Among them was a fellow named Ah Qiu, who was even more thorough. Not only did she hire local young and strong men to help transport the grain, she also facilitated a large number of local young and strong men to become middlemen to collect grain for them in the village.
These young and strong men are all locals. They are familiar folks in the villages before and after, and everyone knows how they behave. The villagers may not trust outsiders like Aqiu, but they are not too wary of the young and strong men who know the village inside and out.
Ah Qiu hired them to move goods, provided two meals a day and paid them ten coins. If they could introduce someone to sell grain for him, he would give them two coins as a commission for every stone they sold.
As soon as this condition was put forward, those young and strong people who were short of money and had no way to make money all signed up enthusiastically.
This also led to Qiu receiving a large sum of money from Shunzi every three days, and quickly sending him food. Others handed in a dozen or so dan of food, but Qiu only sent dozens of dan at a time.
This phenomenon quickly attracted Shunzi's attention. He called someone over to ask, and then he understood the reason.
Shunzi was silent for a long time, and finally decided to write a letter to Qiao Xin, recommending Aqiu to take over the grain collection business.
Shunzi knew that he couldn't always fight alone. It takes three to make a man. It was necessary to promote some assistants accordingly. It was good to have overall power, but the efficiency was too low and he couldn't do everything.
If he fails to produce results for a long time, the old lady may replace him!
So she called Qiu and said to him, "You have done a good job recently. I have reported to the old lady and promoted you to manager. From now on, the grain store in Nanliang will be managed by you. Just report to me every month!"
A Qiu didn't expect that he would be valued so quickly, and cheered out loud with joy!
"Don't worry, big boss. I will do my best and won't embarrass you!"
When the other guys saw that Aqiu got promoted so quickly, they were envious and at the same time, they all gathered their energy and tried to show off.
Soon, Ah Qiu led the group through the streets and alleys, and they became more and more familiar with each other. Many small landowners were willing to sell their surplus grain to them, and agreed that if they had grain in the future, they would sell it to them as long as they came to collect it in time!
When the third batch of grain arrived in Yuncheng, Qiao Yunqing and his men soon discovered that many of the young people there were unfamiliar faces.
After asking the team leader, I found out that Shunzi and his team were seriously short of manpower in Nanliang. There were too many things to do and they simply couldn't mobilize so many people. Qiu and Shunzi discussed and decided to recruit from the locals who had cooperated well with them recently.
A big reward will always attract brave men. They offered twice the price of the locals, and they always wanted people to work for them. For example, in a village, there were more than a dozen brothers, and their parents took out money to share with them. They might never get married, so they wanted to go out and make their own way.
It’s true, there are quite a lot of young and strong people like this, and most of them are working for Aqiu during this period.
At the beginning, some people were worried that the road was too long and impassable between the north and the south, and that the government would not provide them with passes.
Ah Qiu said, "It's in Yuncheng across the river. You can be back in two days. The government won't interfere too much. I've asked someone to issue you a pass. Go ahead and don't worry!"
A young man who had never been out of the local town wondered, "How could the government not care?"
Some people also said, "Humph, if they really wanted to care, they wouldn't have let so many refugees go north a few months ago! Those people just hide in their houses every day, eating and drinking, and don't care about our lives at all."
This person obviously had some bad experience and was still indignant when talking about the past.
But no matter what, they all wanted to see what life was like on the other side of the river. Was it really as miserable and hellish as their elders said?
They entered Yuncheng with a half-believing and half-doubting attitude.
As soon as they entered the city, they were dragged to the backyard of the government office. They then realized that the leader who had brought them with them had left the team at some point. They were in this unfamiliar place, and it seemed that no one could get any help from them.
Just when everyone thought they would die here, the team leader Aqiu appeared!
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