The purchase limit was indeed a good strategy. On the third day, the grain sales were only over a thousand tons. Li Mu breathed a sigh of relief.

Including soybeans, a total of more than 20,000 tons of grain were purchased from abroad. According to the sales method in the first two days, it would be gone in five or six days.

The current sales volume of more than a thousand tons per day finally gave him time to purchase.

There was no other way, so Li Mu got on the motorboat to Wuhan that night. He was going to Singapore to purchase food.

This time, Li Mu purchased 15,000 tons of rice, 28,000 tons of wheat, and 5,000 tons of soybeans.

A total of 48,000 tons was spent at a cost of US$1.65 million, equivalent to 1.65 tons of gold. Food that seems cheap is actually not cheap.

Back in Nanyang, with this batch of grain replenishment, more than a dozen grain stores were finally able to survive for several months.

At this time, Li Mu once again paid attention to the issue of people's livelihood. Those who had gone through countless hardships and fled with their families, could they have something to eat here? Can they survive?

In the next few days, accompanied by guards, he visited everywhere in a low-key manner. The situation was not optimistic.

The stable environment, good government and commodity prices in Nanyang area have attracted more people.

Although he launched many major projects and recruited as many workers as possible so that everyone could earn a salary and have food to eat, many new arrivals still encountered big problems in their survival.

Those with some wealth, knowledge and skills are fine, but those at the bottom or those who have fled are really miserable. They are always struggling on the verge of death. It is really common for people to starve to death these days.

The main reason is that the existing jobs are still not enough.

On the same day, when he returned to Yuyuan, Li Mu convened another meeting with relevant personnel, and the topic was how to keep these people alive. Of course, it was not possible to keep them for nothing, and they could only continue to work on the project.

Subsequently, under the leadership of Li Mu, more than a dozen large-scale brick and cement factories were established in Nanyang area.

These technologies have long been popular in China. As long as there are enough manpower, they are quite simple and there are many workers hired.

In addition, dozens of new factories, large and small, have been established, such as five or six flour mills, three or four soy product production factories, several fruit canning factories...

Of course, infrastructure is the area that absorbs the most labor. Several secret locations were selected and the construction work of several secret airports was restarted.

Near Nanyang City, Li Mu started the construction of another civil aviation airport, this time openly. As for whether it will be used in the future, it is hard to say, but it can attract labor anyway.

In addition, the construction work of more than a dozen arsenals has also begun deep in the mountains. Adding roads, water and electricity, it is another major project.

Although we don’t know when it will be used, as long as the factory building and supporting facilities are built, we can start production directly when the machines are brought in in the future.

Not only that, there is also a big project to build granaries. Next, he will choose some suitable places to build dozens of large granaries. There will definitely be a shortage of food in the country in the future, and this needs to be prepared in advance.

The launch of so many projects has even caused a small-scale labor shortage, and many local farmers have begun to do part-time jobs.
Chapter completed!