(TXT ) (TXT ) (TXT) Whether it is war or economy, as long as political factors are mixed in, the higher the status of the plotter, the greater the potential benefits of the plan, and the darker and more ruthless the process of acting.

Once the country is unable to allocate enough grain, Li Dacheng's measures will only be limited to increasing some food money and grain relief, it is not difficult for him to protect the people of Jiaozhou, but it will be difficult to protect all the people in northern Lubei, once the grain shortage really spreads in northern Lubei, then he can only take care of those who participated in the construction of the Tabutou wharf, as for the others, when will the problem of food source be solved, when will Li Dacheng take care of them.

Many people describe politics as a game of chess, although Li Dacheng said that he has no official body, although he lives in a Taoist temple on a small mountain, but he is playing the big chess game of food security in the Qing Dynasty, and the death and injury of hundreds of thousands of people on the Jingu battlefield, once it is necessary, the chessboard of food security may also be full of corpses, and he would rather have countless dead and injured than reveal fatal flaws, this is his starting point.

In the next three days, Wang Maozhai went back and forth to the Tang Palace of Aishan at least twice a day, and there was only one good news that could be brought, six hundred stone grain came from Luxi, six hundred stone for three days, and the personnel of Jiaozhou Mansion used at least five hundred stone to drink porridge a day, two hundred stone a day, and there was equal to nothing!

Li Chengyou has not given a definite answer for a long time, when will a large amount of grain arrive in Jiaozhou Prefecture, the root cause of the grain shortage problem lies in Jiaozhou Prefecture, if you want to solve the grain shortage, you must also start from Jiaozhou Mansion, Jiaozhou Mansion is an important economic town in northern Lubei. It is also one of the important cargo turnover hubs in northern Lubei, and what Li Dacheng is looking forward to now is not grain from the land, but grain from the sea.

An average of 200 stone a day by land, and at least 3,500 stone or more by sea, at least 1,000 stone or more grain, can temporarily solve the grain shortage in a county.

Sending people south to transport grain is even more unrealistic. Tens of thousands of people going south will directly expand the grain shortage in northern Shandong to Shandong. Then it spread to the south, and in many cases, the famine was man-made, and sending people to transport grain by land on a large scale would also have more disadvantages than benefits.

On the fifth day, the price of grain in Jiaozhou doubled again. On this night. Li Cheng, who has never had any definite news, went ashore at Tabutou in the second half of the night. Arrived at the Tang Palace, Aishan.

"Uncle, I brought the grain. But the Germans won't let them in! You send someone to use a small boat to lead the steamer from Haikou to Tabutou, and let's use the boat to unload the grain!" ”

Li Chengyou sat paralyzed on the ground with the wind and dust all the way, and said nothing. Directly let Li Dacheng organize a small boat to unload grain.

"No hurry! Drink before you talk! ”

Looking at Li Cheng's festering mouth and nose because he was in a hurry, Li Dacheng was not only not worried, but a little relieved, this is the tempering on the business road, and after experiencing it, you will have experience, in addition to experience, calmness is also very important in business.

"How much grain did you bring this time?"

Seeing that his eldest nephew Li Chengyou drank two bowls of tea and panted evenly, Li Dacheng opened his mouth to ask.

"Two boats, sixty-five thousand stones!"

The grain was delivered, but it couldn't be unloaded, Li Cheng had too much worry in his heart, and drank two bowls of herbal tea, suppressing the anger all over his body, feeling that things were not done well, he was still worried in his heart.

"Hmmm! Yes, 60,000 stone of grain is enough to temporarily alleviate the grain shortage in northern Lubei! Then let's not be in a hurry!

Tell me, why didn't the Germans let your ship unload at Jiaoao? ”

Today, the temporary wharf in Jiaoao, although it is not yet a free port, but it did not refuse ships from various countries to dock before, and was not allowed to enter the port to unload, perhaps the Germans wanted to blackmail themselves, or maybe the shadow of the plague had not yet dissipated, if it was the latter, it would be in line with some of Li Dacheng's plans.

"It's not because of the plague!

It is not easy to find a boat in the south, our boat here, now it is not smooth wind or water, and the winter is windy, no boat family is willing to take the risk to come to Jiaoao!

I went to China Merchants again, but it turned out that the ship was repaired recently, and the ship would only sail after the beginning of spring!

The same is true of the British Taikoo Shipping Company, helplessly, I promised some medicinal herbs to Lao Maozi in the south, and then I hired two Lao Maozi cargo ships!

In terms of the price of medicinal materials, the price of freight is the same as the price of grain. ”

Hearing Li Chengyou say the word plague, Li Dacheng smiled, sure enough! Once a person suffers a loss in one thing, after suffering a loss, he will be overly defensive about such a thing for a long time, and the closure of China Merchants Steamship and Taikoo Shipping Company is a trouble for his eldest nephew Li Chengyou, but for him, it is the best thing.

"During this time, I asked you to send a telegram to inquire about the food source, how did you do this?"

"Uncle, what we have is grain, from Sichuan to Su Songtai, as long as the silver is enough, I dare not say that three million stone of rice can easily go down the river, but the waterway to Shanghai Road is not passable, and a section of the canal can only go to Qingjiangpu, and the cost of transporting grain by land is higher than that of my grain transportation this time!

There is also grain in the northwest, but the grain in the northwest has recently entered the Beijing division by land, and there are many pack horses there, and the cost of transporting grain is less than ours, and the cost of entering Shandong from the northwest is even greater!

Then there is the grain in the Northeast, there is no good grain over there, but the backlog of soybean cakes, soybeans, and sorghum also has millions of stones, and there is also news over there, because of the plague, the British, and the little Japanese do not want the soybean cakes in the Northeast, the soybeans and sorghum can be saved, but the soybean cakes cannot be saved. A basket of bean cakes is 300 catties, and these two baskets of bean cakes are five stone grains, which are no different from giving them for nothing.

These grains in the Northeast are the cheapest, but the ports of Yingkou, Niuzhuang, and Luda are all closed, and it costs too much to transport them by land.

Uncle! I'm so aggrieved! ”

Listening to Li Cheng's statement, Li Dacheng almost laughed out loud, how did he say that? Sleepiness comes with pillows!

"Cheng Yes, how is the trade of medicinal herbs in the south now?"

"There's nothing going on! During this time, according to my uncle's orders, I have been asking for guns from foreign devils, but they don't have many guns, and the price has been rising. Cotton cloth, cotton yarn, these things, now I don't want to dispel the plague, I can't transport it out, and the trading of medicinal materials during this time is deserted! ”

"What about the price?"

"The price is under the agreement, we can't raise or lower it, it's still the original price!"

I'm talking about food! Uncle Dacheng immediately turned the topic to medicinal materials, and after Li Chengyou answered a few words casually, he was a little puzzled, what does this medicinal material have to do with food?

"Good!

When the two boats of grain are unloaded. If you return to Shanghai, Lao Maozi's two cargo ships, you might as well give them a little more freight. On one's mind! Shipping costs can only be paid for with medicinal herbs!

In addition, when you go back to Shanghai Road, you have to do a few things, one is to let Lao Maozi go to win over the British Taikoo Ship, go out to transport grain for us, and talk about one. How many medicinal herbs to give the Taikoo ship. Just give half to Lao Maozi!

The second is to make some articles with the cotton yarn and cotton cloth given by foreign devils before, and it is said that foreign cloth and foreign yarn are used by employing people. If you get into the plague, don't spend money to hire someone to do it. Let the soldiers of the Zhenwei Army do it!

The third is the medicinal materials for epidemic prevention, and continue to trade guns and silver, in addition to these things. We don't want anything else!

Fourth, they spent money to buy off the officials of Shanghai Province and let them come forward to boycott foreign goods on the grounds of the plague.

Fifth, use medicinal materials to buy foreign devils' ships, the price is high and low for them to go to their own way, there are many sailors in Shandong, and there are also a lot of sailors in the Nanyang, spend more silver, dig up a group of sailors who can drive the boat, and then recruit a group of foreign devil sailors, let's also open a boat by ourselves, specially used to transport grain!

Sixth, the freight of the foreign devil's cargo ship, according to the price opened by Lao Maozi, the goods of the foreign devil, to Lao Tzu to the death to reduce the price, how much they want to give the freight, remember! Or use medicinal materials to offset the freight!

For the time being, it's just six things, done well, is the food shortage a fart? ”

The impact of the plague is long-term, the rise of medicinal materials and traditional Chinese medicine is just the beginning, and now the plague has devastated the economy and has begun to appear.

These materials, under the shadow of the plague, are not much different from garbage, the plague is not terrible, what is terrible is people's fear of the plague, at this time, it should be time for Dafali City, even if it will really spread the plague, the poor and crazy and hungry people of the Qing Dynasty will also use these things.

Moreover, the plague can be prevented, as long as the source is found, contaminated goods? Ninety percent should be safe, there are too many things in the big clearance, even if it is not safe, this business has to be done!

"Uncle, what are you doing here?"

"Don't understand? Then stay here and think about it, and then look for me if you figure it out, if you don't even understand this, what else do you do to do business? ”

Leaving such a sentence, Li Dacheng took Qian Laoba down to Aishan overnight, and the first person to find was none other than the engineer Zhan Tianyou.

Hurry up all the way, when I arrived at Jiaozhou Mansion, the sky was also bright, Zhan Tianyou, who was eating breakfast, looked at Li Erye, who was covered in frost, and after quickly swallowing the food in his mouth, he ushered in the spring breeze on his face.

"Second master, do you have a way?"

"Hmmm! Tabutou Port, when will it be available? ”

"This ......

Second master, aren't you embarrassed? This Tabutou Port, less than a month and a half to start, most of the time is still building a branch railway, now the Tabutou Port, only a less than a zhang of the earth dam, the wind and waves come, muddy, can not be used at all! ”

Hearing Second Master Li's question, Zhan Tianyou almost spit out the meal he had just swallowed, this master is really good! Everything is urgent, Tabutou Port is far from using, at least two months, this time to use, how is it possible?

Seeing the mysterious smile on Second Master Li's face, Zhan Tianyou thought of the food shortage again, and without waiting for Li Dacheng to speak, he opened his mouth again.

"Second master, but the grain ship has arrived in Haikou? Isn't it possible to go to the wharf in Jiaoao? ”

"Alas...... If Jiaoao can go, what am I doing with you?

This time I was looking for Lao Maozi's cargo ship, the Germans were afraid that Lao Maozi would spread the plague, so they didn't let them dock, there were 60,000 stone grain at sea, enough to temporarily solve the food shortage, this food has arrived, but you can't let you preside over the throat of the Tabu head card master!

Now that there is an earthen dam, you Zhan Chengcheng will dismantle all the door panels, bed boards, and house beams in Jiaozhou Mansion, and you have to let the grain ship unload within three days! ”

This person can't be forced, the earth dam is already there, in Li Dacheng's view, it is a simple wharf, this is not to take the train, the wheelbarrow is also completed!

"With planks? Second master, you mean to pave the road with wooden planks?

But the dirt road at the wharf is at least five miles long, so how can people talk about transporting grain to the station?

By the way, with a wheelbarrow, that's fine! Not three days, today is one day, there are a lot of wooden rows on the construction site, as long as at the very front, tie a log dock for ships to dock, straw mats, wooden boards, door panels, without door panels should be enough!

The second master really has a hurry! Sincerity is not enough! ”

Li Dacheng gave a method, Zhan Tianyou, an engineering master, can naturally draw inferences from one another, in the process of building the railway, the road is muddy, and he also needs to solve it, and the different paths are the same.

"Then why don't you hurry up and mobilize the centaurs?

The matter of the wharf, you also have to rush to work, this time it is two ships, I estimate, ten days and a half months, at least five or six more cargo ships to be unloaded at the head of the tower, you don't delay the whole Shandong major events! ”

"Hey...... I'm going to gather the men right away! ”

Looking at Zhan Tianyou in the distance, Li Dacheng smiled, urged the horses, and walked towards the inner city again. (To be continued.) (。 ))

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