Gongsun Du stayed in Xiangxi for another two days, and then returned to Xiangping by warship, while Wu Liang and Zhou Tian also set off for Jizhou and Qingzhou on two large ships. As soon as Gongsun Du left, Yudi ushered in the most important thing of the year, the autumn harvest!

The people of the county were all in groups, carrying several days' rations to the southeast plain of Liaodong, dozens of miles away, and Qin Ling and a group of infantry had long been waiting to patrol the grain-producing area day and night to ensure the safety of the wheat.

At the beginning of the Midyear Festival on July 15, the whole county was a busy scene, but the county town was deserted, because the people in the city went to harvest wheat. Mo Mei also went back to Mo's house, and Gongsun Linglong stayed alone in the county office, Gongsun Du didn't know what to say to her before leaving, anyway, Gongsun Linglong is now out of the gate, and the second door is not stepping, trying to avoid Zhuang Shaoyou, it seems that he is afraid of meeting.

Zhuang Shaoyou asked Tai Shici to stop training and go to the autumn harvest together, after all, this is also nine hundred strong men. The new harvesting tools created by the Mohists can improve some efficiency, but they are really insignificant compared to the five or six times more efficient when plowing the land, and those ploughing cattle can not help harvest wheat except to help carry grain.

As a result, the autumn harvest time of the people of the county was more than double as expected, and it was originally planned to be completed in three days, but it took a full seven days to finally collect a rough harvest, and more than 2,000 soldiers of Zhuang Shaoyou went to the people's fields to help harvest after harvesting the grain in the army's fields.

After the wheat was harvested, the transportation encountered a big problem of transportation, and finally after urgent discussion, it was decided that the Mo family would help change the trolley into a horse-drawn cart, the horses of the cavalry battalion would become the animal power for transporting grain, and the cavalry would become horsemen.

At the end of July, the people of the county returned to the county seat one after another. Guo Yuan's subordinates were busy counting various data, and as a result, the army had 2,000 hectares of fields and 110,000 hectares of wheat harvested; 1,000 hectares of Shangtian in the west of Mojia Lake harvest 65,000 hectares of wheat, 1,000 hectares of Shangtian in the east of Zhoutian produce 60,000 Hu, the rest of the landlords and people reclaimed 2,000 hectares of new fields produce 110,000 Hu, and 2,300 hectares of old fields in the south and north of the city of Yudi County produce 100,000 Hu, these fields have been cultivated for many years, the fertility is limited, and everyone is desperate to reclaim the new field, so the old field has invested less energy, so the output of the old field has decreased slightly compared with previous years; The 1,200 hectares of new and old fields in Wanzi Town produce 60,000 wheat.

The county, including Wanzi Town, has a total of 500,000 and 5,000 wheat harvests, and it is estimated that about 400,000 grains can be obtained, which can be eaten by 50,000 people for a year! The overall grain production is the same as the expected amount, the main reason is that the new farming method of the Mo family was used for the first time, and the people were still very unskilled, resulting in the lack of meticulousness in cultivating the land, and the people of the Mo family were already very skilled, so the same thousand hectares of wheat production was more than that of Sunday, and the manpower and animal power were too tight, so the number of wheat produced this year was unsatisfactory.

Of course, the difference is our Zhuang Shaoyou's will, I thought that I could be more prolific, and it would be better if it could reach 600,000 Hu, but I didn't meet the psychological expectations, so I was a little unhappy

Except for Zhuang Shaoyou, who is not very satisfied with the whole county, the rest of the people are all happy, and the faces of the people are full of happy and satisfied smiles, and they have received so much food, which is not only enough for the whole family to eat for a year, but also has a lot of surplus grain to sell for money to buy some household goods, and at the end of the year, they will tear cloth for their wives and children to make new clothes.

Of the 500,000 wheat, 110,000 of which were harvested in the autumn season, belonged to the army, and of course, to the county. Because a part of the people who have no money to buy the fields stipulated in the agricultural persuasion decree can contract the fields and hand over half of the income of the fields every year, and they can get the ownership of the fields for five years, and this part of the fields will be handed over to the county for 30,000 hu, and the county grain depot will receive a total of 140,000 husks of wheat, leaving 40,000 hu as military rations, and the rest of the 100,000 hu can be used for sale.

Because of this year's bumper harvest, the grain market in Yuqi County has caused grain prices to plummet, and the sharp drop in grain prices is a good thing, but it is not a good thing now, and the grain is cheap and hurts the peasants!

Zhuang Shaoyou wants to forcibly stipulate grain prices to protect the interests of peasants, but unfortunately it does not work, and the only way is for the government to buy it at a fixed price, but unfortunately if it is according to last year's grain price of wheat 500 wen a hundred, the county has at least 200,000 wheat idle for sale, and a total of more than 100,000 taels of silver is needed!

However, most of the 100,000 taels of silver obtained from Goguryeo have been spent, 20,000 taels have been spent on the expansion of the shipyard and the construction of new ships, 60,000 taels have been spent on the purchase of special products in the hinterland of Liaodong, and there are still a lot of expenditures for the rest, and there are still 50,000 taels of silver in the county treasury, which is not enough to support the purchase of such grain.

At the end of July, the county government issued a new policy: a grain collection order with a limited price

It is stipulated that the price of grain purchase in the county shall not be less than 320 wen per hundred, and an official grain purchase office shall be set in the county official warehouse, and the price shall be 330 wen and 5 baht! Crack down on speculation and illegal grain merchants!

As a result, as soon as the order for limiting the price of grain was promulgated, the people who wanted to sell grain mobilized their whole families within a day, and the whole village mobilized to push carts and drive livestock to the county seat to sell grain!

The next day, three additional purchasing points were added, and at the same time, Guoyuan urgently recruited 500 strong men to build a large grain depot in the county seat.

On the fourth day of the grain purchase, the county treasury was in an emergency, and everyone was in a hurry, and nearly half of the people did not sell the grain, and a large part of the grain of the landlords was not purchased, because the official did not accept it alone! If you want to sell food, you can, queue up! Those landlords had no choice but to send many families to line up, and they themselves were watching anxiously from the side.

On the second day of August, at noon, the sun was scorching.

Zhuang Shaoyou, Guoyuan, Hua Xin, Luo Yu, Tai Shici, Qin Ling, Zhang San and others are all there, no one has the heart to do anything else, there is no way, there is no money in the county.

At this moment, his subordinates reported that Wu Liang and Zhou Tian were back!

Everyone was suddenly excited, and cheered regardless of the image.

"Let's go, let's take a look!"

On the dock in the north of the city, when Zhuang Shaoyou came with a few cavalrymen who couldn't wait to ride a horse, the dock was busy, and on the two big ships, hundreds of strong men were staring at the sun and carrying things.

Wu Liang and Zhou Tian were chatting and laughing in the shade on the dock, and then they saw Zhuang Shaoyou coming in a hurry, the two hurriedly stepped forward to salute, Zhuang Shaoyou dismounted deeply, and a soldier came to move the horse away.

"How?" Zhuang Shaoyou asked eagerly.

Wu Liang and Zhou Tian glanced at each other, and then Wu Liang smiled and said, "Congratulations to the general, we are rich again!" ”

Zhuang Shaoyou was immediately overjoyed, this time he bet most of his body value, if he lost his capital, there would be no place to make money in the future.

"General, this time we waited for the boat to sail up from the mouth of the Yellow River in Bohai Bay, and threw goods along the coast of Qingzhou and Jizhou, but when I just walked to Puyang, the goods on the ship were gone, and the purchase of special products cost more than 68,000 taels, and the income from selling goods was 255,000 taels, and the profit was four times! The subordinates made their own decisions, purchased some local specialties and shipped them back, planning to sell them to Xiangping, and asked the general to forgive them! ”

"Two hundred and fifty thousand taels?!! Good! Good! What a timely rain! What is the sin? Great work, great work! General Ben gives you credit! ”

Wu Liang smiled slightly: "General, this time it is all thanks to Zhou Tian's help to have such a good harvest, if you change me, at least half of the profit, Zhou Tian is really a genius in business, stunned to fool those rich people in Qingji Prefecture, that mouth, even the dead can say alive!" ”

Zhou Tianyi's face turned slightly red when he heard this, and he hurriedly stepped forward to explain: "General, Lord Wu has praised it falsely, if there is no information about Lord Wu, where can I know so much, and there will be no way to fool people." Besides, this is our first trip, those merchants are not stupid, they will slowly send people to inquire about our hole cards, after a long time, the profit is not so big! Besides, if there was no general's big ship, how could it be possible to transport so much goods over! ”

Zhuang Shaoyou stepped forward and grabbed the hands of the two: "Okay! You're both the first to work! Don't fight with each other! ”

Wu Liang and Zhou Tian made a trip to the maritime business, making a fourfold profit, earning more than 250,000 taels of silver, spending another 80,000 taels to purchase local specialties, and transporting back as much as 170,000 taels of silver, which was enough to loot all the grain in the county!

In view of the fact that more than half of the people were still queuing up to sell grain, Zhuang Shaoyou instructed Wu Liang to deliberately scatter a few boxes of silver when he entered the city, of course, there were a lot of soldiers around him, and most of the people ran to sell grain, so there were not many people who came to see the excitement, so there was no looting.

However, it was only half a day's work, and the whole county spread, and our General Zhuang didn't know where to get a lot of silver, which was said to be scattered all over the streets of the county, and people couldn't walk, and it took most of the day to pick up the silver!

By the next day, the matter was interpreted by the people into countless versions, the most popular being the following version:

Version 1 - General Zhuang sent two warships to Luoyang to rob the treasury

Version 2 - General Zhuang dug up the treasure left by the pirates at sea and got a million taels of silver

Version 3 - The emperor wants to marry his daughter to General Zhuang, and the money is a dowry given by the emperor's old son

In short, General Zhuang is rich, so don't worry!

Therefore, the people who were queuing up to sell grain in a hurry finally put their minds at ease, and those landlords were also relieved.

Zhuang Shaoyou sent more people to speed up the construction of the new official warehouse, and by the middle of August, the bumper harvest turmoil that had been vigorously stirring up for more than half a month was finally over, and everyone was happy.