After Wei Yongchang left, Su You's spirit became a little trance, and he always felt that things seemed to be much more complicated than he imagined.

How many family interests and forces are involved in this small Yangzhou?

Yang Yao? Yuanshi? Zhang's?

When Su You was thinking wildly, Lu Sheng and Xia Ziwei, brother and sister, immediately came together; Seeing them coming, Su You's face finally showed a slight smile.

Xia Ziwei approached Su You, and the first thing she said was, "Mr. is not feeling well?" It's so ugly. ”

Su You shook his head, and immediately said to Lu Sheng, "Xiao Sheng, I need you to do something." ”

Seeing that Su You was a little solemn, Lu Sheng also felt that things were extraordinary, so he also solemnly agreed, "Mr. just give orders, Lu Sheng must be duty-bound." ”

"You can go to the docks in Hangzhou, try to stop the ships of the Seven Seas Trading Company before Zhang Zhenzhou, fill your twenty ships with the grain they bought, and then deliver the rest to Zhang Zhenzhou, if it is not enough to pay his employment fee, let him come to me to settle accounts."

Lu Sheng listened to Su You's words, and didn't ask too much, and then nodded in response.

Su You continued, "Then, you will transport the twenty boats of grain to Yangzhou in seven days, two ships on the first day, and three ships a day after that. Got it? ”

Lu Sheng nodded and asked Su Youdao, "Is there anything else?" ”

Su You thought for a while before saying, "Also, let Bi Yuntao and my family move to Yangzhou, I'm afraid that Hangzhou is also rumored now." That's all, go for it! Be careful on the road. ”

Lu Sheng took the order and left.

Su You breathed a sigh of relief, found a hut and changed out of his official uniform, and then said to Wang Bodang and Xia Ziwei, brothers and sisters, "It's boring to stay here, let's go out for a walk." ”

After Su You and the four of them left Tianya Pavilion, they went straight to the dock, and when they arrived at the gate of the city, they found that the wheat iron rod had already posted a notice that there would be porridge relief from the official mansion from today, and dozens of cauldrons had already been set up outside the city gate and began to boil water.

After listening to the literate people read out the proclamations, the refugees lined up honestly.

Su You's original intention was to send the grain down, but now that he thinks about it, he seems to be a little naïve; If the food is really distributed, who knows if it is a refugee who will come to receive it? However, although the idea of wheat and iron cane porridge effectively deterred those who did not need relief from rubbing food, those refugees could not leave Yangzhou.

They have no food at home, and they will inevitably wait for the next meal after eating the last meal in the porridge shed.

Then, the question arises: is it possible that they came to Yangzhou only to be relieved? When should the government of Yangzhou help them?

However, if the amount of food was distributed to each refugee at the rate of one stone, countless refugees would have come to the fore, and the food that would have been harvested would not be enough.

Su You stood at the head of the city with a sad face, looking into the distance at the wharf that had been repaired a few days ago, and the Baoyang Lake hidden in the smoke.

Now Yangzhou is panicking, how can the wharf be repaired beautifully? The eyes of the people of Yangzhou City are still on these petty profits, and it is difficult to lure them to do overseas trade.

As for the plan to build a botanical garden around the West Lake, it seems that it is not the time to start construction

"No, it seems like the time to start construction!" Su You's mind suddenly flashed with inspiration, and the haze on his face finally dissipated in a rare way.

After Su You had an idea in his heart, he immediately beckoned Wang Bodang and Xia Ziwei to the brothers and sisters, "Let's go, let's go to Lao Mai." ”

Wang Bodang and the others saw that Su You's face seemed to be improving, and they thought that Su You must have paid attention to solving the current pattern of Yangzhou City, but it was inconvenient to ask more, so they just followed Su You closely to Jiangdu County; He hadn't walked far before he saw more than a dozen guards led by Mai Tiecane.

However, at this time, Mai Tiezhu's face was not very good, most likely due to the tiredness of running around.

Seeing that Su You's face was a little happy, Mai Tiezhu immediately beckoned, "Brother, can the dock I oversee be repaired to your satisfaction?" ”

Su You shook his head and said with a smile, "I haven't gone to see it yet." In this form, no matter how well the wharf is repaired, it is not easy to collect commercial tax. Now our first priority is to suppress the price of goods in Yangzhou City and slowly return it to the original level, and secondly, to do a good job in this disaster relief work, we can't let the big donors talk nonsense."

Mai Tiezhu smiled, Su You's words were obviously superfluous, and it was strange that those people didn't hate Su You if they didn't hate Su You by such a despicable means to donate food. Su You naturally understood Mai Tiezhu's smile, but this was not the time to care about this.

Those who know me say that I am worried, and those who do not know me say what I want.

Su You waited for Mai Tiezhu to laugh before asking, "Where are you going, big brother?" How much grain has been harvested? ”

Mai Tiezhu nodded and said, "Almost, there are more than ten more than ten that are being raised, it is not a big problem to collect these donated grain today, and the rest is a matter of relief."

"When it comes to relief, I think of a better way." Su You immediately took over the conversation.

"Oh, don't you think it's good to be a brother now?" Mai Tiezhu asked a little depressed.

"Big brother, let's find a place to sit down and talk." Su You nodded, and then grabbed Mai Tiecane's shoulder.

Mai Tiezhu wanted to say that he should be on the front line at the critical moment of this kind of disaster relief, but he was a little unconvinced when he heard Su Youzhi's words just now, he had the heart to refute, but it seemed inappropriate on the street.

At this time, he was pulled by Su You, and Mai Tiezhu naturally walked into a street tea shop half-pushed and half-on-the-spot; Wang Bodang and the others, as well as more than a dozen guards of Mai Tiecane, naturally followed suit.

At this time, prices in Yangzhou City soared, and various shops were either closed or closed, but the business of tea shops was surprisingly good.

The shopkeeper of the tea shop obviously knew Mai Tiecane, Mai Tiecane was dressed all day long, and there were more than a dozen guards behind him, and there was no more obvious character in Yangzhou City than him.

The shopkeeper of the tea shop hurriedly found a private room for Su You and Mai Tiezhu, and served another pot of good tea.

Mai Tiezhu first poured tea for Su You, and then asked Su You after sitting upright, "Brother Xian, let's talk about it, why is it not good to be a brother?" ”

Su You picked up the tea, and said with a smile while blowing foam, "Then let me talk about the benefits of your method first?" You have done a good job of suppressing the situation of people who do not need help pretending to be refugees to receive porridge."

Mai Tiezhu nodded, "Well, this is also the first thing I considered; If it is as you said at the beginning, one stone of grain per person will be distributed, I am sure that the vast majority of people in Yangzhou City will come to receive food. ”

"Yes, who doesn't want free grain? I didn't think much about it at first, but luckily I didn't make any big mistakes because of you. ”

Mai Tiezhu listened to Su You's words, but some of the second monks were confused, didn't Su You say that there was a better way just now? What kind of fuss is this?

"Brother Xian just said there is a better way?"

Su You was noncommittal, but asked with a smile, "Has the eldest brother ever thought about how long he will use this method to relieve them?" ”

Mai Tiezhu thought about it carefully, and replied with some uncertainty, "How can you last two or three months?" ”

"So have they stayed in Yangzhou all this time? Eat the last meal and wait for the next meal? What about two or three months from now? Where do they go from here? Su You nodded, and then threw the question he had just thought of in the city to Mai Tiezhu.

Mai Tiezhu was stunned, he hadn't thought so far before, but he was willing to believe that the famine would pass smoothly after two or three months, and they would return to their hometown as a matter of course.

But after listening to Su You's question, Mai Tiezhu also realized that if he used his own disaster relief methods, these refugees could only be tied up in Yangzhou, and they would have nothing to do during the days they were relieved.

If you don't sow in the spring and miss the ploughing in the summer, can you harvest in the fall?

Next, refugees will remain refugees, and poverty will continue.

After thinking of this, Mai Tiezhu couldn't help but blush-faced and ashamed for a while.

Looking at Su You, who seemed to be smiling but not smiling, Mai Tiezhu finally realized that Su You might have dug a pit and waited for him here, and couldn't help but laugh and scold, "Brother Xian, don't you hurry up and say what you think?" Is it to die in a hurry? ”

Su You nodded and said solemnly, "I want to ask my eldest brother to sell me a piece of land, in fact, I wanted to say this idea years ago, but I forgot it for a while because I was too busy." ”

"This" Mai Tiezhu was stunned for a moment, thinking that Su You was selling Guanzi, so he nodded and said, "What kind of land does the virtuous brother want?" Anyway, the elder brother is still the master of one acre and three points of land in this Jiangdu. ”

"I want to buy land on the shores of Lake Baoyang, all of it."

"What?" The tea in Mai Tiezhu's mouth almost squirted out, he originally thought that Su You was just asking for a few acres of land to open a shop or something, but he didn't expect Su You's appetite to be so big!

The land on the shore of Baoyang Lake, that is not one acre or two acres, that piece of land is not two hundred acres but one hundred and fifty acres, the problem is that it is outside Yangzhou City, and there are usually few people coming and going.

What does Su You want that land for?

"Big brother heard me right, I just want to buy those lands, I also said just now, in fact, this idea was already a year ago." In order to prevent Mai Tiezhu from mistakenly thinking that he had heard it wrong, Su You repeated his request again.

"Brother Xian wants to buy this land, what do you want to do?" Mai Tiezhu nodded, and then asked, in fact, this question is not too much, the imperial court always needs to know the purpose of the buyer when buying and selling land.

"For disaster relief." Su You replied to these four words seriously, and then urged the wheat iron rod to say, "Is it okay?" You just said that this acre and three points of land have been done by the Lord. ”

"Okay! How could it not be? Most of this land is ownerless, and even if there is a master, I can let him transfer it to you in my name, as for the price."

"Brother, settle accounts." Su You nodded, and then asked uncertainly, "One hundred thousand?" 150,000? ”

"Then 150,000 yuan, even if you donate it to the Yangzhou government for disaster relief!" When he hit the snake with the stick, he immediately stopped the work and asked, "You will tell me how you are going to help the disaster, right?" ”

Su You nodded and said, "Of course, the essence of my method is to use work for relief."