"Of course I know that food is needed, and as long as we get through this year, most of the problems will be solved next year when new fields are developed!" Li Ming certainly thought about it.

It's just that when he came last year, it was past the autumn harvest season, and the granary was still empty. Huiji County is actually not an important grain-producing area, and many times Danyang County and Wu County need to be fed back.

Now it's only less than March, and spring plowing hasn't officially begun, can you expect it to have grain to settle the people?!

"In the short term, you can gather wild vegetables and fruits, expand your hunting range, and catch fish to slow down for a while. The second batch of dividends of the patent medicine workshop is about to be issued, and the lord can try to contact the Gu family and buy a batch of grain to help these victims! Xi Zhicai said.

"Okay, I'll ask!" Li Ming thought about it for a while, turned around and found Gu Yan, in the end, it was the history of the county magistrate, as long as it wasn't Xiu Mu, he could basically find Gu Yan in the yamen.

"Buying grain? This is not a problem, for the sake of the relationship between the Li family and the Gu family, I can even make the decision to reduce the price by 20%. Gu Yan smiled when he heard this, as if he had expected it. This is not surprising, so many displaced people must need a lot of grain, and the entire Yangzhou, the main grain trade, is actually in the hands of the Gu family.

There are also some grain merchants scattered around, but if the Gu family speaks, they don't dare to ship.

"Everyone is so familiar, don't fool me with old grain!" Li Ming said cautiously.

"If you want that kind of thing that is used to feed livestock, it is not a problem to reduce the price by 50%......" Gu Yan replied, the implication is obvious, that is, 'Of course it won't pit you'! As for the final result, of course, this is not enough!

"When will it be shipped?" I'm going to use all the dividends this time to buy food! Li Ming said.

"Taishou is such a big customer, of course our Gu family will do our best to ship. It's just that adults should also know that Wujun and Huiji are not the main production areas, plus the war in the Central Plains, Jiujiang and Lujiang counties are also short of food. So if you want to get food, I'm afraid you have to mobilize it from Yuzhang! Gu Yan said slowly.

"When do you need to get here?" Li Ming nodded, he probably knew the situation in Jiujiang and Lujiang.

"It's really not fast, not to mention sending someone to inform Nanchang to mobilize the goods, it will take three or four days. It is only said that Nanchang needs to mobilize goods, and it will take half a month. After that, it will be transported back...... Regardless of the factor of thieves along the way, it would take more than a month to transport it back to Huiji County from Danyang County! According to conservative estimates, it will take about two months before and after! After Gu Yan briefly calculated the time, he had already reported the fastest situation.

"Can't you walk the way from the rest of the sweat to the end of the day?" Li Ming was a little anxious, and the daylily was cold for two months.

"It's just a mountain road, you have to pass through a lot of mountains and forests, and the road in that place is very difficult to walk, and the road of more than 600 miles is more than half a month. The point is that we will pass by the places where the Wuyi Man is haunted, and the ten or two hundred thousand Wuyi Man wander in that area, you know what that means? If you are lucky, you have to leave thirty percent of the goods, and if you are unlucky, all the goods will be snatched away! Gu Yan shook his head, compared to taking the road in front of Wuyi Mountain, it was better to take the inherent trade route directly.

"What's the situation with Wu Yiman?" Li Ming heard about this situation for the first time.

"Wuyiman is mainly based on the descendants of the Peng family, and the ancestor is said to be Peng Zu. Since the Qin and Han dynasties, it has multiplied in the Wuyi Mountain area, accepted a lot of students, and gradually expanded its population to more than 500,000. Gu Yan replied.

Everyone knows that it is not difficult to go west to Yuzhang County from the end of the day, and the key is this Wuyi barbarian problem. Since the founding of the Han Dynasty, between this Damo County and Linru County of Yuzhang County, there has been no county seat in such a large area for more than 400 years.

"Wuyi Man is really that difficult to deal with?" Li Ming couldn't help frowning when he heard this.

"Wuyi Barbarians themselves are not difficult to deal with, a group of barbarians wearing leather armor, or even no leather armor, can be killed directly. The difficulty was that as soon as they saw that something was wrong, they immediately fled into the mountains and forests, and without a guide, the army could not pursue them at all. And the terrain between the mountains is complicated, and if you are not careful, you will get lost.

There are even rumors that there are big demons in Wuyi Mountain, and there are at least three big demons, it is difficult to say how Wuyi Man obtained the right of residence in Wuyi Mountain, but they can still get by, which proves that they know how to get along with the big demon. Gu Yan replied.

It's not surprising that there are big demons haunting. If the county seat is established, but the result is that it is destroyed by the big demon in three days, then what is the point? Over time, I'm afraid that there won't be that fool who wants to settle there, and that's simply going to die!

Li Ming couldn't deal with the demon beasts he encountered before, and he directly encountered the existence of the big demon level, isn't that looking for abuse? In addition, there is no grain in the granary, and it has become very unrealistic to want to conquer Wuyiman. Maybe you can solve the problem by contacting you, but there's no time to waste right now.

"Alas, it's only two months, I can't wait!" Li Ming couldn't help but sigh.

"Actually, why do you have to buy food in the Gu family?" Gu Yan smiled, "It's a pity to lose such a business, but if you really want to buy food, there is a good place to go!" ”

"Where?" Li Ming suddenly became agitated and looked at Gu Yan eagerly.

"Xuzhou! There was a bumper harvest last year, and the two major grain merchants, Mi and Lu, were not in a hurry to sell, and hoarded a small amount to sell in order to raise the price of grain. I don't know how many subordinates there are, but it is certain that if the adults can persuade them to put food, hundreds of thousands of people's food can be bought directly! Gu Yan pointed to the north and said.

The key is to start from Shanyin, through Wu County into Xiapi or Guangling County is not far away, go to a hurry in less than five days to arrive, plus the time to buy grain and transport, within a month can transport the grain back, than in Yuzhang County to deploy grain, much faster.

Grain is the most popular buyer's business in this year, and in the final analysis, he is too familiar with Li Ming, so it is inevitable that he will not be able to take advantage of it. It would be good if Li Ming's attention to Wu Yiman, if that passage could really be opened, it would really be much easier for caravans to transport goods in the future. I have to say that Gu Yan is really smart.

"Okay, then I'll go to Xuzhou today!" Li Ming slammed his palm and made a decision immediately.

"Your Excellency is going to Xuzhou in person?" Gu Yan suddenly couldn't react, didn't he usually send a steward or something?

"Huiji County has you, what am I worried about? You also said that they don't plan to open a position, so how can I show sincerity if I don't go over and plead in person? Sincerity is not enough, how can the other party agree to open a warehouse and release grain?! Li Ming said awe-inspiringly.

You said so reasonably, I was speechless, Gu Yan probably felt this way in his heart at the moment.

After saying goodbye to Gu Yan and hurriedly returning to the inner office, when he saw Dian Jie, Li Ming immediately gave an order: "Dian Jie, you take three hundred guards and go to Xuzhou with me!" ”

Not to mention Dian Jie, Xi Zhicai, Wang Yu and others were also stunned, saying that they were going to find Gu Yan, why did they go to Xuzhou again? !