Such a shrewd calculation is really not something that ordinary people can come up with, Arjuna was also in the clouds before, and it was not until the end that she finally figured out the reason.

Arjuna's beautiful eyes roamed around Zhao Rui's side face, feeling that Zhao Rui was like a bottomless strange spring, resourceful and decisive, even if he didn't have the assistance of a musket, he would definitely do something in this troubled world.

Zhao Rui consciously arranged it properly, and he was in a good mood, so after going out of the city to join Zhao Gong's troops, he returned to Yongping Village.

I guess I'm starting to harvest when I go back this time.

Zhao Rui returned to Yongping Village, only to see that the village was busy up and down, and at this time there was a group of more than 30,000 displaced people, they were in rags, hungry chests and backs, and some were even ready to sell their sons and daughters, just to ask for some food, to be able to live.

But when they arrived at Yongping Village, the people here seemed to be commonplace for the homeless people, and someone led them to the porridge shed, and everyone received 10,000 fragrant and smooth white rice porridge.

As they ate rice porridge and looked at the endless fields of ripe rice in the fields next to the village, they were amazed.

It's not that they haven't received relief, and along the way, thanks to the conscientious government and wealthy families who set up porridge sheds to save people, but it is also clear soup and little water, a big bowl of porridge, it would be good to have a small half bowl of rice, which is as sticky as the white rice porridge in front of you?

And Yongping Village is like a pure land here, the wheat waves dancing in the wind are tugging at the heartstrings of the displaced people, fields, grain, and harvest, which is simply a great temptation for displaced refugees.

This time, Zhao Rui didn't worry, and the villagers' attitude towards the displaced people was also extremely enthusiastic, and even many old village chiefs and the like went to Zhao Rui to borrow people to harvest rice.

Sure enough, some people have power!

Originally, these displaced people were still discussing finding a few literate people to talk to the officials to see if they could be accepted here, but before they could put forward suitable candidates, they had already been scattered and sent to various fields.

Not only does Yongping Village need people, Wenzhou Luzhou is okay, most of it is reclaimed wasteland, and the output is not too much, but Dabao, Hulang and Wanya Prefecture are all in a hurry.

These more than 30,000 homeless people have not been idle for a moment, and they have been busy after collecting here and there.

It's a good thing to have work to do, and if you have work, you will naturally have food to eat, but what the displaced people never expected was that they could still eat meat!

Whether it was poultry or pork, when they saw the thick pieces of meat in the bowl, they didn't know how many of them ate it with tears in their eyes. After eating, these people worked the one hand, it was a reward for gratitude, and on the other hand, it was a yearning for this fertile land.

In less than a few days, in addition to the food distributed to the farmers for their own consumption, the various granaries have accumulated and have harvested tens of thousands of catties of grain, which makes Zhao Ruile unable to close his mouth.

Finally, there is no need to worry about food anymore, and a big stone in Zhao Rui's heart has finally landed.

After finishing the food, he began to have time to clean up other agricultural and sideline crops, Yongping Village harvested a large number of vegetables and fruits, these vegetables are extremely high-yield varieties, Zhao Rui ordered someone to pull it with a car, and distributed it to various cities.

Zhao Rui stepped on the field again, Song Fengyi was holding a big pumpkin, the corners of his mouth were about to reach the root of his ears, he had found a small one to go home and steam it to eat, he couldn't imagine that it was extremely sweet, like rice and vegetables, absolutely good!

"Fengyi, don't always hold the pumpkin, it won't run away with long legs!"

Zhao Rui couldn't help but laugh when he saw Song Fengyi holding the biggest pumpkin in the field.

"Haha, lord, look at it, this is the pumpkin I planted, how about it, isn't it particularly big!"

This pumpkin is estimated to be more than 100 catties, no wonder Song Fengyi is so happy. Zhao Rui thought to himself that he didn't have a mobile phone, otherwise it would be excellent to take a photo as a souvenir.

In another field, someone was collecting chili peppers, and one by one the chili peppers fell red into the bamboo basket, and Zhao Rui's saliva was about to come down. This kind of pepper is short and plump, with a sharp end, and it is estimated that it is a relatively spicy Chaotian pepper, which is good, improves the taste, and also reduces the dosage.

When it is used in people's meals, it is also convenient to resist the damp and poisonous air here in Jiaozhi, but there is really no way, the environment here is dull and humid.

At noon, Zhao Rui specially cooked in person, and made a braised pork with chili peppers, pork thick oil red sauce with skin, burned red and black translucent, and with mouth-watering chili peppers, the eyes of Arjuna, Xiaoyi and Zhao Gong were shining, often chewing in their mouths, and their eyes were always staring at the plate.

"Okay, okay, you eat slowly, I haven't eaten a few pieces yet...... Zhao Rui complained unwillingly, this meal not only made Zhao Gong and Arjuna eat with oily mouths, but even Xiao Yi had no manners.

It seems that all of his subordinates are foodies......

The grain harvest was bumper, Mo Yan and other old village chiefs were completely convinced, and 8 stones of rice were produced on one acre of land, which is simply unimaginable to people in this era, or listening to books, or dreaming, but facts are facts after all, Zhao Rui knows that the high yield of rice fields is not good just by virtue of good seeds, which is inseparable from Song Fengyi's efforts.

At this time, Song Fengyi became the hottest person in Yongping Village, and there were always village chiefs and elders who invited him to a banquet, and then asked about seeds and high-yield planting technology.

In fact, Song Fengyi found a book on modern agricultural planting technology in the seeds, and he didn't know a lot of simplified Chinese characters on it, so he asked Zhao Rui to find out.

Now through theory and practice, Song Fengyi has become a veritable agricultural expert, Zhao Rui learned that the village was going to invite him to dinner, and with a wave of his hand, let him just go, just in the name of distributing seeds to win over those villages that have not joined the unified management.

And Song Fengyi has been tired for a few months, and he also needs to take a good rest.

Zhao Rui did not relax his pace because of the temporary harvest, and he would never feel too much food, because Zhao Rui was going to prepare for the conscription next, and this time it could not be stopped after half the conscription was not like last time.

The money sent by the apprentice Ma Yue is really a lot, the gold and silver add up to several thousand taels, and the gold accounts for half of the proportion, and now the price of gold and silver is about 20 times, which is roughly close to 30,000 taels of silver.

It's so lucrative to be a god stick, Zhao Rui sighed, thinking that it is best to keep these gold and silver for buying food, and he still has more than 100,000 taels of silver at home, and he took out some 100,000 taels to buy food, and the remaining tens of thousands of taels were reserved for construction and military salaries.

As for the purchase of grain, Zhao Rui did not want to buy it in the Southern Song Dynasty, but set his sights on the Champa and Angkor dynasties, which were hostile to Jiaozhi.

The Angkor Dynasty was a huge country and a powerful state, while the Champa state, with its alluvial plains of the Mekong Delta, had a natural rice yield that should not be underestimated.

The most important thing is that the Southern Song Dynasty is about to be captured by the Yuan Dynasty, so the silver that Zhao Rui finally spent will still be obtained by the Mongols, so Zhao Rui set his sights on the southwest, if there is development in the future, the money and everything will not be returned to his pocket.

How much grain can I buy for a hundred thousand taels of silver?

Zhao Rui roughly calculated, when the rice is cheap, it is about 1.3 guan a stone, and when it is expensive, it is nearly 5 guan a stone, so take an intermediate number, which is about 3 guan a stone.

Although some people think that money is always equal to one tael of silver, but in fact it is only the algorithm of Jiaozi, in fact, one tael of silver is about equal to three pieces of money, which is almost one tael of silver and one stone of grain, which is 100 catties of rice.

In this way, at least 10 million catties of rice will be put into storage, because it is now the rice harvest season, and the price may be cheaper.

So Zhao Rui instructed Zhao Gong to let him contact Jiaozhi's eyeliner and let them contact the purchase of rice in Zhanchengguo.

The reason why they chose Champa instead of the Angkor Dynasty was because Jiaozhi pressed Champa all the year round, and Champa was not as strong as Angkor, so it was passive everywhere, and Zhao Rui's silver was enough for them to purchase weapons and equipment, armed resistance, and maybe get more favorable food prices.

Zhao Gong couldn't help but be stunned when he heard Zhao Rui's idea, and then said: "Although it is not difficult to buy grain, but transportation is a ** annoyance!" There is so much food, I have to use an unknown number of board cars, and the land transportation is time-consuming, and the border of Jiaozhi is long and narrow, it is difficult not to be blocked by the Jiaozhi people! If it is stopped, our silver is equivalent to buying grain and grass for the Jiaozhi people! ”

Zhao Gong is right, Zhao Rui looked at the narrow strip where Jiaozhi and Zhancheng intersected, it was indeed very difficult.

It seems that there is only a waterway, and the town facing the sea in the east is like a Puzhai, but it is blocked by thousands of mountains in the middle, and it is difficult to transport it back.

"It seems that we can only capture the northeast coastal position of Cochin!" Zhao Rui touched his chin and groaned, and called the family to let Arjuna come again.

Zhao Rui frowned, because the location from Dabaocheng to the coast is also a lofty mountain, but the road is shorter than that of Puzhai.

Arjuna had to come over, saw Zhao Rui looking at the map intently, said hello and sat down at the table.

Judging from the map, there is only one city in the northeast of the Donghai Road, called Ampang State, and the others are some unknown small villages, and most of them are on islands, which shows that this area has a large area of primeval rainforest and mountains, and it is also an extremely harsh natural environment.

Although it is difficult, it is also a city that must be taken, and after having this Anbang state, you can freely trade with the Champong state, and you can also develop fisheries, supplement the problem of protein deficiency of the people, and enrich their diet.

The most important thing is that you can enter the Age of Discovery in advance, and in the 15th and 16th centuries, how much the Great Voyage of Europe took advantage of, everyone on the earth knows.

When Zhao Rui's population increases, he can set up a navy, and with the help of muskets, this era is enough to wipe out the world.

It's just that Zhao Rui is a little hesitant, such a difficult road, there is no time to return at all in a month, and the Yuan army is likely to approach, leaving less and less time for Zhao Rui.

Understanding Zhao Rui's worries, Arjuna got up and said unexpectedly: "Zhao Rui, you don't need to lead the army at all, I'll lead the troops to attack for you!" ”