After sending Zhang Jinru away, Li Chaosheng returned to the county government and summoned local governors and grain talents to report on the output of this autumn harvest.

At the meeting, Li Chaosheng got the news that this year's large-scale planting of high-yield corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes in Lantian County is considered a bumper harvest this year, and after removing the 40,000 quintals of grain taken away by Zhang Jinru and the rations left by the people themselves, Li Chaosheng's grain store can still take out 160,000 quintals of grain.

Of the 160,000 quintals of grain, Li Chaosheng decided to allocate 60,000 quintals to the grain shops to provide a source of goods for those small merchants and hawkers who were engaged in grain processing business, and Li Chaosheng was going to take out the other 100,000 quintals of grain to recruit displaced people.

In fact, this year is not only Shaanxi, I heard that Henan, Shanxi, have suffered different degrees of disaster, and the local officials are similar to the officials in Shaanxi, and the disaster relief is not very in place, Li Chao found a few days before his death that some fleeing Henan people entered Lantian County.

In addition, there are more people who have fled from northern Shaanxi, and now northern Shaanxi is a purgatory on earth, where anti-thieves attack cities and conquer lands, coerce the people, suppress the officials and soldiers, and disturb the localities.

Everyone should understand the truth that these officers and soldiers, thieves and cholera, and countless people have fled to northern Shaanxi, resulting in a large area of crops abandoned and uncultivated in northern Shaanxi, and there is almost no harvest this year.

Therefore, at this meeting, Li Chaosheng set the tone for this winter, first, to actively maintain the repaired Diba reservoir, and second, to carry out large-scale land reclamation in the newly incorporated Lantian area, and to organize the disaster victims to build the reservoir.

The third is to define the number of disaster victims, this year Lantian County will receive up to 30,000 victims, beyond this number, Lantian County will not have enough food.

Li Chaosheng's regulations were issued, and the whole county began to work nervously, but soon the problem came, as a clerk, Guo Bao quickly reported the number of victims in each county in recent days, and in this five days, the mayors of the major provinces accepted more than 2,800 people, this is still just the beginning, and this is not yet winter, and it has not yet reached the peak period of the victims.

Li Chaosheng looked at the report that came up, and Guo Bao said: "I estimated with Master Liu, I am afraid that there will be more than 70,000 victims in Lantian County this year, and the food we prepared is not enough." ”

Hearing this, Li Chaosheng frowned slightly, and Guo Bao said: "Boss, do you want to send an army to patrol the border and drive out more than 30,000 people." ”

Li Chaosheng heard this, and tapped his fingers on the table, this is all human life.

Li Chaosheng sighed, his thinking has not been completely transformed yet, and he still can't accept that he treats human life like a mustard, which may be the weakness given to Li Chaosheng in the 21st century.

Li Chaosheng knocked on the table, if these victims are expelled, what awaits them will definitely be death, this is tens of thousands of lives, if they are incorporated into Lantian, it will be tens of thousands of laborers, that is wealth, and it will definitely consolidate its rule and strengthen Lantian County.

But Li Chaosheng really didn't dare to let these people in, after all, if they were all put in, they would compete with the locals of Lantian for food, and he might not be able to feed them.

What is this, why don't you go to modern times to buy food, but this far water can't quench your thirst, just pointing to how many people you can save, and then saying that you don't do anything else to transport food to these people?

Li Chaosheng thought that he was a little worried, there was no food, and no food was almost the same as no money, so there were two solutions, one was to open source and the other was to throttle.

It is impossible to throttle, Lantian's rations are all accurately equipped, not to mention the people's families, even the landlords' families have no surplus grain.

Li Chaosheng thought about it and knocked on the table, and at this moment Gu Zi suddenly pushed the door in: "Brigade commander." ”

Li Chaosheng looked at Gu Zi and said, "What's wrong?" ”

Gu Zi said to Li Chaosheng at this time: "Brigade commander, there is a person outside who claims to be Jiexiu Fan Yongfa who wants to see him. ”

"Jiexiu Fan Yongfa ?!!"

Li Chaosheng looked at Gu Zi when he heard this, and Gu Zi said at this time: "That's right, and there is a caravan with them, there are hundreds of swordsmen, all of whom have been stopped by us outside Lantian, but this Fan Yongfa has not asked to see the brigade commander." ”

Hearing this, Li Chaosheng frowned slightly, he didn't know this Fan Yongfa, but he still knew about the Jiexiu Fan family, and the Fan Yonggui he robbed some time ago was from the Jiexiu Fan family.

And the head of the Jiexiu Fan family is the most famous traitor businessman, Fan Yongdou.

Thinking about it, Li Chaosheng glanced at Gu Zi and said, "Please." ”

"Yes."

Soon the grain ran out, and at this time, outside the door, Fan Yongfa waited anxiously, it is now October 7th, I heard the eldest brother say that this winter the masters of the Manchu Qing Dynasty will attack the Ming Dynasty, and we need to prepare grain and grass at that time.

Last time, the third Fan Yonggui messed up the matter, and the eldest brother was very angry, so this time he handed over this errand to himself, and as long as he did this well and got the favor of the eldest brother and the masters, then he would become the second person in the Fan family, and he would really tremble.

Thinking of this, Fan Yongfa is still a little excited, but this year, there have been major disasters in Shanxi and Shaanxi, and the raising of grain and grass is a difficult matter, fortunately, there is a way to transport a batch from Sichuan, but there is still a shortage of 50,000 quintals, which can only be purchased in Shanxi and Shaanxi, and where so much grain can be taken out at once, the entire Shanxi and Shaanxi places, I am afraid that it will be this Lantian County.

And they happened to pass by Lantian this trip, so they came over to ask if they could buy some food, anyway, the eldest brother said that it must be transported to Zhangjiakou before the 20th, and he couldn't make a mistake.

Fan Yongfa thought about it, and then Gu Zi came over and said, "Mr. Fan, our county respects you." ”

Hearing this, Fan Yongfa immediately smiled and arched his hand: "Thank you for your kindness." ”

Saying that, Fan Yongfa took out a silver ingot of five taels from his arms very experienced, and stuffed it into Gu Zi's hand, Gu Zi was stunned for a moment, and then took the silver with a smile.

took Fan Yongfa into the county office, and when he arrived at the back hall of the county office, Li Chaosheng was sitting there drinking tea, Fan Yongfa came over and arched his hand and said, "I've seen Li Zhixian." ”

Li Chaosheng got up at this time and hugged his fists and said, "Oh, Mr. Fan, sit." ”

The two saluted and sat down closely, and then Li Chaosheng took a sip of tea and said, "What is Mr. Fan looking for me?" ”

Fan Yongfa said at this time: "My lord, I came here to buy some food from Lantian County. ”

"Buying grain?"

Li Chaosheng was stunned for a moment, then looked at Fan Yongfa and said, "How much do you want to buy?" ”

"Fifty thousand quintals."

Fan Yongfa said, Li Chaosheng's eyes gradually became deeper when he heard this, and said, "Fifty thousand quintals? Mr. Fan, you should know how sought-after food is, my price is not low. ”

Hearing this, Fan Yongfa said: "Money is not a problem. ”

"Oh, how much can you give?"

When Fan Yongfa heard this, he raised four fingers and said, "Four taels of silver a load." ”

Hearing this, Li Chaosheng picked up the teacup and took a sip and said: "This price is not low, the southern grain circulating in the market now is only three or eight dollars." ”

Fan Yongfa heard this and said: "They are small, I don't want to trade with them, and I want to make a friend like you in Li Zhixian." ”

Li Chaosheng laughed when he heard this: "Okay, okay, since you said so, I sold this grain." ”

Hearing this, Gu Zi and Guo Bao were in a hurry, just said that the grain is not enough, why did you still sell the grain?

"Okay, refreshed, Fan has thanked you."

Fan Yongfa said, then took out 50,000 taels of silver tickets from his arms and put them on the table and said, "My lord, this is a deposit." ”

Li Chaosheng glanced at the silver ticket and said, "Why don't you pay it all at once and take the grain away?" ”

Hearing this, Fan Yongfa said: "Don't hide it, my lord, I still have some things to do in other places, and when the time comes, I will let Weiyuan Dart Bureau and Lin Dart Head give the rest of the money, and take the food away by the way." ”

Hearing this, Li Chaosheng smiled even more happily: "Okay, let him come directly to me when the time comes." ”

Saying that, Li Chaosheng smiled, motioned to Fan Yongfa to drink tea, and the two chatted awkwardly, Fan Yongfa came forward to say goodbye, but when he was about to say goodbye, Fan Yongfa put the small box he had been holding in his arms on the table, looked at Li Chaosheng and smiled, and turned to say goodbye.

"Hey, Mr. Fan, something has fallen."

Li Chaosheng said, at this time Fan Yongfa said: "Lord Zhixian is wrong, Fan came empty-handed, He Zeng brought something, say goodbye." ”

After saying that, Fan Yongfa smiled and left, Li Chaosheng is also a long time to see, you look at other people's gifts, moisturizing things silently, how is it like giving gifts now, I can't wait for others not to know what you give.

"Hey, Director Zhang, come, I'll send you two bottles of Moutai and three Huazi, I heard that you smoke other cigarettes and cough, come and taste ......"

This is very low.,Receiving gifts is originally unscrupulous.,You're still shouting so loudly.,Even if there's no one nearby.,It's also a reproach.,Maybe this gift is better than not giving it.。

So Fan Yongfa This is the most standard gift-giving method, both parties are not embarrassed, Li Chaosheng is asking, if you don't ask, it will be better.

Fan Yongfa left, Guo Bao curiously walked over and took the small box, and then opened it: "Huh~ This is a baby." ”

Guo Bao picked it up and shook it at Li Chaosheng and said, "Northeast old mountain ginseng, this looks like it can be seven or eight taels." ”

Li Chaosheng heard this and took a look, and sure enough, it was the best Northeast wild mountain ginseng, and looking at the size, the reeds were all top-notch mountain ginseng.

Northeast mountain ginseng, there have always been rumors, seven taels for ginseng, eight taels for treasure, this is obviously a treasure ginseng, such a ginseng in modern times is definitely a treasure, worth tens of millions should be no problem.

However, in this era, it is relatively rare, after all, there is very little development of mountains and forests in the Northeast in this era, and some old forests have not been visited for hundreds of years, and the old forests are the treasures of these ginseng.

It is not difficult to live there for a hundred years to grow into seven or eight taels of ginseng, unlike in later generations, if it is overexploited, it will be difficult for this ginseng to grow to another hundred years.

The Fan family first made a fortune in the eastern Liaodong region by dumping leather goods and wild mountain ginseng, and later began to provide grain, grass and ordnance to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, as well as spy on intelligence.

And until now, the Fan family is still reselling ginseng in Liaodong, and the Fan family has saved a lot of good ginseng in the past few decades, and there are dozens of ginseng of Li Chaosheng's quality, and there are several better than this.

Li Chaosheng looked at this ginseng and was very satisfied, this is a great supplement, thinking that Li Chaosheng turned his head to look at Guo Bao, who was smiling, Guo Bao said to Li Chaosheng with a flattering face: "Owner, give me a beard for this ginseng?" ”

"What do you want this beard for?"

Li Chaosheng looked at Guo Bao, and then Gu Zi laughed on the side: "Last time we took him to Yihong Courtyard, the girl inside said that he was empty, hahaha......"

"Guzi, you shut your mouth for me, who is empty."

"That's right, what do you want ginseng mustaches for?"

"Me!"

The two seemed to want to quarrel, and Li Chaosheng put away the ginseng at this time and said, "Keep such a good ginseng for soaking in wine, and put away the millet." ”

"Yes."

Gu Zi said, and then Guo Bao looked at Li Chaosheng and said, "Boss, you have brewed the wine, can you give me a glass." ”

Li Chaosheng smiled: "You give me a good job, isn't it just nothing?" Lao Tzu has time to get you a tiger whip, and that thing will be greatly replenished. ”

"Really, Xie Dongjia."

Guo Bao immediately smiled, but soon frowned and said: "Boss, to be serious, why did you sell grain to Fan Yongfa, you were worried that there was not enough grain just now, and now sell it, it will be useless." ”

Li Chaosheng smiled when he heard this: "Who said it's useless, this time it's not only useful, I'm afraid it can also solve our urgent needs." ”

Li Chaosheng said, Gu Zi said on the side: "Little fatty, are you stupid, in fact, I understood it early on, this grain is actually Fan Yongfa's hand, can he transport the grain out of Lantian County?" The bandits in those six major passes are not easy to mess with. ”

"Huh? Black eats black! ”

Guo Bao's eyes widened: "Why did I forget this, but I can't start in Lantian County, otherwise Lantian's reputation will be ruined, and I will go out of Lantian." ”

Li Chaosheng heard this and said: "That's right, not only in addition to Lantian, but also out of Shaanxi, let's do it in Shanxi." ”

"Shanxi?"

Guo Bao's eyes widened, and Li Chaosheng said, "Bring the map." ”

Soon the map was taken, and Li Chaosheng looked at it and drew a circle near Luliang, Shanxi: "Just find me a bandit den near here, and replace the bandits inside with our people." ”

"Lu Liang, why Lu Liang?"

Li Chaosheng said with a smile at this time: "There are many bandits in Luliang, so it's good to confuse the public after doing it, and then retreat from Luliang, enter the Qinling Mountains, bypass the crowds, and quickly reach Lantian." ”

"The most important thing is that this Luliang is the main grain road for the Fan family to transport grain to Zhangjiakou, they have been operating here for many years, and they also have their own post stations along the way, so this time they will definitely take this route, so let's do it in Luliang, Shanxi."

Li Chaosheng said affirmatively, and after hearing this, Guo Bao said: "In this way, Luliang is indeed a good place to do it." ”

Saying this, Guo Bao said again: "In this way, we have made money by snatching back the grain, and we can use the money to buy food, but we can solve the urgent need." ”

"Buying grain? Why buy grain? ”

Li Chaosheng looked at Guo Bao with a smile, and Guo Bao said: "If we don't buy grain, even if we snatch back our 50,000 loads of grain, it won't be enough for the victims to consume!" ”

"Hehehe...... Who said that the Fan family only bought grain from us? ”

"Hmm!"