"Shouzhe, where did you get fifty or sixty thousand dans of grain?" Gongsun Qiang took a deep breath and said almost in disbelief.
The Shanyang Gongsun family is considered powerful, owning 10,000 to 20,000 acres of fertile land. But even so, the grain output in one season does not reach 50,000 to 60,000 dan! Not to mention that the family's fertile land must share the profits with the tenant farmers, and
Taxes are paid per mu every year, and there are also grain reserves, insecticide powder and other consumption.
It can be seen from this that these 50,000 to 60,000 dans of grain are an astronomical figure. Even in ordinary times, it is extremely difficult to obtain so much grain at once, let alone the current situation in the world.
"I bought it from Qian's Trading Company through a friend's relationship." Wang Shouzhe said, "Uncle, without further ado, let's go to [Jucaizhuang] first, and the carriage will follow."
Because Gongsun's carriage was used to transport minerals, the cargo cars were specially reinforced. The horses pulling the carriage were also made of heavy-duty draft horses from the North with strong physiques and full endurance. Each carriage used four to five horses, and they were able to pull the carriage easily.
It can pull thousands of kilograms.
Bought through a friend relationship?
Gongsun Qiang's eyelids twitched. Where did such friends come from? Can you give me a dozen? With envy, jealousy and a little disbelief, he took the lead to follow Wang Shouzhe to [Jucaizhuang].
Jucaizhuang is one of the properties of the Qian family, and is a place specially used to store various bulk goods. Many bulk goods often cost tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of loads, etc., so it is unnecessary to transport them to Changning Acropolis.
As for the fear of being attacked and robbed, that's just a joke.
Let’s not talk about the strong armed forces in this Jucai Manor. Let’s just say that no one dares to have the slightest evil thought even if the Qian family from the wealthy Longzuo family is placed there.
He went through the gate of Jucaizhuang to ask for an audience, and within a few moments the money manager Qian Xue'an came out with a dark face, as if he didn't want to give Wang Shouzhe a good look.
Afterwards, he made a handover on behalf of Qian, and the two parties re-drawn a contract, in which Qian "repurchased" the insect killer powder from Wang Shouzhe.
This price is very reasonable, 10,000 dry gold in cash and 60,000 dans of aged grain in stock. After buying back the original 5,000 bags of insecticide powder, Qian can sell at least 15,000 to 20,000 dry gold. Naturally, it is not
Will lose money.
Regarding such "embarrassing" matters, the shopkeeper of Qian's Changning branch did not even think of meeting him, and entrusted everything to Qian Xue'an. The shopkeeper who had never shown up had obviously already thought about it and passed the responsibility for all mistakes on
Qian Xue'an is the master of Qian.
Therefore, when Qian Xue'an was assisting Wang Shouzhe to go through the formalities, his face was so gloomy that water dripped from his face, and he did not want to say a word to Wang Shouzhe from the beginning to the end.
After everything was settled, he threw Wang Shouzhe a stack of gold tickets and a road guide for 60,000 dans of grain, and left angrily.
Wang Shouzhe was stunned for a moment when he saw such fake and real acting skills. He felt deeply in his heart that once Qian Xue'an successfully promoted to the Lingtai realm, he would definitely be a great person in the future.
After completing the formalities, Wang Shouzhe found Gongsun Qiang who was waiting outside: "Uncle, the procedures for receiving the 60,000 tons of grain have been completed. When your people arrive, let's start transporting the grain."
Gongsun Qiang's body was greatly shaken, and he was stunned. He had really "bought" sixty thousand dans of grain. This great nephew was really incredible.
Soon, a convoy of twenty carriages driven by Gongsun Qiang slowly arrived, bringing with them eighty strong mining slaves.
In the piled-up granaries, old grains were packed in rice bags. One bag of rice weighed exactly one hundred kilograms per load. But the mine slaves easily carried three or four bags and started loading them into the truck.
"Uncle, how much can be loaded into one cart?" Wang Shouzhe had never seen such a large amount of food in his two lifetimes. Even though he had already predicted it, the volume and quantity were still far beyond his imagination.
"Load it, just load it, load it on a hundred loads. Our carriages are all specially reinforced. The heavy draft horses in the North are not simple enough to pull." Gongsun Qiang's eyes have also started to turn red. He has lived a lifetime, naturally.
I have never seen so much food piled together.
Given the power of the Shanyang Gongsun clan, it is enough to store 20,000 tons of grain all year round, enough to feed thousands of strong laborers for a year. The Shanyang Gongsun clan's tenant farmers, miners, and slaves, plus family members, etc., add up to at most still.
Thousands of people.
Hundreds of dan? That’s tens of thousands of kilograms of grain...
Wang Shouzhe was slightly stunned, which was unexpected. This is indeed a fantasy world. Not only are ordinary people much stronger, but even the power of this heavy-duty draft horse in the North is so powerful. What's more, this is not a spiritual beast-level war horse, otherwise it would be even more powerful.
.
Those mining slaves were obviously used to doing heavy work. Every four people were assigned a carriage, but they had to go back and forth six or seven times to load the carriage. The special ore-pulling carriages were overloaded with grain.
But even so, it is only two thousand tons.
According to this mode, it can't be hauled thirty times? Come on, let's haul it slowly. Anyway, we don't expect to finish transporting this batch of grain in a short time.
Fortunately, at this time, Qian Xue'an appeared again. He still said with a cold face: "We at Qian's Trading Company attach great importance to goodwill and will never embarrass our customers. You can rent our heavy-duty carriage, including the driver.
Twenty coppers a day includes the rations for the driver and the heavy draft horses, and you are responsible for loading and unloading."
It is very obvious that Qian Xue'an took the risk and came to assist.
But the uncle Gongsun Qiang on the side almost spit out blood. Although the price offered by the other party was reasonable, it also weakened his hard work, didn't it?
Originally, Gongsun Qiang wanted to take advantage of this help and shamelessly asked his nephew to give him some food.
"This way we can make money to take care of things." Wang Shouzhe said happily, "Then let's rent another thirty carriages."
The number of carriages owned by Qian's firm far exceeds that of Gongsun's, and their business is spread all over Longzuo, so the cargo capacity of their carriages is of course extremely high, no less than that of Gongsun's carriages.
When all fifty carriages were loaded, they drove all the way out of Jucaizhuang.
Jucaizhuang is only ten miles away from Changning Ferry. Under normal circumstances, a carriage can arrive there in less than an hour. However, Changning Ferry is crowded with people and Wang Shouzhe doesn't want to make a big fuss for the time being to avoid unnecessary complications.
After the carriage passed the three forks, it took the road to Shanyang. After another two or three miles, it turned a corner toward Anjiang and arrived at the entrance of a dense forest. From here, the carriage could no longer enter. But there was no way inside the dense forest.
After walking for more than a hundred steps, you will reach a vertical cliff five or six feet high. Under the cliff, there is a natural inlet twenty or thirty feet wide.
At this time, the sixth uncle Wang Dinghai had already received a letter from his family and was waiting here with his fleet, and also built a sloping temporary plank road. The boats included fishing boats and ferries. In short, he brought all the boats that the family could use.
Already.
Although transportation in this way is difficult, it is very concealed.
It took about 250 steps from the carriage to the dense forest to the cliff and the boat. Wang Shouzhe asked the mining slaves and the generals to stand in position, one person at three steps, to deliver the food in a relay.
After everyone got used to it, they discovered the benefits of this simple human transportation line. It was stable and orderly, and the efficiency gradually improved. The speed of loading was finally able to reach a load in one or two breaths, and it greatly saved the time of running back and forth.
and physical strength.
In just over an hour, all fifty carriages of food were miraculously loaded and unloaded. Afterwards, the carriage team returned to Jucaizhuang to get the next batch. Wang Shouzhe followed the fleet and crossed Anjiang all the way to the [Fenggu Gate]
.
There are more people in Fenggu Farm. There are 200 households of tenant farmers, and it is easy to spare 150 strong laborers. Using the same method, the rice grains are transported through Fenggu Gate and temporarily stored in
Inside Fenggu Farm.
There are not enough ships on the inland river. There are only about five or six ships. We have to move slowly on this last line.
The difficult construction of the transportation line was successful. While Wang Shouzhe relaxed, he also became strongly dissatisfied with his own transportation line.
The first is the over-reliance on public ferries and the lack of privately developed small hidden piers.
Secondly, it is inconvenient to go from Anjiang to the inland river. Because the water levels on both sides are inconsistent, a single lock cannot be opened for a long time at will, otherwise it will cause waterlogging. Regarding this, we must find a way to build a lock that can allow ships to pass.
Furthermore, the family has obvious shortcomings in ship transportation and carriage transportation. Perhaps with the current scale of the Wang family, this shortcoming is not obvious, but as the family continues to grow, this shortcoming
It will seriously hinder the development of the family.
It seems that it is urgent to establish our own and complete transportation channels.