Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 158, clear everything

"Teacher, the grain shipped from Yangzhou today has already increased to seven cents a catty. If the freight is included, it will cost almost ten cents."

"Because there is no waterway in the Huguang area, you can only use the official road, so the transportation cost is higher. The price of grain from the Huguang area has also risen to twelve cents a catty."

Tong Yuan would report to Liu Jin every day the latest grain prices from the south, because the famine in the three northern provinces led to an increase in grain prices in the entire northern region.

In this era, when land output is extremely limited, food is extremely precious.

Ordinary people have worked hard for a year, and often they can barely live on. Once there is a famine year, there will be famine immediately.

Especially in the northern region, there are more people and less land. In addition, after a long period of development, the natural conditions are poor, and the ability to deal with natural disasters is far inferior to that in the south. Therefore, the famine in the northern region has always been the most serious.

Now that there is a famine in the three northern provinces, the adjacent northern provinces or regions such as Shaanxi, Henan, Anhui, and Jiangsu actually have no surplus food to transport. They can only transport food from Huguang, Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the south. Inconvenient, food is extremely difficult to transport out.

Not to mention Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, and Yunnan and Guizhou in the south. These places are far away. At this time in the Ming Dynasty, the cost of transporting grain was so high that even if ten catties of grain were transported to the capital, there might not be one catty left.

So Liu Jin asked Tong Yuan to focus on the two key lines of Huguang and Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Huguang and Jiangsu and Zhejiang are the real granaries of Daming. The land here is fertile, with abundant sunlight and precipitation, and rice can be grown twice a year. The food can be transferred out.

"Well, continue to be stared at, and continue to hang up our sign. Our people continue to look for grain merchants to buy grain. We must show that we are rich and powerful. As long as there is grain, we don't care what their price is. , buy them all, on a large scale.”

After listening to Tong Yuan's report, Liu Jin nodded, and after thinking about it, he gave orders.

"However, teacher, these grain merchants have clearly targeted us now. It is difficult for us to buy grain on a large scale now. If we continue to find someone to buy grain, no one will buy it for us."

Tong Yuan was very puzzled and said that he didn't quite understand what Liu Jin's plan was.

"You can just do as I said, and you won't sell it to us. We also have to show that we are in urgent need of food."

Liu Jin said with a slight smile.

"Yes."

Tong Yuan nodded quickly and said.

When Tong Yuan retreated, Liu Jin took out a map. This map was drawn by Liu Jin based on the memory of later generations and combined with some maps collected now.

"I don't know if there is a bumper harvest of grain in North Korea and Japan?"

Liu Jin's eyes are fixed on North Korea and Japan. Now he is sure that someone is deliberately targeting him. Originally, it is not too unusual to raise the price of food in this famine and hoard strange houses. After all, this is the nature of businessmen. With several times the benefits, there is nothing they dare not do.

But raising the price is all about raising the price. Only when the grain is sold at a high price can the grain be able to make money, so people will naturally sell it if they buy it. The current situation is that Liu Jin has no way to buy grain on a large scale. .

It seemed that there was an invisible hand restraining Liu Jin. Although Liu Jin was given a sigh of relief and did not strangle him to death, Liu Jin could already feel it clearly.

Liu Jin's industries in Beijing and Tianjin are very large, employing a large number of people, so in the past, he would store grain, and he has long-term cooperation with some grain merchants.

But now the food reserves are almost running out, and the food that can be bought every day is very limited, so it doesn't take long for the food stored in Liu Jin's hands to run out, and the other party can use the food to hang Liu Jin all the time, every day The food sold to Liu Jin is considered good, only enough for a day or two.

When he needed it, he suddenly grabbed Liu Jin's neck. At that time, he would be really sad.

Liu Jin walked back and forth in his study room, constantly and carefully thinking about the countermeasures, carefully considering all aspects, so as not to miss what he hadn't considered.

Coming from later generations, Liu Jin is well aware of the cruelty of struggle in this era. In this era of imperial power, if he fails, beheading and losing his life is still a trivial matter. If it fails, it may involve the whole family and the nine clans.

There are more than 3 people in Xishan Coal Industry, Glass Factory, and Tianjin who rely on themselves for food. I plan to build a cement road from the capital to Tianjin in the future. After the cement factory is completed, I will definitely recruit more workers. In other words, there will be more people eating with him.

Once there is a problem with the food, someone will take the opportunity to fan the flames and cause something to happen, and their spokesperson in the court will come out to speak again, and it is no different from crushing an ant to death.

So be careful, be careful and be careful.

Liu Jin kept saying this to himself in his heart.

"I remember that if later generations set off from Tianjin to the Wa Kingdom, it would take about 50 hours, or about 2 days, and it would take about 5 days to go back and forth."

"The speed of ships in later generations is much faster than today's, but half a month should be enough to go back and forth to North Korea."

"The load of a Fuchuan can exceed 500 tons. It should be enough to send five Fuchuan to and from North Korea to transport grain. It takes two trips in a month to gather a large amount of grain."

Thinking of this, Liu Jin's frowning brows were slightly loosened, and then a smile appeared on his face: "I want to cut off my food, this time I will make you lose everything."

"Presumably the food in your hands should not be much, otherwise the food from the south would not have increased so fast. No one was prepared for this famine, nor expected it."

"You hoard food slowly, the more you hoard, the better."

"Well, it is still necessary for people to continue to drive up the price of grain from the south to increase your cost. It is still early, and everyone still has some surplus grain in their hands. In a month or so, everyone's grain will be eaten up. Famine When it really breaks out, it's time for a decisive battle."

Thinking of this, Liu Jin did not continue to hesitate any longer. With Zhao Erhu and Zhang Hu, Liu Jin also walked towards the Tianjin Maritime Academy. After studying and training for so long, it is time for these students of the Maritime Academy to go to the sea. Go for a walk.

　The update is late, sorry, I communicated with the editor today, and it should be available next week~~
　　
　
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