My younger brother Lü Fengxian

Chapter 100: Shi of Grain

It is already the beginning of May, and time has quietly moved from late spring to early summer.

The originally desolate and solemn official road has a touch of green and vitality because of the embellishment of scattered weeds.

This seemingly weakest and most fragile plant stubbornly withstood the power of the Little Ice Age and poked its head out.

However, it still cannot change the desolation of the entire Hebei Province. At this rate, it seems that grain production will continue to decline this year.

The number of refugees outside Zhongshan County did not decrease but increased instead.

The number of guards at the city gate has obviously increased a lot, and they are equipped with more swords. It is obvious that the pressure on the Zhongshan County Governor is not small.

Lu Yi brought the horses and servants directly to the outside of Zhen's manor. Zhen Yi happened to be in the manor, handling affairs.

When he learned that Lu Yi had indeed kept his promise and came to visit on time, he immediately opened the door of the manor and invited Lu Yi and others in.

"People say that Lu Sixiao values ​​his promises over money. Today, he really came as promised. I really admire him."

"A man without integrity cannot stand. Zhen Yi generously donated money to help me when I was in poverty. How could I forget it? But after not seeing you for a month, it seems that your temperament has changed, brother Zhen. You seem to be different from before!" Lu Yi was surprised by the sudden capable and calm aura of Zhen Yi.

"Haha, my father is very old now, how can I continue to act on impulse? I should share some of the burden for my father, I am sorry to make you laugh, Brother Lu." Zhen Yi said in a lonely tone. It seemed that the secret talk between father and son a month ago had opened his eyes. He hid his dream of being a knight deep in his heart and began to take the initiative to assume the responsibility of the eldest son of the Zhen family.

"Come, come, Brother Lu, you are tired from the journey, please come in and have a chat. We will have a banquet to welcome you." Zhen Yi invited Lu Yi into the hall, and allowed other stewards to come forward to deliver the horses.

"The guest should follow the host's wishes!" Lu Yi also nodded to Zhang Xun who was accompanying him. He immediately took his men to hand over the work to these managers.

The Zhen family is wealthy and powerful, and although they don't have much else, the quality of their business talents is the best in Hebei.

After the meal, all the horses brought by Lu Yi had been checked and not only registered, but also properly accommodated and fed.

This time, Lu Yi brought 1150 healthy horses, including 650 stallions and 500 mares, all of which were good horses of guaranteed quality and quantity.

"According to the price we agreed on, a male horse is 25,000 coins, and a female horse is 33,000 coins, a total of 32,750,000 coins."

"I will give Brother Lu some more profit so that we can make up the total of 33 million yuan."

Upon hearing this, Lu Yi and Zhang Xun looked at each other and saw joy on each other's faces.

According to the share of the 2700 million, the Zhang family can get about million, of which Lu Yi alone gets million.

"However, Brother Lu borrowed money from my Zhang family last month to redeem 500 servants, 20,000 coins per person, a total of 10 million coins. In addition, he borrowed 2,000 dan of grain for 500,000 coins (I made a mistake in the previous calculation, 2,000 dan should be 500,000 coins, which has been revised.), so in the end Brother Lu can get 22.5 million coins!"

Zhen Yi naturally would not forget Lu Yi's debt, so he held the account book handed over by the steward and spoke slowly.

After saying this, he passed the account book to Lu Yi and Zhang Xun for review to show fairness.

"Yes, there is no problem with the number." Zhang Xun's family has been in business for generations. After flipping through it briefly, he nodded to Lu Yi.

"The Zhen family is indeed a role model in Hebei's business community, and they are really generous in their approach to things!" Upon hearing this, Lu Yi's smile widened.

"Haha, Brother Lu, you are too kind. These are all rumors intentionally exaggerated by my partners in the Zhen family. Don't take them seriously." Zhen Yi was very humble, revealing the good upbringing of a wealthy family.

"Brother Lu, you have made a huge profit recently. Do you want to continue to buy some servants in Zhen Manor this time?" After completing one transaction, Zhen Yi seamlessly started the second transaction.

"Now that summer has arrived, I am not planning to open up more land for the time being. I have no shortage of servants, but I am short of a lot of food. I wonder if Zhen can sell me some more?" Lu Yi thought for a moment and replied.

"Food?" Zhen Yi touched his brows when he heard that and asked, "I wonder how much quantity Brother Lu is going to purchase this time?" "Twenty thousand stones!" Lu Yi said in a deep voice after thinking for a while.

He now has 500 servants and 250 assistants under his command.

Plus 250 new guys are ready to be recruited.

As well as one thousand strong refugees and their families who were prepared to be recruited in Zhongshan.

In this way, there are a total of two to three thousand people relying on themselves for their livelihood.

Although refugees and servants do not need to follow the high standard of 1.8 shi per servant per month, their monthly food consumption must be at least to shi.

This is a huge number.

It is definitely not something that the Zhang family of Mayi can easily supply. Only big merchants like the Zhen family can supply such a large amount of grain.

It is only the beginning of May now, and there are still more than three months to the autumn harvest in August, so his grain reserves must be at least more than 10,000 stones.

As for the extra ten thousand stones, it was Lu Yi's precautionary measure.

Food is like talent. It is always waiting for people. It is impossible to let people wait for food on an empty stomach.

Without food, people will starve to death!

"Twenty thousand stones..." Zhen Yi couldn't help but frown and fell into deep thought when he heard that.

The Zhen family has stored more than one million grains. Although 20,000 shi is nothing to the Zhen family, whether he is deliberately creating an embarrassing situation in order to win over Lu Yi or simply to raise the price, he has to put on a show.

"Well, although I don't have much grain in Zhen Manor, I can still spare 20,000 shi for Brother Lu to deal with the emergency."

"But in this case, if we still transport it like last time, the price will be higher. 20,000 shi will cost 5 million yuan."

After a moment, Zhen Yi let out a long sigh and said.

"This price is very fair, let's do it."

Lu Yi did not expose his performance and also pretended to be happy.

In this way, after deducting the money from selling grain, the caravan made a total profit of 1750 million, of which Lu Yi still took the lion's share, enjoying 1150 million alone.

Adding Zhang's dowry of tens of millions and the initial investment, Luwu's funds have already reached half of 2500 million coins.

The gap in the later period can also be deducted from the profit of each caravan.

The construction of Luwu can be completed just in time before winter!
For Chinese people of any era, the word "home" seems to have some kind of unknown magic that makes people extremely fascinated. Even though Lu Yi has lived two lives as a human being, he cannot escape this.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel excited.

After agreeing on the relevant delivery procedures with Zhen Yi, Lu Yi came to the outside of Zhongshan City with 500 shi of grain that he had withdrawn in advance from the 20,000 shi.

After Zhen reported to the governor of Zhongshan County and obtained permission, Lu Yi immediately ordered Gao Shun and others to set up a big pot outside the city to cook porridge in public and recruit refugees.

(End of this chapter)