Chapter 57: Dealing with Troubled Times
Covered with devastation, Du Le went out of the city, and what he saw and heard shocked him. Countless people died of starvation and disease on the roadside, not to mention the villages with thick smoke.
Who brought all this? Du Le is not a great man, he is just a small citizen, a college student who has just graduated, his life experience is not rich, in the face of this situation, the soul shock along the way can be imagined.
Regardless of men, women, and children, all of them are living people. Their hunger, their pain, there is no hope, so they have to explode. The laissez-faire and indifference of the upper echelons of the Chu State led to the homeless people becoming mobs. They went around destroying and snatching everything they could. The first to suffer were the people around Jinyang City.
It seems that the emperor and bureaucrats of Chu no longer bother with the hungry exiles, or even let them become mobs. They just want to hold the city. Du Le couldn't help but think that the situation was getting worse and worse. If it continues to develop, who would have thought how far it would go?
Du Le was a little uneasy, and the reason for this situation was not only the lack of food in Chu itself, and the impact of the defeat, but also his encouragement. The news of the food shortage was the first to be released by him.
However, Du Le did not regret it, because the result of all this was not caused by him. It can only be said that he has a catalytic effect, but because his property is threatened, he does not continue to maintain it.
The manor outside the city has long been occupied by displaced people, and all the food and valuable things have been robbed. Du Le didn't have any expectations, Yan Fu bought off the captain who guarded the city, and let Du Le and a strong man from the manor sit down the wall from the city tower in a hanging basket.
Evaded several mob gangs, encountered road robbers, and used food to open the way. Fortunately, there is space to store food, plus the delicious Xuan instant noodles in the space, I will always take some food out and bring it with me, and then pretend that all the food is robbed every time, the robbers are generally homeless, and they will not hurt their lives if they have food.
Du Le and the two had no danger along the way, and walked for a full day before they reached the villa.
On the outskirts of the lodge, Tule saw a small wooden watchtower with a strong man watching. Under the tower, there is a long fence, and more than a dozen strong men with guns and sticks guard the passage up the mountain.
Outside the fence, more than a dozen people in tattered clothes and homeless people were lining up, telling the strong men guarding the passage.
The strong men who followed Du Le quickly stepped forward to identify themselves, and Du Le waited for a while, and two strong men led them up the mountain.
At the gate of the villa, the housekeeper came out to greet him, and Du Le asked about the situation at the bottom of the mountain.
"Master, there are some homeless people under the mountain, and yesterday I released news that the mountain villa is going to mine and find miners, and there is food and drink, so many homeless people come to us to find a job." The butler said.
"You know everything about Jinyang City, be careful, don't let bandits mix into the mountain villa mine." Du Le hesitated for a moment and said. Although Du Le sympathized with the homeless and intended to help them, he did not dare to underestimate the destructive power of the homeless when they became a mob.
The business in Jinyang City has basically stopped, and only one restaurant is still operating. The lodge is the largest property of the Tule and cannot be missed.
"Don't worry, sir, eight hundred strong men will take turns to guard the courtyard, and ordinary mobs will not be able to fight." The butler replied.
"Soon, a batch of weapons will come, and I will hand them over to the villa then." Du Le nodded, thought for a while, and continued: "The nursing home can continue to recruit and intensify training, and they must be strengthened in their skills. Only when we are stronger, can we be safer. In addition, you can continue to recruit displaced people, I see that there is a lot of wasteland around the villa, you can arrange for them to open up the wasteland and farm, and if there are more people, they will go to mining, and if there are more, they will continue to recruit as the guardian of the villa, and all the people in the villa will not be able to eat idle food. I'll be bringing food over one after another. ”…,
The old housekeeper's eyes flashed, he had lived for most of his life, and he could become an old man no matter what, Du Le's series of measures reminded him of supporting the army and self-respect.
If it is a person in another world, the old butler's thoughts are not wrong. It's just that he can't know that Du Le doesn't belong to this world, and he doesn't want to become a hegemon.
Actually, Du Le's idea is very simple, expand his strength and earn more gold coins. He already regarded the villa as his back garden, and the destruction he saw along the way could not befall the villa. What Du Le did was just self-preservation.
Without the villa, there would be no endless supply of clover, and the instant noodles would not have their own unique taste. Perhaps, not so serious, as long as Du Le has a teleporter, he can always buy clovers from elsewhere. But as a businessman, a stable supply of raw materials is important to maintain the healthy development of a business. It is precisely because of the teleporter that Du Le has a back road, so he can not care about the attitude of the powerful people in the Chu State. If you can't maintain my normal business activities, or even rob my property, then I will have to recruit troops to protect myself. As long as there is more than 100% profit, I don't care about anything. What's more, this profit is more than 200 percent, which is enough for Du Le to trample on the laws of this world.
After setting up the coordinates in the villa, Du Le teleported back to the warehouse in Fuyong, and took a batch of grain and ordinary instant noodles. In view of the fact that the factory has to specialize in the production of Meiweixuan instant noodles, and there is only one production line to produce noodles, which may not be able to cope with the consumption in the villa, Du Le placed an order with some small instant noodle factories around Fuyong, and bought the noodles alone, the quality of the average quality can also be, two cents a flour cake, and the first purchase of 100,000 yuan, about 200,000 flour cakes.
After the teleporter was upgraded, the buffering time was greatly reduced, and Du Le did not waste much time before teleporting back to the villa again.
The housekeeper looked at his master, came and went, brought back batches of food, and his confidence increased greatly, and he hurriedly ordered his subordinates to spread the word that the villa would recruit homeless people, do it for work, settle with grain, and also send out rumors about recruiting nursing homes.
"Master, this batch of food is enough for half a month's food in the mountain villa now, but if you continue to recruit displaced people, you still need more food." Du Le had just laid down and enjoyed the maid's massage, when the butler said.
"What?!" Du Le found that he seemed to have overlooked a very important matter, "Butler, how many people are there in the Chu Kingdom, and how many displaced refugees do you estimate will come to the villa?" ”
"There are about 500,000 households in the Chu State, and there are no less than 1 million displaced people who are suffering, and there are no less than 200,000 displaced people outside Jinyang City alone. If an adult needs four catties of rice and various grains a day, children and the elderly will be halved, and if 100,000 adults go to work in the villa, we must prepare at least 400,000 catties of grain every day, and we must have 12 million catties of grain in a month. If you use bread, you have to consume 200,000 breads a day. The housekeeper calculated them one by one and said.
"What!" Du Le was taken aback, he did not expect that the consumption of food would be so large. At present, the average rice costs two yuan a catty, and if it is wholesaled, it may drop a few more cents, even if it is one yuan a catty, it will cost 12 million yuan a month.
Du Le asked the maid to leave, sat up, and thought to himself, during this period of time, the grain and instant noodles were sold in restaurants and Meiweixuan noodle restaurants, and a lot of gold coins were stored in the space, more than 200,000 yuan of gold coins, all of which were exchanged for Chinese dollars, and should be able to buy 12 million catties of rice. However, this is not the case. The homeless people are just refugees, and they don't need to buy too good rice, and ordinary grains should be fine. But even so, the cost of millions is still indispensable.
This couldn't help but make Du Le feel a slight heartache, how did he come up with this fund?
After thinking about it, Du Le hit the idea of the objects in the space again. I remember that he once bought a superb emerald in the Treasure Pavilion, plus he had one energy stone left, just to take it to someone to estimate, if he could, he would sell it to make some money.
However, Du Le thought of another problem: if the amount of grain purchased in Fuyong City is too large, it is easy to attract the attention of the relevant departments, and he cannot explain the whereabouts of the large amount of grain, I am afraid that it will arouse suspicion.
Therefore, Du Le plans to purchase this batch of grain, and it is best to go to some large grain-producing countries to buy it.