The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 96 Food War

Hiss, the person on the other side was scared out of his wits.

"Kneel down and don't kill." Bang, Lu Chao shot a gun in the leg of a man holding a knife, and the man screamed and fell to the ground on the spot.

Others had seen this scene, and it was useless to have too many people. They dropped their weapons and knelt down quickly, and some wanted to escape.

Bang, a soldier directly hit him on the leg with a gun, and immediately the others dared not run away.

Lu Chao stayed with six people, escorted some of the older people, and took the five thousand shi grains of rice back to Dengzhou, but this time he didn't go to Lu's rice shop, but to Ding Yi's.

Ding Yi waited in the shop until the [-] shi grains and rice arrived, and when he learned that Lu Chao had snatched them, he had a weird expression at the time, not knowing whether to scold or laugh, but Lu Chao was honest when he returned, bound his hands, and knelt down begging for punishment At that time, Ding Yi cursed at that time, and said that he was going to be dragged out and chopped up. He even cried and said that he was sorry for the people, how could he rob the people of their food? Tears, accept the five thousand stone grain.

This is something to say later, let's talk about Lu Chao, who is very courageous, and he didn't count after grabbing the food. He took the other two and escorted the young and strong back to Lu's Village.

Someone led the way and successfully called the gate to open, and the three rushed in just like that.

Inside were the servants of the Lu family, as well as many women and children. There were two who wanted to resist, and Lu Chao did not hesitate to hit them one by one, without hitting the vital parts.

Immediately shocked the audience.

After entering, I saw that there were more than 2 stones stored in Lu Zuoshan's house.

"Damn it, so much food." Lu Chao cursed.

In the past two years, Phi Island has starved to death many Liao people, and during this period, the rice in the houses of the big households in various places in the Ming Dynasty was almost moldy.

"Burn." Lu Chao was not polite, and led someone to set fire to the granary here.

Around four o'clock in the afternoon, everyone in Dengzhou knew that the home of Lu Zuoshan, the largest grain merchant, had been burnt down, and there was no grain left.

The common people who were waiting to buy two taels of rice in front of Lu Zuoshan's shop dispersed in a swarm, rushing to Ding Yi's place to grab grain.

Food prices have risen even higher.

At around six o'clock in the evening, Ding Yi's [-] shi grains and rice were almost sold out, leaving only [-] shi (transported back by Lu Chao).

Ruan Wenyan was very anxious, why did they sell all of them, Lushun is still short of food.

Ding Yi laughed loudly: "Don't worry, let's come again next time, the price of this rice may not be one or two six."

That night, everyone wore full armor and did not dare to sleep.

Early the next morning, Ding Yi returned to Lushun with the remaining grain, rice and silver.

Before leaving, he left [-] to [-] in silver in Qin Nan's new store, so that she could stock up and buy in small batches when food prices were low in the future.

Within a day, Ding Yi went in with his left hand and out with his right, and finally returned to Lushun with five thousand stones, rice and 26 taels of silver.

Fully doubled the assets.

Ruan Wenyan stared at the five bodies cast down.

It is suggested that Ding Yi go to other state capitals and try again.

Ding Yi shook his head.

Dengzhou is neither big nor small, and it is close to the sea. The grain and rice are mainly imported by sea, so I can try it once.

Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places are rich in grain and rice. If Ding Yi's money is increased by ten times, it may be difficult to hype.

Even in some big cities, such as Jinan, where there is King Fan, the grain and rice at home may cost hundreds of thousands of shi, which cannot be fried at all.

Like Xu Jie, the chief assistant back then, his family had hundreds of thousands of acres of grain fields, and he could take out 100 million shi from the warehouse.

So at the end of the Ming Dynasty, small cities like Dengzhou could be speculated, but a slightly larger place would not work.

Moreover, this kind of thing is rare to do once, and if there is a chance to succeed, it will be more difficult to replicate it. After all, the merchants of Ming Dynasty are not fools.

He can succeed because the time is fast enough to catch the opponent by surprise.

Everything is done in one day.

If the delay continues, there will be big families who will intervene and fight back.

The other is that Lu Chao is too ruthless. A torch burned more than 2 stones at Lu Zuoshan's house. Lu Zuoshan didn't have any rice even if he wanted to lower the price. .

Of course, Ding Yi finally sold more and more cheap ones. In short, it was better to exceed his own purchase price, just for speedy shipments.

When the other wealthy rice merchants in Dengzhou came to their senses, he had already shipped out and left. If others wanted to fight back, they had nowhere to start.

On June [-]th, Ding Yi returned to Lushun. In the afternoon of that day, the reward from the court also arrived in Lushun, which was a coincidence.

Because of Xu Dabao's military exploits, Ding Yi deployed thousands of households to fully guard the defense. All his subordinates were promoted according to what Yuan Chonghuan said that day, and the whole camp was elated.

Everyone gets new official uniforms, badges, seals and other things.

In addition, the court rewarded 6000 taels of silver.

After the money made everyone happy, they cursed angrily.

According to beheading and 50 taels, at least 1 taels.

Unexpectedly, after layers of deductions, I only got 6000 taels.

Along with these silver rewards, there is also the military salary given to Lushun by the court.

Now Dongjiang Town’s military pay is of course all grain and rice, and the pay is not monthly, some are paid every few months, sometimes once a month, when Yuan was targeting Mao before, it was not paid for more than half a year, and the people on Phi Island were almost killed. Half starved.

Now that Yuan had Mao beheaded, and his own people went to the island again, he invited half a year's food and salary from the court at one time to make up for the previous ones.

The actual garrison in Lushun is now [-]. The last time Xu Fuzuo and Ding Yi reported [-], this time the verification approval was [-].

Ding Yin's southern battalion actually had 1000 soldiers, and Xu Fuzuo paid him [-] soldiers.

Because everyone in the Lushun Fourth Battalion agreed before that no matter how many troops he has, he will be paid according to the defense level (1000 troops).

The soldiers have eight fights each, and the officers are counted separately. The total is almost an average of one stone per person, which is six thousand stones in half a year.

In this way, adding the five thousand stones that Ding Yigang brought back, and the original ones, he now has more than 1 stone grains in his hands, and there will be no shortage of them in a short time.

Ding Yi immediately convened a meeting of all the general banners and above to summarize the gains and losses during this period.

At the meeting, various departments and departments reported the situation to him in turn.

Ding Yi was away for a few days, and Ruan Siqing went to Pidao again and brought back more than 400 people.

Because Chen Jisheng was furious, he, like Mao, forbade the outflow of Phi Island's population, and almost sent troops to attack Ruan's boat that day.

Fortunately, Ruan ran fast, but he never dared to go again.

At present, there are nearly 1900 soldiers in Ding Yi's daily training, and the rest are more than 1200 young and strong who will be able to serve in the future. These 1200 people, plus nearly 900 women and middle-aged and elderly people, more than 2000 people are from the Southern Camp. There are more than 200 construction troops and various craftsmen and craftsmen.

Calculating this way, there are currently more than 4200 people under his rule, which is far more than the number of people that a capital can manage.

These more than 4000 people eat 30 stones of food every day (checked some information, there are 150 catties, there are also 180 catties, here is calculated as 180 catties, because a catty in the Ming Dynasty is almost equivalent to 600 grams today.), Bingjia still needs to distribute food, Ding Yi The food on hand is enough for them to eat for more than a year.

Fortunately, he has a lot of money now, with nearly 26 taels in hand, so he is not in a panic for the time being.

(End of this chapter)