Exchanging farm tools for the Yang family's knife method seems to be a very cost-effective business, but it is just a bit of a robbery.

"Are you really short of farm tools, or can't buy them?"

Yang Ye nodded helplessly, there is really no, let alone buy, these days he is so worried that he wants to melt the weapon to make a shovel.

"Consistently!"

Yang Ye stretched out his fingers, shook them several times, and said viciously: "A sickle is always money!" ”

"Shenma!"

Ye Hua glared angrily, "You're not kidding, are you?" ”

Yang Ye shook his head with a wry smile, "This is still the price three days ago, and now I'm afraid it's even more expensive!" ”

Ye Hua is really stupid, a sickle, at best, weighs two or three catties, a thousand copper coins, and there are several catties, could it be that farm tools are as expensive as money?

Grandma's, I knew it was so valuable, what kind of real estate business did I play, just be a blacksmith!

It's no wonder that Ye Hua was dumbfounded, he held his head, thought about it carefully for a while, and finally figured it out, he remembered that when he was in the Northern Song Dynasty, because of the serious shortage of money, the imperial court even used iron instead of copper to cast money, and what was even funnier was that the original iron money was really equivalent to copper money!

It can be seen that although iron is cheaper than copper, it is not too different.

The situation of the Five Dynasties will not be much better than that of the Northern Song Dynasty, although the economic gap is not so big, but it can't stand the war every day, and the good iron is used to build weapons and armor, and the agricultural tools are naturally expensive.

There is another reason, since last year, many people have land, a family of hundreds of acres, a few tens of acres, the demand for agricultural tools has increased countless times.

How many people are willing to exchange the same weight of money for farm tools, but they can't!

When Ye Hua thought of this, he immediately came to his senses.

He jumped up, faced Brother Yang Ye, and said firmly: "I can help with the matter of farm tools, but I don't want your family's knife skills...... Will you take credit? ”

Yang Chongxun scratched his head, "Master Hou, what do you mean?" ”

"How about I sell farm tools to you, I don't have to pay for the time being, and after the autumn harvest, I will pay back at one and a half times the current price?"

Yang Ye took a deep breath, "Master Hou, this interest rate is too low, I'm afraid it's not appropriate......"

"There's nothing wrong with it, not just you, but the rest of the people." Ye Hua made a decision directly, thinking that farm tools were so popular, it was urgent to expand steel production.

Ye Hua decided to build 10 blast furnaces, purchase more raw materials, and hire more people.

He has 6,000 households, but most of them are still working the fields, and some are responsible for buying agricultural products and trafficking them...... When you get busy, you don't have enough people.

"How many more do you have?"

Yang Ye grinned bitterly, "We have nothing but people now!" ”

"That's great!" Ye Hua said with a smile: "Give me 3,000 people first, I want to go to Hebei to transport iron ore, and I have to go to Huaizhou to transport coal, this matter will be handed over to Fu Zhaoxin and Gao Huaide to dredge, and your people will only have to carry it...... By the way, become my worker, buy farm tools in the future, you can enjoy interest-free treatment, outstanding performance, and give a 20% discount! ”

Ye Hua blinked his eyes and encouraged: "It's not easy to settle down, let the big guy exert more effort, first bitter and then sweet, and life will get better and better." ”

What else can Yang Ye say!

He is not only a hot-blooded hairy boy now, from Linzhou to Da Zhou, everything is difficult at the beginning.

Although the imperial court gave land, farm tools and rations, the quantity was limited, and the shortfall was more than seventy percent. Yang Ye couldn't say anything, after all, the imperial court was not rich, and it was already good to be able to do this.

But tens of thousands of people can set up a pot to cook rice, but they can't set up a pot to cook the truth.

Firewood, rice, oil, salt, and all kinds of expenses are not small amounts.

Ye Hua has found a way for them to live!

And also took care of their face, Champion Hou, enough fun!

Yang Ye immediately made a decision, and took out 3,000 of the most capable ones from his subordinates to serve as a transport team for Ye Hua.

Hundreds of acres of land, the family's men, women and children have to go into battle together, if you only have the usual salary, you can only buy a sickle, or a hoe, is it difficult to work alone, others do the staring?

If you can take out a loan to buy it, you can buy a hoe, shovel, sickle, and even a curved plow at once, and then repay the debt slowly, and there is no interest pressure, it is simply pie in the sky.

Hou Ye is really a living bodhisattva!

In order to repay the love of the Hou Ye, everyone threw off their arms and worked hard.

Ye Hua was so busy that it was dark, and the palace opposite was also cloudy, and Guo Wei was so angry that he found Chai Rong and several ministers, including the three envoys.

They were called to the Guanjia Palace, and Guo Wei pointed to the iron pear on the ground and asked them to see for themselves.

Fan Zhen took a look and found that the ploughshare had cracked a deep pattern, almost split in half.

"Your Majesty, it is also a common thing to damage farm tools when plowing the fields, just let them replace them, the old minister thinks that this matter has nothing to do with it."

Guo Wei said with a dark face: "Fan Xianggong, are you worried about me?" No, this is the third ploughshare to be replaced, and I want to ask you, the Craftsman's Warden, the Ordnance Warden, and the Salt and Iron Division, what are you doing? If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools, and the things that are given to me are still so perfunctory, what about the following? Wouldn't it be worse? This is true for farm tools, but what about knives and guns? ”

Several ministers were asked so red-faced that they were speechless.

"Check, check it out for me, come to see me if you find it out, if you can't find it out, don't come!"

After speaking, Guo Wei threw up his sleeves and left.

A few people were left behind, looking at each other.

What else to say, check it out!

Three days later, they gathered together in the political hall again, and Wei Renpu spoke first, "This matter was misunderstood by Your Majesty, in the past, there was also a viewing hall in the palace, and farm tools were also prepared, but no one took it seriously." His Majesty personally cultivated the land, not to mention, but also turned a large garden into farmland, and when there was more arable land, the ploughshare was damaged. Misunderstandings, all misunderstandings! ”

Wang Pu bowed his head and said, "If you misunderstand, Wei Xianggong, you go and explain it to Your Majesty!" ”

Wei Renpu was so angry that his brows furrowed, "Can you explain this clearly?" It's good to say in the palace, but what about outside the palace? Who is in charge of the current craftsman supervisor? The same is true for the salt and iron division, the ordnance and weapons are much worse than before, if you poke it out and annoy that person, the saint will have no face. ”

Fan Zhen's face is pale, he attaches the most importance to the law, but he is legal and humane, and some things are not easy for him to do.

"In this way, let's give that person a breath, let him restrain himself, and if he still doesn't change, make a plan."

As they were talking, someone suddenly came in a hurry to report, "Three ministers, Your Majesty has personally left the palace and gone to the craftsman for a private visit!" ”

"Ahh

The three of them were so frightened that their faces changed wildly, and they hurriedly found their henchmen and hurried to deliver the letter.

Besides, Guo Wei, who was born as a general, cares most about the quality of ordnance, which is shoddy in peacetime, but in wartime, it will lose his head!

He didn't want to wait for the conclusion of several ministers, so he went directly to the Ordnance Prison and saw with his own eyes what the situation was!

The emperor came, and it was the son of Guo Wei's fourth sister, his nephew Li Chongjin, who was responsible for greeting him!

"Greetings to the Holy Driver!"

Guo Wei just snorted with his nose and walked into the Ordnance Prison, Li Chongjin hurriedly followed, raised his eyes and found that the craftsmen were quite diligent, Guo Wei eased up a little.

"How are you doing these days?"

Li Chongjin hesitated for a moment, bowed down and said: "Back to the saint, the minister is diligent and diligent, since taking office, the output of swords, guns and armor has increased by more than 3 times, and there is still spare energy to make some farm tools to facilitate the people, and by the way, to supplement the country." ”

Guo Wei said with a calm face: "Okay, go and bring the farm tools you made and show them to me." ”

Li Chongjin wanted to send someone to get it, but Guo Wei stopped him, but asked the little eunuch next to him to go over, moved a lot of farm tools, and went back to the palace directly to verify.

Sending Boss Guo away, Li Chongjin wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and asked the people around him, "Nothing wrong, right?" ”

"Don't worry, these farm tools have just been bought, okay!"