The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 256 Make Big Money!
On this day, the court spent most of its time discussing the disaster situation in southern Fujian.

Zhu Linmei also ordered the counties and counties in northwest Jiangxi to transport all the grain and rice in stock to Fujing.Although there will be food from overseas entering Hong Kong, it is always right to make more preparations.

In addition, in order to prevent possible riots, he also dispatched two battalions of Dragon Guards to rush to southern Fujian.

With the return of 5000 people from Jiang Zhengxi's subordinates to Tianxing Mansion, the pressure on the Longwei Army's garrison has eased a lot.

However, most of Jiang Zhengxi's soldiers were newly recruited, and their training and discipline were insufficient.In addition, Zhu Linming's arrangement is to use them as a pilot to start the police transformation of the old army. These people have been busy changing their systems recently, so Tianxing Mansion cannot completely leave the Dragon Guards for the time being.

As soon as the morning court was over, Zhu Lin hadn't entered the Wenyuan Pavilion when a servant led two officials towards him, and the servants seemed to be local officials from a distance.

When the two came close, they leaned over and saluted, "The official Zhang Canghai (Wang Keqian) pays his respects to His Royal Highness the Fuzheng Wang."

It was Zhang Canghai, the governor of Jiangxi Province, and Wang Keqian, the magistrate of Longnan County.

Zhu Linmei greeted the two of them into Wenyuan Pavilion, seeing the unconcealable smiles on their faces, she also smiled and said, "Master Zhang and Master Wang, do you have any good news for me?"

"Returning to Your Highness, there is good news!" Zhang Canghai said immediately, "The lower officials planted more than 400 acres of potatoes and sweet potatoes in Longnan according to His Highness's instructions." Raised money, and expanded another [-] mu.

"These crops are all mature now, and the harvest is great! There are less than 40 mu of lean land, and more than one million catties of potatoes and more than [-] catties of sweet potatoes have been harvested!"

140 million catties is nearly 7000 stones, which is only the output of more than 900 mu of land.Although Zhu Linmi knew that the yields of these two crops were high, the figures still made him very happy.It should be noted that the same 2000 mu of land, even if it is a good farmland, can only produce more than [-] stones at most.

He asked again: "How do the people accept these potatoes and sweet potatoes?"

Zhang Canghai hurriedly said: "Since last year, the Xuanjiao Office has been promoting the extremely high yield of these two crops. They are soft and sweet in the mouth, and they can be eaten for a long time to moisten the intestines and clear the blood. A large number of farmers have come to inquire about them, intending to take the seeds for planting."

Wang Keqian added: "Since the harvest day, Xiaguan and Mr. Zhang have had one meal a day with only potatoes and sweet potatoes as food. It has been nearly half a month now, and it is no different from eating rice.

"This product can be used as a staple food immediately. It does not pick up land and has a very high yield. It is really a blessing for the people!"

Zhu Linmi nodded in satisfaction. The two of them were quite serious and responsible in their work. They tried it themselves before confirming that it could be handed over to the common people for planting.

Zhang Canghai continued: "Your Highness, a large number of potatoes and sweet potatoes have been planted in various parts of Ganzhou, and most of them are newly opened slopes and sandy land. It is estimated that about [-] mu can be planted in those years.

"This official came here and brought 40 jin of these two things into Fujian for planting, so that His Highness can promote them in Fujing."

"It's a good job!" Zhu Linmei praised. There are actually a small amount of potatoes and sweet potatoes planted along the coast of Fujing, and with the help of the Missionary Office to spread the word, the people will soon accept it.

If these two crops can be spread in large quantities, I believe that the famine in southern Fujian will never happen again.He immediately thought that although the 40 catties of potatoes and sweet potatoes were intended to be used as seeds, they could be used as rations in an emergency, so he ordered Zhang Canghai to say: "You and Wangzhi County have contributed a lot, but for the time being Can't rest. You immediately escort this batch of grain to Nanjing, and temporarily hand it over to the household department for allocation."

"I obey." The two of them turned and left before their buttocks warmed up.

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Southern Fujian.

The seat of Zhangzhou Prefecture, Nanjing City.

A concave-faced young man in a blue shirt excitedly ran into Luji Silk and Satin Co., hastily ordered his servants to fasten the gate, and then rushed to the back house and shouted loudly: "Father! The brown rice has already risen to ten taels and one stone! "

A middle-aged man in the room who looked very similar to the young man flashed joy on his face, but he snorted heavily, "Qi Chao, how many times have I said, be more cautious!"

The young man hurriedly bowed his head and replied, "It's...Father.

"According to your instructions, each rice shop currently has only five shi of rice in stock, and the price may rise further."

"Well," the middle-aged man nodded, "Go tell the Zhao family and the Liu family that you can ship in small quantities."

"Yes, son, let's go."

After the young man left, the middle-aged man hurriedly pulled out the abacus from the drawer, and after a while of crackling, he showed an expression as if he had drunk honey, "Okay! Well done!

"The generations of the Lu family have been doing business for decades, and they don't earn as much as I do today, haha!"

This person's name is Lu Yuanhou, and he is the shopkeeper of Luji Silk and Satin Co., Ltd.The thing that made him happiest during this period was to listen to his son report the price of rice, and then calculate his own net worth.

He looked at the numbers on the abacus, and couldn't help laughing out loud again, 180 million taels, he Lu's net worth has already risen to this much.

And judging by the situation, the rising price of rice is still going up, and the 18 shi of grain rice in his warehouse may produce more than 300 million taels!
Lu Yuanhou almost adored himself.When he was just delivering silk to an official of the household department, he accidentally heard that the imperial court wanted to allocate money for disaster relief, and immediately smelled "business opportunities" from it.

So he returned to his home in Tingzhou as quickly as possible, mortgaged all the four shops passed down from his ancestors to the bank at a low price, exchanged 50 taels of silver, and swept up all the grain in the western Fujian market.

Originally, he just wanted to raise the price by [-]% to [-]%, so that he could make a fortune. Unexpectedly, a Jiangbei businessman surnamed Zhai approached him, saying that he had teamed up with three very powerful merchants to sell Fujing, Jiangxi Eastern And the buyout of grain and rice in northern Guangdong!

Then everyone raised the price uniformly, and whenever there was grain with a slightly lower price on the market, they would buy it all. In this way, the price of the grain and rice was left to them to decide.

At that time, not to mention earning one or two times, it is not impossible to make ten times as much as eight times.

He was still a little worried at the time, after all, the imperial court could not stand by and watch such things, but the Zhai family taught him how to disperse the purchases and conceal the shipments.In the end, under the temptation of huge interests, he agreed to join forces with him.

Now it seems that how wise the original decision was!He planned in his mind that when the current catastrophe is over, he will use the money he earned to donate a title—it is said that someone from Tianxing Mansion donated it to the Marquis a while ago!

After this, his Lu family is no longer a humble merchant, but a nobleman!
He was dreaming of becoming a master, when he suddenly saw his son Lu Tengchao rushing in through the door, he couldn't help but feel happy, did the price of rice rise sharply again?

Lu Tichao vigorously wiped the sweat off his brow, and said urgently: "Father, it's not good, it's not good!"

"What are you panicking about? Be careful." Lu Yuan gave him a thick look, "What's the matter?"

"The south of the city and the official warehouses in the south of the city are opening to sell grain. They only sell for nine taels and one stone, and anyone who comes will not be rejected..."

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