Relying on his prestige and charm, Li Ling finally comforted thousands of refugees who had lost their homes, but the subsequent work was never easy. Just setting up these more than 7,000 refugees everywhere was a big project, not to mention that there were a series of matters including food, clothing, housing and transportation, etc. to be arranged later.

It is naturally impossible to cover everything with Li Ling alone. Fortunately, the abilities of the two assistant officials were finally reflected at this time. The Wen County Magistrate and the Chief Clerk of Tian may be far from being compared with Li Ling in terms of means and strategies. Over the years, they have been suppressed by the Xu Fang family and seem to have a sense of existence. But in fact, they also have certain talents in governance. Whether they arrange the people of each township to enter the city in an orderly manner or move them into vacant houses in various places in clans and other categories, they are actually in an orderly manner.

During this period, Li Ling proposed several key points. One is to take care of the elderly, weak, women and children, and sick refugees, and more to place them in the houses of the Xufang family with better conditions; the other is to register everyone after they are arranged to move in, and then make guarantees for each other to prevent these people from causing bad influence on the county town for some reasons and even committing crimes...

If these requirements are conveyed one by one, whether it is the county government or the refugees who enter the city, although not everyone can understand the good intentions of County Magistrate Li, they all follow it meticulously. Now County Magistrate Li's status in everyone's mind is higher than any official in the past. His words are the truth, so who dares not to obey?

Especially the twenty or thirty refugees who were allowed to enter the county government to temporarily live, were even more flattered. When they saw Li Ling, they wanted to kowtow and thank him. He quickly helped him: "No need, I said that you sacrificed for the county town and suffered. This is what I should do. Next, you live here. If you have any needs, just tell me that I will have someone to bring all the prepared meals at that time."

"Thank you, Master, you are really the few master Qingtian who makes decisions for the people in the world..." The refugee was grateful and thanked him repeatedly, and then he was at ease to stay here.

When it was almost noon, Li Ling, the food prepared by the county government, was indeed delivered to the people here as he said. Just as he personally brought a tray to the several rooms next to the second hall, he happened to see two women picking up water from the well and handing it to several children. The latter took it and sucked it and sucked it.

Not only are there many rivers in the south of the Yangtze River, but there are also many wells, especially the county government. In order to facilitate consumption and use, Ertang has dug two wells. It is early summer now, and the refugees have just been rushing around, so naturally they all need to replenish their water.

But when Li Ling saw this, his brow frowned and immediately stepped forward. When the woman saw County Magistrate Li coming, she quickly wanted to bow and salute. At the same time, she also noticed that he seemed unhappy and felt nervous: "I have seen the county magistrate..."

"No need to be polite." Li Ling hurriedly helped her, and while asking her to get up, he stepped forward to stop the other child's behavior of drinking water. "Wait, you all drink water like this?"

Not only did the child be stunned when he asked, but the men and women who came to greet him were also surprised: "Yes, what's wrong with this sir?"

"No, you can't drink raw water directly like this!" Li Ling immediately said seriously, "Drinking water like this will cause you to get infected with the epidemic. If something really goes wrong, not only you, but also the entire county town may fall ill."

"But... but we have always drunk water like this." The people were confused. For many years, they didn't drink water from the well and drink water from the river or the stream. They even scooped it and drank it. There are so many things? Moreover, I have never heard of anyone getting sick after drinking water.

Li Ling was stern: "It's different now. I've just had heavy water. I'm afraid the well water has been polluted. As the saying goes, we must prevent the epidemic after a major disaster. We must not take this matter lightly. Just listen to me. In the future, we must boil water before drinking it!"

Seeing that the county magistrate spoke so seriously, he really made these rural residents stunned. Then he agreed and did not dare to ask more details. Originally, these people had limited knowledge and had a certain respect for scholars and officials. Li Ling was regarded as one of the few good officials in the world by them, so his words were naturally more important.

At that moment, a woman went to find a pottery pot and was about to set up a fire to boil water. Li Ling stopped her and pointed to Houya: "There is a kitchen over there, and there should be boiled water inside. You can get it by yourself. In the future, everyone here must drink cooked water. Don't be greedy for a moment of convenience and pleasure. If you get sick, it will be a problem."

Everyone hurriedly thanked and agreed repeatedly. Li Ling had just put down the food he brought, asked them a few words casually, and then said goodbye and left.

After saying goodbye to them, Li Ling was not idle either. He immediately called someone to convey what he meant just now: "Tell all the refugees in the city, no, the other people also passed the message from door to door, so that they should not drink raw water during this period, and must be cooked before drinking it! This is for everyone's health, otherwise we will be unable to deal with it if we really get infected with the epidemic."

The officers quickly agreed and then hurried away to convey the order from County Magistrate Li.

Li Ling is now very famous in the county. No matter the original residents or refugees in the city, they dare not disobey his orders. Therefore, as long as the meaning is conveyed, at least more than 80% of the people will be prevented from getting sick due to drinking raw water. As for the remaining 20%, Li Ling has to make corresponding arrangements.

With his order, more than a dozen doctors in the city were called to the county government. He took out hundreds of taels of silver and collected all the medicinal materials for epidemic prevention and heat prevention on these doctors. Then they asked them to work for several days and make corresponding medicines as soon as possible, and then they could all go to the hands of each refugee.

After finishing all this, it was almost dark. Li Ling realized that his stomach was so hungry that he was roaring, so he was about to turn back to the Houya. But at this moment, Master Tian hurried over with a heavy expression: "Sir, this matter is a bit tricky."

"What do you mean?" Li Ling remembered that he had sent him to arrange the food situation for the next period of time before. Now, after hearing this, his heart also mentioned it.

"Whether the official warehouse or the regular warehouse are closed, the grain storage inside is really limited, which is enough for these refugees to use for half a month. Perhaps the flood will recede in half a month, but how to rebuild their homes in the future is still a problem, and grain arrangements are the top priority. Moreover, other people in the city also need to use food due to this flood, so the consumption will be even greater..." The chief clerk Tian said such a difficult problem with a worried look on his face.

Li Ling also frowned tightly: "Why is the food in our county government so little?"

"It's not too small, but it's too difficult to support so many people."

"What about the income from the Xu Fang family's search of the house?" Li Ling thought of starting from elsewhere to obtain food.

"The Xu family's thousands of kilograms of grain have been counted in the official warehouse. As for the Fang family..." He stumbled for a moment, and did not dare to look at Li Ling anymore. "When he sent someone to search the house yesterday, there were only some servants left in the huge mansion. The Fang family's important figures, including Fang Jinbo's two sons Fang Changgeng and Fang Changsheng, were no longer visible, and even those in charge were gone. Then the property, gold, silver, and softness in their house were swept away by them, and the house deeds and land deeds were all there, and there were many antique calligraphy and paintings, but the grain in their warehouse was less than that of the Xu family, and only a few thousand kilograms were enough to last for about two days."

"So little?" Li Ling was stunned in an instant. This was unreasonable.

According to his previous inference, the fact that the Xu family had such little food must be related to Xu Sen, who forced Xu Chen and the others to death. Since he was a chess piece that Fang Jinbo had taken early, it proved that the Xu family's missing food fell into the hands of the Fang family.

But now, even the Fang family's warehouse was empty, which was too surprising. But after pondering for a while, he realized that this was the place where Luo Tian Cult was acting viciously this time.

Their idea of ​​making grain was not to use it for themselves or exchange it for money, but to cause major food shortage in Huating County. Especially after the flood came and there was chaos, and there would be food problems. I am afraid that riots would occur in the entire county town in an instant.

For the people of Dayue, nothing is more serious than not having enough food. As the saying goes, starving to death is more illegal. If someone encourages you or takes out food as a temptation, the people of this county will probably use it for them without thinking and become a team of rioters that disrupt the south of the Yangtze River.

While trying to understand this, Li Ling felt the burden on his body while gasping for a deep breath: "Food is the foundation of stability, and there must be no food shortage. Have you ever checked carefully that there is no food hidden in the Fang family's industries elsewhere?"

The Tian Zhuzhu shook his head weakly: "No, now many industries under their name have moved into many people, and they have not heard them see any places where they can stockpile grain."

"But, in just a short time, they could not hide the food without realizing it. They would not destroy the food without hiding it from everyone at that time, so the food must be in their control!" Li Ling said his judgment, and then his eyes showed a firm look, "It seems that I should go to see that Fang Jinbo. Only by prying open his mouth can I find the food and ensure that my Huating is stable!"
Chapter completed!