"Second brother, my father occupies the land of Jinyang. Although it is not as rich as Guanzhong, no matter how much food is, it can still be self-sufficient. How could you come to buy food?" The girl Yaoguang narrowed her eyes and showed a look of worry on her face.

After Li Shimin sighed, he no longer concealed the whole story of the matter.

Where is Jinyang? Will the place where the old Li family is regarded as the base camp? Although Shanxi is mountainous, the area around Jinyang is located on a plain with fertile land and the Fen River flows through it. There is no shortage of water or field. In the past, when the Sui Dynasty was not in chaos, the land of Jinyang was considered a number of good places. For this reason, a Fenyang Palace was built north of Jinyang for Yang Guang to go to eat, drink and have fun.

However, now, although Li Yuan owns Jinyang, Shanxi has been rebelling since the ninth year of Daye. It was not until Li Yuan took office as the Fuminister that this was a little better. Now, the Liang army and Liu Wuzhou missed Uncle Queping for a long time and sent troops to fight again and again.

Although there are more victories and fewer losses, the surrounding areas of Jinyang have become a pot of porridge. It is expected that the income from autumn harvest will be at most until next year's autumn harvest. However, don't forget to fight and maintain an army, which will not cost less food.

Now the total number of troops of the old Li family is about 150,000. If there is no war, it can be barely supported. However, Li Yuan does not want to fight, which does not mean that Liu Wuzhou and Liang's army do not want to fight. Therefore, after losing the enterprising Guanzhong, Li Yuan, who could only work hard to develop in Shanxi, finally turned his attention to this young master who is sitting in Guanzhong and watching the world.

You should know that Li Shimin is very clear about my master's ability to get food. In other words, this guy has seen a new way of farming in Hancheng County, as well as the use of their own fermented fertilizers. He knows that Hancheng County's yield per mu is far ahead of the forefront of this era.

Now, I have even more fertile soil in Guanzhong, with nearly 40 million acres of land in my pocket. Moreover, Guanzhong is in good weather this year, and it will definitely be a bumper harvest year. When I saw that the grain in my territory was really unsustainable, Li Shimin proposed to Li Yuan to buy grain from this young master.

Li Yuan was very reluctant to do this at first, but with the joint persuasion of many subordinates, more importantly, most of the heroes in the world can barely guarantee food and clothing. Some, such as Liu Wuzhou, make a living by robbery. Every year, people in the New Year leave their hometowns and flee to him because they are not full of food.

In addition, Liang Shidu and Liu Wuzhou are fighting with Li Yuan all day long, how could they go to the territory of these two buddies to buy grain? As for Dou Jiande, this buddies also have the same ambitions for the whole world. At present, Hebei almost takes advantage of it, just wait for him to digest the territory in his hands. Maybe his next target is Li Yuan, how could he support him?

As for the others, who don’t have “great ambitions in the world”? Selling their own food to Li Yuan is probably not much different from those of the capital enemy.

So, Li Yuan thought about it and finally found that except for my future son-in-law, no one would sell him a grain of food. So, Li Yuan decided to let his second son Li Shimin come to Chang'an to get married as soon as possible, and also handle the marriage of Yaoguang girl. Of course, he also got some food with me.

"...The world is so great that only my father and son can help me. Therefore, Shimin also asked his brother to help me." At this point, Li Shimin stood up and politely said to me.

"Brother, what do you mean? Who will be with us? Besides, your father will be my father-in-law in a short time. This is really not a big problem." I quickly reached out to stop him, dragged the guy down, and said very righteously. When I heard this, the girl Yaoguang looked at me with such a gaze of water and crystal clearness.

"But how much food is your father going to want?" I asked seriously after giving Yaoguang ambiguous look. "And don't forget that these foods have to be spent on money. After all, Brother Wei also has to buy food from the people."

"...I wonder how much money a stone of silk is going to be sold on my brother?" Li Shimin blinked curiously, with a very ignorant expression.

"In the past few years, the world has been chaotic, and the creatures have been covered with carbon, and all industries have withered. In the Central Plains, a stone of food is probably going to be three or five scattered?" I touched my chin and said. "Even if it is Dou Jiande, I'm afraid it's almost three scattered."

"Yes, in the Hebei area, when it is cheapest, you have to have two scoops of rice, seventy-one stone rice..." Li Shimin nodded in agreement, his expression looked very sad, his eyes were as sad as the hungry dog ​​who saw a piece of meat and bones in the deep well, and he was tightly holding my clothes, looking like a scoundrel who was collecting debts. "Brother, we two are friends, and we have a friendship with each other... You won't cheat me like this, right? If you sell two scoops of rice, you will not be able to feed the people in Jinyang even if you sell them.

The girl is worthy of being a person who is about to get married. She is about to catch up with the water she has poured out. She is pulling my clothes hard at my butt, looking expectant.

"Nonsense, I want to sell you like that. I'm sorry for my own conscience, and even more so for my sister and your sister." This young master glanced at this guy, and he knew how to pretend to be miserable by this girl.

The two girls looked like they were smiling.

"I wonder how much you are going to sell me for a stone?" Li Shimin asked with a smile on his face.

I touched my chin. "Since our brothers are good brothers, I won't make any money. I always have 300 coins per stone, and the delivery will be delivered to Fenhe River at most. You have to get it yourself if you are far away."

"Can you still lose some?" Li Shimin asked after figuring out his fingers.

"I think it's less. The question is, do you think those ordinary people can do it?" The young master rolled his eyes and said. "Now, where is the food stored today? Even if it's coarse grain, it must be at least two. This is considered a small amount. And it's a friendly price. You must know that the price of the food I plan to collect is this."

"But it's a bit too expensive. Is our brothers' affection not even worth the fraction?"

“…Brother, can you lose more?”

"Stop it, I'll lose a hundred coins per stone for me, but you can't let me give it to you for free, right? This food is not my own, it's sold to me by the people." This young master finally could only hit the bottom price.

"One hundred coins per stone is the same as one hundred coins, but I need nearly three million coins in Jinyang. Now, we are afraid that at most we can get one million coins of money..." Li Shimin pulled the wrench and said with a look of embarrassment.

"No?" This young master looked speechless. "Is one million stone not enough?"

Li Shimin smiled bitterly and shook his head and said, "Brother, I don't know that there are nearly two million people in Jinyang where my father and son are based. Especially since last year, there have been wars and nearly four hundred thousand people can only escape from the Loufan and Xinkou areas. With the supplies of 150,000 troops, millions of stones are really not enough to survive until the autumn harvest. Three million stones are the lowest limit. If there are few, there will be people..."

"For more than a year, although Jinyang's old foundation has supported it, not only to manage people's livelihood, but also to build military equipment, repair city defense, and buy military horses... Every road, every place requires a lot of money, and now my foundation is almost gone. Even the dividends I received have been thrown in, and now I have only less than 300,000 guan in my hand."

This really made me feel a headache. I never expected that Uncle Quping would be so miserable. But when I think back, it was right. In the past, Li Yuan started to become awesome because he had the land of Guanzhong. Now that Guanzhong is all in my hands, Li Yuan can only work hard to manage the land of Jinyang. However, Shanxi is a place where wars are even in chaos. It is quite good to be able to manage that land to this point and to block several enemies in a row.

However, although I can also pay him a subsidy out of my own pocket, this is not good. Well, it is better to give fish than to give fish. I am not a philanthropist, but an excellent commercial talent for a multinational group CPO.

With my eyebrows raised, I stood up and slowly slid up, thinking about what is missing in Guanzhong now and what good things can Shanxi have.

Li Shimin looked at me straight, afraid that my young master's head would sway left and right. In that case, this would be a big deal, or his father's life would be really sad.

I sat back on the couch and gently tapped my fingers on the desk. "Shanxi is a good place, and the products are very rich. You are short of food and money, but it doesn't matter. You can exchange things for food."

"What to exchange for?" Li Shimin couldn't help but lit up, and then wrinkled again. "Brother, don't you want silk cloth? There are not many silk cloths."

"I want that thing. The production of the Hancheng County Hydraulic Textile Factory in one month is almost enough for the whole Guanzhong people to wear one piece of clothing. Do I have to do it?" I pulled my finger and said, "Actually, there are still some good things in Shanxi. For example, coal and iron ore... These things are also available in Guanzhong. However, we now have too many factories and insufficient staff, and there are many people who start mines. So, brother, if you can get me coal and iron ore, then what should we do for goods?"

Li Shimin couldn't help but show joy and slapped his high-fives and said, "Now in Jinyang, nearly 400,000 people fled from the countryside, and there is no land for ploughing, and the Jinyang area is really difficult to resettle these people. Since my brother Tai is willing to exchange grain for coal and iron, then those people can also have something to do to support their families, be good, and be great charity."

After the agreement, each stone of grain would be exchanged for 1,000 kilograms of coal or 500 kilograms of iron ore, and the two parties would trade it in Linfen County through water transportation.

Li Shimin was finally satisfied. After raising a cup to drink, he said goodbye to this young master with a happy look on his face. After Yanming returned, he wrote to his father, so that his father could learn the news earlier and feel at ease a day earlier. More importantly, arrange people to mine coal as soon as possible.
Chapter completed!