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Lingzun has a heart!

Seemingly simple words, there are some other flavors, especially when looking at Jin Wenbo, what Su Ke Saha thought of in his heart was not just his father's "sincerity" of "sharing worries for the country", he thought of the vision of the Jin family, and it was indeed not easy for the Jin family to achieve today's career.

In addition to sighing in his heart, Su Ke Saha was not as cold as before to Jin Wenbo in front of him, and there was always some politeness in his words.

"However, this Lingnan is thousands of miles away from the north, and even if there is rice, I am afraid it will not be lucky! Besides, in that place in Guangdong, his own grain is barely enough for local consumption, so how can the excess grain be transported to Beijing? ”

Although they are Manchurians, they also have some understanding of Guangdong, and since the previous dynasty, there has been a serious shortage of grain along the southeast coast. Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong are scarce in cultivated land, rice production is not enough for the people's food, more rely on businessmen to transport rice to help, often "rice prices are expensive", especially Fujian and Guangdong "close to the coast, many mountains and few fields, the people are dense and narrow, and the grain is scarce", although now although it is said that because of the decrease in the number of people, so the grain is enough for local consumption, but it is impossible to have more than how much rice is transported to the north, after all, the number of people is reduced at the same time, the grain production is also greatly reduced.

In the case of a decrease in rice, it is naturally unrealistic to want to transport a large amount of rice out, and Guangdong is located in a remote place in the southeast, even if you want to transport this grain, I am afraid there are ways to transport it.

"Guangdong naturally does not have more than rice to the north, but the Su people, when the slave was in Guangzhou, had visited the local celebrities, which was earlier than the previous dynasty, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong and other places because of the scarcity of arable land, population increase and other reasons, there is a shortage of people's food, and the southeast coast of the "rice production is not enough for the people's food" situation is becoming more and more serious. Therefore, in order to solve the problem of people's food, it can be said that it takes a lot of twists and turns, so there is a "shortage of eastern rice, western rice, sago rice, and foreign rice." "One said."

"The east rice is insufficient, the west rice is enough, the west rice is insufficient, and the foreign rice is enough."

Sukh Saha asked with some confusion as he said this.

"What is this East Rice and what is West Rice? What is foreign rice? ”

Facing Su Ke Saha's question, Jin Wenbo hurriedly replied.

"This eastern rice, naturally is the Jiangnan rice grain, in the old days, Zhejiang, Fujian if the rice grain is insufficient, then the Jiangnan rice grain to help, as for the rice, is the Guangdong rice, so mutual help, barely maintained, but the east rice, sago, there are always shortcomings, so there are merchants to sell foreign rice in Guangdong and other places to solve the shortage of food."

Yangmi?

Frowning slightly, Sukh Saha asked again.

"So what is foreign rice?"

"Lord Huisu, this foreign rice is the rice of foreign countries, Guangdong to the South and South Seas where there are more than 30 countries, most of them are sparsely populated, and there are more than rice, such as Siam, Chenla, port, old port, Annam, Johor, Liukun, Dingjianu and other eight or nine countries more than rice."

Nanyang Native Country?

Although he was a member of the court, Sukh Saha didn't know that there were dozens of soil countries south of Guangdong, at most he knew that there was a Burma south of Yunnan, and as for the south of Guangdong, Annan had also heard of it, but he never thought that there would be rice there.

"You mean that the Nanyang land has a lot of surplus rice?"

Suke Saha looked at Jin Wenbo suspiciously,

"Exactly, but the rice produced by the Nanyang soil country is very large, if it is measured in the mainland, then each stone is worth only two or three dollars of silver, and the price of rice in the mainland, even if the price is the lowest, there is not one or two per stone, so when the slave learned the news, he deliberately inquired around to determine the authenticity of the news."

Each stone is worth no more than two or three dollars of silver!

Although he didn't know how much silver was a stone of grain in Jingshi and Jinan and other places, he only heard this sentence, and Su Ke Sahe suddenly asked in surprise.

"Is this rice so cheap?"

"The slave once inquired around, this Nanyang rice, Annam rice is the most expensive, the most expensive is only five coins of silver per stone, and the cheapest is Siam, because of the flat terrain, so Siam has been rich in rice since ancient times, and the rice is very much, because rice is so easy to obtain, so the price of Siamese rice is far lower than that of other countries. When the price is low, it is not even two coins of silver, and even when the price is high, it is less than three dollars. ”

Jin Wenbo looked at Sukh Saha and told him the price of rice in various places he had explored, and then said.

"Although Siam and other places are far away from my Qing Dynasty, if rice is transported by sea, the minions estimate that the price of rice per stone is not more than five yuan, and if you can buy millions of stones of rice, you can supply the needs of the Beijing master, and the silver consumption is only hundreds of thousands of taels."

Jin Wenbo's suggestion made Su Ke Saha's heart suddenly moved, in fact, now the ministers of the court and the central government can be said to have racked their brains for the matter of rice and grain, after all, for the Beijing division that is heavily dependent on the grain in the south of the Yangtze River, without the grain in the south, the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the capital will fall into the predicament of having no food to eat, although now Zhili, Shandong, Henan and Shanxi are raising grain in every possible way, it is only barely enough to maintain the needs of hundreds of thousands of troops. The food problem of this Jingshi has not been solved, and for this reason, some people even suggested that the DPRK should be ordered to donate food, but for various reasons, it was opposed by others.

For Sukh Saha, as the commander of the Protectors, he doesn't need to be involved in these issues, after all, he doesn't have any good way to solve this problem, so whenever everyone is arguing, he will choose to be silent, not because he wants to be silent, but because he has no other way.

Whenever possible, he naturally wanted to show himself in front of the emperor. Now, Jin Wenbo's suggestion made him see the opportunity, but he also had some doubts.

So much so that he even looked at Jin Wenbo with some suspicion, why did Jin Wenbo tell him about it instead of others? If I am not mistaken, the Jin family's backer in the court is not him Suke Saha.

After a moment of silence, Suke Saha looked at Jin Wenbo and said.

"Jin Wenbo, if I'm not mistaken, the relationship between your Jin family and the Suo family is quite deep!"

Although the Jin family has always relied on Fan Wencheng and other Han people, the relationship with Sony and others is also extremely deep. It is precisely because of this that Suke Saha felt that Jin Wenbo's actions made him a little unable to see through, and he couldn't guess why he came to visit him instead of going to Sony.

"Master Su, in fact, ......"

Jin Wenbo looked at Sukh Saha, he knew that if he couldn't give him a reasonable explanation, I'm afraid this Sukh Saha wouldn't believe what he said at all.

"Actually, the reason why the slave came to visit you is precisely because I hope that Lord Su can bring the slave one or two, after all, the slave is the sixth in the family!"

The minions are the sixth in the family!

At the moment when Jin Wenbo's words fell, Su Ke Saha suddenly understood what he meant, and also knew why this person came to beg him, he was the sixth child in the family, and he was also a concubine, which means that in the future, the Jin family will give him a family business at most, and that family business is just barely enough to make ends meet, how can Jin Wenbo be willing to live such a life?

Hum!

What a Han Chinese!

Looking at Jin Wenbo, who looked a little anxious, Su Ke Saha sneered in his heart, this person actually did not hesitate to sacrifice his own interests for his own future, but at the same time nodded and said quite approvingly.

"Jin Wenbo, if this matter can be done, you will naturally have a great contribution to the imperial court, and at that time, Su will naturally recommend you to the imperial court, but if you want to do this errand, I'm afraid it won't be so easy!"

"My lord, what is the best thing in this world?"

Facing Suke Saha's gaze, Jin Wenbo asked rhetorically, and then patted his ass and said.

"Although this matter is really not easy to do, I believe that as long as there are adults in the court to help, this small thing can be done beautifully for the court, so that the court will no longer have to worry about rice and grain!"

For Jin Wenbo's assurance, Su Ke Saha just smiled slightly, he didn't say anything, the person in front of him was a smart person, and he could be said to be convinced of this, being able to find him among so many people meant that he was a smart person.

"Okay, Wenbai, you go back first, this official has his own stomach!"

As he spoke, Sukh Saha picked up the teacup and served tea to the guests, Jin Wenbo naturally understood, after he said goodbye, the house slave outside the door entered the house and said to Sukh Saha.

"Master, there is also a former Huangzhou prefect waiting outside, waiting for you to summon you, master, do you see it or not?"

Although he is only a domestic slave of the Su family, but the seven-rank official in front of the prime minister, for the prefect of Gong Chengqi's place, this slave doesn't even bother to mention his name, if it weren't for the fact that the person was interested and knew how to give a door money, it is estimated that he would not even be able to pass on this sound.

"Former Huangzhou prefect?"

Thinking that Huangzhou had now fallen into the hands of thieves, Su Ke Saha, who knew that the man was just a fugitive, just wanted to open his mouth and ask the house slave to coax the man out, but after thinking about it, he asked again.

"Oh, did he ever say, what's the matter with him?"

The reason why he changed his mind when he came to meet is also simple, Suke Saha felt that since the former Huangzhou prefect came to visit him, he must have asked for him, but this request must not be in vain, this kind of person will definitely not come here with his own hands, everyone loves to spend money and money, Suke Saha is no exception, if that person takes out the silver, not to mention anything else, he can still do it to save his life, as for the rest, it depends on how much silver he can take out.

"Back to the master, he didn't say anything, but he presented a letter, saying that the master you read the letter and will naturally meet him."

Taking it from the minion's hand, Sukh Saha knew that this letter might be a gift list, tore open the letter, and after reading the contents of the letter, Sukh Saha's face couldn't help but change, and after reading the letter, he said to the minion.

"Where is this Gong Chengqi? Is there still a wait? ”

Sukh Saha himself didn't even notice this, and his tone actually seemed a little eager.