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.
