Half a month ago, the surrounding villages in northern Hubei used the boiler rooms that were urgently prepared, as well as all kinds of warm products produced to survive this winter.

In the next half month, they were desperately rushing to work and shipping the finished things to other places in Ezhou.

Zheng Shicheng issued an official notice, this year every village in Ezhou must ensure that no one dies as much as possible, and when the statistics are made in March next year, which village does the best will be rewarded by the government, and those who do not do well will also be reported in the whole Ezhou.

This decree is nothing at first glance, and many people don't have any ideas about rewarding it, but the dead people have to be reported in the whole Ezhou, which makes the people below unable to sit still.

You know, what is the hardest thing in this era? The answer is, marry.

The genes engraved in the bones of human beings are reproduction, and in order to achieve this mission, generation after generation of people are repeating the life of the previous generation.

And under the constraints of morality and law, if you want to reproduce normally, you must take the road of marriage.

In fact, there were no fewer bachelors in ancient times than in modern times. In ancient times, as long as the conditions in the family permitted, men could have three wives and four concubines, the emperor had a harem, and the elite class represented by the duke and earl was not far behind.

This has led to women becoming a resource, and at the level of ordinary people, it shows that it is not easy to marry a daughter-in-law.

If it is based on the village, then the reputation of each village determines how many women are willing to marry in, and whether the women of the village can marry well.

Therefore, Zheng Shicheng's decree immediately moved the entire village in Ezhou.

The people who were originally desperate for the cold became active because of this decree, and the village, which was already prepared for the cold, actively ran to help the surrounding villages, just to gain a good reputation.

In short, the people of Ezhou tried all kinds of ways to warm themselves in the month when the temperature suddenly cooled.

Many places spontaneously huddled together, and the government asked them to build large houses for centralized heating, so they were even more motivated, and none of them froze to death in this month.

Li Hezhou's arrival made the people in the room temporarily stop their work and look at him one after another.

"Everyone, leave me alone, you guys are busy first, I'm here to transport things." Li Hezhou greeted everyone with a smile.

Seeing their enthusiasm, Lord Zheng and the general can always rest assured, right?

"Hehe, Li Gongzi, you came from afar, why don't you have dinner with us at noon today before leaving? Don't worry, we've got something to eat! The village chief here rubbed his hands and smiled.

Earlier, when the temperature dropped suddenly, he thought that many people were going to die in the village this year, and they planned to lock the door of their homes and not see the misery of others.

As a result, I didn't expect the government to take the initiative to take care of their life and death, not only came to teach them how to keep warm, but also arranged errands for them to get money, and even sent a batch of supplies every ten days to ensure that they would not starve.

"Thank you, village chief, but we still have to rush to get things somewhere else, so we won't bother." Li Hezhou hurriedly refused.

What they are doing now is not profitable, but he feels motivated every day.

Because Master Zheng said that the merchants who contributed this time could share the profits from the profits of the caravans outside Ezhou in the future.

The meaning behind these words is known to smart people, and there are not many people who are involved in this matter like the Li family, and there are many who want to come in and have no way.

Just when Li Hezhou and the others were transporting a large number of supplies to the areas where they had not yet received warm supplies, Chenzhou, which is across the river, and Ezhou are like two worlds.