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Chapter 287 Buying Food
When Lu Daxiong was at the border, he met many brothers from all over the world. Most of the townspeople at the border between Liguo and Dazhiguo could speak some daily Liguo dialect.

Lu Daxiong learned a little from them.

Chen Xingyan was worried, and after Lu Daxiong made repeated assurances, Chen Xingyan forcibly filled many bottles and cans before setting off.

Chen Jiu stayed in Lujia Village, and Liangzi, Chen Youchang and others followed.

After all, they are going to buy grain, and they still buy two truckloads of grain, but they plan to buy in large quantities, which naturally requires a lot of manpower and the cooperation of many parties.

The current relationship between Dazhi and Liguo is quite harmonious, and the bank notes can be used in Liguo, but they still exchanged a large amount of silver coins before leaving Dazhiguo.

Liguo's land area is not large, and it is slightly larger than a Dongping prefecture city.

After Lu Daxiong and others settled down, they dispersed to buy food.

In order not to attract attention, some people bought grain directly from the grain store, pretending to be businessmen, and they also had documents issued by the government.

Some people went directly to the countryside to collect grain.

The price of going to the countryside to collect grain is naturally the lowest, but it will be more troublesome and require more manpower and horses.

There are a total of two checkpoints for Dazhiguo and Liguo to clear the customs. In order to avoid attracting the attention of Liguo officials, they are also divided into two groups and go through different checkpoints.

These days, food can't be exported at will, and it needs government documents from Liguo.

In order to get this, Lu Daxiong took out a lot of good things to deal with the officials of Liguo.

With the customs clearance document issued by the government, Lu Daxiong, Chen Youchang and his party naturally shipped back the first batch of grain smoothly.

Yes, this is the first batch.

They divided into two groups, and only brought back forty carts of grain in total.

It wasn't that they didn't want to buy more, or that they didn't bring enough money, but that they tried their best, and the only thing that could be transported out of customs was the forty carts of grain.

The customs clearance documents obtained from Liguo officials are at most [-] carts of grain. If there is more, it will attract the attention of the government, and it may be thoroughly investigated.

After all, food is the foundation of life these days, without food, it is useless to say anything.

In fact, forty carts of grain are not a lot. One cart of grain weighs six to seven hundred catties.

This food is enough to keep the people of the whole town alive for a month.

In order to continue to buy food in the future, Lu Daxiong brought Chen Youchang back first, and Liangzi took people to continue collecting food in the local countryside.

Now that the autumn harvest has just passed, every household has surplus food, and now Liangzi is harvesting corn and some beans.

After all, these are not rice noodles. Even if they are checked during customs clearance, they will not be too conspicuous. At least, they will not attract the attention of the people above.

Lu Daxiong went to Liguo and tossed back and forth for a month.

After returning, before these grains were waiting to be transported into Zhuangzi, County Magistrate Li heard the news.

"How do you plan for this food?"

Lu Daxiong's body stiffened immediately, and he knew that it would be a bad thing to find him at this time.

"My lord, the autumn harvest is not going well this time, and the people of Qingshui Town may not have enough food for the winter."

The harvest is not good, but the agricultural tax has not been reduced. No matter how conscientious Li County Magistrate is, he can't fight against the entire court.

County magistrate Li is also worrying about food.

Farmers dig food from the soil all year round. Now that the harvest is not good, and taxes must be paid less, the grain reserves of every household are naturally pitiful.

In winter, it is better to be able to pick up firewood. If there is not enough firewood, and you are reluctant to exchange grain for charcoal for firewood, you will either freeze to death or starve to death.

He also sent people to go to the south of the Yangtze River before, but he spent a lot of money and received a lot of favors, and he barely managed to bring back two boats of grain. It's just not worth mentioning.

"The situation in Qingshui Town, I will not ignore it. It's just that the grain production in the whole county has been reduced. Inspector Lu, we can't stare at our one-acre three-point land."

"That's what the lord said."

Lu Daxiong replied, but what he thought in his heart was that you are not just staring at Gaoyang County!
"I want to ask you, is it reliable to go to Liguo to buy grain?"

"Well, it's hard to say. Now that we and Liguo can trade with each other, I think it's better not to catch a sheep and try to squeeze it out, or let's keep an eye on Nanguo again?"

Nanguo is also a small country, located in the southeast of Dazhi.

That's what Lu Daxiong said casually, but it reminded County Magistrate Li.

"Well, that's right. What you said makes sense. This officer will discuss it with others immediately."

Lu Daxiong saw that he had nothing to do, so he didn't want to hurry up!
It's just that before he could step out of the house, County Magistrate Li's words hit him lightly.

"Inspector Lu, this time you have done a good job in buying grain, and I won't be greedy for you. I will leave [-] carts behind. You can go to the county magistrate for the exact cost. I won't treat you badly."

Thanks to the good development of the merchants in the past two years, the county government is not short of tax money.

So the matter of buying grain was settled so easily.

And the forty carts of food that Lu Daxiong managed to get back were divided in half by County Magistrate Li.

Lu Daxiong wanted to scold his mother, but he didn't dare.

After returning home, Chen Xingyan heard the ins and outs of the matter, and felt that County Magistrate Li was a good official.

After all, at this time, it is really rare for a parent official who can plan ahead and is willing to do more practical things for the people.

"I left Liangzi there. He will take people to continue collecting grain in the countryside. I'm thinking about waiting half a month before asking Uncle Chang to take people there."

"Well, but this time we can't transport food back with such a big fanfare. If it attracts the attention of the Liguo government again, it may affect some of our future affairs."

"Okay, I'll discuss it with Uncle Chang later."

Chen Xingyan handed him a cup of tea, watched him drink it, and then said slowly: "It's not clear, let's do it secretly, as long as the money is given to a few small bosses at the checkpoint, they won't investigate in detail. , this food will naturally come out with good luck."

Lu Daxiong was stunned for a moment, and said with a look of surprise: "You mean you don't want to get customs clearance papers anymore?"

"Of course the documents still need to be obtained, but if you obtain ten carts, and ship out fifteen or even twenty carts of grain, who knows?"

Lu Daxiong gasped, he never thought that his delicate and weak daughter-in-law would have such courage!
"If you carry private goods or prohibited items during customs clearance and do not meet the customs clearance documents, you will be sent to jail."

Chen Xingyan raised the corners of his lips slowly: "Then it depends on how it works."

(End of this chapter)