Chapter 144: The Great Hoarding Operation (Three Watches)

"Amitabha, Lord Luo Shi doesn't have to send it, if the Dao Alliance has been seriously injured today, Hua Wuji has fled far away, I am afraid that it will be disbanded soon, and there will be no danger on the way for the poor monks. ”

Luo Caiyi nodded and stood at the door of the inn.

This time the Heavenly Dao Alliance attacked, and the Holy Fire Sect also lost a lot of damage, and it still needed to take a good rest.

But it's all worth it, the threat of the Heavenly Dao Alliance is gone, and the Holy Fire Sect can develop in Henan without any scruples.

"That Hua Xiaohuan, is he already gone?".

"Yes, she wants to go back to the Songshan faction to pack up some things, Miss Hua's pure yin body is indeed difficult to heal, since the poor monk has encountered it, she should try her best to relieve the suffering of others. ”

"You're kind. ”

"The poor monk is like this, but he is also adding some merit and good fortune for himself, it doesn't matter if he is kind or not. ”

Luo Caiyi didn't speak, Huo Yuanzhen was speechless for a while, Hua Wuji was injured last night and escaped, and that slip of blood made everyone's hearts weigh a big stone, but no one said it.

After a while, Huo Yuanzhen looked up at the big flag at the door of the inn.

"After this battle, the rudder of your sect has been greatly boosted, and since then, the fish has jumped into the dragon gate, and the poor monk should have changed the name of this inn. ”

"How can the abbot's meaning be changed?"

"Longguan is not proper, let's call it Longmen Inn. ”

Luo Caiyi muttered a few words, turned back to the inn and said: "Come on, take down this flag for me, according to the meaning of the abbot master, from now on, it will be called Longmen Inn." ”

Huo Yuan's horse was really fast, and on the way back, he caught up with the convoy transporting grain.

The convoy departed from Luoyang and headed for Shaomu Mountain. Now I have been walking for more than two days, and I will be able to reach Mt. Shaomuro early tomorrow morning.

Huo Yuanzhen caught up with the grain convoy. A brief look at the grain.

There are 100 cars, and it is like a long dragon on the road.

In fact, this trip to deliver grain. It's not just the food that's expensive, but also the money for transportation, but since the Demon Sect pays for it, Huo Yuanzhen doesn't care.

For these grains, Huo Yuanzhen attaches great importance to them. If the war starts, it will most likely be spring, so don't think about the preparation for plowing and planting in the spring, and then the grain will be precious.

Although this hundred cars seem to be a lot, Huo Yuanzhen thinks. It's not enough, it's not enough.

Personally escorted this batch of grain back to Shaomu Mountain, from the newly opened mountain road to the top of the mountain, and the monks of Shaolin Temple came out to help.

A hundred cartloads of grain were unloaded. Piled up to the back of the abbot's courtyard of the Shaolin Temple.

Yichen and the others were not surprised to see Huo Yuanzhen come back, but were surprised by these grains.

"Abbot, with so much food, I'm afraid it will be a little difficult for us Shaolin to finish eating this winter. ”

The one who said this was Huiyi, and the eighteen of them have now been recognized by the people in Shaolin, they have the ability, and they are not bad. When they were working just now, eighteen of them were also the main force.

Hearing Huiyi's words, Huo Yuanzhen looked back. These eighteen people, plus Hui Niu's super rice bucket. These people looked at the mountains of grain, and seemed to feel a great responsibility.

Huo Yuanzhen didn't care about these single-minded foodies, and called all the monks of the first generation to come to his abbot's courtyard.

Sitting down in the hall, Huo Yuanzhen looked at everyone: "Senior brothers, do you have any questions?"

Yichen first said: "There are some doubts, but everyone has guessed a little bit of the abbot's thoughts." ”

"That's good, now it's December, and there are still four months left in this winter to basically pass, when the time comes, the war is likely to break out, and everyone can imagine how many people will be poisoned by the war, and we can't help but take precautions against this matter, so the poor monk thinks that these grains are far from enough. ”...,

Everyone nodded one after another, if it is really as Huo Yuanzhen said, then I am afraid that no matter how much food is eaten, it will be eaten.

"Senior Brother Yikong, how much silver do we have in Shaolin?"

Yikong, the former senior brother and now the senior brother, stood up and said: "Abbot, a few days ago, we still had nearly 200,000 taels of silver, but first we repaid the debts of the money village, and then ordered a lot of bows and arrows, and then bought horses, built mountain roads, oh, and made clothes, and all kinds of them came out, and now we only have more than 30,000 taels." ”

Huo Yuanzhen nodded, "This money can't be used for him now, all of it is used to buy food, starting tomorrow, all the warrior monks in Shaolin will go down the mountain to contact and purchase food, and the war horses they buy will also be used to pull carts temporarily." ”

The monks nodded in agreement.

Huo Yuanzhen thought about it, these are not enough, I have to go to the major money houses again, strive to borrow some silver taels, and hoard as much food as possible in case of emergency.

Huo Yuanzhen's loan action is very smooth, and now Shaolin Temple is already the largest faction within a radius of 100 miles, and the abbot of the first ring is like a Buddha in ten thousand families, no one thinks that he will repay his debts.

Not to mention anything else, it is the incense money of Shaolin Temple every day, and there are at least a hundred taels, and when the weather is good, you can even receive nearly a thousand taels of incense money a day, which is already completely the scale of a big temple.

Qian Delu of Lvye Town lent Huo Yuanzhen 30,000 taels, and Zao Wou-Ki of Dengfeng Qian Zhuang was even more generous and lent Huo Yuanzhen 100,000 taels of silver at one time.

Even Zao Wou-Ki said that if the abbot of Yijie still needed silver taels, even if he came to him, he could also contact the shopkeeper of other money banks to meet with the abbot.

Huo Yuanzhen expressed his gratitude for this, but at the moment, it seems that the money is almost the same.

After the money arrived, the Shaolin Temple's grain purchase began.

The warrior monks put their horses on their carts and roamed around the towns.

Starting from the vicinity of Dengfeng County and going all the way to Zhengzhou Mansion, Shaolin disciples can be seen in almost every county.

Every two warrior monks with a monk, set a two-horse-drawn cart, the monk is responsible for bookkeeping, in charge of money, warrior monk is responsible for carrying grain, after the purchase of a full cart, immediately return to Shaolin Temple.

The white horse that Huo Yuanzhen extracted in the system tragically became the main force pulling the car, and it was guarding the edge of Shaomu Mountain, and if the car could not go up the mountain, it had to go over to support.

If the system has a spirit and knows that the white horse that came out is the end, it is estimated that it will not let Huo Yuanzhen extract it if he says anything.

The main target of these monks was not ordinary people, but those grain merchants or large families.

At this time, in the granaries of those big families, all kinds of grain are piled up, and many people hope to turn the grain into silver taels, and the emergence of Shaolin is just the right time.

Even in a landlord's house, 30 carts of rice were purchased at a flat price at one time, which made people overjoyed.

The purchase plan went smoothly, and except for some more discerning merchants who refused to sell, the rest of the people were willing to sell the surplus grain.

On the first day, more than 80 truckloads of grain were transported back to Mt. Shaomuro.

The next day, seventy-five cartloads of grain were again delivered.

On the third day of the grain purchase, a small peak was finally ushered in, and more than 140 carts of grain were transported back after consuming countless silver taels.

Behind Huo Yuanzhen's abbot's courtyard, a huge temporary granary was erected, with a radius of 100 meters, all surrounded by tree strips, and straw mats were set up on it.

Looking at the incomparably huge granary, it is also being filled little by little.

On the ninth day of the acquisition, the pace slowed down a bit. ..., at the beginning stage, all the purchases were refined grains, and seeing that the purchases were almost done now, Huo Yuanzhen changed to rough grains again, anyway, it is winter, and there is no need to worry about the food being spoiled, as long as it can be eaten.

The little silver taels that were left were spent like a stream of water.

By the time Huo Yuanzhen had spent all the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, it was already mid-December.

Regarding Shaolin's purchase of grain, people in the vicinity have different opinions.

Many people find it strange that it is now the winter leisure season, and many people have surplus grain at home, but most of the grain is concentrated in the hands of grain merchants, and the price will definitely not be low, but Shaolin Temple chooses to buy grain at this time, which makes people can't help but think about it.

The most people said that the Shaolin Temple was preparing to speculate, and now it is buying it on a large scale, and it will be sold again during the spring and summer of tomorrow.

But this statement is somewhat untenable, now most people in their hands, there is still some surplus grain, enough to last until tomorrow's Xiaochun harvest season, Shaolin hoarding grain if it is intended to be resold, there is absolutely no market.

Unless the grain is sold outside the plug or in the grassland area, but in that case, I am afraid that the transportation cost will be greater than the value of the grain itself.

Some people also said that Shaolin planned to recruit disciples on a large scale, fearing that there would not be enough food.

However, no one pays attention to this statement, and if you recruit disciples again, can you still form a legion?

There are also some smart people who realize that Shaolin did this because they were worried that there would be no food in the event of war.

But if a real war breaks out, the disaster is everywhere, and Shaolin hoards so much food, isn't it afraid of being looted by those disaster victims?

Of course, there are some Buddhist believers who believe that the abbot of the first precept must be to save the people in the world, and this food must be used for relief in the end, but it is not known who to help yet.

For the last statement, most people don't believe it, after all, Shaolin Temple is now borrowing heavily and is in debt, can it still help others at this time?

No matter what the rumors are outside, Huo Yuanzhen still goes his own way, knowing that one day when he comes to report that Shaolin now only has more than one hundred and ten taels of silver left, he can be regarded as choosing to stop.

For more than half a month, thousands of truckloads of grain have been purchased before and after, and now the big warehouse is full.

Arrange for the warrior monks to take turns guarding it, and this grain is not visible now, and it will be of great use in the spring.

Hui Niu and others, who took it as their responsibility to eat all these grains, are now completely dead, if these grains are not burned with fire, I am afraid that they will not be able to eat them all for a lifetime. (To be continued)

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