I don't want to be king

Chapter 138 Military Supplies

What problem can be solved by beheading and killing people?
It is nothing more than making everyone feel insecure and making all grain merchants at a loss.

He watched a TV series and was impressed.

In times of famine, when there is a shortage of grain, grain merchants raise the price of grain to take advantage of the opportunity to make money.

According to the usual practice, the government naturally wants to stabilize the price of grain, not to raise the price, and those who raise the price beheaded to show the public.

Therefore, all the grain merchants dare not bring in grain. Only one grain store owner can't bear to see starvation everywhere. He buys at cost price and sells at cost price.

But the food price is still higher than the local.

He was beheaded by the government.

In the end, no one here dared to bring in another grain of grain, and even if there was grain, they would not dare to sell it.

Everyone starved to death together.

Lin Yi definitely didn't want to see such a scene.

Hoarding, you hoard yours.

Lin Yi opened the granary!

Not because he is smarter than others, but because this method is only possible in Sanhe.

In the fertile lands of Yuezhou and Chuzhou, there is plenty of grain in the granary, but when there is a famine, neither the chief secretary nor the commander of the capital nor the inspector has the right to open the granary to release the grain!
Even if the grain in the granary is moldy or has worms, a memorial must be sent to the emperor, and the grain can only be released for disaster relief after the emperor agrees.

The memorial came and went and a few months passed, and the hungry people couldn't survive anymore, so they turned back to their mothers, and both left and right died.

The first thing after the rebellion was to open the granary.

In the Sanhe in front of him, his father doesn't love his mother or his mother, and no one cares about it. Even if they pay the imperial court, it is a symbolic amount.

If he wants to build a granary, he will build it, and if he wants to open a granary, he will open it.

He alone has the final say.

However, it is not casual to say that food prices will be lowered.

There are many rice shops in Sanhe, but there are only a few big grain merchants.

To say that they will be compensated to death is completely arrogant.

If they were all killed, Sanhe's food distribution would be in serious trouble.

So even if the soles of these bad grain merchants were bleeding pus, he had to calm them down.

Day two.

Five grain stores in Baiyun City lowered their prices at the same time. Although the price reduction was not large, the major grain merchants were still uneasy.

At this time, a notice for so-called "grain suppliers" was posted at the gate of the chief secretary.

The general meaning is that the Sanhe army goes out to suppress bandits and needs a lot of food!
Moreover, it doesn’t count if the food is given at a low price, and it has to be transported with the army, that is to say, wherever the army goes, your food has to be transported.

This is quite demanding!

Many people in Baiyun City are no strangers to the word "supplier". After all, there are many lime suppliers, masonry suppliers, timber suppliers, gunpowder suppliers, and iron equipment suppliers in Sanhe Road Construction.
Regardless of whether it was the previous commander or the current chief secretary, the money was always given freely, generously, and without deductions. All merchants with the word "supplier" all made a lot of money.

Even Sun Laizi, who specializes in weaving baskets in Baiyun City, used to be so poor that he couldn't help it, but since he became a supplier of baskets on the construction site, his whole family took part in weaving baskets, and hired a hundred people!

His small basket workshop has actually become a huge family business, and he just built a coveted mansion on the south bank of the West River a few days ago.

What's more, food suppliers, this is military supplies!

But anyone with a little knowledge knows that it is impossible not to make money!
Under Lin Yi's planning, Shan Qi personally presided over the Sanhe's first "Military Supplies" supplier meeting, which was not limited to food.

Outsourcing military supplies to "profit-seeking" businessmen not only disagrees with Shan Qi and other old men, but also Han Deqing and Bao Kui, who are close to Lin Yi.

However, Lin Yi only had one sentence. In terms of material allocation and transportation, all the people in the palace and the chief secretary were inferior to the old man Liang Gen who staggered on foot.

Professional things are entrusted to professional people, which saves money, time and effort, avoids redundant staff, and your own people can learn a lot of things along with them.

After all, in Quan Sanhe, only Zhang Mian and He Jixiang have real military experience, neither of them are good at logistics.

Otherwise, He Jixiang would not have let him pay so much money for two expeditions!

In the end, there was no other way, Shan Qi and the others reluctantly agreed, and the prince was right, so it would be no harm to try.

The supplier meeting was held in the courtyard of the chief secretary's yamen, and there were more than 200 people sitting there, all of whom were famous businessmen, landlords and squires from Sanhe, even Tian Shiyou and Ge Laoshan were among them.

After a fierce quotation, Huang Daoji, the shopkeeper of the largest blacksmith shop in Baiyun City, won the quota of suppliers of knives, shields, spears and other weapons.

Liang Gen and Qiu Wujin provided the food transportation.

The quilts, boots and hats, bag-sewn tents, etc. were supplied by Li Sanniang, the only female shopkeeper present. Her ready-to-wear shop has more than 50 female workers and is the largest in Baiyun City.

The remaining livestock fodder, baskets, alum, coal, carts, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar tea, tung oil, candles, copper lamps, hemp rope, and iron horseshoes were also bid by.

After the meeting, the butcher snorted coldly at Pork Rong, and left without looking back.

How unlucky!

Pork Rong's quotation was actually the same as his, and now they are both meat suppliers!
But now is not the time to get angry, I have to go back quickly to buy pigs, cattle, and sheep, and then hire someone to make meat jerky!

On the day when the army left the city, there were 2 officers and soldiers of the guard, and behind them were more than [-] civilian husbands driving animals and carrying luggage and their respective suppliers.

This time leading the army is Zhang Mian, who was promoted by the navy, and Bao Kui, the chief arrester.

The residents of Baiyun City are boiling again!

With such a big fight this time, you won't let them down again, right?

Otherwise, their feelings will be wasted every time!
Both sides of the road were crowded with people, and even the children in the school skipped class, caught in the crowd to join in the fun, jumping off one by one.

Looking at the fighting spirit of the common people, Lin Yi was puzzled. Did the agreed common people love peace?
Why are everyone so excited?

Not scientific at all.

Shan Qi smiled wryly, "My lord, this expedition has already cost 11 taels of silver."

Almost everyone in Baiyun City has made money, so how could they be unhappy?
Lin Yi sighed.

War is really expensive.

Not only did the chief secretary run out of money, but the deposits in his house were less than 1 taels.

If he loses money again in this game, he will have to drink the northwest wind.

"What if we lose?"

Lin Yi couldn't help worrying about this issue again, he was not afraid of losing, he was afraid of death, who is not a dragger?

At that time, his sin will be heavy.

"My lord!"

He Jixiang suddenly said loudly, "If I lose, I will throw myself into Xijiang!"

Back then, he had seen the world's elite soldiers and horses when he was dispatched in the school field!
If the officers and soldiers of the guard station in Baiyun City can lose, it will be unreasonable!
Among the [-] troops, let's not talk about the number of those who transform energy, at least they are all martial arts practitioners, it can be said that they are all one-to-five people!

(End of this chapter)