After the whole sect traveled to ancient times, I led the rebellion

"Can we get food by helping the county magistrate repair the canal?"

"How can I lie to you? This notice has just been stamped, and it's clearly stamped on this notice."

"Is this new county magistrate trying to fool us? A bushel of rice is getting more and more expensive now, and the county government still has surplus grain?"

"You probably don't know this. A few days ago, a lot of food was brought to the county government office. They said that the Huang and Hu families sold it to the county government office..."

There were circles of people surrounding the public notice area, and Mu Qing was calculating the population of Huang County.

Work-for-relief is currently the most suitable policy for Huang County.

The canals in the farmland were built by the farmers themselves. They are not large-scale and there is no difference between built and unbuilt ones.

There were still craftsmen in Huang County. Mu Qing spent money to recruit some craftsmen. All the porcelain craftsmen were incorporated into the glass factory and led by Daliang, the original craftsman, to make glass.

The process of making glazed glass is divided into several steps, and Mu Qing is not afraid that they will learn it secretly.

Among the remaining craftsmen, some with construction experience were recruited by Mu Qing to serve as captains in various groups to lead the repair of the canals.

As soon as this first policy decree on work-for-relief was issued, the public notice area was crowded with people in less than half an hour.

Some literate students and literate servants that Mu Qing had planted among the group leaders quickly spread the news.

Liu Ming is one of the most ordinary residents in Huang County. Seeing the grain in his family's granary decreasing little by little, and he lost his job as an apprentice craftsman, his whole family went from having two meals a day to only one meal a day.

He took to the streets, desperate to find some work. As for his mother at home, he couldn't bear to watch her starve to death.

Liu Ming is thin, and his steps are a little unsteady because he only eats one meal a day. On weekdays, due to natural disasters, everyone does not have enough to eat, so they simply reduce the consumption of outdoor activities.

There are few people walking on the streets, unless they are desperate like Liu Ming.

But at this time, the chaotic voices of people were clearly heard in his ears.

There were more and more people in front of him, and the street in front of Liu Ming was full of people.

Liu Ming thought he was hallucinating due to hunger, but when he rubbed his eyes again, he saw a clear crowd of people.

Many people were muttering to themselves, some expressing doubts, some expressing joy, and all kinds of emotions were mixed in the crowd.

"Oops, I can't read. Can someone read the words on the notice again?"

“Is this true?”

"If you are a craftsman, you can get paid for building the canal, 20 cents a day!"

Liu Ming accurately captured words such as the wages of the canal craftsmen.

His confused mind quickly became clear.

Liu Ming was literate, and he squeezed to the front with his thin body.

When Liu Ming saw the content of the notice, he was overjoyed.

He didn't know whether the county government would deceive them, but for people like Liu Ming who had been hungry for many days, they were willing to believe anything in order to have a bite of food.

And this is a notice from the government.

Liu Ming excitedly went to register according to the address posted.

This time, the work-for-relief program was temporarily led by Mu Qing. She brought Mu Shu to her side and planned to let Mu Shu implement the policy.

So when Liu Ming arrived at the place on the notice, he saw an eighteen-year-old child saying something, and the people around him were obviously centered around the child.

Mu Shu was born to Mu Shan's other concubine, and was only four years older than Mu Qing. However, Mu Shu was influenced by Mu Qing's thoughts since she was a child, and she did not think that she was worse than Mu Wu and others. Mu Shu also studied with Mu Qing since she was a child and was very good at arithmetic.

Mu Qing pulled Mu Shu over to help.

Compared with exploiting child labor and lack of people, Mu Qing still chose to exploit

Although the people of Huang County felt that the two children who were in charge of this place were unreliable, they still held on to a glimmer of hope as they were almost dying.

Mu Shu was twelve years old, and Mu Qing looked about ten years old, but Mu Shu was still much taller than Mu Qing.

Everyone lined up and when asking questions, they deliberately bypassed Mu Qing and turned to the taller Mu Shu.

Mu Qing was also happy about this, as it should help Mu Shu get started faster.

Soon it was Liu Ming's turn. After Liu Ming filled in some answers related to the knowledge of canal construction, he successfully got a wooden block.

There are special marks on the wooden blocks, and one can use them to collect food and two meals after working on them.

The notice was issued in the morning, and in the afternoon Mu Qing appeared in a field where a canal was being repaired.

If the canals and dams are repaired earlier, some water can be brought in sooner, which will be good for relieving the severe drought in farmland.

Therefore, all projects started early once a certain number of people arrived.

As the place where they would live in the future, Mu Qing couldn't bear to continue watching these people starve to death due to natural disasters.

It may not be too late to remedy the situation now, but doing nothing is not Mu Qing's style.

After the first day of recruitment.

The people in Huang County saw that many of the people who had registered in the morning actually took back some food. Although it was not much, it was enough for one person for one day.

And two meals are provided, so this kind of job would have been considered a good part-time job in the past.

So word spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred, and everyone, young and middle-aged, as well as the elderly and children who were idle at home, wanted to come and work.

The notice on work-for-relief is only valid in Huang County.

However, Mu Qing did not give preferential treatment to the refugees outside Huang County so quickly.

Now the granaries are adequate.

Huang Rende, who later spent three thousand taels, saw someone like Mu Qing for the first time in all his years in Huang County.

With the attitude of neither being able to provoke him nor being able to hide from him, the whole family fled overnight. In a blink of an eye, most of the landlords and businessmen in Huang County had fled, and those who remained were more sensible.

In order to move more easily, Huang Rende and his companions sold their stored grain to Mu Qing.

My life is almost gone, why do I need money?

So Mu Qing purchased this batch of grain at the market price.

This way.

Most of Huang County's grain fell into Mu Qing's hands.

Looking at the food that was enough to feed 5,000 people in Huang County for a few more years, Mu Qing fell silent.

She suddenly felt a little sad, because she had food but no food.

Mu Qing couldn't describe the feeling. She took out some grains and cooked them into porridge and distributed them outside the wall of Huang County. There was not much porridge, but it was enough for these refugees to survive.

Yuehong held her daughter's body in her arms for two days, until a bowl of porridge was forced into her arms and she regained some consciousness.

"Have some, this is the porridge given by the new magistrate of Huang County."

Yuehong's numb eyes rolled around. She hadn't eaten or drunk anything for several days, so her voice was very hoarse.

"Grandma Li, you eat it. I don't need it."

Yuehong didn't know why these officials would rather watch them starve to death or kill them than give them a bite of food a few days ago, and she didn't know why they were willing to give them food now.

The strong soldiers and officers reorganized by Mu Qing kept a close eye on the refugees outside Huang County. If anyone tried to snatch the porridge bowls, they would draw their sharp weapons.

Yuehong's porridge was the half bowl that Grandma Li saved. After she finished the porridge, she had to return the bowl later.