold.

Qi Jingxing looked at this scene, and his brows couldn't help frowning.

"Sit down."

He said slowly.

"Thank you, sir!"

Several people immediately sat down, and as soon as Qi Jingxing said that he was going to eat, he took a bowl and ate it in a big gulp, it looked like he hadn't eaten for several days, gobbling it up, and the county order was a little embarrassed by that look.

It's a bit too much.

Qi Jingxing's brows furrowed even deeper.

The county commander secretly glanced at Qi Jingxing and secretly smiled.

However, this kind of trick is the most effective against this kind of young Qincha, basically as long as they look at this situation, they can't open their mouths, even if they question it, they have no evidence and confidence.

"Why, you haven't eaten in days?"

Qi Jingxing suddenly asked coldly, "Aren't you grain merchants? Haven't you eaten yet?"

As soon as the words fell, a grain merchant put down his dishes and chopsticks and began to complain, "I can't hide it, I really haven't eaten much recently, my lord, although we are grain merchants, but this heavy snowfall is really unfortunate, we haven't collected this year's grain from the farmers, and this heavy snow has buried all the grain."

"Yes, sir." The other person also complained, and even wiped away tears.

"To be honest, there may be a lot of grain in some peasant households now, because they may have just harvested, but our grain, there is some old grain left in the warehouse, and many people have come to buy grain these days, and most of it has been sold, to be honest, there is really not much grain stored at home, and I dare not eat and drink."

Qi Jingxing frowned, "But I heard that you have raised the price of food."

"It's really going up." Another person replied, "But we are all forced to do so, there are too many people buying food, and there is only so much food, it is really not enough, so we can only increase the price."

As he spoke, he suddenly stood up, knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Qi Jingxing a few times, and pleaded: "My lord, our county has suffered a catastrophe this year, fortunately, the imperial court sent you over, you must have brought a lot of grain and grass, the names of the people in our county, but I have to ask you."

At this time, Qi Jingxing's face was already ugly.

The county magistrate looked at this scene and felt funny in his heart.

Such a tender boy, how can he fight these old foxes.

Qi Jingxing really stopped talking.

Everyone ate silently for a while, and then one stood up and said, "There is still something at home, so the grass people will retire first."

Who knew that as soon as he went out, the two guards directly drew out their long knives and stopped him at the door.

Seeing this, several grain merchants and county commanders were shocked in their hearts and looked at Qi Jingxing.

At this time, Qi Jingxing slowly raised his eyes, looked at a few grains indifferently, and said, "Didn't you say that you don't have enough food at home, and you don't dare to eat more every day? Although the food in this county government is not much, it is definitely enough for you to eat, why don't you stay here for a few days, eat and drink enough, and then go back?"

Hearing his words, several grain merchants subconsciously looked at the county order, but the county order was also confused, and quickly shook his head to say that he didn't know what the situation was.

Qi Jingxing saw their small movements in his eyes, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but slightly hook up a mocking sneer, "Why, do you look down on this official? Or do you look down on the prefectural magistrate? Don't you want to stay here as a guest?"

Hearing this, several people's faces changed, and they hurriedly expressed their loyalty.

"No, it's just that there's something at home, so I want to go back and see."

"It's okay to stay, but can you let the grass people go back and talk to the people at home, otherwise my mother and wife will be worried about me."