Take the space supermarket to farm

Chapter 260 Don’t worry

Xia Daohua agreed, and asked the people from the escort agency to purchase thousands of kilograms of black beans, soybeans, mung beans, kidney beans in Kyoto, and also asked them to buy some millet, sorghum, corn, millet and the like.

The amount was controlled within 5,000 taels, which was the money Wang handed over last time to buy rice.

The food in the supermarket is endless and refreshed every twenty-four hours. The main reason why Xia Daohua arranged for them to buy food was so that the pretense could be more realistic.

Three days later, the escort and the convoy returned to Jixiang County with the various beans and grains they purchased. Because they had been taking the official road, the speed was not slow and the road was relatively peaceful.

Xia Daohua watched them unloading the goods in the warehouse, moving in and out of the food bags. She checked them carefully. After confirming that most of the food and beans were fine, she happily settled the bill for the escort and the convoy, and sent them away.

After receiving the reward, he asked them to continue to help guard the warehouse.

The escort naturally agreed happily.

Xia Daohua said she wanted to check it carefully and stayed alone in the warehouse for a long time before coming out.

The escorts almost thought something had happened to her and were about to go in to check. They knocked on the door a few times and were relieved when they saw her answer and come out.

Xia Daohua's face was covered with sweat. Her originally clean clothes were stained with a lot of dust and soaked with sweat.

When the escort saw it, he couldn't help but feel a little aggrieved, and opened his mouth: "Ms. Xia, the people in our Fuwei Escort Agency are all reliable."

The implication is that you really checked each bag one by one?

Are you so distrustful of us?

Xia Daohua heard it and hurriedly spoke to comfort:

"I know you are reliable, otherwise there are so many escort agencies in Jixiang County, why would I choose you instead of others?

Besides, since the quality of this grain has just been inspected in front of you, why is there any need to toss it over again?

It's just that I just discovered that the ground where the grain bags are stacked is a little damp. It seems that water is seeping slightly.

This food is most afraid of moisture.

I became anxious, so I took matters into my own hands and moved the grain bags to another place to stack them.

Because there were a lot of bags to move, I didn’t think of calling you for help, so I kept moving my bags for a long time, but ended up exhausted and sweating all over.”

Xia Daohua smiled awkwardly as she spoke. With her red cheeks and sincere eyes, she suddenly looked extremely pitiful.

It has been raining in Jixiang County since June 6th.

The Taohua River, the largest river near Jixiang County, has swollen to a level not seen in a century. The water level has risen three or four feet higher than in previous years, and it looks like it will overflow the embankment at any time.

Furthermore, these warehouses are used for unloading goods at the docks and are not granaries built specifically to store grain. It is normal for the ground to become damp.

After listening to Xia Daohua's explanation, the escorts immediately took it seriously when they thought of the rain these days and the smell of earth in the house in their own yard.

The leading escort suddenly felt embarrassed:

"Oh, look at what a fuss this is!

Don't be so anxious. If anything happens, just shout.

Although our main job is to be an escort, we are not the kind of masters who can’t pick up any horizontal grass or pick up the vertical grass.”

Xia Daohua smiled and nodded: "I don't have to worry about it. I will remember to call you for help next time something happens."

After appeasing the bodyguard, Xia Daohua took her leave and personally went to the county magistrate's wife, Mrs. Wang, to inform her that part of the new batch of 100,000 shi of grain had arrived.

These days, Mrs. Wang distributes food and porridge to the refugees every day. The food in her hand is almost exhausted. Seeing Xia Daohua buy new food so quickly, she is overjoyed and holds Xia Daohua's hand tightly:

"Ms. Xia, you are truly my lucky star!"

Xia Daohua smiled shyly, as if she was a little shy:

"Thank you, Madam. She wants to save more lives, and she does not hesitate to pay for it herself. It is really admirable! Although I am not as noble as my wife, I am very happy to be able to help out and do my little bit.

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Wang was made happy by Xia Daohua's words. Although she wanted to save the lives of the refugees, she was more concerned about Magistrate Yang.

Magistrate Yang wanted to be a capable minister and a famous official. When he met the refugees, he naturally did not want to do what others did. He closed the city gate tightly and blocked the refugees outside the high city wall, or simply sent out soldiers from Qianhusuo to drive away the refugees.

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He wants to resuscitate these refugees and keep most of them in Jixiang County.

Population growth is also a very important political achievement.

However, it is easy to keep them for a while, but it is not so easy to get them to naturalize willingly instead of returning to their hometowns once the disaster is over.

County Magistrate Yang has returned most of the locally recruited civilian husbands back home, and gradually replaced the local peasant husbands with young and strong refugees, allowing them to continue building city walls, digging canals, clearing mud, and building river embankments...

When people do such hard work, they naturally need to be fed.

The food is cheap corn and millet rice. As for the polished rice that Xia Daohua sells to Wang, Wang has already replaced most of it with the cheapest coarse grains.

There are corn, millet rice, corn flour, and acorn flour. Those distributed to the refugees, used in the porridge sheds, and placed on the construction sites are all these coarse grains.

Only a small part is reserved for emergency treatment of patients, especially the elderly and children among the patients.

Not only do they have to take care of enough food, but they also have to give out some rewards every now and then.

Of course, this bounty is not shared by everyone, but only the small group of people who have completed the task best, done the most beautiful work, and are the most enthusiastic can get the reward.

Each area has ten places.

Among them, the bonus for the first place is one thousand coins, which is one tael of silver, the second place is five hundred coins, the third place is three hundred coins, and the bonuses from fourth to tenth are the same, only one hundred coins.

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The selection is held every ten days.

In other words, reward money will be distributed three times every month.

Magistrate Yang sent a patrol team to conduct secret inspections to ensure the fairness of this selection.

Just this small move mobilized the enthusiasm of the refugees.

During the first selection, most people didn't take it seriously at first. They always felt that only those who had a good relationship with the team leader and could flatter him would have a chance.

But to the surprise of most people, the final selection actually selected the refugee who worked the most steadfastly, worked hardest, and did the best to receive the reward.

Everyone was excited.

In the following months, the refugees maintained a high enthusiasm for work.

After several days of overt and covert observation, Xia Daohua felt reassured by the various handling measures taken by Wang and Magistrate Yang.

Therefore, this time, when Wang asked for 100,000 shi of food, she simply agreed without saying anything. She also specially prepared beans and grains instead of polished rice and white flour.

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