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"Shou Zhe, where did you get 50,000 to 60,000 dans of grain?" Gongsun Qiang took a deep breath and said in disbelief.
The Shanyang Gongsun family is also considered powerful, sitting on 10,000 to 20,000 mu of fertile land. But even so, the grain output in one season is less than 50,000 to 60,000 tons! What's more, the production of the good land of the aristocratic family has to be distributed to the tenant farmers, and the tax is paid by the mu every year. In addition, there are grain reserves, pest control powder and other consumption.
It can be seen from this that what an astronomical figure these five to sixty thousand dans of grain are. Even in normal times, it is extremely difficult to get so much food at once, not to mention the current situation of the world.
"Bought it from Qian's Commercial Firm through a friend." Wang Shouzhe said, "Uncle, it's not too late. Let's go to Jucaizhuang first, and the carriage will follow."
Because Gongsun's carriage needs to transport minerals, the cargo car is specially reinforced. The horses that pull the carts are also selected from the Northland heavy-duty draft horses with a strong physique and full of endurance. Each carriage uses four to five horses, which can easily pull thousands of catties.
Bought through a friendship
Gongsun Qiang's eyelids twitched, where did this kind of friend come from, can you give me a dozen? With envy, jealousy and a little disbelief, he followed Wang Shouzhe to Jucaizhuang first.
Jucaizhuang is one of Qian's properties, and it is specially used to hoard all kinds of bulk goods. Many bulk goods cost tens of thousands, tens of thousands of tons, etc., and it is unnecessary to transport them to Changning Weicheng.
As for the fear of being attacked and robbed, that is just a joke.
Leaving aside the fact that the armed forces in Jucai Village are good, no one dares to have the slightest evil thought even if the signboard of the wealthy Qian family in Longzuo is placed there.
Asked for an interview through the gate of Jucaizhuang, after a while, Qian Xuean, the owner of Qian, came out with a dark face, as if he didn't give Wang Shouzhe a good look.
Afterwards, he made a handover on behalf of Qian's, and the two parties drew up a new contract, and Qian's "repurchased" the Miecongsan contract from Wang Shouzhe.
This price is very reasonable, 10,000 dry gold cash, 60,000 dan of aged grain in stock. After buying back the original 5,000 bags of insecticide powder, Qian's can sell at least 15,000 to 20,000 dry gold, so naturally he will not lose money.
Regarding such "disgraceful" matters, the shopkeeper of Qian's Changning branch didn't even want to mention it, and entrusted Qian Xue'an to handle everything. The shopkeeper who didn't show up had obviously thought about it long ago, and shifted the responsibility for all mistakes to Qian Xue'an, Mr. Qian.
Therefore, when Qian Xue'an assisted Wang Shouzhe to go through the formalities, his face was already "gloomy" to the point of dripping water, and he didn't want to say a word to Wang Shouzhe from the beginning to the end.
After finishing everything, 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 also taken aback when he saw such fake acting skills. I felt in my heart that once Qian Xuean succeeded in being promoted to the Lingtai Realm, he would 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 dan grains have been completed. When your people arrive, let's start transporting the grains."
Gongsun Qiang was stunned and stunned. Really, he actually "bought" a total of 60,000 dans of grain. This big nephew is really incredible.
Soon, Gongsun Qiang's 20-carriage convoy came slowly, bringing along with them 80 strong miners.
In the piled up granary, the old grain is packed in rice bags, and a bag of rice is exactly one hundred catties to a load. But those miners easily picked up three or four bags and began to load them into the car.
"Uncle, how much can a cart hold?" Wang Shouzhe had never seen so much grain in his two lifetimes. Although he had estimated it in his heart, the volume and quantity still far exceeded his imagination.
"Put it on, just put it on, put it on a hundred dan. Our carriages are specially reinforced. The heavy-duty draft horses in the Northland can't be pulled by vegetarians." Gongsun Qiang has already started to turn red. I have never seen so much food piled up together.
With the strength of the Shanyang Gongsun clan, it is enough to hoard 20,000 dans of grain all year round, which is enough for thousands of strong laborers to feed for a year. Shanyang Gongsun's tenant farmers, miners and slaves, plus family members, etc., still have a population of thousands at most.
Hundreds of loads? That's tens of thousands of catties of grain...
Wang Shouzhe was slightly taken aback, a bit unexpected, this is indeed a fantasy world, not only ordinary people are much stronger, even this kind of northern heavy draft horse is so powerful. What's more, this is not a spirit beast level war horse, otherwise it would be even more powerful.
Those miners were obviously also used to heavy work, and every four people were allocated a carriage, but the cart was loaded after six or seven trips back and forth. The special mine carts are overloaded with grain.
But even so, it was only two thousand dan.
According to this model, it must not be pulled thirty times? Come on, pull it slowly, anyway, I don't expect to finish transporting this batch of grain in a short time.
Fortunately, at this time, Qian Xue'an appeared again, and he still said with a cold face: "Our Qian's firm pays the most attention to goodwill, and will never embarrass customers. You can rent our heavy-duty carriages, including the driver Twenty coppers per day, including the rations for the coachman and heavy draft horses, and you are responsible for loading and unloading by yourself."
It was very obvious that Qian Xuean took a risk and came to assist.
But the uncle Gongsun Qiang on the side almost spat out a mouthful of old 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 to have the cheek to ask his nephew to give him some food.
"In this way, I will be in charge of labor." Wang Shouzhe said happily, "Then let's rent another thirty carriages."
The number of carriages owned by Qian's business far exceeds that of Gongsun's, and their business is all over Longzuo. Of course, the cargo capacity of the carriages is extremely high, which is not inferior to that of Gongsun's.
When the fifty carriages were fully loaded, they drove out of Jucaizhuang all the way.
Jucai Village is only ten miles away from Changning Ferry, and under normal circumstances, it will take less than an hour for a horse-drawn carriage to arrive. However, there are many people at Changning Ferry, and Wang Shouzhe doesn't want to make a big splash for the time being, so as to avoid complications.
After the carriage passed the Sanchakou, it was on the way to Shanyang, and after two or three miles, it turned in the direction of Anjiang, and arrived at the entrance of a dense forest. From here, the carriage could no longer enter. However, within a few hundred steps in the dense forest, there is a vertical cliff five or six feet high. Under the cliff, there is naturally a water inlet twenty or thirty feet wide.
At this time, the sixth uncle Wang Dinghai had already received a letter from his family to inform him that he led the fleet to wait here, and built a slanted temporary plank road. Those boats include fishing boats and ferry boats. In short, all the boats that can be used by the family are brought.
Although such transportation is laborious, it is very concealed.
From the carriage to the dense forest to the cliff and the boat, it took about 250 steps. Wang Shouzhe asked the miners and the generals to stand in their positions, and each person took three steps to deliver the grain by relay.
Once everyone got used to it, they discovered the benefits of this simple human transport line, which was stable and orderly, and gradually improved in efficiency. In the end, the speed of loading can reach a load of one or two breaths, and it saves the time and energy of running back and forth.
In just over an hour, all the food in fifty carriages was miraculously loaded and unloaded. Afterwards, the horse team returned to Jucaizhuang to get the next batch. And Wang Shouzhe followed the fleet across Anjiang all the way to Fenggu gate.
There are more people in Fenggu Farm, there are two hundred tenant farmers, and it is easy to draw out one hundred and fifty strong laborers. Using the same method, the rice was transported through the gate of Fenggu and temporarily stored in Fenggu Farm.
There are not enough boats in the inland river, only five or six boats, and they have to be transported slowly on this last line.
The transportation line was successfully opened with difficulty, and while Wang Shouzhe was relaxed, he was also strongly dissatisfied with his own transportation line.
The first is the over-reliance on public ferries, and the lack of private development of hidden small docks.
Secondly, it is inconvenient for Anjiang to go to the inland river, because the water level on both sides is inconsistent, and the single gate cannot be opened for a long time at will, otherwise it will cause waterlogging. Regarding this point, we must find a way to build a ship lock that can pass through the ship.
Furthermore, the family has obvious shortcomings in ship transportation and horse-drawn 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 will seriously hinder the development of the family.
It seems that it is imminent to establish its own and complete transportation channel.
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