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Chapter 246 Grain Shop
In the conference hall of Labayu, Sun Dashan also reported the situation of Tietouyu to Zhang Cheng.

After adjustments on his side, he took 20 of the [-] young men who were guarding the miners and added them to his command, and replaced [-] new troops to guard the miners.

In fact, ever since Sun Dashan occupied Tietouyu, he gave the miners new clothes, provided them with food every day, and paid them some wages on a daily basis. Although it was not much, it kept them from running away. Heart, on the contrary, work harder when mining.

In this way, there are now 150 sergeants in Tietouyu's sentry, and [-] of them are young and strong brought back from Mafang. Like Labayu, the core is still old-fashioned.

However, there were no qualified cavalry here, so Sun Dashan just selected ten sergeants who could ride horses to serve as cavalry temporarily for the purpose of sending messages.

The good news here is that through the efforts of the artisans sent by Zhang Chengxin, the original iron-making furnaces have been demolished and rebuilt, but the new furnaces are easy to use, not only saving charcoal and coal, but also greatly improving the efficiency.

Now, not only is the original backlog of iron ore decreasing day by day, but there is a tendency that there will be no supply. However, Sun Dashan has been busy with iron ore, furnaces, and drills recently, so the progress of land reclamation has been a bit slow.

After listening to his introduction, Zhang Cheng was already very satisfied. The three villages here were a surprise, but he did not expect to have the scale they are today. When they develop well in the future, only these three villages can hide 2000 soldiers. Many people, and still self-sufficient.

"Sun Dashan, you should pay more attention to the iron mine. The miners should not be too tired. In the future, the number of people will increase, and some people will be selected to serve as miners. As for land reclamation, you must not stop. If you can open up more valleys in the west, do your best. open more

Soil strength is also limited. If there are too many fields, they can be planted in rotation to recuperate the soil. One year's millet is planted, and the next year's alfalfa can be planted to feed the stables.

Also, those craftsmen who remodeled the furnace were rewarded with ten taels of silver each, so they must not chill their hearts. "

After Zhang Cheng finished speaking, he picked up the wine bowl, glanced at everyone on the table, and said to everyone: "Everyone, we are just in the initial stage. Although we have built a good foundation, it is far from the point where we can be complacent." .

In the future, you can only work harder and be more attentive. As long as you wait and work hard, you will lead you to greater wealth, but if you want to keep the wealth and official positions that you have worked hard for, you must become stronger.

Ben will lead you to become strong together, strong enough to protect our wealth and our family. "

After finishing speaking, Zhang Cheng stood up holding the wine bowl, and all the generals stood up. Chen Zhong was the first to shout: "Chen Zhong is willing to follow the general and swear to be loyal to the general to the death, without any second thoughts!"

Then Liu Quan, Sun Dashan, Zhao Shihu, Ma Huijun and others expressed their opinions one after another. After everyone drank the wine in their bowls, Zhang Cheng waved for everyone to sit down.

He said: "Ten Tigers, I will go to Muzhajian with you tomorrow. Let's talk about the situation there in detail tomorrow. Tonight is drinking. Ah, if you don't get drunk, you won't go home. Let's drink!"

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On the second day, after breakfast, Zhang Cheng called Liu Quan and said, "Liu Quan, go and ask Zhao Liang to come see me."

It turned out that during the banquet last night, Zhang Cheng asked Zhao Shihu about Zhao Liang's situation.

He was originally the son of a dry fruit shop owner in Yanqing Prefecture. His father was robbed and killed by bandits nearby when he was buying goods. Since then, the shop at home has been squeezed by his colleagues.

At that time, he was still young and unable to take care of the family, and the business was getting colder and colder. Finally, his mother couldn't stand it anymore, and sold the shop, and sewed and mended people for a living.

Unexpectedly, his mother suffered a serious illness five years ago, but he was unable to treat it, and finally passed away. Since then, Zhao Liang has been living on the streets, and at first he wanted to seek revenge from the bandit leader.

But others are weak, how can they get revenge? Three years ago, when they were hungry and fainted in the wilderness, they were brought back to Muzhajian by bandits who met on the road, and they followed Zhao Shihu ever since.

Zhao Liang knew a little bit of writing, and was able to calculate some small accounts. He was also very smart and general, and gradually became a small boss. In the end, he became a prisoner of Liu Quan in a battle on the official path.

After a while, Zhao Liang, who heard the call, ran over in a hurry, knelt down in front of Zhang Cheng, and said, "Zhao Liang, Labayu Squad Officer, pay your respects to the general."

Zhang Cheng looked at Zhao Liang below. At this moment, he looked carefully. He was not tall and mighty, but he also looked very strong. His skin was slightly fair, and his appearance was very pleasing to the eye. He looked like he was only in his twenties. .

He said, "Zhao Liang, get up and answer."

Zhao Liang said "yes", then stood up, stood sideways, and stood upright.

"Your ancestors were in business?"

"Back to the general, the villain's ancestor did some small business, and he barely made ends meet."

"Well, you are literate and can calculate accounts?"

"Back to the general, the villain can read a little bit, but not much, and can only do some small accounts."

Zhang Cheng looked at him, and said again: "Zhao Liang, I was going to send you a new mission, can you do it?"

Zhao Liang seemed to have a premonition, he stepped in front of Zhang Cheng, knelt down and cupped his fists and said, "The general has orders, Zhao Liang will definitely do his best."

Zhang Cheng nodded slightly with satisfaction, and said: "It's not a terrible errand, I plan to open a few grain shops in Huailai City, Baoanzhou City, and Acropolis, and there is still a lack of a master for the time being." People, I want you to go, do you dare to promise?"

Zhao Liang, who was kneeling on the ground, seemed a little excited. He had vaguely guessed what Zhang Cheng meant, but when Zhang Cheng said it outright and the guess came true, he was still very excited.

He was trembling slightly, put his hands on the ground, touched his head to the ground, and said excitedly: "General, Zhao Liang originally wanted to kill the thief, but in the end he used his body to kill the thief, which was not what he wanted.

Fortunately, I met a general today. Zhao Liang made up his mind to follow the general to the death. In this life, he would like to be driven by the general and never betray him. "

"Haha, it sounds like Ben is going to kill you!"

Zhang Cheng laughed and said, Zhao Liang knelt on the ground in embarrassment, looked at him, Zhang Cheng said again: "Zhao Liang, get up, in this village, you can choose a few clever people you like Let's open this grain shop in the near future,

As for how to buy and sell, I think you have already made some calculations in your mind, so I won't repeat it, but you must keep in mind that the purpose of this grain shop is to buy low and sell high, but as the watchtower said yesterday,

It is still necessary to take care of the people's livelihood, not to drive the general households to a dead end, not to drive up food prices, and not to earn money that is black-hearted. "

Finally Zhang Cheng asked again in a deep voice: "Zhao Liang, do you understand what I said just now?"

"Please rest assured, General, Zhao Liang understands the General's intentions, and will never ruin the General's reputation!"

(End of this chapter)