Zuo Chengyi smiled and gave a number.

"Not much, 100,000 stones."

Su Ying calculated in her heart.

Nowadays, grain is counted by stone, and one stone is about one hundred and fifty catties of later generations.

100,000 stones, that is, 15 million catties in the future.

According to one pound of grain a day for an adult, 100,000 stone is enough for more than 40,000 people to eat for a year.

At present, it is about to be the time of green and yellow, and there will be a three-month period of food shortage from summer grain to autumn grain.

If this grain is used to relieve the victims, it will be enough to save 1670,000 people from starvation and survive until the autumn grain harvest.

Zuo Chengyi explained: "The two of them bought grain at a low price during the bumper harvest last year, and they wanted to disrupt the Great Zhou and sell it at a high price. ”

If those two people hadn't been caught, they would have made a lot of money with the current price of food.

It's a pity that they met Zuo Chengyi and tried to kill him, but they were caught by him.

Hehe, people are not as good as heaven.

"At the current price of grain, these grains can be sold for nearly 200,000 taels of silver."

Su Ying didn't know whether to sympathize or congratulate.

"What are you going to do with those two? And if you withhold their food, aren't you afraid that their people will protest? ”

The attempted murder is convicted of its own crimes, even if the outsiders send someone to negotiate, Zuo Chengyi doesn't have to worry.

Grain that can be deducted from people, at least in terms of public opinion, is unjustifiable.

Zuo Chengyi smiled slightly.

"What they want to kill, but the son of the Chengguo Mansion of the Great Zhou Dynasty, if it is put on the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty, this is a big crime to rob the family and kill the head.

However, those two people are 'guests' from afar, and naturally they cannot be completely punished by the laws of our Great Zhou.

Therefore, I plan to release him conditionally.

As for the matter of withholding their food, heh, as long as those two dare to mention it, I dare to return it to them. ”

Seeing Zuo Chengyi's confident appearance, Su Ying knew that he must be thoughtful.

Sure enough, Zuo Chengyi explained in detail: "The condition for me to release people is to exchange for 'ship cannons'. ”

Su Ying heard Zhang Dayong talk about the 'ship cannon' when he chatted with his father.

It is said that on the battlefield in the past few years, Da Zhou has suffered a lot and has always fallen behind, because the other party used the unheard of 'ship cannon'.

Zhang Dayong was almost killed on the battlefield several times, but he was also hit first by Nali artillery.

She also interjected a few words at the time, and learned that the so-called sharp cannon was a bit like the pistols of later generations, but the usage and power were more primitive and backward.

As for the 'boat strong', it should be the opponent's warship equipment for fighting on the water.

The Great Zhou army finally defeated the other side, but it also paid a considerable price.

And the 'boat cannon' used by the other party was later found out by the Great Zhou people, and it was bought from the hands of the Waiyi people at a considerable price and across the ocean.

The treasury of the Great Zhou Dynasty was already empty, and the emperor knew that the weapon was tempting, but he did not have the money to buy it.

Now, Zuo Chengyi wants to exchange two prisoners.

"That's the most advanced armed equipment in the world today, will the Waiyi people exchange it for two prisoners?"

If Su Ying was the emperor of the foreign people, he would definitely not exchange it, and he would kill the people directly.

Zuo Chengyi didn't seem worried.

"If they don't want to exchange, then they don't. Anyway, these two people, one is the eldest grandson of the powerful family that built the warship, and the other is the eldest son of the cannon family. ”

If these two big families have to save their children, I am afraid that their king will not be able to stop them.

But from the words of those two people, he clearly knew that these two families had set aside the imperial power.

"Okay, even if these two families will agree to your exchange conditions, but how can you explain the grain?" Su Ying asked.

Zuo Chengyi has all questions to answer.

"If they don't want to bear the charge of causing trouble in the Great Zhou, it's better not to mention food."

In short, he has a way to detain the grain justifiably.

Since this is the case, Su Ying is also relieved.

Zuo Chengyi didn't expect that he was just here to buy potatoes, so he chatted all afternoon.

"I should go back, and I'll send someone to take over the potatoes tomorrow."

"Okay, I'll send you."

Zuo Chengyi got out of the shop, so he didn't let Su Ying send it forward.

The housekeeper was already waiting there.

"Childe, why do you need to come forward in person for such a trivial matter as buying potatoes? You have a lot of important things to do. ”

Zuo Chengyi sighed.

"It's so important that people can't breathe, and I'm just here to take a breath."

After walking silently for a while, the housekeeper reminded again: "Childe, Miss Nasu and Shen Gongzi have a marriage contract......

"I know." Zuo Chengyi said lightly: "I know in my heart that she is a silent fiancée. Rest assured, I will not come back to see her unless necessary. ”

The housekeeper looked at his son-in-law.

He lost his family when he was a child, stayed away from the world, and hid in a remote mountain to practice martial arts for more than ten years.

It wasn't until he was almost twenty years old that Cheng Guogong dared to let him go down the mountain to practice, and gave him a caravan to hide his eyes.

And that Su Ying is the girl who has been in contact with her master for the first time when she is so old.

It is not an exaggeration to say that the master's love has just opened.

Man, the person who is most afraid of the beginning of love is destined to have no fate with him.

The more the housekeeper thought about it, the more distressed he became.

comforted: "The master returned to Beijing at the end of the year before last and saw the whole Chengguo Mansion, don't say that many ladies of the same age fell in love with you at first sight, and they were the granddaughters of several relatives of Chengguo Gong, and when they didn't know your identity, they all looked straight. When the master has decided the general trend in the future, the old slave thinks that all those young ladies can receive it...... Backyard. ”

It was too early to say that the harem was too early, so the housekeeper changed his words in time.

After so many years of dependence, he has long regarded Zuo Chengyi as his only relative, and to say something disrespectful, he even regarded Zuo Chengyi as his own son.

Like all old fathers in the world, he naturally has to worry about Zuo Chengyi's family affairs.

The old lady and several ladies of the Chengguo Mansion all have maiden relatives, and there are inevitably a few cousins who are the same age as Zuo Chengyi, and there are not a few people who are interested in getting married.

Even when they first returned to the mansion, several sisters in the mansion who were not yet married didn't know that Zuo Chengyi was their elder brother, and several of them blushed at first sight, until they later knew that this was their own brother who had never met.

But if Zuo Chengyi succeeded, those sisters would know that this was not their own brother.

The housekeeper's meaning is obvious, that is, after Zuo Chengyi succeeds, he can completely accept these girls into the harem.

The first is to use marriage to repay Cheng Guogong's life-saving and assisting grace, and the second is to use Cheng Guogong's power to settle the disobedient courtiers.

It's much more useful than Su Ying, who has no help.

Zuo Chengyi didn't know the housekeeper's thoughts.

He was noncommittal, and walked forward with heavy steps.