"Uncle, aunt, should the eldest brother start collecting grain", looking at the snowflakes falling all over the sky, Diao Yuzhu asked with a wine glass, "The grain should have dried up a month ago, and you can start harvesting it at that time, until the Chinese New Year, there will be very few people who sell grain after the New Year, because many families will run out of grain, so the landlords with sufficient grain will lend them with interest, every year", Yang Jiulang replied.

The heavy snow fell for two days and one night, the whole island was white, Yang Jiulang did not dig any snow roads, but put a few more days of grain in the shed of chickens, ducks and geese in advance to make rations, and made three sets of sleds, after the snow stopped, only swept out the snow that was scraped into the hall, and after two days, the cold directly froze the snow all the ground, if people want to walk on it, they will fall down immediately, "I don't know if it snows in Wolf State, it doesn't rain much, and the shadow does not affect the harvest of grain" , I smiled bitterly, Yang Jiulang and Zheng Ling could only pretend not to see it, Diao Yuzhu immediately returned to normal, because she knew that it was useless to think about it.

Breakfast is seafood porridge, big buns, side dishes and hot dishes that have been simmering in the cauldron, of course, wine is indispensable, the three of them laughed while eating and drinking, "After eating, I will teach you two to ski, you practice, I will go to see the kiln, if there is a collapse, I will make up for it" , Zheng Ling and Diao Yuzhu immediately became interested, and these two people are really smart, in two days, they can already circle around the island, just slow down, and after a few days, they can fly directly, and they can even row to the vegetable field and the kiln to check the disaster, even if there is nothing, then go home and drink, "Uncle, aunt, where should he live now, eldest brother?" Uncle, aunt, I have made more dumplings at home these days, and thrown them outside to freeze, it is estimated that the snow will not melt for a while and a half, and even if it does, it will not be very warm, so I will not accompany you out these days."

Because there are many kilns, there is no shortage of vegetables, seafood is raised by themselves, and even more, the rations that have been saved for a year, Diao Yuzhu learned from Yang Hu, and stored them for three years, anyway, all of them are put in places that are not needed, and many of them are still in the hall, therefore, Diao Yuzhu and a lot of noodles at once, and Yang Jiulang and Zheng Ling also transferred the battlefield from the snow to the house, the three of them wrapped it for twelve days in a row, and packed forty big bags after freezing, each bag has a different filling, and the four big carriages can not be pulled out almost once, and the rest of the outside is enough for three people to eat until the New Year, and they slept well all night, and the three of them got up at noon。

"Uncle, aunt, I guess you two elders can guess what I'm going to do, the snow in Wolf Prefecture is about the same as ours, but the roads in Wolf Prefecture have been cleared, and the road leading to Liao and the nearest city has also been cleared, as for how far it is cleared, I don't know, because I don't have time to check the child, and it was very cold that night, so I quickly fled back", said and laughed, while Yang Jiuchao and Zheng Ling were red in their eyes, "Uncle, you told me that you can hire a carriage there, how to hire it, Brother, how can they eat with confidence, I'll do this tomorrow, okay?", "Okay, Zhu'er will bring the uncle's handwritten letter and greeting stickers tomorrow and send it to Lord Chen Yulin in Linjezhou, which is his fiefdom, give him all the dumplings, and don't worry about the rest, speaking of which, you should call him a cousin, one of the uncle's friends, and Linjezhou is the city you see", Diao Yuzhu was overjoyed when he heard this, "Thank you, uncle."

Yang Hu rushed back to Wolf State on the second day of the fifth month, and now except for Yang Guang and his wife and Yang Lu, the other brothers and little sisters have gone back separately, and Yang Guang and his wife also left the next day, and on the tenth day of the eighth month, there are now two brothers left in the entire Wolf State, "Sixth brother, you go and pick up the nearest sixteen city lords and grassland supervisors, and I will invite them to the palace for dinner at noon."

Yang Hu is still the same as before, very elegant, with a smile that makes others want to be close very much, just like his son sitting there listening to the earnest repentance of his elders, people can't wait to pass everything on to him, so, after three rounds of wine, the governor of Wolf Prefecture opened his mouth first, "This year is another bumper harvest year, and it is a bumper harvest year, I estimated it, the remaining alone, there are as many as one billion catties, and the Great Song Dynasty and Liao are also bumper harvests, and the people need to sell food to spend money, no matter how cheap they are, they have to *** For example, normal weddings, funerals, etc., the landlord's family does not dare to store grain, because their grain will definitely not be released, so they must sell it as soon as possible to vacate the grain for the next year, but except for the government and the army, no one will buy it, and the amount is not large, and it is a drop in the bucket", Yang Hu looked at the grassland supervisor, "What about your grassland?", "It's similar to the peasants, after the livestock herd is too big, it can't be seen at all, and sometimes it will be lost in groups, so no matter how cheap it is, it has to be sold", "The minimum price of grain will be less?" Yang Hu asked everyone, "Five to sixty percent", everyone's guess, "What about the livestock in the grassland?", and asked the director of the grassland, "The same, it is also five to sixty percent", "When will the peasants start selling grain?", "After a month, the whole food is dried up, and they can start selling".

Yang Hu beckoned everyone to drink, and he thought for a long time before asking everyone, "I am the king of Wolf State, and I must not let the people have a bumper harvest. And in the disaster year, there will be a situation of starvation, you sixteen city lords heard clearly, go back and send someone to post the notice to the main places in each city, the countryside to each village, within a month can not be completed, don't blame me for being ruthless, the grain of the people of Wolf State, the government all purchased according to the market price of eighty percent of last year, this afternoon to draw up the price of the main grain, the rest of the grain will not be collected, and the livestock of the grassland is the same, all eighty percent of the price of Wolf State, the specific method is determined separately, I will personally go over after the festival, and the people of the Great Song Dynasty will definitely ask the relatives and friends of Wolf State to deal with their own food, we Wolf State also collected, who does not have three friends and four friendsTherefore, every household in each Wolf Prefecture sells a maximum of 10,000 catties of grain to the purchasing station every day, and if it can't be sold, it will come again, until they sell out, each city will build a special grain collection point outside the city, and I will send people to transport it back to the Wangdu granary every night to prepare for the disaster year and relieve the people", all the governors and grassland supervisors took the initiative to kneel, kowtowed, as if they had discussed, and shouted in unison, "This is for the benefit of the people of Wolf Prefecture, on behalf of all the people in my jurisdiction, I thank the prince for his good deeds."

It was Yang Lu's business to send everyone back, and Yang Hu sat in the palace alone, thinking about the problem while drinking," If there is a disaster year, all the people of Liao and the Great Song Dynasty, if they are half-starved and do not die, they need 10 billion catties of grain, about 10,000 taels of silver, and to use so much, the whole world is bound to know that in a disaster year, Wolf State will become the target of the whole world's robbery, if you want to keep it secret, this dark money can only start from the royal capital, because the top purpose of the financial department is the sixth brother, as for the hidden food, the top of Montenegro is the best choice, and the place where you can borrow money in secret is only Yangjiazhai", and thought for a while, " The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, as the prince, he must arrive in Tokyo on the fourteenth day of the first month to discuss the Mid-Autumn Festival with the emperor, of course, it is just a formality, because Wolf State never participates in politics, forget it, everything will be talked about after the Mid-Autumn Festival."