Under Su Cheng's persuasion, the big households in Liuhe County finally let down their guard and were willing to provide food.
In the next few days, almost all the victims in Liuhe County had something to eat.
Although I wasn't full, I finally had something to eat and wouldn't starve to death.
Even the Shen family took the initiative to respond to Su Cheng's call. Not only did they open a straw hut in Buzhuang to distribute steamed buns, but they also set up a place to distribute rice porridge at the entrance of the Shen Mansion.
For a time, the victims throughout Liuhe County were excited and readily agreed to the requests of the big families.
If they have something to eat, let them do some work. This is what they should do.
And because they are ordinary people, they usually do farm work, so they are familiar with it.
Within a few days, many large households had planted seedlings in their fields.
These seedlings are the hybrid rice seedlings produced last season. They are much better than ordinary seedlings.
The seedlings are growing very well, and they are sprouting faster than before.
However, the weather is still very hot, and the required water still has to be pumped out from the reservoir using water trucks.
Some large households even asked the victims to go to the mountains outside the city and select some places to look for water sources.
The entire Liuhe County is finally in order and is slowly becoming stable.
If this trend continues, as long as this drought is overcome, the next season's rice harvest in Liuhe County will definitely be good.
For this reason, Su Cheng has been living and working in the county government these days!
However, just when the situation was excellent, a piece of bad news came.
On this day, Su Cheng was inspecting the growth of seedlings in the field.
Suddenly, a cry came from a distance: "Master Su, it's not good!"
Su Cheng frowned, turned around and saw that Mr. He was coming in a hurry.
"What happened?"
"Master Su, please go over and take a look. The victims are fighting!"
"What, the victims are fighting. Take me there and see. Why are they fighting?"
When Su Cheng heard that something had happened, Su Cheng's face darkened and he immediately asked He Batou to lead the way.
On the way, Captain He told what happened.
"I don't know why, but the number of victims has suddenly skyrocketed in the past two days. The steamed buns and porridge that the big households originally gave to the victims every day can no longer meet the needs of the victims."
"Today, two groups of disaster victims fought over steamed buns from a wealthy family. The two sides got really angry and almost lost their lives."
Su Cheng couldn't help but feel a little strange after hearing this.
It stands to reason that the current number of disaster victims has basically been fixed, and every large household has raised some disaster victims. Why are there still more disaster victims now?
With doubts, Su Cheng quickly rushed to the scene of the incident.
I saw two groups of ragged people confronting each other. Liu Changfeng, the commander of thousands of people, took control of the scene and was reprimanding the victims.
In the past few days, Su Cheng also used his identity as a marquis to invite the captain to bring people over, and then stabilized the situation. Otherwise, with the manpower of the county government, how could the situation be controlled.
"Mr. Liu Qian!"
"Master Hou!"
The two of them greeted each other, and Liu Changfeng retreated behind Su Cheng: "Master Su should handle this matter. My people are only responsible for maintaining order here."
"However, Mr. Su must remember his promise."
There are conditions for Liu Changfeng to take action, that is, the grain handed over to the country at the end of this year must be 20% more.
In this way, Liu Changfeng, who was responsible for escorting the grain back to Jiangzhou, also took credit.
Otherwise, Liu Changfeng would not help for no reason!
"Don't worry, Mr. Liu Qian, I will remember this."
Su Cheng replied, then turned to look at the two groups of victims.
With a cold snort, Su Cheng's aura rose, and he showed his majesty as a county magistrate, staring at the other party and asking coldly:
"Tell me, why are you fighting?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the victims on the right immediately shouted:
"We also ask the county magistrate to make the decision for us. We have always worked here to receive steamed buns for the Zhang family, but he suddenly came here today to snatch our steamed buns!"
"Yes, there aren't many steamed buns at first, but they still come here to grab them!"
"Master, you came just in time, arrest them quickly."
"That's right, we earned the steamed buns with our own labor, so why should they come and rob us?"
The victims said something to each other. Although it was a bit noisy, Su Cheng still understood the meaning of each other's words.
The group of victims who came from behind had no place to eat, so they snatched the steamed buns from the group of victims in front.
"Which house did you receive food from before?" Su Cheng turned to look at the group of victims on the left.
But when asked, the victims looked at each other in shock. You looked at me, I looked at you, and no one dared to speak.
Looking at the situation, Su Cheng understood without them having to explain.
This group of victims was not in Liuhe County before!
"If you don't speak, it means you are from somewhere else, right?"
Su Cheng said coldly: "No matter where you come from, when you arrive in Liuhe County, you must obey my arrangements."
"Robbing wantonly, do you really think that the county government of Liuhe County is just a decoration?"
The angry words frightened the victims into kneeling down and begging for mercy.
"Sir, we really didn't mean to cause trouble, we are just too hungry!"
"Yes, we came from Wan County and haven't eaten for three days."
"We also heard that there was food in Liuhe County, so we came here with the others."
"Sir, this is our first time here and we don't know the rules here. Please forgive us this time."
The reputation is not worth fighting with the officials, and now there are many soldiers and horses behind Su Cheng, how can these victims dare to hide it.
But Su Cheng's expression changed drastically after hearing this.
These people heard others say there was food here and followed others here.
What does this mean?
This shows that Liuhe County is now famous and more and more disaster victims will flock here.
By then, no matter how much food the big households have, it will be impossible to feed the victims of the disaster in the other ten surrounding counties, right?
Thinking of this, Su Cheng's heart sank a lot.
It seems that not everything will be smooth sailing.
I originally thought that if the affairs of these victims were handled well, Liuhe County would be on track.
But with the influx of new victims, the trouble is getting worse.
Naturally, the victims of the disaster will go wherever there is food. This is understandable.
But how long can Liuhe County continue to eat like this?
"Please tell me clearly how many people are here this time?" Su Cheng asked with a sense of luck.
"Sir, we don't know how many people came, but the victims in our county all know that there is food here, so they all came here."
As soon as these words came out, Su Cheng's eyes suddenly narrowed, realizing that the matter was more serious than he imagined.
This is clearly someone deliberately spreading news!
Among them, it is very likely that there are shadows of other county magistrates!
Those county magistrates did not want the victims to starve to death in their own counties, so they spread the news about the food in Liuhe County and lured the victims to come to Liuhe County.
You must know that in addition to Liuhe County, there are ten counties in Jiangzhou affected by the disaster!
If all the remaining victims from these ten counties come to Liuhe County, there will be big trouble!
"Captain He, please immediately send someone to investigate and see how many more victims have been added in the past two days!"