Martial Arts: Start by Obtaining the Wild World

Chapter 139 0138: Overall Situation;
After a moment, Li Lu came in and whispered:

"Your aunt said that before the drought, the salted fish sold in the grocery store was about 15 wen per pound. But when the drought started, there weren't many dried fish, and even if there were any, the price had risen to 30 or 40 wen. I don't know how much it is now, because no one is buying it. But that was in the past. Now the prices in the county are being suppressed by the county magistrate, so it's hard to say."

At this point, Li Lu also shook his head and sighed: "The county magistrate is also forced into a corner. He strongly suppressed the price of goods to ensure that the people in the county can survive for the time being and hold on until the end of the war.

Therefore, after dealing with all the uncooperative families that hoarded grain to make dirty money, he also confiscated all the grain from those families.

Guess what happened next?

All grain-related shops in the county were closed. Meat, rice, flour, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar were all sold in limited quantities at fixed points set up by the county government.

The price of a pound of old rice and corn flour was reduced to 15 wen! A pound of sorghum flour was 10 wen!

Do you believe it?
The price is the same as before the drought. It is also stipulated that every household can only buy one and a half kilograms with their ID card and household registration! Oh, by the way, the county government sells it every two days.

Anyone who dares to pretend to buy more will be expelled from the city once discovered!
The price of dried meat was reduced to 70 wen per pound. It was sold once every three days, and each household could only buy half a pound.

It can be said that all businesses that import food to fill the stomach are strictly taken over and enforced by the county government.

In addition, in order to ensure that poor families in the county had food to eat or money to earn, a large number of people were organized to continue digging deeper all the wells in the county to ensure that there was still water in the county.

Therefore, the extraordinary measures used in extraordinary times have stabilized the county and won the respect of all the people in the county.

But the food confiscated from various families will probably not last long. I heard that the county magistrate has sent people to the county town many times to ask for food, but I don’t know how it will work.”

Cheng Zongyang was also very surprised after listening to Li Lu’s story!
This Luo must be a man of means! He actually dared to lower the price back to two years ago!

Those families that hoarded food really suffered heavy losses, especially the Wang family where Wang Tianfeng belonged.

Last time, because of Chang Younian, almost all the families were swallowed up. If things had developed normally, the Wang family would have become a noble family, and its financial strength would be self-evident.

Now, Luo Dingran accused him of raising the price of grain, resisting disaster relief from the government, and being a warrior in riot, and invited him to the Rotation Department.

All of a sudden, all the main figures of the Wang family were thrown into jail overnight. The rest were ordinary people, who were nothing to be afraid of for Luo Dingran.

This also proves that even if a unilateral force is strong, it will suffer when it encounters the power of the government. This is why so many wealthy families want to arrange for people to enter the officialdom!
Although the measures taken by Luo Dingran damaged the interests of various families, they preserved the stability of the county! This is what a "good county lord" should do.

This practice of pricing and selling grain in fixed quantities is also very good. At least it can ensure that everyone has enough to eat.

It is better to be hungry than to starve to death.

In addition, the method of work-for-relief is also good. Not everyone has money to buy food. If you don't have money, you can go dig a well. After the work is done, you can either get money or a meal. It can also increase the water supply of the county.

These methods are enough to show that Luo is definitely a character!

In fact, as long as he does a good job, he might be promoted after the war because of his good governance and the operation of the family.

But then again, this is only because Luo Dingran has the confidence. Otherwise, if the forces behind these families find an excuse to attack him, Luo will definitely die a miserable death.

In fact, what Cheng Zongyang and others did not know was that under this situation, Luo Dingran's approach to dealing with merchant families in the city and confiscating grain and limiting its sale was almost everywhere.

When one prospers, all prosper. The four aristocratic families in Linchuan and Xiangyang had to sacrifice the interests of some of their lower-level affiliated forces and fully support the overall situation to stabilize all counties.

Otherwise, if a fire breaks out in the backyard and the war on the front line is unfavorable, what kind of losses will the family suffer!

Let's get back to the point. As for the price of dried fish, Cheng Zongyang immediately compared it in his mind. The price of salted dried fish is a little higher than that of normal dried fish, after all, it contains salt. His is just pure dried fish.

Moreover, the prices in the county town have now been fixed by Luo Dingran. No one can expect to make money at this critical juncture, so the bargaining power is gone.

No one buys, and it can't be sold. The only channel is the county government.

"How about this." Cheng Zongyang said to Li Lu: "I will stay in the county for another day. Please help me find out the price. As long as the price is reasonable, I can sell it to the county government.

Three thousand kilograms of dried fish can provide food for three thousand households for a day, right? If the operation is good, it can also sustain for two or three days.

By the way, as for your identity, just say you are a merchant from Luoyang Prefecture. Transactions are currently in gold, not silver bills. "

The reason why I want to sell it is that there is not much space in the wilderness to store these dried fish. Even if I bring them back to the villagers, they can't eat them all. If you want to eat them, there will be more after the second batch is completed in half a month.

As for the trading currency, he had lived in this world for more than nine years, and he knew the strength of silver bills, so it didn't matter to him to use silver bills to trade goods before.

But now that the war has begun, the existence of the silver notes is no longer certain.

Real money is the only thing that matters now! Besides, he also needs real money. Whether it is the silver needed to expand the territory of the wilderness world or the gold needed to expand the inventory. All future transactions must be conducted with real money.

After hearing Cheng Zongyang's request, Li Lu thought about it and said, "Okay. I'll ask for you this afternoon."

Next, Cheng Zongyang continued to inquire about the matters of the thirteen royal families.

Ever since he learned that there was a super family above the clan, known as the royal family, he had been quite curious.

If a family can develop to the point where it is called a royal family and even the royal family is unwilling to make enemies with it, it is enough to prove its strength!

However, Li Lu could not find out much more detailed information about the royal family, which made Cheng Zongyang quite regretful.

If his family could reach this point in the future, it is hard to imagine what the situation would be like.

But he has the wilderness world, what he lacks is time. As long as he is given time, and combined with the items and resources he obtains from the wilderness world, it will be a matter of time!

"It's hard to say about the war." At this time, Li Lu talked about the next thing.

“As you know, there are almost no outsiders in the county town nowadays. The news that the county town can obtain is only known by the county lord. It is impossible for me to ask the county lord about the situation.

In order to stabilize the situation in the county, the county magistrate would say good things even if they were not good. Who can believe it? The clearest thing is that in the north, the Jin State invaded Haining and Jiyun, and the capital gathered 300,000 troops to resist.

As for the Thirteen Royal Clans, they basically called on warriors to fight back. Oh, by the way, the court also recruited civilian warriors. I almost forgot this."

Cheng Zongyang was stunned: "Hiring? What hiring?"

"It's a recruitment for hire. The county magistrate is going to post a notice tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. This is a new official document from above. It means that the court will hire individual warriors from the public to join the army. The hiring will not only include money, but also high-level martial arts techniques and martial arts elixirs. If they perform well, they can join the court and enjoy court salaries and official positions, and it is not impossible for them to even join the Six Paths Department or the Rotation Department."

"Although the county's warriors have been captured by the lord, he still hopes to recruit some independent warriors. This way, there will be fewer unstable factors in the city."

After listening to Li Lu's explanation, Cheng Zongyang finally understood.

The absence of civilian warriors in Yufeng County means that control over the county has been strengthened.

But if the war in front comes to Yufeng County, we will not even have the strength to resist.

But on the other hand, if they can't even stop the Chiba County Town, then there's no need to resist this county town. It's meaningless to resist.

Cheng Zongyang was silent for a moment, and in his mind he had a general understanding of the situation in the past two months.

"By the way, can you handle the warriors in the prison?" Cheng Zongyang asked in a low voice.

In the past two or three months, the points he earned from killing fish amounted to more than 60,000. Apart from practicing in the training room when he had time and purchasing items for the inventory, he spent another 5,000 points to purchase six soul crystals.

The crystals have already been fully collected in the mass grave.

What is missing now are the twelve warriors' bodies.

When Li Lu heard this, his eyes lit up.

The medicinal powder that Cheng Zongyang gave him was the main factor that enabled him to be promoted to the eighth rank in just two or three months.

The only "side effect" was not a side effect at all for him. So, when he heard Cheng Zongyang asking for the corpse again, he thought his master wanted to get the powder again.

Although he couldn't understand what the connection was between the corpse and the powder.

"Is it related to the powder?" Li Lu asked in a low voice.

Cheng Zongyang knew about Li Lu's misunderstanding, but he was happy that he misunderstood. He didn't have to bother explaining it, so he nodded and said:
"The current medicinal powder can only help us upgrade to the eighth grade at most. If we want to upgrade to the seventh grade in the future, we can only rely on our own practice. Or wait for my master to continue to research new prescriptions. Once they are researched, Uncle Li will be indispensable. So the twelve corpses, the stronger the better, can you get them?" Hearing this, Li Lu nodded seriously: "Yes!"

As long as he can be promoted to the seventh rank, not only the warriors without background in the prison, but also those with background will be killed!
He could even find an excuse to deal with civilian warriors! Anyway, the county lord also wanted a stable county.

Warriors are the biggest destabilizing factor. Didn't you see the thirteen royal families unite and nearly 100,000 warriors conquer the two prefectures, unstoppable all the way?
The common people don’t need warriors!
"Then let's do it the same as before, okay?" Cheng Zongyang asked again.

Li Lu thought about it and said, "It should be fine."

"to make!"

Later, Cheng Zongyang also joined in the casual conversation, and the content of the conversation was also listening to Li Lu talk about various things in the county.

At the same time, we also asked about the storage location of the medicinal materials.

The epidemic problem has been dealt with, and the county no longer needs so many medicinal herbs.

At noon, after lunch, Cheng Zongyang said goodbye and returned to his residence, waiting for Li Lu to come over in the evening.

There is nothing much to see in the county town now, and once you enter the inner room, you enter a world of wilderness.

I had already completed the new inventory and purchase bar yesterday, so naturally I have nothing to do today.

Blocking the prompt for killing fish, Cheng Zongyang called out his own interface and took a look.

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Name: Cheng Zongyang
Age: 15 (years old)

Life span: 15/98 (years)

Realm: Seventh level (bone forging)

Points: 20590
Skills: Archery (11756/20000, Expertise); Pharmacy (865/1000, Elementary);

Exercise:

Body Building Skill (2620/6000, Rank )
Martial arts:

Basic knife skills (4931/5000, some success)
Wind Walker (1199/7000, perfect)
Powerful Vajra Palm (3081/5000, a small achievement)
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The more than 60,000 points accumulated over the past few months, excluding the items purchased every three days, were mostly used for cultivation, which is why I have reached my current level.

Looking at his points, Cheng Zongyang calculated them and frowned, "Why are the points only over 500?"

Cheng Zongyang was a little confused.

There were more than 800 the day before yesterday, now there are more than 300 less.

After opening the door, what caught my eye were wooden racks for drying fish and the strong smell of fish.

Cheng Zongyang ignored him and walked towards Ma San who was processing the fish. There was a kiln next to him.

Ma San and the others didn't know how to fire the kiln, so Cheng Zongyang told Ma San based on the video he had watched in his previous life and asked him to try. Anyway, they didn't know how to do it anyway, so they would get results by trying more.

The technique of firing bricks is a must. The mud house is just a transition, and the brick house is the result.

"Sir," seeing Cheng Zongyang coming, Ma San immediately put down the work in his hands and bowed.

"Yeah. Nothing serious. I just wanted to ask if there are fewer fish in the stream these past two days?"

Hearing this question, Ma San nodded immediately and said, "Your Excellency is wise. I had thought of reporting this when you came back today. There are indeed fewer fish in the stream now than before. Of course, the ones that are missing are all big fish."

Cheng Zongyang nodded, this was understandable.

After several months of non-stop fishing, it is normal for the number of big fish to decrease.

But small fish are meaningless and are not caught.

He thought for a moment and said, "It's okay. We'll catch as many as we can. We'll stop when the number of fish per day is less than 300."

You also have to set up a fishing ban for yourself.

In the past few months, nearly 70,000 to 80,000 fish have been caught, most of which have become dried fish, which can be considered overfishing.

If you don't exercise restraint, I'm afraid there will be no qualified fish in this stream in the future.

But it is enough to show that the fish catch in this stream is extremely amazing.

"Yes, sir." Ma San replied.

"By the way, how much dried fish are left to be processed?" Cheng Zongyang couldn't help but ask.

"Sir, according to your previous instructions, the first and second floors of the safe warehouse are used to store fish. Excluding the first and second batches, it is estimated that there are more than 50,000 fish left. It is almost full."

Hearing this number, Cheng Zongyang also sighed.

If it weren't for the points, he really wouldn't want to catch fish.

The role of points is obvious. Not only can they buy a lot of items, but they also give him enough points to practice, thus allowing him to reach his current level of strength!

Although he couldn't defeat the strange beasts that had sonic attacks, he could still take down the Tiger King and the Wild Boar King in a head-on fight with some time.

He even simulated a fight with a "clone" that was the same as himself to continue improving his combat experience.

"Let's smoke these fish. It's faster than drying them naturally. I'll sell them gradually later."

There are too many fish, so we have to speed up the processing.

He will give a batch to the villagers for exchange later, and he plans to sell the rest.

If he could not explain why the raw fish was still fresh after being sent from Luoyang to Xiangyang, he would have wanted to sell it directly.

Not only can you make more money, but you can also clear out inventory quickly.

"Yes, sir." Ma San nodded. It's just that he can't be separated, he's too busy.

Cheng Zongyang also said at the right time: "Six more people will be added later, so you can work much faster. By the way, have you thought of a way to make fish balls?"

Ma San was somewhat delighted when he heard Gao's first words, but the last sentence made him smile bitterly:

"Sir, there is no way for now, unless we can make a bone crushing tool that can crush fish bones. Otherwise, there is really no way to quickly make fish into the fish paste you mentioned.

However, I have also thought of another way, which is to use a stone mortar and pestle to pound the fish into minced fish. This method can crush the fish meat and the fish bones at the same time, but I guess there will be a lot of bone residue. "

Cheng Zongyang also knew that this was the problem. If there was a bone crusher, would there be any need to think so much?

But the way of the mortar...

It seems to be the most convenient way at present, right?
"You can always give it a try." Cheng Zongyang nodded and said, "As long as you think it's feasible, just give it a try. What I value is the result."

Ma San said, "Then wait until the adults get more people in, so that I can be free to work as a mortar."

Cheng Zongyang smiled and said, "If nothing unexpected happens, it will be available tomorrow."

　Thanks to my book friend [A Snail in the Book City] for the reward of 100 book coins, I appreciate it!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)