It took a year and a half for Su Xiu to finally control Taishan completely, and Taishan under Su Xiu's agricultural tool innovation and the food support introduced into the Mi family, the past situation of not having enough food is gone, on the contrary, almost all of the people's homes have a certain amount of food.

At the same time, due to the entry of merchants such as Mijia and Su Shuang, the economic situation of Mount Tai has also shown a trend of heating up, and Mount Tai, which was once a bitter cold place, is undergoing rapid changes.

Su Xiu is indeed very satisfied with the current situation, he doesn't have to be too distracted to deal with government affairs now, and most of his thoughts are on how to improve the combat effectiveness of the army.

In June of the fourth year of Guanghe (181 AD), the last batch of war horses of Su Shuang Zhang Shiping successfully arrived at Mount Tai, and the equipment of 3,000 war horses allowed Su Xiu to successfully form a cavalry battalion of 1,300 people. Among them were 500 heavy cavalry, 500 light cavalry and 300 cavalry archers. All cavalry are equipped with twin cavalry to strengthen their mobility, and the wolf tooth that Su Xiu relies on the most is one person and three cavalry.

However, when Su Shuang came this time, he also sent a piece of news, which made Su Xiu a little embarrassed for a while. There is a large-scale drought in Qingzhou, and the summer grain harvest in Qingzhou is less than 30%, and the autumn grain is estimated to be no more than 40% after the drought, which will mean that there will be a large number of refugees in Qingzhou.

And these refugees will flock to Jizhou, Xuzhou and Yanzhou. And Taishan is right at the intersection of Qingxu and Yan, and a large number of refugees are bound to flock to Taishan County. Although the situation in Taishan needs to change for the better, it is not enough to accommodate too many refugees.

What's more, the influx of refugees will inevitably cause food shortages and banditry, which is not a good thing for Taishan, who has just begun to improve. But Su Xiu also knows very well that the war in this era is about population, and only with a large population can there be enough soldiers, if these refugees can be successfully settled, it will be of considerable help to his prestige and the road to hegemony in the future.

Su Xiu couldn't make up her mind after weighing the pros and cons, so she immediately asked people to invite Xi Zhicai and Mi Zhen.

Yes, Su Xiu sent someone to Mi's rice shop to ask Mi Zhen to come over to discuss. First, the Mi family has a large amount of grain reserves, and secondly, Mi Zhen's mind is indeed very sharp, and she often sees problems to the point.

After a while, Xi Zhicai and Mi Zhen came to the county guard mansion one after another.

"I haven't seen you for almost two years in the blink of an eye, and Miss Mi San is getting more and more slim."

Indeed, Mi Zhen has not been to the county guard mansion since she talked about cooperation with Su Xiu the year before last, and now Mi Zhen, who is now twelve years old, although her face is still a little immature, but the outline of the beautiful girl is becoming more and more obvious.

Mi Zhen, who had seen Su Xiu's methods, would not be stunned by this casual compliment, and after sitting down, she went straight to the topic: "The adults praised it falsely, wouldn't the adults let the little girl come here today just to praise me?" If there is anything, just say it directly, as long as Mi Zhen can do it, she will naturally go all out. ”

"It's nothing, since the cooperation with the Mi family, the development of my Taishan is getting smoother and smoother, today I invite Miss Mi San to come, one is to chat to express gratitude, and the other is to care about the partners, I don't know how much Mi family rice line can have a surplus this year?"

"Thank you for not needing, since it is cooperation, it is naturally mutually beneficial, as for the profit and loss of my Mi family's rice shop, this only involves my Mi family, I'm afraid it won't bother you."

Seeing that Su Xiu asked about the income of Mi Xing as soon as he came, Mi Zhen 'groaned' in her heart, could it be that this person saw that my Mi family had a little harvest, and came to exploit it again?

It's no wonder that Mi Zhen thinks so, now most of the Han officialdom is trying to do everything possible to collect money, although this Su Xiu did help the Mi family a lot before, but this also makes the Mi family rely more and more on Su Xiu, although the business is still going on in Xuzhou, but the Mi family itself knows that the family's business focus has been on Mount Tai, if Su Xiu starts to fight the Mi family's idea at this time, the Mi family's situation will only be worse than before.

"The third lady is too careful, I just asked casually, and I didn't mean anything else." Su Xiu saw Mi Zhen's face stiffen for a moment, knowing that she might have thought too much, so she explained casually.

"Here's the thing, a few days ago, Su Shuang sent me the last batch of war horses to Mount Tai, but at the same time, it also brought mixed news to my Mount Tai, that is, a large-scale drought occurred in Qingzhou, so that Qingzhou's summer grain harvest this year is less than thirty percent."

"Oh? This doesn't seem to have much to do with my Mi family, right? Qingzhou is not the business scope of my Mi family, and even if my Mi family has a business in Qingzhou, then adults shouldn't be adults to inform us, right? ”

"I invite Miss San and Zhicai to come over today to hear your opinions, this is related to the development of my Taishan, and it is also related to whether the Mi family can do more business in Taishan in the future, Miss San, do you say that this has anything to do with the Mi family?"

"I want to hear about it."

"What does the lord mean is that the refugees caused by the drought in Qingzhou will pour into my Taishan, and the lord wants to settle these refugees?"

Xi Zhicai didn't speak from the moment he entered the door, mainly because Su Xiu didn't say anything, just chatting with Mi Zhen; There is also the fact that Xi Zhicai had thought about letting Su Xiuying marry Mi Zhen before, so that they could communicate more and have a greater grasp of the marriage proposal in the future.

"Yes, the time of the drought in Qingzhou makes me a little embarrassed, the drought happens, the refugees can only go to Jizhou, Xuzhou, Yanzhou, and Mount Tai is located at the junction of Yanzhou Xuzhou and Qingzhou, so Mount Tai is bound to have a large influx of refugees. And Taishan is now with a weak foundation, and I can't completely settle these refugees by relying on Taishan alone, but it is against heaven and earth to not save me, so I am very difficult. ”

"How are you going to settle these refugees? If it is not handled properly, it is very likely that the current good situation of Taishan will be in vain. ”

"That's why I invited the third lady to discuss."

"Me? Adults won't want to beat me again, will they? Although I do have a lot of grain in my Mijia rice store, but we have Xuzhou, Yuzhou, Yangzhou and this Taishan large number of stores, if you support adults, then my stores in other places will face the point of no rice to sell, which is undoubtedly not a good idea for my Mi family. ”

"What did Miss San say, what do you mean, our previous cooperation was still very pleasant. This time it was a last resort, and I didn't want Mi Jiabai to contribute, first, I would buy this part of the grain from Mi at market prices, and secondly, I would give Mi Jia greater policy support, which was a win-win situation. ”

"Since the adult said so, if Zhen Ruo refuses to resign, it seems that my Mi family is a mercenary villain, my lord say it directly, what do you need my Mi family to do?"

Hearing Su Xiu say this, Mi Zhen also felt that Su Xiu didn't want to get any benefits from the Mi family, just to keep Taishan's situation from deteriorating. After all, it took him two years of hard work to make Taishan regain a little vitality, and he really couldn't withstand too many waves.

"What Zhicai just said is right, I really want to resettle these refugees, so I wondered if the Mi family could send 500,000 stone of grain to Mount Tai in case of emergency. But this is only a way to cure the symptoms but not the root cause, so that the refugees will not be in Taishan for a short time, how to cure the root cause I haven't thought of for the time being, so invite the two of you to come to give me ideas. ”

"Five hundred thousand stones? You're not kidding, sir, are you? Not to mention that my Mi family does not have so much grain in stock, and even if there is, it is impossible to transport it all to Mount Tai, at most 200,000 stones. My lord, you also know that I cooperated with the adults before, and all the food used by my Mi family was taken out of the grain storage, how could I casually take out 500,000 stone of grain? ”

Mi Zhen was taken aback by the number Su Xiu said, it was not that his Mi family couldn't get the 500,000 yuan of grain in stock, but it would indeed make the Mi family fall into the dilemma of having no rice to sell. Businessmen make profits, and they will not let themselves gamble unless they have to.

"My lord, I think if it is done properly, 200,000 stone is enough to resettle the refugees." After thinking carefully, Xi Zhicai said to Su Xiu.

"Oh? How can Zhicai teach me? Su Xiu came up with a way to hear the drama and hurriedly asked.

"I heard that the lord is now planning to build a college and a medical center, right?"

"Yes, there are aspects of thinking, but what does this have to do with the resettlement of refugees?" Su Xiu didn't react for a while.