Daming: Mixed in Dangzhi County, Beiping

Chapter 272 The Great Use of the Grain Drying Field
The next day.

Early in the morning, as soon as Guo An walked to the palace gate, he saw Shen Zhuang waiting at the gate of the palace with several accountants and several carts of belongings.

On the other side, there is also a group of wealthy businessmen, each with accountants, clerks, and some belongings, standing in another place.

The two sides are separated.

Apparently, Shen Zhuang, a wealthy businessman in the south of the Yangtze River, seems to have been collectively rejected by those fellow wealthy businessmen in the south.

However, Shen Zhuang looked proud.

Everyone was originally a competitor, but Shen Zhuang had the foresight to climb to Yanwang Mansion early, and occupied the good rice of the next Zhuangzi of Yanwang Mansion for the Shen family alone.

Is it useful for you to be jealous?

"See Guo Changshi!"

Seeing Guo An, Shen Zhuang was overjoyed, trotted two steps quickly, came to Guo An, and bowed respectfully to Guo An with a humble face.

On the side, seeing this, the wealthy businessmen changed their expressions, scolded the flattering villain with disdain, and then quickly walked over to salute Guo An.

"Morning Shen!"

In the morning, the weather was still very cool, so Guo An was in a good mood.

Shen Zhuang quickly said: "Guo Changshi, the villain brought five carts of copper coins and 3 taels of treasure banknotes. These are all the property that the villain can take out for the time being. I wonder if Guo Changshi can give the villain a few more days?"

"Not enough money?"

Guo An narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Guo Changshi is wise!"

Shen Zhuang smiled and bent slightly.

All around, the wealthy businessmen were overjoyed when they heard this.

"Guo Changshi, the villain brought a lot of money this time. If shopkeeper Shen doesn't have that much money, I can help shopkeeper Shen share some."

"Exactly, Guo Changshi, I'm waiting for enough money..."

Immediately, Shen Zhuang glared at these wealthy businessmen.Immediately, he looked at Guo An nervously.

"It's okay!"

Guo An waved his hand very heartily, "Everyone, don't worry, especially Shen Yuan, you can keep the money."

Shen Zhuang's face immediately became anxious, "Dare to ask Guo Changshi, but what happened? My Shen family can borrow money from Prince Yan's Mansion!"

"Don't worry, don't worry!"

Guo An smiled lightly and said: "This time, you will use money to buy good rice from my farm in Prince Yan's Mansion, and you will also use money to buy good rice from two farms under King Yan's Mansion.

Have you ever thought about it, in this way, my Yan Palace will have no food to eat this year. "

Shen Zhuang and all the merchants couldn't help being taken aback.

Guo An continued: "Therefore, His Royal Highness King Yan decided that all the good rice from the two farms will be exchanged for grain this time, and it must be new grain."

"In exchange for food?"

Shen Zhuang and a group of merchants frowned slightly.

They are not grain merchants, and they don't have that much grain on hand.

If it is exchanged for grain, they can only transport the newly harvested grain from their hometown fields all the way, or go to those farmers to buy grain by themselves.

But no matter what, the cost they need to spend must be [-] to [-]% more.

"This officer also knows that this matter may increase some costs for you, but His Royal Highness King Yan must not be allowed to trade at a loss."

Guo An smiled slowly, "There is no rush, the farm's rice may take three or four days to be completely harvested.

You can think about it slowly, and if you think it is appropriate, come to the palace to look for us. "

After speaking, he was ready to go in.

Shen Zhuang glanced at the few rich merchants at the side, he must not let these merchants rob him of his good rice, and hurriedly shouted: "Guo Changshi, my Shen family is willing to exchange ten times the new grain for the good rice in His Royal Highness King Yan's village." .”

A trace of surprise flashed in Guo An's eyes.

But soon, those wealthy businessmen also gave Shen Zhuang a hard look, the villain's son of a bitch!

"Guo Changshi, we are also willing to exchange new grains for good rice from His Royal Highness King Yan's farm."

"Oh?"

Guo An said with a happy face: "Have you thought about it all?"

"Go back to Guo Changshi, I've already thought about it!"

"Then follow us to see His Royal Highness King Yan!"

"Thank you Guo Changshi!"

……

"Are you all willing to exchange grain for good rice?"

In the Hall of Mind, Zhu Di hadn't even opened his mouth when he heard the group of rich merchants eagerly expressing that they could exchange grain for good rice.

"Exactly!"

Shen Zhuang and a group of wealthy businessmen said quickly.

"Very good!"

Zhu Di was overjoyed, "Since you all have this heart, I can give you a [-]% discount on the new food."

"Your Highness is merciful!"

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

Shen Zhuang and a group of merchants were also overjoyed.

Afterwards, thinking of something, Shen Zhuang hurriedly said: "Your Highness, can I have credit for the villain's new grain? When the villain brings the good rice back to his hometown, he will immediately transport the new grain to Beiping Mansion."

"Can!"

Zhu Di nodded slightly, "Then I'll give us an additional [-]% interest."

Shen Zhuang was taken aback, isn't this the original price?
Hastily said: "Thank you, Your Highness!"

"Ok!"

Zhu Di nodded in satisfaction.

Afterwards, Ma He was called to sign a contract with Shen Zhuang and others.

Then, let Ma He, several servants, and several scribes lead Shen Zhuang and a group of merchants to the two farms respectively.

After everyone left, Zhu Di couldn't help asking thoughtfully: "Guo Qing, why are these merchants so talkative?"

Guo An replied: "Your Highness, whether it is Shen Zhuang or those wealthy merchants, any party can buy the good rice from His Highness's two farms.

They were also afraid that if they offended His Highness, they would lose this big deal. "

Zhu Di said with some regret, "In this way, if they sell these good rice to the south, they will definitely make a lot of money?"

Guo An nodded slightly, "Your Highness is wise, businessmen are after profit. However, the price of good rice purchased from His Highness is already high enough, and they shouldn't be able to earn much."

Zhu Di's face softened slightly.

……

a few days later.

The rice fields in Beiping Prefecture were all harvested almost as well.

And in Yanwang Palace.

Guo An and Zhu Di looked at the hall, and the grateful gentry couldn't help being surprised.

"Are you here to thank me and His Royal Highness Yan Wang specifically for the cement drying ground?"

"Exactly!"

"His Royal Highness, Guo Changshi, you two also know that we are a gentleman's family, and we have more acres of land.

Therefore, during the autumn harvest, it is all about competing with God for time..."

"This year, when I harvested the rice, God didn't rain. I'm already very relieved..."

"Boom~"

Before the gentry could finish their words, there was a burst of thunder outside.

Guo An and Zhu Di couldn't help but look weird.

"It's thundering?"

Through the glass of the main hall, looking at the sky outside, it was already covered with dark clouds, thunder and lightning, and all the gentry's faces changed drastically, turning slightly pale.

"There was thunder, the rice I was waiting for..."

After speaking, these gentry realized that their rice had been harvested and dried, and their faces were filled with joy.

Turning around, he bowed his hands to Guo An and Zhu Di again, his face full of gratitude.

"Your Highness, Guo Changshi, if you hadn't asked me to build a cement drying field, even if I had harvested all the rice in the field, the rice would have rotted in the room when it rained heavily."

"What Brother Huang said is very true. The cement drying field is the savior of these gentlemen like me. Otherwise, this year's rice will definitely rot in the field."

"His Royal Highness, Guo Changshi, the cement drying field you two asked me to build is the great savior of my Beiping Mansion. At least it saved hundreds of thousands of shi of grain in my Beiping Mansion..."

The more the gentry said, the more outrageous they became.

At first, Zhu Di was very comfortable listening.

However, the more you listen, the worse it gets.

"Okay, okay, the cement drying ground was built by Guo Qing, so what does it have to do with this king? You can just thank Guo Qing, don't always talk about me, my king is not that Such a stingy person!"

The faces of the gentry froze immediately, and they took a sneak peek at Zhu Di, and after realizing that what Zhu Di said was from the bottom of their hearts, they all smiled coyly, and then began to praise sincerely again.

"Your Highness has achieved great success but does not live here. You are truly a virtuous king!"

"There is a virtuous king like His Royal Highness King Yan in my Beiping mansion, why should my Beiping mansion be unhappy?"

"It is extremely, it is extremely, His Royal Highness King Yan..."

Above, Zhu Diting's forehead darkened directly.

Even Guo An, who usually praised Zhu Di the most, had the corners of his mouth twitching.

Compared with him, these gentry are the candidates for courtiers.

Fortunately, these gentry are all human beings, and after feeling that there was something wrong with Zhu Di's expression, they quickly changed their words.

"His Royal Highness King Yan and Guo Changshi probably don't know that the sun-drying ground is hard and flat, and I will directly stack the harvested rice in the sun-drying ground, and the rice can be knocked down directly.

Then, spread the rice flat on the drying field, which is like a big oven, and it can be dried directly in less than a day. "

"In this way, it will save me a lot of effort."

"Originally, it took four days to do the work, but if it takes more than one day, it can be done!"

"In the end, those farmers and rich households who didn't build concrete drying yards came to rent our drying yards...

Who would have thought that the cement sun-drying field I built not only made me wait a few days in advance to harvest the grain in the rice fields.

You can also make some money for me..."

"Hmph, look at those superiors, how can they still laugh at me!"

"That's right, I'm going to offer a few sticks of incense to Lord Chenghuang later, so that Lord Chenghuang can keep my Beiping mansion in good order, bless His Royal Highness King Yan and Mr. Guo with no disease and disaster, and a happy life..."

"Whoa..."

"..."

Outside the hall, it has started to rain heavily.

Inside the house, Guo An and Zhu Di became more helpless the more they listened.

The two of them seemed unwilling to be so hypocritical with these gentlemen, but it was raining heavily outside, and each of these gentlemen seemed to be sincerely praising them, so it was hard to drive them away mercilessly.

Finally, Zhu Di looked directly at Guo An.

Guo An was taken aback, "His Royal Highness, now that our Beiping mansion has a bumper harvest, and all the gentry are here, it's time to hold a banquet to celebrate!"

"A banquet?"

Zhu Di couldn't help being taken aback.

Below, a group of gentry shut up and looked at Zhu Di expectantly.

Seeing this, Zhu Di directly directed to Ma He who was at the side: "Ma He, pass it on, the king is going to hold a banquet to celebrate the great harvest of my Beiping Mansion!"

"Yes, Your Highness!"

Ma He responded quickly.

"I invite Zhu Changshi and all the officials to come to the hall to congratulate!"

"Yes, Your Highness!"

Soon, Zhu Fu walked in with a group of government officials and generals.

With officials like Zhu Fu, the gentry also had someone to chat with.

Zhu Di and Guo An suddenly became much quieter.

Especially, after the chef's meals are served.

A group of gentry tasted so good that they almost bit off their tongues, so they couldn't care less about what to say.

Coupled with a pot of fine wine poured into their stomachs, Guo An and Zhu Di were completely quiet.

After the congratulatory banquet, the wine and food are full.

The heavy rain outside has also dissipated.

A group of gentry thanked Zhu Di with joy on their faces, and then dispersed one by one.

And Guo An, Zhu Fu and others can also take advantage of this, rest for a while, and stay up until the end of the day.

Only Zhu Di, half lying on a rattan chair, frowned slightly, always feeling that something was wrong?

Suddenly, Zhu Di seemed to sit up directly, staring at Ma He beside him, and asked, "Ma He, did Guo Qing just want to have a banquet, did you mention it on purpose?"

Ma He: "..."

……

(End of this chapter)