Wei and Jin Cooks

  Chapter 985 Satisfied

  After sending Qiao Jin away, Zhao Hanzhang began to call Zhao Ming and other courtiers to discuss the next big event.

  She wants to open up the mountain to the people.

  The mountains, water, and minerals in this world theoretically belong to the state. Private individuals cannot mine minerals, hunt, fish, or do many things.

  Of course, these prohibitions are useless at the moment. Everyone should go to the mountains and go to the water, and there are many private mines.

  However, the lifting of the ban will still be a little different. This is a signal that the common people can profit from the mountains in order to obtain the capital to survive.

  Zhao Hanzhang robbed the rich and helped the poor, ahem, supported the poor with the rich, and collected a lot of money. She didn't expect that there were many rich people in Yuzhou, and their assets were rich. It seems that Yuzhou has developed well in recent years.

After Zu Ti and Bei Gongchun successively sent a batch of money to Chen County, Zhao Hanzhang ordered all localities not to send the received money to Chen County or Luoyang, but to seal it in the warehouse for local use. government spending.

At the same time as the order went down, a large amount of grain from Jingzhou and Yangzhou arrived in Chen County one after another, and Zhao Hanzhang began to distribute grain to various places. A batch went to Youzhou, a batch went to Bingzhou, a batch went to Jizhou, and Qingzhou and Guangzhou also had some. In the famine of the year, the phenomenon of cannibalism continued, and some food had to be sent to them.

In less than a day, Zhao Hanzhang split up the food that he had just obtained, and not a single grain of rice was left in Yuzhou. Even so, it was still a drop in the bucket, so Zhao Hanzhang continued to ask Wang Siniang and Yuan Li to produce food, and at the same time urged Zhao Hu .

  Zhao Hu's caravan has collected grain everywhere in the Jiangnan countryside. They originally wanted to go directly to the grain merchants, but except for a few grain merchants, most of the grain merchants they approached said they had no grain.

  The manager of the caravan can only go to the countryside to search one by one, which is a bit slower, but the result is good. He can buy grain at a little more price than the grain merchant.

  Small farmers like to sell grain to them. In their eyes, there is no difference between local grain merchants and northern grain merchants.

  So the stewards of the Zhao family discovered a secret. Going to the countryside to buy grain by themselves was indeed sporadic and hard work, but the price was low, and it saved a lot of effort.

Finding a grain merchant in the city to make a deal requires not only raising the banner, treating guests to drinks, and building connections, but also getting a high price. The cost is extremely high. Of course, compared with the current grain price in the north, it is still very low, but now Going to the countryside is even lower.

So the steward was obsessed with going to the countryside to buy grain, and he simply said to the people under him: "I will leave this matter to you, no matter what price you buy, I will pay you two hundred and forty cash per stone, and two hundred and forty cash per stone. One hundred and eighty wen millet is recorded."

The eyes of all the guys brightened, that is to say, as long as they received wheat and millet at a lower price, they could make a difference in price. Now, the price of wheat from local grain merchants in Jiangnan to small farmers ranges from 180 to 200 yuan. Wen fluctuates, and the price of millet is between 220 Wen and 250 Wen.

  They can make money as long as they charge a higher price than the local grain merchants, and control the purchase before the manager's closing price.

  So the guys quickly calculated and took the money out one after another.

Of course, they dare not go out alone to receive the goods. They usually go out in a team of a few people or a dozen people. The ground is not working well.

  But the small farmers in the village don’t have much grain to sell. They always have to keep enough food for their family, and they have to pay grain taxes, so that the rest can be exchanged for copper coins.

  So three days later, the steward counted a batch of grain and sent it away, and wanted to buy it again, but found that there was no grain received from the nearby villages, so his eyes fell on those gentry and landlords.

   But having tasted the benefits of not having a middleman to make the price difference, he was not willing to spend too much to buy grain, so he whispered to the remaining guys and let them go immediately.

  Achun is a seventeen-year-old youth in Sanjiang Village. He ran home quickly across the ridge in straw sandals, and excitedly told his parents, "Daddy, Mommy, those merchants collecting grain from the north are here again."

  His father frowned, and said expressionlessly: "Our family has no food to sell."

"I know, I want to collect grain with them," Ah Chun said, "They said that as long as I carry goods with them, I can give you ten cents a day. If you receive one stone, you will give me two more, father, I want to go with them."

  The man frowned and didn't speak.

  A Chunniang worried: "Isn't it a lie?"

Ah Chun was worried, and said eagerly: "I only have one life left, what can they lie to us? Dad, let me go, brother just got married, there is no shortage of people in the family, it is useless for me to stay at home, Me, I don't want to be like Uncle Twelve at the end of the village."

Uncle Twelfth at the end of the village is the youngest child. He will be twenty-three after his elder brothers marry their wives. His family will no longer be able to afford a wife, and the older brothers are clamoring to separate the family. In the end, he will be alone. People were assigned to the end of the village. Because they were poor, they never got a wife in their entire lives. They lived alone all the time, and life was very difficult.

   Ah Chun has feelings. He is seventeen years old, but his family can no longer afford the money to marry him.

  Besides, as the saying goes, a good man doesn’t want to live apart from his family. He wants to make a living on his own without relying on his parents and elder brothers.

  Achun's father was silent for a long time, but he nodded in agreement. He turned to Achunniang and said, "Make him some pancakes."

   Ah Chun became happy and couldn't help giving a low cheer.

  Daddy Ah Chun said: "Now there is no surplus grain to sell in every village except the landlord's house. If you want to find food, you should go to the landlord's housekeeper."

  Ah Chun knew that they often worked for the landlords nearby, and they were familiar with their housekeepers, and he even knew several masters.

These small landlords like to hoard some grain, and they also like to find local grain merchants when selling grain, but they don’t sell it all at once. After all, after the autumn harvest, grain prices drop, and they usually sell it in batches, and some even keep the grain until March next year. In April, sell them to grain merchants in order to get a better price.

  Achun took Zhao guy to find such a small landlord.

   Some of the stewards offered them some price, while others refused to sell at all, but the guys didn't panic, and pulled out Zhao Hanzhang's banner.

   In the face of Zhao Hanzhang and the court, many small landlords are willing to sell them grain, and some even hope that the Zhao family's buddies can introduce the Zhao family's stewards for them.

   What about Zhao Hanzhang, he is now the most powerful official in the state of Jin, and he can have a relationship with their housekeeper...you can wake up with a smile in your dreams.

Achun took them from village to household, and became more and more familiar with them. When the third batch of grain was collected, he decided to go to Yuzhou with the Zhao family's buddies. There were many local young people who had ideas like him, oh, they all It was Zhao guy who tricked him to lead them.

Young and strong, they do a lot of work, and their wages are still low. The monthly wages of more than a dozen people are not combined. It costs a lot to invite the stewards of the grain stores in the city to eat. The Zhao guys are very satisfied with this, and the stewards of the Zhao family are also very satisfied. Satisfied, Ah Chun and others who have made money and found a better way out are also very happy.

See you tomorrow

  (end of this chapter)