As the magistrate of Xincheng County and the largest official in a county, Liu Guoan could not bear to be taught a lesson by others.
What's more, there is water in Liuhe County that can irrigate the fields and rice will mature soon.
Since their rice can no longer be preserved, we should simply go to Liuhe County to grab the grain.
In the face of famine, the big families were also panicked, so they naturally had to find ways to get food.
However, this matter was too serious and once it was discovered, Liu Guoan, the county magistrate, could not refuse the blame.
To this end, Liu Guoan also sent people to several other counties to spread the news of a bumper grain harvest in Liuhe County.
In just seven days, almost all the eleven counties in Jiangzhou knew the current situation in Liuhe County.
In addition, many people also heard that some people were preparing to go to Liuhe County to harvest grain, so they followed them one after another.
For a moment, people from all directions came to Liuhe County.
Now, Wang Defa, the magistrate of Liuhe County, was so anxious that he hurried to find Su Cheng to discuss countermeasures.
On this day, Su Chengzheng and Shen Youwei checked the crops in the Shen family's fields.
Looking at the plump and golden rice, Su Cheng showed a look of satisfaction.
"The hybrid rice in our Shen family is a few days earlier than that in other families. Now it is all ripe and you can start harvesting!"
The tenants beside him were overjoyed when they heard this, and they all held up the farm tools in their hands to harvest.
With food, they can survive this drought safely and no longer have to worry about starving to death.
However, Shen Youwei put her hands on her chest and stared at Su Cheng with her eyes tightly. Her beautiful eyes were spinning around, and she didn't know what she was thinking.
Su Cheng noticed Shen Youwei's hot gaze and couldn't help but turn his head to look.
The two looked at each other and Su Cheng saw the bad intentions in Shen Youwei's eyes.
"Madam, why are you... looking at me like this?"
Su Cheng suddenly felt a chill all over.
Shen Youwei smiled and said, "I haven't settled the score with you when you painted a little black on my face last time."
I have been busy these days and haven’t found any chance. I harvested rice today, and now you can’t escape!
While speaking, Shen Youwei slowly walked to Su Cheng, as if she had thought of ways to settle accounts.
Fortunately, at this moment, Wang De's voice came from afar: "Su Cheng, Su Cheng!"
Everyone turned their heads and saw the chubby County Magistrate Wang running towards them in a thick and slutty dress.
In summer, Su Cheng could even see the sweaty head and anxious expression of County Magistrate Wang.
Something happened!
Su Cheng's heart tightened.
If this county magistrate is so anxious, something must have happened.
Sure enough, County Magistrate Wang gasped and shouted, "Su Cheng, you must help me this time!"
"Mr. Wang, what happened?" Shen Youwei asked with a frown.
"What else can it be? Of course, it's because of these rice issues. Now the whole Jiangzhou knows about it!"
County Magistrate Wang smiled bitterly and said, "Now people from other counties are rushing to us. Judging from this situation, it seems that they are trying to harvest our rice."
A bumper rice harvest was his way to get promoted and make money.
Once this road is broken, he will never have a chance in the future.
This time, we finally had a bumper harvest in the drought, and if we report such performance, we will definitely be promoted.
But now people from other counties are flocking to it. If these people harvested the rice, what else can I do?
Fortunately, Su Cheng asked him to arrange someone to stare at other Xincheng County in advance, and then he discovered the movement in Xincheng County.
At the same time, through the situation in Xincheng County, they also found that Xincheng County's actions actually led several other counties to act together.
So many people came to Liuhe County to harvest rice, but they could not harvest each other at all.
In desperation, he had no choice but to come over and ask Su Cheng for help.
"What should be come, it's still here!"
Su Cheng shook his head, but he had already made plans for this scene.
When Shen Youwei was taken back from Xincheng County, he was ready to take revenge.
Catching rice harvesting is the other party's cruelest and fastest revenge at present.
What's more, the drought is now that all the rice in other counties has dried up. If those county magistrates do not find a way to get food, how can they explain to the higher authorities?
Now that I learned that Liuhe County has a bumper harvest of grain, how could I not send people to rush to harvest?
Even if they are discovered, those people will say: That is the spontaneous behavior of the people and has nothing to do with me!
"Mr. Wang, there is no particularly good solution now. I can only harvest the mature rice first as much as possible!"
"In addition, on the one hand, you send yamen runners to set up checkpoints on several official roads, which is best to delay some time. If you can't delay, don't have any conflicts with them."
"On the other hand, you immediately write a letter to inform the magistrate of this matter, and ask the magistrate to send troops to support him."
There are too many people coming, so you can't have conflicts with the other party when you go, otherwise you will be out of control.
Fortunately, hybrid rice matured a little earlier, which is something that those people don’t know.
Even if the other party sets off now and wants to come, it takes two days to walk at the fastest, and seven or eight days to walk at the slowest.
In addition, the yamen runners blocked the situation in the middle, they should be able to block it for half a day or even about a day.
With this time, it is not impossible to harvest the rice in the entire county.
But after hearing this, County Magistrate Wang frowned: "Su Cheng, I can understand the first two things, but why should I go to the prefect to mobilize troops?"
A prefect has two to three battalions, with about 3,000-5,000 soldiers, but these soldiers cannot be mobilized until the critical moment.
Now that we are all left to deal with the victims, the county magistrate Wang felt that there was no need to make a big deal.
"Mr. Wang, if you believe me, you should do what I said. If you don't believe me, just pretend I didn't say it."
Su Cheng was too lazy to explain: "Okay, now I'm going to go down to harvest rice. Please give me a try."
"This... OK, I'll say goodbye!" County Magistrate Wang knew that the matter was of great importance, so he hurriedly set out to deal with it.
Shen Youwei looked at the departure of County Magistrate Wang and couldn't help but raise her eyebrows: "Is this incident caused by me?"
Su Cheng, who rolled up his trousers behind, didn't say anything, as if he hadn't heard anything.
But Shen Youwei is not a fool. Seeing his deaf and mute look, he slapped his mouth:
"Why don't you talk?"
"This is greed at work. Even if that happens, the magistrates of other counties will find other excuses to send people to grab rice."
Su Cheng said as he walked towards the fields: "Without food, there will definitely be many victims in other counties, which will affect the achievements of those officials."
Shen Youwei pondered for a moment after listening to it.
Although this sounds a bit reasonable, she always feels that Su Cheng is comforting herself.
"Then can we just let them come and grab the food?" Shen Youwei felt that this was too frustrating.
"What else can I do? They are victims of disasters. If they are forced into a hurry, they can do anything. This is why I don't let the yamen runners have a conflict with them."
Su Cheng shook his head: "The current solution is to make a time difference and harvest all the rice as much as possible."
"Otherwise, once those people see the food, they will definitely rob it crazy."
But he didn't say anything else.
Even if the grain from Liuhe County is collected, the victims will not be able to return empty-handed!
Next, a shocking food grabbing battle will surely break out!