Chapter 54: Get through safely

As soon as President Deng was sent out of the door, Shi Bin and the brothers began to discuss several of his suggestions.

Wang San, who has also been a "chengguan", is very clear about buying grain from official warehouses.

But at the same time, he also understands that as long as he can return it on time, there will be nothing at all, even if the matter is revealed, as long as he holds the banner of Jia Yidao and shakes it to make up for a leak, it is estimated that there will not be much of a matter.

So he thinks that as long as Shi Bin greets the official food officer, it should be good to negotiate the conditions, but I don't know how much appetite the food officer has.

"What's more, it's true that we've been collecting taxes for the past two days, let's ask Lord Zhizhou for a favor, for the sake of your face as Lord Jia's son-in-law, he will definitely help." You must know that you say a sentence worthy of him for ten years. Wang San said confidently.

Shi Bin opened his mouth and said: "Both of these should be feasible, but I owe favors like this, especially the favors owed to these corrupt officials and corrupt officials, which makes me unhappy." ”

At this time, Zhao Gang spoke: "Big brother, those businessmen are mercenary, even if you fight for them, they will definitely make your money." Although the character of these colleagues is not good, most of them are not so greedy, right? ”

Although the words are straightforward and unadorned, they are indeed true. What's more, there are grains in several large granaries nearby, as long as they are done, they can be guaranteed for three months. And all the grain merchants' stocks can only be guaranteed for one month, so it is better to find the governor of Tanzhou.

Everything is, of course, from low to high, step by step. Shi Bin and Wang San first went to visit Li Yi, the grain officer.

The grain officer obviously looked down on the generals, but he still had basic respect for Shi Bin.

After serving a cup of tea, Li Yi asked with a smile: "Lord Commander is coming to the Humble House today, what are you doing?" ”

Looking at his performance, Shi Bin couldn't help but sigh that this guy is really cunning and cunning, what can you do when you come up to the grain management office? Isn't it just about food?

These people in charge of grain have an account of the entry and exit of grain and grass, Shi Bin's military rations have not arrived at this time, can he not know?

Since they are here to beg for help, they can't hold others too tightly, and they have to save some face for each other, so as not to get off the stage if they are unhappy.

"Lord Li, my military rations have not yet arrived, and the army supply is seriously insufficient, I don't know if this grain and grass have been sent? Or sent, how long will it take to get to Tanzhou on the road? If not, can I advance a portion of it from you? Shi Bin asked with some apprehension.

Li Yi groaned in his mouth, turning the teacup in his hand, as if he hadn't heard Shi Bin's words at all, and was just drinking tea for recreation.

Shi Bin was very angry with this appearance, and Wang San immediately took out two silver tickets of one hundred taels from his sleeves and handed them to Li Yi. It can really be described as "seeing money with an open eye", Li Yi immediately came to his senses as soon as he saw this piece of paper, and asked how much stone grain and grass he needed to advance.

At this time, Li Yi, the grain manager at this time, was not like an official, but more like a salesman, vigorously introducing all kinds of grain in the grain depot and explaining the methods and benefits of its consumption。。。。。。

"My lord, how much do you need to advance? We are going to charge a little interest, after all, we have taken a lot of risks, please forgive me. ”

These are all expected, I thought they were all under the same roof, and there were some discounts, but the interest quoted by Li Yi was frighteningly high, and it was absolutely cramping. But according to his tone, Shi Bin was still given a preferential price.

The interest of 500 stone is 500 stone a month, the interest of 1,000 stone is 9 stone a month, the interest of 2,000 stone is 17 stone a month, and the interest of 5,000 stone is 40 stone a month. If it's overdue, it's still going to be profitable.

Wang San was about to break out immediately, but this time he was stopped by Shi Bin and pointed to the outside of the house, although the two of them felt sorry for the two hundred taels of silver, they also had no choice but to leave, after all, the road was not blocked after receiving the money.

When he arrived in Zhizhou, the situation did not improve, everything was still talking about business, Zhizhou said even more pitifully, as if he was a refugee, and Shi Bin and Wang San were corrupt officials who used power for personal gain.

However, he has already become the governor, and his gas will definitely not be limited to a few taels of silver, and he is willing to pay attention to the whole process and do his best to help Shi Bin's military rations. However, the condition is: this year's evaluation will give him at least one middle and upper.

This kind of thing of beating the side drum, as long as you want to do it, anyone will do it, and now that the matter is urgent, it is natural to agree. After the transaction was completed, he left 500 taels of silver tickets for Zhizhou, and returned to the barracks in a hurry with 2,000 stone of grain and grass.

In this way, it can be regarded as a solution to the urgent need, as the so-called "cunning rabbit three holes", everyone thinks that they can't just rely on the road of official food, or someone must help them buy food from the shopping mall, so as to "double insurance".

Moreover, it has always been a businessman seeking officials, and it is good to inform those businessmen as soon as possible when there is a shortage of food in the future, so that he does not have to be so servile and can't raise his head.

Except for Wang San, who is a slippery head, the rest of the brothers are very iron-blooded and have never hated slavery and servant knees, so Shi Bin agrees with them, leaving this official road for backup, and usually using the trade route in case of emergency.

The 2,000 stone grain and grass that were transported back finally survived until the merchant came back to buy grain, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Then several orders were made to encourage farming, and everyone's hearts were finally settled. However, the most suitable thing in the south is rice, and the photos of Yuan Nongping, the "father of rice", still flash in Shi Bin's mind from time to time.

Perhaps because he is a native of Hunan, Shi Bin has a special affection for super rice, and he just wants to be able to eat such rice and experience the familiar aroma of rice.

While his thoughts were still flying, the guards came in to report that someone had picked up the bounty list. Hearing this news lifted Shi Bin's spirits, and he immediately bounced up from the rattan chair and said, "Please!" ”

After arranging his clothes in the room, he sat down at the main seat of the council chamber and waited quietly for the person who took the bounty to come in. He imagined the man to be a wrinkled farmer with calluses all over his body.

Shi Bin was surprised as soon as the man entered the door, not only was he not a cloth farmer, nor was he a businessman running around, but Li Ergou who was let go by himself on the mountain back then.

Before Shi Bin could react, Li Ergou knelt down to give a salute, seeing him make such a big salute, Shi Bin immediately walked down and helped him up, and said with a smile: "Ergou, why are you here, you picked the list?" ”

Knowing that Shi Bin must have a lot of questions, Li Ergou was not in a hurry after saluting, and said with a smile: "Thank you to Commander Shi for sparing his life back then, so that Ergou carefully thought about how to be a person." Although I will still be hungry and full in the future, I will not be able to afford the heart of plunder. ”

Hearing Li Ergou's words, Shi Bin was very happy and said: "It's good to call Brother Shi, you don't have to call Commander Shi too unfamiliar, if you want to call it, wait for the battle." I am very happy to have you say this, it is rare to be able to be so self-controlled. Please tell me about the high-yielding crops you know. ”

Next, Li Ergou carefully told Shi Bin about ways to increase rice yield. It turns out that rice has obvious heterosis, which is mainly manifested in vigorous growth, developed root system, large panicle and many grains, and strong stress resistance, so it is most feasible to use the heterosis of rice to greatly improve rice yield.

He said he had seen a way to increase the yield of rice per mu in Guangxi, called two-line hybridization.

The two-line hybrid rice was cultivated using light- temperature-sensitive sterile line rice as the basic material.

Light and temperature sensitive sterile line rice is very magical, and its fertility is to achieve the goal of one line and two uses with the change of light and temperature.

Specifically, this kind of rice is male sterile in summer, under long sunshine and high temperature, and all normal varieties can reproduce with it to produce hybrid seeds, which are the seeds of two-line hybrid rice.

This kind of light and temperature sensitive sterile line rice becomes normal rice in autumn, short day, and low temperature, and reproduces itself by itself, that is, inoculates itself. Because rice is a self-pollinating plant that belongs to dioecious.

This kind of hybrid rice is called two-line hybrid rice because it only has sterile lines (female parent) and restorer lines (male parent).

The biggest advantage of the two lines of rice is that the father and mother are in free love until they are the most satisfied, so that the hybrid rice produced is of better quality, better quality and higher yield.

With Li Ergou's words, Shi Bin immediately understood the mystery and laughed happily, as if he had seen a rice field with a yield of four or five stones per mu.

Although he knew that Shi Bin would be happy but didn't expect to lose his temper, Li Ergou smiled tentatively and said, "Brother Shi, even if you are happy, you can't do this, right?" What an insult to your identity! ”

"What kind of identity is insulted, Ergou, you don't know how many people you have saved! What a help to the eldest brother! Come on, come on。。。。。。 Shi Bin shouted excitedly.

Seeing that Shi Bin was so excited, he knew that he had invested in the right treasure, but he was also very surprised. I thought that I would exchange this information for five hundred taels of silver, and then go away to live a stable life in a foreign country, but I didn't expect to meet Shi Bin, a benefactor, and I am afraid that the road after that will not be completely according to his plan, which makes him feel a little complicated.

After a while, the guards came in to obey the order, and Shi Bin said with a smile: "Take this Mr. Li to get five hundred taels, not eight hundred taels of silver, go quickly!" ”

Li Ergou knew that Shi Bin was benevolent and righteous, but he didn't expect that he wouldn't be able to settle accounts, five hundred taels is something that ordinary people can't earn in a lifetime, how much is eight hundred taels of silver, doesn't he have any idea?

What's more, when he saw Shi Bin, he didn't want to leave, so he immediately said: "Brother Shi, this rice news should be regarded as the reward of the younger brother, forget the money, don't be so serious." ”

Shi Bin was so excited that he couldn't speak clearly, but he shook his head and hands and said that Li Ergou must first hand the five hundred taels of silver.

Knowing that Shi Bin was also a man of his word, he had no choice but to compromise and promise to accept it, but asked Shi Bin to cut it down to two hundred taels of silver, after all, it was impossible to count the real thing if he didn't see it.

Shi Bin didn't like to bargain, and insisted that he collect at least five hundred taels, because he thought that a manly man must be true to his word. How can there be a self-destructive promise, let alone a friend?

In the end, Li Ergou threatened not to show Shi Bin the samples of this rice if he didn't let him only accept two hundred taels of silver, let alone tell Shi Bin the specific cultivation method, so Shi Bin agreed to his conditions.

When Shi Bin said the news in the council hall, everyone immediately boiled, and they praised Li Ergou's character.

Wang San was relatively calm, mentioning that since this was just news, it was not good to cash in the reward immediately, and asked Li Ergou to go south to bring back the relevant hybrid rice seeds.

And Shi Bin repeatedly said that he believed in Li Ergou and had to give him the two hundred taels of silver, after all, he still had to go south, and he always needed some travel expenses, not to mention that this was news and exciting good news.

Of course, Li Ergou wanted to follow this big brother Shi well, so he quickly brought the hybrid rice back to Tanzhou for planting. And wholeheartedly pounced on this cultivated rice, and after a season of rice trial planting, the average yield per mu actually reached four stones and five, and the whole camp was happy.

Seeing that he had become so capable and kind, Wang San proposed to Shi Bin: apply to Meng Hui to let Li Ergou serve as the commander of the first battalion as compensation. After hearing this, everyone agreed, and proposed that he be directly managed by Shi Bin's grain and grass supply.

Li Ergou was moved to tears and promised to ensure Shi Bin's food security.