Peaceful Farm Life

Chapter 381 - 381 381 My Lord Thats a Clever Move_1

?Chapter 381: Chapter 381: My Lord, That’s a Clever Move_1 Chapter 381: Chapter 381: My Lord, That’s a Clever Move_1 It’s true that nearly a thousand disaster victims flocked to Hecheng County, but many were families with children. After a thorough investigation, it turned out that there were actually only a little more than three hundred households. With the fifty thousand taels from Wang Youbao, the County Magistrate of Hecheng County immediately hired workers and constructed refugee villages on three vacant lots in Hecheng County.

There were a little more than one hundred families in each location, and each family was provided with a very ordinary farmhouse with three rooms, costing about six taels of silver each. Moreover, a well was dug for each of the three refugee villages, totaling about two thousand taels of silver altogether.

By the time the houses in the refugee villages were completed, two months had passed, and all the disaster victims of Hecheng County had moved into their new homes. The County Magistrate then gave each household two taels of silver, a basket of potatoes, and thirty pounds of mixed grains, spending a total of three thousand taels of silver.

During these two months, the County Magistrate also had Government Officials buy rice, grains, potatoes, sweet potatoes, coarse cloth clothes, quilts, and other items from some shops and farmers to distribute to the disaster victims sleeping on the streets and alleys of Hecheng County to help them survive, spending nearly forty thousand taels of silver in total.