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Chapter 1052: Planning for Food
He didn’t dare to go before because he couldn’t guarantee his safety, but now with so many people together, the safety is greatly increased, and he certainly won’t miss the opportunity.

But when the opportunity comes, you have to be able to seize it. You need to have the tools and the people, and most importantly, the car.

Yan Zhensheng muttered something, then went back to the backyard and went to contact a truck with the money.

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Three days passed in a flash. When Yan Zhensheng arrived outside the east gate with four trucks, Boss Yu looked outside the city gate and said:
"There are 10 trucks over there, it looks like they've arrived!"

Looking at Yan Zhensheng's four trucks, Lin Hao nodded, and one third of the share of the four trucks belonged to Lin Hao.

Yan Zhensheng owns two and a half cars, which he and his nephew-in-law (daughter-in-law's brother) Guo Bingcong use to import Fengrunhuang.

At this time, Jin Hai's confidant Chang Gen saw Yan Zhensheng finally coming and said in a somewhat gloomy way:

"Hey, Boss Yan is finally here. We brothers have been waiting here for a while!"

Knowing that he was in the wrong, Yan Zhensheng quickly apologized:
"I'm so sorry for being delayed just now. I'll treat you all when I get back. I'll make amends to you all!"

"Okay, let's get ready to go!" Lin Hao said to everyone:

"By the way, this trip is not going to be peaceful. Boss Yan, have you prepared your supplies?"

"Yes, I've prepared a Hanyang-made gun!" This gun was the dowry of his wife Lin Cuiqing. She gave the gun to him because she was afraid that he would be in danger when he went out.

Lin Hao shook his head, dragged a box out of a car, and said to Yan Zhensheng:

"A gun is useless. I have Sandezi's 98k and P18 submachine guns. Everyone who knows how to use one can get one!"

"Thank you, Boss Lin, for your generosity!" Then he said to Feng Dafu and Gao Lushan, "Fuzi, Lushan, take your men to pick the winners!"

"Okay, sir!" they both replied at the same time.

After everyone brought by Yan Zhensheng had chosen their weapons, Lin Hao continued to say to everyone:

"You know how to use it, right? If not, go find a place outside the city to familiarize yourself with it!"

"It's easy if we know how to use it!" everyone said in unison.

"Let's go!" Lin Hao took the lead in getting on the car.

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The straight-line distance from Ximen to Tangshan is only more than 100 kilometers, but the road at that time is not straight. It takes almost 300 kilometers with twists and turns.

Even though it took a whole day to drive there, we didn't encounter any trouble along the way.

We only encountered a few small gangs of bandits. They were all local thieves. When they saw such a large convoy, they wanted to rob it, but they immediately behaved themselves after a few shots.

The convoy moved forward slowly and finally arrived at Fengrun. Further ahead was Tangshan, so Lin Hao said:

"Then let's split up. I'll take 12 vehicles to buy food, and you take two vehicles to buy your soybeans. We'll set off the day after tomorrow morning!"

"Okay, it will save some time if we act separately!" Yan Zhensheng said in agreement.

Afterwards, Lin Hao brought the convoy to Tangshan. Although the Quartermaster Department sold food, they did not dare to be too blatant, so Lin Hao found a place to park, and then Lin Hao went to the Quartermaster Department to find someone to buy food.

The negotiations went smoothly. A total of 6000 tons of grain were stored here, of which 1500 tons were withheld by the Quartermaster Department and sold.

The price is one dollar for 30 kilograms, which is just kilograms each of flour, rice and millet.

Actually, it is really cheap, it is sold at half price.

Now the price of grain in the grain-producing areas outside the Great Wall has also increased. The biggest reason why grain is expensive in the capital, in addition to the price increase outside the Great Wall, is that it cannot be transported in.

Take millet as an example. In May, one dollar could buy more than 30 kilograms of grain outside the Great Wall. Now it can only buy 24 or 25 kilograms, and in the capital, it can only buy about 20 kilograms.

By next month, food prices will at least double, and when they are exchanged for gold yuan coupons in August, they will rise again.

Fortunately, the food here was withheld by the Quartermaster Department, so it was not sold at market price.

And because Lin Hao purchased in large quantities, a car can normally carry 2.5 tons, but as long as it is not a mountainous area or the road conditions are not bad, loading five or six tons is not a problem.

So Lin Hao decided to buy three kinds of grain, rice, flour and millet, totaling 60 tons.

Of the 12 carts of grain, one was temporarily stored at Jin Hai's place for his own use, and one belonged to Yan Zhensheng. The remaining five carts of grain, half of which belonged to Lou Zhenhua, and Lin Hao was also going to sell the other half to him.

With such a big factory, the amount of food the workers need to eat every day is a huge number.

His steel rolling mill now has about 1500 workers. Even if each person gets one pound of grain per day, that would be 1500 pounds. However, the steel rolling mill is a heavy industry, and the workers consume a lot of labor. Some workers need a grain quota of one pound and two ounces.

50 tons of grain is only 10 kilograms, which is enough to eat for more than one month, less than two months.

It cost about 4000 oceans to buy food, half of which went to Lin Hao, or 2000 oceans.

When it is sent to Beijing and sold to Lou Zhenhua, even if the price is doubled, it will only be 4000 oceans. Even if it is withheld and sold next month, it will only be 8000 oceans.

But it is still half of the 16,000 yuan that Lin Hao should pay back, and Lin Hao will definitely not make only this little money after asking so many people to make this trip.

So the next afternoon, after the grain was loaded onto the truck, it was already dark. He immediately met up with Yan Zhensheng and prepared to leave the city the next day.

However, at around nine o'clock, Lin Hao suddenly ordered the convoy to set off and head straight to the capital overnight.

"Boss Lin, didn't you say you would leave early tomorrow morning? Why are you leaving early?" Yan Zhensheng asked puzzledly.

Lin Hao glanced at Boss Yu next to him, then shook his head and said, "Your eldest brother is a bodyguard, ask him why he left early!"

Upon hearing this, Boss Yu was not polite and explained directly to Yan Zhensheng:

"We have such a large convoy and have bought so much food. There must be a lot of people eyeing us. Someone must have found out that we plan to leave tomorrow morning!"

"So, Boss Lin left early, and no one would have thought that we would leave overnight, which would make the journey much safer!"

Lin Hao then continued to explain:
"But this is just a special case. We are driving a truck, and the road we are on is relatively flat. We are driving fast enough. The ones behind us can't catch up, but we don't know what's ahead!"

"That's why I dare to do this. If we were driving a carriage, it would not be a good idea to set out early or travel at night!"

"This is called unexpected!" Lin Hao said with a smile.

"So that's how it is. I admire you so much!" Yan Zhensheng exclaimed.

Lin Hao smiled reservedly, and suddenly said, "Oh no, I forgot to do something!"

"What's the matter?" Yan Zhensheng said nervously.

"Private matter!" Lin Hao pretended to think for a while, then said concisely:

"Well, please ask Boss Yan and Changgen to take the convoy out of the city first. I will go back and be back soon after finishing my business. It will take at most half an hour!" The two of them were helpless when they heard this. Leading the team out of the city alone made them feel a little uneasy, but when they thought of Lin Hao saying that he would be back soon, they felt a little relieved. It would only take half an hour.

So Lin Hao left the team directly, took advantage of the night to sneak into the secret warehouse of the Quartermaster Department, and directly put the 1500 tons of grain in the granary into the space ring.

Not only that, Lin Hao then visited the granary of the Quartermaster Department and transported away 4500 tons of the other 2000 tons of grain.

It was difficult for Lin Hao to transport all the food away, otherwise the other party would definitely go crazy and might even send people to chase their convoy and confiscate the food sold to them.

Leave them 2500 tons of food so that they have room to move.

However, after Lin Hao's attack, the Guo army is likely to suffer a premature defeat due to lack of food.

But it doesn't matter. It's only one night away anyway. When they return to the capital, they won't be able to do whatever they want.

Afterwards, Lin Hao visited the armory again, and indeed, there were a large number of weapons stored there.

So Lin Hao was not polite at all and directly took away all the rifles, submachine guns, pistols, as well as heavy firepower machine guns and mortars.

Lin Hao would not let go of the stored bullets. Without the supply of bullets, the front line would fail even faster.

After Lin Hao took away the weapons and bullets, he found motorcycles, trucks, and even airplane parts in another warehouse. So Lin Hao was too lazy to count them and took them all away.

And then, it was discovered that a large amount of medicine, penicillin, was stored here.

The penicillin stored here is much more than what was previously taken away from the arsenal of the Suppression Headquarters.

Moreover, after Lin Hao opened it, he found that the labels of these penicillins had been changed.

Lin Hao then carefully checked other medicines and found out from a purchase order that they were actually from Mexico.

This made Lin Hao think of "Infiltration". The waiter Xu Zhongyi bought cheap and reliable Mexican goods and changed their labels to solid goods in Hong Kong.

"Damn, there really is such a thing as "Infiltration"! " Lin Hao muttered to himself.

But it’s not bad to have it. If Lin Hao guessed correctly, Master Qi should be arranging his "infiltration plan" now!
Lin Hao shook his head. It seemed necessary to go to the Northeast, but he should put the medicine away first.

After putting all the things into the space ring, Lin Hao took out his bicycle and headed straight out of the city, mainly because he was afraid of alarming other people.

After leaving the city, Lin Hao changed to a motorcycle, turned on the headlights and chased after the convoy.

Fortunately, Lin Hao had a good physique and Yan Zhensheng's mental mark. After more than ten minutes, Lin Hao finally caught up with the convoy.

Because they were traveling at night, the convoy was not moving very fast on the road. It was not until the next day, when it was dawn, that Lin Hao stopped the convoy.

After all, they had been traveling all night and were exhausted, so Lin Hao asked someone to prepare some hot breakfast.

"Almost there, we'll be home soon!" Lin Hao looked at the map and said while drinking porridge:
"This place is about 40 kilometers away from the capital!"

"We've already reached the capital city, and there should be no one around early in the morning. How about we take a break? What do you think?" Yan Zhensheng looked at Lin Hao and asked.

Before Lin Hao could say anything, Boss Yu immediately objected: "No, let's finish breakfast and leave quickly!"

Chang Gen, Jin Hai's confidant, also objected: "Yes, if you ask me, then delay will lead to changes!"

Lin Hao also said:
"It doesn't matter that the car was empty when we came here, and we were going very fast, so we can just take a break!"

"On our way back, we were able to return with a full load, but the speed was much slower. The road was extremely dangerous and it was easy to attract attention!"

"While there are not many people around now, have breakfast and leave quickly. Don't risk your life to test the humanity of others!"

Lin Hao wanted to return to the capital as soon as possible. There was nothing fun or enjoyable here. Stopping here to rest was a pure waste of time. It was no different from "a journey of a hundred miles begins with a single step".

Yan Zhensheng also listened to the advice. Knowing that he had no experience, he naturally had no objection to Lin Hao's arrangement.

After breakfast, everyone set off immediately. As they got closer to the capital, everyone relaxed their vigilance a little. After all, the closer they were to the capital, the safer they were.

No group of bandits are brave enough to rob merchants outside the capital. That is seeking death.

After all, the capital is still under the control of the Suppression Headquarters, so it is not the turn of those scum to act recklessly.

However, sometimes, things are just so funny, everyone is talking and laughing, eating hot pot and singing, oh, there is no hot pot.

Suddenly, he was intercepted by bandits.

Oh, if they were not riding horses, then they were not horse bandits. When they saw them clearly, they realized that they were a group of defeated soldiers.

But these days, it’s hard to tell the difference between soldiers and bandits.

When Yan Zhensheng saw this situation, he immediately panicked, and suddenly he heard a tinkling sound coming from the side.

"Click, click~!" It turned out to be the sound of bullets being loaded, followed by Lin Hao's arrangements:
"You negotiate with them first. I will arrange for the others to fight. When you hear gunshots, lie down on the ground immediately. Do you understand?"

"Okay!" With Lin Hao's arrangement, Yan Zhensheng calmed down instantly.

Then he got out of the car with courage, walked up to the leader and said:

"Sir, we are small businessmen going to the border to buy food. Please let us pass!"

"Here, I happen to have a bag of unused silver. Gentlemen, take it and have some tea."

Yan Zhensheng took out the wallet from his waist. There were about twenty or thirty dollars in it, a heavy small bag.

This group of defeated soldiers were obviously a group of guerrillas, with only about 20 of them. It was considered good that each of them could get a silver dollar.

The leader weighed it in his hand.

Then he threw the purse at Yan Zhensheng and asked loudly, "You're sending away beggars!"

"We have been hiding in this mountain for three months. Do we need your money?"

"What we lack is food. If you leave the food here, I will let you go!"

Lin Hao could tell at a glance that this group of people were the remnants of the defeated army who had escaped from the battlefield.

They have no ability to fight, but they are good at robbing the common people, and their ability is very great. There is a saying that goes "Bandits pass by like combs, and soldiers pass by like rakes."

Sometimes deserters are more hateful than bandits, and there is no need to be polite to such people.

So while Yan Zhensheng was talking to the other party, he found Boss Yu and Changgen and said:
"I'll go deal with the leader in a moment, you guys shoot at the others, and I'll pin Boss Yan to the ground!"