Chapter 135: Food that can never be sold out
Conversations between smart people are boring.
Because they don’t say serious things in every word, but they try hard to tell you what they really think with every word.
Hong Chengchou told Yun Zhao that he planned to rob this batch of grain and store it to deal with more severe situations in the future.
He strongly opposed Yang He's proposal of appeasement, and was deeply worried about the emperor's insistence on treating all people in the world as innocent subjects.
Scholars all believe that when faced with the torrent of the world, it is better to block it than to open it up, but they have forgotten that as long as the flood is flowing, it will destroy the places where the mountain torrent passes. After the flood is flooded, the ground will not Maybe it will return to its original appearance.
——Hong Chengchou is ready to take risks!
He knew that Yun Zhao was probably responsible for what happened in Shaohua Mountain.
Now, he clearly told Yun Zhao that he was also prepared to make a bigger one.
This idea is too dangerous.
When an official is not prepared to act according to the rules and is unwilling to use his power to achieve his goals, the world becomes dangerous.
However, it was nothing to Daming. For a terminally ill person, it didn’t matter if he added a few more injuries.
Yun Zhao believed that people like Li Hongji and Zhang Bingzhong were actually suffering from scabies. If the Ming Dynasty could solve their own problems, it would be almost a matter of minutes to deal with these people.
It’s just that the emperor is the only one in the ruling group who works hard at night, and the rest of the people don’t have much interest in changing the world.
Because all the current systems and orders are most beneficial to them.
Like a group of stupid rats, they are desperately gnawing at the wooden boat they are sheltering in, and this wooden boat is now sailing into the rapids.
Hong Chengchou is a stupid mouse who wants to protect the ship. In order to achieve this goal, he wants to kill other stupid mice who are chewing on the wooden ship.
However, the goshawk flying over the wooden boat knew that a huge wooden boat was crawling with rats chewing on the wooden boat. Occasionally, there were one or two people rowing, pulling oars, and pulling sails. , which does not help the wooden ship that is about to collapse.
When Huang Yongfa delivered the salt, Yun Zhao had already prepared the food.
This year is an excellent year for the people of Lantian County. Unfortunately, this year, the people of Lantian County can only eat sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn to satisfy their hunger...
All other grains were sold, but no one bought these new grains.
You can only eat the food that no one wants, just like a merchant can only use the leftover goods that no one wants after selling them.
Yun Zhao still has not had direct contact with Huang Yongfa. In the past, he was afraid that he would attack him secretly after seeing his true face.
No need now, Hong Chengchou has decided to enter the venue. With Hong Chengchou’s sophisticated calculations,There is basically no way for this person to survive.
It is better to have less contact with a person whose face is full of death, so Yun Zhao quickly withdrew from the whole matter.
It may be better for the food to fall into the hands of Hong Chengchou than to fall into the hands of the frontier troops on the nine sides.
The grain was sold and replaced with salt. With the addition of coarse cloth from Lantian County, various industries in Lantian County began to show signs of prosperity.
An area gets better just as quickly as a place starts to get bad.
As long as the foundation is solid, economic laws will naturally guide the progress of the local economy in the future.
Seeing cartloads of grain being taken away by others, the people of Lantian County stood on the roadside.
Everyone looks ugly.
Although I can eat sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn to eat enough, I still feel extremely uneasy when I see others taking away my food.
People from several neighboring counties are eager to get into Lantian County. People from Chang'an County, which used to be almost the wealthiest county in Xi'an Prefecture, also want to enter Lantian County.
Seeing that the land in the county is getting less and less, and people are starting to plant crops on the previously abandoned land, it is impossible for the people in Lantian County not to have a sense of urgency.
The money came back to my hands, but the food went out. Looking at the empty granary and the cellar full of sweet potatoes and potatoes, the feeling of emptiness in my heart was really hard to describe.
Lantian County was out of food, so no one cared about it. In October, people in Lantian County harvested the last sweet potatoes, cut down the sweet potato vines that were still growing wildly, and every household prepared for the winter.
Before the weather cooled down completely, the people of Yunshi Zhuangzi began to burn charcoal. At the foot of Bald Mountain, thick smoke billowed and dust filled the sky.
It is not allowed to cut down the trees on Yushan Mountain, but the miscellaneous trees on Bald Mountain are the best raw materials for making charcoal.
This thing can grow in two years. Cut off a batch and plant another batch. This cycle has been maintained in Yunshi Zhuangzi for many years.
Lantian County has coal, but not many people like to use it. The main reason is that it smokes too much when burned and can kill people, so charcoal is still the main method.
This logic makes no sense to Yun Zhao. Coal can kill people just like charcoal.
Anyway, in the era before Yunzhao, if people committed suicide by burning charcoal, their first choice was charcoal, not coal.
After carefully studying this thing, Yun Zhao found that there are two main reasons. One is that the coal in Lantian County is not good and it is large. Bituminous coal, secondly, the stove is very poor, so poor that it makes people want to get angry.
Throwing coal into an earth stove with air leakage from all sides, and blocking the house tightly at night, is not heating at all, but suicide.
Fortunately, this thing was not difficult for Yun Zhao. After two days of improvement, the simplest iron stove officially entered the home of Yunjiazhuangzi.
This thing is goodYes, it can not only keep warm, but also boil water and cook. During the cold days, the whole family gathers around the stove, puts an iron pot on the stove, and cooks a pot full of potatoes. Beautiful days are just around the corner. .
Don’t eat too much sweet potatoes. If you eat too much, you will fart. It has the same effect as eating black beans, but polenta is a good thing.
After the people of Yunjiazhuangzi ate potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn for two months, they quickly summed up their experience.
The consequence of selling food and everyone having money is that they dare to spend money.
There are mountains of salt, various small grains, and various iron tools, making Lantian County the largest county within a radius of two hundred miles except Xi'an Prefecture. A goods distribution center.
Even people from Xi'an Prefecture are used to coming to Caoshizi in Lantian County to buy grains.
At this time, in Yun's hall, Huang Yongfa was still sitting like an old pine.
Only the left half of his face was burnt black, and even his eyes turned into black holes. He sat upright in the chair, showing no interest in the tea and pastries brought by Yun's servants.
"What happened there?" Yunmeng did not greet Huang Yongfa in a pretentious manner, but asked Genmiao directly.
"Kill the tiger's mouth!" Huang Yongfa's simple and concise answer.
"Killing the tiger's mouth, that's almost to the territory of the Tatars. Old Huang, how could you take that road? You're too imprudent."
Huang Yongfa sighed. : "It's my fault this time. I should have gone through Hancheng and Houma. I was worried that there were too many bandits there, so I deliberately skipped the long journey. Unexpectedly, I was still worried about the thieves."
"Thieves? Shouldn't it be the Tatars who are causing trouble to you?"
"It's not the Tatars, but the thieves. A certain family has been doing business with the Mongolian princes for many years, and they still have some friendship. They robbed our grain team. They are thieves, a group of thieves with piles of firearms!"
Yunmeng spread his hands and said: "The sky is unpredictable, and people are prone to misfortunes. Brother Huang is in trouble, so he should stay in Yun's for a while. Time, I see that your injuries have not healed yet. We will talk about the rest later. This big thing is not as important as your health."
Huang Yongfa suddenly stood up and knelt down with a thud. Yunmeng said in front of him: "Brother Yun, you are the only one who can save me now. I want to buy another 30,000 tons of grain from Lantian County!"
Yunmeng quickly stood up and helped Huang Yongfa, saying repeatedly: " Get up, get up, how can this happen?"
Huang Yongfa said in a sad voice: "Brother Yun, if you don't save me, Huang Yongfa will die on his knees in the Yun family hall today."
While Huang Yongfa and Yunmeng were entangled in the lobby, Yun Zhao also welcomed his guests.
Hong Chengchou took a roasted sweet potato from the small stove, peeled off the skin, took a delicious bite and said, "Who is coming up to your lobby?"
Yun Zhaoxiao Said: "Huang Yongfa, a wealthy businessman in Zhangjiakou."
"Why are you here?"
"I heard that he bought 50,000 yuan from YunshiThe load of grain was robbed at Shuozhou Killing Tiger Gate. In order to collect enough food for the border army, he also wanted to purchase another 30,000 load of grain from Lantian County. "
Hong Chengchou swallowed the hot golden potato flesh and asked softly: "Can you Lantian County still provide 30,000 tons of grain? "
Yun Zhao shook his head and said: "Unless I deprive the people of their food rations.
Hong Chengchou nodded and said: "The rations cannot be taken away. How do you reply to this Huang Yongfa?" "
Yun Zhao spread his hands and said: "I can't help you!
Hong Chengchou smiled and said: "I still have 30,000 tons of grain in my hand. You can help me sell it to Huang Yongfa, and you can get 20% of the profit." ”