Li Hong pointed out the flaws in the purchase of disciples last time and left a deep impression on Lingshizi, so he was the first to think of Li Hong, thinking that he would definitely be able to do it well.

When this hot potato was received in his hand, Li Hong was almost smiling bitterly.

There were wars everywhere in the mortal world, and Song and Jin were already in a tug-of-war situation, the battle line stretched for thousands of miles from east to west, starvation was everywhere, and thousands of miles were barren, but where to buy so much grain.

When Li Hong walked out of the exit of the North Mountain from the Fire Array, his hair had already been grabbed into a chicken nest.

Chu Ming is also a member of the procurement team this time, he will assist from the side, although he is Li Hong's senior brother, but now that Li Hong has been promoted to elder, he is here to help.

He patted Li Hong on the shoulder: "Sixth, let's work hard to run far**, I don't believe we can't buy it!"

"That's all there is to it!"

Chu Ming lowered his voice again and said: "You must remember the regulations of our Immortal Sect, monks are not allowed to do anything to mortals, otherwise they will ......" He smiled bitterly: "Otherwise, I don't know, now it's all messed up, anyway, don't kill mortals casually to find a handle for those people in the Immortal Sect!"

Li Hong**** head, feeling a little uncomfortable, could it be that he saw that those Jin people did not do anything to the Song people burning, killing, and plundering, even if they could bear it, Lingyi and Wuxing Suo couldn't help it.

He frowned for a long time, and decided to go to the bottom of the mountain to investigate the mortal court situation first, maybe he could find a quieter and relatively prosperous place.

A purchasing procession of more than a dozen people flew towards the south of the Yangtze River, where the most inquired about the situation and the movements of the army.

The group flew directly from the high altitude to the south of the Yangtze River, Li Hong deliberately did this, in order to be afraid that he would fly low and see Song Jun suffer a loss, and he couldn't help but shoot.

Finally seeing the surging river like a yellow ribbon, everyone's hearts were excited, which means that the Great Song Dynasty is close at hand in Lin'an (note).

Soon descended outside the green mountains and green waters of Lin'an City, they pretended to be ordinary people fleeing into the city and began to inquire about the court situation.

At this time, it was the sixth year of Song Shaoxing, and the hinterland of the Central Plains was still in flames, but the situation had begun to improve, and the Song army, led by Yue Fei and Han Shizhong, had begun to recover the lost territory of the Central Plains.

Many Han people who fled from the north to the south of the Yangtze River have settled down, although the life is hard, but finally settled down, compared to the north everywhere soldiers, the people are not happy, especially when Zhao Gou set Lin'an as a line last year, more people gathered here, Lin'an began to prosper.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, especially Li Hong, before the retreat, he had heard Chu Xuan say that the war situation was tight at that time, and after five years, it seemed that the Great Song Dynasty had finally gained a firm foothold in the south of Huaishui, presumably Chu Xuan would be very excited to hear this good news!

It's just the Central Plains! That is the root of the Great Song Dynasty, the hometown of all Han people, and I hope that Yue Fei will recover the Central Plains as soon as possible.

The middle-aged man who told them about the current situation had his eyes lit up and talked endlessly when he mentioned Yue Fei, but he never called him by his first name, but called him "Grandpa Yue".

The words "Grandpa Yue" made everyone's ears callous.

Li Hong was very curious about this Yue Fei, thinking to himself what kind of hot-blooded good man he would be, and if he had the opportunity in the future, he would definitely see it with his own eyes.

At this moment, a team of yellow Puma galloped into the city and entered the line, but they did not dismount, but when they saw the sound of "report, emergency military situation on the front line, and victory in Lotus Pond,!"

But listening to the sound of "Great victory, great victory!" was endless, and the whole city was boiling.

The horses' hooves rumbled through the heavenly street dedicated to the royal travel of officials (Note 3), and drove directly to the gate of Miyagi, where the vermilion gate opened, and soon the group of soldiers disappeared into the depths of Miyagi.

"Haha, Grandpa Yue has won the battle again, come on, come on, these ten copper plates for you, go buy ** food, they are all Han people, you're welcome, take it!" The middle-aged man couldn't help but say and took out ten copper plates and stuffed them into Li Hong's hand.

This man is just a butcher, in Luocheng (Note 4) with a small meat case, I don't think I can make much money, the ten copper coins I touched were greasy, especially with body temperature, looking at his red and simple face, Li Hong was very moved.

With a move in his heart, Li Hong leaned forward and whispered: "Big brother, I bought all your pork, I took the ten money, but you also have to collect my money!"

The man was stunned: "Aren't you fleeing, how can you have money!"

Li Hong smiled and said mysteriously: "We are indeed fleeing, but we were really driven by the war in the north, and we brought a lot of silver, you see, I have money, and the eldest brother is cheap**, and we have more than a dozen people to chew it!"

The butcher man smiled happily: "Okay!" Immediately quickly strung the pork with straw rope, handed it to Li Hong one by one, and said with a smile: "Listen to your accent and know that it is a person near Taiyuan Mansion, we are still half a fellow countryman, there are a total of fifty catties of meat here, ninety wen a catty, count you eighty-five, four times and two hundred and fifty wen, and calculate it in silver, two taels of silver will begin, I still bargain?"

Li Hong was stunned, it has been 11 years since he entered Jiulimen, and he remembers that before this, pork was only at most 50 wen a catty, and now how has it risen to 90 wen a catty, and the converted price of silver and copper coins is not right, in the past, it was basically always money for one tael of silver, and now two guan money is exchanged for one tael of silver, which shows that the price of goods has risen, and the price of silver has also risen, (Note 5)

In this case, the small people of Shengdou must have a more difficult life, but the big families can take advantage of it, and presumably live a richer life, provided that they flee to Jiangnan with enough gold and silver.

He knew that the butcher man in front of him would never lie to him, so he stretched out his finger and quietly clamped it in his sleeve, cut the twenty-two taels of silver into half, and stuffed it into the butcher's hand.

As soon as the butcher's silver was in his hands, he knew that something was wrong, it was too heavy, and he immediately bypassed the meat case and blushed in a hurry: "You can't accept so much, it's all the fellow who fled ......."

Before he finished speaking, Li Hong turned around and left, his tall back swaying in the crowd and disappearing immediately.

A few idlers watching the excitement next to him only had half of the white light and silver in their eyes, and their eyes were red, and some people said with a clear conscience: "Hmph, I'm afraid the silver is fake, butcher, don't you hurry up and chase it!"

"Phew, you're a fake, that's our fellow on Hedong Road, I'll get out of here for grandpa!" The butcher raised the pig-killing knife and shook it, and the idler walked away, (Note 6)

The butcher began to clean up the meat case and said to himself: "Good man! I hope this little brother can live a peaceful life in Lin'an again!"

Li Hong clearly heard the man's words, his heart was hot, and he slaughtered more dogs every time, which was good.

When he arrived in Fang City, he bought a large stack of bamboo baskets, one person carried a stack, and when he arrived in a secluded place, Li Hong put all the baskets into Qiankunkui, and threw the fresh meat into the basket and put it in, clapped his hands and smiled: "I have never spent so much money, and today I also charged back to the big household!"

Chu Ming smiled: "Master gave you 10,000 taels of silver to buy grain, but now you haven't even spent a fraction, and then you will really spend money!"

Li Hong also smiled, but no, 10,000 taels of silver, he was also shocked at that time, he waved his hand and said arrogantly: "Let's go! Buy grain, it looks like you can complete the task today!"

When he heard about the rice market, he and Chu Ming slowly paced in, and the rest stayed outside.

The sun was already in the west, but there were not many people in the rice shop, only a few patrons, and the guy was greeting, and when he saw someone coming in, he immediately frowned after a little look.

One of the guys walked up to the two of them and shouted, "This is not where you came, get out quickly!" A whistle sounded, the curtain of the back door was lifted, and out came several big men with meaty faces, eyeing them with their elbows around them, and at a glance they knew that they were thugs watching the scene.

Li Hong scratched his scalp, looked up and down, and knew that the guy was judging people by his appearance, he and Chu Ming were both dressed as fleeing people, with short shirts, straw sandals under the big pants, and a dusty beard, no wonder the guy looked down on him.

He didn't say much, and with a twist of his fingers, he took out fifty taels of silver from Qiankunkui, threw it up and down in his hand, and looked at the guy and said, "Can't you buy rice if you have silver!"

The guy squinted his eyes carefully and looked at the silver, and judged that it was full-colored silver, and immediately stretched out his hand with a smile on his face and said: "Inside the private room, I see that the amount that the guest officer wants to buy is probably a lot!"

"Of course!" Chu Ming said coldly beside him.

Entering the so-called private room, in fact, it was just an ordinary room, the guy brought tea, and asked: "What kind of rice do the two guest officers want to buy, how much do you want to buy, our Fufu is one of the best rice shops in Lin'an, Tong Su is not bullied, and the two are satisfied!"

Li Hong began to scratch his scalp, if he said the actual number, would it scare this guy to death, he had to ask: "How much stock do you have, japonica rice and brown rice are fine!"

The guy groaned, japonica rice is ripe once a year, and it is not the harvest season at this time, but the brown rice in the south is twice a year, and now it is just the early rice harvest, this year is still a good year, and there are a lot of goods in the granary.

He cautiously gestured a finger: "This number!"

Li Hong was puzzled, how much was a finger, he simply said: "You can make it clear! How much you want, and pay all in cash!"

The man's eyes bulged: "Cash!"

Li Hong had no choice but to explain: "Of course I didn't put it by my side, and after the negotiation, we will have both the money and the goods!"

"Okay, I'll give you a hundred stones!"

One hundred stones is 1,200 catties, which is indeed a lot, but his goal is far from here.

Li Hong shook his head: "Too little!"

"Two hundred stones!"

"It's still too little!"

The man's face changed and he shouted, "Isn't the guest officer joking with the villain!" He pulled the abacus and crackled: "Brown rice is four hundred wen a bucket, ten buckets and one stone, four thousand yuan per stone, two hundred stone rice is already eight hundred yuan, which is equivalent to four hundred taels of silver, is it too little!"

Li Hong simply stretched out a finger: "I'll buy this amount of brown rice!"

"How much!"

Li Hong wanted to say 10,000 taels, but I was afraid that all the rice shops in Lin'an would not have so much inventory, and besides, this would cause the price of rice to skyrocket, and the people would suffer, so he changed his words and said: "According to your price, I want 1,000 taels of silver!"

The man didn't expect it to be such a big business, he frowned and said, "This villain can't be the master, the villain has to ask the shopkeeper!" said and walked out.

Li Hong's consciousness had already followed him, and when he entered a room inside, he told the shopkeeper that there was a guest who wanted to buy a thousand taels of silver.

The tea in Li Hong's mouth squirted out in one gulp.

"Dressed so sloppily, but shot so boldly, the dozen or so companions outside are all extraordinary men, isn't it a golden dog spy?"

Needless to say, the shopkeeper ordered the guy to stabilize the two, and he rushed to the official.

When he attracted the servants, the two sloppy men in the wing room had long since disappeared, and the people guarding the door swore in unison that they would never come out, but the two of them disappeared in this way.

The shopkeeper paid a few taels of silver to send the servant away, sad and surprised, reached out and touched the teacup, the teacup was warm, and the tea in it was almost drunk.

After learning a lesson, Li Hong knew that he didn't want to buy all the rice of 10,000 taels of silver in one go.

After changing their clothes, they went their separate ways, buying rice from one rice store to another, dozens of stones here, dozens of stones there, and a total of 300 stones of rice were purchased in Lin'an, but in this way, it still caused the price of rice to rise slightly.

Now the price of rice in Lin'an is more than five times the price of rice in the Central Plains before the war (Note 7), Li Hong did not dare to buy again, for fear of bringing trouble to the common people, so he went south along the way, and every time he met a big ** town, he would stop to buy rice, so he made up enough thousands of stones.

Li Hong calculated that it was enough for the low-level disciples of the Nine Sects to eat for three or five months, so he stopped and returned.

Halfway through, Chu Ming suddenly said: "We used to buy japonica rice, but this time all you buy is brown rice, I'm afraid that some disciples will not get used to it!"

Li Hong sneered: "The people can't eat enough bran and vegetables, if anyone dares to find fault with brown rice, I will definitely sue the boss and punish him for only one meal of gruel and water a day!"

Having said that, I didn't feel emotionally in my heart, thinking that when I first entered the Qingyou concept, the crystal fragrant Jiangnan japonica rice was so full of oil that I refused to put the chopsticks when I died.

Fighting, even the immortals began to live a hard life, Li Hong smiled bitterly.

But there is one thing that is impressive, the victory of Lotus Pond, a call for the whole Lin'an City, when the sound moved the world, even their own blood was boiling, it seems that the people are the same, the same hatred of the enemy, hoping to settle the Central Plains as soon as possible.

Note 1: The Southern Song Dynasty did not recognize Lin'an as the capital, but called it "Xingzai", which was the actual capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, Lin'an, that is, present-day Hangzhou.

Note 2: Now southeast of Dingyuan, Anhui.

Note 3: The famous Heavenly Street in Lin'an in the Southern Song Dynasty, starting from the diagonal bridge in the north and reaching the Zhengyang Gate in the south, is very wide, the middle is the emperor's royal road, and on both sides is the river and the corridor for pedestrians to walk, which is the most prosperous area of Lin'an in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Note 4: The outer city outside the palace is within the Lin'an city wall.

Note 5: The prices of the Southern Song Dynasty are indeed referred to here, and there are slight differences.

Note 6: Beisonghe East Road, the geographical location is equivalent to that of present-day Shanxi Province.

Note 7: Indeed, in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, the price of rice soared due to wars and other reasons, even if Shaoxing had a bumper harvest in the eighth year, each bucket would cost 300 wen.

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