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What she has to do now is to make use of the refugees who have arrived in Wuning County.

This will not only speed up the construction of the reservoir, but also allow the first batch of refugees to save some money and buy basic necessities.

The victims who came to Wuning County later, as long as they saw that the previous victims were alive and well, they would see hope and join the team building the reservoir as soon as possible. Even if there were more refugees, the situation would not get worse and worse.

After thinking it over, Li Mengyue took action immediately. She first returned to the village and asked someone to notify the seven village heads to gather.

When Village Chief Li saw that everyone was present, he started asking questions first.

"Yue girl, what's wrong? What do you want from us old guys?"

He had to ask. The reservoir had begun construction and he had a lot of things to do. He had been busy since he got up in the morning until now, and there were still many things waiting for him to arrange. How could he have so much free time?

In fact, not only Village Chief Li, but the other six village chiefs are equally busy, especially Village Chief Wang of Taohua Village, who also takes care of the financial position and has a heavy burden on him.

In order to manage finances well, make sure every penny counts, and keep good records of income and expenditure, he has handed over some trivial matters to his son.

Li Mengyue looked at the seven village heads. They clearly looked very tired, but they had smiles on their faces while talking. It was obvious that they were enjoying themselves and did not complain at all.

Their diligence and dedication also saved Li Mengyue a lot of worries.

However, Li Mengyue also knew that as long as the reservoir was successfully built, it would be a major event that would benefit future generations. The seven village heads would certainly take it to heart and treat it as the most important thing.

Therefore, when she saw the status of the seven village heads, she did not think it was a big deal. After all, when the reservoir was built, what they did would be recorded in the family tree so that future generations would know about their deeds.

To be honest, Li Mengyue was quite relieved that the seven village heads did not drag her down, which saved her a lot of worry.

After Village Chief Li finished speaking, Li Mengyue did not keep the seven village chiefs waiting and directly stated the purpose of gathering everyone together this time.

"Village leaders, I have prepared the food you mentioned earlier. You can send people to the town to bring the food back."

As soon as Li Mengyue finished speaking, the seven village heads were extremely excited.

If Li Mengyue doesn't talk about this matter anymore, they will ask about it.

You have to know that they listened to Li Mengyue and formed a patrol team with fifty people in each village.

These fifty people are responsible for the security of the village and for protecting the villagers' property when bad guys enter the village.

They have responsibilities and obligations, but they don't work for free; they need to be paid accordingly.

Besides, the remuneration was agreed upon in advance. Everyone can receive 20 kilograms of food from the village office for free every month.

The people have been found and the patrol team has been formed. People are arranged to patrol every day, but there is no sign of the food promised to the patrol members.

It’s not that they don’t trust Li Mengyue. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t have formed a patrol team in advance without food.

But even though they believed it, they were still nervous. At only two cents per pound of food, they knew they were taking advantage of Li Mengyue, and they were too embarrassed to ask for more.

At this moment, Li Mengyue actually said that the food was ready. How could they not be excited?

They believed that the grain that Li Mengyue was talking about was definitely not the coarse grains they were eating now, but real refined grains.

No matter what the season, refined grain will never cost more than two cents per pound.

Not to mention refined grains, even coarse grains cost three cents per pound.

They knew that it was Li Mengyue who was taking care of them. The fine grain that used to cost five cents per pound was now sold to seven villages for only two cents per pound.

What's more, we have just experienced a locust plague this year, and it was a year of famine. The price of food will continue to rise until it reaches sky-high prices. Even so, there will be many people who cannot buy food even if they have money.

Li Mengyue was not selling food to them, she was giving them life-saving food.

Although the crops in the seven villages were not completely wiped out by the locusts, they were still harvested more than ten days in advance, resulting in considerable losses.

Besides, the yield per mu of crops they grow is not high. On average, it is only about 300 kilograms per mu. If they harvest early, they will lose dozens of kilograms per mu.

Although this is much better than being destroyed by locusts and having no harvest, the harvested food is not enough to feed the whole family.

Li Mengyue agreed to sell grain to the seven villages at the price of two cents per pound. The reason was that a large number of refugees were coming to Wuning County, and they were afraid that the refugees would come to rob the villages. So she proposed to form a patrol team so that each village could be prepared in advance in case of emergency.

But they knew that no matter how many refugees there were, the imperial court would take action within three to five months. Even if they could not settle all of them, they would at least provide the refugees with a temporary place to stay.

In this way, the refugees will no longer have the intention to rob, after all, they are under pressure from the government. If they want to go to jail or don't want to live anymore, they can rob.

However, during the period before the refugees are settled, they must be prepared and cannot rely entirely on the government.

Even if County Magistrate Yang is a good official, the number of yamen runners in the government office is limited. How could they be in charge of only Qingshan Town? Therefore, they really need to prepare themselves in advance.

Of course, even if we calculate it based on five months, only 5,000 kilograms of food were distributed to the patrol team, and the rest went to the village committee.

For example, Xinghua Village and Lianhua Village both bought 20,000 kilograms of grain. After subtracting 5,000 kilograms, there were still 15,000 kilograms. This amount of grain can be used as emergency food.

If they feel that there is not enough food, they can also disperse it and replace the refined grains with coarse grains, so that they can get more food.

Anyway, for common people like them, it doesn't matter what the food is, as long as it's edible and can fill their stomachs, they don't care whether it's refined grain or not, or whether it tastes good or not. Therefore, they are really grateful to Li Mengyue from the bottom of their hearts.

Li Mengyue didn't care how excited the seven village heads were. She came back just to convey the message, give them some instructions and then left.

There are so many refugees waiting at the city gate, she can't waste her time on these things.

However, she still had to tell the seven village chiefs about recruiting refugees so that they would be mentally prepared. Otherwise, if she brought the people back and the villagers were unwilling, or if they agreed but felt uncomfortable, there would definitely be friction when they were working, which would affect progress.

As the days passed and the time of the extreme cold mini ice age predicted by the system was getting closer, she felt a sense of urgency in her heart.

She wanted to dig the river and repair the reservoir as soon as possible. As long as these two things were done well, it would mean that the refugees who fled to Qingshan Prefecture would have the capital to survive and the supplies to fight the extreme cold weather.