Chapter 198: An Awkward Coincidence

In Liu Fangrui's heart, Liu Shunhua is a somewhat old-fashioned father. In Jiang Feng's impression, Liu Shunhua is a scheming and scheming old officialdom oilman, from the time Liu Shunhua was a bachelor of Hanlin, he suddenly changed his court to join Lu Bing, and it can be seen that this person has no so-called backbone.

However, Jiang Feng did not look down on Liu Shunhua because of this, although there were deviant people in the Ming Dynasty, most of them were still rigid and conformist. For example, this Liu Fangrui and Jiang Feng's own private relationship, if it is in the house of an old master. I'm afraid that the girl will be forced to hang herself, but Liu Shunhua is determined by her daughter's will, and even knows that the so-called robbery was committed by Jiang Feng, and she is also pretending to be deaf and dumb, and everything is based on her daughter's happiness.

Although I thought it was good in my heart, but the detention of Liu Fangrui and Su Guanyue some time ago and did not allow them to go home really made Jiang Feng angry, thinking how would I know that you want me to marry your daughter, if it wasn't for the people around me to remind me, wouldn't I be able to take it back. So looking at the haggard face of the old man in front of him, I thought viciously in my heart:

"It's so weak, it's because of the continuation."

I think so, I just secretly live a mouthful of addiction. Hearing the other party's words, Jiang Feng was awe-struck in his heart, but he asked very calmly:

"Why does my father-in-law say that, now that the relief from the imperial court has been almost, the disasters in various places are about to pass, what food is needed?"

As soon as Liu Shunhua, the political envoy of Shandong Province, who was called his father-in-law, came out with his straight words, he felt that his words were a little inappropriate, which fully showed how anxious he was. Originally, he was also holding his son-in-law or a rectum, but when he heard his father-in-law's request, he may have patted his chest and agreed. However, looking at Jiang Feng's inquiring tone, it was obviously not so easy.

Like all kinds of modern strategic reserve materials and reserve warehouses, this is the tradition of all dynasties, in the provinces and the following prefectures and counties, there are in case of the establishment of a standing position, the so-called disaster year to open a position for relief, the opening of the "warehouse" is to say this often closed.

In this famine in Shandong, the grain and grass allocated by the imperial court can only cope with one and a half months, and the remaining officials at all levels in Shandong are not in a hurry. But it was at this time that something happened, and the grain in the Changping warehouse of Jinan Mansion and Yanzhou Mansion was only more than 10% of the book number, and the rest of the grain was actually missing, and there was a gap of nearly 250,000 stone at once.

The officials in charge of the warehouse, after the first learned of the news, they didn't know where they went, and as for those cats and dogs, they didn't know anything after they were caught, and every time the grain came in and out, there were legal procedures, and they just did things according to the rules.

As for those procedures, it is only when they find the old official who has accumulated years of punishment that they can see that they are forged, but this kind of forgery is not at all something that the following people can see.

"You and I Weng son-in-law one is in politics, the other is in the army, and both are in high positions, it is already inconsistent with the common practice of the imperial court, according to reason, this year I will be transferred to another province or return to Beijing, but suddenly this incident appeared, someone in the court is ready to make a fuss about this matter, and I will never recover."

Liu Shunhua's voice was not as smooth and clear as usual, but a little hoarse and tired. Jiang Feng asked with some confusion there:

"Father-in-law doesn't have any hostile people in the court, right?"

Liu Shunhua had no power and no power when he was in the court, and there would be people fighting him, hearing Jiang Feng's question, Liu Bu's political envoy smiled bitterly and replied:

"The head of the civil affairs of a province, this is enough for others to be hostile, not to mention marrying the young lady of the Yu family, you can't fight if you want to!"

After saying this, Liu Shunhua stared at Jiang Feng and said earnestly:

"Virtuous son-in-law, I know that you often come up with strange tricks, and you have a little bit of the ability to turn stone into gold, can you help me fill this gap, otherwise, I'm afraid Liu's future will end here."

Hearing such a plea, while slandering the old man in his heart as an official fan, he also knew that the two sides were now in a relationship of both prosperity and loss. It's hard to say, it's already a grasshopper on a rope, and you have to take care of it, since I started running a restaurant in Beijing, people who are familiar with him outside think that he is a little stone into gold, and he is quite powerful in money and food. So this time Liu Shunhua found himself, and it may also be this consideration.

However, the gap of 250,000 stones, the current year is the time when the price of grain is soaring, I am afraid that it will not be possible to make up for it without more than 300,000 taels of silver.

There are still a few bigwigs in Jingshi and Jinan who need to send money every month, and they have 50,000 taels of silver left in their hands, although the Dong family's silver bricks also have 200,000 taels, but they also need a foundation to prepare for emergencies, and Jiang Feng's headache is not here, but the reason why there is so much less grain in Changping, and he can't get out of it.

The reason why Dengzhou is better maintained is because he has already used half of the silver of the sea trade to raise grain from grain merchants in various places every month, and he is originally a big landlord in Dengzhou, so he collects less land rent. Even if the other landlords wanted to do something, the soldiers of the Dengzhou battalion held knives to their necks, and they honestly reduced the rent.

Jiang Feng is not a person who relies on land rent to eat, the reason why he has made such a big effort to provide disaster relief this time is another consideration, the guard can send 5,000 soldiers, and the Dengzhou battalion can have 2,000 soldiers, these soldiers must not be recruited from the Tianjin craftsmen, you must know that the more than 1,000 people last time, their families were brought to Dengzhou by Tie Dan in one way or another, or redeemed or bought. Otherwise, the tactics of the Spanish phalanx proposed by Jason Hogan, the replacement of spears and firearms, would be so easy to complete there, it was all possible to rely on the production of these craftsmen, Shandong produced coal and iron, and raw materials were continuously transported over, for these labors, Jiang Feng did very simple, according to the time and the number of wages to settle the wages.

This way has stimulated the enthusiasm of the old craftsmen to work, you must know that in the past, when working for the imperial court, the work was like a slave, not to mention, and food and clothing could not be maintained, now came to Shandong, his son to the command of the envoy as a housekeeper, the monthly salary of silver, grain and rice are a lot. The current life is really good, everyone is honest people, and they all know in their hearts that these are all given by Master Jiang, if you don't do your job well, do you still have a conscience, not to mention that you still have money.

The source of soldiers cannot be concentrated in one place, and recruiting soldiers is not a very simple matter, whether it is to replenish military households or recruit new soldiers, it requires very cumbersome procedures, and the attitude of the military department and the governor's office towards the supplementary soldiers except for the nine sides is that they will not be replenished unless they have to.

At this time, the people were in love with their hometown and land, and they would not leave the land where they lived easily, which also brought great inconvenience to the recruitment of soldiers, so this time the displaced people poured into Dengzhou, and Jiang Feng opened up a large number of wastelands in his own industry to recruit displaced people. Since these people have become Jiang Feng's tenants. In the future, it will naturally be a source of good soldiers.

Dengzhou Laizhou is a relatively poor place in Shandong, the land is barren, the soldiers and tenants under Jiang Feng in peacetime can barely keep enough food, but if there is a slight wind and grass, there will be an embarrassing situation of running out of food, when the soldiers eat food, if there is no food, don't talk about what to become an army, not to mention that an important reason for Jiang Feng to collect his subordinates is to be able to eat enough, in case there is a situation of not being full.

I'm afraid that at least the morale of the army is unstable, so after the disaster year, Jiang Feng took out the silver earned from the sea trade to buy grain, which was practical in the past, and the rent reduction plus relief, Dengzhou was already enough to survive the disaster year, but Jiang Feng and Liu Twelve knew.

If you rashly buy far more than the normal amount of grain, you will definitely be targeted by people from all walks of life and cause trouble, but at this time, there is a shortage of grain in various parts of Shandong, even if it is purchased in large quantities, it can be dealt with in the name of relief or disaster relief, which happens to be the granary of Jiang Feng's own reserves.

From the beginning of July to the end of mid-September, Jiang Feng is now in Dengzhou Fucheng, Zuowei Guard, and Yantai Mountain Qianhu have already stocked enough grain for the current people to eat for more than five years, and this behavior is combined with all the things Jiang Feng has done since he came to Shandong.

If the context of the brain is a little clearer, he will think in horror about what Jiang Feng wants to do, but Zhang Liang is not a person with too clear brains, and Zhao Xiucai and the Liu family brothers don't think about it at all, or they are similar to Jiang Feng's thoughts.

Jiang Feng was also a little curious about being able to get food in the disaster year in Shandong, and he didn't need to ask about this kind of thing, but he still inquired, and Zhao Xiucai said with a smile: At this time in the disaster year, the official warehouses in various places are in and out frequently, so it is the best time for these officials in charge of warehouses to get their hands on it, and it is the right time to buy in large quantities.

Thinking of this, Jiang Feng couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, estimating the realistic situation, the so-called short-sold official warehouse is really related to himself, if it was a normal year, who would spend so much money to buy food. He was thinking hard there, and Liu Shunhua here thought that he had a way, so he opened his mouth and asked:

"But what's the best way to do it?"

If you don't help with this, Jiang Feng laughed dryly and asked with difficulty:

"Master Yue, how long do I need to raise replenishment?"