"Brother Yang, the purchase of sulfur, saltpeter, and charcoal must not be stopped. The collected materials must be handed over to Kelsang in a timely manner.
One more thing, I heard that China has cut off its food aid to southern Xinjiang. I hope that your Yang family can secretly help the five tribes in southern Xinjiang with food. If the money is not enough, I can give you another thousand magic weapons to replace it.
It is inconvenient for me to show up, so please keep it secret and no one is allowed to mention it."
There was no signature, but Yang Ershi knew that this letter must have been sent by Ye Xiaochuan!
Ye Xiaochuan is not dead!
He must be in Luoyang City, right on this street!
Yang Ershi's guards did not find the child who sent the message. Yang Ershi knew that it was because Ye Xiaochuan did not want to see him.
Come to think of it, in the past year, the whole world has been looking for Ye Xiaochuan, but there is no substantive news at all.
There is no clear information on whether Ye Xiaochuan is alive or dead.
Today, Ye Xiaochuan wrote a letter to Yang Ershi, which was already taking a very big risk.
After Yang Ershi returned to the shop, he burned the letter to ashes with a fire stick.
Ye Xiaochuan showed up to contact him in downtown Luoyang, which shows that he trusts him extremely, and also shows that what he said in the letter is more important than Ye Xiaochuan's own life.
Yang Twenty-year-old is not very young, but he is very moral. Otherwise, he would not be able to support the entire huge Yang family business empire.
Since Ye Xiaochuan trusts him, he must fulfill the tasks that a friend should do.
Facts have proved that Ye Xiaochuan did not misjudge the person.
For many years after Ye Xiaochuan disappeared, the person who kept in close contact with him was Yang Ershi.
But this is only a secret between the two men.
Yang Ershi never mentioned anything about Ye Xiaochuan to anyone.
Including his wife Li Wanjun and sister Yang Shijiu.
There are many people in this world that Ye Xiaochuan cannot let go of.
Other friends, such as Baili Yuan and others, don't need to worry about him.
What he is worried about are the five ethnic groups in southern Xinjiang.
After the riot between the wizards in Cangyun Mountain last year, the relationship between Southern Xinjiang and China deteriorated. Later, the alliance was restarted. Although the five tribes also sent representatives to participate, the relationship did not improve much.
Nowadays, the five tribes in Southern Xinjiang are nominally part of the Central-Earth Righteous Alliance and obey the orders of the alliance leader Yu Jizi. However, this is only on the surface. Secretly, Yu Jizi cannot really command the wizards of the five tribes in Southern Xinjiang.
In view of this, the Chinese imperial court cut off food supplies from southern Xinjiang last year.
Fortunately, the war in southern Xinjiang has subsided, and people of all ethnic groups have returned to their villages for production work. Ye Xiaochuan also gave them more than seven million taels of silver last year, so they don't have to reach out to ask for food for China.
Ye Xiaochuan contacted Yang Ershi this time for two things. One was that the black powder business could not be stopped because of his disappearance. This was a sharp weapon to deal with catastrophes in the future and must be continued.
The second is to use Yang Ershi's channel to secretly help the five ethnic groups in southern Xinjiang solve the problem of food shortage.
Yang Ershi was sitting in the shop, tapping his fingers slowly on the table.
Ye Xiaochuan had already spoken, so he had to help.
But now Ye Xiaochuan has already become the big devil that everyone in the right way has killed. The Central-Earth Court and the Cangyun Sect have also clearly stipulated that no grain of food can be transported into Southern Xinjiang without their permission.
So this matter needs to be done carefully. Southern Xinjiang is full of mountains. Although the Zhuang people have stepped up their efforts to cultivate farmland on the gentler hills and wastelands in the north, their grain output is not high, and they still lack a large number of agricultural tools and high-quality grain seeds.
, if China does not support food, the people in southern Xinjiang may really
There are situations where people starve to death.
After some thinking, Yang Ershi dismissed all the guards, leaving him and shopkeeper Yu alone in the room.
Shopkeeper Yu's ancestors were all members of the Yang family for three generations, otherwise Yang Ershi would not have placed him in such an important place as Luoyang as the shopkeeper, overseeing the Jiuzhou Grain Store in more than thirty nearby cities.
Shopkeeper Yu said: "My boss, is that letter just now important?"
Yang Ershi nodded and said: "The letter is not important, the person who delivers the letter is important. Uncle Yu, you are experienced. I have a question to ask you."
Shopkeeper Yu said: "You're welcome, boss. Do you have any questions?"
Yang Ershi said: "If I want to secretly transfer 10 million shi of grain from the Yang Family Grain Store every year, how can I balance the account and prevent anyone from finding any clues?"
Shopkeeper Yu was startled and said, "My boss, is there a shopkeeper from a grain store who embezzled grain?"
Yang Ershi waved his hand and said: "Don't be nervous, no, I want to secretly allocate 10 million shi of grain."
Shopkeeper Yu felt relieved and said: "One stone is one hundred catties, ten million stones is one hundred thousand catties, this is not a small amount. Just transporting this piece will consume a lot of manpower and financial resources..."
Yang Ershi said: "We don't have to think about transportation. We just want to make the account even. Is there any way?"
Shopkeeper Yu immediately understood that since the transportation problem was not considered, there must be cultivators transporting grain in Qiankun storage bags. He mused: "Last year, our Yang family's grain store was monitored by the court, and every half month
Officials came to check the accounts to prevent us from reselling the grain privately. It would be difficult to transfer ten million shi from one state without being found out.
However, they were making false accounts from multiple places at the same time.
Under the strict control of the court officials, if we want to balance the accounts, we can only start with the three major areas of grain collection, grain distribution and transportation."
Yang Ershi became interested and said: "Tell me carefully." Shopkeeper Yu said: "When collecting grain, there is a saying, it is called returning the sacrifice to the public. The court likes to play this trick when collecting taxes and grains. The big frame for weighing grain
, after filling it with grain, if you kick it a few times, some of the grain will leak out.
Food means consumption and donation, and it is usually confiscated. Our grain bank does not say this when collecting grain, but the grain farmers will definitely not have any objection to making up the price difference of consumption and donation. If these tens of millions of grains are all from the Central Plains
If the earth emerges, they should be able to gather two million stones without leaving any trace in the sacrifice.
food."
Yang Ershi said: "Two million stones is too little."
Shopkeeper Yu said: "When the grain is released, we can also make a payment and the grain will be piled up in the granary. According to the imperial decree, if there is no natural disaster or there is an urgent need for grain, the grain entering the Taiping warehouse will be rotated every five years.
The grain in the Taiping Cang is reserve grain, also known as heavenly grain. There have been bumper harvests in the past few years. Even if there is a natural disaster, it is unlikely that the heavenly grain in the Taiping Cang will be used at will.
The imperial court was short of manpower, so most of the Taiping warehouses built this year were managed by our Yang family and used as the Yang family's granary.
The grain is in the warehouse. After five years of being eaten by rats and the grain shrinking, the weight will be somewhat reduced. We can play tricks on this. Secretly allocating five million stones is not a problem. The last three million stones,
It can be transferred through transportation. Grain is generally transported by water. When we deliver grain, we convert some grain into sand and soil and load it on the ship. In stormy days, we will sink the grain ships carrying sand and soil. This is
It's a waste of time, so you can hide it from the truth, and it will be difficult for the officials of the court to find out anything."
