The next day, the snow finally stopped, a gust of wind blew, the river beach was as cold as an ice kiln, the water by the river formed a large piece of ice slag, the snow on the ground lost its softness, hard erection, a few old people stood by the river with crutches, all of them shivered from the cold, the sun came out, and it was so cold, tonight, it was the tragic night of the river beach, 100,000 displaced people, there was no oil and water in their stomachs, and there were no clothes around them, in this long night, who could ensure that they could get through?

"Teacher, don't worry, Brother Lin said, there will be two boatloads of coal coming over in a while, let's sell one boat, keep one boat, and let the people on the river beach get one for each household to spend this long night." Zeng Shigui comforted one of the old men.

"Shigui, you have become a man, but you still think about the people of Jiangtan, and our uncles and uncles are happy in their hearts, but this is the way of the world, good people work hard to survive, and bad people are rampant...... I'm afraid some things won't go your way......"

The old man who spoke was called Li Ping'an, he was originally a teacher in Zezhou, he had been living here for more than 20 years, Zeng Shigui's studies were also enlightened by him, Zeng Shigui has always called him a teacher, even if his degree is far above the teacher at the moment, he is still called so.

"Yes, Shigui, briquettes are a heating artifact, they have been sold for 4 yuan of silver in the city, and it is difficult to find a coal, even if your brother Lin is capable, it is impossible to get two boats directly. Even if he can really get the coal, he will immediately become a guest of all the wealthy merchants in Jicheng, and people are rushing to stuff the money into his hands, so why should they give us these mud legs on credit at a low price? ”

These people are talking word by word, Zeng Shigui's daughter-in-law Xiuniang and sister-in-law Mei Niang are gradually becoming less determined.

These old men are right.

How scarce is coal? At this time, as long as you enter Jicheng, you will be robbed by merchants, and you will not worry about sales at all.

Think about it, he can sell it for 2 yuan to 3 yuan of silver, why should he sell it to you for a hundred times the price of the river beach homeless? And you don't have any money yet, so they have to give it to you.

No anti-theft

Do people have a hole in their head?

There were hundreds of people in the audience, but Zeng Shigui was the only one who was firm, and his reason was: Brother Lin said it himself, he will definitely keep his word!

Li Ping'an let out a long sigh: "Shigui, I am already half a hundred years old, even if I can't break through this winter, it's nothing, if there is really such a day, I will entrust the broken army to you, let him be a scholar for you." ”

"Mentor ......"

Li Ping'an smiled sadly: "You have called me a mentor for twenty years, in fact, I also know that I have no ability to teach you anything, there are many things that may actually lead you astray, and when you grow old, you will be left with a big burden......"

Suddenly, the crowd over there was noisy, Zeng Shigui raised his head suddenly, and shouted: "Brother Lin! ”

When he shouted, thousands of displaced people on the river beach all stared in the direction he was looking.

Brother Lin? The person who came was the great benefactor Zeng Shigui said?

Is he really here?

"Brother Zeng!" Lin Su and Dark Night came through the crowd and came to Zeng Shigui's side.

Li Ping'an's eyes suddenly lit up: "This ...... This is what Shigui said about Lin Gongzi? Huichang will try to test the Huiyuan Gong? ”

"Exactly!" Zeng Shigui said: "Brother Lin, this is my mentor Li Ping'an, Shigui can have today, it all depends on his mentor and these uncles and uncles to take care of him." ”

Lin Su bowed deeply: "I've seen Mr. Li!" ”

Li Ping'an replied with a trembling salute: "I don't dare to work on the honorific title of 'Mr.' of the Yuan Gong, the little old man also heard Shigui say that Lin Gongzi taught him strategies and taught him poetry, which is also a benefit to him." ”

Lin Su helped him up: "Today, thousands of people have gathered on the river beach, and things will be easy to do, the coal has arrived, and everyone can do it according to the established plan." ”

His gaze lifted and shot to the surface of the river, and suddenly two large boats appeared on the surface of the river, galloping towards this side, and the entire river beach was completely blown up......

The boat slowly landed, and a woman was the first to jump onto the river beach and ran to Lin Su: "Childe ......"

There were tears in her eyes.

"Sister Chen, why did you come here in person?"

Sister Chen's heart turned upside down, you still asked why I came here in person? You don't know what people have been suffering in the past few days? How could I not come in person? Even if I break both legs, even if I can't walk, I have to crawl......

"You see, Dumb and they're here too." Sister Chen pointed to the bow of the boat, and a row of veterans stood neatly at the bow of the boat, and it was Deng Bo, Dai Zong, Qian Songhai and others, more than 20 people came.

Lin Su smiled: "Haha, a few masters of the coal factory are here, that's great, Uncle Dai, come here!" ”

Dai Zong jumped off the boat, and came to Lin Su's side with a rise and fall: "Childe." ”

"Sister Chen has always been responsible for the affairs of the coal plant, and I have never expressed my opinion, but I am in charge today, you have no opinion, right?" Lin Su Dao.

Dai Zong smiled: "Childe said that he was laughing, please give an order!" ”

"That's good!" Lin Su said: "On the side of the displaced people on the river beach, ten representatives are elected to form a business team, and the coal plant signs an agreement with them......

Lin Su's orders totaled three.

Article 1: The price of coal, 2 cents of silver per 100, the first batch of 200,000 briquettes, on credit. When the second batch of coal arrives, the arrears of the first batch will be paid.

Article 2: Thereafter, every three days, 200,000 briquettes will be supplied, and the price will be applied accordingly.

Article 3: With regard to transportation, considering that there is no transportation capacity on the part of the displaced people on the river beach, the coal factory will send coal ten times, and the freight will be borne by the river beach.

When the order was announced, everyone was silent and their hearts were pounding, is this true? Is this possible?

Zeng Shigui was also surprised: "Brother Lin, are there more than these two ships?" What's next? ”

Lin Su smiled: "Since it is a long-term cooperation, how can it be just two ships?" Let's sign a three-year agreement according to the standard of 200,000 briquettes every three days! ”

Zeng Shigui smiled, Li Ping'an opened his mouth and was happy, Mei Niang jumped eight feet high, and was so happy that she almost went crazy......

Dai Zong was surrounded by them in the core, signed an agreement, thousands of displaced people worked together to unload the coal from the ship, and the cold river beach was suddenly as lively as a busy city......

Zeng Shigui was so excited that he wanted to talk to Lin Su, but when he saw Lin Su walking on the embankment with the sister Chen who came over, he stopped.

Sister Chen walked across the river embankment, with complicated thoughts: "Son, this river beach is almost exactly the same as the Haining River Beach in the past. ”

"Nope! Haining River Beach is much stronger than here. ”

"Because there's a childe there!" Sister Chen's wonderful eyes flickered slightly.

"Nope! Because there are resources there! ”

Resource? Coal, cement?

Yes, coal does not appear out of thin air, limestone is not cabbage, Haining River Beach has two treasure mountains, so it can be the same every day, without these, Lin Su has the ability to take it without it.

But it's different here, the river beach here is very narrow, the homeless people basically live in the middle of the mountain, the bare mountain, even the trees are very few (maybe they have been cut down), a limited long river beach, all soaked in the water during the flood season, even the rice can't be planted, this kind of ghost place, the gods can't do it.

"And what about them...... What to do? ”

Lin Su said: "This is a typical unsuitable place for human habitation, for unsuitable places, the best way is to relocate, and it is the most stupid thing to carry with nature." ”

"Childe wants to move these people to Haining River Beach?"

"There are also problems with moving all of them, and the Haining River Beach can't accommodate too many people, and there are still too many displaced people in the whole world. If millions of displaced people move in one day, there will be a big problem on the Haining River Beach, so this opening can't be opened casually, and the people here should be second-class dealers first, and barely survive......"

It can only be like this, giving them the right to sell coal, they are equivalent to adding a little extra source of income, this money can not make 100,000 displaced people live a good life, but it also gives them a basic line of survival, which is actually the best result that the displaced people can think of in front of them.

Sister Chen didn't bother with this, and looked around quietly: "What about her?" ”

"Who?"

"The guy who has been with you all the way......"

Lin Su smiled: "It may be behind you, or it may be behind me, anyway, when she doesn't want people to see it, we can't see it." ”

Sister Chen's mouth pouted slightly, and I knew that I was next to it, otherwise, if there was no one around, you would have already put your hand into my clothes.

The displaced people of the river beach began a new day of changing their fate.

Lin Su said goodbye to Zeng Shigui and his wife and returned to Haining with the ship.

Then it was lively.

Jicheng Liumin Jiangtan set up a sales team headed by Li Ping'an, specializing in receiving coal from Haining, they divided this batch of coal into two, half of which was distributed to the entire river beach, more than 20,000 households in the river beach, 4 to 5 per household, this is the next coldest days, they will not be frozen to death guarantee.

And the remaining 100,000 briquettes, they directly entered the Jicheng market.

Two cents of silver each!

The merchants of Jicheng are huddled together, and the briquettes are rising towards the flames, and some places have broken through four coins of silver, and suddenly a large number of briquettes appeared, only 2 cents of silver.

What is this concept? The price of coal hit directly to 1/20 of the market price!

Not in half, but in 20!

The news spread all over the streets and alleys in a moment, and the people at the various coal purchase points stopped trading at the same time as if they had been immobilized.

On the river beach, hundreds of homeless people stood in front of a large pile of briquettes, Li Ping'an announced in public, coal, life-saving materials in the harsh winter, we take life-saving as the criterion, dare not increase prices indiscriminately, sell at a parity price, each 2 cents of silver, each person is limited to 10 yuan for emergency, and no more food is allowed to occupy more.

Even if each person is limited to 10 yuan, but surrounded by millions of people in Jicheng and tens of thousands of people, it only took less than two hours for 100,000 briquettes to be sold out, and those merchants in the city did not react.

Zeng Shigui personally came forward and explained to the villagers that there were only 100,000 pieces of coal this time, which was gone, and there was still a batch three days later, which was still at this price, and everyone insisted on it for a few days......

When the Lei family, a big family in the city, heard the news, they were stunned.

As soon as the head of the Chen family heard the news, he jumped, C! I still have 3,000 pieces of coal in my warehouse, which was bought for 2 dollars of silver, and now the price has hit 2 cents, which means that my ass has not moved, and I have lost 90% of my money in place?

The He family was even more furious, his family finally signed an agreement in Haining to supply 50,000 pieces of coal a day, and he still wanted to make a windfall with this business, those river beach refugees jumped out and directly disrupted their business, and the price of 2 cents of silver on his side was there, and announced that there would be goods every few days, who would buy from him at ten times the price?

You mud legs, business is not like this, you mess with my wealth, I will kill your people!

He Cang, the head of the He family, rushed into the prefect's mansion angrily......

Jiangtan, Li Ping'an's home, Zeng Shigui, Xiuniang, Mei Niang and others were all flushed, and the rest of the people were all excited, in just two hours, they received a full two thousand taels of silver!

The silver of the white flowers is placed on the table, full of three big bags!

"This pack is 500 taels!" Zeng Shigui said: "This is the capital of the first batch of coal, 400 taels of coal, plus 100 taels of freight, and the remaining 1,500 taels, what do you say, teacher." ”

"I still need to leave 500 taels as the second batch of payment, although Lin Gongzi said that we can postpone the payment, but that is his benevolence, we can't feel at ease taking advantage of this kind of advantage. In the future, the payment for the goods will still be settled in the current period, and they must not owe them a cent to the coal factory. ”

"Yes!" The representatives of the displaced people next to him all nodded.

"This thousand taels is today's profit, there are a total of 21,000 riverside displaced people, each household first divides 4 cents of silver to overcome the difficulties, everyone has heating these days, but the heating alone is not enough, and there is always a little food ......."

Suddenly, a young man outside rushed in: "Uncle Li, Mr. Zeng, the prefect Zhang came over with a group of officials, followed by the boss He in the city......"

The faces of several people in the room changed at the same time.

Boss He speculated the price of coal to 4 yuan of silver, and as soon as they made a move, they hit the coal to 2 cents of silver, which of course cut off his financial route, as the saying goes, cut off people's financial routes, just like killing parents, Boss He will definitely come to find trouble, this is the consensus of everyone, but when it comes to the end, they are still afraid, because the prefect is also here, and the people do not fight with the officials, which is the common cognition of all people.

"Don't be afraid! When the prefect comes, he has to make a reason. Zeng Shigui stepped forward.

As soon as the official arrived, the displaced people on both sides all avoided it, all of them were afraid, the prefect strode first, strode towards the coal sales point in front, and the thatched door curtain of the coal sales point was lifted, Zeng Shigui strode out: "Student Zeng Shigui, I have seen the prefect!" A deep bow.

He is already a lifter, and he does not need to bow down, but only to prostrate.

"Zeng Shigui!" Governor Zhang said coldly: "Ten merchants in the city jointly sued you for disrupting the market order, maliciously suppressing coal prices, and causing them to lose their money, can it be anything?" ”

"Suppress coal prices, students admit it! But malice or goodwill, how can adults not notice? "Zeng Shigui is neither humble nor arrogant.