The refugees have bright smiles on their faces and work harder.
But Kou Ji, Cao Tong, and Liu Heng couldn't laugh.
The three of them hid in the tent, and both Liu Heng and Cao Tong looked sad.
Cao Tong hesitated to ask Kou Ji, "Fourth brother, can your method work? Tomorrow, if the court's grain has not arrived, it will be bad."
Cao Tong knew how much of the grain piled up outside the tent was grain.
Li Di sent people to search the Kou Mansion, Wang Mansion, and Xiang Mansion. The food raised was barely enough for the refugees outside the tent to eat a meal.
There was not a single grain of grain in the remaining grain bags.
It's all sand!
When Kou Ji learned that Li Di had sent people to raise grain, he and Liu Heng returned to the city of Bianjing, stopped the steward of Li's house who was transporting grain outside the northern city gate, and hired a large number of carriages. A large pile of sand was pulled outside the north gate to fool the refugees.
The refugees were really fooled by this method.
But this move is obviously not a long-term solution.
By this evening, the food they raised will be eaten up.
Tomorrow, the refugees will discover that the grain outside the tent is sand.
When the refugees find that they have been deceived, no one can predict how much noise they will make.
The only thing he can be sure of is that once Kou Ji loses his faith in the refugees, all Kou Ji's previous efforts will be wiped out.
Kou Ji moved the brazier in front of him, looked at Liu Heng and Cao Tong and asked, "Do you have a better way?"
Liu Heng and Cao Tong looked at each other, sighed at the same time, and lowered their heads.
If they had a way, they wouldn't sit here and sigh.
In the same way, if Kou Ji had a way, he would not make such a bad move.
When things have reached this point, they can only find a way to stabilize the hearts of the refugees, and then slowly figure it out.
If Kou Ji tells the refugees now that there is no food in the camp where the refugees are resettled, then the refugees will surely riot.
Instead of telling the truth to the refugees now, it will cause the refugees to riot.
It's better to lie to them all night and fight for one night, maybe tomorrow there will be a turnaround.
"I'll go to the South City Gate to have a look..."
Liu Heng got up suddenly, muttered, and got out of the tent with a black face.
If the refugees really rioted, they don't really have much to do with him.
He just came to help, and did not take the job of resettling the refugees.
The reason why he was so worried and so upset was also for Kou Ji.
After all, Kou Ji is the main person in charge of resettling the refugees. If the refugees riot, whether it is Kou Ji's fault or not, the court must deal with Kou Ji and give the refugees an explanation, so as to calm the people of the refugees.
This is a trick used by the court.
Cao Yu was also worried about Kou Ji, so after Liu Heng left, he gritted his teeth and said: "I'll go back to Bianjing to see again... I have a lot of good friends with my Cao family. I will ask them to borrow some food. Maybe I can borrow some."
After saying this, Cao Tong arched his hands to Kou Ji and left the tent.
Cao Dong and Liu Heng tried their best to help Kou Ji, but Kou Ji was not at peace.
After the two of them left, Kou Ji threw the matchsticks in his hands into the brazier, and said quietly: "You two are doing your best to help me, and I can't sit still..."
Kou Ji got out of the tent, summoned the leader of the Kou Mansion, ordered him to enter Bianjing, and invited Mu Chong, Qian Le, and Meng Weizhong.
After the three of Mu Chong arrived, Kou Ji invited the three of them into the tent.
After sitting down.
Qian Le held his stomach and said with a smile: "Kou Industry Department, the three of us have prepared everything you want. Most of the things have been shipped, and only 10% of the things you temporarily added are left. It’s still on the way, and it will definitely arrive in three days."
Qian Le is also a fox.
He seemed to guess that it would be no good for Kou Ji to find the three of them at this time, so he was ready to stop Kou Ji's words as soon as he opened his mouth.
Mu Chong took Qian Le's words and smiled: "Kou Industry Department, we promised that your promise has been fulfilled. I don't know when you promised our promise, when will it be fulfilled?"
Meng Weizhong nodded in agreement.
If it were to change to the past, the three of them would definitely ask Kou Ji what else to order.
But now, the three of them never mention continuing to help Kou Ji.
Kou Ji heard the thoughts of the three of them from the words of the three of them.
Kou Ji stared at the three of him and said: "Lee Xiang sent people to raise food in the city. The three should already know, right? Otherwise, the three won't say such things."
The three of Mu Chong looked at each other and smiled dryly.
Li Di didn't hide it while raising grain in Bianjing.
Because Li Di knew that no matter how concealed it was, it would be useless. If someone wanted to pay attention, it would be easy to find out about him raising food.
So when Li Di sent someone to the Kou Mansion to borrow grain, the three of Mu Chong knew about it.
It also used this incident to speculate the fact that the court escorting the grain and grass team went wrong.
They discussed it in private, and felt that Kou Ji's job of resettling the refugees might have to be done.
They smashed so much money and so many materials, it is very likely that they will also be in vain.
The reason why they are still willing to hand over the last 10% of the supplies to Kou Ji is also an idea.
Facing Kou Ji’s questioning, Mu Chong smiled and said: "I know something... Li Xiang raised food in Bianjing, and he didn't hide it, so many people in Bianjing knew it."
Meng Weizhong said solemnly: "It's just that the major grain merchants in Bianjing have no grain to sell to Li Xiang. Even if they have grain, they are secretly hoarding them, preparing to make huge profits in the winter.
Therefore, Li Xiang did not raise much food.
Without food supplies, the Ministry of Industry and Trade may be in serious trouble here. "
Qian Le pointed to the outside of the tent and said, "If the Kou Industry Department is willing, we can find a way to help the Kou Industry Department support the young and strong among the refugees outside."
"This is the only one we can help the Ministry of Industry of the Invaders."
Mu Chong added.
The words of the three are pretty.
But Kou Ji heard their thoughts.
Kou Ji raised his eyebrows, stared at the three of them, and said in a deep voice, "You want the 40,000 young men outside?"
Mu Chong nodded together.
Kou Ji said coldly: "Forty thousand young men have already met the needs of an army."
The expressions of Mu Chong's trio changed.
Mu Chong hurriedly said: "Kou Industry Department, we don't have any other thoughts. We just didn't want the things we invested in the early stage to be overwhelmed, so we agreed to those young men.
We just want to take advantage of the 40,000 young men outside the tent to establish several large wrought iron workshops as soon as possible to forge the kind of iron you mentioned in the Ministry of Industry.
In this way, the things we invested before were not in vain. "
Qian Le and Meng Weizhong nodded together.
They are also in this mind.
Kou Ji also guessed the thoughts of the three people, so when he heard Mu Chong's words, he didn't feel surprised.
They also do this to stop losses.
At the same time, the benefits obtained are expanded as much as possible.
This is in line with the style of their businessmen.
It's just that Kou Ji's purpose is not just to build a wrought iron workshop and a textile workshop.
From the very beginning, his goal was to settle these refugees, and through the hands of these refugees, to promote the skills in his hands, so as to gain the name of the Ministry of Industry, so that the Ministry of Industry would be taken back from the general supervisor and the young government supervisor. that power.
"No..."
Kou Ji resolutely rejected Mu Chong's proposal.
The complexions of Mu Chong's trio instantly turned pale.
Mu Chong gritted his teeth and said: "Kou Industry Department, we are businessmen. The reason why we promised to help you resettle the refugees is to make money from the refugees. Now the problem of resettlement of the refugees has gone wrong, and it is obvious that the money is lost.
If we don't want to stop the loss, the money we invested in before will be completely wiped out. "
Qian Le nodded and said, "You are an important minister in the DPRK. You have to protect the court and the people. The three of us have nothing to say. But since we have invested money, we can't see our blood lost.
Although we are businessmen, we are also common people and your collaborators. You have to maintain us. "
Kou Ji stared at the three and said seriously: "I now need to feed the refugees for one day, and the court's food will arrive in one day. As long as we overcome this difficulty, the tens of thousands of refugees will help us. Work, help us make money.
You can't just look at the immediate benefits, but look at the long-term.
Is it 40,000 refugees who help us make more money, or tens of thousands of refugees help us make more money, you know very well in your hearts.
You have invested so much in the early stage, and now, you should not give up halfway. "
Kou Ji's words are very reasonable and very exciting.
But the three of Mu Chong seemed to dislike money suddenly, and they were not interested in the pie drawn by Kou Ji at all.
The three of them just looked at Kou Ji and smiled awkwardly, without speaking.
Kou Ji frowned, feeling a bit of a bad thing.
He said solemnly: "Do you know something?"
The three of Mu Chong hesitated and did not speak.
There are some things they can't say, and if they say it, the rules will be broken, and they will want to do some business later.
Kou Ji sullenly asked, "Tell me!"
Mu Chong got up first, arched his hands, did not speak, and was about to leave.
The same is true for Qian Le.
After Meng Weizhong got up, he hesitated for a long time, arched his hands, gritted his teeth and said, "You should send someone to check the Changping warehouse in Kaifeng Mansion."
Kou Ji's eyes widened in vain.
Mu Chong and Qian Le stared at Meng Weizhong and shook their heads.
Meng Weizhong sighed and said to Kou Ji: "Please also ask the Kou Industry Department to help me keep it secret, don't tell outsiders, I said it."
After saying this, Meng Weizhong clung to Kou Ji and left the tent first.
Mu Chong and Qian Le also left.
After they left, Kou Ji stood there for a long time.
The words of Meng Weizhong have been heard by others, and it may be necessary to guess a bit to understand the deep meaning.
But Kou Ji understood the meaning of Meng Weizhong's words almost the moment Meng Weizhong finished speaking.
He suddenly rushed out of the tent, grabbed a guard from the Kou Mansion, let the guard ride a horse, and led him all the way to the southern gate of Bianjing City.
"Where is Lee Sang?!"
Kou Ji reached the southern city gate and shouted loudly.
Li Di heard Kou Ji's shout, his heart beat, he dropped the spoon that was distributing the porridge to the refugees, and ran to Kou Ji.
"What's the matter? The victims found out that there was no food? Started making trouble?"
Li Di stared at Kou Ji on horseback and asked anxiously.
Kou Ji jumped off his horse, rushed to Li Di, grabbed Li Di’s arm, gritted his teeth, and asked in a low voice: "Grandpa Li, have you sent someone to the Chang Ping warehouse in Kaifeng Mansion to see it? ?"
Li Di didn't understand the meaning of Kou Ji's question at first, and when he reacted, he asked with a look of astonishment: "What do you mean by this?"
Kou Ji glanced left and right, saw someone watching him and Li Di secretly, he pulled Li Di to a place where no one was there, and said in a deep voice: "Someone told me that there might be no food in the Changping warehouse in Kaifeng Mansion. ."
Li Di's old hand trembled, and said in amazement: "How is it possible? If there is no grain in the Changping warehouse of Kaifeng Mansion, where did the first batch of grain come from?"
Kou Ji gritted his teeth and said, "Maybe there is only the first batch of grain in the Changping warehouse of Kaifeng Mansion?"
Li Di's eyes widened and looked at Kou Ji.
Kou Ji continued: "The first batch of grain was delivered at the urging of the court. However, the second batch of grain was looted on the road and burned.
Isn't there anything tricky in it
I didn't feel anything wrong before.
But after hearing people say that there was no grain in the Changping warehouse in Kaifeng Prefecture, I realized something was wrong.
Since the thief named Cyberdang was a disaster victim, he should know the value of food.
The people know the value of food best, and even if they lay down their lives, they will not abandon food.
If he were a disaster victim, he would not be able to burn the food easily.
If he is a disaster victim, it is impossible for you to kill him without even shouting injustice. "
The more Kou Ji said, the heavier his voice became.
The more Li Di listened, the more frightened his heart became.
His mouth was trembling, his beard was shaking, and he trembled: "This... this is impossible..."
He said it was impossible, but he believed what Kou Ji had said in his heart.
Kou Ji said with a sullen face: "Nothing is impossible."
Li Di's face turned pale, "The third batch of grain is on the way, and the old man will send someone to investigate."
With a trembling, Li Di found the soldiers of the Forbidden Army, selected some of the soldiers he had helped, helped, and trusted them, and walked along the official road for the transportation of grain and grass to meet the third batch of grain.
After the people are sent out.
Li Di found Kou Ji and took Kou Ji to the gate of the South City Gate.
When he arrived at the city gate, Li Di followed Kou Ji and asked, "What the hell is going on?"
Kou Ji gritted his teeth and said: "Someone told me vaguely that there is no food in the Changping warehouse in Kaifeng Mansion."
"Who?!"
Li Di eagerly said: "Tell the old man who it is, the old man must ask him personally."
Kou Ji shook his head and said, "I promised him that I can't tell anyone his identity."
Li Di thumped his chest and said, "It's about the lives and deaths of hundreds of thousands of victims. Do you want to stick to this promise?"
Kou Ji gritted his teeth and said nothing.
Li Di scolded a few angrily. Suddenly, as if thinking of something, he stared at Kou Ji and asked, "Is it the businessmen, right? It is not uncommon for officials and businessmen to collude with each other to resell the grain from Changli.
They must have reselled the grain in the Changli warehouse, that's why they knew this, right? "
Li Di's words are roughly the same as Kou Ji's guess.
But Kou Ji still did not speak.
If he had said Meng Weizhong's name, Meng Weizhong would not only be unable to trade in food, but his life would also be threatened.
After all, reselling the grains that are often closed is an illegal act.
This matter is obviously going to be a big deal, and when the court uses a knife to kill people, it won't talk about any affection.
Meng Weizhong took the risk of decapitation and was willing to tell him about it. It was kindness.
He can't take revenge.