Chapter 263 Celebrity (Part 1)

"Get out." Zhu Bashiyi raised his slight kick and sent Hu Dahai's back half a foot away. It was too embarrassing and too embarrassing. He finally drew the words of the ancients and was also joked by the ancients. If it fell into the hands of Lu Luzeng, it would be considered. After all, he was the second best, and Hu Dahai was clearly a rough man who could not read the big words in the storytelling.

With a little ashamed, he continued to strode towards his mansion, and was about to go home to ask his wife Shuang'er for advice. Wang Jinggong said that he had never said anything similar to Han Feizi. When he met Hu Dahai in the future, he could find the place today. Unexpectedly, after only less than a hundred steps, Yangzhou prefect Luo Ben had already greeted him.

"You are here to advise me not to always go to the workshop." Zhu Bashiyi was ashamed and asked first, "If you dare to say something similar, I will hand over all the more than 600,000 mouths in Yangzhou City to you. As long as you can turn into food, I will definitely accept advice with humility."

"Lord, the lord has misunderstood. I have absolutely no intention." Luo Ben, the prefect of Yangzhou who had been with Zhu Bashiyi for a period of joining the army, was startled and quickly denied it loudly, "Ben came here this time for food."

"Grain, the grain in Yangzhou Guanjian has come to an end again. Is it because someone has hoarded it? Damn, these brave guys, I really should have heard Zhu Chongba's words at the beginning." Zhu Bashiyi felt his head buzzing and hugged his head with both hands.

Recently, he opened up his cannons and weapons and armor. He exchanged more than 300,000 stones of rice from Monk Peng alone. However, in addition to supporting more than 600,000 people and a 100,000 army, he also had to support Zhang Shicheng and Wang Kerou. The food crisis could not be escaped. Almost every ten days and half a month later, he had to worry about this.

However, adventurers who dared to make money in the national crisis in Yangzhou City have been repeatedly banned. The Huaiyang Store had just accepted the government's entrustment to sell a batch of grain at a fair price, and immediately a gangster hired people to queue up to buy all the shares, and then moved the place, which increased by three to five times the price, and sold it to the people who rushed to the news but did not buy the grain.

Roben was ordered to capture a large number of financial owners behind the scenes, cutting more than a dozen heads, but the profit was more than three times the profit, which was enough to make many people forget the danger of being decapitated. Even some ordinary people, even if they have surplus food at home, they would buy a few bags as long as they had surplus money, in case they experienced another Yangzhou fire.

Another method that time and space is most worth learning from when dealing with such things is to supply tickets. However, in this era, there is no photography technology and lack of talents who are proficient in mathematical statistics. Re-creating more than 600,000 people in Yangzhou City is definitely not something that can be accomplished in a day or two. Therefore, in a short time, the Huaiyang Grand Governor's Office could only treat the headache and the feet, and deal with it day by day until the supply and demand of grain and the mentality of the people return to balance on their own.

However, this time, Zhu Bashiyi was obviously worried in vain. Yangzhou prefect Luo Ben quickly took a step back and responded with a smile, "Report to the lord, the treasury has ten days to store grain, so it should not be a big problem to hold on until the Xiabo grain ship arrives. In addition, Yangzhou Road is already in full swing, and the fish, shrimp, eels, crabs, and baskets of wormwood and reed buds in the ground can be used to fill the belly. The people who need to receive porridge every day are less than 30% of the original ones. Even if the grain ships in the south come a few days later, they will not starve to death."

"Huh, okay, just fine, just fine." Zhu Bashiyi heard it, and the heart hanging in his throat finally fell to his stomach. He rubbed his hands and gasped.

He is a grassroots himself, and is influenced by Zhu Dapeng, the soul of his later generations. He really cannot accept that the tragedy of people starving to death in his own ruling area will happen, which will make him wonder if what he is doing is meaningful. Since his group of people still brings disaster, what is the essential difference between himself and the powerful people of the Mongol Yuan?

But Roben's next words made him feel more relaxed. "Ben came to pay homage to his lord this time because he was entrusted by his family teacher. One of his old friends was very good at Tao Zhu's art and had a great business. He heard that we were short of food in Huaiyang, so he wanted to donate 100,000 stones of old rice to his lord, just asking his lord to give him a cup of tea in person to quench his thirst."

"One hundred thousand stones, wouldn't that be more than one million kilograms? It's almost enough for the treasury to support him for a month? Wherever he is, you can arrange for me to see him at any time."

"Lord, this person is a businessman, who claims to be Lu Wenxin at that time." Unexpectedly, Zhu Bashiyi agreed so happily, Robben was stunned and reminded carefully.

"Lu Wenxin." Zhu Bashiyi was also stunned. It took a little effort to correspond to the word Wenxin from his memory with Lu Buwei.

Talking to a literati is just tiring. If there is no memory from another time and space, the two sides will not be able to communicate. But for the sake of 100,000 stones of Laomi, Zhu Bashiyi did not intend to be serious with Robben. He shook his head and said with a smile, "It's okay, there is no food in the world. Since he is a rich businessman, it's time to change something to me. Just arrange it, and I can see him at any time."

"Thank you for your conscience." Robben was overjoyed, bent down and respectfully bowed to Zhu Bashiyi.

In recent days, he has had a headache about this matter and is willing to refuse. The teacher has to give him a face. One hundred thousand stones of grain is indeed painful. I just agree, but I can't figure out the temper of his chief manager. After all, in this era, there is still a clear difference between officials and businessmen. Although Chief Zhu set up a Huaiyang business and became the largest shareholder, if any businessman wants to sit with him, he may be called out by Master Lu, Chen Ji and others as soon as he speaks. Even scholars have to stand and talk in front of the chief manager. Where can you, a vendor, drink tea from a vendor.

"There is nothing to be fulfilled or not. Thank you, and I should thank you. You have made a great contribution. He can still use 100,000 stone of rice to open the way when he is in chaos. I am afraid that this person will not have too little food in his hand. He can really buy it all. The grain shortage on Yangzhou Road will be completely over this year." Zhu Bashiyi had no official airs at all. He reached out to hold Robben and praised him with a smile.

"This?" Robben didn't think as long as his lord, and raised his head, his face full of confusion.

"Let me do this, I'll wait for him at the Grand Chief Executive Office. After you go back, you can arrange for him to come to the Grand Chief Executive Office for tea at any time." Zhu Bashi nodded and continued to smile and ordered, "And your teacher, if you are also in Yangzhou, you can invite him to visit. If you can introduce a big grain merchant to you at this critical moment, he must be no ordinary person."

"Thank you, I'll go and pass on them now." Robben was overjoyed and bowed to salute again. His teacher was unwilling to participate in the imperial examinations of the Yuan Dynasty, so he had a lot of skills, but he was in a misfortune for half his life. After entering the shogunate of the Huai'an General Administration, Robben had long wanted to recommend his teacher to General Administration Zhu, but one was afraid of causing misunderstandings when he was just a first-time visit, and the other was that the teacher was idle and liked to travel around, so he delayed for more than half a year and finally found such an opportunity.

"Please come over, don't go to the main hall, take them directly to the side yard through the side door. Since you are your teacher, even if you are not allowed outsiders, I will invite them to have tea in the side yard flower hall." Zhu Bashiyi pulled Robben up hard and added with a smile.

He has always admired the scholar in front of him very much. He is knowledgeable, upright, and has not much sour spirit of scholars. He knows how to make roundabout and adapt. The only regret is that there are too few scholars like this at present. Even if he holds another imperial examination, he may not be able to choose several.

If the student is like this, the teacher who teaches him must not be too bad. If he can bring the person to his side, he might be another capable helper.

Unlike the officials and rebel leaders of this era, influenced by another soul, Zhu Bashiyi saw everyone as equals. This kind of equality was not deliberately pretending, but was recognized from the heart. So whether it was a businessman or a down-and-out scholar who was not doing his job, as long as they came with kindness, Zhu did not care about rewarding with the greatest kindness. Even if they were here to do business, as long as the transaction was good for each other, Zhu would not refuse because of the different status of the two parties.

Because in his mind, people are only distinguished from each other due to the innate conditions given by their parents at birth, as well as their own temperament and intelligence, and gradually drifted away in their later growth process, but there is no high or low in the soul, no king or the grass-roots people, and no natural justice that tramples on the other party at will.

In Robben's opinion, General Zhu respects himself and his mentor so much, and is just a perfect courteous and respectful person. When people treat me as national talents, I will repay him with national talents. For more than a thousand years, it has spread and inherited the spirit of scholars and officials. It is not without any influence. Just as Zhu Bashiyi bent down, Robben had made up his mind to repay the kindness of knowing his favor in this life. Even if he accompanied his general manager to go to hell in the future, he would smile and never frown.

With this idea, he took a step back and bowed to Zhu Bashiyi's subordinates again, then quickly turned around and walked towards the road. After a while, he brought an old scholar in his fifties and a round fat man back, standing in a regular manner at the door of the Huaiyang General Administration Office, which had just been built for a few days, and bowed to the personal soldier Li Jin on duty, "Join joined the army, and took his mentor Shi Yanduan and the righteous man Shen Fu, and asked the Grand Secretary to meet the General Administration Office, and asked Li Zhengwei to report it on his behalf."

"No need to report it. The governor said that the prefect can bring the guests in directly. He originally wanted to come out to greet you, but as soon as he entered the door, he was blocked by Jiao Dajiang. Now he is checking out the new firearm with Jiao Dajiang in the side courtyard. He has already given instructions to let Bei Zhi immediately release him when he sees the prefect."
Chapter completed!