When Lu Ning heard this, it was a strange thing. What kind of loss can the merchants suffer? We all paid a lot of money? How could it be said that they were suffering? This made Lu Ning wonder what was going on. Lu Ning looked at the old man and saw that he didn't seem to be lies. He said, "Old man, did our army just buy some food and grass from Jizhou? That little thing is just a drop in the bucket for Jizhou. Is it as serious as what you always say? Besides, our army pays cash, why would the grain merchants in Jizhou suffer?"

After hearing this, Mr. Zhen laughed and said, "Ziyi, you paid the cash, but you bought grain from grain merchants in major towns in Jizhou at the same time. Many shops did not have that much grain at all. They heard you say you could pay first and then bring up grain. Many of the small grain merchants wanted to use this time to organize the grain you want. They didn't know that the grain from other places was also purchased by you. The price of grain in Jizhou increased by three or four times the next day.

Among those, the small grain merchants lost all the money they had made before, and some even lost a lot of money, but they did not dare not pay the grain on time. After knowing the reason, Lord Han Fu, the governor of Jizhou, originally wanted to intervene, but after seeing General Zilong personally led a five thousand troops to escort the grain, Lord Han Fu had to swallow his anger. In the end, there was no way to rely on opening an official warehouse to supply grain in a quantitative manner, so he settled the storm. Until now, the grain price in Jizhou is still high, which also caused Lord Han in Jizhou to suffer heavy losses."

After hearing this, Lu Ning said, "No, Mr. Zhen, our army has not purchased much grain, only about one hundred thousand dans. It should not have any impact on the grain market in Jizhou."

Mr. Zhen laughed after hearing this. It was only one hundred thousand dan. Is that still a small number? If my family had not had timely information, you would have been plotted against. "Ziyi, now because you purchased a lot of grain, the people of Jizhou and Youzhou have poured into your jurisdiction. This will cost you a lot of money, so you are not worried at all. Also, I also heard that the food prices in Luoyang and Chenliu are also rising. It should be Ziyi's masterpiece, right?" Mr. Zhen said.

Lu Ning smiled and said, "Disaster victims, it's okay for refugees to come in. I'm now liberalized and sparsely populated. I will accept all the refugees from many disaster victims. As for Luoyang, my people are doing the Chenliu thing, but I have no choice. The court and the emperor don't give me food and grass, and they are urging our army to send troops. I have no choice."

After hearing this, Mr. Zhen smiled and said, "Forget it, I won't talk about this matter. I want to discuss with you the matter of cooperation between us. Now the dock on the South and North Chang Island is under construction, and the shipyard is under construction. Now I have hired nearly 2,000 shipbuilders from Southeast, Jiaozhou and other places with high salaries. There are dozens of shipbuilders who can be regarded as a great craftsman. I have brought more than ten people this time, and I want them to study with Ziyi what the ship we are going to produce looks like?"

Lu Ning was really happy after hearing this. The Zhen family is really capable. In just a short period of time, it is not something that ordinary people can do. I guess there are serious shortages of shipbuilders in Jiangnan and Jiaozhou.

Lu Ning smiled and said, "Old man, I can determine what kind of warship you have built by studying it in the past few days. This problem is not a big deal. Moreover, I have many equipment here that is very helpful for shipbuilding. With these equipment, it will be very convenient for shipbuilding, saving effort and improving efficiency. Others can produce one ship in three months, and we may only need one or two months to complete. These equipment are developed by Ma Jun, the master craftsman here, and have never been sold. They have always been used for my weapons and equipment production, and are also strictly controlled products."

Mr. Zhen was also very happy after hearing this. He also wanted to know what Lu Ning had. Why did this kid do things without seeing the head and the end of the business? He couldn't figure out what he was thinking in his heart. What he did was confused.

The old man said to look at Lu Ning and said, "Ziyi, there is another thing, that is, the white liquid you asked me to go to Dishi to look for. Now I have found it, but I don't know if it is right. I brought more than 2,000 kilograms this time. Let you take a look first. If so, we will vigorously purchase it in the next step. I heard from the butler that this thing is in a place west of Dishi. No one has purchased it, and no one knows its purpose. The locals just treat it as a very ordinary tree, and the purchase price is also very low. At first, the locals didn't know what it was. Later, after searching for it from multiple sources, they said it was something that flowed out of the tree, so that the locals went to find the tree to try to pick it."

After hearing this, Lu Ning was very excited. He stood up and paid 90 degrees to the old man. He gave a big gift and said, "Old man, if it is really that kind of thing, then you have helped me a lot, and of course it will also help our shipyard quality assurance. Then we can build a rubber factory rough processing factory on Changdao first and build a rubber product factory in Jinyang, Bingzhou. I can guarantee that I can definitely make a lot of money."

Mr. Zhen returned the gift to me, but he was confused in his heart. He didn't understand what Lu Ning was saying, and it was difficult to break the casserole and ask the whole thing. He had to say to Lu Ning: "If there is something Ziyi said so well, then of course I am willing to cooperate more with you, and everything will be done as you say."

Lu Ning stood up and added some water to the old man, and went outside to ask Dian Wei to send someone to call Ma Jun. After returning to the house, Lu Ning said, "Old man, if it is rubber, the performance of my thousand-pound hammer, steam engine and various machines will have qualitative changes and the efficacy will be greatly improved. Then our sailless warship will have hope to be produced, and we can also produce larger and wider warships, and the performance of their warships will also be greatly improved."

After hearing this, Mr. Zhen, is it possible? It is too unbelievable that he could really create a sailless ship. "I hope so, but I am still skeptical about the sailless ship. This is a bit whimsical, as if I was listening to you telling a myth." Mr. Zhen said.

After a while, Ma Jun came, and Lu Ning said to him: "Deheng, this is Mr. Zhen, the head of the Zhen family in Jizhou. Old man, this is the master craftsman Ma Jun and Ma Deheng."

Ma Jun said respectfully: "I have met Mr. Zhen."

Mr. Zhen replied and said, "I heard about the famous name for a long time. I didn't expect that the master craftsman in Ziyi would be so young. It's really the younger waves of the Yangtze River pushing the older waves, which makes people admire him."
Chapter completed!