space farmer girl busy farming

Chapter 1125 The world is not peaceful

Borrowing grain is not for myself, but for the saltworks in the south.

The southernmost team of the Baijia Army is adjacent to the salt field operated by the imperial court. The salt that the whole army eats every day comes from this salt field, and its importance is self-evident.

Not long ago, an accident occurred in the salt field, and the refugees rioted. After beating, smashing, looting and burning the county town of Fuxian County, which was prosperous because of salt, they rushed into the salt field outside the city to grab salt. It was the Bai family army who suppressed it and took back the salt field, saved the eunuch who supervised the salt, and kept the salt in the salt pond and several warehouses from being spoiled.

Of course, the Bai family army did not do good deeds in vain. After they took back the salt farm, the salt farm was essentially under the control of the army. The original food reserves were either robbed by refugees or wasted.

The news sent by the main backstage is very detailed. The borrowing of food is actually done by the counties under the jurisdiction of the Bai family army. It is not assigned to Bai Qing alone to complete it by himself, but now is the time when it is too late. It's not so easy to collect food, so Bai Qing naturally thought of Qi Ke, as much as he collected, he exchanged it with cotton.

Qi Ke immediately thought of the grass potato powder in his hand that was not very easy to sell. There are a lot of people in a salt field, and it is a good deal to exchange grass potato powder for cotton, so he sent a message to the second housekeeper and asked her to talk.

Two days later, the second housekeeper replied that the food officer said that the grass potato flour was too expensive and he would rather give it to his own people, and the cheaper the food for the people in the saltworks, the better.

Qi Ke also ran into trouble all of a sudden, the landlord's family had no food left in this lean season, if he had to force some food out, he would have to shut down the business.

After much deliberation, he had no idea, so Qi Ke called Zhaolin to discuss it, and checked the inventory to see if there were any cheap items.

Zhao Lin, who was also able to see the news from the master's backstage, came up with an idea: "When you traveled south, what did you use to distribute the cornbread to the refugees along the way?"

"Miscellaneous grains."

"anything else?"

"And..." Qi Ke frowned, recalled it vigorously, and then slapped his thigh suddenly, "Yes, I remembered, the oil residue left over from oil extraction."

"Take this as a trade with them. We have soybeans and mills. The cyclamen's kitchen doesn't know how much oil is used every day. We say that we have hundreds of catties of oil cakes left over from oil extraction for storage. Feed the cattle, there is no flaw in that reason."

"Yes, the price is cheap, and it can fill people's stomachs, but it is not nutritious, so it can't kill people."

"Give it to the people in the salt field, just hope that no one will die. Otherwise, the salt field will be abandoned if no one works. The severity is no less serious than the destruction of the salt field by refugees. It will be troublesome for the court to pursue it. The Bai family army is now our backer. , helping them is helping us.”

"Yes, we still rely on this salt field for our daily salt, and we can't let it be abandoned for our own sake. Then let the second steward handle it."

Qi Ke replied to the news from the backstage of the master. She and Zhaolin didn't need to come forward for such trivial matters. The Qianhu Office was in charge of negotiating matters with Qian and Liangguan's subordinates, so it was the same for her to send a second housekeeper. After all, the matter did not matter. It was so serious that Bai Qing needed to come forward to negotiate.

After waiting for a long time, the transport plane even flew to deliver things. After five or six days, Qi Ke had already drawn half of the internal details of the defense formation in his hand, and only saw the second housekeeper's new picture in the main background. The news, all the talks are over, everything is going well, and it will be delivered to Jiaji Shipping Company for transportation.

The final result of the negotiation was that the grass potato flour was exchanged for cotton, and the soybean oil residue cake was exchanged for salt. According to the converted price, not only did they not lose money, but they also made a small profit, which was very flattering.

(End of this chapter)