There was a hint of confusion in Aunt Yu's eyes. She probably didn't expect that Lin Jingzhi would be provoked in broad daylight. She just noticed that Lin Jingzhi's breathing was disordered, her face flushed, and it seemed something was wrong, so she used the voice transmission to enter.
Secret technique, coughed lightly.
But she didn't know that when she was scared by eating, Lin Jingzhi's little liver almost jumped out of her throat, and as her body shook suddenly, her baby's roots drooped like soft noodles.
Go on.
Oops, it won't be frightened, it will only become a decoration in the future.
Lin Jingzhi was panicked and worried. He looked at Aunt Yu in the air for a while. He didn't know how to deal with it. A sudden burst of footsteps came from outside the gate of the courtyard. Then Shi Mo ran in with an anxious look on his face.
He did not greet the heroines, but knelt down and said, "Second Master, the locust plague has exploded, and the news has reached Luocheng."
As soon as this sentence was spoken, Lin Jingzhi thrust his waist and straightened his waist, "So quickly? Has it all been passed here?"
"Well, now many people are queuing up in front of the grain shop to buy grain." Because of Lin Jiang's affairs, Shi Mo didn't slept for long last night. Early in the morning, he found a secret guard and went there.
The family who followed Yu Niang's mother's family is now scattered, his face is covered with dust, and he looks dirty.
Seeing Shimo sweating while running, drawing black marks on his face, Lin Jingzhi frowned, "Since the news has reached this place, I think the food price will rise in a few days. You go down and wash it.
He hurried to find the butler and asked him to go to the village outside the city to see it. He must let the tenants harvest the grain from the field to their homes as soon as possible, and quickly pay the rent to the warehouse, otherwise the refugees will arrive in a few days.
, I'm afraid there will be trouble."
Most refugees are not full of food. It would be strange if they see food in the fields that they don’t rush to eat.
"Yes, the second master, just now the big manager asked the slave to come and ask, did you have someone to prepare salt a few days ago?"
Hearing this sentence, Lin Jingzhi patted his forehead and forgot about this matter. "Go and ask the chief manager to buy more salt immediately. By the way, you must buy more sea salt."
After a few days, construction will start digging the canal, and at least tens of thousands of people will eat. The salt consumed every day will be quite considerable. Once refugees in, as the population increases, as the food prices rise, salt will naturally also be
It will increase the price.
There are many places where lakes can also produce salt, but these salts do not contain iodine, so Lin Jingzhi asked the big manager to buy more sea salt. Lin Jingzhi is a modern person and naturally understands that it is not OK for the human body to not consume a certain amount of iodine every day.
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Shi Mo responded when he heard this, and didn't bother to find a place to wash his face, so he hurriedly ran out to find someone.
Lin Jingzhi's concubines had never known that a large-scale locust plague would explode in the north. Aunt Wan asked with a worried look on her face: "Second Master, where did the locust plague explode?"
"Northern!" Lin Jingzhi sighed softly, "There are locust plagues in many places in the four continents in the north. I think the victims will wander here in a few days."
"Second Master knew in advance?" Aunt Yu suddenly interrupted and asked. When Shi Mo was just spreading the news, she didn't say so carefully.
Nodded, Lin Jingzhi responded.
Aunt Rou is a child from a poor family. She has been hungry since she was a child. The feeling of being dizzy and dizzy in hungry people is really uncomfortable. She let go of Aunt Shuang's arm, walked to Lin Jingzhi, and pulled up
His big hand shook gently, his eyes filled with unbearable hearts, "Second Master, the maid and concubine remember that every year, the family opens a shed to help the suffering refugees through the difficult winter. Rouer also ate it when she was a child.
After that, this winter, will the family still provide relief to the victims?”
She really couldn't imagine that the victims were starved to death because they had no food to eat.
He hugged the cute and kind girl in front of him into his arms, and Lin Jingzhi replied: "Yes, I've prepared in advance. When the victims poured into Luocheng, the Lin family will open a shed to help porridge."
Aunt Shuang looked at Aunt Wan after hearing this. Both of them frowned slightly. Their parents' families were both businessmen and were very sensitive to numbers. Although they knew that the victims were pitiful, if there were too many victims, the mansion would be in the palace.
I'm afraid it will cost a lot of silver.
"Second Master, do you think how many victims will flood into Luocheng?" Aunt Shuang couldn't help but ask softly.
"Five thousand to 150,000."
As soon as this sentence came out, all the girls in the courtyard exclaimed and opened their mouths wide. There were too many victims from 50,000 to 150,000.
"There are so many places that have been affected..." Lin Jingzhi tried his best to tell the disaster briefly. After listening, the girls were silent and the atmosphere became dull.
A few birds flew over their heads and yelled a few times, making them look extremely clear.
"Okay, I'm fully prepared for this natural disaster. If nothing unexpected happens, I will let them all eat and not starve to death." Lin Jingzhi's hearts arose when he saw the girls.
After a trace of shadow, he quickly spoke up and promised. At the same time, he also learned that the hearts of these women were very kind.
"Yes." Aunt Rou nodded heavily, without any doubt.
Because Lin Jingzhi had already prepared everything in advance, after thinking for a while, he did not go out and was still staying in the courtyard, teaching the women to paint. It was almost noon, and Aunt Shuang's painting skills had also become more and more successful.
The progress of the characters drawn have basically possessed the characteristics of cartoon characters.
He had a lot of things to be busy in the next days, so he planned to temporarily hand over the business of making toys and selling brocades to several wives and concubines to prepare. When all the preparatory work is done, the time will come, and a large amount of production will be available.
By then, the Lin family will definitely make a big profit.
Is this time? I guess I have to wait until Tian Ji stepped down.
However, if you really have to do something big, there will be a lot of preparations in the early stage, which will be enough for these girls to be busy. Moreover, if these girls can get together every day, their relationship will definitely become deeper and deeper.
Not long after lunch in the courtyard, the servants who had gone to build iron rings came back. They had eight iron rings in their hands, about three fingers wide, and two were placed on each wooden bar.
The tight hoop was on the surface, without any looseness.
"Come on, help me." Lin Jingzhi asked a few servants to turn the unicycle over, then picked up the hammer himself and started to beat it.
Apart from Aunt Yu, the women didn't understand what their husband was doing, but they were all daughters. Except for Aunt Rou, they had never seen a carpenter do work. At this time, they saw Lin Jingzhi having a model with a hammer.
Like, just gather around and watch curiously.
Lin Jingzhi first used iron nails to connect the wooden bars and the two wheels, then measured the distance between the two iron rings on the wooden bars, and then nailed two crescent-shaped wooden wedges to the carriage.
The distance between these two wooden wedges is exactly the same as the distance between the two iron rings. In this way, just lift the car and place it on the wooden bar.
The two crescent-shaped wooden wedges were just stuck on the two iron rings, so that they could fix the position. When pulling, only the two iron rings were rubbing against the crescent-shaped wooden wedges.
At this time, the wooden bar is the axle connecting the two wheels.
After doing all these tasks, Lin Jingzhi wiped the sweat from his face and waved to Aunt Yu with a smile, "Yu'er, now you pull the car around and look at the monocycle just now.
Which one is better to make some."
In this era, hand-pulled carts are single-wheeled, and only carts are two-wheeled. Therefore, even Aunt Rou, a poor village girl, has never seen a trolley like this before.
Aunt Yu walked forward obediently and lifted the shaft of the car. She felt it seemed that it was no different from the previous monocycle, and it was as laborious as it was. However, before she pulled it, she saw Lin Jingzhi supporting her with her hands.
Flipped into the carriage.
Did he want me to pull him along like a wild horse?
As soon as he thought of this, Aunt Yu felt that her self-esteem had been seriously damaged, her pretty face hidden under the veil was full of chills, and her heart was furious.dd