Mr. Ji was rich, and took advantage of the Zhao family's reputation in Runan to buy a large amount of grain directly from the local gentry and grain merchants.

And with the progress of the summer harvest, the price will be pressed again and again, "In addition to Yingchuan, this year's harvest in Yuzhou is not bad, the new grain is about to come down, the price of grain will inevitably fall, what is the use of you to keep the old grain?" ”

Although it is not a big problem to keep the old grain for three or five years, the taste is greatly affected, and the longer the grain is kept, the cheaper it is.

Mr. Ji said: "You might as well give me the old grain in your hand, my girl is mainly used to do good deeds, but it doesn't have to be new grain." ”

The crowd readily agreed, and cartloads of grain were brought into the manor from outside.

When the people in the manor saw these grain carts coming in, their hearts slowly settled down, and they worked harder and harder.

The wheat in the field decreases every day, and the harvested wheat is pulled back to dry, and then the woman and the child threshing at home.

In order to separate and build houses, Zhuangzi sent more than 300 people to build houses and roads, and even Zhao Ju personally went into battle, in addition to teaching Zhao Erlang martial arts every day, he took everyone to lay the foundation.

When Mr. Ji came back from a walk around Runan, the houses in the manor had already risen row after row, and Fu Tinghan was now able to control the success rate of the kiln at more than ninety.

He didn't care about this anymore, and asked Lu Kun to take the long-term workers in Zhuangzi to burn bricks by himself, while he hid in the house every day to do his own thing, except for occasionally coming out to learn martial arts with Zhao Hanzhang, he basically didn't go out.

Ji Yuan stood at the intersection and looked at the smoking brick kiln in the distance, surprised, "It's only been half a month, have there been so many houses?" ”

Zhao Ju took people out to inspect other Zhuangzi, and happened to meet him halfway, so the two teams of people came back together, he glanced over there, and said indifferently: "Can the speed of the burned brick house be fast?" ”

He said: "Now the brick kiln can produce 30,000 bricks a day. ”

"There are bricks, but what about the glutinous rice soup? How much glutinous rice soup do you need to build so many houses? ”

Lime mortar is required for bricklaying, but lime mortar is very rough, and the houses built cannot be very tall, and there will be water on rainy days, which is not strong enough.

Only when glutinous rice soup is added to the lime mortar and stirred, the wall is sealed and strong.

Zhao Ju said: "Sanniang asked Cheng Bo to take the grain to the county seat and the dock fort to exchange glutinous rice, there are so many people in the manor, it will not be wasted." However, Sanniang also said that if you can find the yellow clay with good viscosity, it can replace the glutinous rice soup, and Uncle Cheng is leading people to look for it, but he didn't find it for a while. ”

Ji Yuan breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that they were well arranged.

He hit his horse and went back to see Zhao Hanzhang.

Zhao Hanzhang had nothing to do, she was practicing marksmanship in the yard with a spear, and it was Chang Jiping who taught her.

He is a cavalryman, and his best skill is marksmanship, and his gun was damaged in the run, so he changed his broadsword, and when he arrived at the manor, he began to think about shooting a new gun.

Zhao Hanzhang was very envious when he saw that he was playing a tiger and a tiger, so he wanted to learn together.

When Ji Yuan arrived, she was turning around and stabbing him in the face, which startled Ji Yuan.

Zhao Hanzhang took back the gun with a sigh, threw it to Ji Ping, took the handkerchief from Tinghe's hand and wiped his sweat, and stepped forward with a smile, "Mr. Ji is back." ”

Ji Yuan breathed a sigh of relief and stepped forward to salute, "How did the girl think of practicing martial arts?" ”

"If you like it, you can practice," Zhao Hanzhang invited Mr. Ji to the main hall and asked, "Is there any news from outside recently?" ”

"The imperial court is still outcast, Luoyang has not been recaptured, and more and more people have escaped from Luoyang recently," Ji Yuan said: "Since it is said that buying food is to do good deeds, why don't Sanniang take the opportunity to collect some refugees?" ”

This is also doing good deeds.

Zhao Hanzhang readily agreed, "I think so too, many of the fields under my name are not cultivated, or they are not planted carefully, all because of a shortage of manpower." ”

Zhao Hanzhang has enough land, especially the land that Zhao Zhongyu exchanged for her, the tenants and long-term workers left behind are not very attentive, and the population has been seriously lost due to various reasons in the past two years, so a lot of land has been lost.

So she only had to recruit people to have land for them to cultivate, and she only had to ensure that they had food and shelter while they worked.

And the refugees who have fled abroad are just looking for a place to stay at this time.

Zhao Hanzhang said: "Mr. Ji, this matter is still entrusted to you, you can bring food and go to the city gate to recruit people." ”

She said: "I am afraid that people who have left their hometowns will not want to settle down outside, we can relax the conditions, all recruited long-term workers and tenants are only signed for three years, after three years, if they want to leave, we will not stop them." ”

"Where's the treatment?"

"The wages of the long-term workers are paid according to the market price, and we pay for food and lodging, and if the tenants are tenants, we will give them food in the first year, so we will collect 40% of their rent, and after the second year, we will only receive 20% of the rent."

Mr. Ji was surprised, "Sanniang, this tenant rent is too low, and the current tenant rent in Runan is between forty percent and fifty percent." ”

Zhao Hanzhang said: "It's not low, there is not much difference between food and money in the hands of the villagers and in my hands, this manor is composed of the villagers, since I said that I want to support them, I naturally have to leave enough space." ”

"But you still have a trilogy, only 20% of the tenant rent, can you afford to support them?"

"As long as we have enough fields and tenant farmers, we can naturally afford it."

Mr. Ji: "Then there are weapons and horses, and armor, all of which cost money." ”

Zhao Hanzhang: "Although the price of grain has risen a lot, grain is needed for basic survival, and it is not possible to rely on the resources of basic survival to obtain war preparation materials. ”

She said: "War readiness should not start with selling grain, and in the future, we should keep our grain for our own use as much as possible, and we will not sell it if we can, and as for the money to buy war readiness, ......."

Zhao Hanzhang pondered for a moment and said, "I'll figure it out." ”

Ji Yuan looked at Zhao Hanzhang in surprise, "Sanniang is worthy of being the granddaughter of Lord Lang, and Lord Lang also said that the money spent on the family should not be obtained from food. ”

When Zhao Hanzhang heard this, he became interested and hurriedly asked, "Where did my grandfather's money come from?" ”

"The shops, restaurants, and gardens that are operated are here," Ji Yuan said: "But the shops and restaurants that make money are mostly in Luoyang and Chang'an, so ......."

Not to mention that now Luoyang and Chang'an are in war, it is peace, and Zhao Hanzhang has also been replaced by Zhao Zhongyu.

When Zhao Hanzhang heard the location, he was immediately uninterested, "Let's find another way." ”

Ji Yuan was distressed, "But what way do we have it?" Although Shangcai is not poor, but not very rich, although you have a shop in the county, but there are no rich people, things are difficult to sell, not to mention, what good things do we have? ”

Zhao Hanzhang thought about it again and again, "What do you think of us selling bricks?" ”

Ji Yuan was stunned, "Huh? ”

Zhao Hanzhang seemed to have opened the second pulse of Ren Du, and clapped his hands and said: "Come from a small one first, accumulate a lot, sell bricks first, and wait for Fu Dalangjun to make good things such as glass and then sell more valuable things." ”