Ma An came back much faster than Yanbei imagined with the news of the grain prices in various counties. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoIn the early years, after participating in the Yellow Turban, the outlaw who sold horses and transported salt with horses and horses in Yanbei took only five days to find out the prices of grain, horses and other prices in the four counties of Guangyang, Yuyang, Youbeiping, and Liaoxi.

"General, the price of grain in Guangyang is the most expensive, hundreds of thousands of Jizhou refugees have poured into Youzhou, and Liang rice and millet rice have reached 2,000 yuan and one stone; Even corn and grain cost a thousand dollars and a stone, which is not a good choice. The grain in Yuyang County is also expensive, and the corn costs 900 yuan a stone, which is the rush of the victims. However, in the nearest Liaoxi County to us, all the big clans are opening warehouses to sell grain, and the corn is only four hundred yuan, and they are buying war horses at the same time, the best white horses, the price has been as high as twenty or thirty thousand, and they are just ordinary horses, so it is the most suitable to buy grain and sell horses in Liaoxi! ”

Yan Bei scrubbed the stubble on his chin, frowned slightly and muttered: "Liaoxi County, collect white horses?" ”

Gongsun Chan and his sworn brothers are helping him recruit troops. If it was Gongsun Bogui who was buying and selling grain and buying horses...... As for Yan's personal enmity with him several times, can Gongsun Chan sell him grain? Or did he dare to sell the white horse to Gongsun Zhan?

But...... Selling horses to Gongsun Chan doesn't seem to be impossible.

"How did you find out the price of food in four counties in such a short period of time?"

"Back to the general, the subordinates led the cavalry from the straight to Yuyang, to Yuyang before they spread their subordinates to let them go to the counties, which took two days, as for the farther Zhuo County, Shanggu, the way is too far, the released riders have not returned, the subordinates are afraid that the general is in a hurry, so they took the lead in rushing back. In a few days, the news of Zhuo County and Shanggu Dai County will also come back. ”

"No need." Yan Bei smiled, this Ma An deserved to have been by his side for several years, and he did a good job when he was a businessman, he said: "You go to the Xiangping camp outside the city on my behalf, and ask Sima Zhangjaw of the other department, and he will calculate how many white horses were in the battle with Gongsun Zan and Meng Yi, and where they are now, and recall them all to Xiangping." ”

Yanbei remembered several tough battles at that time, and each of them won not a few white horses, just the time when Liu Guanzhang rescued Meng Yi, there were dozens of white horses left.

Although he was reluctant to sell his war horse to Gongsun Zhan, he would ride the mount he bought from him to form a cavalry to fight himself in the future, but if it was Gongsun Zhan who had 'given' him before, he would sell it back for a small amount of money to buy food to tide over the difficulties...... It's also excellent to think about.

"There should be five or six hundred horses, you can use people to form a dozen smaller horse sellers, pretend to be horse dealers in Liaodong, sell six or seven horses at a time to Liaodong, and then buy grain in batches and transport them back, on the way, you can send someone to the Wuhuan subject country to communicate with Zhang Gong, and let him send Wuhuan cavalry to escort them along the way. If someone in Liaoxi asks where the war horses came from, they only say that they are merchants in Liaodong, and Yan sells horses in Liaodong. ”

"Remember, the grain must be transported back 20,000 stone in two months, but don't buy more, if there is a surplus of money, it will be sent back to Xiangping, but the war horse can be sold more, as long as it can be exchanged for money."

After instructing Ma An to finish all this, the matter of purchasing grain is over, and if everything goes well, there will be intermittent grain delivery from western Liaoning in the next two months.

According to the price of 20,000 or 30,000 yuan for a horse to exchange for 400 yuan and one stone of grain, more than a dozen caravans in two months can more or less exchange for 20,000 or 30,000 stone of grain and grass, at least the various troops in Liaodong can balance the balance of payments, and perhaps when this year's harvest is large, there will be a surplus of 10,000 stone of grain.

When the grain is harvested in October, the price of grain will definitely fall, and that is the opportunity to buy a large amount of grain in Yanbei's plan. At that time, even if the entire Xiangping Treasury is emptied, all the food will be exchanged for food.

In the war years, no gold jewelry is as hard currency as grain! As long as there is food, what can't be exchanged?

If he had tens of millions of stone grain in his hands now, the refugees from all over Youzhou would be able to raise an army of more than 50,000 people in the blink of an eye!

Can tens of millions of stone grains? Hey, now he can't even take out 100,000 stone of grain in his hand!

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At night, Yanbei knelt shirtless in the study of the Xiangping mansion, reading the letters sent by Wang Yi from the Goguryeo people in the dim light reflected by the three copper lamps.

Wang Yi said that he had already purchased a house in the capital city of Goguryeo, and with some handicrafts and money from the Han region, he became a guest of his domestic prince, Baqi. However, Wang Yi's letter also mentions the complicated situation in Goguryeo, and the ninth king of Goguryeo, now known as the King of Gugucheon, had seven children, and the prince was only one of them, and he was far from being able to influence the situation in his country on his own.

Moreover, Goguryeo had a peculiar external environment, and Goguryeo and Baekje went out to Buyeo together, and then attacked each other continuously, annexing each other's small countries, forming a posture of mutual clamping. Now that there are Xianbei tribes in the northwest of Goguryeo and Liaodong County of the Han Dynasty in the southwest, the domestic situation is already uneasy. And the king of Guochuan is very old, and several princes are vying for the throne...... In a short period of time, I am afraid that it will not be able to do much to Liaodong.

Yan Bei didn't expect this small country on the border to provide him with any help at the moment, and even thought about summoning Wang Yi back to his side to help. At that time, instructing Wang Yi to go abroad and enter Goguryeo was only a retreat, hoping that if Youzhou did not accept him, he would lead Goguryeo to attack Lelang, and then send troops all the way to capture Lelang County and Goguryeo, and send troops from Liaodong to cut off the connection with Youzhou and establish a country.

However, at the moment, it seems that the significance of Goguryeo is far less than the connection with Xianbei, Wuhuan, and Lelang County. Wang Yi is an idle man, and it doesn't have much significance to stay there.

However, in the end, he still did not make up his mind, whether he belonged to Youzhou or not, Yanbei wanted to take the land of Goguryeo and Lelang County into his pocket. Even if he can't use it, he must not let others use it.

Because now this feeling that the southeast and northwest are all imaginary enemies, but they can't send troops to sweep them away, makes Yanbei feel very uncomfortable.

In the west, he had a grudge against Gongsun Zhan, and his relationship with the state capital was not so stable; There is Goguryeo to the east, Xianbei and Xuansu counties to the north, and Lelang County with a huge population of 250,000 households to the west...... In this case, if he even let him change places, if he was Gongsun Zhan, he would never take lightly an enemy like himself who occupied Liaodong County and got a chance to recuperate.

If he is Gongsun Zhan, the easiest way to deal with himself is to take the opportunity of the truce, send his cronies to Jinglu Goguryeo, Wuhuan vassal state and Xianbei three foreign tribes, after a year and a half, he is sure to directly collude with the county officials to fabricate a crime, forcing himself to betray the Han again, and then there will be enemies on all sides, as long as the front can fight a tough battle of both defeats and injuries to drag the elite for a month, and the other three directions can sweep Liaodong County in the blink of an eye.

At that time, I am afraid that I will have no choice but to flee to the sea.

Therefore, Yanbei did not let Wang Yi come back, but also told him not to make any quick moves, just send someone to write a letter about the movements of the Goguryeo government and opposition every month and send it over, and he would send people to greet him at the post on the official road from Xiangping to the border, and put more than a dozen riders waiting for his letter. If there is anything missing, it will be sent by Xiangping, and a letter will be sent.

At the same time, Yanbei also asked Wang Yi to cultivate a few cronies over there, and it was best to infiltrate their court and army, and do this well in about a year, and Wang Yi should come back as soon as he should come back...... There is a lot of chaos around him, and he needs to have cronies by his side.

Now that all matters have been assigned, those people who used to help him have become big people in Liaodong County, and there are few people available around Yanbei.

Now that he knew that Yanbei was working to solve the problem of food shortage in Liaodong, his heart was much easier, and he took Zhen Yao, Zhaozhao, and Tian Yu around Xiangping all day long, in addition to urging the people to continue to reclaim the land, but also urging them to farm and raise mulberry, fish and hunt diligently, and even ordered the county Zhongxiang Pavilion to count the orphaned old and young children in various places, thinking about the preparation of the county school and the county school.

And Yanbei doesn't have much to worry about, just thinking about where to get a group of excellent craftsmen back for Liaodong or for himself.

He was short of craftsmen.

If the Tuntian policy he had discussed with Fu Zhi wanted to be successfully implemented in Liaodong, there was a difficulty ahead that would have to be overcome no matter what. They don't have farming tools...... The swords, guns, swords, halberds used in the war are piled up in thousands of pieces in his arsenal, and some weapons will even rust if they are not cared for. But farm implements? He didn't have any of them.

No, not so absolutely. Tiewu had just made two iron sickles and a ploughshare waiting to be put on horseback.

But what's the use of that? He needed a hoe, a pickaxe, a fork, and a ploughshare, but he had only three blacksmiths and a carpenter in Tiewu, and twenty or so poor apprentices, and even if they were all shirtless, he could only make two sickles a day, and to make a large ploughshare, it would take three days to make a sawing wood to making a coulter.

Yanbei hopes that in a month or two, at least 8,000 field soldiers will be able to devote themselves to the reclamation plan of Liaodong, and by the end of the year, one or two thousand hectares of land will be reclaimed.

But with such a little farm tool productivity, even if the field guards are distributed, what will they use to reclaim wasteland, with hands or spears?

He needs craftsmen, and Liaodong needs craftsmen. Iron Wu piles of broken weapons are waiting to be turned into agricultural tools and new armor in the future; The boats that appeared in Wenxian County in the later days of the water village are still growing in the towering old forests in southeast Liaoning, waiting for the shipwrights to cut them down.

On this night, Yan Bei walked all the way to the treasury of Xiangping with a straight face like a money fan, pouted and drove away the subordinates guarding the treasury door with a jackal-like gaze, and stroked every string of big money and the cake that shimmered golden under the torch with his hand, and made up his mind.

The next day, notices were posted at the gates of Xiangping City, and a book was read out by them, and the county government recruited blacksmiths and carpenters from the division, provided shelter and food, and paid 18,000 yuan a year, with a limit of 100 people; Recruit apprentices, provide shelter and food, 6,700 yuan a year, and 500 clerks.

Yan Bei stood at the head of the city with a pair of black circles under his eyes, looking at the crowds surging below, throwing five hundred gold a day, making his heart drip blood. This feeling, which was more distressing to him than the battlefield fighting, could only be slightly calmed when he thought that the white horses that Gongsun Chan gave him were about to turn into real money...... Tie Wu's productivity, he is smashing it with money, and he will also smash a road to reclaim 3,000 hectares of wasteland!