Fu Yanqing naturally agreed without hesitation. It's not a difficult thing to do, and besides, she has to rely on this coal to make iron into steel!

Only in this way can the steel be made into weapons, agricultural tools.

What made Fu Yanqing a little depressed was that she still had to pay for the freight. The shipping cost of two hundred taels of silver is not cheap. But all she needs now is this coal, so she has no choice but to pay for the freight.

Fu Yanqing paid for the coal here, and he could see the delivery there. However, only Fu Yanqing can see this, and no one else can.

After confirming that the coal was already in Yancheng, Fu Yanqing immediately arranged for someone to transport 100,000 catties of coal.

The coal that Fu Yanqing bought belonged to the one that had been refined, and there was still a certain difference from the one dug out of the carbon ore. The most important thing is that there is no coal mine now, so Fu Yan has no other better choice than to buy it.

However, after the 100,000 catties of coal were transported, the problem of refining was solved for a short time.

It's just that it's not so easy to make iron into steel. Fortunately, after it is turned into molten iron, it needs to be filtered, then heated, and then filtered again.

Finally, it has an iron content of more than 98%, which is an iterative process anyway.

Fu Yanqing also knew that this matter could not be rushed, anyway, now she is ready. It was only a matter of time before iron was turned into steel.

And now what is more important is that there is a shortage of seeds, which Fu Yanqing never expected. What the hell do these people think, they even ate the original seeds, and now it's good, how can they farm without seeds?

If you can't farm, there will be no food to eat, so Fu Yanqing has to find a way to get seeds.

However, Fu Yanqing's seeds are not for nothing, and they must be bought with copper coins or silver coins. As for the copper plate used in the past, it is definitely not good.

However, as for the sudden start of using silver now, it is also because Fu Yanqing found that she needed silver to buy coal, otherwise she would definitely not accept silver.

So the money now is like this, copper coins are more valuable than gold, and gold is more valuable than silver. As for the rest, I won't accept it for the time being.

Not many ordinary people have silver in their hands, but for some people who are originally wealthy, it is not too difficult to store a little gold and silver in their warehouses.

On the contrary, the copper coin is really hard to get. If you don't have a little real ability, if you want to get copper coins, it is undoubtedly a dream of eating people.

So when they saw that they could trade gold and silver, these people who already had a lot of gold and silver were going crazy. Finally let them wait for this day, if it goes on like this, they really don't know if they will be able to hold on to this day, but at least for them now, this day is still waited for by them.

"What? The seeds of this sorghum actually cost half a tael of silver a pound? And this sweet potato costs eight dollars of silver, and the sweet potato costs one or two silver pounds, isn't it crazy? ”

Even if they did leave some gold and silver in their hands at the beginning, would the price be too high? Who can afford it? Isn't this a deliberate attempt to embarrass them?

"This is the price of our shop, if you don't want to buy it, then you have to figure it out yourself."

Figure it out yourself? Isn't that tantamount to embarrassing them? If they could have managed to get so much food, it wouldn't have been like this.

I knew that I shouldn't have eaten all that food in the first place, but what use would it be to regret it now? Will the grain come back?

There are even some people who have already thought about it, and persuaded them: "It's all because we haven't been able to restrain ourselves, but if we can restrain a little, it won't be like this." ”

But there aren't many people who can think that way, because they don't feel that they have done anything wrong in the slightest, and they must know that they used to live a life of worry-free food and clothing.

But now? To say that they have to suffer so many sins for these things, if they are the unluckiest people, no one should object!

As a result, in order to have enough to eat, he even ate all the grains, who to reason with? Now that they can still buy grain seeds, they should be content, and if it really makes a big fuss, they will be ashamed.

So what else can be done? It must have been able to buy it yourself, there is nothing to say.

Fortunately, even if it is such a price, it is within their affordability, after all, it is just a seed. You don't have to buy thousands of pounds in one go, do you?

And Fu Yanqing didn't sell seeds this time, and actually earned about seven or eight thousand taels of silver, which she didn't expect. It seems that this will make money, but it will come much faster than the copper coins.

In fact, this is Fu Yanqing's mistake, the seeds are because they all need them, and they are within the range of what they can take out. But after this time, I'm afraid that these people will also keep an eye on it and won't do such a thing again.

But this time is enough, and now they can provide the grain that has existed before, but in fact, when they feel the benefits of the corn and sweet potatoes she took out this time, they will know that their money is definitely not unjustly spent.

After you have the grain seed, you can plant the land.

But the problem is still constant, that is, there is not much land that can be planted in Yancheng, so it can only be cultivated. Otherwise, there is not enough arable land, how can we feed so many people?

However, it is not without benefits to them, as long as they apply for the wasteland, they can use it themselves, and they only need to pay forty percent of the grain to Yancheng.

Under such incentives, there are still many people who are willing to open up wasteland.

If they don't want to open up the land, it doesn't matter, they can choose to rent the land. It's just that renting land is still different from cultivating wasteland.

If they choose to rent land, then they need to pay fifty percent of the grain to Yancheng. Therefore, the difference between land reclamation and direct land lease is already very obvious.

Today, the total resident population of Yancheng has reached 500,000, of course, including the displaced people who came to defect and the people left behind in the four cities.

And it is not an easy thing to feed so many people, but at the same time, Fu Yanqing's heart is still very happy. Because she is the city lord of Yancheng, it is still a good thing that she has so many people for her own use.