Chapter 49 Grain swept away
In the Wang family courtyard, Wang Jizong had been kneeling in front of the tablets of the ancestors for half an hour.
The Ning family and the family stood solemnly in the yard outside the ancestral hall, and had been standing for half an hour.
After a long time, Wang Jizong bowed three times, finally stood up with difficulty pressing his knees and walked out of the ancestral hall slowly.
The people in the yard looked up at him.
"Jizong, do you really want to surrender to the thief?"
Wang Jizong's fourth uncle Wang Yingchang asked with a frown.
Wang Jizong stepped out of the threshold and nodded: "The Qin Daguan is an extraordinary person, and the prosperity of my Wang family is here."
"But he is doing something to rebel."
"In the past, Taizu raised an army to rebel against Yuan and committed acts of rebellion. His ancestors served as Taizu, which was also a thief. What Jizong did today was clearly stated by his ancestors that he should inherit the will of his ancestors and follow the thief to pacify the world."
"Taizu was the destiny of heaven, and his ancestors were loyal to the Ming Dynasty until their death. You worship the tablets of heaven and earth, your parents and teachers every day, and you should do your loyalty to the emperor, and follow your ancestors' will to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty."
Hearing this, Wang Jizong was silent and lowered his eyes and remained silent for a long time.
After a long time, he suddenly raised his eyes and said slowly: "Second uncle, Jizong has kept the heaven, earth, the king, the parents and teachers in mind since he was young, and has always been alert until he heard what the Qin manager said that the world is not from the Zhu family, but from the people of the world."
"Jizong suddenly realized that it was like a word awakening the people in his dream. The so-called heaven, earth, king, and teachers should regard the people as the heaven, earth, the people as the first, and the king as the last, and the so-called governing the country and pacifying the world, saving the people from suffering, pacifying the world, and giving the people peace and happiness to govern the country."
"The Qin Daguan is vulgar, but he is very wise and does things like bandits, but he does not offend the people. He only has dozens of thugs under his command, but he dares to use the world as chess, has far-sighted vision and is amazing at every step. Now he is resisting the Fan family with weak forces. In the shaky way, he has received help from the Taiyuan Divine Soldier. This is the will of heaven and is also the clear instructions of his ancestors."
After hearing what he said, Wang Yingchang opened his mouth, but was speechless.
After a long time, he sighed and asked again: "What if the Qin surnamed Qin will do to the people in the future and will be tired and suffering, what should you do?"
"Jizong must kill this person with his own hands, and then apologize for his death."
"Oh, that's all, go, the fourth uncle is incompetent, the Wang family depends on you."
"The regent will not disappoint the clan's expectations."
Wang Jizong bowed and gave a big gift to Wang Yingchang before he stepped forward.
Ning also bowed to Wang Yingchang and followed him out.
When he left the gate of the Wang family, Wang Jizong stood up and turned around and said in a harmonious voice: "Madam, don't worry, although the Qin Daguan is vicious, he is not an unreasonable person. Your husband is just going to work here, and Sunset will come back."
Ning went up to help Wang Jizong clean up his clothes, and smiled gently, "Husband, Qin Daguan is a straightforward person. In front of him and other colleagues, don't be tempted. I'm afraid that they will be tired of listening, and I'm also annoyed you, a genius black-faced scholar."
"Hahahaha..." Wang Jizong couldn't help but raise his head and laugh, "Even if he went to the fields to farm and dry them every day, wouldn't your husband still be a handsome talent?"
"Ph, I'm not ashamed."
Ning Shi was angry at him, but was afraid that others would see him, so she hurried back to the door.
"Madam, I'm leaving for my husband."
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Qin Chuan was not in a good mood. He was in the house of the gatehouse, looking coldly at Meng Guiming.
Meng Guiming shrank like a turtle, trembling constantly, and did not dare to look up at Qin Chuan.
"Say, how much grain is stored in the grain store? How much silver is it?"
Meng Guiming shrank his neck: "The grain is about 100 stones, and the silver is not much, only a dozen taels of silver and a few stagnant of money."
Qin Chuan pulled his collar and picked him up: "What did I say before? If you have any concealment, I will kill you with one knife."
Meng Guiming cried and said, "I didn't mean it, I just... I just didn't remember it for a while..."
"Didn't remember it? You won't remember it for such a big store?"
"I really didn't remember it. These days, my mind was swollen, my mind was full of tragic deaths and my future... What should I do in the future? I didn't think of the two shops in the county town. These farms and mines are yours. It's useless for me to tuck those two shops."
"snort!"
Qin Chuan threw him back on the chair and snorted angrily.
He never expected that the Meng family had two shops in the county town, a grain shop and an iron shop.
It was not until just now that the blacksmith of the iron shop came to the outside of the village and shouted, saying that he wanted to meet the manager, that he realized that he still had assets in the county town.
When he called the blacksmith in and asked, Qin Chuan was in a bad mood and was angry. The shopkeeper and the shopkeeper of the grain store swept away the stored grain and silver in the store a few days ago and disappeared.
The blacksmith shop did not have a shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper of the grain shop was always taking care of it. The food was also supplied by the grain shop. After finding that the grain shop was empty and there were no particles, he plucked up the courage to come to Mengjiazhuang to report the news.
They are all honest and honest people. They dare not run away, nor do they know where they can go. Without food, they can only come to find their boss.
Qin Chuan was angry that the shopkeeper dared to flee with his things, and Meng Guiming did not tell him that there were two shops.
If you tell yourself earlier, you will not be able to send someone to take over the grain store earlier.
He wanted to continue to open those two shops. Needless to say, the blacksmith shop could help him do a lot of things.
Although he wanted to stockpile grain and raise soldiers, he still had to sell some of the food to a greater or lesser extent. He could not let the common people of Jingle County flock to Mengjiazhuang to eat and drink, and there was still a basic social order.
The most important thing is that the grain store can purchase grain from large-scale customers and even prevent those unscrupulous large-scale customers from raising the price of grain.
Now that he has territory, he will blatantly grab the food of the big households, it will inevitably attract the attention of the court. However, he can use some means to force those big households to sell the food to the grain store, and then sell it to the common people, and go in and out. This way, even if it is not a hoarding market, it will not attract the attention of the court, but can also use the food of the big households to earn silver, and deduct some grain to support the soldiers.
As for how to force those big farmers to sell grain, he can come up with several ways.
However, when opening a store, someone who can keep accounts and business can go to the grain store.
It is inevitable that Song Zhiting will be useless. Although that guy is not good at making suggestions, he can manage logistics.
Among those refugees, there were more than a dozen who could write and calculate, but they had never done business and had not recorded any accounts. They had to be taught.
After thinking about it, Qin Chuan couldn't think of any good candidates for a moment, so he simply left it alone and only gave him fifty kilograms of ground grain and two kilograms of horse meat to carry back to the blacksmith, and told him that he would not sell goods in the next two days, but just make farm tools. In the next two days, he would arrange for people to take charge of the business and transport some grain and iron materials to the side.
The blacksmith thanked repeatedly, and then happily went with the food on his back.
Qin Chuan was not worried that he would also take away the things. Those iron tools were heavy and could not be sold for a lot of money. It was not easy to have a job that could support his family these days. As long as the boss could still pay for food and wages, he would not be stupid enough to ruin his job, which was not worth it.
After arranging the store, Qin Chuan returned to the house to see the old bandit who was injured by the blow-up.
The brother's name is Huang Liuxi. Half of his face was almost blown away and he couldn't be sewn. He only cleaned it a few times and applied the Jinchuang medicine. The blood stopped, but the seepage was a lot, and the situation was very bad. He had been unconscious several times since yesterday.
Yesterday afternoon, Qin Chuan sent several subordinates to Jingle County and Taiyuan to find a doctor.
At night, what Qin Chuan was most worried about happened.
Huang Liuxi had a fever.
The doctor hasn't come yet, but Qin Chuan knew that in the era without antibiotics, even if the doctor comes, he would probably be powerless. He can only say that having a doctor is better than not having a doctor, and he can save Huang Liuxi even if he tries his best to do anything.
It would be best if Huang Liuxi could handle it by himself.
Qin Chuan explored Huang Liuxi's body temperature and added a blanket to him.
At this time, Luo Ba's voice came from the roof, saying that Wang Jizong had come.
Chapter completed!