Chapter 179: We Want Food
This huge fleet slowly sailed into Ulleungdao, and as soon as a fortune boat approached the dock, a middle-aged man with a slightly chubby figure jumped off the boat, and he happened to see Li Ming and Song Tao in the distance.
"Brother, I miss you guys, haha...... Don't you want a woman, brother, I haven't done anything else this year, just to help you find women everywhere. ”
After he finished speaking, he turned around, pointed to the huge fleet behind him, and laughed: "Brother, these more than 100 ships are all the women you want, haha...... Brother's road, it's ......"
When Li Ming and Song Tao heard this, their eyes suddenly darkened, and a mouthful of blood spurted out.
The two of them now have a feeling of wanting to hug their heads and cry, God, do you want to play with our brothers, you don't give it when you want it, and when you don't want it, you send it here in piles. Whining......
As soon as Song Shiping walked in front of Li Ming, Li Ming grabbed his hand and said with tears streaming down his face: "Brother, I ......"
Seeing Li Ming so excited, Song Shiping waved his hand and said: "Brother, what are you doing here, who are we with, brothers, don't fix that useless, we'll see you later." ”
After he finished speaking, he smiled at Song Tao next to him and said: "This year has exhausted me to death, I heard that you need a lot of women, I ran several provinces in a row, but this woman has made too much, my own boat is not enough at all, so I have to put my old face on my face and ask friends from Fujian and Guangdong to help pull these women over." ”
Song Tao laughed twice when he heard it, he really couldn't say anything else now, he could only break his teeth and swallow it in his stomach, who let him say so much at the beginning. People are making great efforts now, and if this time things are not done carefully, there will never be a ship coming to Ulleungdo in the future.
Li Ming took a deep breath, forced himself to endure the depression in his heart, and said with a smile: "Brother, don't say anything this time, you will be my brother in the future, and I will also say that, let's see you in the matter." ”
Song Shiping is also very excited, he doesn't know how to help now, he has been summing up when he went back last year, since he wants to have a relationship with these overseas people, it is not interesting to make a small fight, if you want to make a big one.
So this year, as he himself said, he went out of his strength and mobilized all his resources to send a large number of women from various provinces. Although it didn't cost him much, he owed a lot of favors.
People like them are as big as the sky, sooner or later they have to have a day to pay back, and one day if someone opens their mouths and coughs, even if it is a big thing, you will have to be there. Or you don't want to mess around at sea.
Li Ming led Song Shiping directly to an assembly room, took a few exquisite things to Song Shiping, and asked him to take a closer look. Li Ming didn't take out everything, but only picked a few. The water flows for a long time, and you have to come and go often in the future, don't let others lose their freshness, anyway, these things are their exclusive business.
The company's commercial department has also developed a beautiful picture book for customers to see, but it is not in stock, if you want, you can only see it next time. Anyway, I'm going to hook you in the heart, this time I pulled the goods back, and I want to come over next time.
Although Song Shiping has already appreciated the charm of these modern products last time, he still likes it this time. With a wave of his hand, he asked for thousands of each. I also got a lot of matches, soap, mosquito coils, umbrellas, and other popular goods.
The next thing is to talk to Song Shiping about the deal, and they didn't appear. Shuangshuang sent his men to work in the next room, while they sat in a assembly room and slowly sipped tea.
Song Shiping picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea beautifully, no matter how he calculated this transaction, he made a lot of money. So now he's in a really good mood.
He smiled and said to Li Ming: "Brother, my brother has been busy for this year, and the way of women in the provinces has been stepped out." When I go back this time, my brother will pull you a few more times, and you don't have to thank me, brothers. ”
"Poof...... Poof......"
Li Ming and Song Tao squirted out the tea in their mouths almost at the same time, sprayed Song Shiping on the other side, and then coughed violently, making Song Shiping very wolf.
"Brother, I'm sorry...... We're choking, come on...... Take this rub ......."
Song Tao hurriedly handed Song Shiping a silk handkerchief, and was embarrassed to compensate. Li Ming breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Brother, you Lu Ziye, I don't know if you can get grain, a large amount of grain, I will collect as much as I want, the price is negotiable." ”
Song Shiping was stunned for a moment, and then was embarrassed: "I didn't say it, so I should help my brother." But it's hard to say about other shipowners, no one wants to pull it. If you want to say that those heroes in the river sell some food, it's nothing, and they should make some hard-earned money. But how can the gentlemen on the sea take a fancy to that thing, not to mention the weight, the key is that it is not profitable. And you are too far away from here, it is better to toss a hundred trips of grain, than to toss a trip of raw silk and porcelain. ”
Li Ming smiled bitterly: "Brother, you should help me this time, my brother will never let you run in vain, the price is easy to say, we are really short of food this year." You're going to help your brother this time no matter what. ”
When Song Shiping heard Li Ming say this, he immediately laughed and said: "It seems that brother, you are really short of food here, then I will help you Zhang Luo Zhangluo, but Daming's grain is not surplus, and if you want a large amount, these grain merchants will definitely smell it, hold on to the grain and not let go, and sit and wait for the price of grain to rise."
There is a lot of rice in Siam, you can have as much as you want, and the price is cheap. But it's too far away from you to pull it over. I'll ask your friends in the south to see if I can help you get some upside down. But after a toss, it would be nice to run at most once this year. ”
Li Ming listened to Song Shiping's words, and felt that this was the case in his heart. He thought for a while and said, "Then please brother, you will show me both sides, and my brother will thank you here first." ”
Song Shiping led the fleet away, but Li Ming and Song Tao looked at the nearly 10,000 Ming women on Yuling Island and wanted to cry without tears, and now there are still fleets sending women here.
This year, several northern provinces in Daming have been hit one after another, and it cannot be said that this year, it has not been very good in the past few years. There are more victims in Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Henan, and people are now the least valuable.
These women can go with you if you give her half a piece of bread, so as soon as the owners of these Ming ships heard that they wanted women here, they hurriedly began to collect women everywhere and send them here. A woman is tens or hundreds of times the profit, otherwise these shipowners could be so active.
After a few days, there were finally no more boats coming. More than 10,000 Ming women have been sent back to Vladivostok by three landing ships one after another, and I don't know if the people in the company should cry or laugh when they see these more than 10,000 Ming women.
Song Tao walked to Li Ming's side, frowned and said, "Dude, we should prepare now, even if they send food over, it will take a month to come and go." ”
Li Ming nodded and said, "Yes, this time is not the same as before, there are already more than 200,000 people in Vladivostok, and now there are more than 10,000 women." That's nearly 100 tons of grain a day, and we used to load two truckloads of thousands of tons of rice in Sakai Port, and you haven't forgotten it for a few days.
If in modern society, one or two hundred thousand tons of grain may not be nothing, but in this era, the level of production is still very low, and the yield per mu of crops is pitiful. Now the Ming Dynasty still uses grains as the main grain to cultivate, corn and potatoes have not been officially introduced, and one or two thousand tons of grain is a lot of money. ”
Song Tao was not as pessimistic as Li Ming, he smiled and said, "If you want me to say, it's not a big deal." Isn't it just a little bit of food, I don't believe it yet, let's take someone to grab it, if not, we'll go to Japan again. ”
Li Ming shook his head and said: "Japan's grain is not surplus, Sakai Port is also regarded as a distribution center for Japan's grain trade, we robbed there once last year, and it is estimated that we will not be able to grab much this year." As for the rest of Japan, how much can be grabbed from east to west. After all, looting is a last resort, and it is best to find a stable and reliable grain trading channel.
Now the company is negotiating with North Korea, and if we reach a grain deal with them, it will be able to solve some of our food shortage. If Song Shiping and those famous ship owners solve some more problems, it is estimated that it will be about the same. ”
Song Tao frowned and said: "We can't rely on others now, the plan has not changed quickly, once something happens to these boat owners and Song Shiping, then let's cry." ”
As the Ming ships left one after another, Li Ming and Song Tao also returned to Vladivostok with the landing ships, carrying the last batch of Ming women. When they returned to the committee, they found that a board committee was being held here.
Li Ming walked into the house and said hello to everyone, and then told everyone about Ulleungdo, everyone was full of wry smiles, no one thought that things would be like this, it was really worse.
Hu Wei said with a solemn face: "Now the population of Vladivostok is close to 260,000, and our grain can only last until mid-May, and before the autumn harvest, there is at least a shortage of more than 15,000 tons." The workload of the Liao people is very large, and because our non-staple food structure is not perfect, many Liao people need about a pound of grain every day. Especially now that the Liao people are eating on the basis of work share tickets, we can't supply them in limited quantities at all. ”
A committee member next to him thought for a moment and said: "If we really can't do it, we should simply implement a state of emergency, implement the same rationing system for grain as it was at the beginning, and appropriately reduce the daily food supply, so that the current food shortage can also be alleviated." ”
Wang He shook his head and said: "This is not appropriate, once we arbitrarily change the policy, it will leave a very bad impression on the people of Liao, and then our efforts for a whole winter will come to naught." ”
Gao Jianguo also nodded and said: "This new labor system is a resolution of our board of directors, how can it be changed." Although the situation is critical now, it is far from the time of life and death. Therefore, it is necessary to do what is said and done, which is the principle that our Far East Company must follow, both now and in the future. ”R1152