Shopkeeper Qin nodded, "Yes, as for food, Mr. Lu, as you know, we who are in the food smuggling business, what we need is food."
Seeing that he was helping, Lu Bai gave him a piece of advice, "It's almost done. When the Northern Dynasty's troops and horses are strong, they will attack when the time comes. You will suffer first."
Shopkeeper Qin reassured Lu Bai, "If we don't have enough food to go north, we will go south as well."
Lu Bai was surprised, "It's strange. Going south from Yongle City, wherever you go, it's not a land of fish and rice. It's a fertile land. No matter how bad it is, there are mountains, water, and woods. It's also familiar to the south of the Yangtze River. When will the world be full of words?"
Are you going to our barren land to sell food to the south?"
Shopkeeper Qin smiled and said, "Master Lu, don't you know this?"
Nowadays, porcelain, tea, silk, and medicinal materials are expensive, and many places in the south of the Yangtze River have replaced rice with mulberry. People in the south of the Yangtze River now have money but no food. The price of food has skyrocketed. Now, selling food to the south of the Yangtze River is the time to make money.
"Really?" Lu Bai looked back at Gu Qinghuan.
He didn't expect that Jiangnan, which was the granary, was now short of food. This was not a good place to cook.
Gu Qinghuan also frowned.
Lu Bai nodded and agreed to Shopkeeper Qin, "As long as your price is right, you will make a profit and we will make a profit. If there is any excess grain, I can transfer it to you."
But it is limited to excess grain.
The grain in Yancheng is different from other places. There are many manors in Yancheng, and the grain is produced in these manors. The common people may work as farmers in the noble manors in the upper city area to earn some subsistence rations, or they may do other things.
Make a living.
If you want to raise grain from Yancheng, in addition to the grain produced by Lu Bai's own manor, you have to buy grain from wealthy households. These wealthy households are not short of money. They are the best at manipulating grain prices to do business.
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Therefore, buying grain in Yancheng is the most difficult.
However, there is a lot of food in the bull demon's valley, and now that there is a middle valley, you can also grow food. Lu Bai decided that some fertile fields can be cultivated around the middle valley in the future, and then professional monsters can plant them.
Now in Jiangnan, which is a granary, the price of food remains high, and Lu Bai has to be vigilant.
In the event of a flood or drought, the first problem will always be food shortage.
Lu Bai thought about this and asked shopkeeper Qin to report any news about smuggling in Youji Cloth Village to the people at Shunfeng Villa in Qingshui Town. Lu Bai and others left the Qingshan Gang.
"Food in the south of the Yangtze River is expensive." Lu Bai muttered, "This is too unbelievable."
"There's nothing surprising." Gu Qinghuan didn't take it seriously. "In order to make money for the Eight Great Sects, the aristocratic families dare to do anything, even lying on the people to suck blood, they dare to do it."
If there are ten times the benefits, they can disregard propriety, justice and integrity; if there are one hundred times the benefits, they will not care about killing thousands of people; if there are one thousand times the benefits, their own fathers and sisters can make deals.
If it were ten thousand times the benefit——
"Do you know why this dynasty is so proud of the Southern Capital? It's not that the Northern Dynasty is too strong or has too many practitioners, but that the eight major sects have too many things to fight for." Gu Qinghuan said.
These cultivation sects are like a bottomless pit, frantically devouring money and medicinal materials.
In order to ensure their immortality, they must wear light silk clothes, eat five stones of loose food, all kinds of delicacies from mountains and seas, monster meat and animal blood, use fine porcelain from official kilns, and live in famous mountains and rivers, or on cliffs thousands of meters high.
Either by the Taotao River, or on the top of the snow-capped mountains, or on an isolated island, there are many pavilions, pavilions and pavilions.
The place they live in is gorgeous, but these places are difficult for ordinary people to go to. If you want to achieve success, it is no less than fighting a war.
"It can be said that the Eight Major Sects are the blood-sucking insects lying on the Southern Dynasty." Gu Qinghuan said.
This is also a side effect of the decline of imperial power.
Lu Bai returned to Qingshui Town with sadness and helplessness, packed up his things, and prepared to return to Yancheng.
Yan Cheng has been away for too long, and if he doesn't go back again, something might change.
There is also Zhongshan Valley. I wonder how Wanger is managed now.
Of course Erha had to follow him back. Also accompanying him to Yancheng was Yun Niang. She had now become Lu Qinghuan's maid, standing respectfully beside him and serving Lu Qinghuan and Lu Bai very attentively.
Hong Tailang is also preparing to return to his royal court.
He made an appointment with Lu Bai to meet again at Shunfeng Warehouse in Qingshui Town in more than a month so that he could continue to search for Lian'er's whereabouts.
However, what Lu Bai didn't expect was that Yang Liangting would follow them back to Yancheng, "I am homeless in Yongle City without a father or mother. Once you leave, I wonder if the people from Xichang and the prefect will
Will come to take revenge on me again."
Therefore, after much deliberation, Yang Liangting decided that it would be best to follow Lu Bai to Yancheng.
Erha and Hong Tailang immediately became alert.
Hong Tailang said: "You, what do you mean?"
Erha looked unkind, "I want to take this opportunity to curry favor with my brother-in-law. You are so beautiful!"
Erha strongly requested to enter the city with Lu Bai.
"Get out!" Lu Bai was angry.
He is a Jinyiwei, so bringing a monster into the city is nothing.
As for taking Yang Liangting back to Yancheng——
Lu Bai is not a philanthropist, and he will not raise an idle person in vain, "You, what will you do?"
Yang Liangting scratched his head in embarrassment, "I, I, I was originally a student of the academy. I originally planned to go to the capital to take the exam this year, but now I'm afraid, I can't -"
Lu Bai understood.
It's just useless.
The only use may be to become a teacher in the academy under his powerful family.
In Lu Bai's Haoqi sect, while practicing martial arts, the disciples also have to go to school, and they even have to be divided into civil and martial arts in the end - those who have the potential to practice martial arts continue to practice martial arts, and those without the potential to practice martial arts are instead trained as Shunfeng Inn, which is used by the bank.
Talent, let alone in Yancheng, is a very unique teaching model in the whole world.
However, Gu Qinghuan's eyes lit up and she asked: "Did you win the lottery?"
Yang Liangting nodded.
Gu Qinghuan turned around and glanced at Lu Bai. There were a few literate people in Lu Baihao's academy, but there were really not many people who were truly knowledgeable. Lu Bai didn't want to hire some old scholars because he wanted these old scholars to be able to follow the rules.
If he uses his ideas to teach students, they will scold Lu Bai for insulting the sages' books.
Therefore, the vast academy has been supported by a few unsatisfactory scholars found by Lu Qinghuan.
Now, if Lu Bai brings back Yang Liangting, a talented scholar, he will still be able to support his appearance.
If he goes to Haoqimen Academy twice, and then sends him to the capital to take the exam, and if he passes the general examination or palace examination, Haoqimen Academy may become famous and he can support himself.
Lu Bai caught Gu Qinghuan's look and pretended to be reluctant: "I can take you to Yancheng, but you have to teach me and you have to teach as I say."
Yang Liangting hurriedly agreed, "No problem, no problem, as long as you follow the big people, everything will be fine."
Damn it!
Lu Bai finally understood that this was also a man who cared about his sister.
Now Lu Bai was curious about what his sister was like. She was loved by everyone and liked by monsters.
After making this agreement, it happened that Shunfeng Warehouse had a batch of goods to be transported to Yancheng, so Lu Bai and the others set off with the convoy.
This time, Erha and Yang Liangting rode in a carriage.
Lu Bai and Lu Qinghuan were riding in a carriage, and Yun Niang never left their side.
On the road, they traveled smoothly and did not see any monsters.
During breaks, Lu Qinghuan would occasionally test Yang Liangting's knowledge. Although Yang Liangting didn't answer questions fluently, he still had merits. Gu Qinghuan would sometimes give him some pointers, which made Yang Liangting admire him and he benefited a lot.
"I didn't expect you knew quite a lot." Lu Bai was surprised.
In the aspect of imperial examination, Gu Qinghuan actually studied it very deeply.
Gu Qinghuan said proudly, "When you get to the city, go and ask around. Miss Gu Si was famous back then. Many people regret that she is a girl."
When Gu Qinghuan was in her boudoir, she was studying this in order to gain the false reputation of being a talented woman.
She can't say that she has thoroughly studied the books of sages, poems, songs, and eight-part essays, but she can still speak deeply about them.
She told Lu Baizi that Yang Liangting was still talented. Now that she had given her guidance, he could still be ranked number one, number two, or third overall, but he could still be ranked among the best.
This talent is worth cultivating.
Lu Bai nodded and reassured Lu Qinghuan that this talent would never be able to escape because his sister was here.
In just five days, Lu Bai and the others returned to the Rabbit Cottage.
Afterwards, Lu Bai parted ways with the convoy and asked the convoy to take Yang Liangting back to Yancheng, while they went to Zhongshan Valley.
Lu Bai originally thought that Zhongshan Valley was in chaos.
After all, Wang'er is still young, so he may not be ruthless enough to take care of Zhongshan Valley as quickly as he can cut through the mess.
But contrary to Lu Bai's expectation, the middle valley is now peaceful, and the monsters live and work in peace and contentment, each performing their duties.
The only difference is that there are many different things in the middle valley.
For example, a checkpoint is set up at the entrance of the valley. All things transported in must be inspected and recorded. Where they are transported, what their purpose is, etc., must be detailed and clear.
After entering the valley, the first thing that came into view was a huge stone tablet, with words engraved on it: The tablet was erected to mark that the people of Zhongshan are not distinguished by high or low, high or low, and are not divided into monsters. They are born equal and born free;
Zhongshan's method is to practice justice, pursue light, not oppress, not restrict, not exploit, not use force, and seek truth——
Lu Bai and Gu Qinghuan looked at each other, Wang'er did a good job.
They walked around the stone monument and saw that the middle valley was in full swing. The buildings in the valley were being torn down and rebuilt; the buildings on both sides of the valley were also being demolished.
After some inquiring, Lu Bai found out that Wang'er took advantage of the monsters' escape from the middle valley and took all their land and houses into the hands of the Valley Lord's Mansion. He then re-planned the middle valley and turned the valley into a commercial district.
On one side is a residential area.
When Lu Bai and others were passing by, they saw Ye Ying, Huniu and other Haoqi Sect disciples directing some monsters to construct.
These monsters are bull monsters, wolf monsters, rabbit monsters, and horse monsters among them.
These monsters are all Lu Bai's people now. Not long after Wang'er stabilized the Zhong Valley, Nao Nao finished busy with Yanshan and retreated from Yanshan. They all gathered in the Zhong Valley, and they happened to help Wang'er rebuild together.
Middle Valley.
Their arrival made Wang'er breathe a huge sigh of relief.
She was very busy before.
After killing the jackal demon, the deputy captain of the Zhongshan Guard, Wang'er was completely unrestrained.
She carried the demon-slaying sword and led the Zhongshan Guards from the end of the valley to the mouth of the valley, killing all the evil forces who took the opportunity to cause chaos, smash, loot, and burn like autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves.
The poor monsters in the middle valley still remember the scene at that time.
The girl in red is holding a sword and walking slowly in the valley.
On her feet, the bells jingled.
At her feet, blood flowed like a river.
Her originally white ankles were stained with blood, there was blood on her slender and well-proportioned calves under her skirt, and the sword in her hand was dripping with blood. The blood turned black, blacker than the red dress on her body.
The girl shows no mercy and kills people with her sword.
Even though the monsters from the evil forces knelt down and begged for mercy, the sword was not polite. With a flash of sword light, it shot through the air and killed all the evil monsters.
Then, Wang'er did not let go of the monsters outside the Zhong Valley that kept harassing the Zhong Valley.
She wandered around outside the middle valley for several days with her empty demon-slaying sword, and finally the bodies of the monsters were brought back one by one using bullock carts.
The monsters in Zhongshan Valley should remember this sentence from now on: If they offend me in Zhongshan Valley, they will be killed no matter how far away they are!
The monsters outside the valley also remembered Wang'er.
Remember this girl in red who kills monsters with a sword, and the blood on her hands is brighter than the red clothes on her body!
Lord of the Middle Valley!
The monsters who were watching in the middle valley were unwilling to leave and kept to themselves. After all the chaos was swept away like the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, and the middle valley returned to order, they felt relieved.
At least, they in Zhongshan Valley have hope of survival.
It's just that this hope is so unreliable. After all, the Valley Master is a human being and they are monsters.
Since ancient times, demons have taken different paths.
But then, the Valley Lord's Mansion promulgated many laws to protect the lives and private property of the Valley residents, which made them feel more at ease - the Valley Lord has the demon-slaying sword, if you want to grab it, just grab it, don't use these fancy ones, and now
The promulgation of this indicates that this matter is very likely.
The monster who didn't leave had a reassurance in his stomach.
After all this killing and both carrot and stick, Zhongshan Valley was completely stabilized, like a piece of blank paper, ready for Wang'er to do whatever she wanted, so she used everything she learned from Lu Bai.
If you want to be rich, build roads first, have fewer children and plant more trees.
What else is public-
She also took all the vacant land into the possession of the city lord's palace, and then planned, constructed, and prepared to rent it out in the future.
What surprised Lu Bai the most was that Wang'er also established various institutions, tried to separate government orders, decrees, and military orders, and established different systems for each. He also tried to establish something like the Laoshizi Presbyterian Church.
All in all, this middle valley allowed her to toss around blindly, and she was actually doing it with a lot of excitement.
When Lu Bai and Gu Qinghuan arrived at the Valley Lord's Mansion, Wang'er was sitting on the table, his legs swaying, the bells ringing, and his delicate feet stretching playfully.
In front of her, there was a sand table with a planning sand table for the entire Zhong Valley.
"The roads must be wide. In residential areas, at least two carriages can pass side by side. A road must be left in all areas to reach the bottom of the valley. Roads in commercial areas must be wide to facilitate the flow of goods. By the way, public transportation lanes must also be left." Wang'er gushed.
talk.
She had heard Lu Bai's description of this aspect when she was a child.
Wang'er has always longed for a city like this, and now that it can be realized under his own hands, he is extremely happy.
"Public transport lane?" The people below were puzzled.
"It's a car that runs on a certain route at a fixed time. It can attract customers and facilitate people's circulation." Wang'er said, "When they circulate, that's when business comes."