Farmer Fubo is open for business

Last time Song Erxiao received a letter from his younger brother, telling him that he would build a car dealership in the northwest and move the firearms workshop there.

Just because of the frequent wars in the Northeast, the car dealer's business is not easy to do.

In addition, major merchants are rushing to imitate and engage in price wars, and the profits of cars are getting smaller and smaller.

There were no two-wheelers or three-wheelers in the northwest, so Song Sanshun decided to open the market here.

As for the firearms workshop, Song Sanshun did not dare to run it blatantly, for fear that the court would find out and confiscate his shop and materials.

If he moves to the northwest and is protected by his brother, he can also make some firearms for him to enhance Qianhushuo's combat effectiveness.

Little Nian Gao didn't understand what his uncle said, but he nodded anyway. "Daddy is really coming back?"

He actually misses his father, but he also understands that his father has to earn money to support the family every time he travels away.

Song Erxiao touched his nephew's head with pity: "Of course it's true."

When Chang'an saw his father coming back with a large group of people, he immediately sent Li Xing'er to the market to buy wine, meat and vegetables. He also asked the two newly hired cooks to cook two large pots of rice before entertaining his father and dozens of people.

Not long after, Lu Jingzhou also came back. Weng and his son-in-law sat in the room and talked for a long time, talking about the situation in the northwest.

Chang'an and Changning went to catch two more roosters and killed them. They picked some chicken feathers and put them in books to make some shuttlecocks for their brothers to kick.

Then she went to the market and bought a lot of braised pork, and wrapped almost all the meat on the braised pork stall.

The next day, Song Erxiao said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left with some of his bodyguards, but left ten soldiers behind.

These ten soldiers knew how to use new firearms, so Chang'an gave each of them a firearm and ten bullets.

In order to prevent the firearm from misfiring, they were also warned not to load bullets at all times.

Chang'an assigned eight to Lu Jingzhou, who often went out, leaving only two to guard the house.

The two warriors usually stay in the back seat, and sometimes follow Myolie Li out to buy things.

After going back and forth, the two of them became familiar with Myolie Li, and actually fell in love with her.

They were both eighteen or nineteen years old, and neither of them were married, so the two of them secretly competed for each other.

Chang'an didn't know that someone was secretly interested in Li Xing'er. She was very busy recently and often went out with Lu Jingzhou to inspect the situation in and outside the city.

Recently, more and more people have entered the city. They are dressed in rags and look haggard. They either beg along the street or sit on the roadside selling their children.

Chang'an stepped forward and asked, "Where are you all from?"

Someone replied: "We are coming from Jing County. There has been no rain for a year, the rivers are drying up, and there are no crops growing in the fields. We really can't survive, so we have to go to the city to find a way to survive."

Another person said: "Our county was looted by the rebels. Many people died. Even the nearby villages were in disaster. Our family finally escaped to Fucheng."

Chang'an frowned: "The rebel army also harmed the people in the village?"

"No, those people are too cruel. The women who go to each village to plunder food are as inhumane as barbarians."

Someone sighed: "We have a family of seven, and only three of us have escaped here. If God doesn't give us a way to survive, we will have no choice but to risk our lives."

He spoke with such anger and despair that he couldn't help but cover his face and cry bitterly.

Chang'an was silent for a long time and asked: "If your hometown is not short of water, would you be willing to go home?"

"Of course I am willing. If there is no other way, who would want to leave home and wander around?"

An old man said: "It is said that when leaves fall, they return to their roots. This old man's old bones will die in the place where they were born."

"In that case, you go home quickly. There will be water in the river soon. Then you can use the river water to irrigate the fields and you will always be able to grow crops."

"Are you telling the truth?" The old man couldn't believe it.

Chang'an: "Of course it's true. If you don't believe it, go home and have a look.

She decided to pour several leaves into the glazed dragon statue and then put it into the river.

As long as there is water in the river, people have hope of living.

Moreover, the water produced by oneself using small beads will make the crops grow very well. In this way, the people in the counties under Ansai's rule will not flee their fields, and the rebel army will not be able to develop here.

In the following days, Chang'an asked people to register the number of refugees in the city and their place of origin, and then distributed some rations to them to go home.

Anyone who refuses to return after receiving rations will be arrested and used to dig river channels.

However, those grain stores saw the government buying large quantities of grain and actually increased the price of grain several times.

Lu Jingzhou was very angry when he saw the grain merchants acting like this and was ready to take action against them.

My wife bought food to help the people, but these profit-seeking people even dared to cheat the government.

Chang'an quickly stopped him: "There are so many merchants in this city, and every family wants to get a piece of the food pie. Moreover, there are aristocratic families backing the grain merchants. Even if you attack one or two families, there will still be hundreds of thousands of businesses left. , they openly dare not, but secretly monopolize the Ansai grain market, what do you think?

The current shortage of food in Ansai is the main reason. As long as we have enough food here, they can't raise the price even if they want to. "

Lu Jingzhou: "What do you want to do, madam? Go buy food from other places and bring it back?"

Chang'an shook his head: "We just fell into their trap by doing that. Grain merchants from other places are no different from here. Not only will we pay high prices to buy grain, but we will also have to bear the cost of long-distance transportation, which is not cost-effective.

How about this, let's take a step back and let the grain merchants transport the grain themselves. "

Chang'an whispered to Lu Jingzhou and informed him of his plans.

Subsequently, the Ansai government office posted a notice to purchase grain at a high price to provide relief to the people.

When the grain merchants saw this, they quickly sent all their grain to the government office.

For a time, all the grain in Ansai City was purchased by the prefect, which also led to an increasing shortage of food in the city and high prices.

Grain merchants tasted the sweetness and hurriedly mobilized grain from further places to try to make another profit.

Lu Jingzhou stood on the city gate tower and saw convoys transporting food pouring into Ansai from all directions, and he couldn't help but curl his lips.

Half a month later, Chang'an saw that the situation was about the same, so he simply opened a grain shop in the name of the government, selling cheap grain only to ordinary people.

Of course, the purchase price is also a normal price.

Moreover, she lowered the price by one penny every ten days. One month later, the price of food dropped by another three penny from the original price.

Now the grain merchants were dumbfounded.

Looking at the large amount of grain purchased at a huge cost, it is impossible to transport it back and return it.

You know, once the summer harvest comes next year, these grains will definitely have to drop again and again.

The merchants did not dare to bet that it would never rain, so they gritted their teeth and had no choice but to sell it to Chang'an at a fair price.

Chang'an then sold these grains to the people in various counties at a fair price, which just solved the prefecture's food shortage dilemma.

Fortunately, she had money, otherwise she wouldn't be able to eat the one hundred thousand stones of food.

After rectifying the grain merchants, Chang'an and Lu Jingzhou went to various counties and dropped glazed dragon statues on major rivers.

Then water began to gush out of the river.

The water grew stronger and stronger, finally filling the entire river, and then rushed downstream.

The people living near the river were shocked, thinking that heavy rain had fallen upstream, which caused the river to fill up.

Some people knelt down and bowed to the sky, thanking God for showing mercy and giving them hope to live.

In a flash, it’s spring next year.

The heavy rains for several days have soaked the land of Ansai, and all kinds of wild vegetables and weeds are vying to emerge.

When Chang'an and Lu Jingzhou went out to inspect the city, they saw many women and children collecting wild vegetables in the wild, and some even picked up vegetables from the slopes.

But most people are busy in the fields, some plowing fields and some planting wheat.

Within a few days after the wheat seeds were sown, young shoots appeared, and they were dotted with green, like a layer of green gauze covering the field.

"The people have finally recovered, and the Ansai area's taxes will be collected as scheduled this year." Lu Jingzhou was riding on a tall horse, and beside him was Chang'an, who was also riding a horse.