Farming in space: the struggle of peasant girls

Chapter 222 222 Jade mine, jade

A jade mine?
Mu Yu was silent. To be honest, when she knew Jin Yu's identity, she never thought that this day would come.

But at that time, what she thought most was that they would give something away, and what she valued was that she could use this friendship to do business, so as to expand her business territory.

In her opinion, sending dozens of catties and hundreds of catties of jade is the best, but how much jade can a jade mine produce?
In her impression, jade mines are all measured in tons, no matter how small they are, they will not be less than a few thousand catties.

This can be regarded as another proof that the two are true love.

She declined politely, Xiao Qi firmly asked her to accept it, and everyone else agreed, forcing her to accept it.

"Since it's your good intentions, then I will be disrespectful.

But I can't collect your jade mines for nothing. I heard that you are short of food. I just ordered a batch of food from Bazhou. It will arrive in Huangsha City in a month at most, and I can distribute [-] catties to you at that time .

If you want to continue to exchange food in the future, you can also come to me. "

Xiao Qi's eyes lit up. There were two purposes for going out this time. One was to help Jinyu give birth smoothly, and the other was to exchange for food to bring back. Now both purposes have been fulfilled.

"I really don't know how to thank Miss Mu."

"I want to thank you too, I like this gift very much."

……

Time flies, half a month has passed in the blink of an eye, May is over, and it is June.

In more than half a month, all the victims outside Huangsha city had been moved into the city.

Originally, there were only over 900 people in the city, but there were more than a thousand victims outside the city. With such a large number, it was not that simple to manage.

In terms of security and management, Mu Yu gave Wu Zhen a lot of suggestions, and Wu Zhen mostly adopted them, and let her take care of them directly, and let other people cooperate.

The newly joined more than 1000 people have more than 300 strong laborers. These are managed by the people under Wuzhen, who are responsible for repairing the city walls and houses, and there are more than 300 women. These are assigned to Muyu. Cloth, laundry, cooking, etc., except for the old, weak, sick and disabled, the rest of the people were assigned other simple tasks.

In short, after half a month, the entire Huangsha City has taken on a new look, and everything seems to be the same as before the disaster.

Even outside Huangsha City, businessmen began to appear one after another.

Standing on the city wall and looking down, Mu Yu saw two ox carts full of goods parked outside the city gate, the owners of which were negotiating with the soldiers guarding the gate.

She couldn't hear what the two of them said, but they probably didn't reach an agreement. The soldier stood still and stopped talking. The owner got back on the ox cart, and after a while, drove the ox cart away.

"How often has this happened recently?"

"If you go back to the girl, not many, just three or two times."

"Did General Wu say that merchants are not allowed to come to Huangsha City to do business?"

Wu Zhen completely unified Huangsha City and became the actual ruler of the city, but he refused to become the lord of the city, and managed Huangsha City with the title of general instead.

"No, the general said, it's about business, let's ask the girl for instructions. The reason why these businessmen can't enter Huangsha City is mainly because of themselves."

"Oh, what's the reason?"

"One is that these businessmen have contacted other people before, and they want to play against the general, and the general will not let such businessmen enter the city;

One tael of silver and one catty of bran. We were often slaughtered by them when we had no food. Now that we have food, we will naturally not buy their bran at a high price. Same, break up if you can't agree..."

One tael of silver and one catty of bran, good guy, this is more expensive than the improved grain she sells...

"It's really too expensive. It doesn't matter, the batch of grain I bought from Bazhou will arrive today."

"Really? That's great! Girl, how much is the grain in Bazhou?"

Seeing Xiao Wu's excited appearance, Mu Yu smiled and said, "The letter said, coarse grain is two hundred Wen a catty."

In normal years, the price of coarse grains is generally around ten yuan. When the famine was the worst, the price of coarse grains in Yuanshan Town was generally more than three hundred yuan.

In other words, the current food price has dropped by half, but it is still at a very high point.

"Great! We used to buy grain for two taels of silver a catty, but now we can buy ten catties..."

Mu Yu doesn't speak, just smiles, this is actually not something to be happy about, on the contrary, it's quite sad, when will two hundred cash a catty of grain be something to be happy about?
For the common people at the bottom, two hundred cash and two taels are unaffordable prices.

After waiting on the city wall for a long time, finally the long caravan arrived at Huangsha City carrying [-] catties of grain.

The people in the city who were sent to carry the grain were all so happy, they carried the bags back and forth tirelessly, and even the people who supervised their work were very happy, wishing they could carry them by themselves.

Mu Yu stood on the side of the city gate, negotiating with the merchants who brought the food and the people from the Escort Bureau.

With such a large batch of food, how could it be done without people escorting the bodyguards along the way? If it is robbed, wouldn’t it be a loss, so in addition to buying food, the bodyguard bureau is also a big expense.

In particular, Huangsha City, which is said to be occupied by enemy countries, rebels, and bandits, is going to be here. If it weren't for the high price she offered, no one would be willing to take this trip.

Even if she repeatedly assured that Huangsha City was safe, it was useless.

But having money can make ghosts turn the millstone, and if the money is given in place, it will come naturally.

But now, seeing is believing, the eyes of several businessmen looking around are shining, as if they are thinking about what kind of business can be brought here.

What Mu Yu was waiting for was this time, to let these merchants bring the needed goods to Huangsha City, let her buy them, and then sell them to the people in the city.

Before the various orders in the city are rebuilt, it is best not to let them directly contact foreign merchants, which will not be good for the re-establishment of order.

In terms of the business in Huangsha City, Wu Zhen gave her full responsibility, which was also what she supported Wu Zhen's request at the beginning.

With these many advantages, she quickly negotiated cooperation matters with the merchants, and ordered the goods to be delivered next month.

After sending the merchants away, she chatted with the housekeeper for a long time, and decided on a few shops to be opened in Huangsha City in a month's time, and how to pay wages to the workers, etc. A series of things.

Everything is getting better and Huangsha City is gradually rejuvenating.

Ten days later, Xiao Qi's people also drove the long camel convoy to the outside of Huangsha City.

They came to pick up the food, and at the same time brought gifts for Mu Yu.

There are three full carts loaded with thousands of catties of jade.

(End of this chapter)