Borrowing grain is not for yourself, but for the salt works in the south.

The southernmost contingent of the Bai family army is adjacent to the salt works run by the imperial court, and the salt for the daily consumption of the whole army comes from this salt field, and its importance is self-evident.

Not long ago, there was an accident in the salt field, the displaced people rioted, and after smashing and looting the county town of Fuxian, which was prosperous because of salt, they rushed into the salt field outside the city to grab salt, and the salt field's own defenders were actually defeated by the bare-handed homeless people, or the Baijia army was dispatched to suppress it and snatch back the salt field, saved the eunuch who supervised the salt, and kept the salt in the salt pond and several warehouses from being wasted.

Of course, the Bai family army did not do good deeds in vain, after they recaptured the salt field, the salt field actually fell into the control of the army, correspondingly, the original salt boat and the food of the defenders of the salt field had to be provided by them, because the original grain was either robbed by the displaced people or wasted.

The news sent by the main background is very detailed, the matter of borrowing grain is actually made up by the counties under the jurisdiction of the Bai family's army, and it is not assigned to Bai Qing's head alone for him to complete alone, but now is the time when the green and yellow are not available, and it is not so easy to make up the grain, Bai Qing naturally thought of Qi Ke, how much to make up, he exchanged it for cotton.

Qi Ke immediately thought of the straw potato flour in his hand that was not easy to sell, and there were many people in a salt field, and it was a good deal to exchange straw potato flour for cotton, so he sent a message back to the second housekeeper and asked her to talk.

Two days later, the second housekeeper replied to the message, and the money and grain official said that the straw potato flour was too expensive, and it was better to exchange it for his own people, and the cheaper the food for the people in the salt farm, the better.

Qi Ke also made a mistake all of a sudden, the landlord's family has no surplus grain in this green season, if he has to squeeze a little grain out, then he can only close the business.

After thinking about it, he didn't have a clue, Qi Ke called Zhaolin to discuss, and rummaged through the inventory to see if there were any cheap things.

Zhaolin, who could also see the news from the main background, came up with an idea as soon as he came over: "When you went all the way south, what did you do with the nests distributed to the homeless people along the way?" ”

"Multigrain."

"What else?"

"And ......" Qi Ke frowned, recalled vigorously, and then slapped his thigh suddenly, "Yes, remember, the oil residue left over from oil extraction." ”

"Just trade this for them. We have soybeans, we have mills, cyclamen kitchens don't know how much oil they use every day, and we say that we have hundreds of pounds of oil cake left over from oil extraction to feed the animals, and there is no flaw in this reason. ”

"Yes, the price is cheap, and you can fill your stomach with food, but you can't die without any nutrition."

"Give food to the people in the salt farm, that is, I hope that no one will die, otherwise the salt farm will be abandoned if no one works for it, and the severity is no less than the salt farm being destroyed by the displaced people, and it is troublesome for the court to pursue it, Bai Jiajun is now our backer, helping them is helping us."

"Yes, we still depend on this salt farm for our daily salt, and we can't let it go to waste for our own sake. Then say so, let the second housekeeper do it. ”

Qi Ke replied to the message in the main background, such a trivial matter does not need her to come forward with Zhaolin, and the person in charge of the negotiation on the side of the Qianhu Office is also the subordinate of the Qian Food Officer, so it is the same for her to send the second housekeeper here, in the final analysis, the matter is not so serious that Bai Qing needs to come forward to negotiate.

After waiting for a long time, the transport plane also flew to deliver things, and after five or six days, the internal details of the defensive array in Qi Ke's hand had been half drawn, and he saw the new news of the second housekeeper in the main background, all the talks were over, everything went well, and it was delivered to Jia Ji for transportation.

In the end, the result of the negotiation was that the straw potato flour was exchanged for cotton, and the soybean oil residue cake was exchanged for salt.