Chapter 14: The Prefectural Order is Crazy (4)

Zhao Kang smiled: "It's true. However, this matter still needs to be kept secret by Lord You, otherwise if the matter is leaked, I will not be able to protect it, but Lord You's family will lose a way to make a fortune. Why don't you wait and inform the family that my relative has transported 50,000 catties of salt to the warehouse newly requisitioned by the county government today. As long as the money is in place, Lord You can send someone to transport the salt away at any time. There is also the matter of buying salt in the future, and Lord You only needs to discuss it with my henchman Zhao Fugui. I'm just idle to help my relatives at home, and I will never do such a thing as selling smuggled salt. ”

You Wan said ambitiously: I don't believe in ghosts, I still have relatives, I have long heard that your Zhao family has been passed down for five generations, where are your relatives?

But he said: "Of course, Lord Zhao will not engage in businessmen with such a noble status. ”

Zhao Kang continued: "The matter of salt has been decided, let's discuss other things." ”

You Wanxiong said: "I don't know what else Lord Zhao commands?" ”

Zhao Kang said: "It's about the arrangement of the families of the refugees and the militia soldiers. Starting tomorrow, you will recruit refugees to pick a place outside the city to start building barracks and houses for the families of soldiers, and take care of two meals a day, and the young and middle-aged people will directly arrange to work on the construction site, and the elderly, women, and children will not be able to do heavy work, so they will also take care of the chores and cooking. ”

"By the way, you can see that no matter the streets and alleys in the city, everywhere you go, it is simply stinking, and the old, weak, sick and disabled among those refugees arrange for them to clean the city. Then build a few thatched toilets in the city, one to make fertilizer, and the other to make Fugu County not become a feces and urine county. The officials in the county government should be sent out to be overseers, and they have nothing to do now anyway. We can't just count on the court, at this time, we have to organize refugees to help themselves.

"As for the food needed by the refugees, starting tomorrow, within this month, I will allow your family to exchange the equivalent amount of grain for salt. Whether it is millet, buckwheat, rice, wheat, or new grain, I will calculate it according to the market price of new rice, and then exchange it for the equivalent salt for you, but don't fool me with those moldy and rotten goods, otherwise the consequences will be very serious. ”

"I think your family has such a big power in Yansui Town, there should always be some grain stockpiles, even if your family does not have enough grain in stock, our Fugu County is Shanxi after crossing the Yellow River, I think the drought there is not as serious as our Shaanxi here, and it shouldn't be a big deal for your family to send people to other provinces to buy it, right?"

You Wanxiong is worried that there is not so much cash at home, and there must be 50,000 catties of salt, even if it is a low price of five dollars a catty, it will cost 25,000 taels of white silver, which is of course nothing to get to the south of the Yangtze River, but in the poor area of northern Shaanxi, it is definitely an astronomical amount. Hearing Zhao Kang mention that grain can be exchanged for salt, and whether it is coarse grain, fine grain, or old grain, it is all calculated according to the price of new rice, this is simply sending money to the You family!

Immediately overjoyed, for fear that Zhao Kang would regret it, he immediately replied: "Don't worry, Lord County, the lower officials will definitely let the people in the family do their best to buy food!" ”

Zhao Kang continued: "Starting tomorrow, the families of those militia soldiers outside the city will first measure the land for them and organize them to reclaim wasteland. Although it is a little late to start planting, it is better than no harvest at all. As for the settlement of the other refugees, of course, the seeds and farm tools can only be temporarily satisfied with the families of the militia soldiers, and the others will have to wait for a month. ”

You Wanxiong scolded in his heart: It's your relative again, your relative is really omnipotent, seeds, salt, grain, farm tools, and even weapons can be transported into this Fugu county town without realizing it.

Doubts in my heart are suspicions, but of course I don't dare to say it.

After arranging the business, Zhao Kang took You Wanxiong, Zhao Fugui, Chunmei and his party of four people to visit the materials he transported from modern society in a sedan chair, of course, Zhao Fugui and Chunmei, who were subordinates, were not qualified to get on the sedan chair, so they could only walk with the sedan chair.

And Zhao Kang is the first time to take the "sedan chair", a high-end and high-grade means of transportation, with curiosity to sit on, all the way to the destination, Zhao Kang felt good, heart: No wonder those rich and powerful officials and rich people like this ancient version of Rolls-Royce, it is indeed much more comfortable than walking and riding horses.

Zhao Fugui's mood today is very excited, firstly, the young master did not "run away" as he imagined, and secondly, at the meeting just now, the young master personally said that he was his "confidant subordinate" in front of the county Cheng You Wanxiongyou. After everyone arrived at the warehouse, Zhao Fugui hurriedly went to open the door of the warehouse for his young master and You Wanxiong.

Walking into the room where Zhao Kang stacked supplies, what caught everyone's eyes was the bags of salt, grain and seeds piled up like a hill, and next to the grain were the "military uniform" suits and dozens of jars of pickles and pimples prepared by Zhao Kang for the soldiers of the People's League. In the corners were a mess of farm tools and spear heads.

Zhao Fugui never expected that his young master would buy so many materials for only sixty taels of gold, and those money may not even be enough for a deposit, right? But then I figured it out, thinking that the young master should still owe a lot to the other party.

You Wanxiong first opened a bag of salt, tasted it again, and praised: "It is indeed rare and good salt." ”

Then he opened a bag of rice and a bag of flour and examined it carefully, with an unbelievable look on his face, and asked in surprise: "Lord Zhao!" How is this rice so good, there is not a single sand and gravel chaff in the whole bag of rice, and it is difficult to see even broken rice. And how can this flour be so white and delicate, and how is it ground out? ”

Zhao Kang thought to himself: I am only a junior high school student, and I am not a worker in a rice factory, how do I know why there are no stone chaff in rice? As a typical southern teenager, labor and management grew up eating rice since childhood, how do you know why flour is so white and delicate? In other words, isn't flour supposed to be snow-white and delicate, but will it be black?

Of course, Zhao Kang would not know that if there are too many impurities in the flour, it will appear gray-white, and if there are more, it will be directly gray-black. Of course, that kind of flour is not called white flour, but gray flour or black flour. In the 21st Century Great Celestial Empire, where Zhao Kang is located, it is basically impossible for ordinary people to buy it, and besides, except for the breeding farm, no one will buy it.