The entire Lingshui County has entered a state of armament, and it is in full swing and proceeding in an orderly manner according to Xiao Jiu's plan.

Li Luoyao didn't know if it was because of shyness, or because she didn't think about how to face Xiao Jiu, so she quit and went to Kyoto.

For her departure, Xiao Jiu was a little stunned.

But now is not the time to be sad, and in the face of the Qingzhou Army that does not know when it will come, we must be prepared to deal with it.

It's May, but the weather is still very hot, and it's the dry season again.

Fortunately, Xiao Jiu had built a dam in Luoyang Stream and stored some rainwater.

Relying on these water sources, the cultivated land in Lingshui County can basically be effectively irrigated.

But outside of Lingshui County, Xiao Jiu didn't dare to think about it.

"It's another disaster year."

Xiao Jiu was in the courtyard of the county government, looking at the sky at the four corners, and sighed.

Successive years of drought have displaced too many people, and I don't know how many will starve to death this year?

Xiao Jiu couldn't control the others, so he could only try his best to ensure that his one-third of an acre of land could avoid disasters.

Thinking like this in his heart, he then urged the Lingshui caravan to speed up the purchase of grain.

Even if it is a little more expensive than the market price, you have to stock up on food.

……

With the passage of time, Lingshui County did not wait for the Qingzhou soldiers to come to the prefecture, but a large number of displaced people poured into the west.

At first, there were only a few groups of threes, threes, twos, and twos, and no one cared when they entered Lingshui County.

But when hundreds of refugee teams continued to arrive in Lingshui County, Xiao Jiu knew that the disaster in other places was far worse than in Qingzhou.

At the beginning, Xiao Jiu was still able to set up a few porridge sheds to help.

But with the arrival of more and more victims, it seems to be a drop in the bucket.

Looking at the increasing number of refugees, Xiao Jiu frowned deeply.

Although the drought in Qingzhou is not serious, grain production has also been greatly reduced.

The grain produced in Lingshui County is not a big problem to feed the local people.

If it is distributed to these outsiders, it will be a bit stretched.

Once the opening was opened, tens of thousands of refugees poured into Lingshui County, and Xiao Jiu's little food was far from enough.

Therefore, although Xiao Jiu's eyes are hot on this huge population, he has no strength to eat it at all.

The entry of these hungry victims, once organized, will definitely have great destructive power.

After thinking about it, Xiao Jiu didn't have a good way.

This era is not the previous life that Xiao Jiu is familiar with, there are a large number of high-yield crops.

Moreover, a large amount of food is concentrated in the hands of a few people, and it is difficult to get it out of their teeth.

Although Xiao Jiu always has a feeling of compassion for the poor people of this era, it does not mean that he is a bad person.

Now Xiao Jiu not only has to face the encirclement and suppression of the Qingzhou army, but also has to guard against these refugees from gathering to produce a popular uprising.

All this made Xiao Jiu more stressed.

Later, Xiao Jiu summoned the leaders of the Xiao Zi battalion and arranged some work with the militia captains of various villages and towns.

For those poor homeless, Xiao Jiu naturally wouldn't brutally kill them directly, but he wouldn't let them go.

Now he plans to gather these displaced people together and find a village and town to resettle alone.

These people will not enjoy Xiao Jiu's rescue in vain, and they have to rely on labor to get food on their stomachs.

Now the cultivated land in the entire Lingshui County is basically allocated by Xiao Jiu, so he simply directly established an "official village" and hired these displaced people to farm.

It's just that a large number of people need to be allocated to manage the business.

Naturally, the Xiao Zi battalion could not be used, so it had to transfer the militia from various villages and towns into Guanzhuang.

More than a month passed, Xiao Jiu did not wait for the Qingzhou army to encircle and suppress him, but waited for the disaster relief notice issued by the county.

Looking at the silk cloth notice with the official seal in his hand, Xiao Jiu had a tangled expression on his face.

"It seems that the Qingzhou soldiers will not come."

Thinking so in his heart, the armament state of the Xiao Zi battalion was not ready to be lifted.

As more and more displaced people appeared in Lingshui, Xiao Jiu knew very well that it would not be long before he was afraid that there would be civil uprisings in various places.

A group of people who are about to not survive, no matter what they do, it will not be a surprise.

Now that Guanzhuang has taken in thousands of refugees, their supplies have been reduced to a minimum and can barely sustain them.

But there are still more and more refugees pouring in, and sooner or later, the food in Lingshui County will be unable to make ends meet.

Now his relationship with the prefecture is awkward, and he won't get any help.

How easy is disaster relief?

Xiao Jiu lingered alone in the Lingshui County Yali for a long time with the notice, and finally turned into a helpless sigh.

……

Just when Xiao Jiu was at a loss for the affairs of the homeless.

The palace of the Imperial City of Kyoto reveals an eerie silence.

Emperor Qin Yu sat on the dragon chair in the center, supporting his chin with one hand, his face expressionless.

The civil and military generals standing in two rows in the main hall were all silent, trying to press their official hats even lower.

"Drought in the north, civil unrest in the inner state."

"Do you have anything to say?"

As Qin Yu's voice slowly came out of his mouth, all the ministers present were silent.

Now the young emperor is in full power, and he has successively won down a large number of intertwined interest groups, which is already unmatched in the court.

At this time, in the face of the disaster presented by various places, a long-suppressed anger hit my heart.

A month ago, when the situation first began to spread, he had ordered the states to start raising for relief.

But at present, the displaced people are everywhere, and the disaster is getting worse, and it is obvious that these ministers are eating vegetarian meals and doing things ineffectively.

Qin Yu was angry at them, and he was more resentful of their fake public affairs.

The current land annexation in Great Xia is serious, and Qin Yu is clear in his heart.

Most of these important ministers in the court were also rich landlords with thousands of acres of fertile land.

But in the face of this once-in-a-century natural disaster, these people not only did not lend a hand, but also borrowed the power in their hands to seek benefits.

This is what Qin Yu can't tolerate.

He is not Xiao Jiu, and he does not have the courage to divide the cultivated land and grain equally, so he can only pick out a few birds to kill chickens and monkeys.

As a personal name blurted out from Qin Yu's mouth, the forbidden army in the imperial city had already gone to the house to raid the house.

The money and food obtained from the raid were also put into the national treasury and used for disaster relief.

With Qin Yu's purge in the court, the momentum of corruption has been slightly restrained.

But after all, this is only a palliative treatment, not a cure, and it is just a drop in the bucket for the devastated Great Xia.

As the emperor's butcher's knife fell, the atmosphere in the court was loud for a while, and everyone was in danger.

On the contrary, the officials of the Qingzhou first series were not affected, and some people were promoted one after another.

At present, all the northern Kyushu are suffering from drought, but the disaster in Qingzhou is not serious.

Giving more rights to Qingzhou faction officials in the court also hopes that Qingzhou will be able to produce more food during disaster relief.

But Qingzhou is only a corner of the land after all, where can it have the ability to save the huge Kyushu?