Chen Zhou went out early in the morning.

I traveled to the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and I was in a prison cell when I first appeared, and I didn't have time to walk around the ancient streets.

When he got outside, he felt that everything was very new, so he went directly to the market, wanting to buy some cloth and daily necessities, and find someone to sew clothes, and live more comfortably.

There are only two sets of clothes at home, one is worn in the cell, and the other is given by Cao Cao, which is a little shabby.

Welcoming the Son of Heaven and moving the capital to Xu County is still a matter of the second half of next year.

He won't be able to move until next year at the earliest, and he still needs to live in this home in Puyang for a long time, and he doesn't want to be too poor.

Chen Zhou selected some cloth and was told that the cloth could be sold, but it did not charge five baht or small money, and if you wanted to buy it, you had to give gold or exchange it for grain.

In addition, Chen Zhou walked around several other shops, and basically did not want to charge copper coins, even if someone was willing, the price was extremely high, and it was not good to have less.

"It is worthy of troubled times, and currency depreciation is worth so serious."

"Even back to the days of barter, where money was basically useless."

"Except for some hard currency!"

Chen Zhou muttered to himself.

Fortunately, Boss Cao was more generous, sent some gold and jewelry, and spent a lot of money to buy some cloth and some daily necessities.

"If you want to lie flat next to Boss Cao, the current conditions are not enough."

"In the early days of Boss Cao's business, it was still quite difficult."

"How can I help him get through the start-up stage as quickly as possible?"

On the way home, Chen Zhou thought so in his heart.

But not long after arriving home, Cao Ang, who had been repaired, finally came, and said with a smile when he entered the door: "Sir, just came back?" Where do you buy these things? If you need it, send someone to tell me and send it to you immediately. ”

"Why didn't Childe say it earlier!"

Chen Zhou had no choice but to put things down and said, "Seeing that you are in such a hurry, is there anything wrong?" ”

Cao Ang said: "There is a very important thing, now there is a shortage of food in our army, or a serious shortage, and even Yanzhou will be starving, my father asked me to ask my husband, is there any way to prepare food?" ”

"Lack of food again?"

Chen Zhou frowned when he heard this.

But there is no way, the shortage of food is determined by the current environment.

If there is no shortage of food in troubled times, it is not called troubled times, after all, a large number of fields are monopolized by the family and scholars, and there is very little grain in circulation outside, and there is almost no grain in stock for the people.

Food can even become currency, return to barter, and go backwards.

"This time there is a shortage of food, so you can't go to slaughter the city again, right?"

Chen Zhou said again: "There are so many strategists around the lord, they can't help it? ”

Cao Ang shook his head and said: "This time we can't slaughter the city anymore, Mr. Cheng has a way to raise grain, but his method can't be expanded, what is it, he refuses to disclose, he can only prepare part of the grain." ”

"That Mr. Cheng, but Cheng Yu Cheng Zhongde?"

Chen Zhou asked.

Cao Ang nodded.

Cheng Yu came up with a method of raising food that was unwilling to be made public, and Chen Zhou had to think too much.

He clearly remembered that Cheng Yu was a ruthless person who dared to use human flesh as food, what was this method that refused to be disclosed, and the result was about to come out.

It's normal not to dare to make it public.

"What about food prices right now?"

Chen Zhou asked again.

Cao Ang said: "The price of grain is two or three times higher than usual, is my husband trying to buy grain?" This method does not work, first of all, we can't afford it, and secondly, most of the coins we have on hand are five baht coins and small coins, and the outside grain merchants don't charge copper money at all, even if they have money, they can't buy it. ”

Chen Zhou pondered and said: "If you don't collect copper coins, you will collect other valuable things, so you can buy a lot of grain, right?" ”

Cao Ang nodded and said, "As long as there are enough things that can be equivalent to grain, such as gold, cloth, etc., you can also exchange for food." ”

Chen Zhou thought about it and understood, in the troubled times, ordinary people have no food in their hands, but it does not mean that the family clan does not have it on hand, they occupy a large number of fields in the Han Dynasty, and after so many years of accumulation, the food must be piled up like a mountain, and there is too much to eat.

But it is one thing to have food, and it is another thing to be willing to send food to help the people.

During the Great Depression, the capitalists of Ami preferred to pour out the milk rather than give it to the peasants, although the class of capital and the gentry were different, but the reason was similar.

Unless you can come up with something of equal value, don't think about getting food in the hands of the family clans.

"But we don't have enough of what is equivalent to food."

"Do you have any ideas, sir?"

Cao Ang asked again.

Chen Zhou said: "It's very simple, if you help me build this small object, I can help you get money to buy food, but you need to go out of the city." ”

After speaking, he cut off a piece of the cloth he had just bought.

Let the maid grind the ink, lift the pen and draw a sketch on it.

"It has to be iron, and the harder it is, the better."

Chen Zhou also added, "When you finish building, I still need to go out of the city, it won't take too long, we will be rich soon, you tell the lord everything I said." ”

Cao Ang asked in surprise: "Sir, can you reveal where the money comes from?" ”

"You'll find out then."

Chen Zhou pretended to be mysterious and said: "First build what I want, and keep it secret for the time being, except for the lord, don't let anyone else know." ”

"Good!"

Cao Ang soon went back to deliver the good news to Cao Cao.

It's not a long time to build those things.

After two days, Cao Ang was able to deliver the things.

What Chen Zhou asked him to build was the famous Luoyang shovel in later generations.

At this time, the only place that can use the Luoyang shovel is tomb robbing, and the military food that Cao Cao lacks is obtained through tomb robbing.

Although it has not been recorded in the official history, later generations said that Cao Cao was the basis for the tomb robbing ancestor, which is generally from Chen Lin's article, which sprayed Cao Cao so well that he could get better.

The general of the hair hill and the captain of the touching gold were the first to come from here.

Chen Zhou wanted to help Cao Cao tide over the difficulties, prepare military funds and food, and if he didn't choose to slaughter the city, the quickest way was this.

"Will the ancestor that Hu Bayi wants to worship in the future be replaced by me?" Chen Zhou said in his heart.

Those Luoyang shovels were built according to his requirements and assembled.

"Sir, what can this thing be for?"

Cao Ang was puzzled.

A few specially shaped shovels that can still conjure up money?

"Use it to dig the earth!"

Chen Zhou was in the front yard, and with a shovel went down, he brought out a thick cylindrical piece of soil, and on the ground, there was a small hole going down.

"Is it possible to dig up the money by digging the soil?"

"It's really possible!"

Chen Zhou smiled and said: "You go back and tell the lord that I want fifty people who are bold enough to go out of the city with me, I am going to go to Mangdang Mountain, on the southeast side of our Puyang, it will take about ten days, and when I come back with money, I can buy grain arbitrarily." ”