To the northwest of Zhejiang and Sichuan County, outside the main house of the county prince’s mansion, are rows of neat small courtyards.

These small courtyards are built in a unified manner, so they are not only very neat, but also have complete functions.

In the middle of two rows of houses facing each other, there are wide roads, which are quite convenient to travel.

In the middle of the two rows of houses facing each other, there are pieces of fields after piece. Some are grown for military households, while others are specially used for cultivating seedlings.

However, at this moment, the fields have been filled up, and hundreds of stonemasons and masons are desperately rushing to build walls and ten thousand stone warehouses.

Because Zhu Qizhu received a secret report from Ma Qiancheng, Jiannu had already taken Fushun, the most outermost important town in the Liaodong Great Wall. The court was extremely frightened. Yang Hao had already taken more than 10,000 reinforcements to Liaodong, while the troops in the second batch of Sichuan Army, such as the Baigang Army and the second batch, were also going to raise food and prepare to set off.

This is the prelude to the war. If you don’t hoard food quickly, the wheel boats you’ve been working hard to create will not generate much profit. I don’t know when the cost of building a shipyard and shipbuilding will be recovered.

So, he decided to store grain crazily regardless of everything.

Fortunately, the fourth batch of wheel boats has already left the factory now, and the young and strong man who are driving the boat can set off in two days.

In this way, he could transport 100,000 shi of grain from Chengtian Mansion every trip, and four trips a month, which would be 400,000 shi. In addition to the consumption of more than 100,000 refugees and Fan Rong, he could also store 200,000 shi.

At this moment, the grain price in Chengtian Prefecture still did not fluctuate, and it still remained at about one tael per stone. The grain price in Xi'an Prefecture in the northwest has long exceeded three taels. Even Luoyang Prefecture, Ruzhou, and Yunyang, which are close to Nanyang, have risen to more than two taels.

In this way, Zhu Qizhu and Fan Rong worked together to transport grain from Chengtian Prefecture to transport grain without regard to profit, so as to achieve the effect. Otherwise, the grain price of the prefecture near Nanyang would probably have risen to more than three liang, and Xi'an Prefecture would have to go up at least four liang.

However, once the news of Sarhu's defeat in the war was reported, the price of grain could not be suppressed. The rush to buy food in troubled times has been like this since ancient times.

Because the people were afraid, Jiannu defeated the main force of the Ming army and entered the pass and robbed it. That was a matter of time. If the grain transportation stopped because of this, where can I buy food?

By then, the grain prices in Xi'an Prefecture will rise to more than four taels, and the grain prices in the prefecture near Nanyang will rise to at least more than three taels.

In other words, now, every time you stockpile one stone of grain, you can earn one tael of extra silver. Every time Yang Hao persists in Liaodong for one more month, he can earn two hundred thousand taels of extra silver!

Of course, it is impossible to expect to persevere endlessly. Yang Hao will definitely not last long.

Zhuqiu didn't have so much money to store grain. Because of the consumption of more than 100,000 refugees and tens of thousands of private troops, he could make a profit of tens of thousands of taels in a month, and he invested hundreds of thousands of taels in the shipyard.

At this moment, he only had more than one million taels in his hand. If it weren't for the nearly one million taels of eunuch Liang Zhong who contributed him nearly one million taels, he wouldn't have much money to store grain.

In other words, as long as Yang Hao can hold on for half a year, he will make a fortune and at least turn over the money in his hand.

If Yang Hao could last longer, he would not be able to do so. He could borrow money from Fan Rong, and he could also ask Fan Rong and Nanyang vendors to raise money. If it really doesn't work, he could borrow money from those landlords and gentry, and even he could borrow money from the old Tang King.

In short, there are many ways to make money. Now, the most important thing is to store grain crazily, the faster the better.

To this end, he added a group of two young and strong men to each ship, asking them to travel day and night as much as possible, and strive to fight one round trip for six days. In this way, they could stock up to 100,000 stones of grain in a month.

At the Yunyang Shipyard, he not only did not stop Song Yingxing from working, but instead urged him to work overtime and try his best to rush the work. If he could build another fifty wheel boats before the war started, he would be able to add more than 100,000 stones of grain every month.

When he was so crazy, the Han River waterway, which was not very busy, suddenly flowed like a shuttle. The people on both sides of the river could see long fleets galloping past almost every day. Yunyang Mansion Wharf and Chengtian Mansion Wharf were also very busy, and they had to load and unload tens of thousands of stones of grain almost every day.

As the saying goes, errors occur in a busy situation, and soon all kinds of problems arise.

The first problem that arose was the coolies on both sides of the wharfs. You should know that Yunyang Mansion Wharf and Chengtian Mansion Wharf are not big wharfs, and their throughput is not large. Originally, dozens of coolies on both sides were just fighting for food.

After the Zhuqi waste began to transport grain, the coolies at the docks on both sides increased a lot, but it only increased to about a hundred people.

There are about a hundred people who can load and unload more than 20,000 stones of grain a day and can barely bear it. When they are busy, who can handle 50,000 stones of grain a day? 50,000 stones, which is more than 700,000 kilograms of grain. Everyone has to carry nearly 7,000 kilograms of grain on board and off the boat every day. Who can withstand it?

The coolie could not withstand the speed of grain loading and unloading became significantly slower, and the speed of the fleet's back and forth became slower and slower as well.

When Zhu Qizhua received the news, he made a quick decision and sent five hundred spies to disguise themselves as coolies and rushed to the docks on both sides.

Anyway, everyone was carrying food with their arms bare hands and didn't carry any weapons on them, so he was not worried about what these people would expose.

Once the problem of coolie was solved, the problem of supply came again. Although Chengtian Mansion produces a lot of grain, it could not help but buy so crazily. Nanyang's largest grain merchants like Fan Rong have almost all the cities in the prefectures near Nanyang, and the shipments in a month are actually only more than 100,000 stones.

Chengtian Mansion purchases 200,000 to 300,000 shi a month, which has lasted for more than a year. No matter how much grain the grain merchants in this place are, they will be emptied. Now, the demand has not only not decreased, but has increased by nearly double every month. Who can handle it?

Of course, they are not completely unable to do so. They can go to the surrounding Wuchang Prefecture, Changsha Prefecture, Changde Prefecture and other places to purchase grain. These places have sufficient food, low grain prices, and not very long journeys.

The problem is that they can't stand the food and demands of the inspection guards in various places.

There was no choice but to find the shopkeeper sent by Fan Rong to discuss the price increase. They also made it clear that inspection departments in various places must be respected, otherwise they would not be able to get food.

When Zhu Qizhua received the news, he was furious.

The horse-drawn people, these things are so great. No inspector of the Huguang Xingdu Department under Chen Yumo's rule, dares to play with him any food and get a card.

He immediately wrote a secret letter, asking Chen Yumo to send a document to the corrupt officials in the Huguang Metropolitan Division, warning them that if they eat and get a card around Chengtian Mansion and extort money from grain merchants, causing the price of grain in Yunyang Mansion to rise and stir up civil unrest, he would submit a report to the court and smash their jobs!

These guys were warned by Master Fuzhi and realized that they would restrain themselves. The grain roads around Chengtian Mansion began to be unblocked, and the grain merchants did not mention any price increase.

Alas, it’s really not easy to do business these days, and it’s not easy to stock up on food.

If it weren't for the powerful crazy king like Zhu Qizhuo, it would be almost impossible to hoard food so crazily.
Chapter completed!