Defeat natural disasters with farming

The place where the meeting will be held is the City Lord's Mansion. When Ye Yu and his group of four passed by, they saw that everyone in Huaiyang City had arrived, and Xie Xian and Uncle Xie were among them. There were three of them in total, all wearing Confucian shirts Almost all of them are scholars from Huaiyang Academy.

Through Uncle Xie as a connection, the two of them got to know each other as a matter of course. The leading emissary was the vice-principal of Huaiyang Academy and also the vice-city lord of Huaiyang City. In just a few short conversations, Ye Yu could see that he was extremely knowledgeable, and when talking with him, he couldn't help paying attention to his conversation.

Speaking of which, they have nothing to talk about, the most they can do is exchange pleasantries and talk about what happened after the natural disaster.

Among them, Ye Yu focused on asking about the types of natural disasters that occurred there, and the result was as he expected. Sure enough, the drought started first, a very serious drought, and almost one-third of the people left Huaiyang County for this reason. They chose to flee to other places, but half of the remaining people failed to survive, coupled with the nationwide earthquake, resulting in countless deaths.

After the earthquake, the drought became more and more serious, and the drought caused wildfires. Anyway, Huaiyang County before the city was built was also in dire straits. Fortunately, the geographical environment there is superior, and it is located in a plain, which is very suitable for planting. Therefore, when the climate gradually When things stabilized, the harvested grain would be enough for them to eat, and there would even be leftovers that could be traded.

After they had a brief chat, all the people in the room had arrived, and the two long tables were completely filled. Everyone was sitting in a dignified manner, waiting for the meeting to officially start.

After Lin Chengzhu came out, he first welcomed them, and then he talked about the business.

"I convened this meeting for two main reasons. Firstly, the only cities I can contact now are you present. In order to strengthen communication, I hope to conclude a covenant and form an alliance so that we can communicate with each other."

After saying this, City Lord Lin shut up and gave them time to discuss. Everyone was not polite when they saw this, and started to discuss with their own people in whispers.

Ye Yu pondered for a while, but agreed with the matter.

"City Master Lin is right, and Wangsi City must take the lead in this matter. Nothing else will work. After all, Wangsi City was originally the capital city. In the eyes of ordinary people, they have their own majesty."

After he finished speaking, he began to explain to Ye Minghui why he agreed, "One person is weak, and many things can only be accomplished through cooperation. The same is true when it comes to cities. Working alone is worse than working together. Of course Now, there is a principle that must be followed in everything, even if we want to unite, we must treat them the same, we don’t owe them anything, if we can’t achieve equality, we don’t need to join this alliance.”

After hearing this, Ye Minghui nodded in a sudden realization.

In addition, other people at the table also thought of this, so someone politely asked Lin Chengzhu: "Do you want this alliance to be dominated by you?"

City Lord Lin clasped his hands on the table, and replied calmly: "Naturally, you don't need it. The city lords of every city are the elders of the alliance. If there is something to do, all the elders have to discuss it before making a decision."

Let’s not talk about whether what he said can be realized. Anyway, the words have been put here. On the surface, everyone is equal, and the status of all cities in the alliance is also the same.

The others therefore quickly agreed to the suggestion of forming an alliance.

Immediately afterwards, City Lord Lin said the second reason, "The second point is based on the first point, that is, trade. For example, we are short of food, but there are salt wells nearby, so there is no shortage of salt, so we will use salt For food."

This is not a problem at all, even the visitors from Chenhui City who are full of caravans have no objection, after all they are doing ordinary business, targeting individuals, and what City Lord Lin said is between cities.

Ye Yu also agreed that he didn't want to grow cotton anymore, and he didn't know what was going on. Maybe the fields over there were not suitable for growing cotton. The cotton in the fields grew very slowly, and it wouldn't grow in half a year. If it could be changed Come, they don't need to work hard on planting.

As for other things, there is no shortage, the city is self-sufficient enough, only linen, cotton and satin are extremely scarce, and these are the most common things in several cities in the south, so Ye Yu has been eyeing it for a long time, he is determined The idea is to go to them to discuss business after the meeting is over. As for the things he can exchange, there are naturally many things. In addition to fur and grain, there are also salt and sugar.

Ye Yu is very confident about this, the big piece of fur in their hands must be very popular.

After the two reasons were agreed by everyone, City Lord Lin showed a smile, "That's all I have to say, may I ask if you have anything to add?"

Someone really has something to say, and the person who spoke was the deputy city lord of Chenhui City. Carry out business for the unit, so that the exchanges between cities will become frequent."

Another visitor from Miaoshan City also nodded, "Miaoshan City has a lot of specialties, maybe I want what you want."

There was another burst of discussion. When everyone nodded, the meeting was basically considered a successful conclusion. After that, it was time to write the covenant and give the alliance a name.

Before writing the covenant, Ye Yu went to find the people in charge of several cities in the south, hoping to get cotton, linen brocade cloth and corresponding raw materials from them.

The envoy of Sunan City, who grows a lot of cotton, listened to his needs, and asked with frowned eyebrows: "What can you exchange?"

The rest of the people cheered up and prepared to listen to his answer.

The cities in the south would not be short of food, so Ye Yu thought for a while and signaled Ye Minghui to take the bag that he had brought earlier. After the bag was opened, large pieces of animal fur were displayed in front of them.

The envoys of Sunan City and Miaoshan City's eyes lit up when they saw this, and the former said in surprise: "I didn't expect you to have so many furs? It's sable fur." ​​He stroked a piece of thick fur, thought for a while and asked: " From what it looks like, you guys are from Donghai County?"

Ye Yu nodded and said, "That's right, we are now called Jiwang City."

"Good name." The envoy of Sunan City praised, and then said: "We have a lot of cotton there, but we can exchange cotton for your furs."

The reason why these animal skins are popular is that although there are animals in the south, after all, their fur is not as broad as that in the north, and the fur is not thick enough. In addition, the temperature in winter in the south has dropped to minus ten or twenty degrees, which is very cold. , that kind of cold is different from the dry cold in the north, it is a kind of damp cold. In winter or when it rains in spring and autumn, the house is also overcast and windy. On some of the most humid days, there will be cold air between the bones. Every time this day It is the peak season for the sale of all kinds of fur products, and animal skin cloaks and animal skin blankets are their favorites.

Among them, it is recognized that the animal skins in the north are of the best quality, especially the caravans from Morning Glory City brought some animal skins from the north to them a few years ago. Originally, most people thought that the animal skins were not much better , and sold at such an expensive price, it’s really not worth it, but people with knowledge of the goods bought them. According to the people who bought them, whether those animal skins were made into clothes or spread under the body as bedding, or covered them as quilts They are very suitable, especially when it is cold in the spring, those animal skins have made great contributions.

In addition, there is too much cotton in their place, and it is a good thing to exchange some furs, otherwise the cotton and cotton cloth will be spoiled after being left for too long.

Miaoshan City also had similar reasons, so the two cities were willing to sign an exchange contract with Jiwang City. The only thing that surprised Ye Yu was that they, as deputy city lords, could make decisions alone.

He also learned later that these deputy city lords are basically the descendants of the city lord, and when the city lord abdicates in the future, they will take over, so they have great power in their hands.

Uncle Shen was in charge of drafting the contract. After all, he used to specialize in business, so he had a lot of experience in this matter.

As for Ye Yu and Chu Xufeng, they were invited by City Lord Lin. They saw that there were many people in the wing room, and they were all called to participate in the drafting of the covenant.

After four or five days of discussion, a simple covenant was finally drawn up, and at the same time, Shen Fu also finalized the exchange contract.

Ye Yu read it carefully, but didn't see any traps, so he copied both of them, put the letter paper in an envelope, and prepared to send it to his father quickly, so that he might be able to catch up with him. When the contract is signed after refinement.

Before Father Ye's opinion came over, the trade fair started.

But Ye Yu is not looking forward to this link as much as before, because they have already signed swap contracts with many cities, so they don't think much of this kind of needle and thread transactions.

However, to his surprise, there were actually some things that their city needed at the trade fair.

First of all, there are all kinds of seeds that have never been seen before. Even if the temperature is wrong and they cannot germinate, Ye Yu has a collection habit, especially for seeds. Anyway, the price he paid is not much, it is just some food, and he can still accept it.

The second is the cows that can produce milk in Jiwangcheng, which are the cows raised by the Lijiazhuangzi that they found out from the waiter in the Wufulou shop. After a lot of bargaining, they finally decided to exchange grain for five cows, of which one male and four females were suitable. Fortunately, the amount of food they brought was sufficient, otherwise they would have to exchange salt for some food.

In the end, Huaiyang City promised them to exchange salt for books. Huaiyang Academy does not talk about orphan books, and there are basically more than one other common books, so it is normal to exchange them, let alone Huaiyang City Lord. To teach classless thinking, someone is willing to learn, he is happier than anyone else, so Ye Yu and the others paid a small price for changing books.

Anyway, in the end, all the things Ye Yu and the others brought were gone, and they were replaced with what they needed.