After assigning tasks to everyone, everyone began to eat together, and today everyone is quite silent, because if this thing succeeds, then they are the founding heroes, and if they fail, I don't know what the consequences will be. Since then, their fate has been tied to Li Yao. It's just that everyone is not worried at all, it turns out that when they were bullied, it was Li Yao who helped them out, so even if they were all gentlemen, they believed that Li Yao was definitely not playing this time.

Li Yao was also silent, feeling the same as usual, after eating early, he told everyone to rest.

Li Yao returned to the wing room to soak his feet as usual, and picked up the chronicle of Qi State casually, Li Yao saw a sentence written by the historian inside, "In the eighteenth year of Chengsheng, there was a great drought in the three counties in the northeast of Qi State, a great drought in the whole country of Jin State, and the whole country fled from famine, and now there are more than a million refugees gathered in the north of our country." ”

Li Yao smiled slightly, it seems that my plan is about to start here.

Li Yao was woken up the next day, Li Yao never thought that those rice shop bosses would run to the gate of the Hou Mansion to wait for them on the fourth watch, since they were woken up, it was not easy to fall asleep immediately, so they could only get up to meet guests.

The housekeeper Wang Changzhu led a few rice shop bosses to the living room early to wait, and the servants had already started cooking on the fourth watch, although there were many people at home, but they didn't feel chaotic at all, which shows that Wang Changzhu, the housekeeper, played a great role.

Although Li Yao also started from the fourth watch, but with washing or something, he only arrived in the living room on the fifth watch.

Li Yao came to the meeting room and saw that a group of officials such as the county commander were also there, as well as the five more powerful local rice shop bosses, where they guessed what the Hou Ye called them to do.

Li Yao coughed, the living room immediately quieted down, Li Yao smiled: "You can come here early in the morning, it's really a face, presumably everyone hasn't eaten yet, let's go, let's talk while eating." ”

Although it is breakfast, the food in the Hou Mansion is not bad at all, although there are not many delicacies from the mountains and seas, but there is no shortage of chicken, duck and fish.

As soon as everyone sat down, they looked at Li Yao, wanting to hear Li Yao's announcement, but Li Yao was not in a hurry, and said: "Come, everyone eat, eat enough to have the strength to say things!" ”

Everyone looked at Li Yao calmly and with smiles on their faces. I didn't want to announce anything bad, so I started eating and drinking.

After eating, Li Yao said: "Bosses of the rice shop, I asked everyone to come this time to give you a big business, I need to buy 1.5 million quintals of grain now, I don't know if this business is big enough!" ”

The bosses of Mi Xing glanced at each other, and immediately fried the pot, the joy in their eyes was about to come out, and Li Yao waved his hand to signal everyone to be quiet.

The county magistrate interjected at this time: "Master Hou, 1.5 million quintals of grain is enough for 400,000 people to eat for a year, and the population of our county is only 300,000, and almost every family has grain in stock, and there are hundreds of thousands of quintals of grain in the treasury, so please think twice!" ”

Since Yi County has become Li Yao's fiefdom, Li Yao naturally has the final say on the economy inside, and the grain and silver in the treasury are of course Li Yao's. But the county order is the administrator, so I have to persuade Li Yao.

Of course, Li Yao knew what the county order meant, and he had been running this county for more than ten years, so he naturally knew that the county order was reluctant to pay this money, even if the money belonged to Li Yao. Let him take out almost half of the county government's money to buy something that is temporarily useless, and he will definitely oppose it.

Li Yao smiled and said to the county order: "Song County Order, you can rest assured, I am not going to use the county government's money this time." All this money was paid by the Hou Mansion. ”

As soon as he heard Ning Hou say that he didn't need the county government to pay for it, Song Boming immediately smiled and said: "Master Hou, you also know that in a county town, there are many places to use money, thousands of officials and officials, thousands of city guards, and ordinary road repairs, public security management, all of which need money!" ”

Li Yao smiled and said: "Song County Order, I know that you have a big responsibility, so you have to manage this county for me in the future!" ”

Song Xianling nodded and smiled: "Yes, yes, I will definitely not disappoint you, Master Hou!" ”

Li Yao said to the boss of the rice shop at this time: "I need to buy 1.5 million quintals of grain this time, and I know that none of you can eat any of the rice shops, so I need you to give me an accurate figure now, how much grain can you give me in two months!" ”

Among them, a chubby rice shop owner stood up and arched his hand: "Hou Ye, contemptible Zha Liangping, according to Hou Ye's intentions, he wants grain in two months, and two months is enough to go back and forth to the Eastern Capital once, this store, as the largest rice store in Yi County, can only transport 200,000 quintals of grain, but I don't know what the price Hou Ye can give?" ”

Li Yao smiled: "How much do you want to give." ”

The fat rice shop owner said: "Master Hou, I can't hide it, I have 200,000 quintals of grain in my rice shop now, if you want it now, I can sell it to you at a price of 280 wen a quintal, and if you want it in two months, I can sell you 200,000 quintals of grain at a price of 250 wen per quintal." ”

Li Yao glanced at the rice shop boss and said, "After my investigation, the grain in the Eastern Capital is only 200 wen a load, and if you buy a large amount, it is normal to drop it to 180 wen." ”

Zha Liangping said: "Master Hou, you don't know, because the Dongdu canal can go directly to the south of the Yangtze River, and the rice and grain there can be transported, so the price is cheap." Although you can also take a section of waterway from Dongdu to Yixian, the waterway is narrow and completely unsuitable for large ships to pass, and although the manpower spent is not as good as the dry road, it is almost the same. ”

Zha Liangping said again: "Master Hou, if you can buy me another 200,000 quintals in two months, I can only charge you 230 wen per quintal for a total of 400,000 quintals of grain." ”

Li Yao was moved after listening to Zha Liangping's price, although the price Zha Liangping gave at the beginning was not much different from the price asked by Li Yao yesterday, but the discount behind it could really allow Li Yao to save a lot of money.

Li Yao smiled, I paid for the grain this time, but at what price, you have to ask the brother next to me.

The fat man stood up at this time and said: "Song County Order, businessmen, hello, this time to buy grain, my eldest brother handed over to me to handle the matter, and I will discuss the rest with you, as for the price quoted by the businessmen, I will seriously consider it." As for how much the transaction price can reach, we are slowly discussing! ”

Li Yao knew that the fat man liked to do business, so he left all the things to him, and he didn't need to intervene, so he looked at his nose, nose, mouth, mouth, and closed his eyes to recuperate.

Li Yao didn't sleep well because he got up too early in the morning, and he fell asleep unconsciously, and the fat man and those businessmen didn't wake up Li Yao. It wasn't until noon that the fat man discussed with them. At this time, Li Yao had just woken up, and when he saw that it was almost over, all the businessmen gradually retreated, and Li Yao woke up. After sending a few businessmen away, Li Yao asked, "Fatty, how did you discuss with them!" ”

The fat man smiled: "At the price of 220 wen per load, 1.5 million quintals of grain will be transported in three times, and the deposit for each time will be 30%!" ”

Li Yao was taken aback: "Each load is only two hundred and twenty wen." ”

"Yes!" The fat man nodded.

"How did you talk about it, I didn't hear your discussion because I was so sleepy?" Li Yao said curiously.

The fat man smiled: "Big brother, this is very simple, shop around, I told them that if you can't reach this price, I can go to other counties for rice!" One and a half million quintals, even if it is two hundred and twenty taels per quintal, they can earn at least twenty wen at a price, which is equivalent to thirty thousand taels of silver, and they are doing business in your fiefdom of Hou Ye, if you still want to do business well in the local area, you can only cooperate with Hou Ye."

The fat man took a sip of water and continued: "And they didn't go there empty-handed this time, the furs, jewelry, beef tendons and other items transported from the Uighur caravans can also be brought to the eastern capital for sale, so they are sure to make a profit, so I don't worry that they can't stand this price."

Li Yao smiled: "Fatty, it seems that letting you go into business really didn't bury you!" You have to work hard to sell grain this time, have more money, and get to know more powerful people in the Eastern Capital, and we may be able to use it in the future! ”