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"Shouzhe, where did you get fifty or sixty thousand loads of grain?" Gongsun Qiang said with a deep breath and almost incredulity.

The Shanyang Gongsun clan is also considered powerful, sitting on 10,000 or 20,000 acres of fertile land. However, even so, the grain output in one season will not reach 50,000 or 60,000 quintals! Moreover, the production of fertile land by the family must be distributed to the tenant farmers and a tax per mu every year.

It can be seen from this that these 50,000 or 60,000 quintals of grain are astronomical amounts. Even in normal times, it is extremely difficult to get so much food at once, not to mention the current situation in this world.

"I bought it from the Qian firm through a friend's relationship. Wang Shouzhe said, "Uncle, without further ado, now set off for [Jucaizhuang] first, and the carriage will follow." ”

Gongsun's carriage was specially reinforced because it had to transport minerals. The horses that pull the cart are also selected with stout physique and full of endurance Northland heavy pull horses, each carriage uses four to five horses, which can easily pull tens of thousands of catties.

Bought it through a friendship?

Gongsun Qiang's eyelids twitched, where did this kind of friend come from, can you give me a dozen? With envy, jealousy and a little disbelief, he took the lead in following Wang Shouzhe to [Jucaizhuang].

Jucaizhuang is one of the industries of the Qian family, which is specially used to hoard all kinds of bulk goods. Many bulk goods often cost tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of quintals, etc., and it is unnecessary to transport them to the Changning Acropolis.

As for the fear of being attacked and robbed, that's a joke.

Let's not say that the armed forces in this wealth gathering village are not bad, let's just say that the brand of the wealthy Qian family in Longzuo is placed there, and no one dares to move the slightest evil thought.

asked to see through the disciples of Jucaizhuang, and after a while, Qian Xue'an, the head of Qian, came out with a black face, looking like he didn't give Wang Shouzhe a good face.

Subsequently, he made a handover on behalf of the Qian family, and the two parties redrafted a contract, and the Qian family "repurchased" the contract of exterminator powder from Wang Shouzhe.

This price is very reasonable, 10,000 dry gold cash, 60,000 quintals of old grain in stock. After the original 5,000 bags of pest extermination powder were repurchased, Qian could sell at least 15,000 to 20,000 dry gold, and naturally he would not lose money.

Regarding such a "embarrassing" matter, the shopkeeper of Qian's Changning branch didn't even want to show up, and entrusted everything to Qian Xue'an. The shopkeeper who never showed up had obviously thought about it a long time ago, and put the responsibility for all the mistakes on Qian Xue'an Qian.

Therefore, when Qian Xue'an assisted Wang Shouzhe in going through the formalities, his face was already "gloomy" to the point of dripping water, and he didn't want to say a word to Wang Shouzhe from beginning to end.

After everything was taken care of, he threw Wang Shouzhe a large stack of golden tickets and a guide for 60,000 loads of grain, and left angrily.

With such fake and real acting skills, Wang Shouzhe was also stunned. I sighed in my heart that once Qian Xue'an was successfully promoted to the Lingtai Realm, he would definitely be a hero in the future.

After completing the formalities, Wang Shouzhe found Gongsun Qiang, who was waiting outside: "Uncle, the procedures for receiving 60,000 quintals of old grain have been completed, and when your people come, let's start transporting grain." ”

Gongsun Qiang's body shook and was dumbfounded, really, he really "bought" 60,000 loads of grain, this big nephew is really incredible.

Soon, Gongsun Qiang's twenty-horse convoy slowly drove in, along with eighty sturdy mine slaves.

In the mountains of granaries, the old grain is packed in rice bags, and a bag of rice is exactly one hundred catties of rice. But those miners easily carried three or four bags and began to load them.

"Uncle, how much can a cart hold?" Wang Shouzhe has lived for two lifetimes, and he has never seen so much grain. Although he had already estimated it in his heart, the size and quantity were still far beyond his imagination.

"Load, even if loaded, load to a hundred loads, our carriages are specially reinforced, and the Northland heavy horses are not vegetarians. Gongsun Qiang's eyes have also begun to turn red, he has lived all his life, and naturally he has never seen so many piles of grain together.

With the strength of the Shanyang Gongsun clan, it is enough to hoard 20,000 quintals of grain all year round, enough for thousands of strong laborers to eat for a year. The tenant farmers, miners, and miners of the Shanyang Gongsun clan, plus their families, etc., add up to a population of several thousand.

That's tens of thousands of catties of grain......

Wang Shouzhe was slightly stunned, a little unexpected, this is really a fantasy world, not only is the strength of ordinary people much greater, but even the strength of this kind of heavy horse pulling in the north is so powerful. What's more, this is not a spirit beast-level war horse, otherwise it is even more powerful.

The miners were obviously accustomed to heavy work, and were assigned a wagon for every four people, but it took six or seven trips back and forth to load the wagon. Special mine-pulling wagons, overloaded with grain.

But even then, it was only two thousand quintals.

According to this pattern, you can't pull up to 30 trips? Come on, pull slowly, anyway, I don't expect to finish this batch of grain in a short time.

Fortunately, at this time, Qian Xue'an appeared again, and he still said with a cold face: "Our Qian firm pays the most attention to goodwill, and will never embarrass customers." You can hire our heavy wagons, twenty pounds a day, including the coachman, including the rations of the coachman and the heavy horses, and you will be responsible for loading and unloading them. ”

Obviously, Qian Xue'an took the risk to come to assist.

But the eldest uncle on the side, Sun Qiang, almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood, although the price given by the other party was reasonable, but it also weakened his hard work, didn't it?

Originally, Gongsun Qiang also wanted to take advantage of this help to be cheeky and ask his eldest nephew to give him some food.

"Then there is a matter of labor. Wang Shouzhe said happily, "Then let's rent another thirty carriages." ”

The number of carriages owned by the Qian family is far greater than that of the Gongsun clan, and their business is all over Longzuo, and the cargo capacity of the carriage is of course extremely high, which is not inferior to the carriage of the Gongsun clan.

When all fifty wagons were fully loaded, they drove all the way out of Jucaizhuang.

Jucaizhuang is only ten miles away from Changning Ferry, and under normal circumstances, the carriage can arrive in less than an hour. However, Changning Ferry is crowded with people, and Wang Shouzhe does not want to make a big show for the time being, so as to avoid extraneous branches.

After the carriage passed the three-way crossing, it took the road to Shanyang, and after another two or three miles, it turned around in the direction of the Anjiang River and arrived at a dense forest pass. From here, the carriage could no longer enter. However, there are only more than 100 steps in the dense forest, and there is a vertical cliff five or six zhang high, and there is naturally an inlet twenty or thirty zhang wide under the cliff.

At this time, the sixth uncle Wang Dinghai had already received a letter from his family, led the fleet to wait here, and set up a temporary plank road with an oblique slope. There were fishing boats, ferries, and all the boats that could be used at home.

This is a laborious but discreet transport.

From the carriage to the dense forest to the cliff and the boat, the road required about 250 steps, Wang Shouzhe asked the mine slaves and the generals to stand in position, three steps and one person, to transport the grain in the form of a relay relay.

As soon as everyone got used to it, they found the benefits of this simple manpower transportation line, which was stable and orderly, and the efficiency gradually improved. In the end, the speed of loading the ship can reach one or two breaths, and it saves time and physical strength to run back and forth.

In just over an hour, all the grain in fifty wagons was magically loaded and unloaded. Subsequently, the convoy returned to Jucaizhuang to get the next batch. And Wang Shouzhe followed the fleet and crossed the Anjiang River all the way to the [Fenggu Gate].

There were more people in Fenggu Farm, and there were 200 tenant farmers, and it was easy to draw out 150 strong laborers. Using the same method, the rice grain was transported through the Fenggu gate and temporarily stored in the Fenggu Farm.

There are not enough boats on the inland river, only five or six, and they have to be transported slowly on this last line.

The difficult development of the transportation line was successful, which made Wang Shouzhe relax, but also had a strong dissatisfaction with his own transportation line.

The first is the over-reliance on public ferries, and the lack of private private access to small, secluded piers.

The second is the inconvenience of the Anjiang River to the inland river, because the water level on both sides is inconsistent, and the single gate cannot be opened for a long time at will, otherwise it will cause waterlogging.

Moreover, the family has obvious shortcomings in ship transportation and carriage transportation. Perhaps with the current scale of the Wang family, this shortcoming is not obvious, but as the family continues to grow and expand, this shortcoming will seriously hinder the development of the family.

It seems that it is also urgent to establish its own and perfect transportation channels.

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