"Second brother, my father occupies the land of Jinyang, although it is not as rich as Guanzhong, but no matter how much food you have, you can be self-sufficient, how can you come here to buy grain?" Yaoguang's eyes narrowed, and a worried look appeared on her face.

After Li Shimin sighed, he no longer concealed the ins and outs of the matter.

Where is Jinyang, will the place where Lao Li's family be used as a base camp be bad? Although the land of Shanxi is mountainous, but the Jinyang area is located in the plain, the land is fertile, and there is the Fen River flowing through, there is no shortage of water and no shortage of fields, when the Sui Dynasty was not chaotic in the past, the land of Jinyang can also be regarded as a good place with a number, for this reason also built a Fenyang Palace in the north of Jinyang for Yang Guang to eat, drink and have fun.

However, now, although Li Yuan has the land of Jinyang, but Shanxi has been rebelling since the ninth year of the Great Cause, until Li Yuan took office to Fumin, which is better, and now, Liang Shi and Liu Wuzhou miss Uncle Queping's base all day long, and send troops to fight for each other.

Although there are many victories and few defeats, however, the land around Jinyang has been beaten into a pot of porridge, and it is expected that the income from the autumn harvest will be able to support the autumn harvest next year at most, but don't forget that there is still a war and an army, which will not cost less food.

Now the total number of troops of the Lao Li family is about 150,000, and if there is no war, it can barely support it. But Li Yuan didn't want to fight, it didn't mean that Liu Wuzhou and Liang Shi didn't want to fight, so after losing the enterprising Guanzhong, Li Yuan, who could only work hard in Shanxi, finally set his sights on Ben Gongzi, who was sitting in Guanzhong and looking down on the world.

To know Lu Dao, Li Shimin is very clear about his son's ability to make grain, or this guy has seen new farming methods in Hancheng County, as well as the use of their own fermented fertilizers, and the yield per mu of Hancheng County is far ahead of this era.

And now, I have the fertile soil of Guanzhong, nearly 40 million acres of fields are in the bag, and Guanzhong is very smooth this year, it must be a bumper harvest year. And when he saw that the grain in his own territory was really unsustainable, Li Shimin proposed to Li Yuan to buy grain from his son.

And Li Yuan was very reluctant to this at first, but with the joint persuasion of many subordinates, and more importantly, most of the heroes in the world can ensure food and clothing, and even some such as Liu Wuzhou make a living by plundering, and every year there will be people in the big year who flee to him because they can't eat enough

In addition, Liang Shidu and Liu Wuzhou are now killing Li Yuan all day long, how can they go to the territory of these two buddies to buy grain, as for Dou Jiande, this buddy also has the ambition of the world, at present, Hebei is almost in his hands, just waiting for him to digest the territory in his hand, maybe the next target is Li Yuan, how can he fund him?

As for the others, who are not "ambitious in the world"? Selling his own grain to Li Yuan, that behavior, I'm afraid it is not much different from the enemy.

Therefore, Li Yuan thought about it and finally found that except for my future son-in-law, I am afraid that no one will sell him a grain of grain. Therefore, Li Yuan decided to let his second son Li Shimin come to Chang'an as soon as possible to get married, and by the way, the marriage of Yaoguang's sister was also done, and of course, he also got some food with his son by the way

“…… The world is so big, only my brother can help my father and son. Therefore, Shimin also asked my brother to help my father and son. Speaking of this, Li Shimin got up and bowed solemnly to me.

"Brother Xian, what do you mean by this, who are the two of us, besides, your father will be my father-in-law in a short time, this matter, it's really not a big problem." I quickly stretched out my hand to stop it, and after dragging this guy to sit down, I said very righteously, hearing this, the Yaoguang girl looked at me with such a watery and crystal gaze.

"But how much food is your father going to want?" I asked very seriously after giving Sister Yaoguang an ambiguous look. "And don't forget, all this food costs money. After all, being a brother also has to buy food from the hands of the common people. ”

“…… I don't know how much money Brother Tai is going to sell? Li Shimin blinked curiously, with a very ignorant expression.

"In the past few years, the world has been in chaos, living beings have been decarbonized, all industries have withered, and the Central Plains has a stone of grain, I'm afraid it will have to be three-five, right?" I touched my chin and said. "Even if it's Dou Jiande, I'm afraid it's almost three times."

"Yes, in Hebei, when it is cheapest, you have to run two seven and one stone rice...... Li Shimin nodded in agreement, his expression looked very sad, and his eyes were as sad as the hungry dog that saw a piece of meat and bones in the deep well, and he also pulled my shirt tightly, looking like a scoundrel collecting debts. Brother, our brothers are friends in the general corner, and they have a friendship with each other...... You won't cheat me like this, will you? If you sell two or three pieces of rice to the younger brother, the younger brother will not be able to feed the people in the Jinyang area even if he smashes the pot and sells iron.

The girl is worthy of being the one who is about to marry out, and she is about to catch up with the water that is spilling out, and she is pulling my clothes hard at my ass, with a look of anticipation.

"Nonsense, if I want to sell you like that, I'm sorry for my own conscience, and I'm even more sorry for my sister and your sister." Ben Gongzi smoked this dart with a look, and he knew how to pretend to be hard with this girl.

The two girls looked like they were smiling.

"Then I don't know how many stones are you going to sell your little brother for Brother Dao?" Li Shimin asked with a smile.

I touched my chin. "Since our brothers are good brothers, then the younger brother will not make money, it has always been three hundred dollars a stone, and the delivery will be sent to Fenhe at most, and you will have to take it yourself no further."

"Can it be less?" Li Shimin asked after wrenching his fingers and counting.

"I think less, the question is, do you think those ordinary people can do it?" Ben Gongzi rolled his eyes and said. "Now if the grain is not consistent today, even if it is coarse grain, it has to be at least two times, and this son is considered to be less. And it's also a friendship price, you have to know that the price at which my son is going to collect grain is this price."

"But it's too expensive, isn't the love of our brothers even worth this fraction?"

“…… Brother, can you have more? ”

"Let's go, it's always a hundred dollars and a stone, and I lose a little for my brother, but you can't let your brother give it away for nothing, right? This grain is not my own, it was sold to me by the common people. "In the end, my son could only press the reserve price

"It's always been a hundred dollars a stone, but I need nearly three million stones in Jinyang, and now, I'm afraid we can get a million yuan at most......," Li Shimin wrenched his fingers, and said with an embarrassed expression.

"Isn't it?" Ben Gongzi was speechless. "Isn't a million stones enough?"

Li Shimin shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Brother Tai, I don't know, there are nearly two million people in the land of Jinyang where my father and son are based, especially since last year, there have been wars and turmoil, and nearly 400,000 people can only flee from the area of Loufu and Xinkou, plus the supply of 150,000 troops, one million stone is really not enough to survive until the autumn harvest." Three million stones, this is already the minimum, no matter how little, there will really be people......"

"For more than a year, although it has the support of Jinyang's old foundation, it is not only to govern the people's livelihood, but also to build ordnance, repair the city defense, and buy military horses...... All roads and roads need a lot of money everywhere, and now the old foundation is almost gone. Even the dividends that the younger brother got were thrown into it, and now he has no more than 300,000 yuan in his hand. ”

This really gave me a headache, I never thought that Uncle Queping would be so miserable, but looking back, it's right, in the past, Li Yuan started to cow up according to the land of Guanzhong, and now Guanzhong is in my hands, Li Yuan can only work hard to manage the land of Jinyang, but the land of Shanxi is a place of war, and it is quite good to be able to manage that territory to the present level, and to be able to block several enemies.

However, although this son can also pay him a subsidy out of his own pocket, this is not good, well, it is better to give people fish than to give people fish. This son is not a philanthropist, but an excellent CPO of a multinational group and an excellent business talent.

With a frown, I stood up and slowly stumbled up, thinking about what was missing in Guanzhong today, and what good things could be in Shanxi.

Li Shimin looked at me directly, for fear that my son's head would swing from side to side, in that case, this would be big, or rather, his father's life, it would be really sad.

I sat back on the couch, my fingers tapping lightly on the desk. "Shanxi is a good place, the products are very rich, you are short of food, and you are short of money, but it doesn't matter. You can exchange things for food. ”

"What do you get in exchange?" Li Shimin's eyes couldn't help but light up, and his face wrinkled again. "Brother, you don't want silk cloth, do you? There are not many silk cloths. ”

"I want that thing, the current output of the Hancheng County Water Textile Factory in a month is almost enough for one piece of clothing for the people in the entire Guanzhong, can I do it?" I raised my fingers and said, "Actually, there are still some good things in Shanxi." For example, coal, and iron ore...... These things are also available in Guanzhong, but we now have too many factories, a shortage of manpower, and a lot fewer people to open mines, so if you can get me coal and iron ore, how about we barter for things? ”

Li Shimin couldn't help but show joy on his face, clapped his hands and smiled: "Today's Jinyang, nearly 400,000 people have fled the countryside, and the cultivators have no land, and it is really difficult to settle these people in the Jinyang area. Since Brother Tai is willing to exchange grain for coal and iron, then those people can also have something to do to support their families, good, great good."

After the agreement, each stone of grain was exchanged for 1,000 catties of coal or 500 catties of iron ore, and the two sides traded in Linfen County by water.

Li Shimin was finally satisfied, and after raising a lamp to invite a drink, he said goodbye to his son happily, and said that he would write to his father after he went back, so that his father would know the news earlier, and he would be able to rest assured as soon as possible, and more importantly, arrange for someone to dig coal as soon as possible.