After sending Qiao Jin away, Zhao Hanzhang began to convene Zhao Ming and other courtiers to discuss the next major event.

She wants to open the mountains to the people.

The mountains, water, and minerals in the world theoretically belong to the state, and private individuals cannot exploit minerals, hunt, fish, or do many things.

Of course, these prohibitions are of little use at the moment, and everyone should go into the mountains and mountains, and there are many people who go into the water when they should go into the water, and there are many people who open mines in private.

But the lifting of the ban will still be a little different, it is a signal that the people can profit from the mountains in order to have the capital to live.

Zhao Hanzhang robbed the rich to help the poor, cough cough, it is to support the poor with the rich, and collect a lot of money, she herself did not expect that there are many rich people in Yuzhou, and the assets are abundant, it seems that Yuzhou has developed well in recent years.

After Zu Ti and Beigong Chun successively sent a batch of money to Chen County, Zhao Hanzhang ordered all localities not to send the money they received to Chen County or Luoyang, but to seal it in the treasury for local government expenditure.

At the same time as the order went down, a large amount of grain from Jingzhou and Yangzhou arrived in Chen County, and Zhao Hanzhang began to distribute grain to various places, Youzhou went to a batch, and the state went to a batch, Jizhou went to a batch, Qingzhou and Guangzhou also had a famine, and the phenomenon of people eating people has not stopped, and they have to send them some grain.

The grain that just arrived, in less than a day, Zhao Hanzhang was divided, and not a single grain of rice fell in Yuzhou, so it was like this, and it was still a drop in the bucket, so Zhao Hanzhang continued to let Wang Siniang and Yuan Li engage in food, and at the same time urged Zhao Hu.

Zhao Hu's caravan had already collected grain everywhere in the countryside south of the Yangtze River, and they originally wanted to find grain merchants directly, but except for a few grain merchants, most of the grain merchants who were found said that they had no grain.

The caravan steward could only go to the countryside to find it from house to house, so that the speed was a little slower, but the results were good, and he could buy grain at a little more price than the grain merchant.

Small farmers like to sell grain to them, and in their eyes, there is no difference between local grain merchants and northern grain merchants, as long as someone gives money, whoever sells it at a high price to whom.

So the stewards of the Zhao family discovered a secret, it was indeed scattered and hard to buy grain in the countryside, but the price was low, and it saved a lot of effort.

Looking for grain merchants in the city to make a deal, not only to pull the banner, invite guests to drink, go through the relationship, but also get a high price, the cost is very high, of course, compared with the current grain price in the north, it is still very low, but now it is lower in the countryside.

So the steward indulged in going to the countryside to buy grain, and he simply said to the men below: "I will leave this matter to you, no matter what price you buy, I will be one stone of two hundred and forty wheat, and one stone of two hundred and eighty wen of millet into the account." ”

The eyes of the men lit up, that is to say, as long as they harvested wheat and millet at a lower price, they could earn the difference, and now the price of wheat given to the small farmers by the local grain merchants in Jiangnan fluctuated between 180 and 200 wen, and the price of millet was between 220 and 250 wen.

They only need to make money by buying goods at a higher price than the local grain merchants, and then controlling the purchase before the steward's price.

So the guys quickly calculated and took the money out.

Of course, they don't dare to go out to receive the goods alone, they are a few people, or a dozen people form a team to go out, otherwise if they encounter robbery, they are not locals, that is called the heaven should not be, and the earth is not spiritual.

But the small farmers in the village did not have much grain to sell, so they always had to keep enough food for their families, and they had to pay grain taxes before they could exchange the rest for copper coins.

So three days later, the steward counted a batch of grain and sent it away, and then wanted to buy it, but found that there was no grain from the nearby village, so his eyes fell on the gentry and landlords.

But he tasted the benefit of not having a middleman to make the difference, and he was not willing to spend too much money to buy grain, so he whispered to the guys who stayed behind, and immediately let them go.

Ah Chun, a seventeen-year-old young man in Sanjiang Village, wore straw sandals and ran home across the ridges, and excitedly said to his parents: "Daddy, Auntie, those merchants in the north who collect grain are here again." ”

His father frowned, and said expressionlessly: "Our family has no food to sell." ”

"I know, I want to go with them to collect grain," Ah Chun said: "They said, as long as I follow along with the goods and move the goods, I can give ten cents a day, if I can introduce them to sell grain, I will give another two cents for every stone I receive, Daddy, I want to go with them." ”

The man frowned and did not speak.

Ah Chunniang worried: "It can't be a lie, right?" ”

Ah Chun was anxious in his heart, and said eagerly: "I only have one life, what can they deceive us?" Daddy, let me go, Brother has just gotten married, there is no shortage of people in the family's land, it's useless for me to stay at home, I, I don't want to be the same as the twelve uncles at the end of the village. ”

The twelfth uncle at the end of the village is the youngest child, and he is twenty-three years old after marrying a daughter-in-law to several brothers, and his family can't afford to marry a daughter-in-law, plus the brothers are making trouble to divide the family, and he was finally assigned to the end of the village alone, because he is poor, he has never married a daughter-in-law in his life, and he has been living alone, and his life is very difficult.

Ah Chun has feelings, he is seventeen years old, but the family can no longer come up with the money to give him a kiss.

And as the saying goes, a good man doesn't eat family meals, he wants to make a break on his own and live without relying on his parents and brothers.

Ah Chun's father was silent for a long time, but he nodded and agreed, he turned his head and said to Ah Chunniang: "Make him a few cakes and bring them." ”

Ah Chun was happy and couldn't help but let out a low cheer.

Ah Chun's father said: "Now there is no surplus grain to sell in various villages except for the landlord's house, if you want to find grain, go to the landlord's housekeeper." ”

Ah Chun understands that they often work for the landlords in the vicinity, and they are familiar with their housekeepers, and he is even familiar with several owners.

After all, after all, after the autumn harvest, when the price of grain falls, they will generally sell it in batches, and some will even keep the grain until March and April next year, and sell it to the grain merchants when the harvest is scarce, so as to get a better price.

Ah Chun took Zhao to find such a small landlord.

Some of the stewards gave them some in terms of price, and some didn't agree to make a move, but the guys didn't panic and pulled out Zhao Hanzhang's banner.

For the sake of Zhao Hanzhang and the imperial court, many small landlords were willing to sell grain to them, and some even hoped that the Zhao family's men could introduce them to the Zhao family's steward.

Zhao Hanzhang, who is now the first powerful minister of the Jin Kingdom, can have anything to do with their family stewardship...... I can wake up laughing in my dreams.

Ah Chun took them to the village and from house to house, the more they mixed, the more familiar they became, and when they collected the third batch of grain, they decided to follow the Zhao family's guys to Yuzhou to have a look, and there were many local young people who had the same ideas as him, oh, they were all Zhao guys who came to guide them for them.

Young and strong to work a lot, the salary is still less, more than a dozen people's wages in a month add up to the city to eat those grain shop stewards in the city and cost a lot, the Zhao guys are very satisfied with this, the Zhao family's stewards are also very satisfied, they have made money, and found a better way out A Chun and others are also very happy.