After Wu Shigong went to the county seat this time, he also brought back a person. That is, together with Wu Shigong, Yuan Xingshan, a merchant who came to Guide together.

At that time, in order to ask for his lost horse, Wu Shigong used the tiger squat cannon to scare Hou Sui's Zhuangzi. Afterwards, Wu Shigong patted his ass and ran away. However, the Hou family inquired that among Wu Shigong and his party, there was also a local merchant Yuan Xingshan who returned to Germany. Since you can't help Wu Shigong, can't you help Yuan Xingshan?

So, a post from the Hou family was sent to the Fuzun of the Guide Mansion, and the Fuzun of the Guide Mansion must have known that the Hou Sui would be reused, and now there is such a haode opportunity to pat Hou Sui's ass, so how can he not seize it?

After Yuan Xingshan returned to Guide Mansion, his butt was still hot, and he received a report from someone.

Yuan Xingshan is also an old businessman in Guide Mansion, and he has some connections with him. Therefore, before the Guide Mansion took action, Yuan Xingshan got a ventilated message.

After getting the news, Yuan Xingshan came like a big thunderbolt in the clear sky. What a curse from the sky! Needless to say. Yuan Xingshan knew that if he was arrested and put into the government, even if he spent money to fight hard, the result would be that he would have to shed his skin if he didn't die.

In desperation, Yuan Xingshan couldn't take care of his own business inn and goods at all, but just packed up some soft and escaped from Guide Mansion City with his family.

Fortunately, Yuan Xingshan was on the way to Guide, and in his conversation with Wu Shigong, he already knew the location of the Qianhu Office where Wu Shigong was going to take office. Therefore, Yuan Xingshan rushed to the county seat of Qi County with his family, and wanted to inquire about the distance to Qianhusuo, and then go to Qianhusuo to find Wu Shigong.

Unexpectedly, Yuan Xingshan happened to meet Wu Shigong, who had just finished negotiating the agreement from the county government in the county seat. Therefore, Yuan Xingshan immediately came forward to pay a visit.

According to Yuan Xingshan's meaning, it was best for him to let Wu Shigong come forward and explain this matter to the Guide Mansion. In this way, Yuan Xingshan can be exempted from responsibility. In case Wu Shigong refused, he also hoped that Wu Shigong would see the fate of traveling together and protect the safety of Yuan Xingshan's family.

After Yujian Yuan Xingshan in the county seat, after knowing what happened, Wu Shigong took Yuan Xingshan's family back to the town. When Yuan Xingshan's family was settled, Wu Shigong brought Yuan Xingshan over, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he explained to Yuan Xingshan very frankly: "It is absolutely impossible to ask this official to come forward for you." ”

Then, Wu Shigong explained his hardships to Yuan Xingshan: Wu Shigong had just arrived in Guide Mansion and was completely an outsider. I don't even know a few people at the bottom of the Guide Mansion, let alone the people in the official face of the Guide Mansion.

Besides, the county seat where Wu Shigong is located is a one-day trip away from Defu City. Even if Wu Shigong wanted to come forward, it would be beyond the reach of the whip.

However, Wu Shigong also assured Yuan Xingshan that since Yuan Xingshan came to him for refuge, as long as Yuan Xingshan lived in the town, Wu Shigong would definitely protect the safety of Yuan Xingshan's family.

Moreover, Wu Shigong also gave Yuan Xingshan a choice: Wu Shigong asked Yuan Xingshan to discount his business inn, and Wu Shigong himself took out some silver, and the two of them jointly opened a business store. Yuan Xingshan served as the big shopkeeper of this business inn.

This proposal made Yuan Xingshan a little overjoyed. Yuan Xingshan threw the merchants and goods in Guide City, and Yuan Xingshan no longer had any hope of keeping them. I didn't expect that I could still discount it to Wu Shigong now, and I would also become the big shopkeeper of the business inn with Wu Shigong, and I could get a share of dry shares. Therefore, Yuan Xingshan couldn't wait to agree.

Zuihou, Wu Shigong and Yuan Xingshan agreed, Wu Shigong took out two thousand taels of silver and converted into eighty percent of shares, and Yuan Xingshan in the inn and goods in Guide City were converted into five shares to jointly form a commercial inn. Yuan Xingshan is the big shopkeeper of this business inn.

On the surface, Wu Shigong seems to have suffered some losses. Moreover, Wu Shigong also understood that Yuan Xingshan's merchant house and goods in Guide Mansion City would definitely not be able to get them back for a while. However, Wu Shigong also has his own considerations.

On the one hand, Wu Shigong didn't want to sit in the thousand-household house of Guide. Wu Shigong's Qianhu is not a place like the capital, where there are many merchants, and some oil and water are squeezed out. These days, Wu Shigong has already made a big move, so that these merchants can spit out seven hundred and fifty taels of silver a year from their mouths.

If Wu Shigong continues to force each other, it will be a direct confrontation with the entire local gentry group. This is not in the interests of Wu Shigong.

And Wu Shigong, the farmland of a thousand households, can only barely maintain the food and clothing of the people of a thousand households. Even next year, the money and grain that will be handed over to Li Bingbei Dao here may not be taken out. There is simply no food left.

Therefore, setting up a merchant inn and doing business to earn some silver is more or less a subsidy for your own military spending.

But that's not the main reason why Wu Shigong set up a business store. The main reason is that Wu Shigong wants to buy a large amount of reserve materials for the fortress of Qianhu through this trading inn. In particular, it is necessary to buy large quantities of food.

Wu Shigong didn't remember much about the events during the Chongzhen period, but he knew that the main reason for Li Zicheng's rebellion was that the world was plagued by disasters and famines, and the peasants were going to starve to death, so he rebelled. Therefore, Wu Shigong wanted to buy a large amount of grain and reserve it in the fortress of Qianhusuo, at least so that his people could survive this period of famine in this fortress of Qianhusuo.

In Wu Shigong's thoughts, he should at least store 10,000 stone of grain in the fortress of a thousand households. In this case, in the event of a war, Wu Shigong only needs to shrink all the military households of the Qianhusuo and the soldiers he recruited and their families into the Qianhusuo fortress, even if there are 3,000 people living in the Qianhusuo fortress at that time, as long as the grain distribution is strictly carried out, he can completely survive in this Qianhusuo fortress for three years.

Before the Chinese New Year, Wu Shigong built a fortress of Qianhusuo, and next year, he will also start a big construction project, and will completely build this fortress of Qianhusuo into a fortress. Coupled with the fire gun that Wu Shigong asked Yang Goudan to make, Wu Shigong also had to buy and store a batch of gunpowder.

According to Wu Shigong's estimate, if there are no 30,000 horses to attack, and 5,000 people will not die, then it will definitely not be able to capture this fortress of a thousand households. In the final analysis, all of Wu Shigong's current strategic thinking is the turtle stream. And it's a complete shrunken turtle stream.

And if Wu Shigong wants to achieve such a goal, he needs a merchant inn to buy the materials he needs. You also need a businessman who is familiar with the local situation to assist you in purchasing.

Before this, Wu Shigong had actually discovered this problem. The prices of the building materials purchased by Zheng Zhen are a bit expensive. Although there is also the reason why Wu Shigong purchased too much, the main reason is that the locals bully outsiders and bully them because they don't understand the local market.

At this time, this Yuan Xingshan was sent to Wu Shigong, so of course Wu Shigong would not let him go. Therefore, Wu Shigong seemed to have suffered some losses on the surface, and almost sent Yuan Xingshan some shares of the business inn to envelop him. Otherwise, Wu Shigong is not a good gentleman, at most, he can protect the safety of Yuan Xingshan's family.

got Yuan Xingshan, and it was really different. He immediately made a huge difference.

When Wu Shigong told Yuan Xingshan about his idea of purchasing grain, Yuan Xingshan immediately took action, and the price of the grain he purchased was far lower than Wu Shigong's heart.

When Wu Shigong was in the capital, he knew that the price of a stone of grain was about five yuan of silver. However, Yuan Xingshan corrected Wu Shigong's erroneous view.

Yuan Xingshan told Wu Shigong that because the capital is located in the north and the freight of Cao Yun is added, the price of grain is relatively expensive. And in Henan, it is now just after the autumn harvest and before the Chinese New Year. So, the price of food also happens to be the lowest time of the year.

At present, if you buy grain from the peasants, the price is about 2 cents and 8 cents per stone, and if you buy grain from the grain merchants, it will be 3 cents of silver per stone at most. However, there is a problem here, grain merchants are not willing to sell grain in large quantities at this time.

Yuan Xingshan's words aroused Wu Shigong's curiosity, and he hurriedly asked the reason?

Yuan Xingshan went on to say: Those grain merchants will store grain until about April next year, when there will be a shortage of grain, and many families, including some peasant families, will be short of grain, and at this time, the price of grain may really rise to five cents of silver per stone.

Moreover, these grain merchants will also lend grain to those peasants who are short of grain, and of course they are not doing good deeds, because the grain they lend is usury, and after the autumn harvest, those peasants will have to pay back with interest. If you don't go back, you have to sell your land, or sell your children to pay off your debts. These are also the two methods used by these grain merchants to make huge profits.

Wu Shigong understood this, and he thought in his heart: "It turns out that this story of the white-haired girl came from like this!" ”

Therefore, Wu Shigong immediately decided to buy grain immediately when the price of grain was low. He offered a purchase price of three pieces of silver per stone. Of course, in order to take care of the military households of the thousand households, Wu Shigong gave the price to those military households was three dollars and two dollars per stone. Soon, Wu Shigong successively purchased more than 1,000 stone of grain from nearby farmers and military households.

After getting the news that Wu Shigong was buying grain, that Yao Yuanwai also came to the door. Na Yao Yuanwai is not only a big businessman, but also a big landowner in the local area, and he must have a lot of grain in his family. Therefore, he also hopes to sell his grain at a good price here in Wu Shigong. For such a good thing, Wu Shigong will certainly not turn away.

In the end, Wu Shigong and Yao Yuanwai agreed: Wu Shigong purchased 12,000 stone of grain from Yao Yuanwai, and the price was three dollars and one silver per stone. All of this grain will be delivered to Wu Shigong by February next year.

Yao Yuanwai is quite satisfied with the deal. Of course, he could not get so much grain, but as long as he went to the nearby gentry and landlords to get together, he would have no problem taking out this grain at all. And Yao Yuanwai can also earn some price difference from it.

In addition to earning silver, Yao Yuan was more satisfied that he exchanged the food in his home for cash. Yao Yuanwai's home has so much food, he must not be able to eat it by himself. It can only be put in the granary at home to grow mold and be lost. And to transport the grain to the outside to sell, you have to post the freight yourself.

Now, who doesn't love being able to find a buyer in their own area to buy grain?

And Wu Shigong is also very satisfied with the deal. Although the price at which he bought grain was higher, it saved Wu Shigong the trouble of buying grain piecemeal and transporting it after buying it. Being able to make this deal as soon as possible, Wu Shigong can be regarded as letting go of a big burden in his heart.

In addition, there is not much cash in Wu Shigong's hands now. And that Yao Yuanwai is also in business. Therefore, he was willing to accept the silver tickets in Wu Shigong's hands that could only be withdrawn in Jining. This also made Wu Shigong feel a lot less trouble.