Don't panic, the family boss is busy farming

Chapter 65 Grain Storage (seeking a monthly pass)

Wang has always been keen on military matters, and she only calculated the approximate total amount of taxes and fees this time in her mind, and she knew it well.

There are a total of twelve counties in Hejian County. Leaving aside the population hidden by the powerful clans, one county has 12 people, and the entire Hejian County has a population of [-].

Taking the average tax rate of 75 per person, the Andong tax paid by 12 people is as high as 900 million.

At present, one stone of grain in the north is 300 qian, and 900 million is 3 shi of grain.

Daqing's 3 shi is equivalent to 1860 tons in modern times. Even if there is a loss, it is thousands of tons of grain, enough to support a hundred thousand troops to start a big battle!
Wang's eyes dimmed, and he said in a deep voice: "Jizhou Yuan's and Xuzhou's Cao's are going to fight in Yanzhou, and the competition for Yanzhou is very likely to be a big battle."

And compared with this upcoming war, the Yanzhou Red Turban Army's rebellion before was like a child's play.

Xu Yue and the others were startled when they heard the words, Xu Dalang directly pulled Xu Yue into his arms and hugged him, looking as if he was ready to run away at any time, Xu Yue twitched the corners of his mouth in embarrassment.

Erniang Xu asked, "Will it affect us?"

Mrs. Wang shook her head uncertainly, "It's hard to tell. At present, it seems that the main battlefield is in Shanyang County, Yanzhou, which is far away from Hejian County, but things on the battlefield are changing rapidly. We can only make preparations early to avoid change. Everything should change.”

Xu Yue lamented, "It seems that the fight will only take place within two months."

Wang looked at the little daughter's wrinkled face with a smile, she felt that there was no need to be too pessimistic.

Mrs. Wang dug Xu Yue out of Xu Dalang's arms and put it on the table to signal her to listen carefully.

Then she dipped her fingers in water and drew Ji, Yan, and Xu Sanzhous into three adjacent circles on the small table, and started teaching.

"This year everyone is saying that the snow fell early and the climate is abnormal, so there may not be a fight this winter."

"When it comes to spring, we will be busy with farming again. Sanyang County has just experienced a year of drought and needs to recuperate."

"If Shanyang County is the main battlefield, the Xuzhou Cao family's logistics supply line will be very long in this battle. If we really want to fight, Jizhou is very likely to win."

"However." Wang didn't dare to talk too much, and added: "I don't know the specific situation of the two sides, and these are just my superficial guesses."

shallow?

Xu Yue shook her head fiercely, Aunt, you are not superficial at all!No one who has dozens of battle experience can't say these words.

"Anyway, even if there is a fight and Jizhou is defeated, we are in the rear and there is still time to run away, so don't think too much, eat and sleep instead."

Mrs. Wang looked at Xu Da and urged, "Hurry up and set up a few more kangs to earn back the tax you paid today."

Xu Da raised his eyebrows, thinking that I don't need you to remind me to know, but he nodded obediently on his face.

But after hearing Wang's words, he will never treat her as an ordinary woman again.

If you don’t know how to cook, you can’t take care of your children. With such a smart brain, what kind of food can you bring your children to cook?
This is the time to pick up the spear and go to the battlefield, make contributions and lead their family to the pinnacle of life!
At this moment, Xu Da gave birth to a shameful idea, his stomach is not very good, he wants, wants to eat soft rice.
The first time Wang noticed something was wrong, her eyes turned cold, and she said in a low voice, "Get out!"

Xu Da: "Okay!"

Although I know that the war will come at any time, but life has to go on as usual.

But since it has been predicted that the war is approaching, it is necessary to prepare in advance now, just in case.

After confirming that the small kitchen in Xu Yue's research room had a certain amount of storage space, Mrs. Wang took advantage of the fact that the price of grain was still stable, and purchased grain reserves at home in batches.

Xu Yue grew up in the south, and her staple food was rice. Now she travels through Daqing and has eaten bitter noodles for a long time, so she wants Aniang to store some rice for her.

But since the center of economic, political and cultural activities in Daqing is in the north, people generally like to eat pasta. Even if Wang wanted to stock up on her favorite food for her youngest daughter, she had no choice but to buy more wheat, millet and the like. mainstream food.

The family savings were exhausted, and they bought 20 shi of grain, which would weigh 1240 catties in modern catties. In order to put down these grains, Xu Yue dismantled all the tables and chairs in the small kitchen of the laboratory, and the small room was piled up to the brim.

With more than 1000 catties of grain in her hands, Xu Yue felt much more stable when she slept.

However, due to the suffering of the drought before, Xu Yue asked her father to bring back a pottery jar for herself when she went out, and replaced the enchanted plastic barrel that was being used at home, and brought the plastic barrel into the laboratory, storing a full barrel. of water.

Just when their family was preparing the grain reserves, news spread that Yuan and Cao were preparing to go to war. The panic among the people soared, causing grain prices to rise all the way.

When Wang bought grain two days ago, it cost 300 renminbi a stone for corn, but today when he went out to see it, it had risen to 400 renminbi for a shi, and the price continued to rise.

But what is more terrifying than the price increase is that there is no grain to buy in the grain store.

Since November, grain stores no longer sell grain in large quantities, and each person can only buy one bucket at a time.

There is a long queue outside the grain store every day. Every time Xu Da leads the apprentices of the Huokang Gang to pass by the grain store, they are secretly thankful that their speed is fast enough, and the card point has completed the grain reserve ahead of schedule.

However, after experiencing the difficulty in buying food, Xu Yue's family has a deeper understanding of the current chaos in Daqing, and their vigilance has greatly increased. The money is exchanged for daily necessities such as rice, flour, oil and grain.

However, in this tense and intense preparation atmosphere, the expected Yuan Cao battle did not come.

On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, a sudden blizzard spread across Yan, Hebei, and Xu prefectures. It was three feet frozen, making it difficult for vehicles and horses to travel. Pedestrians on the street took refuge in their homes and did not dare to wander out in this extremely cold weather.

Under such circumstances, the two armies were unable to start a war. After many discussions, a settlement was reached. The Cao family gave up Dongjun to the Yuan family in Jizhou, and then Yuan's large troops withdrew from Shanyang County to Dongjun to stand by.

The tense Cao and Yuan families restored a brief peace.

Xu Da's kang team has grown from eight people at the beginning to more than 200 people. He walks in the streets of the city, and everyone who sees him can call him Master Xu.

It was as if in the entire Hejian County, there was no one who didn't know Xu Da.

Such an influence is bound to arouse the attention of the higher authorities. When Liu Rong came to the Xu family twice to make a living, he also expressed the message to Xu Da that "you have been favored by the superiors, and you may soon be prosperous".

After that, whether it was Uncle Wu or Ah Shan who leaked the news, the brothers from the Huokang Gang in Beicheng would go to Xu's house every morning and evening to pay their respects to the ancestor master, hoping that one of them would attain enlightenment and ascend to heaven in the future.

The Xu family in the north of the city was in the limelight for a while.

It's just that, in this hot and positive atmosphere, Xu Yue faintly had a bad premonition.

(End of this chapter)