Fiery Female General: Wife Addict Evil Doctor

Chapter 36: Moving porridge shed

"It seems that General Li is not only a strategist in war but also a leader in local affairs."

Praised by Taiping City officials, Li Qingtong put her hands on her back and purse her lips.

She was not used to the flattery and did not know how to respond.

Fortunately, Ouyang Ke raises his hand and stops everyone's from complimenting. "In that case, go to instruct to start construction on an auspicious day."

The next day will be the auspicious day of the zodiac year. The excavation of the canal will be officially started.

The canal is not big, it's only five feet wide and one foot deep. With the armed forces of Taiping City together with a labor force from every household, at most, it can be completed in half a month.

The canal is dug into the Taiping City and split into two parts to go around the city.

One is sent to a reservoir in North City which dried for many years, and the other to the South City, where a reservoir is excavated.

The problem of water diversion into Taiping City has been solved, but Li Qingtong has another problem.

Recently, the number of refugees who have come to Taiping City to collect porridge has increased, and there is not much grain in the porridge shed.

Li Qingtong leads Ah Er to the porridge shed and watches the line grow longer and longer.

In the past, Si Youyu took the lead and divided the gold awarded by the king of Chu into two parts. Half of the gold was used for porridge shed to purchase grain, and half of it was distributed to the people in the city.

Now, most of the people who have received gold have lived a stable life.

But there are more and more refugees from outside the city, Li Qingtong can't do anything at all.

"How long will the grain reserve last?" Li Qingtong asks Ah Er.

Ah Er thought about it for a moment, and reply, "General, in the current situation, the grain reserve can last ten days at most."

"And gold?" Li Qingtong asks again.

"There are two thousand more." Ah Er takes a book from the officer in charge of the porridge shed and hands it to Li Qingtong.

Li Qingtong looks closely for a while.

The expenditure of porridge shed has increased from the initial 200 stone to the present 500 stone.

The porridge shed, which could have been kept for half a year, has been kept for less than two months.

If the number of refugees increased, it would not even last for two months.

There is no place for refugees to live outside the city. Now in Taiping City, there are temporary places for refugees to live.

Some sleep directly under the eaves of others' houses.

"General, it is not going to work. The governor has already strictly guarded the gate and refusing the entrance of refugees." Ah Er said.

The arrival of refugees has indeed added a lot of burdens to the city. Even the lives of the people in the city are affected by these refugees.

After going on an expedition for years, refugees are not a special phenomenon in a certain place. Refugees are distributed everywhere in the whole Chu state, even in the whole Chinese mainland.

This cannot be solved by Li Qingtong alone.

"Move the porridge shed out of the city." Li Qingtong orders Ah Er.