After Tong Yanqing had finished talking, Gao Kan tried his best. If he talked too much, he might have the opposite effect and make people suspicious.
After the two of them finished speaking, they arrived at the front hall, where Lu Junyi and Lin Chong were happily walking out hand in hand.
When he met Gao Kan again, Lu Junyi's attitude was obviously much closer. He smiled and invited him to join him for the banquet.
After eating and drinking, Gao Kan saw that it was getting late, so he made an excuse to report back to Lord Zhongshu, and then said goodbye with Lin Chong.
Before leaving, he made an agreement with Lu Junyi to meet at Zhongshu's house the next day.
After coming out of the Lu Mansion, the two of them got on the carriage. Gao Kancai smiled and asked Lin Chong: "Coach Lin, I don't know what you said to Yuanwai. He seems to be very close to me all of a sudden."
Lin Chong said with a smile: "Zuo is just telling the truth. Senior brother has always cherished heroes and valued heroes. I didn't know it before. After I explained it to him, I realized that the young master is a true hero. I should treat him with respect and courtesy."
As he said that, Lin Chong's expression calmed down a little, and he continued: "Senior brother asked me to apologize to the young master. That kid Yan Qing is young and energetic, but his temper is a bit reckless. I hope you will forgive me for this."
"I think Mr. Lu is worried. I'll talk to him when we meet tomorrow."
Gao Kan said.
Lin Chong said nothing more after hearing this, and the two returned to the inn together. Tian Mi heard that they were back and hurriedly came to see them.
After sitting down in the tea shed, Tian Mi said happily: "Sir, the first batch of grain has been loaded and can be shipped out today."
Gao Kan nodded and said: "Okay, the situation in Daming Mansion is unclear. The sooner we send the ship, the better. You tell Hong Bashi and the others that you can catch the ship with peace of mind. As long as the goods are delivered smoothly, you will be greatly thanked."
"Of course, there is another happy event." Tian Mi said again.
"Oh? What happy event?"
Gao Kan asked subconsciously, and immediately remembered what he said about "the first batch of grain" before. However, when they came to Damingfu on this trip, all the grain they purchased should be transported in one boat. Without a second trip, how could it be the first batch? One trip?
Then he asked: "Is it over there in the granary? Is there anything else to care about?"
"Young Master is aware of this!" Tian Mi said happily.
"In the past two days, there have been wild rumors in the city that bandits from Hebei and Shandong have gathered in Daming Mansion with the intention of attacking the city. Once the bandits take over the city, everyone in the city will be plundered."
"The rumors are spreading as if they are true. Several grain merchants in the granary are afraid that all the grain they have stored in the city will become the bag of bandits. Not only will the losses be huge, but in the future, there will be a 'grain thief bandit'." 'I want to get rid of the grain in my hands as soon as possible and exchange it for gold and silver so that I can leave Daming Mansion as soon as possible and go elsewhere to avoid trouble."
After hearing this, Gao Kan's thoughts changed and he immediately understood the key point.
The grain merchants in Damingfu City were worried that the Liangshan bandits would gather people and invade Damingfu.
There will be a lot of burning, killing and looting in the city, and their grain storage warehouses must be the bandits' first target. Whether they occupy the city on the spot and support themselves, or they loot and then abandon the city and flee, they will need a lot of military rations, so they are naturally worried. .
But rather than sell it, they probably want to transport the stored grain out of Daming Mansion and move it elsewhere. Once a war breaks out, they can sit on the ground and raise the price to make a big profit.
Unfortunately, the four gates of Daming Mansion are closed, and it is impossible to quickly transport large quantities of food by land.
On the waterway side, the original river gang asked the government to wipe them out, and even the river gang's boats were returned to Gaokan.
With nowhere to go, he had no choice but to sell all the grain he had to Tian Mi at a low price so that he could escape for his life. After all, gold and silver were easier to carry than cartloads of grain.
Thinking of this, Gao Kan said: "This is a happy event, but do we have enough money?"
"Enough, plenty!"
Tian Mi's face was full of joy. He looked around and then whispered: "The gold and silver cakes we brought from Nanle City were not used at the government office. They are all stored in the inn."
"These grain merchants were in a hurry to get rid of the goods, and the villain set an unprecedented low price. Less than half of the gold and silver were gone."
Only then did Gao Kan remember that Tutor Jie Tong's birthday trip had melted several carts of gold and silver cakes. He originally planned to help Jiang Jing and the others after arriving at Daming Mansion.
As a result, things turned out differently than originally expected. People still don't know whether they are alive or dead, and the money is no longer needed. It's all stored on the carriage behind the inn.
After all these days, nothing happened, which was a strange thing.
Thinking of this, he asked again: "How much food is there?"
"I'm afraid the young master won't believe me if I tell you. Don't count anything else. There are one hundred thousand dans of rice and millet alone, and tens of thousands of other miscellaneous grains, totaling nearly 200,000 dans of grain!" Tian Mi said in a non-surprising tone.
Listening to his counting, even the people from Gaokan couldn't help but be surprised.
There are nearly 200,000 dans of grain. According to the Song Dynasty, one dan of grain is approximately equal to 120 catties, which is 60 kilograms. Two hundred thousand dans of grain, which is 12 million kilograms.
Based on a daily ration of four kilograms per person, Tian Mi bought enough to feed 10,000 people for two years.
Even if calculated according to the standard daily rations of the Song Army, an elite force of 10,000 people would have to eat them for more than a year.
He really didn't expect that these grain merchants in Daming Mansion could hoard so much grain.
But Gaokan soon realized another important thing. With so much food, he couldn't possibly transport it all to Bianliang, Tokyo. It would be too eye-catching.
He must find a proper place to place it, otherwise the prying eyes of interested people will be enough for him to drink.
After thinking quickly, Gao Kan said: "Go and tell Hong Ba Shi and ask him to call as many people as possible. Anyone who is familiar with Shui Ba Shi can be trusted and is willing to come. I will pay three times the market price. "
"Have the He Gang completed all the shipping documents? Get all the ships out, load as much as you can in one trip, and transport them as soon as possible!"
Tian Mi hurriedly asked: "Then, where will it be transported to and escorted off the ship?"
"Go down the river and dock at Neihuang Pier. First ask someone to wait there, and I will arrange for someone to escort you."
Gao Kan thought in his mind that the only place that could store so much food without raising suspicion was Huangmen Mountain Village.
Originally, if there was news from Jiang Jing at this time, he still had dozens of people from Huangmen Mountain. After the first batch of grain was transported, it would not be difficult to escort them up the mountain.
But now there is no news about Jiang Jing and his entourage. Yang Zhi and Lu Zhishen went to rescue him, but they were nowhere to be seen. Although the time was calculated to be about two days, there should be news, but the reality was unpredictable.
There is indeed a lot of risk in temporarily docking so much grain at Neihuang Wharf. Gaokan has no other choice at the moment. Even if he directly escorts it to Bianliang, Tokyo, it will require manpower.
Tian Mi knew that escorting him would be a big deal, otherwise the grain merchants like Monkey King in Daming Prefecture would not sell it to him at such a low price.
I just believed in my heart that Gao Kan had great hands and eyes. Since he said that there would be someone to escort the ship when it docked at Neihuang Pier, there would definitely be one.
The urgent matter now is to find Hong Jiang and find all the people who can catch the boat.
There are more than a dozen ships without dozens of people, and they can't even get out of the dock of Daming Mansion.
