In just one day, Lu Xiaoming prepared the food Yu Hao needed. Thirteen million stones of food were piled up in the entire square of Haoyue Manor.

However, these grains are neither rice nor wheat, but whole grains.

Although the nutritional value of whole grains is not as good as that of wheat and rice, it is cheap. The price of one kilogram of rice is enough to buy ten kilograms of whole grains.

Before Li Mingyang went to provide disaster relief, the Ministry of Revenue exchanged all of the one million disaster relief funds into rice.

In the end, Li Mingyang only brought less than 1 million shi of rice to the disaster relief, which resulted in each region not receiving much relief food at all.

For the people in the disaster area, the most important thing now is to eat well rather than eat well. If these 13 million stones of coarse grains are eaten sparingly, it will be enough for millions of disaster victims to survive this winter.

In ancient times, food was simple, and people basically ate staple foods. An ordinary person in Daqian consumed about 3 dan of food a month. If he ate sparingly, he would consume 2 dan while ensuring that it could provide daily body consumption. about.

Thirteen million stones of grain is enough to feed one million people for half a year!

Looking at these grains, Yu Hao felt quite emotional. Two months ago, he was a pauper with no business capital, but two months later, he was able to help millions of victims.

"All the coarse grains we have stored in Wuxianzhuang are here. The five northern states have a total population of more than three million. This food is enough for emergency relief." Lu Xiaoming said with a smile, feeling very happy in his heart.

Although this food was distributed to all the victims in the five states, it was only enough to last for more than two months at most, making it impossible to survive this winter.

But now is the autumn harvest season, and the court's taxes will be collected in two months. By then, the court will have money to allocate funds for disaster relief.

Yu Hao nodded and paid Lu Xiaoming another nine hundred thousand taels of silver as agreed before.

But even though the grain was bought, how to transport so much grain to the north became a problem.

Now there are only seventy or eighty war horses in the entire Haoyue Manor, so it is obviously impossible to haul so much food.

Even if manpower is added, it is far from enough if the entire Haoyue Manor comes out to transport food.

No wonder there was always not enough food and grass in ancient wars. With so much food, the size of the food transport team alone was very large. Once a batch of grain was transported to the front line, it was almost eaten by the food transport team.

Lu Xiaoming seemed to see Yu Hao's worry and said quickly: "Sir, don't worry, leave the food transportation to me. I brought a total of three battalions of soldiers back to Beijing this time. In addition, we have three battalions of soldiers in Wuxian Village." Five thousand people, please transport some of the food to the north for emergency relief, and I will ask my father to find a solution for the rest."

The number of soldiers in a battalion of Daqian is about 1,000. Of course, there are exceptions. For some large-scale armies, the number of soldiers in a battalion ranges from 5,000 to 20,000. For example, the Royal Forest Army has a total of front, rear, left, right, and five main soldiers. Battalions, each battalion has nearly 20,000 soldiers.

The three battalions of soldiers brought by Lu Xiaoming only numbered 3,000, and together with the 5,000 civilians, there were only 8,000. It was obviously a fantasy to transport so much food to the north.

Lu Xiaoming said this because he wanted to quickly transport a batch of grain to Guangyi Mansion to complete the task assigned to him by the prefect.

Yu Hao nodded. Since Lu Xiaoming was willing to help, Yu Hao naturally had no objection.

After Lu Xiaoming left, Yu Hao turned around and took out a blueprint from his arms and stuffed it into Yin Laoqi's hand.

"Uncle Qi, immediately lead the employees of the Ordnance Department to produce batches according to the drawings. I will need a thousand units within half a month. If there is not enough manpower, I will go to Han Bing to transfer people."

Yin Laoqi opened the drawing and took a cursory glance. The next second, his pupils trembled and he looked at Yu Hao in disbelief.

Yu Hao smiled slightly and said, "This drawing must not be leaked."

Yin Laoqi knew it well and nodded quickly: "Don't worry, young master, you will come to inspect the goods in half a month!"

On the other side, Lu Xiaoming hurried back to the mansion after coming out of Haoyue Manor and found Lu Lin, the right minister of the Ministry of War.

"Dad, I have something to discuss with you."

Lu Xiaoming was about to talk about his plan to mobilize five thousand civilians to help transport grain. Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, Lu Lin slapped Lu Xiaoming on the face.

"Nonsense! You don't know that it is the autumn harvest season recently and there are not enough manpower. If you remove 5,000 people at once, what will happen to the rice in the fields?"

Lu Xiaoming covered his face and said angrily: "The rice in the fields has been harvested a long time ago, not to mention I only took five thousand people with me, and there are three thousand people in Wuxian Village, which is enough to handle the autumn harvest! You asked for money before

, I got the money, what’s wrong with us now contributing a little bit?”

"Hundreds of people starve to death in the five northern states every day. This batch of food is life-saving food. This is a rare achievement for our Lu family. I believe that your majesty will definitely reward our Lu family greatly after knowing it!"

Lu Xiaoming knew very well that the autumn harvest was almost over, and the reason why Lu Lin said this was to stop him from taking the civilian husband away.

In his opinion, now that the north is suffering from disasters and the national treasury is empty, he is an official of Guangyi Mansion, and it is his duty to provide disaster relief.

Moreover, the Lu family should be loyal to the emperor in order to earn the emperor's salary. At this time, they should have the money and strength to contribute!

"You made your own decisions and gave and sold so much grain to Yu Hao. I haven't even settled the accounts with you yet. Do you know how angry the Prime Minister was when he found out about this?" Lu Lin said angrily.

"Dad, you know the Prime Minister, but I don't understand. What is so good about this old dog Changsun that makes him worthy of daddy working so hard for him? Are you really not afraid that one day our whole family will be killed by the old dog Changsun?"

Ever since Lu Lin became the right minister of the Ministry of War, I don’t know how much military food and salary the gang leader Sun Xiao and the prince have deducted. This is a serious crime of beheading!

"shut up!"

Lu Lin was furious and slapped Lu Xiaoming on the face.

He knew very well what Zhang Sunxiao was like. If what Lu Xiaoming said just now reached Zhang Sunxiao's ears, their whole family might be implicated.

After being slapped, Lu Xiaoming raised his head and looked at Lu Lin in confusion. He really didn't understand how his upright and upright father could become like this.

"If it weren't for the Prime Minister, I wouldn't be where I am today. If I hear you say something like this again, I will beat you to death!"

Lu Lin pointed at Lu Xiaoming, shaking with anger.

"Okay, if you can, beat me to death. I am the third generation of our family, so you can beat me!" Lu Xiaoming said, and stretched his face in front of Lu Lin.

"Little bastard, I'll fight..."

Lu Lin was so angry that he raised his hand into the air, but could not bring it down.

After all, Lu Xiaoming was also his biological son, and he hadn't seen him for five years. Now that he had calmed down, how could he still do it?

Seeing this, Lu Xiaoming immediately snorted coldly and said: "No matter what, I will help Yu Hao transport food. This matter is not negotiable. I don't care whether Changsun Laogou will be angry or not. If he doesn't agree, I will

Just shoot him to death!"

"you……"

Before Lu Lin could scold Lu Xiaoming, Lu Xiaoming ran out of the Lu Mansion.

"Dad, there are things that a man should do and things he shouldn't do. This is what you said. I'm going and I'll drink with you next time when I come back!"


Chapter completed!