It was just dawn, and Wang Damao got up and pressed the well and washed his face with his hands, rinsed his mouth, and wandered around the shed. He found that he was safe and sound. He was relieved. Wang Damao was from Yanggu County. When Wu Song was working in Dutou, Yanggu County, he was fighting bullies in the market. Wang Damao was the one who was bullied by the bully to buy firewood. Later, Wang Damao joined the construction team of Tongda Big Cars Store, built the escort agency, and built the car shop. He was left with hard work everywhere. Due to his good skills and knew some of the words, Wang Damao slowly became the foreman. He came to Danluo Island. He was not afraid of hardship or distance. Unexpectedly, he was appointed as the general manager of infrastructure in Danluo Island, responsible for the construction of ports, camps, residential areas and port commercial streets. There might be more construction in the future. At this time, the craftsman in charge of bell ringed the copper bell and shouted: "Get up and go to work, work, work."

The craftsmen rubbed their sleepy eyes one by one, got up from the shed, put on their clothes, took the washbasin to collect water and wash their faces, and then started the day's work.

Some went to build roads, some went to pick stones, some went to build foundations, and some went to build walls. In short, everyone was busy with their own things. In addition to the general manager Wang Damao, there was also a squadron leader for every hundred people and a small team leader. It was very convenient to manage, and everyone was in charge of their own affairs.

The breakfast was not eaten until about **. The craftsmen still had a lot of work. Except for a few people who were lazy, most craftsmen were very hardworking. After all, the Tongda Cart Store recruited them when they were in trouble and gave their families a life.

Qingzhou, Linqu, Gongsun Sheng brought more than a dozen Taoist boys to serve porridge in the poor mountainous areas with people from Tongda Big Cart Train. This was just a drop in the bucket and he had no meal. Gongsun Sheng often persuaded some big families to open warehouses to save the people. Not all the rich are unkind. Gongsun Sheng's actions won the support of many people, and the situation of the victims was greatly alleviated.

Early this morning, Taoist children cooked twenty pots of porridge, and farmers who volunteered to help maintain order and distributed porridge to everyone. Suddenly, nearly thousands of strong men came, all of whom were twenty-three-year-old strong laborers.

Gongsun Sheng was shocked, worried that there would be bandits to rebel.

"What do you do? The porridge is only for the young and old, and the strong men do not give it." Gongsun Shengdao.

At this time, a wise man said, "Minister Gongsun, we all know that you have a good relationship with Wu Song, the boss of the Tongda Big Car Company. Please tell me a relationship and recruit us all, do miscellaneous work, and be a guard, and don't have wages. You can just give your family a hundred kilograms of food a month."

"This." Gongsun Sheng was a little embarrassed and said, "There are three to five thousand families in the surrounding area, and each household has 100 kilograms of grain per month, which is an astronomical figure. The commander of the military does not have so much food at all. When the food price rises in difficult years, it is even more difficult to purchase food."

"Okay, okay, we can do any job, build houses, build roads, and mines without fear of hardship or fatigue." Everyone said one after another.

"Okay, I'll try it." Gongsun Sheng agreed.

Sure enough, the next day, Tongda Dacheshang recruited another thousand craftsmen, but these thousand craftsmen worked in Yishui County and were very tired. They were the silver mines, coal mines and lime kilns under the charge of Zheng Tianshou. The silver mines in the mountains of Yishui County have low taste and are low-yield ore, but as long as the labor cost is suppressed, it is not impossible to do it. Now, in the years of famine, the labor cost is low, which is a good time for mining.

The Yishui area produces bluestone for burning lime. Now Wu Song plans to vigorously develop Danluo Island. There are too many houses that need to be built, so the amount of lime is also huge, so it has to be burned. Yizhou Prefecture is near the sea, and Liu Tang built a port at the junction of Mizhou Prefecture and Yizhou Prefecture, and transported it to Danluo Island by a huge cargo ship.

The situation in Qingzhou, Gaotang and other places was far more serious than expected. Gongsun Sheng did not wander around idle. It is expected that at least 600,000 people would be affected, close to the population of the two counties of Qingzhou Prefecture, and there was no less than 300,000 food reserves. Although Gongsun Sheng, an old Taoist, sometimes he was a Taoist priest, and he was in love with the people and could not bear to starve all over the ground.

Gongsun Sheng rode back to Dongping Prefecture, and Wu Song was checking the development of various industries around, and then went to the police yamen. This was his job.

My brother-in-law Cheng Zhi is also here, drinking tea and chatting with Wu Song in the yamen. Although this kid is less than eighteen, he is not good at being too scheming and has many ideas, and he is deeply loved by Wu Song.

"Brother, Qingzhou and Gaotangzhou have at least 300,000 victims who lack food. I also hope that my brother will lend a helping hand to save the people and the fire." Gongsun Shengdao.

Wu Song said: "300,000 victims, 30 kilograms of grain per month, are 9 million kilograms of grain. What's more, it takes at least four or five months to help the people completely get out of the predicament. Work-for-relief also requires recruiting nearly 70,000 to 80,000 people to save so many people. Even if I sold me, Wu Song, I, can't afford so much money."

Gongsun Sheng said: "I beg my brother. I really don't want to see the tragic situation of hunger on the ground." Gongsun Sheng also knelt down.

When Wu Song saw this, he quickly helped Gongsun Sheng up and said, "Okay, I'll find a way. You have to cooperate with all your strength."

"As long as my brother is willing to find a way, I can let the old Taoist go begging along the street," said Gongsun Sheng.

First, Wu Song mobilized all the funds and borrowed a lot of money. Even the treasury of Dongping Prefecture used it, secretly purchasing 30 million kilograms of grain and hoarding it, and did not distribute it. As Wu Song's vigorous purchase of Dongping Prefecture's Jeju Prefecture began to rise, speculators felt that the opportunity had come.

In the next few days, rumors spread from Dongping Prefecture and Jeju Prefecture that Lord Cheng, the governor of Dongping Prefecture, was going to build a large-scale construction, recruit 100,000 strong men to repair the infrastructure of Dongping Prefecture, and pave the way and dig the river.

Some people also say that Cheng Wanli is heartless and cannot bear the nearby disaster victims to starve and freeze, so they decided to provide relief to 300,000 victims in Qingzhou and were preparing to purchase 30 million kilograms of grain. A few days later, news came from the Dongping Prefecture's yamen that after the winter began, the official road of Dongping Prefecture would be overhauled, and at least 80,000 people would be recruited, each person would be given 30 kilograms of rice as wages per month.

In Xuzhou Prefecture and Yingtian Prefecture, speculative grain in Yingtian Prefecture took action quickly. For a time, grain merchants collected grain near Jeju Prefecture, and even wealthy families followed suit and hyped up grain.

The main ones were foreign grain merchants, who decided to make a fortune by taking advantage of the disaster. The price of sorghum rice rose to 2.5 cents per kilogram, and at the beginning Wu Song bought it only kilogram per kilogram. Now that the price is high, the goods are quietly released. As the recruited road construction army has arrived, more refugees have poured into Dongping Prefecture one after another, and the prefect Cheng also sweats on his forehead. The grain merchants one by one, and at this time Wu Song secretly sold the grain to the grain merchants at a high price.

Gongsun Sheng said: "Brother, I don't understand. We bought grain merchants at a low price, so why did we sell them at a high price? How can we use to help the victims?"
Chapter completed!